The Paris Act held in Paris in November 2015, seems to quite the worries of many, about the dramatic issue of climate change, while scientists like James Hansen, a researcher on atmospheric physics at NASA that contributed significantly to the discovery global warming, depicts the Paris agreement as a “Fraud, a fake” (The Guardian, Dec.12, 2015). The Paris Act should theoretically represent an agreement, although in reality, there is no real agreement on measures, procedures and timing, in reducing carbon dioxide emissions; indeed, it concludes no binding treaty, no specific commitment and no carbon tax. It is fundamentally inconsistent.
George Monbiot, a British writer, environmentalist and politic activist, in The Guardian (Dec 9, 2015) …show more content…
No sociologists were in the meeting and scientists, when not corrupted, have lost their ability to be an active voice. It is notorious by now, not only in the scientific world, but to the laity that the most important cause needing to be addressed to stop climate warming before it is too late, is to reduce greenhouse emissions. Premise this, how could the Paris convention lead to specific commitments and a carbon tax when it was sponsored by the major fossil fuel burning corporations? A report of a case study of “Key COP 21 sponsors” by the Observatoire des Multinationales, shows the analysis of the sponsoring firms to effectively address the climate issue. The study has investigated three major areas, their transparency and coherency on their own greenhouse gas emission and carbon footprint, their capacity to think/act on global scale and their actual amount of gas emissions. The results show that none of the companies (Accor, BNP Paribas, Carrefour, EDF, ENGIE, Kering, L’Oreal, LVMH, Michelin, Renault) meet the ideal profile for transparency and coherence. These are all corporations striving on burning fossil fuel; hence, they represent the problem not the solution. No one needs a degree in politics and economics to realize that these firms sitting in the Paris convention as major sponsors had certainly a strong influence (pursuing their self-interest) on the not resolute outcomes. Furthermore their presence can be strategically used in their favor to legitimate even further their strong externalities on people and environment creating a halo of greenness on the same businesses that are destroying
George Monbiot, a British writer, environmentalist and politic activist, in The Guardian (Dec 9, 2015) …show more content…
No sociologists were in the meeting and scientists, when not corrupted, have lost their ability to be an active voice. It is notorious by now, not only in the scientific world, but to the laity that the most important cause needing to be addressed to stop climate warming before it is too late, is to reduce greenhouse emissions. Premise this, how could the Paris convention lead to specific commitments and a carbon tax when it was sponsored by the major fossil fuel burning corporations? A report of a case study of “Key COP 21 sponsors” by the Observatoire des Multinationales, shows the analysis of the sponsoring firms to effectively address the climate issue. The study has investigated three major areas, their transparency and coherency on their own greenhouse gas emission and carbon footprint, their capacity to think/act on global scale and their actual amount of gas emissions. The results show that none of the companies (Accor, BNP Paribas, Carrefour, EDF, ENGIE, Kering, L’Oreal, LVMH, Michelin, Renault) meet the ideal profile for transparency and coherence. These are all corporations striving on burning fossil fuel; hence, they represent the problem not the solution. No one needs a degree in politics and economics to realize that these firms sitting in the Paris convention as major sponsors had certainly a strong influence (pursuing their self-interest) on the not resolute outcomes. Furthermore their presence can be strategically used in their favor to legitimate even further their strong externalities on people and environment creating a halo of greenness on the same businesses that are destroying