C40’s Dystopian Future
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
Ever heard of this outfit?
It was founded in 2005 as C20, and has since expanded to its current network of 96 cities, including London. Its objectives are made clear:
It won’t come as any reassurance to learn that its Chair since 2021 has been Sadiq Khan, and its President is the billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
Perhaps even more worryingly is the long list of funders, who turn out to be the usual bunch of far-left donors that fund most of the green blob, such as Bloomberg, CIFF, Climate Works, Hewlett Foundation, Oak Foundation, and, not least, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. C40 also receives taxpayer money, courtesy of the Foreign Office.
And don’t fall for claims that C40 is just a talking shop. In 2019 they published a report called “The Future of Urban Consumption In A 1.5C World”.
It was largely written by ARUP and the University of Leeds, it goes into great detail about the sort of changes that must be made. ARUP introduced it thus:
New ways of measuring cities’ climate footprints show that C40 cities consumption-based emissions contribute to 10% of global greenhouse gases.
This report explores how cities consumption-based emissions need to reduce to avoid a climate breakdown and focuses on six sectors – food, construction, clothing, vehicles, aviation and electronics – where leaders, businesses and the public can take action to change consumption habits, significantly cutting greenhouse gas emissions.The research sets out science-based targets for cities for GHG emissions reduction that are consistent with the 2015 Paris Agreement ambitions, and identifies key previously untapped opportunities for cities to address the impact of urban consumption whilst delivering multiple other benefits for their citizens. It also maps how urban stakeholders can work together to deliver these changes.
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The report recognises that emissions actually generated within C40 cities are small compared to those associated with goods and services consumed within cities, but generated outside. To get to their 1.5C will therefore require massive changes in consumption behaviour.
It offers some examples of how we should get there:
Their ultimate goal for 2030 included:
- 0kg of meat and dairy
- 3 new clothing items a year
- 0 private vehicles
- 1 short haul flight every three years per person
- 7 year lifetime for all electronic devices.
Quite clearly the public are not going to change their lifestyles voluntarily, just to appease Mayor Khan and his chums.
Which leads us to the question of how these targets will be enforced. After all, C40 have gone to a lot of trouble producing this report and tell us that emissions reductions are essential. They surely will not just file the report away and forget about it?
And as the C40 Executive Director makes plain, it is time for action:
Maybe it is also time for Mayor Khan to come clean with the citizens of London, and tell them what he has got in store for them.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Whenever I see “science based approach” or similar I now read “bible based approach”. It’s become a religious cult. Believe and obey or go to hell.
A bible based cult would suit me – God will continue to control the weather and punish all liars and those who would harm others.
Amen!
” Believe and obey or go to hell. ” = Believe and obey or there will be boiling.
Indeed, we’re dealing with a religion & cultural movement, not a scientific one. See:
https://anttilehtniemi.nettisivu.org/climate-emergency-panic-a-new-totalitarian-religion/
I think it resembles an ideology like those Marxist ideologies of the 19th- 20th century which claimed the State owned everything , after Lenin’s revisionism from Trotsky…. Reading Solzenitsyn. The proletariat were allowed as much freedom to consume as suited the managers. Land, water and energy were to be rationed out but the managerial classes became too numerous and the muddle was never resolved.so the proletariat were blamed and punished. Classic cases of over sized adminstrative classes . Graduates , of course, headed for these steady jobs just as they do now. because it was difficult to sack them.
First item…raising climate ambition. I used to see “Ambition” in this context as clueless ruthlessness. People and politicians are no longer clueless, they are just ruthless and feel a moral duty to be so.
Hmm. I think they’ll have trouble with India who, because they realise their cities are highly populated, want to move to a per-capita measure – or have I misunderstood this?
Yes I had some years ago. Its the rise of these international quangos that drive the agenda outside direct national government control. The funders listed are the same for almost everyone of similar operations.
The “ULEZ” cameras provide Khan with an easy means of controlling the number of “powered personal vehicles” travelling on London’s roads.
