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Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts
(www.theguardian.com)
That happened years ago. But the slow wheels turn purposely slow.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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As John Schellnhuber, one of the biggest European climate scientists that has been part of the majority of IPCCs, said last year about COP:
"Wenn die Länder die Klimaziele nicht umsetzen, sind diese Konferenzen nur Jahrmärkte der Eitelkeit."
Translation by Google:
"If countries do not implement the climate targets, these conferences will be nothing more than vanity fairs."
Interview, where he said it, and also said that 3 degrees above pre industrial would mean the end of ~~modern~~ human civilization (in German):