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UN chief: “…I see a lack of ambition, a lack of trust, a lack of support, a lack of cooperation, and a myriad of problems around clarity and credibility…”
Leaders gather for nine days of climate talks. It takes eight people to agree on an agenda
Nick O’Malley
June 16, 2023 — 3:55 pmOf all the world’s leaders, it was United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who spoke most loudly about our failure to confront the threat of climate change, and that’s when he speaks as Climate Change Bonn. The conference ended this week.
“I see a lack of ambition, a lack of trust, a lack of support, a lack of cooperation, and a myriad of problems around clarity and credibility,” he said in a speech in New York on Wednesday directed at in Bonn, where 8,000 people gathered for the last major climate talks ahead of this year’s COP28 conference in the United Arab Emirates.
“Countries are far from meeting their climate promises and commitments.
“The climate agenda is being ruined. At a time when we should have sped up our actions, there is a turn around. At a time when we should be filling in the gaps, those gaps are getting bigger and bigger,” he said.
No wonder Guterres is so blunt.
In Bonn, negotiators spent eight of the nine days arguing over the meeting’s agenda.
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You have to admit Gutteres has a point.
Perhaps climate leaders need to build a designated negotiating system, so that delegates can spend less time speaking in an empty room, while others can go out and live their lives to the fullest. loads of German 24×7 adult entertainment, or whatever they’re up to while subordinates “negotiate the agenda”.
I mean, it’s a shame that no one wants to continue the big meeting.
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