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I just didn't think they would do it formally (de jure).

Wow, they are really going to do it, aren't they?

I am aware of that. And I am also aware of the dynamics of their GDP carbon intensity.

Do you really think if India and China were given $1 trillion a year each they would suddenly stop their expansion of coal power generation or even use a majority of that sum to combat climate change?

I don't have any issues with helping countries combating climate change (financially or otherwise), I do have issues with the "global south" framing.

Is China part of the global south? India?

They are both building out a massive amount of coal powered plants and will continue doing so because it suits their interests. You think giving India and China $1 trillion a year each will change this dynamic?

I can understand specific bi-lateral initiates (or even structured multi-lateral ones). But the whole "global south" discussion is extremely simplistic.

I think it's worth taking a more nuanced view on the "global south" vs. "global north" discussion. A lot of the leadership of the "global south" doesn't believe in climate change and they have no interest in any kind of good faith actions on this issue. Why would you give them money with such an attitude?

Unfortunately this is really just the EU's version of "thoughts and prayers".

Austria's Raiffeisen bank still has not left russia after almost 3 years of full scale war.

And let's not forget how Merkel greenlighted Nord Stream 2 right after the beginning of the war; the invasion of Crimea.

I am biased, but I wouldn't count out Ukraine just yet.

Signing off on russians demands in not a plan.

That will definitely stop the genocidal russians. We saw how well that worked when the vile Merkel rejected NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia in 2008.

While this is true, with the US, their geopolitical ambitions have sometimes aligned with positive developments (Germany, Japan, the Baltic nations and Poland in relatively more recent times). The same cannot be said for say Russia or China.