Why International Climate Summits Are Doomed to Fail, Part 2: Upward Mobility for Poor Depends on Energy

An estimated 940 million people around the globe, like this family in the African nation of Botswana, don’t have access to any electricity, and roughly 3 billion are without clean cooking fuel. But that’s seemingly of scant concern to well-to-do climate change alarmists, many of whom will be attending an annual international summit on the subject starting Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, in Egypt. poco_bw/ iStock/Getty Images

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Here’s a reality-framing statement for the roughly 190 countries headed to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt that opens on Sunday: Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 appear to be higher than pre-pandemic levels, again, and yet, according to the U.N., greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced 43 percent (relative to 2019 levels) by 2030.