Though pessimists persist in seeing an empty glass, the Cop process has been a remarkable success
The North-South divide was already an obsolete concept when it blew up the Copenhagen summit in 2009. It is by now a geopolitical travesty, but nonetheless useful to Western "degrowth" radicals determined to bring down market capitalism.
“It is not just the Right and fossil industry that weaponises climate change: so does the Left, which really wants post-colonial reparations,” said energy consultant Michael Liebreich, a veteran of Cop gatherings.
Over the last decade, western technology has slashed the cost of new solar and wind to levels that outcompete fossil energy for 90pc of mankind.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph 11 November 2022
Cement och asfalt har behövt mycket energi
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