The excitement prior to the opening of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the Paris Climate Treaty was not exactly sky high. The ambitions fall short of what is needed to meet the Treaty objective of keeping global warming at 1.5°C. Moreover, past experience suggests that before concrete measures for environment protection enter into force, the destructive extractions by powerful interest groups tend to accelerate and make the conditions worse. Short-term resource grabbing is unfortunately still common, leaving the vast majority of the population to pick up the pieces and work even harder to undo the damage. Vedi Newsletter