Her disappointment with forums like COP is valid given that those summits don’t often achieve much substantive progress, nor can they enforce any type of compliance.

However I would argue that having some form of dialogue and some incremental progress is better than none at all, therefore giving these summits a degree of value which should not be dismissed.

There are massive gaps in perception and action when it comes to climate change and what to do about it. Like it or not, the solution will have to be political to some degree.