{"id":59682,"date":"2021-10-05T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59682"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T21:35:15","slug":"the-upcoming-un-climate-talks-in-glasgow-are-a-make-or-break-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59682","title":{"rendered":"The Upcoming UN Climate Talks in Glasgow Are a Make-or-Break Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station on September 12, 2018. | Photo by NASA via AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Upcoming UN Climate Talks in Glasgow Are a Make-or-Break Moment<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Failure to halt greenhouse gas emissions is not an option\u2014though it\u2019s frighteningly likely<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In early November, government leaders from around the world will meet in Glasgow, Scotland, for the latest round of United Nations\u2013sponsored climate change negotiations. This year\u2019s climate summit\u2014COP26, in UN-speak\u2014will be the most important since the 2015 talks in Paris, and this will be true however the meeting unfolds. If Glasgow is a \u201csuccess,\u201d this will be taken as a sign that our faltering international institutions might actually, if just barely, be able to spur the planetary mobilization we now desperately need. If it\u2019s a \u201cfailure,\u201d well, no such luck\u2014it will become even more difficult to imagine cooperative planetary action, at scale and in time to avoid a truly catastrophic shift in the climate system.<\/p>\n

How will we tell if Glasgow is a success? This is a tough question, one that involves judgments about both the geophysical realities of a destabilized Earth and the \u201crealities\u201d of our political systems, which are clearly not up to the challenge. The storms and the firestorms are looming large, and so too is the catastrophe of \u201cvaccine apartheid,\u201d which under Boris Johnson\u2019s government has queued up\u00a0a summit that does not promise to be either safe or inclusive<\/a>. Even in the best case, the Glasgow COP is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0going to yield anything like a world historic breakthrough. Given that a breakthrough is exactly what we need, how can we ever hope to judge the UN talks as even a measured success? By attending to key details. Keep in mind that, six years after Paris, plenty of people in the climate movement still can\u2019t say \u201cParis\u201d without saying \u201cfailure,\u201d and this despite the obvious fact that, had the Paris Agreement not been completed before Donald Trump\u2019s election, we would now be in even more terrifying straits.<\/p>\n

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This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station on September 12, 2018. | Photo by NASA via AP The Upcoming UN Climate Talks in Glasgow Are a Make-or-Break Moment Failure to halt greenhouse gas emissions is not an option\u2014though it\u2019s frighteningly likely In early November, government leaders from around the […]<\/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":[141,1887,386,3917,31902,822,1722,826],"class_list":["post-59682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-talks","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-sierra-club","tag-tom-athanasiou","tag-un","tag-un-climate-talks","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59682","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=59682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59683,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59682\/revisions\/59683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}