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riversedge

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Sun Dec 9, 2018, 09:57 AM Dec 2018

US, Saudi Arabia, Russia & Kuwait OPPOSITION led to FAILURE OF #CLIMATECHANGE CONFERENCE

I see this is ANOTHER reason that Trump pals around with Saudi Arabia murderer!!


Climate change: COP24 fails to adopt key scientific report


https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46496967#

By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Katowice

8 December 2018




Attempts to incorporate a key scientific study into global climate talks in Poland have failed.

The IPCC report on the impacts of a temperature rise of 1.5C, had a significant impact when it was launched last October.

Scientists and many delegates in Poland were shocked as the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait objected to this meeting "welcoming" the report.


It was the 2015 climate conference that had commissioned the landmark study.

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The report said that the world is now completely off track, heading more towards 3C this century rather than 1.5C.

Keeping to the preferred target would need "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society". If warming was to be kept to 1.5C this century, then emissions of carbon dioxide would have to be reduced by 45% by 2030.


The report, launched in Incheon in South Korea, had an immediate impact winning praise from politicians all over the world.



But negotiators here ran into serious trouble when Saudi Arabia, the US, Russia and Kuwait objected to the conference "welcoming" the document.


Instead they wanted to support a much more lukewarm phrase, that the conference would "take note" of the report.

Saudi Arabia had fought until the last minute in Korea to limit the conclusions of the document. Eventually they gave in. But it now seems that they have brought their objections to Poland.

The dispute dragged on as huddles of negotiators met in corners of the plenary session here, trying to agree a compromise wording.

None was forthcoming.

With no consensus, under UN rules the passage of text had to be dropped...
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Image caption Climate protestors marching in Katowice outside COP24

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