REPORT: Paris Climate Signers Worry The Deal Didn’t Go Far Enough
By Paul Homewood
From the “I told you so Dept”:
Activists believe the massive climate agreement world leaders championed as a major victory over climate change falls far short of what is needed, according to a report Tuesday from The Washington Post.
India, China, Turkey and other major contributors to high levels of greenhouse gasses are not doing enough to meet the obligations they made in the deal, the report notes. The world’s economies are ratcheting up production on natural gas, which is contributing to an increase in greenhouse gasses, activists believe.
“It’s not fast enough. It’s not big enough … There’s not enough action,” Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in England, told reporters. Others believe the deal might not be worth the paper former President Barack Obama and others used to solidify the non-binding agreement.
Reports showed last year that the U.S.’s obligations under the deal missed their mark. Obama’s target of 26 to 28 percent greenhouse gas level reductions by 2025 based off 2005 emissions levels won’t be enough to budge the needle, according to an analysis in January by the Rhodium Group.
President Donald Trump eventually pulled the U.S. out of the agreement under the belief that the deal was not adequately negotiated and unfairly targeted American manufacturers. The president suggested that he would be interested in leaping back into the agreement if the deal can be scrapped and re-negotiated.
Activists are not sold on the deal’s prospects, even if Trump re-joins.
Rob Jackson, an energy and climate expert at Stanford University, told reporters that the boom in natural gas production is preventing countries from meeting their goals. He believes the any kind of fossil fuel production should be exorcized to realize the accord’s potential.
“Tremendous gains in energy efficiency and renewable power aren’t yet reducing our global hunger for fossil fuels, especially oil and natural gas,” said Jackson, who also lamented the supposed lack of movement on the issue since the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change. “Until they do, greenhouse gas concentrations will keep rising.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/20/activists-paris-climate-deal/
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The whole thing is cloud cuckoo land thinking.
They know they are not even going to do what they say let alone even more.
Now that they can’t get the hundreds of billions from the US they are sunk.
The UN is way past when it should have been disbanded.
Paul, are you sure you haven’t mistyped that, this one seems more apposite.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tindal_Centre
LOL!!
Great find.
Pairs was nothing to do with CO2 reduction, it was about wealth redistribution, as Trump realised. Its dead.
oops, ‘Paris’.
Trump also understands the climate scam as far as man-caused anything goes. Savvy boy, our Donald John.
NASA’s James Hansen has called the Paris Accord… “BS”… for not going far enough. One has to wonder why his desire to take us back to 350 ppm CO2 and the climate of 1987 isn’t far enough. The entire scam is BS. Nobody can capture and store hundreds of gigatons of CO2…. 50 ppm.
The last time CO2 was at 350 ppm, 30 years ago, world population was at 5 billion. Today, at somewhat over 400 ppm, population is at about 7.5 billion – 50% higher. In the intervening 30 years, the world has greened by 14%, and crop yields have gone up significantly. If by some magic we could reduce CO2 levels to 350 ppm overnight, the result would be mass starvation, and all the wars that go with it, since we could not possibly feed 7.5 billion with the crop yields that we would then have.
Those who advocate a return to 350 ppm are either very foolish or very evil.
“Those who advocate a return to 350 ppm are either very foolish or very evil.”
Or both.
I believe Donald has announced that the US will be pulling out of the agreement but that it actually happen for a few more years. But in the mean time they won’t be taking any notice of it and Donald is still working hard to drain the swamp.
Corinne Le Quéré
oh dear Lord, they may as well quote muffin the mule.
and another thing, I thought that, the ‘Daily Caller’ was a sort of conservative news outlet?
RINO?
Paris 2015: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/here-are-indias-indc-objectives-and-how-much-it-will-cost/
“At least USD 2.5 trillion (at current prices) required between now and 2030 to implement all planned actions. Produce 40 per cent of electricity from non-fossil fuel based energy resources by 2030, IF international community helps with technology transfer and low cost finance.”
2016:
“A move that began as a minor levy on production of coal six years ago has become an important source of revenue for the government now, financing entire budget of some ministries and supporting clean and green activities.”
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/union-budget-2016-17-coal-cess-doubled-to-fund-ministries-green-drives/
2018, Reality bites:
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/private-outfits-can-mine-coal-with-no-end-use-curbs/article22809392.ece
The private sector will have a greater role in India’s coal production after the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a new methodology for auction of coal mines.
The government further opened up the coal sector, allowing for pricing and marketing freedom for production from mines offered under this mechanism.
Calling the commercial coal mining rules a game-changer across multiple sectors, Kameswara Rao, Partner and Leader — Energy, Utilities and Mining, PwC, said: “Power generators can source commercial coal to improve margins and availability.
Further, as merchant power prices fall, power utilities and manufacturing industry too benefits from lower energy costs.”