6 months after climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world

6 months after climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous & divided world:

Basically so far, almost all climate summits were meant for show.

Hardly any action has been truly/aptly taken to enforce any agreement, notably by major powers. So..?

Putin has ended the very small chance that remained for effective global action to mitigate climate change.

Governments can more easily force reduced energy use with power cuts, higher prices and rationing, but even if they blame it on Putin, they will not escape the political consequences of lost jobs, hungry kids and frozen grannies. And governments rely on tax receipts from their economy to keep themselves in power. Blame Putin or China all you want - impoverished, cold and hungry people will take it out on their political leaders.

Scientists failed years ago when they called it 'global warming' and tried to scare people with the prospect of a two degree rise in global temperatures. Worst PR exercise ever. Most people pay to go to warmer countries for their holidays and see one or two degrees as nothing. A complete failure at explaining what was happening in non-scientific terms. They may as well have held up signs saying 'the end of the world is nigh'.

The pandemic didn't help. People now trust scientists a lot less, often actively disliking them, and have gone from mild distrust of their politicians to outright hatred.

We needed a politically stable world with global supply chains maximising our use of labour, our manufacturing capacity and our food supplies to have any sort of resilience in the face of climate change. We also needed a healthy economy to fund the transition to green technologies.

This has been dismantled by nationalist regimes building border block, unpicking supply chains and sanctioning trade, and further undermined by political tribalism and war. More wars and famines will now come.

Governments needed to implement EV charging infrastructure, distributed energy production, much better water management and comprehensive recycling schemes as public services paid for by the state. They failed at all of these, farming a few out to private industry.

Marriages end. Lives end. Civilisations end. Nothing is forever. Enjoy what time we have left.