COP29: UN climate talks on verge of collapse as countries walk out over cash | BBC News

[@dalecrocker3213]

When will people realise that these conferences aren't about beating climate change - they're about who makes the most money out of it - and how!

[@im_Batman-x]

Its money laundering, like the banana duck taped to a wall is "art" that sold for millions

[@schmitz4206]

@@im_Batman-x have you seen how much Bidens son was selling his paintings for!?

[@honeybadger9425]

It is impossible to stop Climate Change due to Earth naturally producing increasing lvs of Methane. I agree it’s a problem but just not where the money going it should going on our coastlines mainly really for when sea lvs inevitably rise. All this CO2 stuff will have little impact because methane is a bigger driver of climate change and the only way to stop that would be to dig up Earths increasingly fertile swamplands which is not realistic.

[@chieftandriver703]

It will explain where the £11 billion went

[@colinvanderross5825]

Damn crazy one that one not to mentioned the lady almost glued to the banana as she is admiring it,crazy stuff​@@im_Batman-x

[@alexbowman7582]

Tens of thousands flying in jets to a faraway country to tackle climate change? You couldn't make it up.

[@brentwestbrook]

470 Labour delegates.

[@aryamukherjee434]

How are they supposed to travel otherwise?

[@vickster5815]

Facetime ???​@@aryamukherjee434

[@leed2883]

Missing the point. How about zoom? Why do they all need to be their in person? ​@aryamukherjee434

[@AntonyBall-hm4jo]

​@@aryamukherjee434Ever heard of Zoom?

[@jackcorbos7676]

The money will go to the corrupt politicians of those poor countries 😂 even my 9 year old nephew knows that

[@zuckthebetacuck2789]

Well you're teaching your nephew to be an idiot if he believes his Government is honest.

[@saiyedakhtar3931]

​@zuckthebetacuck2789 but in terms of dishonesty, developing nations are worse.

[@zuckthebetacuck2789]

@@saiyedakhtar3931 The so-called first world nations are pretty good at gaslighting their own population into believing that they are the defenders of democracy, human rights or environmental heroes when it's all a big hypocrisy.

[@zuckthebetacuck2789]

@@saiyedakhtar3931 The so-called first world nations are pretty good at gaslighting their own population into believing that they are the defenders of democracy, human rights or environmental heroes when it's all a big hypocrisy.

[@LaSnob711]

Exactly. Plus it doesn't cost anything not to throw garbage on the ground and have the whole place littered with plastic waste. Why would EU pay for them to clean up their 💩 countries with our taxes? Let their tourist tax go towards it and not into deep pockets. That money doesn't grow on trees! WE the people have to work for it! While recycling and paying for our own garbage to be disposed of. Give me a break from this BS.

[@ArdelR]

Money money money, this is what climate change is all about!

[@AllegraPersephone]

If it's only about money why is the fossil fuel industry and animal agriculture receiving trillions in subsidies every year? While they destroy the environment and make corporations, executives, boards, shareholders wealth beyond what you can imagine? Why is the taxpayer propping up these planet destroyers so they can build themselves luxury bunkers in the hopes of surviving what will undoubtedly leave you and everyone you know to fend for yourselves?

[@Dare2Doubt]

That's what everything's about when it comes to humans, bozo.

[@LukeofSmeg]

Yes. We need a sustainable economy. There is no economy without ecology.

[@lemdixon01]

​@@LukeofSmegsustainability = slavery for ordinary people

[@freeheeler09]

Profits from oil ms gas are huge. And the costs of increasing droughts and storms caused by climate change are huge.

[@mauvem]

Every penny of that money will vanish into the accounts of corrupt officials. Guaranteed.

[@SmithSmith-b8l]

Absolutely

[@AlexM-rk9pm]

Says the corrupted westerner… you can’t make this up 😂

[@BondJFK]

Swiss people keep getting money from world conflicts

[@chukwuemerie-egbo]

And the corrupt official will go back to there country to invest the moni

[@SmithSmith-b8l]

@@AlexM-rk9pm You just did

[@Rankbaajin]

A WEF Scam

[@Eniscen]

Biggest SCAM in history. And they're still doing this nonsensical bullshit.

[@JeffreySmith7777]

Record cold in Pennsylvania this week. So much for global warming. Now give them your $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[@rullvardi]

@@JeffreySmith7777 Meanwhile Denmark just got hit with 15 degrees celsius in winter. It's called climate change for a reason and not global warming anymore.

[@JeffreySmith7777]

@@rullvardi climate change has been happening for the last 100 million years and will continue to do so, no matter how much money you give the rich.

