UN Climate Bureaucrats Hold Another Useless Meeting

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What a grandiose mouthful of verbiage.

The Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SBI-UNFCCC) just wrapped up its latest session in Bonn, Germany. Abbreviated SB64, it was the 64th meeting of this austere group of “multi-stakeholder coalitions” — politicians, government bureaucrats, business rent-seekers and “civil society” activists — some 7,000 strong.

They chattered and schemed for ten days (June 8-18) to set the stage and agenda for COP31, the 31st UN Conference of the Parties, set to take place in Turkey later this year — the annual gathering of climate-obsessed and cash-hungry countries. (RELATED: Climate Alarmism’s Reset And The Policy Reckoning It Demands)

SB64 was determined to “accelerate implementation” of previous climate goals, intoned Turkey’s COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum. Why? Because “our common home, the Earth, is passing through one of the most critical periods it has ever faced.” (How many times have we heard that one?)

Indeed, following last year’s COP30 in Brazil, the International Court of Justice proclaimed that greenhouse gas emissions “unequivocally” affect Earth’s “entire climate system” and pose an “existential” threat to “all forms of life and the very health of our planet.”

Therefore, the court decreed, any developed countries that fail to do their part in preventing further climate change will violate the fundamental........

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