They have to be operative first – and that is their Achilles heel as people will find all sorts of ingenious ways to make them 100% less so. “They” and their Woke co conspirators have zero, let alone Net Zero, mandate for this garbage and it will just hasten mass civil disobedience – and there are no means of policing that if it is big enough….Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war as Will said.
” .. hasten mass civil disobedience ”
Unfortunately, the (historical) mass civil obedience to UK Covid restrictions probably represents a green light to Khan and similar.
The COVID restrictions were needed & were effective.
They were absolutely NOT needed. Massive overreaction by control freaks.
But somebody made a lot of money out of the forced PCR tests and vaccinations.
>>The COVID restrictions were needed
Precisely so. I was around in the Hong Kong flu epidemic of 1968/69, which had an IFR considerably in excess of covid. The economy was not shut down, the NHS was not shut down and schools were not shut down.
One major difference was there was no 24 hour rolling news and no social media. QED?
>>devonblueboy
I had Hong Kong Flu in that pandemic. I developed symptoms the day before going by bus from London to Edinburgh. The whole journey was a nightmare of aching limbs, sore throat and a headache and I’ve never felt so ill since*. When I got home I when to bed with a bottle of Lucozade and didn’t get up except to go to the toilet for about 48 hours, I wasn’t aware there was a flu pandemic until some time after I’d recovered.
I’m sure many other people didn’t know much about it.
*As a 4 year old I had Scarlet Fever and that was pretty bad but hard to compare.
What’s in it for these predatory billionaires?
Greed explains, so ignore them.
The core value of communists is they hate freedom. Has nothing to do with money.
Communists have gotten great traction with the ‘climate change’ schtick (as well as “racism). They don’t care about the weather. They have found people who will surrender their freedom to “tackle climate change!,” or “save the planet.”
Focus groups told them people value “science,” so they use the word freely. They use the word as an appeal to authority. One of several fallacies characteristic of climate science (sic).
Hey GC, the Mayor of Wuhan is in this group so he has already done his bit for the cause.
Uncaring greed for the sociopath billionaires and power and control for he psychopaths driving towards a one world (their insane vision of the one world) government that no one has ever voted for. Unfortunately ignoring a tsunami doesn’t stop it.
“Uncaring greed for the sociopath billionaires”
Greed? Billionaires? Having billions cures greed.
Greed is rather subjective, and smacks of jealousy, so it doesn’t really explain. Is it too much enthusiasm, like winning too many Gold medals, or enthusiasm for goal that you consider not worth while or even malevolent. I read that some, if not many, highly paid techies consider their success (and power) payback for being ridiculed as a nerd at school.
These billionaires possibly consider their wealth is their only measure of success, similar to Premier League clubs being greedy for goals and points. After all, it’s how the Legacy Media present them.
‘… investment in green jobs’ inevitably means killing more real jobs. Just as denying poor people affordable energy kills them or at the very best shortens their lives and immiserates them.
“Green” is a term of negation.
Can any of these mayors provide evidence CO2 significantly influences climate?
Communist40.
40 is almost 100.
These mayors may as well be mares. dumbasses the lot of them.
Read Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball’s great little book:
Human Caused Global Warming
THE BIGGEST DECEPTION IN HISTORY.
Only 121 pages. Great little book.
John Doran.
No, never heard of them, – so of course did you hear anything about “our mayors” attending these conferences? … don’t tell me: davos or some such other stupid event ( not so stupid to them when they get their way, controlling us… at our expense.) If I’m paying for the taxi, I control where the driver goes, or ? .. not the same as the Bus or train. Dinner’s served all day – 24 hrs here, Gravy?
I haven’t even BOTHERED to read anything about it: Just Don’t WANT TO KNOW: better to kill them off. DO we give weeds a chance to develop in the event they may have something really useful to show for themselves ? That’s all these people are.
I can just see the west sheeple strutting about in their Mao Zedong suits searching for non conformists to reeducate in camps with no heat or light and bread and water while the chinese swan around in the latest outfits and fly the world.
Sadiq should be locked up for psychiatric treatment and removed from power
instead he is King of climate – driving his 5 litre gaz guzzler and flying wherever he wants – sickening
It is disgraceful just how much the “climate” fanatics actively HATE ordinary people.