[@martinwyke]

This is a waste of time, it has be completely corrupted by big energy. OPEC needs to foot the bills

[@ghintz2156]

@@martinwyke I mean most emissions are from big business in general.

[@richardkent2014]

Climate talks on the verge of collapse as politicians and global leaders across the world like we all did when they first started talking about climate realise it's all b.s.

[@garywagner2466]

Says a dimwit typing inanities on a device powered by “big energy” and made from hydrocarbons….

[@blow0me]

It's the biggest scam in human history, only lowlife criminal hypocrites support it.

[@liamogorman3312]

88% of greenhouses gases are produced by the top 100 companies in the world. 59 of these companies are American.....

[@craigl0902]

We're so fucked

[@BubbaaaaG]

100%

[@forbaldo1]

yep continuing to pretend climate change is real won't win the third world war

[@marcuswilson3485]

Don't worry. A.I. will be here, long after we are gone and forgotten....in a couple of weeks, by the look of it.

[@maltlickymalitia4809]

It’s a scam , it’s all about money no need to worry.

[@craigl0902]

@maltlickymalitia4809 what? Climate change is a scam?🙄

[@acwright]

Biggest grift in history.

[@ionwolfhelm]

Dumbest post in history.

[@Cymru85]

​@@ionwolfhelmif its so important that we stop pollution why do they all fly to meet up when zoom exists?

[@ArdelR]

@@ionwolfhelmwake up!

[@jakeroberts7435]

@@ionwolfhelm How so very dare you?

[@williamfitch6105]

Not one penny of that cash would have been spent on climate change, would have landed in the hands of tin pot dictators.

[@BubbaaaaG]

How much pollution are these WARS causing???

[@LukeofSmeg]

Quite a bit, the arms industry alone causes alot let alone the damage caused by them being used in wars. Although I don't see what your point is? If the US, Russia and China reduced making arms significantly that would certainly be a great thing for the humanity and the environment, but that's not about to happen, looks like it's about to get worse if anything.

[@joeshmoe-rl7bk]

​@@LukeofSmeg...their point is crystal clear

[@LukeofSmeg]

@@joeshmoe-rl7bk So what is it then? Wave a wand and magically stop war?

[@BubbaaaaG]

@@LukeofSmeg My point is …What is the point of all the electric cars and solar power and all the attempts to counteract climate change.. when there is so much pollution being made by wars? Simple. Clear. A little point. That’s all ☺️

[@LukeofSmeg]

@Danielle-t5k Because the fossil fuels industry contributes significantly more over all than wars do. Maybe we should make an effort to cut down using fossil fuels and wars? They don't have to be mutually exclusive, nor do you need to be completely defeatist and give in to what the oil executives want simply because wars exist.

[@KashmirParadise786]

This is a BIG SCAM

[@13Liberty50]

No matter how much they get, it will never be enough.

[@kjh4635]

Developing countries should get rid of their corrupt governments!!!

[@nicadair7700]

LOL. I assume you mean the British Government too. They don't come more corrupt than those WEF a$$ lickers.

[@budbud2509]

Its good that we are only giving £11.8 Billion to the most corrupt land mass it the world , namely Africa to help with climate change £11.8 billion of millibrains spending to cure a none existent problem

[@honestlordcommissarbrighte7921]

The Developed major powers better keep their hands to themselves instead of messing with the third world first

[@macrinaxenidou7174]

...it's not only developing countries ...just look around the world ...

[@adnanbadshah3425]

the problem will stop this second if developed countries cease to exist. they are the ones responsible for this

[@DavidHeard-j3g]

Exactly, this is all about money, not the climate.

[@MrBeetsGaming]

Americans are sick and tired of paying for everything, no more handouts.

[@killtie15]

What the heck are you paying for, except own stupidity?

[@Vitamin-protein9]

But Mexico payed for the wall

[@gouravgk21]

U are using the earth as ur resource to make money and after that stoping developing country in the name of climate change 😂 u don't let other use resources and also don't pay for ur wrong climate deads 😅

[@durgeshsss]

Then manufacture products in your own country not just weapons...

[@dns9833]

What has America paid.. If we look at the highest contributor to these gases on terms of population we can see America is the highest contributor since decades.. It should be the responsibility of developed nations ...

[@truthmediarebel5816]

America and UK are trillions in debt where is the money coming from? China is a lender but wants money things do not add up.!!!!

[@Anashadk]

Probably the false US dollars N. Korea are so good at printing.

