"**To conclude that we will be able to achieve decarbonization anytime soon, effectively and on the required scales, runs against all past evidence**. The UN’s first climate conference took place in 1992, and in the intervening decades we have had a series of global meetings and countless assessments and studies—**but nearly three decades later there is still no binding international agreement to moderate the annual emissions of greenhouse gases and no prospect for its early adoption**." ([Location 4312](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=4312)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[decarbonisation]], [[globalisation]], [[climate-change]], [[skepticism]] **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]