{"id":390073,"date":"2018-12-22T03:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T02:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/agreed-rules-cop24-and-climate-change-protest\/"},"modified":"2018-12-22T03:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T02:16:31","slug":"agreed-rules-cop24-and-climate-change-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/agreed-rules-cop24-and-climate-change-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreed Rules, COP24 and Climate Change Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If children can get headlines all over the world just by not going to school, then imagine what we can all do together if we really wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HzeekxtyFOY\">Greta Thunberg<\/a> at COP24, December 2018<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The world, if it goes off in a burn, will do so courtesy of the rules \u2013 or their elastic interpretation.\u00a0 It was a fine show of contradiction at Katowice, and the Polish hospitality did not deter the 14,000 delegates drawn from 195 countries from bringing forth a beast of regulation to delight climate change bureaucrats for years.\u00a0 Everyone clapped themselves in way emetic to any bystander suspicious about what had actually been achieved.\u00a0 The question to ask, of course, is whether this fluffy, self-congratulatory exercise makes it past the canap\u00e9s and becomes a genuine policy document.<\/p>\n<p>Little progress was actually made on the issue of commitments to cut emissions, even if there was, in principle, an agreement on a set of rules to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. As things stand, the planet is set to reach 3\u00b0C, while the Paris Agreement stresses the need to keep matters manageable to an increase of 1.5\u00b0C, which would lead to more modest environmental destruction. Considerable troubling silences persist on the issue of technicalities.\u00a0 What, for instance, constitutes a suitable, measurable reduction in emissions or who monitors a country\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>There were certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2018\/12\/16\/the-uns-latest-climate-meeting-ends-positively\">concessions<\/a>.\u00a0 Poorer states received more solid reassurances of assistance from wealthier states to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/12\/agreed-rules-cop24-and-climate-change-protest\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If children can get headlines all over the world just by not going to school, then imagine what we can all do together if we really wanted to. \u2014 Greta Thunberg at COP24, December 2018 The world, if it goes off in a burn, will do so courtesy of the rules \u2013 or their elastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}