The Conference of the Parties (COP19), the UN‘s annual Framework Convention on Climate Change summit, started on Monday in Warsaw, Poland.
Yesterday Patrick Bond wrote a column for the Daily Maverick questioning whether the Pretoria delegation can “make a convincing statement that one of the world’s highest per-capita greenhouse-gas polluters is reforming” and writes that “judging by both our and the world elite’s business-as-usual attitude, Warsaw will be another failure, like the Durban COP17 was two years ago.”
Can Pretoria’s delegation to the Conference of the Parties COP19 in Warsaw – the annual UN Framework Convention on Climate Change summit which opened on Monday and closes on November 22 – make a convincing statement that one of the world’s highest per-capita greenhouse-gas polluters is reforming?
In the wake of the typhoon which did such incalculable damage to the Philippines, meaningful demands must be made upon richer countries to urgently cut emissions. This will require the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa bloc to show they can reverse course, while meeting the vast social and energy needs of their increasingly angry low-income constituencies.
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- Politics of Climate Justice: Paralysis Above, Movement Below by Patrick Bond
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