Bilderberg/Climate change

Bilderberg/Climate change
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The subject of "Climate change" was first brought up at the 1989 Bilderberg meeting, at the exact time of the end of the Cold War.

The subject was up again in 2007 and 2009. It was again a topic in 2018, 2022 and 2023.

Bilderberg 1989

Under "solutions", the meeting strategized among other things that the areas where "immediate advances are required" were:

*Rapid progress in the capability to accurately forecast the regional effects (i.e. temperature and precipitation) of global warming for the next decade.

• Environmental issues must become an integral part of national policies, economic developments and international affairs.
• The right people must be identified, motivated and placed in various strategic positions in industry, government and academia.
• The educational system must be adjusted to focus on strong interdisciplinary topics that will produce a new generation of scientists and engineers that will be the infrastructure upon which future advances will be made.

A matter of concern to several speakers was the adequacy of existing political institutions to the task of dealing with the environment. An Austrian felt that, to address this "massive problem of social engineering," might require "imaginative new institutions"· to address the current inadequacy of leadership. A stronger international authority was needed. A German speaker felt that existing institutions, particularly the United Nations and its environmental agency, was up to the job and should be relied upon.

Bilderberg 2007

Point 12: Climate change

Bilderberg/2009

Point 5: Sustainability: Post-Kyoto Challenges

Bilderberg/2018

Point 3: Climate Change and Sustainability

Bilderberg/2022

10. Energy Security and Sustainability

Bilderberg/2023

-Energy Transition

Deep politicians

• David Rockefeller - over 50 Bilderberg meetings. Deep politician who spent lots of money to further climate change agenda.

Meeting agenda setters

• Costa Carras - 1989 - moderator of the 1989 discussion that introduced human-created "climate change". Member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
• S. Ichtiaque Rasool - wrote the background paper for the discussion. Chief Scientist for Global Change at NASA.
• William K. Reilly - 1989 - wrote introductory remarks for the discussion
• Klaus Töpfer - 1989 - wrote introductory remarks for the discussion. Involved in behind-the-scenes negotiations of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Became executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1998.
• Johan Rockström - 2019 -WEF/AGM perennial participant and joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Wrote a Planetary Emergency Action Plan for the Club of Rome, which he might have presented at Bilderberg 2019.

Agenda setters

• Gro Harlem Brundtland - 1982, 1983 - Chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development which presented the Brundtland Report on "sustainable development".

Other

• Josef Ackermann - all betwwen 2004 and 2014. Bilderberg Steering Committee - In a 2010 speech he said "In 2009, global investment in clean energy was $162 billion. That will need to scale-up to $348 billion a year by 2020 to meet the climate challenge -- and capital needs outside clean energy. Unleashing private-sector investment in the space will be vital. This is because of the capital intensity of low-carbon sectors and industries. This challenge as well as others like securing the raw materials, energy and infrastructure base for sustainable growth can only be met if one takes a long-term view and if government and private money team up in public-private partnerships."
• Dora Bakoyannis -2003,2009 - Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, said in 2008 that "it was necessary to achieve in 2009 a new, truly global climate agreement that had binding mitigation targets."
• Ernst Hirsch Ballin- 2009 - Wrote the 2021 book chapter Water in Times of Climate Change: "More recently, climate change has pushed the ecological threats to security higher up on the political agenda. With the focus on the potential for climate change to cause conflicts, the concept of security has expanded once again."
• Paul Polman- 2012 - Unilever CEO who is proponent of stakeholder capitalism. Tasked with helping build widespread support for "sustainable development". Co-chair of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate, etc, etc.
• Panagiotis Pikrammenos- 2015 - Greek deputy Prime Minister who wants the justice system "to defend the environment for future generations against the effects of climate change", just like under Covid where courts "had to weigh important commodities like public health against personal freedoms".

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