Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope by Foster John;

Author:Foster, John;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: London Publishing Partnership
Published: 2019-03-06T15:35:26+00:00

We consider these points in detail below, especially in relation to the Precautionary Principle, but we start by making the following elementary observation: as yet, there is very little reason indeed to believe that (even if these NETs were acceptable philosophically or ethically) they will actually work even on their own terms (Wallace-Wells, 2018b).

There is instead increasing reason to believe that they will not be economically or technologically viable, nor constitute worthwhile returns on energy invested (Radford, 2017). We are gambling the future of the human race on non-existent technologies which are quite likely not to work even on a best-case scenario. One might even, only slightly tongue in cheek, make the claim that ‘Non-Existent Technologies’ is a more accurate rendition of the ‘NET’ acronym…

There is no enforcement mechanism for Paris.

And, again crucially: in order to reach its inadequate and unenforceable targets, the Paris Agreement (Article 6) proposes the voluntary use of Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) that are meant to represent improved offsetting mechanisms (Rabinowitz, 2017). Article 6 point 4 of Paris mentions the establishment of a ‘mechanism’ ‘to contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and support sustainable development’ to be established by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Once again, such a mechanism as this could serve to distract attention from the fundamental need to reduce emissions drastically and in a sustained manner.

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