[@fredmercury1314]

China is facing demographic collapse and bankruptcy. They're nowhere near as rich as they like to portray.

[@richardkent2014]

I doubt china is lending any money Europe and America have just invested trillions of dollars into China. That's why today china looks like nothing like it was 30 years ago today.

[@StarLite-v3d]

​@@Anashadk Distraction? They love chaos.

[@lazypops3117]

big oil companies have billions in the bank though

[@Feduptothe-eyes]

These lot travel the globe by plane they are hypocrits.

[@MrMarshmelloBoi]

Facts!

[@rangles1050]

1 time for a yearly conference vs that report that the top 1% used flying almost like taxi services- taking a private plane to a place 10 minutes away, 30 by car. You're mad at the representatives of poorer countries while the richest laugh in our face and make money off of killing our planet

[@O-O.O-O]

@@leahjenika2924No? Lmao? just do this shit online

[@rdesain_codesain]

It’s fair question to ask, but it’s part of a bigger problem in the framing of responsibility on individual actions. Eg you’re bad you fly! You need to recycle! You should eat less meat. All very good and important things people should do - BUT did you know more emissions are generated healthcare than aviation? Should we tell people it’s your fault for taking medications? No, it’s more complex than that. If you had the health sector change who they bank with that to ensure that (often publicly funded) money was not used for fossil fuel investment that would drastically change things. What the heck is my point? That big systems wide decisions and change at corporate or systems level is needed and sadly we have eroded most civil systems to give too much power to corporations NOT individuals - THAT is the root cause and problem that needs to be solved.

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

​@@leahjenika2924it is realistical. Zoom is fine. They don't need to be anywhere in person. They can have the exact same conversations digitally

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Good... and so it should. One of the biggest scams in history.

[@claritadeluna6609]

And so it should be considered the biggest scam there is; just look at what happened to Canada!

[@blow0me]

Not one, it is THE biggest scam in human history.

[@joaniemarjoriemarriott342]

Giving large sums of money to "poorer" countries leaves a lot to be concerned about. What protections and audits will be immediately accompanying the first dollars given. Corruption will become rampant and almost no viable actions and infrastructure will be completed.

[@brianbishop2235]

Audits what Audits 😂

[@joaniemarjoriemarriott342]

Grants of 300 to 500 Billion a year are a total recipe for corruption by governments not accustomed to accountability to a world wide organization. I believe that this money will be ineffectively deployed and nothing sustainable will be accomplished. And how many millions will have to be provided to accomplish the financial and mission purpose audits? Those will be another astronomical source of revenue to the largest audit firms in the world.

[@johnkelly1083]

I'm sure the money will be well spent.

[@SmithSmith-b8l]

There won't be audits

[@AlexM-rk9pm]

You’re country got rich off the backs of the so called poor countries….

[@malaking9186]

Europe is 7% of the climate emissions. We’ve done what we needed to do. I think if money needs to be paid, China needs to step up to the table with their 30%+ of emissions 🤣 mad!!!

[@scorpioninpink]

Your continent has emitted more carbon in the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. The nerve

[@malaking9186]

@ in comparison to China? 🤣 you’re mad!

[@taipizzalord4463]

China is emitting to subsidise and satisfy white consumerism.

[@scorpioninpink]

@malaking9186 China surpassed the historical emission in 2023 but before that, it was Europe who has more. But China's per capita emission is still lower than the EU.

[@malaking9186]

@ so, 1 country has produced more emissions than a whole continent… and the per capita quote is also not true. Anyhow… as you develop, do so with green energy. European countries did it with fossil fuels because that’s the best technology available at the time. Now Europe has taken the world to the next century, alongside others who invested in developing technologies, rather than focus on civil wars and corrupt politicians… There will be uproar in Europe if any money is paid at all.

[@Worldturnedupsidedown]

Any chance of some cash for the UKs poorest pensioners before they die?

[@tmsupreme7763]

You are kidding right, if their is anny group in the UK that doesn't deserve more money it's pensioners..

[@schmitz4206]

They didn't arrive by small boats unfortunately

[@JohnofthefamilySmith]

Starmer is a well known communist and hates the British pensioners.

[@schmitz4206]

@@tmsupreme7763 they've only built the country we've inherited and been paying taxes towards the country before you were probably born, what does the country owe them

[@Worldturnedupsidedown]

@tmsupreme7763 read my comment, I said POOREST

[@MauritiusIslands]

Richer nations DO NOT have the money either 😂

[@lazypops3117]

but big oil companies do. that's the real grift.

