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If the United Nations struggles to process a few thousand delegates through a security checkpoint in a resort town on the Turkish Riviera, why would we ever let it run the world economy?

In any case it will be worth watching COP31 to see how this latest wacky climate money sink progresses. Given that impossible targets are free it may do very well.

Like so many other countries, they will participate in this UN climate farce if it gets them free money from wealthier nations.

Climate Home News briefs COP31 in Antalya as the first summit staring down an almost certain 1.5C overshoot, reads the US midterms as a climate thumbs-down, and notes Turkey's electrification pledge skips a clean-power mandate.

An annual gabfest and a boondoggle for 100,000 useless individuals to have a wonderful holiday and feel important all at your expense.

What is most interesting is that such a treaty has the potential to destabilize the UN Climate Change Program.

None of this is just or equitable. It is eco-imperialism and carbon-colonialism.

Sooo 2024 - "... The health harms of climate change are growing faster than the world’s response to them ..."

Only two world leaders from outside the Pacific Region showed up, but those who did show up were really enthusiastic.

Greens are starting to worry they have lost their audience.

Both host country Turkey and "President of Negotiations" Australia are players in the global coal supply chain - Australia exports, and Turkey imports.

Boutros Boutros got the UNFCCC, Kofi Annan the Kyoto Protocol, Ban Ki-Moon the Paris Agreement, but António Gutteres gets - nothing.

“There is no evidence that UN COP meetings and more than $10 trillion spent on renewables over the last 30 years have affected the climate. The average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, which is blamed for global...

"COP30 was not sufficiently successful ..."

Greens doing their best to put a brave face on Novermber's zero achievement climate conference.