You have to admit the genius of the final Glasgow Decision document.
It is one (1) sentence that boils down to this:
“The conference of parties (…) requests that the actions of the secretariat called for in this decision be undertaken subject to the availability of financial resources.”
Which decisions are named?
28: Decides to establish a work programme to urgently scale-up mitigation ambition and implementation during the critical decade of the 2020s;
32: Decides to convene an annual high-level ministerial round table on pre-2030 ambition, beginning at CMA 4 (November 2022);
What does that mean?
- this is a REQUEST, not a mandate;
- the request is exclusively addressed to the secretariat;
- any “actions of the secretariat called for in this decision” is contingent on available funds (of the secretariat);
- ambitions and implementations remain largely unspecified and optional;
- there is no assessment process;
- there is no sanction process;
- actioning the request is delegated to the UN secretariat;
- it admits defeat: climate change is happening without any attempt to stop it;
- it does not specify what is being mitigated, or what its parameters are;
- it requests annual talks without any other specified goal then to talk about ambitions.
In other words: BAU, more conferences, more talk, more travel, feeding the delusion, rather then eliminating it.
Remarkably and totally unsurprising there is no mention of the suicidal mental delusion that brought all of this upon us; no mention of humanity and no mention of Nature, our host system we all depend on for our own lives.
A total loss for humanity’s future after 50 years of talking at the highest level of global government.
Patience Young Grasshoppers 🙂