COP Admits Failure of Its Quixotic Attempt to Replace Fossil Fuels with Breezes and Sunshine

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COP Should Stop and Close Up Shop: It Is Now Admitting the Failure of Its Quixotic Attempt to Replace Fossil Fuels with Breezes and Sunshine

CRAIG RUCKER

Guest Post by Craig Rucker of CFact.

Climate campaigners are flying home from Brazil in deep dejection following one of their worst failures ever to exploit a UN climate summit to advance their agendas.

Not only did climate radicals fail to get COP30 to agree to eliminate fossil fuels, every mention of fossil fuels and 1.5 degree climate targets was stricken from the COP’s “Global Mutirão” outcome document.

All the fig leaf campaigners came away with was a call to triple funding for climate “adaptation” and increase funding for “loss and damage.” Adaptation is UN-speak for a nation’s ability to cope with the impacts of the impending disasters projected by climate computer simulations (that have failed to materialize in reality). Loss and damage is UN-speak for compensation for bad weather experienced by poor nations (that is not caused by you).

However, even the inclusion of these funding calls represents failure. The COP30 outcome contains no concrete mechanisms to raise and distribute adaptation and loss and damage funds, nor does it contain enforcement mechanisms, revealing these as empty gestures. Similarly the promised “roadmap” for combating deforestation failed to materialize.

Read the COP30 outcome text at CFACT.org.

Members of team climate are wringing their hand and gnashing their teeth in anguish.

“This outcome is a failure,” said Marlene Achoki of CARE International, “At COP30, billed as the ‘COP of Truth,’ outcomes fall far short. There is no clarity on how much money is channeled to adaptation, where it will come from, its quality, or how progress will be measured.”
“About eighty countries have put the red line on any mention of fossil fuels in the outcome from this meeting, this UN process, this COP. Any mention is a red line for them,” said Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu.
“COP30’s outcome fails to even acknowledge the stark and devastating neglect of rich, historically-high polluting states to deliver on their loss and damage finance obligations. The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage remains critically underfunded, resulting in a denial of basic human rights,” said Sinéad Loughran of the Irish NGO, Trócaire.
“COP30 does not deliver a plan on how countries will concretely work towards more climate action, socially just and funded climate action,” said David Knecht of Fastenaktion Switzerland.
“The end of COP30 in Belém feels like a ship sailing into a storm and throwing away its compass. No mention of the long-discussed roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels and no progress toward a fair, fully financed phase-out—a bitterly disappointing result,” said Susann Scherbarth of Friends of the Earth Germany.
“COP30 was presented as the COP of implementation, yet its outcome falls short of 1.5°C science and states’ legal obligations under the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion… It failed to deliver a time-bound fossil fuel phase-out roadmap and increased grant-based public finance,” said Erica Martinelli of Generation Climate Europe.
“COP30 has been one of the most opaque summits in history. The Brazilian presidency has been incapable of moving towards a final, fair decision that would allow progress on climate justice,” said Javier Andaluz Prieto, of Spain’s Ecologistas en Acción.

Climate activists are showing signs of actually giving up on the UN climate process!

After failing to accomplish anything meaningful after two weeks of negotiations, André Corrêa do Lago tried to save face by concluding COP30 by promising, “I as President of COP 30, will therefore create two road maps, one on halting and diverting deforestation, and another to transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner.”

The COP presidency’s twin “road maps” would take place outside the UN climate regime and would only include willing nations with no mechanisms for implementation or enforcement!

How’s that for toothless?

Colombia announced it would co-host a voluntary conference with the Netherlands on April 28–29, 2026, in Santa Marta, Colombia in which nations can discuss fossil fuel phaseouts and climate finance without the UN.

Operationally, the summit was a shambles. The host city of Belém was overwhelmed: unfinished highways carved through the rainforest, submerged power cables when it rained, a fire in the UN Blue Zone caused by dodgy wiring, last-minute diesel generators for air-conditioning, and catering that ran out of proper food and resorted to ice cream and mysterious “yellow juice” for dignitaries.

Brazilian lawyer André Marsiglia reports that, “the event was horrible, a total failure… contracts were left to the last minute and became emergency contracts to try and circumvent the bidding process.”

What would a Socialist government or a UN COP be without incompetence and corruption?

Perhaps the biggest shadow over the entire event was the empty U.S. seat. With President Trump keeping the American delegation home, the traditional whipping boy—and primary ATM—of the climate movement was absent. More importantly, without U.S. diplomatic muscle, there was no one left with enough leverage to pressure holdouts like Saudi Arabia into going along and accepting fossil-fuel phaseout language.

For those who believe sound science and affordable energy should prevail over ideological crusades, COP30’s collapse is not a tragedy—it’s a hard-won victory.

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C.,

This article (COP Should Stop and Close Up Shop: It Is Now Admitting the Failure of Its Quixotic Attempt to Replace Fossil Fuels with Breezes and Sunshine) was created and published by Energy Security and Freedom and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Craig Rucker

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UN loses touch with reality: Declares “World Toilet Day” and says its climate summit demonstrated climate cooperation is “alive and kicking”

RHODA WILSON

The UN is the only organisation hailing the recent climate change summit as a success. The reality is, its failure was so significant that even corporate media, which have for years disseminated propaganda to prop up the climate change crisis narrative, had to publish that it was a failure.

