#ClimateDiary There is no question that #COP28 will be the most important yet. The #GlobalStocktake will be the “biggest accountability moment in history”, and on its basis leaders will need to make crucial key decisions about fiscal and policy commitments. With less than two months to go, we need to all be as well informed as possible and put pressure on leaders as much as we can. I thought I would start a 🧵that I will keep going in the run up 1/n
The ASTOUNDING huge big news out of COP28 "so far" is Biden's comitment to not just build NO MORE, not one, coal plant ever again, but the cycle down and Replace ALL COAL PLANTS NOW within 12 years.
US TO REPLACE COAL PLANTS
Coal is 20% of the US power system. That is construction of massive size. Terawats of renewable construction. Funding for remefiation for energy industry jobs, protecting former coal communities.
Isn’t this exciting? The United Nations has announced it will hold a climate summit later this year, gathering all the nations of the world to have discussions and make plans for taking on the fight against global warming!!
Except — they’ve done this before, 27 times before in fact, every single year since 1995. And nothing has changed.
But maybe this time it will be different. Because COP28 is being held in Dubai, and the president of this year’s conference is Sultan al-Jaber, chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of the world’s largest oil and gas firms.
So, do you think his company will take the lead and show the way to a carbon-free future?
No, I guess not…
UAE oil giant ADNOC — run by the president of the COP28 climate conference — is expected to spend more than $1 billion every month this decade on fossil fuels, according to new analysis by international NGO Global Witness.
This is nearly seven times higher than its commitment to decarbonization projects over the same timeframe, the research says. It comes ahead of the COP28 climate summit, with Dubai set to host the U.N.’s annual conference from Nov. 30 through to Dec. 12.
Global Witness’ analysis found that ADNOC is planning to spend an average of $1.14 billion a month on oil and gas production alone between now and 2030 — the same year in which the U.N. says the world must cut emissions by 45% to avoid global catastrophe.
It means that ADNOC is forecast to spend nearly seven times more on fossil fuels through to 2030 than it does on “low-carbon solution” projects.
By 2050, the year in which the U.N. says the entire world economy must achieve net-zero emissions, ADNOC is projected to have invested $387 billion in oil and gas. The burning of fossil fuels is the chief driver of the climate emergency.
"The draft of what could be the final agreement from #COP28, released by the U.N. #climate body on Tuesday, proposed "an orderly and just phase-out of fossil fuels" which if adopted would mark the first global deal to end the oil age."
While reading “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson, I find myself wondering if this book should be required reading at #COP28
The story is fiction, of course. But it’s also highly informed & quite believable (so far). And it’s set in the not too distant future. #books#ClimateChange
The UN climate summit officially acknowledging that fossil fuels cause global warming for the first time is no reason for celebration. It's ridiculous this didn't happen decades ago. Acknowledging a problem exists without seriously committing to solve it is a catastrophe. #COP28
"For the first time there will be a dedicated food day, and #food, #agriculture and #water will be the focus of at least 22 major events during the fortnight of #COP28 talks in Dubai.
For the first time, too, the FAO will outline how food systems must change for the world to stay within the globally agreed goal of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels."
Offiziell ist die #COP28 vorbei - aber es wird noch verhandelt.
Ich hab mal aufgeschrieben, warum das Ringen um ein Ergebnis auch über die Zukunft der Klimakonferenzen selbst entscheidet.
Credit Agricole, one of #France's biggest banks, announced Thursday it would no longer finance any new fossil fuel extraction projects, a day after delegates agreed the #COP28 climate deal—AFP #ClimateCrisis
The #COP28 is greenwashing and show that the elites do not want to take the #climatechange seriously.
At @compost we advocate for the #climate year round and we try to inspire people to do black gold at home or a community hub. We do not need the elites for this.
By composting our waste, we can in a significant way reduce the global greenhouse gasses. We do not have to hot compost every thing, and cold composting can achieve this goal for us.
#Climate Vulnerable Forum, huh? Sure, reparations are one part of climate justice, but do you people know who and what you're enabling by letting these politicians parade around in #COP28 for their little political PR gambits?
The Maldives? Sure, the place will become uninhabitable sooner or later, but as of right now, there isn't anything that needs "funding" for "climate justice" there.
You know what does destroy the environment in the country? Dredging projects, mangrove destruction, converting natural preserves into concrete wastelands, excessive plastics, the list goes on.
You know who's doing that? Not the big bad west, but our own politicians — all of them, all these parties, ALL OF THEM — and their corporate friends and their foreign investor buddies.
You know what'll stop them? Maybe stop giving them a platform to fucking go on PR stunts and stop fucking giving them money. You want to give money to someone? Give it to the UN. Give it to Canada after the wildfires. Give it to conservation orgs.
Billions of fucking dollars, to politicians?
Of course that is what you get when these shitty fucking Coppers project is spearheaded by a CEO of an #oil company. And our politicians are praising him. PRAISING. STOP LETTING THEM PLAY VICTIM.
"Endorsing countries include the United States, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, Republic of Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom. "
Why am I seeing headlines of "Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels" but not "COP28 president either woefully ignorant of science or woefully corrupted by their own financial interests"? FFS.
NewsFromDubai #5 Clashes on North-South Differentiation
Another long standing, cross-cutting and highly conflictual issue in climate negotiations concerns differentiation between developed and developing countries. This issue also resurfaced at #COP28 in Dubai.