By Joan Russow PhD
Clobal Compliance Research Project
Friday April 27 2018,

At COP 21Ban Ki Moon, in Paris, urged states to negotiate with a global vision not with national vested interests (Cop21 press conference)
GLOBAL VISION
A global vision would be:
to address article 2 of the UNFCCC and at a minimum to immediately end all subsidies for fossil fuel, to calculate the carbon budget for each state,
to divest in fossil fuels and to reinvest in renewable energy, to conserve sinks -such as old growth forests and bogs, to strengthen conservation of biodiversity,
to avoid all false solutions such as nuclear, geo-engineering and biofuels which would all violate principles within the UNFCCC, to compensate for historical emissions,
and to institute a fair and just transition for workers affected negatively by the new vision. and to promote nature based solutions and socially equitable
and environmentally sound such as solar, wind, tidal, and geothermal
REDEFINING WHAT CONSTITUTES TRUE SECURITY:
COMMON SECURITY
. “True security exists when all are secure, through common security.” (Olof Palme, 1982) whose objectives could be extended to include but not limited to the following:
(a) To achieve a state of peace, and disarmament; through reallocation of military expenses and delegitimization of war;
(b) To ensure the preservation, conservation and protection of the environment, the respect for the inherent worth of nature beyond human purpose, to reduce the ecological footprint and to move away from the current model of unsustainable and excessive overconsumption
(c) To enable socially equitable and environmentally sound employment, energy and transportation and the right to development,
(d) To promote and fully guarantee respect for human rights including labour rights, civil and political rights, indigenous rights, social and cultural rights – right to food, to housing, to safe drinking water and sanitation , right to education and right to universally accessible not for profit health care system; right to water and sanitation
(e) To fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals.
(f) To respect the international rule of law, its instruments and the jurisdiction and decisions of the international Court of Justice
THERE SHOULD BE LEGAL MEANS FOR IMPLEMENTATION
All states have ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and incurred an obligation under article 2.
under Article 2 of the UNFCCC, the signatories incurred the following obligation; “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere must be at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
The major fossil fuel states have failed to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system
The developing states especially the least developed and low-lying states could take the major fossil fuel states to the international Court of Justice
Or to the ICC and be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, and against the ecosystem and for Criminal negligence
But the US and other fossil fuel states have not ratified the Rome statute, the UN General Assembly could invoke article 22 and set up a tribunal
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COP24 in Katowice must avoid the systemic constraints that undermined COP21
SYSTEMIC CONSTRAIN
TS PREVENTING THE COMMITMENT TO URGENCY
IN COP21 IN THE PREAMBLE IS THE “RECOGNITION THAT CLIMATE CHANGE REPRESENTS AN URGENT AND POTENTIALLY IRREVERSIBLE THREAT TO HUMAN SOCIETY AND THE PLANET” YET THE EXISTENCE OF SYSTEMIC CONSTRAINTS PREVENTED COP21 FROM EMBODYING THIS RECOGNITION
1.THE BEST IS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD- THE COMPROMISERS CREDO
2 BASELINES TARGETS TIMEFRAMES WERE ALL OUT OF SYNC
3. -EXPEDIENT OMISSION; GLOBAL CARBON BUDGET. HISTORICAL AND PER CAPITA EMISSIONS
4. THE SHORTNESS OF INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY AND THE UNDERMINING OF LEGAL OBLIGATIONS FROM ARTICLE 2 3 AND 4
5. A SOLUTION SHOULD NEVER BE EQUALLY BAD OR WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM IT IS INTENDED TO SOLVE
6.SOME STATES ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHER
7. THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR; THE TYRANNY OF CONSENSUS
8 THE FAILURE TO REVERSE THE EXEMPTION FOR THE CONTRIBUTION TO GREEMHOUSE GAS EMISSION
9. RELUCTANCE TO USE THE INTERNATIONAL COURT AGAINST THE MAJOR EMMITTERS FOR THEY VIOLATIONS OF ARTICLE 2 OF THE UNFCCC
10. IGNORING COMMITMMENT FOR FUNDING SOURCE
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