In the 1996 movie Jerry McGuire, football player Rod Tidwell has a single demand regarding what his agent must do to keep him as a client. He shouts, “Show me the money,” repeatedly in a line that made movie history. In the lead-up to the 26th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC/COP26) to be held in Glasgow, Scotland later this year, thousands of bureaucrats burning fossil fuels in their chartered jets will scream, “show us the money”. These developing countries have made exactly the same demand during the last 25 Conference of the Parties. If the developed countries, [...]