After Taking Long Fossil Fueled Flights, World Leaders To Shape Earth’s Fate

It’s wonderful that 40K people will take fossil fueled trips to Azerbaijan, a big fossil fuels nation, to yammer about ‘climate change’. This includes all those world leaders taking private jets, all to decide how much government they can put into your life and how much of your money and freedom they can take

World leaders aim to shape Earth’s future at COP29 climate change summit

World leaders will gather for about two weeks in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan starting Monday, with the goal of figuring out how much wealthy countries should pay to help developing nations facing the devastating effects of climate change.

But that goal may be upstaged by the results of the U.S. election and the incoming Trump administration in the U.S.

Those results mean one of the wealthiest participants in the yearly bureaucratic meeting may soon begin a significant shift in environmental policies, may not attend next year’s event and could soon again exit a landmark global climate change treaty.

More than 40,000 people are expected to attend the meeting. The 12-day conference brings together diplomats, scientists, activists, lobbyists, environmental groups and businesses from countries who’ve ratified a treaty aimed at preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate.

Every single one of them yammers about how bad fossil fuels are, but, very few will be able to take anyone other than a fossil fueled trip, mostly on planes, to the conference.

“Billions of people are counting on us to deliver climate finance at a scale that is adequate to the urgency and scale of the problem. We will spare no effort to deliver a fair and ambitious new goal in Baku at COP29,” COP29 President-Designate Mukhtar Babayev said in a release.

That includes the United States, for now. Whether that membership will continue is an open question.

Yeah, Trump will kill off this redistribution scheme as far as the U.S. is concerned.

During his campaign in 2024, Trump vowed to remove the United States from the Paris Agreement. There are also reports that a new Trump administration would attempt to remove the U.S. from the entire U.N. climate framework, according to reports in Politico and Bloomberg.

Exiting either treaty would require at least a year to go into effect as the original agreements the U.S. signed require first a formal notice that the country plans to leave the agreement and then a year wait for it to do so.

Except, Paris is not a treaty. It was never ratified by the Senate, as required by the Constitution. Heck, Trump could have the GOP controlled Senate vote in February to kill it if he wanted, not that it is necessary. It is essentially the equivalent of an Executive Order, which can be rescinded with the stroke of a pen. The Framework? Yeah, that would require notice, since the Senate approved it in 1992.

According to a United Nations Environment Program report last month, the world must cut 42% of annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and 57% by 2035 to reach the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping global temperature increases below 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius.)

We could start be ending the notion of 40K people taking fossil fueled trips to climate conferences. Especially the people who want to control your life.

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