Climate change is one of those things where asking for perfection is the perfect way to ensure nothing happens. This is a common lobbying tactic aimed at preventing change. If that’s not your intention, I recommend a different approach – encouraging anything that might help.
> I recommend a different approach – encouraging anything that might help.
Well, that's the point. I do not believe this is helpful, and I do believe this takes the space of other actions: in terms of not discussing the alternatives and in terms of taking time and effort to implement, both of which are in limited supply.
> Climate change is one of those things where asking for perfection is the perfect way to ensure nothing happens.
It's also one of those things where even the most watered down plans are not sufficiently acted upon, and where every target eventually ends up not being respected.
I'm all for compromise, but it takes two to compromise. And, as you mentioned, one side is not lobbying for compromise.
...And this payment can be used by the buyers to justify destroying the climate elsewhere, in a more efficient way.