Critiquing Past United Nations Actions

As this Paris Agreement primer points out, there are already systems in place to support technology sharing and capacity building for climate technologies. So why are we still discussing this topic?

... Because these systems are not enough!

Even with all of the current commitments to emissions reduction, we are still on the path to well exceed the 2 degrees celsius goals set by previous UNFCCC agreements! Even the countries that are "doing good" on their climate agreements are not close to making enough strides to make a real difference.

Check out this Environmental Defense Fund report on the emissions gaps between the goals and realities by state!

The Basel Agreement has made great strides to end dumping and set up some systems of accountability for countries but it is still repeatedly violated due to the weak enforcement systems.

The challenge of this committee is to propose changes to these existing systems that would make them stronger and better for the climate. This is supposed to be difficult and we don't expect to solve these grand issues in just one weekend but we can sure try!

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