Anything to reduce scale must surely be a good thing, so all power to your elbow. I imagine that a helpful preliminary would be for the UN to be publicly critical of itself. Regarding unanimity, I recall that bottom-up trade agreements were suggested as a suitable model (by David Victor in 2012), and just on Saturday I see that George Monbiot drew attention to a voting system to succeed the right of veto (the Borda system). Regarding the good of the COP process early on, wasn’t science muddled with economics pretty much at the outset? As Danny Cullenward and David Victor said in their 2020 book, those debating the climate crisis ‘from 30,000 feet’ are still talking about market-based policy …
Yes, yes and yes. The problem is credibility. This has been utterly shredded this year. In my blog on this, I compare the COP process to the League of Nations, which failed to prevent World War II. After this failure, the League also had zero credibility and so was abandoned. I think the time has come to acknowledge this and find alternatives, as you say. https://open.substack.com/pub/mattcolborn/p/cop28-who-are-they-kidding?r=56rtx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Anything to reduce scale must surely be a good thing, so all power to your elbow. I imagine that a helpful preliminary would be for the UN to be publicly critical of itself. Regarding unanimity, I recall that bottom-up trade agreements were suggested as a suitable model (by David Victor in 2012), and just on Saturday I see that George Monbiot drew attention to a voting system to succeed the right of veto (the Borda system). Regarding the good of the COP process early on, wasn’t science muddled with economics pretty much at the outset? As Danny Cullenward and David Victor said in their 2020 book, those debating the climate crisis ‘from 30,000 feet’ are still talking about market-based policy …
Hear, hear. Hypocrisy abounds; let’s jettison this bloated circus and try something new.
Yes, yes and yes. The problem is credibility. This has been utterly shredded this year. In my blog on this, I compare the COP process to the League of Nations, which failed to prevent World War II. After this failure, the League also had zero credibility and so was abandoned. I think the time has come to acknowledge this and find alternatives, as you say. https://open.substack.com/pub/mattcolborn/p/cop28-who-are-they-kidding?r=56rtx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web