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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Has the Paris Climate Accord been abandoned ?










“The Paris agreement 
signals that deniers 
have lost the climate 
wars,”  read the UK 
Guardian headline on 
December 14, 2015.
 ... "195 world nations 
have agreed to ignore 
climate science denial 
and cut carbon pollution 
as much as possible.”

In my climate science
reading, I found that 
similar hyperbole 
followed the Kyoto 
Protocol in the late
1980s.


Nearly five 
years later, 
the voluntary 
Paris Accord 
seems to be 
sinking.

Virtually all 
of the countries 
have chosen 
business-as-usual 
energy policies, 
in place of the 
voluntary, 
aspirational 
goals of the 
Paris Accord. 

Of the 189 signatories 
to the 2005 Accord, 
181 countries have NOT
updated their Nationally 
Determined Contributions 
(NDC) targets to indicate 
decarbonization “progress.” 

The governments below 
have clearly signaled 
an intent to NOT update 
their NDC 2030 targets
or have signaled that 
they will only 
're-communicate' 
their existing NDC 
goals with no significant 
change in emissions:
  Russia, 
  Japan, 
  Indonesia, 
  Singapore, 
  Australia, 
... and the U.S.
dropped out 
of the Accord.

The COP25 
United Nations 
climate change
conference 
last year in 
Madrid, Spain 
was recognized 
as just talk 
and no action.

The COP26 UN 
climate change 
conference 
set for Glasgow 
in November 2020
has been 
postponed
to 2021 due to
COVID-19. 

Fossil fuels 
seem to be 
winning.