Live from Glasgow, it’s the UN’s COP26 conference where everyone jets over to warn that the planet will be destroyed unless the peasants are made to give up their cars, air conditioners, and burgers. And where, as usual, nothing gets done except lots of cocktail parties.

In the latest setback for saving the planet from the peasants, countries that manufacture cars were not all that interested in banning cars.

Even the Biden administration didn’t seem all that excited to get behind this one.

According to a declaration published Wednesday, the UK COP26 presidency wanted to get governments, manufacturers and investors to promise to “work towards all sales of new cars and vans being zero emission globally by 2040, and by no later than 2035 in leading markets.”

The breakdown on this showed the classic mechanisms of regulatory capture with the manufactured global warming crisis being exploited for economic advantages under the guise of environmentalism.

Germany, China, Japan, South Korea and the United States did not sign the declaration. Toyota, Volkswagen, BMW and Nissan also refrained from signing.

Still, there were some notable signatories. Ford and General Motors agreed, as did Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo.

Luxury car manufacturers and woke GM are happy to sign on, but the Asian countries that actually make affordable vehicles are less enthused at the prospect.