[@ghintz2156]

@@lazypops3117 the grift is expecting oil companies to pay their fair share? I live in a "cancer alley" region thanks to oil refineries...guess how poor the people living here are.

[@lemdixon01]

​@lazypops3117 big oil is small as big energy who want so called renewables

[@JamesMertins-t5l]

It's a scam,pure and simple.

[@prideofdurham4776]

@James_Mertin. The covid scam was the pilot to see just how far the gullible population could be conned. Once the majority fell for it the rest was easy , climate change is just the STARTER.

[@JosFort54321]

Simple: Developing countries ("third world") are demanding a higher funding for climate-related programs budget given that they are the most affected and carry the high price of climate change brought about by excessive usage of fossil fuels/minerals extractions/CO2 emissions by developed countries (the "West").

[@av3347]

Simple. How about minding your own business and bring coal into the market and the developing countries can kickstart industrialization the way you guys did??? We dont need your aid. Just stop lecturing

[@alanmckay7040]

If there was no money in the climate crisis there would be no climate crisis, simples.

[@theinternetwizard]

Money in oil is the big issue

[@alanmckay7040]

@@theinternetwizard People being manipulated into hating cheap and reliable energy is the big issue.

[@ionwolfhelm]

@@alanmckay7040 Your stupidity and that of people like you is the big issue.

[@theinternetwizard]

@@alanmckay7040 yeah those anti renewable campaigns funded by oil companies

[@LukeofSmeg]

​@@alanmckay7040Exactly. Fossil fuels require huge amounts of surveying, then it's extracted, then it's transported, refined, often transported and refined again, and then it's finally transported for the last time to be used in a turbine that is then plugged into the grid. What a complete and utter waste of time and ironically energy for a resource which runs out. We could have had complete control over our energy supply decades ago, but instead rely on resources that can be price gouged as a result of their scarcity. We're being treated like complete mugs by energy companies. They won't invest in renewables because they know in the long run people will question why we need a middle man in the first place, just as we're starting to do with the water companies.

[@joeboss1750]

Its a money making racket, no more no less.

[@I-am-not-a-number]

Theft

[@ionwolfhelm]

Give your brain-cell a rest for the weekend. Let the adults deal with this one.

[@peterg219]

What harmful effects on poorer nations? This is a bureaucratic 'gravy train' of graft and corruption.

[@ginlane2867]

Rubbish!

[@LukeofSmeg]

The island nations whose land is rapidly disappearing before their eyes maybe?

[@peterg219]

@@LukeofSmeg The level of the Pacific Ocean is NOT rising. Records of scientific measurements kept everyday for over one hundred years prove the Pacific Ocean is stable. Islands are 'sinking' due to erosion and coastal sand mining. If one believes in global cooling, global warming and now global climate change - observable scientific facts will rarely convince or sway such a religious belief.

[@peterg219]

@@ginlane2867 How do you prove that the Pacific sea level is rising, when actual scientific empirical measurement dating back over 100 years shows that it isn't?

[@ginlane2867]

@@peterg219 there is substantial evidence indicating that the Pacific Ocean is experiencing sea level rise due to global warming. This phenomenon is primarily attributed to two factors: Thermal Expansion: As global temperatures increase, ocean water warms and expands, contributing significantly to sea level rise. NASA reports that heat stored in the ocean causes its water to expand, which is responsible for one-third to one-half of global sea level rise. NASA CLIMATE Melting of Ice Sheets and Glaciers: The accelerated melting of polar ice sheets and glaciers adds more water to the oceans, further elevating sea levels. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) notes that sea level rise in the western tropical Pacific has been approximately 10-15 cm (4-6 inches) since 1993, close to or nearly twice the global rate measured during the same period. WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

[@barneymagee3285]

Do all those explosives we send to Ukraine have any carbon emissions , or is it just our cows…

[@ghintz2156]

@@barneymagee3285 Imagine supporting Putin...

[@greatestytcommentator]

I know.. right!?

[@chadimirputin2282]

​@@ghintz2156imagine taking what he said as support for Russia. 😂 I support Russia he's making a very valuable point.

[@michaelkorbel4442]

Carbon, I don't know, but I'm sure about depleted uranium.

[@nicolebuhendwa8342]

Nice one 😂😂

[@scp240]

Good riddance. Now get rid of Net Zero and all subsidies.

[@Cav-z1y]

They didn’t walk out they left and jumped on a private jet back home because they didn’t get enough free money

[@aeliusromanus9338]

It's just a big party and nothing else.

[@blackmage4100]

Without an effective means of auditing where the money goes, it is just throwing away good money. By the way, what happened to the billions already given during the previous years? What has been achieved with the money?