They don’t hate the people; they hate their freedom.
“C40 cities consumption-based emissions contribute to 10% of global greenhouse gases. ”
If we added up every claim of “such and such contributing x% of global warming” I’m fairly certain that we would, by now, be into thousands of percents.
So similar to the way Labour intends to spend the gas & oil windfall tax many times over….
Some years ago, Michael Bloomberg was interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. As probably the biggest name in international finance, you might expect him to be accurate in his knowledge of our trading with the EU.
In fact he said, Britain had a £95billion SURPLUS in our trade with the EU. In fact, we had a DEFICIT of about that size.
The interviewer said nothing. I wrote to the BBC and queried the silence. If told he was wrong, Bloomberg would have been aware of his reputation and just said “Sorry. Slip of the tongue”. Later he might have lambasted his helpers about the wrong figure.
By contrast, the BBC replied to me and just said they “did not want to interrupt the flow of the interview”. So the several million listeners either thought Bloomberg is ignorant, or that they themselves have been labouring under a misapprehension!
Naturally, the BBC never takes that attitude when dealing with local politicians…
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
The use of “Following the science” is degrading science. These idiots appear to believe that the “science is proven” so can justify any lunacy based on their “scientific virtue”. Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wro….
I recall Barack Obama on the subject of man made climate change stating ‘the science is settled’. We’ll that’s OK then.
“The use of “Following the science” is degrading science.”
It is also contrary to Nullius in Verba:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_in_verba
They might achieve their reductions in greenhouse gases etc. after all, why would anyone want to live in one of their Utopian hell-holes?
We won’t be given a choice…
That’s what THEY think.
I think they’ll find they’e wrong.
Get shot of all members of C40 and their donors. That would reduce the number of private jet flights and meet the emission targets. Let society evolve naturally without these self appointed, luxury belief, progressive intellectuals who won’t be affected by their lunatic ideals. They won’t care when their plans go wrong like they have every time they have tried them before.
C40’s proposals are clearly an assault on capitalism.
An assault on humanity
Exactly.
From the horse’s mouth:
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said. Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/
I notice the Mayor of Wuhan has already contributed his city’s best efforts to the cause.
There is an obvious social consequence to these proposals which has not been fully explored I think . It concerns money . I know we are supposed to deplore the end of cash transactions , but using the card gives me far more information on specific transactions and where my money goes than when using cash. And an alarming amount goes on groceries , clothes, holidays and petrol.
Under these proposals we will be restricted in what we can buy as food ,the expensive meat products denied, far fewer clothes and probably virtually no petrol and no trips abroad.
So : that will mean a steep drop in inflation and any benefits , salaries , annuities linked to inflation, and also mortgages . This leaves a considerable increase in disposable income assuming salaries are not reduced proportionately . And if they are. what will unions say or the employees of private firms?
If incomes are not reduced to match reduced spending then there will be a large amout of money sloshing around and the rise of the black market . I know from an earlier generation how , during rationing in WW2 and afterwards , that much was available “under the counter ” for those with untraceable cash.
You could link this proposal with the aspirations of. say , India to be comparable in per capita CO2 emission to Europe or USA . That can be done either by increasing the standard of living of Indians with enormous increase in emission, or reducing the standard of living , and hence emission of the affluent West to match that of India .Which is it to be? Khan , CCC and , probably Starmer’s Govt seem to prefer the latter.
Even more alarming is when you look at how much of the actual price at point of sale is TAX. There needs to be a law that the tax element of that price cannot exceed absolute maximum 20% for ALL products.
>>And an alarming amount goes on groceries , clothes, holidays and petrol.
Anyone in favour of getting rid of cash welcomes slavery – all spending will be controlled (and if a person using cash can’t keep track of their spending, well, what does that say about their intellectual capabilities?).
Approx 13:00 UK Air Traffic Control has completelyscrewed up – Bank Holiday coincidence? No take offs from all major airports, all planes in flight coming landing but no new take offs to land here allowed. Check out the BBC live stream to see just how many of their staff are stuck in exotic places. But hey they say you shouldn’t fly!
Is that perchance related to this?
