The world’s nations keep struggling to unite in their efforts to save the planet from a multitude of environmental crises. Recent United Nations-led negotiations tackling climate change, plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and desertification have either completely failed or produced limited results insufficient to address the scale of the problems.
Three years after activist Greta Thunberg characterized global talks as “blah-blah-blah”, a phrase that resonated with young environmentalists, experts express growing concern. Alden Meyer, a veteran climate negotiations analyst at the European think tank E3G, stated, “If you are not feeling some kind of grief about what’s going on, you’re obviously not understanding what’s going on.” The Associated Press interviewed over 20 experts who collectively deemed multilateral environmentalism fractured due to a cumbersome consensus process, the influence of the fossil fuel industry, geopolitical shifts, and the sheer magnitude of the issues at hand. While progress is being made, particularly in the realm of climate change, it’s deemed too incremental, too slow, and characterized by fits and starts, according to United Nations officials and others. “Is it frustrating? Yes. Is it difficult? Yes,” acknowledged Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. However, she emphasized that it remains “the only way” for smaller, less affluent nations to have a voice alongside powerful, wealthy countries. “I wouldn’t classify it as an outright failure.” The current situation stands in stark contrast to the more optimistic period of 1987 when the world adopted a treaty successfully reversing the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer by banning harmful chemicals. This was followed by the 1992 Earth Summit, which established a United Nations framework for negotiating environmental problems, particularly climate change, known as the Conference of the Parties (COPs). A series of these conferences, however, have largely fallen short of expectations
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