for: key point: alternative COP - breakaway group of nations, quote - alternative COP

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• What is needed is a breakaway group of nations willing to get serious about the climate emergency. Who would join it? Most of the world’s countries, potentially.

date: Dec 4, 2021

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• This could very well work. By applying social tipping point theory, a coalition of the willing could potentially accomplish a lot more than a coalition mired in friction.
• There is enough capacity between 100 nation states willing to take far more aggressive measures than what a few petrostates of the COP convention continuously veto that it could bring about a social tipping point.

for: quote - COP - Rupert Read, quote - COP - come back next year and try again, quote - alternative COP

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• come back next year and try again

date: Dec. 4, 2021

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• We just can't keep kicking the can down the road

date: Dec 4, 2021

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• Well, COP28 is over and just as Rupert Read predicted above, we will
  • kick the can down the road again
  • come back next year and try again
• It's a perpetual groundhog day, until it isn't

for: good idea - COP alternative, COP alternative - coalition of the willing, COP alternative - social tipping point, Rupert Read - alternative to COP

good idea: COP alternative

• This could work based on the principle of social tipping points
• The current COP pits the powerful incumbents of the old system delaying as long as possible rapid system change, these are the conservatives
  • This puts the liberals at distinct disadvantage from the conservatives because in a consensus reached agreement, the conservatives can veto any strong and binding language that represents rapid system change
• In an alternative conference where the 100+ nation states are already in agreement, action in this smaller coalition OF THE WILLING, will lead to rapid action.
• This could lead to breaking the threshold of system change via reaching the 25% social tipping point threshold

question: alternative COP

• If an alternative COP was held, is the nation state the best level to approach?
• What about a city level COP?

reference

• Rupert Read article on alternative COP
  • https://rupertread.net/writings/2021/there-should-be-no-more-cop-climate-summits-we-need-an-alternative-that-could-actually-work/