{"id":15825,"date":"2015-12-30T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15825"},"modified":"2015-12-30T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:55:16","slug":"inside-the-paris-climate-agreement-hope-or-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15825","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/12\/30\/inside-the-paris-climate-agreement-hope-or-hype\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77872\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2015\/12\/smog.jpg\" alt=\"Smog in Lianyungang\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways. This was first apparent after the high-profile Copenhagen conference in 2009, when a four-page non-agreement was praised by diplomats, but denounced by well-known critics as a \u201csham,\u201d a \u201cfarce,\u201d and a mere face-saver. UN insiders proclaimed the divisive 2013 Warsaw climate conference a success, even though global South delegates and most civil society observers had staged an angry walk-out a day prior to its scheduled conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>So it was no surprise when this happened again on December 12th in Paris. Francois Hollande praised the Paris Agreement as \u201cambitious,\u201d \u201cbinding,\u201d and \u201cuniversal.\u201d Ban Ki-moon said it ushers in a \u201cnew era of global cooperation,\u201d and UN climate convention executive secretary Christiana Figueres described it as \u201can agreement of solidarity with the most vulnerable.\u201d Barack Obama waxed triumphant and proclaimed the outcome a testament to American leadership in diplomacy and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of the Earth International, on the other hand, immediately denounced the agreement as a \u201csham of a deal,\u201d adding that the most vulnerable people around the world would \u201cfeel the worst impacts of our politicians\u2019 failure to take tough enough action.\u201d The renowned elder climate scientist James Hansen called it a \u201cfraud,\u201d adding, \u201cIt\u2019s just bullshit for them to say: \u2018We\u2019ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.\u2019 It\u2019s just worthless words.\u201d British climatologist Kevin Anderson, among the most politically forthright of current scientists, described the agreement as \u201cweaker than Copenhagen\u201d and \u201cnot consistent with the latest science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype? It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways. This was first apparent after the high-profile Copenhagen conference in 2009, when a four-page non-agreement was praised by diplomats, but denounced by well-known critics as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8083,113,141,10451,2057,2865,11348,822,826],"class_list":["post-15825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ban-ki-moon","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-cop21","tag-hope","tag-hype","tag-paris-climate-agreement","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15826,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825\/revisions\/15826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}