Climate Change Policy Pitch Meeting
Channel: LuckyBlackCat
Date: 12/10/2021

A satirical look at international climate change policy, inspired by Pitch Meeting, a comedic series by Screen Rant and Ryan George. Pitch Meeting is satire of a screenwriter pitching a script to a movie studio. It ridicules movies, but I’m using the format to ridicule international climate change policy.

Since the Paris Agreement is foundational for climate change policy, I thought it deserved a video exposing its inadequacies.

The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change adopted in 2015 at COP21. COP stands for Conference of the Parties and it’s the United Nations Climate Change Conference. At the end of this month, representatives of the world’s nation-states will gather in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26 summit (October 31st to November 12th 2021) to update their goals for addressing climate change. The Paris Agreement treaty will serve as the framework for COP26, for the goals countries set to reduce global warming, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and adapt to the harmful effects of climate change.

Below are sources for the facts in this video.

TAKING ACTION

If you want to take action against climate change you can find recommendations here https://libcom.org/forums/organise/recommendations-people-wanting-take-action-climate-change-03102021

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Check out some of my other videos:

► Tax the Rich? Why More Is Not Enough https://youtu.be/SJaoDBJC8M0

► BLAMING THE POOR: Poverty as Punishment https://youtu.be/6k3DkEY0YHU 

► Police: Reform? Defund? Abolish? https://youtu.be/ik2xZEgoReE 

► Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpgXZBN8fmc0t-rRGgKwDYfkBNSd8jYDS

SOURCES

Time stamps refer to when the fact is mentioned.
Numbers refer to the sources listed below the time stamps.

1:40 1
1:48 2
2:02 3, 4
2:28 1, 2
2:57 1, 2, 3
3:03 5
3:45 6a, 7
4:05 8 (a bit dated but I like the graphs; sources 6 and 7 are more recent)
4:47 3, 9
5:20 9
5:53 10
6:14 6a
6:35 7, 11
7:33 12 (3.7 high end estimate), 13 (3.8 high end), 7 (3.9 high end), median estimates are lower
8:06 3, 9
9:23 14
9:39 4, 15, 16
12:04, 12:14 5
12:22 17 
12:31 6b

1. Natural Resources Defense Council https://www.nrdc.org/stories/paris-climate-agreement-everything-you-need-know

2. United Nations COP21 https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf

3. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/1/15724162/trump-paris-climate-agreement-explained-briefly 

4. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252  reported in https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/06/domino-effect-of-climate-events-could-push-earth-into-a-hothouse-state

5. Executive Summary page 5 https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2019

6. Executive Summary https://www.unep.org/emissions-gap-report-2020 
6a. page 11
6b. p.4 for 2019 emissions, p.9 for 2030 estimates 

7. Graph p.1 https://climateactiontracker.org/documents/790/CAT_2020-09-23_Briefing_GlobalUpdate_Sept2020.pdf

8. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/06/climate/world-emissions-goals-far-off-course.html

9. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28663-paris-climate-deal-is-agreed-but-is-it-really-good-enough 

10. A Systems Critique of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-67702-6_3

11. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/about/news/200430-taking-stock-of-climate-policies.html 

12. Page 6 https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/20191025_ES_THP_Environmental_Facts_FINAL.pdf 

13. https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/3c-world

14. https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

15. https://youtu.be/9GjrS8QbHmY

16. UN University https://unu.edu/media-relations/media-coverage/climate-migrants-might-reach-one-billion-by-2050.html

17. Page 27 https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10794 

CREDITS

Background: Business photo by katemangostar - freepik.com 

UN photo: Matt Kowalczyk (flikr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0

Office Ambience Sound Effect [FREE DOWNLOAD | ROYALTY FREE] VideoPlasty https://videoplasty.com/sound-effects/office-ambiance-sfx-303

Music: “Nature Hike” (Leisure Class Reptiles) https://youtu.be/d7o0MXHbSRM

INSPIRATION     

Pitch Meeting https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL--PgETgAz5FGoatB9KQzbnpv0bgZqU2l

Ryan George https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanGeorge

Screen Rant https://www.youtube.com/c/ScreenRant