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Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks
theodp writes: The NY Times and others report that Bill Gates will announce the creation of a multibillion-dollar clean energy fund on Monday at the opening of the two-week long Paris Climate Change Conference. The climate summit, which will be attended by President Obama and 100+ world leaders, is intended to forge a global accord to cut planet-warming emissions. The pending announcement was first reported by ClimateWire. A spokesman for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did not respond to a request for comment. Let's hope it goes better than BillG school reform!
Aren't all these climate talks the political/economic equivalent of a BSOD?
These talks are mostly meaningless. The last big climate agreement was the Kyoto accords, and in the following years, the countries that had refused to sign/ratify collectively reduced their carbon emissions by more than those that did sign up. Signing an agreement to do something is very different from actually doing it.