But it was not all failure for the UN. A notable “achievement” at the summit was to declare 19 November as “World Toilet Day.”

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, which began on 10 November, came to a close on Friday, 21 November. UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell gave the closing speech. “COP30 showed that climate cooperation is alive and kicking, keeping humanity in the fight for a liveable planet,” he said. “Here in Belem, nations chose solidarity, science and economic common sense.”

However, even the climate propagandist BBC reported that it was “a deeply divisive climate summit.”

“In three decades of these meetings aimed at forging global consensus on how to prevent and deal with global warming, this will go down as among the most divisive,” the BBC said. “The summit was a reality check on just how much global consensus has broken down over what to do about climate change.”

Politico blamed US President Donald Trump for the UN climate summit’s failure. “The US absence allowed a group of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – known as the BRICS – to team up with petrostates, isolating the more green-oriented European Union and refusing to countenance even a reiteration of past deals to end fossil fuels,” the outlet said.

Climate Realism noted:

The Heartland Institute warned that the Paris Climate Agreement was a paper tiger from its inception, periodically publishing articles which discussed the different ways it, and all the climate agreements preceding and following it, have failed by various metrics over the years.

Reports out of the recent UN Climate Conference in Brazil show that the [corporate] media are finally acknowledging this fact as well. The BBC, the Los Angeles Times, and E&E News, among dozens of other mainstream and trade media outlets, are noting COP30 is not accomplishing much, and despite the lofty rhetoric at past conferences, they didn’t accomplish much either.

Paris Agreement: Dead at Ten (James Hansen was right), Climate Realism, 21 November 2025

Craig Rucker noted that the summit failed at every level. “Members of team climate are wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth in anguish,” he said. After quoting some climate change advocates’ feelings after the summit, Rucker said, “Climate activists are showing signs of actually giving up on the UN climate process!”

Yet according to the UN, the summit “showed that climate cooperation is alive and kicking.” Perhaps the “un” was omitted in error and Stiell meant to say that “uncooperation is alive and kicking,” but as his statement stands, it was an absurd statement to close an equally absurd summit.

Unfortunately, as Paul Homewood predicted even before the summit had ended, “the whole show will be back on the road again next winter in Turkey, where we will be treated to exactly the same circus.” How does he know this? Because “[money] is really what all these COPs boil down to.”

To lighten our moods when we consider the money wasted on holding these summits, we should recall that there has been some entertainment for those who have been watching COP from afar.

On Thursday, a fire engulfed an events stand at the summit and the COP venue had to be evacuated. There was also the added excitement of a flood; in the opening days of the summit, there were torrential rains which caused widespread flooding around the COP venue, turning walkways into rivers. The summit also began with traffic jams, problems in booths and a construction-material area at Belém International Airport catching fire. But as far as entertainment goes, the story below takes the biscuit.

Priorities: UN Declares World Toilet Day, Blames ‘Climate Change’ for Flushing Failures

By Simon Kent, as published by Breitbart on 19 November 2025

Today has been officially declared World Toilet Day by the United Nations (but you knew that already, didn’t you) with “climate change” blamed for making sanitation less available across the planet.

The globalist organisation has marked the scatological tribute event by throwing its full resources into an effort to promote toilets for all, “with the poorest, especially women and girls, worst affected.”

It has also published a list of demands for the world to heed to make toilets more accessible while “climate change is reshaping our world – with glaciers melting, weather worsening, and sea levels rising.”

Under the heading, “We urgently need to invest in ‘future-ready’ sanitation today” it declares:

Together, we must ensure toilets are:

Supported by strong systems and sustained investment.

Accessible to all.

Resilient to floods, droughts and other climate shocks.

Minimise greenhouse gas emissions.

Lest anyone doubt the importance of today, the UN firmly declares access to sanitation “is a human right – fundamental to a healthy, dignified, productive life.”

The World Health Organisation (“WHO”) is also keen to spread a message of its own.

The UN subsidiary similarly points to “climate change” as a key factor in a lack of access to toilets across the globe:

Climate change is intensifying the challenge. Floods and droughts damage sanitation systems, contaminate water sources and disrupt vital access – placing the most vulnerable at highest risk. Building resilient services is therefore a public-health imperative and a pathway to adaptation.

For his part, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants the world to make a movement towards equal toilet facilities for all, saying: “In a world reshaped by rising climate pressures, urban growt, and inequality, safe sanitation remains a cornerstone of public health and human dignity.”

He spoke after some artists see the humble facility as worthy of a tribute of its own.

Same artist: https://t.co/OMZ0ysfNuu pic.twitter.com/BY8hCT14pl

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 7, 2025

“The humble toilet is an icon of progress – preventing disease, protecting the environment, and preserving dignity and opportunity. Without safe sanitation, sustainable development falters,” the secretary-general surmised.

Guterres finished his message with a declaration affirming, “This World Toilet Day, it’s time to speed up access to future-ready toilets that are accessible, climate-resilient, low-emission; and well-funded.”

Featured image taken from ‘COP-30 Misses the Point: Give Indigenous People Ownership, Not Handouts’, The Daily Economy, 21 November 2025

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