[@VPPAF]

rich got richer that are involved with this waste of time

[@durgeshsss]

Billions given? When Puss..this money was promised in 2009 ..which was 100 Billions at that time.. And now giving 300 billions..it should be 1.3 trillions if inflation adjusted... In the end ...even if they agree with 300 billions...they won't be giving it 😂

[@DavidGetling]

With the host country's leader declaring that fossil fuels are a gift from God did anyone expect a good outcome?

[@jimanders8812]

Hey give us money we can fix the weather! We can’t do anything right for humans but we can fix the environment!! 🤡

[@LORDwilliamsDJ]

It’s all a con . And you know it . Even Trump says it’s a con

[@1dantown]

Wait- the shakedown didn't go over ? The grift didn't work ?

[@darrenwilliams2921]

Good stop the grift.

[@VickyYadav-qj6kv]

After pledging 1.3trillion fund now it's 300billion what a joke. India China emission is bcz we r manufacturing for Western countries nd there company so that people on those countries don't feel the hit of inflation. now it's time for rich western countries to help us to cut emission. We oppose unilateral carbon tax it will hit people hard everywhere. Just big talk wait for till the world falls apart...historically rice countries were largest emitters u own us u took our resources. You stole our money develop ur country now pay our money back....hypocrites. Shame on what u have done...at first place who told u to steal our resources did anyone told u to colonize those country. Now pay don't cry.

[@virgilcain6139]

Extortion !!!! ***********************************************************

[@cabininthewoods7326]

People fighting over money. I said from the beginning this whole climate b.s. is all about money, how to obtain money.

[@13Liberty50]

"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation." -George Washington

[@proffessorclueless]

What a total failure and waste of time and money all these COPs have been. After all this time CO2 emissions continue to rise despite the billions spent on renewables. As much as I hate growing old it is comforting to know that I won't be around when the SHTF. Most younger people have no idea how much harder their lives are going to get.

[@Dan-mm1yl]

Co2 Is 420 ppm at the moment You obviously know how high it has been in history before humans were drilling for and using oil?

[@proffessorclueless]

@Dan-mm1yl yes the rate of increase has never been so fast ever.

[@Dan-mm1yl]

@proffessorclueless But well below historical co2 levels including An ice age that had co2 levels at 6000 ppm

[@Neutralino]

@@Dan-mm1ylThat was over 400 million years ago. Absolutely zero relevance to the world as it is now.

[@Dan-mm1yl]

@Neutralino Okay bud

[@JohnCatto]

Why is it always assumed that we will pay for everyone ? Let each country do their own thing. '

[@ghintz2156]

@@JohnCatto we're all going to die here together, dude. Also if you abandon third world countries, you're gonna be bitching when their homelands are uninhabitable and they immigrate to your country just to survive.

[@sahibdhillon1613]

Go outside

[@captainrex4723]

That doesn’t account for historical inequalities. ‘Developed’ countries are the one that exploited the rest of the world for centuries often though empires. i.e most of Europe- America. Because of that they got to industrialise earlier. Developing countries are playing catchup- but are now told they have to front the bill for climate change (which developed countries caused just as much as them).

[@hippykiller2775]

K story, HOPE YOUR HAPPY WITH BILLIONS OF PEOPLE COMING TO WHERE YOU LIVE! People like you are children of the devil.

[@armantascerniauskas8859]

@@captainrex4723 Is it seriously your argument that the entire development of countries like the UK is solely down to exploitation? Not a shred of credit to inventing the steam engine, creating advanced property and business laws, or establishing a scientific society? No acknowledgment of universities flourishing while South American civilizations were butchering people on pyramid tops? What about groundbreaking scientific discoveries, freedom of thought, medical advances, financial markets, shipbuilding innovations, or metal smelting breakthroughs? Are you really trying to dismiss all of that and reduce the West's achievements to nothing but exploitation? Get a grip on reality.

[@primal1233]

It is not the responsibility of richer countries to pay for poorer countries. Besides all that money will just go to those corrupt politicians of those countries

[@kapitankapital6580]

Finally something we can agree on! Not a penny to them!

[@paulpratt1227]

The UK is no longer a rich nation, WE NEED MONEY JUST TO KEEP PUBLIC SERVICES.

[@lazypops3117]

then let fuel companies pay

[@av3347]

U.K looted to be rich. That talent cant be used anymore😂😂😂

[@barracuda008l4]

Fantastic... ideological green stupidity is just that pure idiocy

[@LukeofSmeg]

Says the mug getting increasingly ripped off by oil companies. We could have had energy security, food security if it weren't for denialist idiots.

