Paris climate agreement


Empty cheers after Paris agreement

An historic “turning point for the world”. This is how US President Barack Obama and other top politicians referred to the 31-page climate agreement adopted by 196 governments in Paris. Some major environmental organisations and the media made similar assessments.

The head of the UN Environment Programme, Achim Steiner, even claims it is the most important international agreement ever concluded. If only it was in fact the kind of agreement that could avert the runaway global warming that now threatens all human civilisation on the planet.

Unfortunately, such claims in fact represent a huge “green washing” of reality. As the 74-year-old doyen of climate science, James Hansen, says, “It’s really a fraud, a fudge without action, just promises”.

For the continuation of this article by Arne Johansson, from Offensiv, newspaper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), go to socialistworld.net.