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*** 17-Nov-16 World View -- African nations furious over possible collapse of climate change agreement
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**** African nations furious over possible collapse of climate change agreement
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Banner from an Australian march against climate change
The surprise election victory of Donald Trump, who has called climate
change "a hoax," has been an extremely unpleasant shock to African
leaders attending a climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco.
Prior to the election, they had hoped that the international climate
change agreement would be a financial bonanza, and they angry now that
they see all that money slipping away, and are concerned that the
entire climate change effort may be near collapse.
A statement by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the
Marrakech conference on Wednesday urged a rapid scale-up in funding
for climate change programs, especially to support developing
countries. "Finance and investment hold the key to achieving
low-emissions and resilient societies," he said.
Many leaders are urging that implementation of the climate change
agreement be sped up so that as much as possible can be done while
president Barack Obama is still in office.
World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, said that he's trying to mobilize
as much as financing as possible."
> [indent]<QUOTE>"It is not just about trying to persuade donors and
> financiers to put up more money, although we are definitely trying
> to do that, but it also about creating the environment that crowds
> in a lot more financing. Even if we have the 100 billion dollars
> we are talking about, it is not nearly enough to reach our
> goals. ...
>
> We are trying to find ways to improve the way the existing banking
> sector understands and considers the risks of climate smart
> investments."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta said that the developed countries
have an obligation to provide plenty of money to developing countries
like Kenya:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"We should aim to ensure achievement of the long-term
> global goal of stabilizing the global temperature increase to
> below 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial levels, which
> gives hope to the most vulnerable countries and communities. ...
>
> The process should also take into consideration the obligations of
> developed country Parties to provide additional, predictable and
> sustainable support in terms of finance, technology and capacity
> building to meet the adaptation and mitigation needs of the
> developing country Parties."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
One thing that we've learned over the years is that giving free money
to African countries is mostly a disaster. After decades of giving
huge amounts of aid to African countries, the people are just as poor
and the infrastructure is little changes. Money given to an African
leader is used to buy weapons, or to build a new glittering
presidential palace, or to be deposited in a foreign bank account.
United Nations and Capital FM (Nairobi) and The Hindu
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**** The 'science' of climate change
****
As I've written in the past:
I'm not aware of any evidence to support the belief that any money
spent on the basis of an international climate change agreement would
not be completely wasted. BBC
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World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- African nations furious over possible collapse of climate change agreement
- The 'science' of climate change
****
**** African nations furious over possible collapse of climate change agreement
****
Banner from an Australian march against climate change
The surprise election victory of Donald Trump, who has called climate
change "a hoax," has been an extremely unpleasant shock to African
leaders attending a climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco.
Prior to the election, they had hoped that the international climate
change agreement would be a financial bonanza, and they angry now that
they see all that money slipping away, and are concerned that the
entire climate change effort may be near collapse.
A statement by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the
Marrakech conference on Wednesday urged a rapid scale-up in funding
for climate change programs, especially to support developing
countries. "Finance and investment hold the key to achieving
low-emissions and resilient societies," he said.
Many leaders are urging that implementation of the climate change
agreement be sped up so that as much as possible can be done while
president Barack Obama is still in office.
World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, said that he's trying to mobilize
as much as financing as possible."
> [indent]<QUOTE>"It is not just about trying to persuade donors and
> financiers to put up more money, although we are definitely trying
> to do that, but it also about creating the environment that crowds
> in a lot more financing. Even if we have the 100 billion dollars
> we are talking about, it is not nearly enough to reach our
> goals. ...
>
> We are trying to find ways to improve the way the existing banking
> sector understands and considers the risks of climate smart
> investments."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta said that the developed countries
have an obligation to provide plenty of money to developing countries
like Kenya:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"We should aim to ensure achievement of the long-term
> global goal of stabilizing the global temperature increase to
> below 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial levels, which
> gives hope to the most vulnerable countries and communities. ...
>
> The process should also take into consideration the obligations of
> developed country Parties to provide additional, predictable and
> sustainable support in terms of finance, technology and capacity
> building to meet the adaptation and mitigation needs of the
> developing country Parties."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
One thing that we've learned over the years is that giving free money
to African countries is mostly a disaster. After decades of giving
huge amounts of aid to African countries, the people are just as poor
and the infrastructure is little changes. Money given to an African
leader is used to buy weapons, or to build a new glittering
presidential palace, or to be deposited in a foreign bank account.
United Nations and Capital FM (Nairobi) and The Hindu
****
**** The 'science' of climate change
****
As I've written in the past:
- Humans may well have caused and be causing climate change, but
climate change scientists have been making predictions for 20 years,
and have been consistently wrong.
- Climate change will take care of itself. It's already happening,
as cities like Beijing and New Delhi are choked with smog and force
the governments to adopt clean air policies. Renewable energy prices
are falling without any international climate agreement.
- The proposed climate change agreement contains no plan, no
roadmap, nothing that shows how to accomplish the stated goals,
because no such plan or roadmap exists or could exist.
- Predictions by climate change scientists are always wrong because
it's impossible to predict future mitigating technologies, such as
nanotechnologies and the Singularity, and because they assume that
there will never be another world war.
I'm not aware of any evidence to support the belief that any money
spent on the basis of an international climate change agreement would
not be completely wasted. BBC
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Marrakech, Morocco, United Nations, Ban Ki-moon,
World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta
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Phone: 617-864-0010
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