https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/19/opinion-un-climate-bureaucrats-useless-meeting-craig-rucker/
By CRAIG RUCKER
Excerpt:
What a grandiose mouthful of verbiage.
The Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SBI-UNFCCC) just wrapped up its latest session in Bonn, Germany. Abbreviated SB64, it was the 64th meeting of this austere group of “multi-stakeholder coalitions” — politicians, government bureaucrats, business rent-seekers and “civil society” activists — some 7,000 strong.
They chattered and schemed for ten days (June 8-18) to set the stage and agenda for COP31, the 31st UN Conference of the Parties, set to take place in Turkey later this year — the annual gathering of climate-obsessed and cash-hungry countries. (RELATED: Climate Alarmism’s Reset And The Policy Reckoning It Demands)
SB64 was determined to “accelerate implementation” of previous climate goals, intoned Turkey’s COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum. Why? Because “our common home, the Earth, is passing through one of the most critical periods it has ever faced.” (How many times have we heard that one?)
Indeed, following last year’s COP30 in Brazil, the International Court of Justice proclaimed that greenhouse gas emissions “unequivocally” affect Earth’s “entire climate system” and pose an “existential” threat to “all forms of life and the very health of our planet.”
Therefore, the court decreed, any developed countries that fail to do their part in preventing further climate change will violate the fundamental “human right” to a “clean, healthy, and sustainable environment” — and could face civil and criminal actions for their “internationally wrongful acts.” How convenient.
SB64 and the upcoming COP31 set “clear, measurable targets” that they expect countries worldwide to achieve by 2035. This is to ensure, say they, that previously set goals “are translated fully into action,” through “shared responsibility, strong cooperation, and determined implementation.”
Of course, you everyday workers and other folks weren’t invited. You had no say about your planet-saving future. That was the job for government, NGOs, and other far-Left “stakeholders” who know what is best for you and your family, community, country, and planet. Among their action items:
- Accelerate the clean energy transition by raising the global electrification rate to 35% — with wind and solar power.
- Reduce the energy intensity of buildings 25% to make cities “more resilient and efficient.”
- Advance green industrialization, production, and manufacturing by increasing “circular material use” to 15% or more globally.
- Give “every young person” worldwide access to education “that builds awareness of the climate crisis” and every young farmer training in “climate-resilient agricultural practices.”
- Help countries turn “Nationally Determined Contributions” into “investable project portfolios” in the future “global green economy.”
- Allow me to translate this into plain English and real-world actions. In short, the UN wants to ram through a fantasy of unreliable wind and solar “electrification,” inefficient “efficiency” mandates, mandatory recycling quotas, youth indoctrination, and a massive wealth transfer disguised as a “green economy” slush fund.
All this is a pipe dream.
