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The facts

Saturday 21/9/2019 marked the resumption of meetings by international UN organisations at the world summit in New York City. It sees 195 nations from all over the globe discuss geopolitically relevant issues, and they have been repeatedly trying to negotiate agreements acceptable to the vast majority of the world’s population since the 1990s. An important meeting on the topic of humans’ environment was held in Stockholm in 1972; 20 years later, the UN (United Nations) Conference on Environment and Development took place in Rio de Janeiro. Since then, climate summits and meetings have followed in quick succession – every year, in fact, in varying countries. Unfortunately, the join decisions made at these meetings are not acceptable to the masses, and the same is true of the conference; only 70 of the 193 UN member states say they are willing to take new action to combat global warming. And only 66 commit to becoming climateneutral by 2050, even though the global community’s aim was to reach worldwide CO2-neutrality by the middle of this century.

The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) ended in Madrid on 15/12/2019, and once again left all participants disappointed. Why international conferences fail is something I will come back to later on.