Talk: COP26 Evaluation [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: Presentations/Discussions
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Monday, November 22, 20211:00pm CST – 2:00pm EST
Richard Smith
Many of the world’s leaders meet in Glasgow for the UN Conference on Climate Change. Did they make progress on saving us from the climate disasters humanity is facing as rising greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet? Speeches were made and so were many promises, but were they adequate and will they be kept? So far previous agreements have had little effect.
Richard Smith will evaluate COP26 and point a way forward to what needs to be done. He is author of Green Capitalism: The God That Failed and China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse. He argues that since 1992 when 150 nations first met at Rio and agreed in principle to stabilize or suppress CO2 emissions enough to prevent climate catastrophe, their annual “summit meetings” have collapsed in failure and acrimony over this fundamental contradiction: No industrial nation will agree to fixed limits on its emissions because all understand that suppressing emissions means suppressing growth.
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