I finally discovered the root cause of this fungus which is infecting everything about our lives (many apologies if you are already aware of this).

The totally undemocratc United Nations which has been the root cause of the AGW stories and subsequent political actions taken; set up a commission in 1987 called The Brundtland Commission. The make up of this group as with the UN itself was not subject to public scrutiny and not elected.
This commission produced a report (over 3 years) called 'Our Common Future' and you can see it here:
http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm
Chapter 2 contains the definition and derivation of the term 'Sustainable Development' and it is dark and evil stuff.
The problem is that this whole idea is being locked into all government policy including obviously our power generation policy. Ultimately it is this report and not climate change which is driving the issues.
UN Climate Summits have been no such thing but instead have been meetings at which Sustainable Development agreements have been made about which we have been told nothing.
Just to give you a few tasters, here are a few extracts from Chapter 2 of Our Common Future:

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Living standards that go beyond the basic minimum are sustainable only if consumption standards everywhere have regard for long-term sustainability. Yet many of us live beyond the world's ecological means, for instance in our patterns of energy use.

The direction of technological developments may solve some immediate problems but lead to even greater ones. Large sections of the population may be marginalized by ill-considered development.

But ultimate limits there are, and sustainability requires that long before these are reached, the world must ensure equitable access to the constrained resource and reorient technological efforts to relieve the presume.

By and about the people who wrote the document:
A communications gap has kept environmental, population, and development assistance groups apart for too long, preventing us from being aware of our common interest and realizing our combined power.

These are just a few early points and it gets worse. I hope this does not cause you to feel as depressed as I now feel.

The whole idea that 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' is a good thing is ludicrous.
We are keeping resources in the ground because of a future need which may never exist. The human race may become extinct tomorrow because of multiple threats of which the world is aware, dealing with those current threats demands that our economic and technological levels are at the highest we can make them otherwise there may be no future generations.
Economic prosperity and therefore our ability to finance technological (relevant) research depends upon the cheapest and most secure fuel and energy supplies.

Thanks ST :) and obviously this is not new to you hehe, what angers me is not just the stupidity of the ideas here but also the fact that this is included in UK government policy without voters being presented with it or asked to approve it.

Hello again golf charlie :)

The document I talked about at the start of this thread (Our Common Future) talks in detail about this need for us to make this transfer of funds to the 3rd world and Cameron's ring fenced Foreign Aid Budget will I am sure have been just another virtue signalling gesture to improve his UN C.V.
However like everybody else he seemed incapable of realising that the money helps nobody apart from dictators and terrorists.
Trump has already stated that he intends to reduce U.N. funds for action on climate change and considering the amount the US contributes, I feel sure he will get his way ^.^