The metaphor of the glass half-full and half-empty can\u2019t be used this time to describe the outcome of the COP. The glass has actually revealed to be so empty to undermine the function of the big International forum itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the face of the cry of alarm increasingly desperate contained in the scientific reports on climate and the loud screams of the youngsters of Fridays for Future<\/strong> in the squares all over the World, or the \u201cnow, now, now!\u201d of the youngsters of Extinction Rebellion<\/strong> chained to a boat in front of the COP entrance, the global politics could only lower its gaze and admit in a whisper its inadequacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Part of the problem is related to a negotiation process based on a common consensus, where the opposition backed from a single Country can block every development. And at the table of the tasters, well resolute and not much disguised, there were more than one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the\nUSA, led by a President who formalised the willingness to go out from the Paris\nAgreement, to Australia, where the conservative Prime minister Scott Morrison\nin August 2018 unseated his party colleague Malcom Turnball precisely because\nof the latter\u2019s commitment for climate change. Two Nations in which the fossil\nfuels lobby are strong and determined to impede every path toward a low CO2<\/sub>\nemissions future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then there\nis the Brazil of Bolsonaro, characterized by an impressive change of direction\nin the Amazonia management compared to the previous government, that may have\nrepresented the most retrograde Country in this COP. A Country in which\nextremely grave things are going on, with a wave of assassins of Indios and\nactivists and threats against the journalists that has still little space in\nthe media and the world public opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After all\nRicardo Salles, the Brazilian Minister of the Environment, is well known for\nhis denier position about climate and it shouldn\u2019t surprise the strong\nopposition that his delegation sustained in the final plenary trying to block\nthe inclusion in the text of \u201cChile Madrid Time for Action\u201d of the articles 30\nand 31 of pure scientific level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In these articles it was highlighted the importance of the oceans, as a central part of the Earth\u2019s climate system, for which it is necessary to grant the integrity of the marine and coastal ecosystems, and there was a request to initiate a dialogue in occasion of the next preparatory meeting of the COP26 in June, to understand how to make stronger the mitigation and adaptation action in this context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is clear how, in front of the willingness to block even just a dialogue about how to face the issues of oceans and coastal zones, it is inconceivable to hope to obtain concrete commitments and actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And so, the\nfinal plenary came two days late, the worst record ever, and with the COP\nPresident, the Chilean Carolina Schmidt, who struck by the weariness fell two\ntimes in a lapse hardly encouraging. She announced the beginning of the work of\nthe 25th<\/sup> century instead of the 25th<\/sup> COP, unintentionally\ntransferring the image of a politics jammed for centuries by the inability to\nestablish a global action against climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To increase\nthe confusion there was also the UNFCCC informatic system completely gone\nhaywire, with official documentation unavailable on the official website and\ncompelled to be uploaded in a Dropbox folder temporary made externally\naccessible. Inside the folder the documents were uploaded in the correct\nversion only during the debate, without giving the delegates the possibility to\nread and study them carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of this,\nin a room that was relentlessly emptying as a sandglass, with Countries devoid\nof representatives or with delegations reduced to one or two representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The focus\nof this COP was the art.6 of the Paris Agreement, designed to describe the\nrules with which to build new market-based tools such as the evolution, for\nexample, of the CDM or the Emission Trading. A crucial theme, located right in\nthe middle between the need to foster the mitigation actions about GHG\nemissions in the Countries in which they cost less, maximising the global emissions\nreduction, and the risk of double counting and thus of greenwashing. This is\nthe conclusion of two weeks (and two days extra) of debating: the discussion\nwill continue in the next COP 26 in Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing\neven about Loss and Damage, the aid mechanism for the poor countries in which\nthe situation is so degraded that not even the adaptation to climate change is\npossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just as much, nothing has been achieved on the front of the long-term finances, this one as well postponed until the next COP26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All too\nclear the message of the representative of Tuvalu, Pacific islands that every\nyear see first-hand the rising of the ocean levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same\ndelegate, that in 2009 contributed to prevent a Copenhagen Agreement void of\ncommitments from passing, if not about the readiness of the rich world to make\navailable 30 billions for the developing countries, recalling in a biblical way\nthe unwillingness to sell his own people for 30 dinars has shot a dart to\nTrump\u2019s US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The USA proposed to include in the Paris Agreement, instead of the UNFCCC, the Loss and Damage aid mechanism for the poor and troubled countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chief\nof the delegation on the Pacific Islands highlighted that this would mean to\nexclude from any responsibility those who won\u2019t be part of the Paris Agreement,\nmeaning the USA, with an irresponsibility behaviour coming right from one of\nthe main historic responsible for climate change; behaviour that he has also\ndescribed as a real and proper crime against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this general failure of the international politics it should be underlined the important step forward made by the European Union that, with the Green Deal presented last Wednesday, in which it is declared the own willingness to achieve the zero emissions by 2050 with a scenery for 2030, not set out in detail yet, surely more ambitious than the current commitment to reduce the emission by 40% most likely higher than 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The UE reiterates the willingness of an ambitious commitment about climate change that must not be seen as utopian, but absolutely achievable and able to make our society develop in a positive way. This is a chance fully comprehensible for those who attended the COP rooms in the last two weeks, where to the politics\u2019 inability to find shared negotiated solutions, it has been opposed the evidence of an economic and regional politics system definitely oriented to a relevant and quick change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It won\u2019t be\na surprise to see the debate at european level about a duty system meant to penalise\nthe entrance of products coming from the countries not adhering to the climate\nagreement grow in a significant way in the next months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because the\nchance is happening now, and the ineffectiveness of the COP won\u2019t be able to\nstop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The metaphor of the glass half-full and half-empty can\u2019t be used this time to describe the outcome of the COP. The glass has actually revealed to be so empty to undermine the function of the big International forum itself. 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