UN climate boss settles for no cuts on emissions

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Source: Associated Press

UN climate boss settles for no cuts on emissions

BY SETH BORENSTEIN
November 21, 2022

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the United Nations said he’ll settle for a lack of new emissions-cutting action coming out of the now-concluded climate talks in Egypt.

It could have been worse, UN Executive Secretary for Climate Simon Stiell said in a seaside interview with The Associated Press. The talks did achieve the historic creation of a fund for poor nations that are victims of climate disasters, he said.

The progress made last year at the global climate meeting in Glasgow was maintained. “There was no backtracking. Which as a result, one could say, is highly unambitious. And I would actually agree,” a tired Stiell said hours after the Egyptian climate talks finished with one last around-the-clock push.

“To say that ... we have, stood still. Yeah, that’s not great,” Stiell said. But he still likes the overall outcome of the first set of climate talks he oversaw, in particular the long-sought compensation fund for nations that didn’t cause warming.

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1. How is that different than the $100 billion / year pledge made in 2009

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02846-3

Twelve years ago, at a United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, rich nations made a significant pledge. They promised to channel US$100 billion a year to less wealthy nations by 2020, to help them adapt to climate change and mitigate further rises in temperature.
That promise was broken. Figures for 2020 are not yet in,

(Emphasis added, LOL). From stuff I've read recently, that's the situation now, nearly nada was ever given. But it's the thought that counts. Along with our prayers.

Anyway I keep hearing about this wonderful fund agreed to at Sharm-El-Sheikh,

The talks did achieve the historic creation of a fund for poor nations that are victims of climate disasters, he said.

and aren't we wonderful and who cares if nobody's committed to further emissions reductions because we're wonderfully generous and caring and magnanimous and its so beautiful and I'm slicing onions and gotta go .

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2. This is a first

They aren't usually so candid about doing nothing