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Climate change will once again become the focus of global diplomacy next week, as countries gather in Marrakech for the UN climate body’s (UNFCCC) 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22).
In many ways, COP22 will be the nerdy friend to its glamorous Parisian predecessor. Last December, the world’s attention swivelled to France as rival nations finally cooperated to sign the first global climate deal.
The Paris Agreement set the overarching framework for dealing with climate change in the decades to come. But alone it will not solve the problem, and nations now have the task of fleshing out the details. The following issues are likely to prove key to this round of negotiations:
This means that Marrakech, while expected to provide little in the way of drama (US election results aside), will be an opportunity to engage with the nuts and bolts of the deal. Liz Gallagher, a climate policy expert at environmental think-tank E3G, says:
Preview: The UN’s COP22 climate talks in Marrakech by Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, Nov 3, 2016
As for Trump’s statement that climate change is a hoax, the director of Drake University’s Environmental Science & Policy Program, David Courard-Hauri, says it’s time to put it to rest.
“There’s not much to say about that. It’s been debunked. The idea that it might be a hoax is ifficult to get one’s head around anymore.”
Climate Change on the Forefront of Many Voters' Minds; Not Receiving Much Attention from Candidates by Ben Kieffer, Emily Woodbury & Anna Williams, Iowa Public Radio, Nov 4, 2016
Arctic summer sea ice to disappear with 2C warming, study says by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Nov 3, 2016
Don’t make a choice that your children will regret, an open-letter to Americans posted on Real Climate includes the following statement:
In case you have any doubts about the science: in the scientific community there is a long-standing consensus that humans are causing dangerous global warming, reflected in the clear statements of many scientific academies and societies from around the world. None of the 195 governments that signed the Paris Agreement saw any reasons for doubting the underlying scientific facts; doubts about the science that you see in some media are largely manufactured by interest groups trying to fool you.
The first link embedded in the above is to:
The importance of assessing and communicating scientific consensus, Edward W Maibach and Sander L van der Linden, 2016 Environmental Research Letters Volume 11, Number 4
The American Security Project (ASP) is a nonpartisan organization created to educate the American public and the world about the changing nature of national security in the 21st Century.
The mission of the ASP is:
Bernie Turns up Heat, Burns Trump on Warming by Peter Sinclair, Climate Denial Crock of the Week, Nov 4, 2016
Climate Feedback asked its network of scientists to review “The Phony War Against CO2” by Harrison Schmitt & Rodney Nichols (Wall Street Journal, Oct 31, 2016). Six scientists analyzed the article and estimated its overall scientific credibility to be ‘very low’.
Click here to access the detailed review.
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Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 6 November, 2016
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