John Kerry met with Xie Zhenhua at the Ministerial Climate Action Summit as a part of the implementation of the Paris Climate Accord. China’s position is that it plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Mr. Kerry made a friendly overture for “a cooperative journey” to a cleaner climate and he succeeded in signing an agreement with China on climate.

The Agreement is that the U.S. and China will form a “joint working group” on climate change.  

LINK TO SOURCE: https://ec.europa.eu/clima/events/ministerial-climate-action_en

CRITICAL COMMENTARY

About the implementation of the Paris Climate Accord: In the Paris Climate Accord what the accordants accorded to was to submit intentions as in INTENDED NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS {INDC}. The cruelty of the English language is such that this phrase does not contain information about a global agreement to participate in a globally coordinated climate action plan to reduce global fossil fuel emissions to zero. Instead what we see in the INDC is a feeble bureaucratic effort to present failure as success. The real information content of this language is that the UN has failed to forge a global agreement to reduce global fossil fuel emissions to zero. The Paris Agreement is therefore nothing more than a comical bureaucratic effort to present this failure as success. This is the kind of thing that UN bureaucrats do very well and the only thing that they do well.

A detailed analysis of the Paris Agreement is presented in a related post:

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/04/04/11245/

There we find as follows: (1) There is no global carbon budget (2) And no defined role of the nation states in the gobal carbon budget, (3) And no commitment by the nation states to abide by the carbon budget and to meet their alloted carbon national budgets. Instead what we see is (4) a despicable language of failure presented as success as in “Intended nationally determined contributions”. (5) If it is intended, it is not a commitment. (6) If it is nationally determined, there is no global carbon budget from which it was derived. Therefore what is known as the Paris “agreement” is really a Paris bureaucratic language to present failure as agreement.

The further information in this ministerial meeting is that it is the 5th such meeting and that the 5th such meeting among the same people produced nothing more than “AGREEMENT” to meet again.

CONCLUSION: THE REAL INFORMATION CONTENT OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT AND THAT OF THE MINISTERIAL MEETINGS ABOUT THE PARIS AGREEMENT AND THE KIND OF “AGREEMENTS” REACHED AT THESE MINISTERIAL MEETINGS IS THAT THE UN HAS FAILED TO REPRODUCE THEIR ASSUMED SUCCESS IN THE OZONE DEPLETION ISSUE IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE. AND THAT THEREFORE THERE IS NO GLOBAL CONTRACT OF NATION STATES OF AN ENFORCEABLE GLOBAL CARBON BUDGET TO REDUCE GLOBAL FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS AND THAT THE ATTEMPT TO PRESENT THIS FAILURE AS SUCCESS BY THE UN BUREAUCRATS DOES NOT TELL US THAT THEY ARE ON THE PATH TO CLIMATE ACTION BUT THAT THEY ARE CLUELESS GOOFBALLS WITH A STRATEGY NOT FOR CLIMATE ACTION FOR FOR CLIMATE HEROISM OF THE UN.

THE FAILURE OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT AND THAT THERE IS NO AGREEMENT IN THE PARIS AGREEMENT IS DETAILED IN A RELATED POST ON THIS SITE: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/04/04/11245/

THE REALITY IS THAT THERE IS NO AGREEMENT IN THE PARIS AGREEMENT, THAT THE UN HAS FAILED, AND THAT THEREFORE THERE IS NO GLOBAL AGREEMENT TO CUT GLOBAL FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS.

THAT THE UN ITSELF ACKNOWLEDGES THIS FAILURE IS SEEN IN THE FALLBACK POSITION OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL NOW FOUND CANVASSING FOR CLIMATE HEROISM BY NATION STATES

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/01/04/a-montreal-protocol-for-the-climate/

HOWEVER, AS DETAILED IN RELATED POSTS ON THIS SITE, THERE IS NO ROLE FOR CLIMATE ACTION HEROISM OF NATION STATES PARTICULARLY SO WHEN THESE CLIMATE ACTION AMBITION TARGETS ARE STATED NOT IN TERMS OF ZERO FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS BUT IN TERMS OF SOMETHING CALLED “NET ZERO”. DETAILS IN THE RELATED POSTS LINKED BELOW.

RELATED POST#1: CLIMATE ACTION HEROISM OF NATION STATES: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/02/23/renewable-energy-statistics/

RELATED POST#2: THE ECONOMICS LOOPHOLE IN NATIONAL LEVEL CLIMATE ACTION: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/05/22/climate-catch22/

RELATED POST#3: THE FLAW IN THE NET ZERO TARGET FOR CLIMATE ACTION: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/02/25/net-zero/

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: (1) THE UN HAS FAILED TO PUT TOGETHER A GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION PLAN FOR A COORDINATED EFFORT BY ALL NATION STATES TO REDUCE FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS. (2) CLIMATE ACTION HEROISM AT THE NATION STATE LEVEL WILL NOT REDUCE GLOBAL EMISSIONS BECAUSE THESE ACTIONS WILL CAUSE EMISSIONS TO RISE ELSEWHERE. (3) THE TARGET OF NET ZERO EMISSIONS INSTEAD OF ZERO EMISSIONS IS FLAWED AND A KIND OF WINDOW DRESSING THAT DOES NOT IMPLY ZERO FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS AS A CLIMATE ACTION TARGET.

YET ALL WE HAVE, NOW THAT THE UN HAS FAILED, IS A MISHMASH OF NET ZERO CLIMATE ACTION PLANS AT THE NATION STATE LEVEL. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR THIS PLAN TO REDUCE GLOBAL FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS TO ZERO. CLIMATE SCIENCE HAS LOST. FOSSIL FUELS HAS WON.

IT IS HIGH TIME TO FACE THE REALITY THAT THE UN GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION PLAN LIKE THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL HAS FAILED AND TO MAKE PLANS NOT FOR PREVENTING RUNAWAY GLOBAL WARMING BY NATURAL FEEDBACKS BUT FOR DEALING WITH IT.

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/03/25/climate-fearology-vs-geoengineering/