The UN should be held criminally responsible for the climate crisis through the design of the Paris Agreement

2015 marks the second global attempt to deal with the climate crisis that is wrecking havoc across the world and killing people, destroying the ecology and biodiversity of this planet caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It appears in the international circles where the UN likes to throw its weight around, saying you have done something is as good as doing it. The first failed agreements that were also the handiwork of the UN were the Kyoto protocol.

In its hubris, the UN decided the only mistake it made was a non binding agreement that did not have any monetary commitment associated to it. Therefore, once the papers were inked in paris the UN, yet again patted its own back and popped the champaign.

Any first year policy student would ask the question, who is designing the climate transition? who is doing the analytical work of actually informing people and countries on where and how the need is growing. But alas, the $3.6 Billion dollar budget of the UN did not account for a policy department needed to design the transition.

The UN merely stipulates that each country must spend money on the climate transition. For once in this known history the UN was handed the opportunity to empower women and people of color globally since any high school student could have done the research to tell the big wigs that the climate transition industry is over-represented by women and people of color. Environmental engineering is the only engineering discipline that has more women in it than men.

The UN in its corporate culture that celebrates the exploitation of women and POCs decided nah. If they had done nothing else but mandate that every country had to spend the money in a double blind fashion they would have accidentally saved the planet by now. But why have a financial crisis once and learn about performance indicators and the reason for pragmatic compensation structures when you can engineer a global climate genocide and still learn nothing from it twice.

The Canadian cleantech crisis has only the UN’s finger prints on it. The UN has decided it has the job of pointing fingers without ever looking within itself to see what what it could have done to materially move the needle forward. Who planned the transition? no one.