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Future UN climate summits should be held only in countries that can show clear support for climate action and have stricter rules on fossil fuel lobbying, according to a group of influential climate policy experts.

The group includes former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, the former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and the prominent climate scientist Johan Rockström.

They have written to the UN demanding the current complex process of annual “conferences of the parties” under the UN framework convention on climate change – the Paris agreement’s parent treaty – be streamlined, and meetings held more frequently, with more of a voice given to developing countries.

“It is now clear that the Cop is no longer fit for purpose. We need a shift from negotiation to implementation,” they wrote.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The thing is, negotiation is always easier than implementation, which is why it comes before.

It's pretty clear at this point we're going to stop climate change right around as fast as technology forces us to. I don't see any other plausible path.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

technology forces us to

Huh? What does this even mean?

How can anyone be this optimistic about "fixing" climate change?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I'm talking about solar, EVs and so on. It's straight-up cheaper to not use fossil fuels now, for most things, and the remaining ones seem like they're inevitably coming.

Don't worry, I'm still pretty doomer about it. The planet's going to get a bit messed up in the meanwhile, and we'd have just kind of boiled ourselves like a frog, if we hadn't gotten lucky with cheap renewables suddenly appearing.

[–] Not_mikey 2 points 6 hours ago

But they're hosting it in a different petro-atate this year. They might actually agree cutting emissions is a thing that may need to be done , possibly, in the foreseeable or distant future.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Who would have thought that a conference called COP would be a self-indulgent, abusive failure?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago

They never were. Letting the fox run the hen house will always fail. Once you realize all of the UN and analogous environmental orgs/events (IPCC, COP, etc) are politically/corporate managed, and do not align with the scientific consensus, you realize they only exist to greenwash and legitimize for-profit interests, and inaction.