Bill Gates and Devex got the memo to back off climate change and the SDGs–but UN Secretary -General Gutteres is stuck on the old script: gimme $1.3 Trillion a year to stop climate change
Bill Gates and Devex got the memo to back off climate change and the SDGs–but UN Secretary -General Gutteres is stuck on the old script: gimme $1.3 Trillion a year to stop climate change
I suppose if there are any true believers left that will mobilize and transfer their citizens’ cash, he could still collect a bundle
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP30 arrives later this week in Belem, Brazil. The US will not be attending. Or will send a low-level delegation.
The Paris Agreement (keeping the increase in temperature below 1.5 degrees centigrade — since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s) — is a farce. Why pick a baseline of 200 years ago? To confuse everyone and leave plenty of wiggle room regarding what the temperature really was then, compared to now. Trump pulled the US out — twice.
But there is real world progress. And what is it, really? Scroll to the bottom to find out.
It’s about money for nothing, of course: carbon markets. Kinda like ESG, but potentially much more lucrative: selling and buying the right to “pollute” by releasing carbon or CO2 into the atmosphere, where it belongs. Give me a break. Don’t let your taxes pay for this scam. The data can so easily be falsified. What a joke.
