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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The rules of procedure
for the annual COP meetings on climate have never been formally approved. By default, meetings are run by consensus (though COP presidents have been known to ignore votes in opposition their desired proposals). Effectively, consensus gives fossil fuel interests
control over COP decisions through their creatures, the petrostates. (Not just those in the Mideast--the US is now the world’s largest exporter of oil and gas and is therefore suspected of being at times under the influence.)</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If we could vote in new rules of procedure the majority of nations
at a COP would have the power, for example, to decide to phase out the development, processing, and use of fossil fuels, and to proceed with serious efforts to draw down and sequester carbon. Unfortunately, since the default rules require a consensus for such
changes, we will not get that approved at a COP.</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Al Gore was present at the UN discussions which founded the COPs. If
we could change the rules of constitution, we could change the operating procedures with less than a consensus. Apparently a 75% vote would do it. At least two nations are now proposing that the UN make that change in the operating procedures of a COP. Since
the common wisdom is that we must act decisively by 2025 to have any chance of limiting heating to 1.5C, the 2024 COP might well be our final chance to achieve the prime aspiration of the Paris Accords. 26 inspirational minutes of Al Gore being interviewed.
<a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2023/12/13/al-gore-on-the-problem/" id="OWA786dad8d-ac95-b017-5dcc-31634296793d" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://climatecrocks.com/2023/12/13/al-gore-on-the-problem/</a> </span></p>
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