In Brazil, politicians, diplomats and activists are negotiating climate protection. They investigate the details. The Paris master plan is history.
If you’re not very mentally strong right now or prone to November blues, I have a recommendation for you: stay away from the news in the next few days. No daily news, no newspapers. At t-online you concentrate on the entertainment or shopping department. As soon as you leave the protected area, you will be faced with bad news and, by golly, the worst news.
The worst bad news comes from the Brazilian rainforest, where the climate conference is being held: the earth is burning. Humanity is still releasing too much CO2 into the atmosphere. The 1.5 degree target can no longer be achieved, nor can the 2 degree target. The ocean is too warm, the coral is dying. If you want to go to the Maldives, hurry up, time is running out. The global community is failing.
This global community, this big family is under the umbrella of the United Nations. Ten years ago he agreed to the Paris Climate Agreement, a tremendous success. 195 countries agree that climate change is humanity’s main problem in the 21st century. That it is not Western countries that can solve this problem, not Eastern countries, not even Southern countries can solve it. But all together. The world agrees on a master plan to prevent the worst.
In Belem, as in previous years, it’s all about the details. Scientists delivered grim interim results, ministers praised their own climate plans and demanded more effort from other countries. There are arguments about money that rich groups, who are responsible for climate change, should give to poor communities so that they do not depend on fossil fuels for their development. Host Lula da Silva launches a multi-billion dollar fund to save the rainforest. Hundreds of diplomats scrambled over papers and formulations, seeking progress on small matters.
The central issue is rarely discussed: the Paris Agreement exists only on paper. The global community in 2015 has splintered into hostile clans, families no longer acting together – neither on climate nor global trade, and certainly not on world peace.
