BBC REPORTS THAT COP26 IS FALLING APART BEFORE IT OPENS

WHAT THE BBC REPORT SAYS

A document leak reveals that Saudi Arabia, Japan, Australia {and a few other countries} not identified by the BBC are asking the UN to play down the need to move away from fossil fuels. We also find that {unidentified} “wealthy nations” are unwilling to participate in the climate finance program where they were expected to pay the UN $billions to help poor countries with climate change impacts and with climate action costs.

In other words what distinguishes COP26 from the failure of the previous 25 COPs is that it is falling apart even before the grand “Confernce of the Parties” {COP} is assembled. The assumed commitment of the Parties to keep global warming below 1.5C since pre-industrial is is not possible under these circumstances.

Many thousands of documents have been submitted by the participating nations to the UN. These documents contain the climate action and climate finance commitments of the participating nations in the COP26 meeting. More than 32,000 of thes documents have been leaked by unknown means and unknown individuals. The documents were submitted to a team of scientists that was compiling the UN COP26 report in advance of the meeting. This team of scientists are the ones that provided the UN with the best scientific recommendation on what is needed to tackle climate change and keep warming under 1.5C since pre-industrial. The COP26 climate action and climate finance program is based on this scientific report.

This advance information about the COP26 meeting had been released to journalists and to Greenpeace. The essence of the information in the leak is that the claim by the UN and the UK organizers of COP26, that the participating nations are ready and willing to sign the anticipated COP26 climate action deal, is false.

THIS COMES ON TOP OF THE ACCEPTANCE BY COP26 OF THE FLAWED “NET ZERO” AS CLIMATE ACTION. THE NET ZERO ISSUE IS DESCRIBED IN A RELATED POST: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/02/25/net-zero/

THE FAILURE IN ADVANCE OF COP26 IS A FIRST FOR WHAT WE SEE IN THE HISTORY OF THE PRIOR 25 COPS IS THAT SUCCESS WAS ASSUMED IN THE PRIOR 25 COPS. IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE MEETING ENDED WITHOUT A CLIMATE ACTION AGREEMENT THAT FAILURE BECAME APPPARENT AND EVEN SO, THE FAILURES WERE NOT UNDERSTOOD AS FAILURES BUT AS THE REASON TO SCHEDULE THE NEXT COP. THIS SORDID HISTORY OF THE COPS IS DESCRIBED IN TWO RELATED POSTS ON THIS SITE LINKED BELOW.

HISTORY OF THE COPS#1: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/06/05/the-paris-agreement/

HISTORY OF THE COPS#2: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/08/21/cop26-glasgow-2021/