Environment ministers from G20 nations failed to agree on peaking global emissions by 2025 and other crucial issues to address the global climate crisis at their meeting in India on Friday.
Normal old people still care, because they care about the world and the people they love, whether or not they're still around. Sociopathic corporate and political leaders, however, don't care. The issue is not so much the age as the pathological selfishness that got them into those positions in the first place.
Pff, this has to do with people caring more about their polling numbers than the environment.
Actually saving the environment requires some hard sacrifices and it's hard to be the elected leader who tells their voters that they're going to pay more and get less.
But in non-democratic countries you're right of course.
Let's fix that with carbon pricing: tax & dividend, applies to emissions but also captured atmospheric carbon, stored underground.
So every participant in the carbon marked pays for what they emit.
The revenue can be split among:
Funding removal
Distribute per capita to make the tax progressive
Fund things like renewables
This could
make it profitable to run efficient carbon removal
net pay people who manage to live a low-footprint life
It always would
create incentives for everyone involved (private people, investors, corporations, research) to make decisions which reduce emissions, if only to save / earn money.
Price point: Take the current average price for removing one unit of greenhouse gas. Emitting one unit costs that much, increased by a factor (to fund more than just removal, or to achieve negative emissions).
If only these poor oil producers had some sort of half century or more lead to reap the benefits of their export advantage and diversify their interests. Won't someone think of how unfair it is to ask them to change? /s
alright, John Kerry was part of this failure, and with his failure, also his appointer, Biden. He cant be allowed to continue to throw us further into a blazing hellscape