There is a super important climate negotiation happening and the gormless media is covering it up (6)

–India has not emitted much in history and has the biggest population, so has the most “climate wiggle room” and might share it
–Is the US edging to join key globalish trade deal after being nice to the UK? India and China have the box seats

Opinion and reporting By Mathew Carr

Feb. 28-March 7, 2025 — The gormless mainstream media seem to be completely missing the ongoing super-important climate negotiation.

The G20, mainly the wealthy members of this club, have been hurting emerging economies on climate for 35 years, yet some of them — namely the brutal, warmongering US and the UK — are now talking about new trade deals with each other, while expanding fossil fuels even further …and focusing on money, money, money and Ukraine’s minerals.

Is BP (British Petroleum)’s climb down on climate really a tough negotiation stance in the world of President Donald Trump … to give Mr Trump cover? Are these tariff threats by Trump and others really an attempt to create better global trade links — ones that will promote sustainable trade in sustainable products and services, ones that will work to save the climate instead of exploiting the earth and nature?

The huge increase in EU defence spending is actually a condition imposed by the US ….which is finally being held to account for its multi-decade climate fuckery.

Europe, in turn, is doing the right thing on sharing the cost of defence.

Whether the money gets spent on weapons or climate protection….it’s all designed to keep people and nature safer.

DW — Germany’s €1.03 trillion

Isn’t it possible that trade deals, not weapons, will be the new deterrent in an era of high-growth peace …globally? Let’s push for it!

Mr Trump’s so-called leverage is largely bluster … call out his negotiating tactics even louder, Catherine!

His nonsense can push the world into a more sensible global collaboration

Let’s go #cptpp https://t.co/N86cjwndNe
— Mathew Carr wants markets to save earth's charm (@carrzee) March 7, 2025

The EU has prompted a period of fraught trade negotiations because it’s planning to force any countries wanting to sell to it — to effectively buy EU carbon allowances/credits under a program that’s being implemented over the next decade or so. (called the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, or CBAM.)

The UK decided in 2016 to exit the EU with the US’s support (Trump and arch Brexiter Nigel Farage still love each other, apparently), weakening Europe and the EU’s push for global sustainability.

The UK joined the Comprehensive & Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership in December last year (which China also wants to join …and India and the US might in the future).

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) already has a combined GDP of around £12 trillion and includes 12 countries: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom…see pic below.

As a member of CPTPP, the UK can do deals with other nations such as the US, but it would have to be cognisant of the CPTPP’s “most-favored-nation” clauses, which requires that if a member offers favorable positions to other nations, it has to extend those positions to all CPTPP members (but only in some cases — not necessarily in relation to tariffs).

Remember the CPTPP is an evolution of the Trans Pacific Partnership, which never came into force because Trump withdrew from it in his first term starting in Jan. 2017 under his insincere “make America great” policy…which is really “make America even more rich at the expense of everyone else” policy.

What’s most surprising is that the likes of India and China are not even more loudly calling out the bad behavior of stoking more heat-trapping emissions by the US and UK (two of the worst historical culprits).

I guess the greedy G20 leaders are all in it together with their big companies, and against the world’s people, who want urgent climate action? Are the G20 leaders stoking the climate crisis so they can provide a “solution” that benefits their rich, while ruining climate and nature for the rest of the world?

Hmmmmm.

Read my feature from a few months ago below on why the US and the UK need India, which’s also been seeking a trade deal with the US (or maybe more importantly, as the story below explains — why Trump is the one who really needs the India trade deal!)

Hint … it’s about the fast depleting global carbon budget and the very real prospect of even higher temperatures and more climate chaos. It’s still highly relevant, as Thursday’s survey revealed:

Trump Impact Could Delay US Net Zero by 10 Years (to 2060), Tree Murdering to Hamper Climate Action Globally (5)

The upshot is India has not emitted much in history and has the biggest population, so that nation has the most “climate wiggle room” and might share it — for a price — via UN carbon markets.

The US has the most historical emissions and a relatively tiny population (4% of the world) that’s propagandized against cutting emissions…and so …is desperate for some of India’s wiggle room.

India and the UK are also talking on a trade deal, too, BTW.

China’s box seat is related to its huge manufacturing prowess, access to minerals and clean-tech expertise.

It seems unlikely that that the USA will join the CPTPP under Trump unless India pushes hard for that …and that probably won’t happen before 2030….unless nasty climate events speed up change.

Come on mainstream media!

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