Drawing Back the Curtain on the World's Political Classes (What Trump knew)

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American thinker
Clarice Feldman
June 4, 2017

Excerpt:

[L] isten to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:

"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole," said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.

So what is the goal of environmental policy?

"We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy," said Edenhofer.

For those who want to believe that maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and doesn't really mean that, consider that a little more than five years ago he also said that "the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated."

More... http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/06/drawing_back_the_curtain_on_the_worlds_political_classes.html

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What will happen to the Green Climate Fund without the US?
DW.com, Jun 3, 2017

United Nations assessments have shown that climate change will hit the poorest countries the hardest, and studies show that human-induced climate change is affecting developing countries now. Rising sea levels, stronger storms, more unpredictable rains and larger and longer heatwaves are already occurring, especially in the world's tropical and subtropical regions, such as East and West Africa, Burma, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia.

As temperatures rise and oceans warm, countries in the global south will face even harsher climate change repercussions, with weather disasters more likely to happen on a warmer planet.   

The Green Climate Fund was founded as a means to assist these developing countries in adopting practices to cope with the consequences of climate change.

The governments of industrialized economies formally agreed to mobilize $100 billion per year by 2020 through public as well as private funds.   The money will be invested in projects, programs and policies, such as renewable energy, to counter climate change. 

The total sum of $100 billion won't come from the countries' own budgets alone, but also from bilateral, multilateral and private funds. Even cities, organizations and individual citizens can contribute.   

At a pledging conference in late 2014 in Berlin, 30 nations announced their own contributions to the fund's "initial resource mobilization period," which runs from 2015 until 2018.

Back then, the pledges totaled $9.3 billion, with the US being the largest contributor ($3 billion), followed by Japan ($1.5 billion), the United Kingdom ($1.1 billion), France and Germany ($1 billion each).

But now, one nation has dropped out of the deal - and that is none other than the country that had promised the most - the US. Under former president Barack Obama, the US pledged the amount it did based on the fact that it is the world's largest economic power.

So where will the missing money come from?

A total amount of $10.3 billion has been legally pledged and signed to be paid into the fund by 43 countries by 2018. Out of that sum, $6.5 billion has already been paid, with Japan as the biggest contributor, followed by the US, UK, Germany, France and Sweden. That amount is safe and cannot be taken back.

But now that Donald Trump has officially announced his intention to leave the Paris Agreement, which is where the countries had officially signed their pledges, the Green Climate Fund is short $2 billion.

German environment minister Barbara Hendricks said in a radio interview with German public broadcaster WDR 5 that other countries won't be expected to make up the missing sum.

"I'm sure we'll manage to mobilize funds from development banks or the World Bank to finance what is necessary. But it won't just be passed on to the other countries," she said.

Lutz Weischer, team leader of international climate politics at the German NGO Germanwatch, told DW that the US is sending a bad signal to developing countries by refusing to pay the remaining $2 billion.

"In the past few days, more heads of states and governments have come out in support of climate protection than ever before. I've never seen so much commitment to climate protection than in the past two days,” he told DW. "I hope this also goes for financial aid to combat climate change. We now need all the other countries to keep their word and pay their dues."


http://www.dw.com/en/what-will-happen-to-the-green-climate-fund-without-the-us/a-39100361

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The biggest, boldest political scam ever attempted.

The entire Feldman column is good. My excerpt is what I thought most telling.

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The biggest, boldest political scam ever attempted.

The entire Feldman column is good. My excerpt is what I thought most telling.

And it was @endicom .... it triggered the post I made above that talked about the 100's of billions of dollars needed each year---from the POV of the climate change nuts.

The whole thing is staggering.

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And it was @endicom .... it triggered the post I made above that talked about the 100's of billions of dollars needed each year---from the POV of the climate change nuts.

The whole thing is staggering.

It is staggering. I'm reluctant to tell the next person what to do and these people feel entitled to rearrange the entire world.

And then there's the money. If there are idealists among these arrangers then they will just end up the tools and fools of the opportunists.