[@AogNubJoshh]

You’re a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect my friend

[@pgw1977]

Put an end to this climate hysteria now!

[@orange1599-u1n]

Good it is a con

[@g00ses]

how about $0

[@av3347]

How about minding your own business and bring coal into the market and the developing countries can kickstart industrialization the way you guys did???

[@mr-ov5gt]

​@av3347 how abt war then

[@av3347]

@@mr-ov5gt Do you have the balls for that. All you guys do is proxy war. Like israel and Ukraine, which infact create pollution by destruction and pollution by reconstruction. 😂😂😂 and if that happen a new military alliance of BRICS+ will be formed.

[@robinburn4974]

In agree richer countries should help out poorer countries the UK needs all the help it can get 😂

[@C420sailor]

Why are we paying these countries anything?!?!

[@judyoger]

I would vote no on any money being given to other countries for any reason, in the USA we need to take care of our homeless, our under educated and our Vets. We should take care of our own people before politicians decide how and why our tax money is spent outside our country. It should be the will of our people for the people of our country. No other considerations should be assigned. If we fail our own people, the world at large won't care. For millions of years we have burned wood for fire to heat and cook, then we burned coal, now natural gas. Until every USA born citizen is in a warm place on cold days and nights, every USA born citizen eats 3 untainted good meals a day, can bath and have clean warm clothes, we are failing right here at home. I vote we help our own USA born citizens before we allow any monies to be sent outside our country. No debate, no discussion. Take care of our own, and demand higher food and water standards.

[@SpacemanSpliff101]

Tax your rich then. Try to google where most billionaires come from.

[@tomgreene1843]

There are more serious and immediate threats facing us ...in plain sight.

[@CugerBrant]

Imagine a Climate Summit Committee, sitting in a car on an extremely hot sunny day, deciding what to do! The Mother of all Climate Summits ... “Ladies and gentlemen, we are sitting here to debate the rising temperature. Do we open a window?" says the Chairman. “Now just a minute,” intercedes Member number one,” what do I personally stand to lose if the said window was opened, and what will this expenditure of effort cost in the long term? “Yes, quite so.” Member number four concurs, are we absolutely sure that the window is the cause of our dilemma, or is there another cause?” “Indeed!” says Member number three, “how can we be certain of the physics or math?” “What if it is proved that the sun is ultimately the cause?” Member number four suggested. “I think more data is needed, the results carefully scrutinised and evaluated,” Member number three stated. “Yes, and then a ballot held to see who is in agreement!” Member number two agreed. “Ah! but if it is decided that the window is the cause and the solution to our predicament, then which window should be opened, and just how far?” Member number three postulated. “Indeed, and for how long?” Member number one queried. “And who shall be responsible for this task?” Member number two gasps. “Well, obviously, someone else! Member number one rasps! After much debate, they all duly voted, voiced their respective interests, and discussed, digressed, discussed again. Thus, in the car, they sat, going on in strange paradox, deciding only to be undecided, resolved only to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. A motion was held, dubiously ratified, altered, ratified yet again, until all concluded; it was definitely 'someone else's responsibility, moral duty even, to open the said window. While they waited for somebody else to open the said window, all sadly expired from heatstroke! Thus, they were enshrined, car and all, encased in a grand tomb, built from bricks of hedonistic self-indulgence. The mortar holding them in place, made from pointless rhetoric (which was in abundant supply), poured from a bucket labelled procrastination. And on the grey stone door was carved an ode… They deliberated and procrastinated Argued, while dourly emancipated Never wavered, never paused Fine semantics, eulogised every accord The group to a man, all, every single one Signed their names, and nothing was done! CUGER BRANT

[@admiralradish]

Money does not stop Pole shifts.

[@ghintz2156]

@@admiralradish Tell me you don't know shit about science and trust Alex Jones in less words.

[@hippykiller2775]

​@ghintz2156 Right, like does he have any idea what poles shifting would look like!? Seriously he hears scientific terms and concept and then rejects what science says! Honestly some people don't have enough intelligence to be classified as human.

[@joermnyc]

Magnetic pole shifting would not affect climate, it would affect cancer rates though as the shift takes decades if not centuries and our planet’s ability to deflect the solar wind and cosmic rays (radioactive energy) is weakened significantly. It would cause aurora seemingly randomly worldwide.

[@lemdixon01]

​@ghintz2156 the South Pole is not in the North 😅

[@youkofoxy]

Actually it can. All we have to do is to create a magnet big and strong enough. And turns out we can do it, it just has to go around the world.

