The annual UN climate conference “has in fact become a negotiation more concerned with how much money each country thinks it might save or grab in the short term than about finding true solutions to a real problem”. The observation from the WRM bulletin editorial “Our Expectations for the Climate Change Convention's COP6” feels strikingly relevant 25 years on. “Prior to the Kyoto climate meeting in 1997”, the editorial notes, “one African climate-change negotiator angrily told a Northern-country representative that ‘our countries are not toilets for your emissions!’”. At COP30, governments from the Global South set up ‘seller meets buyer’ country booth to close carbon credit deals. Then as now, the word ‘fossil fuels’ does not appear in the final conference document. The fact – still - is that these COPs are avoiding to take action on the main cause of climate chaos: the capitalist production system and its dependence on fossil fuels. Read the full article here:
Our expectations for the Climate Change Convention's COP6 | World Rainforest Movement
The annual UN climate conference “has in fact become a negotiation more concerned with how much money each country thinks it might save or grab in the short term than about finding true solutions to a real problem”. The observation from the WRM bulletin editorial “Our Expectations for the Climate Change Convention's COP6” feels strikingly relevant 25 years on.