THE absence of the leaders of three of the five largest polluters on Earth, at this week’s 26th UN Climate Change Conference, understated as the Conference of the Parties (COP26), which kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland, was, is symptomatic of the very politics of climate action transition.
The party poopers, China, Russia and India perhaps have more to lose economically.
But at what opportunity costs and impact on their hapless citizens at the mercy of the elements for decades?
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC,) in its latest assessment, warned that there was no doubt human activity had warmed the ocean, atmosphere and land.
The other two serial polluters – the US and EU – have a century-long, first-mover advantage, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, laissez…
