Governing our Climate Future
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2023
- Addressing the global challenge of climate change requires coordinated international governance. Off the back of the latest meetings to contain global temperature rise to 1.5°C, we look at how feasible, high impact global governance solutions can help fill the gap of the confronting climate emergency. Is the current model fit for purpose and what enhancements can be made to the global governance architecture to increase better outcomes? We’ll review key takeaways from COP28 and consider far-reaching innovations in global governance to set humanity on the path toward sustainable green growth and climate stability.
It might be helpful to divide yearly COP process in continent size meetings. Each continent could make their own yearly negotiations and by every 3 years these would be negotiated in global COP. Setting a continent size limits for emissions is easier to monitor and agree than spreading the focus on every single area.
Also when global COP is negotiated between areas, there is less need for negotiators, and more already decited talking points and papers.
Also make sure that all decisions are made by over 50% rule, so no hindering is allowed by single nations.
And toss all fossil fuel lobbyists out from COP and also do not allow politicians or other participiants that take fossil fuel or other climate related bribes in the COP.
Sadly we are already in the middle of climatic devastation, so any delay means lots of deaths.
Making a new COP order might work, but it takes time that we simply do not have. 15-17 years and 2C warming is breached (WMO/Hansen).
Flooding is not the first issue, but it is often a devastating one. In this year it have come clear that first we have heatwave, then drought and then comes the heavy rains that causes severe flooding. This is the current trend.
When several locations are hit by these extreme events, this threatens entire planets food security. We are locking more on mode-4 and mode-7 type jet stream wind patterns that may disrupt food production in several key areas at the same time. But even without those extremes are making farming ever harder.
At 2C warming we have also 10-20 meters of sea level rise. (WMO/IPCC) And that could happen by 2300 (State of the cryosphere). 2C is most likely already locked in and we still keep on high emissions. Try to cope with that...
Economics DOES NOT TAKE ENVIRONMENTAL HARM IN ACCOUNT.
We start by making mines that harms the environment and spreads pollution nearby waterways. Then we start processing these mining results making more devastation and causing loads of ghg's in the process (ie. steel manufacturing is roughly 7% of ghg emissions). And then we consume the product that causes its own emissions and pollutants. And finally we toss that product to the nature in a form that is often a toxic.
This is the key issue. And keep in mind that our top product in volume is CO2.
We have to input the harm done to the nature in the economic system. And that will be extremely hard. Multiple products creates so much harm that they should not be allowed to even exist.
Totally agree. Our current economic system is completely screwed up and doesn't take into account the real costs of products.
Loss and damage fund is a MINOR drop from raised fossil fuel subsidices from last few years due to Russian war in Ukraine.