The latest since COP 28
Donald Trump is correct….
Donald Trump is correct…. We need to stay away from almost all the things that the UN orchestrates, like COP 28, as they are all socialist leaning multilateral schemes to transfer wealth from the west to the rest.
Most of what the UN does is either a cash grab or a mechanism to control nations in following these wealth transfer ploys.
Here are the details.
The COP organizers have identified four main themes they want agreement upon….
How to accelerate all countries’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so as to meet a proposed 2050 “Net-Zero” target … This is certainly a prosperity killer!!
How to persuade all countries to phase out production of fossil fuels by 2050… Both a prosperity and a real killer…. Yes…people will die… And good luck at getting everyone to comply…. unless of course you have a gullible boy-scout government like ours.
How to induce wealthier countries to give much more money to poorer countries to help them both mitigate and adapt to climate change…. Putting numbers on this …. Rich countries are now paying about US$70 billion in climate aid, mostly to help finance GHG emissions reduction. The developing countries want this raised to at least US$1.4 trillion per year by 2026, 20 times higher…. Based on Canadas share by GDP That’s about $5000 per household per year and that’s on top of all the other national prosperity killing costs of meeting NetZero. They want to put their hands in our pockets …. for ever.
How to increase the UN’S role as central co-ordinator and global regulator of climate efforts...... and we cannot let that happen!
Here next is a good reason why?
World Court hearings in climate-change case to open in December 2024
The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition) 17 Aug 2024 MIKE CORDER
The top United Nations court announced Friday that public hearings will open Dec. 2 in a landmark case seeking a non-binding advisory opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.”
The UN General Assembly sent the case to the International Court of Justice last year, with Secretary-General António Guterres saying at the time that he hoped the opinion would encourage nations “to take the bolder and stronger climate action that our world so desperately needs.”
The court said it had received written comments from 62 nations and organizations related to 91 written statements on the issue it had earlier received. Under the court’s rules, the written filings are confidential. The court can decide to make them public once the hearings open in early December.
The UN court’s panel of 15 judges from around the world will seek to answer two questions:
What are countries obliged to do under international law to protect the climate and environment from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and what are the legal consequences for governments where their acts of lack of action have significantly harmed the climate and environment?
The second question makes particular reference to “small island developing States” likely to be hardest hit by climate change and to “members of “the present and future generations affected by the adverse effects of climate change.”
It is not yet clear how many countries and organizations will seek to speak at the public hearings or how long they will take. Once they wrap up, judges will likely take months to consider all the legal arguments and issue their opinions.
The case at the World Court follows a number of rulings by other judges and tribunals around the world calling on governments to do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In May, a UN tribunal on maritime law said that carbon emissions qualify as marine pollution, and countries must take steps to mitigate and adapt to their adverse effects.
That ruling came a month after Europe’s highest human rights court said that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change in a landmark judgment that could have implications across the continent.
The International Court of Justice is based in The Hague, where domestic Dutch courts made history by ruling that protection from the potentially devastating effects of climate change is a human right and that the government has a duty to protect its citizens. The judgment was upheld in 2019 by the Dutch Supreme Court.
Comment.
We need much more discussion about NetZero with national governments NOT the UN or the courts.
We need to explain that NetZero is unnecessary, technologically unattainable, economically unviable and extremely foolish.
The good news is that many new political leaderships are declaring that NetZero is an unnecessary distraction from the need to focus on reshoring their industrial capacity to recover the prosperity for their citizens.
Let’s hope that sanity will prevail!
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Nigel Southway is based in Toronto Canada and is an independent business consultant and recently authored the advocacy book Take Back Manufacturing. He is also the author of Cycle Time Management: The Fast Track to Time-Based Productivity Improvement, an early textbook on the concept of LEAN thinking and Six Sigma, and how to implement it.
He consults and educates worldwide on Business Productivity Improvement, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Industry 4.0, National Sustainability & Prosperity, Global technology transfer projects and joint ventures and more.
He has gained experience assisting clients across a wide range of business sectors and industries and helps clients develop a strategy and a vision to attack waste, capture productivity improvements, increase profits, and become more competitive in the global market.
He is a part time professor for Canadian Colleges and lectures on Advanced Manufacturing and Global Supply Chain Management.
He is a past chair of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the leading advocate and spokesperson for the Take Back Manufacturing (TBM) Forum, and the North American Reshoring initiative in Canada.
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