Ban Ki-Moon Climate Summit – Chinese President Not Going

The latest world leader to snub Ban Ki-moons climate summit is Chinese President Xi Jinping.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced last year that he was holding an informal Climate Summit to try and keep the great man made climate change boondoggle alive.

As the date for the summit, September 23rd draws closer so world leaders are backing out of attending the summit, India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced he will not be attending as he would have nothing to do afterwards.

Another no show will be German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron is making excuses about Scottish Referendum on Independence although US President Barack Obama will be attending.

The latest no show is Chinese President Xi Jinping:

Chinese president Xi Jinping has decided to skip a meeting of world leaders on climate change in New York, according to climate insiders, casting doubt on the summit’s potential to make progress ahead of next year’s major UN climate summit in Paris.

President Xi had been expected to attend the 23 September summit called by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, but is now set to send another senior Chinese politician in his place, though Beijing officials are yet to confirm this.

This is a serious blow for the AGW machine, China is the world’s largest emitter of CO2, India the third largest but there are far more serious problems lurking in the future for the UNFCCC Climate Process.

These sense of Déjà vu is overwhelming:

Leaders of climate NGOs that regularly shadow the UNFCCC summits are apprehensive because they have heard the French government is preparing its own secret draft – the 2015 summit will be held in Paris – just the kind of activity that led to a fiasco at the 2009 summit in Copenhagen.

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