[@JohnofthefamilySmith]

'A fool and his money are soon parted' is the motto of the climate billionaires.

[@ph8077]

Save hypothetical future poor people from starvation by starving the poor people right now! That's the effect on the people on the edge of energy poverty when you push global prices up due to dogmatic energy policies. Brilliant work, chaps!

[@jikk558]

Smog from Delhi has reached Multan. It is the best remedy to control yuthis. How can smog be diverted, its natural cooling clouds are filled with dew. The same diseases are seen in Karachi as in Lahore. Pollution from burning Hindu bodies, factories and crops are the main causes of smog. There is no scientific solution to the natural smog seen in the form of smog during the snowy season.

[@LukeofSmeg]

Nah that can't be right, man-made pollution doesn't exist, haven't you seen what all the other replies are saying? 🙃

[@mattroules6691]

The most stupid comment ever

[@Dan-mm1yl]

Good hope this gravy train comes to an end soon China is still classed as a developing nation 2nd or 1st biggest economy in the world

[@Sunset4Semaphores]

Welcome back!

[@grahamd8356]

Countries walked? How did a country get into a room in the first place?

[@amykins9870]

The Larger countries that claimed these poor countries and their own 100 yrs ago or so. Disgusting how larger countries mine and drill and cut down trees in these poorer countries. Then feel no responsibility to contribute to the countries clean up and rehabilitations of many very diverse ecosystems. The money is insane that they are talking about. I hope to dee a huge change by 2050!

[@royalcrowntowing2464]

It's all about money it's all bs lobbying making money

[@Jm-Gonz]

300. billion a year is not enough ? Thank god Trump is going to give them all the middle finger 😂

[@daytrader-iy5yb]

The government of Canada on Saturday apologized to the Inuit of northern Quebec for the mass killing of sled dogs in the 1950s and 1960s, which devastated communities by depriving them of the ability to hunt and travel. A 2010 report from Jean-Jacques Croteau, a retired Superior Court of Quebec judge, found Quebec provincial police officers killed more than 1,000 dogs "without any consideration for their importance to Inuit families." "Without investigation and without asking the owners about the importance of the dogs they wanted to kill, without inquiring whether the dogs they wanted to kill constituted a real, serious and current danger to the people." "This was a horrendous betrayal...it should not have taken decades for Canada to apologize to Nunavik Inuit," he said The federal government's role in it, Croteau found, was failing to intervene or condemn the actions.

[@jamjardj1974]

“ We cant launder money because we don’t have any!”

[@I.M.A.Panther3619]

The conference speakers alone generates several hundred tons of unnecessary “hot air.” They should meet over the internet. Everyone wouldn’t need to travel.

[@chieftandriver703]

Ahh, that’s where the £11 billion went

[@realbillymiller1011]

The money needs to be invested in their own countries. There will NEVER be enough money for poorer countries. If they walk out of the meeting, let them...they should get NOTHING

[@john-y7z]

I want millions of dollars too! This is unfair for those who want to get rich for free and get a rolls royce for 'official' business

[@Apache1970]

How about welcoming millions of climate refugees in Africa & Asia instead or spending billions of dollars to prevent millions of climate refugees entering your home, which obviously have never worked in the past. 😂

[@bobwytoshek2621]

Maybe the poor countries should be grateful for what's being offered, don't see them helping out any other countries.

[@Apache1970]

300 billion $ for 160 countries so that they would stop burning coal and gasoline till 2035. Nice 😂

[@Apache1970]

Developing countries have plenty of coal reserves to pollute for next 200 years to give electricity to all.

[@Daisy.lee.25.11]

Climate ministers travel miles away to discuss climate change by using air plaine ???? What a hypocrite 😂😂😂

[@TraceyFrancis-h6k]

Ed Miliband? Yes we have lots in our own country suffering because of this. We don’t want our taxes going to this. NO! ENOUGH!

[@DfcsoDfcso2024]

Let the country's compensate and spend proportionally according to pollution emission.

[@sidanx7887]

Ohhh I just got the scam - pay us or we will drown … riiiiiiight

[@danielbutler946]

Clean renewable energy is always better than fossil fuels. However in hindsight of developing countries and lesser countries financial burdens it's evident that besides evaluating countries would need to seek deals that they say do not stipend them.

[@jerrymiller9039]

So this is just about grifting?

[@Worldsamess2024]

Yep!

[@mariaridler1831]

Always follow the money. The science is paid for

[@JanBruunAndersen]

I have to wonder how money will prevent the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere?

