A Showdown Over Climate Reparations Is Brewing — and It Will Determine the Success of the COP27 Summit
CNBC | November 4, 2022 | Sam MeredithThe success or failure of the U.N.’s flagship climate conference is likely to depend on getting wealthy countries to deliver on reparations — a highly divisive and emotive issue that is seen as a fundamental question of climate justice.
It comes amid growing calls for rich countries to compensate climate-vulnerable nations as it becomes harder for many people to live safely on a warming planet.
Reparations, sometimes referred to as “loss and damage” payments, are likely to dominate proceedings at COP27, with diplomats from more than 130 countries expected to push for the creation of a dedicated loss and damage finance facility.
Straight Line of the Day: How do you recognize a “climate-vulnerable nation”?
Al Gore running around crying, “Armageddon, Armageddon!” and Greta Thunberg screeching at everyone.
The bacon cooks itself, but that may be more of a feature than a problem.
Hillary Clinton actually loses weight from sweating too much.
Does the sun shine on it? There you go…
Can its citizens be taxed? Bingo!!!
Are the local conditions such that a “fact-finding” U.N. Commission visit is called for? (See Vanuatu, Fiji, etc.)
…Kick it in the climate. If it doubles over in pain, its climate is vulnerable.
I’m more interested in how to identify a rich country.
In this case it’s any country who’s president has the last name Biden, and don’t think the beggar nations of this world aren’t aware of that.
I think the legal test is a little less rigorous. Do you have money for us to take? Yes? You’re rich. No? You’re climate vulnerable.
How do you recognize a “climate-vulnerable nation”?
The ones with the highest kick backs to rich nations politicians.
Like Canada, they will have a plethora of hockey sticks.
Their large wooden badgers have both AC and heaters.
I’d start with the islands most likely to capsize…
Well that puts Guam right at the head of the list.
I’ve walked a beat at -43 making sure all the businesses were locked up and hadn’t been broken into. The other car in the zone had to come around and check me every 15 minutes for frostbite. I want raparations and feel I can say screw your white priveledge label…
If Sally Struthers visited and didn’t gain twenty pounds.
Their Uncle Sam effigies burst into flames spontaneously.
Plethora of Phillies ’22 World Champion shirts and hats spotted in the wild.
Their dictator needs another super yacht.
Dilapidated buses going over cliffs run on external combustion.