COP’ing to Scale

Albert Bates
10 min readNov 9, 2021

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How can a global climate response succeed if it can be stymied by a lone coal millionaire who lives on a yacht and drives a silver Maserati?

As the committee work was drawing to a close for the weekend at the Glasgow SEC last Friday, one committee lingered after dark (which is not all that late in this part of Scotland at this time of year) to get some basic language worked out for the “cover decision” for the final text. The cover…

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Albert Bates

Emergency Planetary Technician and Climate Science Wonk — using naturopathic remedies to recover the Holocene without geoengineering or ponzinomics.