[@LukeofSmeg]

Bad framing of it tbh. The narrative is so screwed. There is no longer term energy security or food security without us undertaking more sustainable practises. That's just a fact. At some point fossil fuels dry up, our soil quality degrades to the point you can no longer grow food. It should be a complete no brainer to act, the fact we didn't decades ago is disgraceful. There is no economy without ecology.

[@stevendaniel8126]

Rich countries owe poor countries nothing!! 😞😞😊

[@seanbrown701]

Just tell the developing countries to stop burning sticks, dung and manure for fuel. That way they contribute to reducing the carbon dioxide which they claim to be an issue. The reality is we should embrace climate change as it has been happening for 4,500 million years and will do so every day.

[@joermnyc]

Funny the last few of these COP meetings have been held in OIL RICH nations and of course the deals we get are crap.

[@bandit6272]

Don't give them anything. This is a shakedown, pure and simple.

[@OskarOTV]

Focus on the shaming labour.

[@prossiearinaitwe4768]

Poor countries are not emitting. So for them not to go to use fossil fuels which they have as free resources in their country, someone has to pay. Rich nations emit highly so they have to pay.

[@michael2275]

Shut the boondoggle down, climate nonsense is done

[@ghintz2156]

@@michael2275 tell that to the huge abundance of hurricanes hitting my state more and more each year because the Ocean is so goddamn hot now.

[@georgevirtus]

Consistent flooding in my country. Countries like Kiribati will no longer exist of this issue isn't fixed.

[@michael2275]

@@georgevirtus The issue isn't fixable. Prepare now

[@BlackStar-yk7iz]

John Podesta? Well we all know what kind of person he is....🤮 The nerve of these people. I'm surprised he has the gall to ever show his face in public ever again.

[@brianvidler1201]

Ripe for corruption

[@blessingsofparadise4439]

We need to feed the poor citizens of these corrupt countries, thank you.

[@realnews7424]

Trump will get rid of all this nonsense. God bless America.

[@georgevirtus]

Bro will put more focus on non renewables

[@Apache1970]

Yes. He will spend 1 trillion $ to stop 1 billion climate refugees from breaching the border wall instead of financing renewable energy projects in the third world. 😂

[@joetran8798]

How about the developed countries offer solutions rather than dollar amounts? If the countries can find savings without compromising standards, then cheers. Then both sides win.

[@grahamphillips4738]

My thoughts are that if a poorer country accepts money from a richer country then they are dooming their inhabitants to energy poverty.

[@JohnofthefamilySmith]

The government is guilty of treason.

[@chrimbus71]

Bbc is complicit in this charade. Defund now

[@paulsharp2565]

What makes people so arrogant to believe that Humans must exist indefinitely, anyway? The world will continue spinning with or without us. Let us live our lives now and stop making us miserable.

[@roberttalada5196]

“Fuck the future, I’m a greedy fuck and want all our kids to have a worse life” is all I heard you say.

[@Worldsamess2024]

Humans won't be around in another 1000 years! Be lucky if we're still be around in 300 years the way the world is heading.

[@AllegraPersephone]

​@@Worldsamess2024 300? That's extremely optimistic.

[@colinvanderross5825]

​@@Worldsamess2024ya right humans will only be no more in 300yearz as you said but because of what terrible things created by scientists,they are the main inventors of what we use and even what we eat and even how the human race might be destroyed by inventing weapons of mass destruction and this climate change is just another way for them to get more and more money by using young activist whose still very wet behind the ears to explore their overeducated minds for situations that was created by them the scientists themselves.

[@LukeofSmeg]

People can't live now food prices going up, energy prices going up. We need to do something about that. Spend money now save huge amount later. It should be a complete no brainer.

[@MichelleRice-d6h]

Provide people, resources, and equipment. Not money. I'm flabbergasted! This is like children making a mess and pointing fingers at each other. I'm a mom, so here is what I say. "All of you clean up. It doesn't matter who made the mess!"

[@abelbekuretsion5105]

interesting how you introduced developing countries as “ Poor” than “small”

[@adiaj9228]

This is NOT being explained well!!! It is not about richer countries paying poorer countries… it’s about climate justice. The richer climates are responsible for the effects of climate change that are impacting climate vulnerable smaller, poorer countries .

[@Miichael-b1j]

It's a grift .

[@Caneandunable]

Good . Waste of time

[@LillikoiSeed]

You break it you buy it, people. It’s embarrassing.

[@belle6219]

Their scam is collapsing? Oh no. 😂