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/exact-date-heatwave-hit-uk-after-washout-bank-holiday/
Note the “soar to twenty six degrees” scaremongering in that link.
>>BBC live stream
Twenty six degrees – we can but hope.
BBC forced some of the lesser people – ones that make tv coverage possible as opposed to the over paid morons who present it – to use the train to and from the World athletics in Budapest which took up 4 days of their time while the presenters flew.
I first heard of Common Purpose – motto “Leading Beyond Authority” – at least 1o years ago. It was while following up on their “Partners” that I became aware of C40, along with ICLEI, the Global Covenant of Mayors, and a host of similar quangos / fake charities. Unfortunately, their cancerous influence keeps on spreading, and it’s difficult to see how we will ever get the better of them…
Does it mean “Overstepping Your Authority”?
It certainly explains why nothing the government tries to implement ever succeeds – the (not very) Civil Service simply ignores anything they don’t like. It’s known that CP “Graduates” are embedded throughout many walks of life, from local government to the police and media (particularly the BBC).
The mayors have an instant way to achieve their aims, and that is to outlaw the sale, transport, or use of fossil fuels or their derivatives in their domains. At the stroke of a pen, the “emissions” would fall to zero, unfortunately accompanied by the reduction of the income they generate, and followed by the exodus of all the people from the cities where they can no longer make a living. Still, that would indeed end up with no CO2 emitted by the cities, not even by the respiration of the (now-departed) inhabitants.
After all, if this is an existential problem, it needs a bold move to fix it….
Khan’s Low Emission Zone signs just lost a legal case. No indication on the signs of a fee.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/28/chaos-for-sadiq-khan-as-signs-for-low-emission-zone-are-ruled-illegal-after-action-by-driver/
Perhaps the legal system is not entirely corrupt. However, getting those ULEZ and even LEZ zones scrapped altogether and of course refunds of any “penalties” already paid is still a major task.
>>Khan’s Low Emission Zone signs just lost a legal case
Limiting the number of garments to people is just a few short steps away from everyone wearing the same garment.
The LGBT crowd wont be very happy about that – what about a sort of Stalinesque jacket and a king’s robe and crown for wee Sadiq with horse and gold carriage to cut down his 5 litre range rover emissions
But as most of these garments are probably made in Bangladesh, India , Indonesia etc you are also disadvantaging the livelihoods of the inhabitants of those countries as well.
Mao was before his time, with the one book for ever and one suit – unisex of course.
Does 3 items of new clothing a year include underwear?
If everyone only buys 3 new items a year before long they’ll be a massive reduction in the supply of second hand clothes then what are people going to wear?
If people can’t buy meat how are they going to feed their cats, dogs etc. or does Sadiq want to be remembered as Khan the Kitten Killer?
1 Timothy 4 :-
………forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
These tormenting demons just love bossing you around – the WEF lot put on new suits and ties daily and consume £billions of resources in flying , houses
food cars holidays etc – its called greed and selfishness.
I always thought the super villains portrayed in James Bond films were fantasy. It seems not. World domination is very much the plan and Khan et Al are seeking it.
I suspect this lady is going to screw it all up for them!
“How mayors lead: Emerging insights from the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative” July 2018.
https://bloombergcities.jhu.edu/news/how-mayors-lead-emerging-insights-bloomberg-harvard-city-leadership-initiative
“You need the citizens and private sector and all parts of society pulling together for the same goal”
AKA “Corporate Socialism” – Benito Mussolini’s favoured synonym for Fascism.
A word salad, so typical of Burnham and other lefties. If teachers weren’t so determined to fill children’s heads with propaganda about climate change and trans stuff, imagine what they could do to educate them?
We know how much Mayor Khan values science by the way that he sacked the scientist that found that London’s air quality was excellent. Bad scientist, wrong answer, I needed you to say that the air was highly polluted in order to justify my ULEZ zones. This is how science works in the twenty first century, I tell you the answer and then you don a white coat, and back up my answer with science.
Irony: pre-1983 cars are classed as ‘historic vehicles’ and exempt from ULEZ charges…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12437769/Londoners-snap-classic-cars-dodge-ULEZ-Dealers-surge-older-models-capital-braces-expansion-12-50-zone.html
Time st start looking in barns for apparently forgotten old cars.
