Ɖ Gardịn vy on Riśi Sūnac’s Cop27 trip: plesñ ɖ planit on a rod t hel
(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 7 Nov. 2022)
Britn hd sd its em wz t ‘cīp 1.5S alîv’. Ɖ prîm̦inistr sīmz t wont it ded
Munde 7 Nvmbr 2022
Riśi Sūnac z nt inṭrestd in ɖ clîṃt imrjnsi – n evrwn nz it. Forst t mc a flayñ vizit t Cop27, Mr Sūnac’s intranzijns md him an ǎtcast at ɖ YN sumit in Sharm el-Śeic, Ījipt. H dd sit dǎn wɖ Frans’z Emmanuel Macron, n ɖ Itałn faŗît prîm̦inistr, Giorgia Meloni, t dscus a subjict – “ilīgl mîgreśn” – ɖt Mr Sūnac obvịsli cerz abt. Bt most wrldlīdrz wr nt gwñ t mc tîm fr a prîm̦inistr hu hd bloct Britn’z ny moṇc fṛm atndñ ɖ sumit n onli cem bcz h fird biyñ upstejd bî Boris Jonsn. Ẃn Mr Sūnac dd trn p, it wz wɖ hiz prīdisesr’z plan n slognz. Imbaṛsñli, Mr Jonsn dd tec sntrstej at Cop27 – fṛm ɖ sîdlînz.
Ɖ prîm̦inistr’z tracrecord rvilz a poḷtiśn hu guvnz in ɖ Tōriz’ naro p’liticl inṭrest rɖr ɖn ɖ naśnl wn. Slaśñ fyl n er dytiz az ćanslr jst dez bfr ɖ last Cop sumit – hostd bî ɖ YC – śoud hiz tru culrz. Plejz t crtel onśor wind n solr dveḷpmnt jrñ ɖ Cnsrṿtiv līdrśp campen signld ɖt prsnl ambiśn wz mor importnt ɖn clîṃtgolz. In Cop26, cuntriz sînd p t rdys carbndîoxîd imiśnz t limit globl hītñ t 1.5S abv priindustrịl tmpṛćrz. Britn hd wontd t “cīp 1.5S alîv”. Mr Sūnac sīmz t wont it ded.
In ofis, h hz axeḷretd ɖ dclîn v ɖ grīn ajnda, ijctñ fṛm ɖ cabiṇt ɖ Cop26 prezidnt, Alok Sharma, n ɖ clîṃtministr, Greym Stywt. Cabiṇt cmitiz r ẃr poḷsi arğmnts r ʈraśt ǎt. Undr Mr Jonsn ɖr wr tū cabiṇt cmitiz dedcetd t clîṃt, wn ćerd bî Mr Sharma n wn bî ɖ prîm̦inistr. Bt nǎ “net ziro” hz bn rold intu a cmiti on “dmestic n ic̣nomic aferz”, wɖ a foc̣s on eṇji s’kṛti. Mr Sūnac, sinicli, z yzñ ɖ Ycren wor t se ɖt Britn śd b slf-rlaynt on its ǒn fosilfylz. Bt Britn śd rdys its dpndns on carbn-best eṇji n hlp end ɖ clîṃt imrjnsi.
Mr Jonsn tld hiz Red Sī ōdịns ɖt “nǎ z nt ɖ tîm t g wibli-wobli on net ziro”. Mr Sūnac z wiḅlñ n woḅlñ. Hiz planz t xtract mor ôl n gas fṛm ɖ Norʈ Sī r nt cmpatbl wɖ ɖ YC’z net ziro cmitmnt. Nɖr z bildñ a colmîn in Cumbria. Pŭlñ carbndîoxîd bac ǎt v ɖ atṃsfir cn xpand ɖ spes fr poẓtiv imiśnz, bt ɖ tecnoḷji z far fṛm biyñ rold ǎt.
A globl p’liticl crîsis v ɖ eṇji trnziśn z bruwñ. “Ɖ xtñśn v hymncînd” lūmz, bt Britn z bīncǎntñ. Ẃl Mr Sūnac dclerz ɖt h wl spend ɖ £11bn promist bî Mr Jonsn t hlp purr cuntriz adapt t globl hītñ, h w’nt se h wl cīp t ɖ plan t pe ǎt ɖ caś ovr fîv yirz. F ɖ muni z spred ovr a longr pirịd, it wl mīn cuts in clîṃtfînans. Ɖs wl hrt ɖ purist ppl in ɖ wrld. Mr Sūnac me sel it az mor muni fr Brítnz. Ćaṛti me bgin at hom, bt ẃt hapnz f yr hǎs z on fîr?
Ɖ Britiś guvnmnt z pleyñ a confidnstric ɖt riscs trapñ ɖ wrld in fosilfyl dpndns. Mr Sūnac z peyñ lipsrvis t invîrnmntl iśuz ẃl péḍlñ grīnwoś poḷsiz n ic̣nomic bludletñ. Ɖs cnd v poḷtics pevz, in ɖ wrdz v ɖ YN secṛtrijenṛl, António Guterres, ɖ hîwe t clîṃthel.
