Pirate's Cove

Didn’t oil producers win when 50K+ took long, fossil fueled trips to Brazil? When they cut down a piece of the Amazon to build a road for fossil fueled vehicles? When they put a lot of elite attendees up on cruise ships which kept their diesel engines running?

So sad. From the link

Global climate negotiations ended on Saturday in Brazil with a watered-down resolution that makes no mention of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming.

If they really believed that wouldn’t the Believers find a different way to hold the conference, instead of having all these folks travel to nice places around the world?

But the weak deal heightened fears among many countries, particularly vulnerable island states, that the world is politically unwilling or unable to address climate change and its cascade of accompanying catastrophes.

People are backing away from the cult, and, citizens are not voting to Do Stuff. Don’t these same people caterwaul about Democracy! all the time? Are they saying citizens should be forced to do what all these COP30 attendees won’t?

The mild resolution was also a rebuff of Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who had billed the event as a historic moment to make progress on climate action while showcasing the Amazon, often called the “lungs of the world” for the huge amount of planet-warning carbon dioxide the forest pulls out of the atmosphere.

In a speech that opened the talks, he called for negotiators to deliver a “road map” for a global transition away from fossil fuels. In the end, there was no such plan.

At talks two years ago in Dubai, the nations of the world already agreed on a “transition away” from fossil fuels by the middle of this century. Heeding President Lula’s suggestion, a group of countries — including Britain, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany and Kenya — had pushed in Belém for a detailed plan.

A simple acknowledgment of the Dubai deal is all they got. The deal says countries should implement their climate plans “taking into account the decisions” made in Dubai. Europeans said the language, while coded, was still a win.

At this point it just looks like a yearly company meeting where it’s more about hanging out, hobnobbing, eating on someone else’s dime, and enjoying the vacation. Next year it is in Turkey.

There was one win for vulnerable countries. The deal did bolster promises of funding to protect communities from the impacts of climate-fueled disasters. Small island nations in particular wanted more assurances that nations would triple adaptation finance, and the final agreement does that, calling for “efforts to at least triple adaptation finance by 2035.”

We’ve heard this song and dance before, yet, all those countries pledging money tend to short-change the funds. All in all, though, the NY Times is rather morose about the results, as were many other outlets, such as Politico

French environment minister Monique Barbut said her country is “not opposing the deal because there’s nothing particularly bad about it. It’s a fairly bland text. This text does not raise our overall ambition, but it does not undermine previous progress.”

Other leaders’ reactions were far more dour. Colombian President Gustavo Petro, for example, expressed disappointment that the final text did not include a proposal backed by European and Latin American countries to urge a faster shift away from coal, oil and natural gas.

“I do not accept that the COP30 declaration does not clearly state, as science does, that the cause of the climate crisis is the fossil fuels used by capital,” Petro wrote on X. “If that is not stated, everything else is hypocrisy.”

Hypocrisy is the 50K+ attending via fossil fuels. I’m confident Petro flew to Belem.