I wish I still had my 1954 LandRover or 1966 Toyota Corona.
>>Irony: pre-1983 cars are classed as ‘historic vehicles’ and exempt from ULEZ charges…
” Irony: pre-1983 cars are classed as ‘historic vehicles’ and exempt from ULEZ charges… ”
= sustainability !
Any one here been to Cuba? Never mind under the jackboot of Khan, Cuba’s coming to us.
Agree 100% about Khan’s attitude to science. On R4 Today this morning (29.08.23) he reeled off a bunch of statements about how much better the air was in London since ULEZ started. Never questioned about any of it. Broadcaster did not ask about what happened to Prof Kelly’s results that showed virtually no effect…Told to go away and find some different answers…
Two things come to mind. Firstly – Moore’s Law and the second is Steve Jobs who said that productivity is doing things faster and cheaper tomorrow than you did today. Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years which implies that in 7 years the complexity and number of devices on a chip will increase by 10 – 11 times. To paraphrase Jobs “We will do 10 times as much in 7 years as we can do today”. The first computer I used in 1968, took up a whole building and could only calculate to an accuracy of 10^+/- 39. So waiting 7 years before you can introduce and upgrade is never going to happen, because China would have to be on board and they already have a 1 nanometer process. The explosive growth of the semiconductor industry has caught out even the companies that were leaders in the field. Take the Digital Equipment Corporation whose president Ken Olsen joins a long list of false predictions when he stated in 1977 , “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” No they have them on their watch, in their fridge, in their phone. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Moore%27s_Law_Transistor_Count_1970-2020.png
Another great comment came from the CEO of GM who stated that they would never place a microprocessor in a car. So these 40 clowns do not understand the consequences of an electronics industry that is the driving force for the rest of industry. (Just as an aside, who wishes they had bought Apple shares in 1975.If these 40 clowns had been around and got their way in 1975, what would have been the consequences for the tech industries which Khan worships.)
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”
This I think is correct. I used a Ferranti Atlas in 1962 which filled 4 rooms and needed 2 engineers 24 hours a day to keep it going. This was used by university people to deal with complex problems which can be done today with smaller machines. The quote was reasonable up to the 1970s I suppose. We don’t need those in our homes.
Those we use today in our homes which we call computers are really just gadgets to use instead of books, a library or an information booth. How many of us actually compute anything on one? They do use computer technology no doubt and can be used by some for technical work but generally for non technical work.
DEC came out with a home computer in the 1980s. It was a decent piece of hardware.
Failed hugely. Bad market read. People wanted software that would do things for them. A box that could run it was useless without the software itself. Nobody produced home software for DEC platforms (RSX-11M or VAX).
Aside: My father had the first commercial IBM 704 in the mid-fifties. His first system was mechanical relays. Bugs were 6-legged. All results were scrutinized for reasonableness. By the 70s, when I got into it, hardware errors were extremely rare. The 704 had fixed it for him.
To reduce clothing requirements, make all white/electronic goods last longer, have fewer or no flights, less meat etc. will reduce the profits of those manufacturers and providers so to retain profit prices must rise which will of course reduce shopping or just make people poorer. Do those of C40 say they will abide by those life curtailments? They should also be proposing that private jets and super yachts be made illegal but somehow I don’t think they will do that.
Those funding this project must want to recoup their largesse but how and before their own death?
This is why such developments as BRICS and their intensifying efforts to stand up a parallel settlement currency (which is naturally something they would never dream of doing in a million years—at least, until the day it’s rolled out) that proffers a viable alternative to the USD are of such monumental importance—especially after the latter was weaponized against Russia in the ongoing Ukrainian debacle, with the Biden regime and his posse of obeisant European retainers and warlords demonstrating full commitment to bullying and gaslighting the rest of the world into total acquiescence, yet whose (undoubtedly unintended) effect seems in the aftermath to have motivated a principled resolve to stand up to the Bufford “Mad Dog” Tannen wannabes that have infiltrated all institutions and positions of authority in Western nations in the last two decades.