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"Urgent action" was defined in Kyoto, Doha, and then Paris. It wasn't urgent enough to actually happen, but the goals and consequences of failing to meet them
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
"Urgent action" was defined in Kyoto, Doha, and then Paris.
It wasn't urgent enough to actually happen, but the goals and consequences of failing to meet them were clearly specified.
It's now (probably) too late for prevention, so policy needs to shift to mitigation.
That's a far harder problem, and the solution set will be far more costly.
To be clear - this is a massive failure of collective intelligence and of the default policy metrics used to make decisions.
An intelligent civilisation would not have allowed this to happen.
- aazaa 5y agoThe Paris Agreement does not define "urgent action." It does offer a broad vision for the end goal (reducing the increase in global temperature), but leaves implementation up to the signatories. https://unfccc.int/files/meetings/paris_nov_2015/application/pdf/paris_agreement_english_.pdf https://unfccc.int/files/meetings/paris_nov_2015/application... I haven't read the others, but would not be surprised to see similar language.