Open Letter to UN Climate conference #COP29 President arguing that Azerbaijan’s state oil company should not have a seat on the climate conference organizing committee!
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Stop Big Oil Influence & Protect Human Rights at Azerbaijan Climate Summit, Over 150 Organizations Demand
"The scale of oil & gas influence in Dubai is unprecedented, with more than 2,400 industry-affiliated lobbyists registered at #Cop28 – four times as many in Sharm el-Sheikh last year…The World Health Organization prohibits tobacco companies & lobbyists from attending its summits, yet the #UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) has no conflict of interest policy allowing organizers to ban bad-faith actors from registering as observers." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/11/climate-deniers-attend-cop28-talks
What is Australia's fair share when it comes to financing the necessary climate transition?
In a headline today, the Australian government has pledged AU$150m in #ClimateFinance for Pacific nations.
Good news, right? Isn't this PM Anthony #Albanese "ending the #ClimateWars" by actually doing what #Australia ought to have done years ago? Let's consider that assumption.
Back in 2009 at the much hyped, but ultimately deeply disappointing international climate negotiations in #Copenhagen known as #COP15, one step forward that was agreed, even as more comprehensive or ambitious agreements slipped away was that the wealthy nations of the world (including #Australia) collectively pledged to be providing US$100b each year to help the poorer nations transition away from #FossilFuels (#ClimateMitigation) and develop in ways that help societies adapt to the warming that cannot be mitigated (#ClimateAdaptation).
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The provision of US$100b in #ClimateFinance per year was promised by 2020, with a #GreenClimateFund being set up in 2010–11 and national contributions commencing in subsequent years. An updated agreement in 2012 clarified that these funds had to be "new and additional", i.e. not simply a rebranding of existing #ForeignAid. And they had to be made to the international Green Climate Fund, not via other bilateral or multilateral agreements.
Disputes over the international distribution of responsibilities for funding #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaptation measures—costly measures that would benefit everyone—had long been one of the main sticking points in the decades of UN climate negotiations since 1992 when the #UNFCCC was established. (UNFCCC = United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, i.e. the international agreement to have international climate negotiations in the first place, and how to go about those negotiations.)
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And to make up for the last four years of contributing nothing (and even putting aside the many years of failure under the #Coalition between 2013–19 when finances ought to have been ramping up to meet the 2020 goal), #Australia has a backlog of about $AU20b to be seen as anything like a 'fair' contributor to the #GreenClimateFund, remembering that the US$100b/yr represents only a fraction of what the developing world needs to ensure a just and swift transition to a climate-stable future.
And that's before we consider the #LossAndDamage fund announced a few days ago (another long-term sticking point in #UNFCCC negotiations and a separate piece of international #ClimateFinance), to which Australia has not yet made any kind of pledge.
Until Australia takes credible steps towards those kinds of figures, Australian government promises ought to be treated by all our neighbours as so much smoke.
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🔴 En direct de la #COP28 - Ce 2 décembre, un engagement clair a été pris par 22 Etats : tripler la production d'énergie nucléaire d'ici à 2050, sous l'impulsion de la France et des États-Unis.
C'est fait.
C'est enfin là, et c'est enfin assumé en pleine lumière.
Inimaginable il y a quelques années.
L'engagement :
🔹 x3️⃣ sur la production d'énergie d'origine #nucléaire d'ici 2050.
🔹 Mettre en place de nouveaux mécanismes de financement.
🔹 Élargir l'usage de l'énergie nucléaire aux applications industrielles (H2, eFuels, etc.).
🔹 Soutenir les nouvelles nations souhaitant construire des centrales nucléaires.
Le suivi de ces engagements sera réalisé annuellement en marge de la COP.
Les 22 pays signataires de la déclaration :
🇧🇬 Bulgarie
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇿 République tchèque
🇫🇮 Finlande
🇨🇵 France
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇧🇬 Hongrie
🇯🇵 Japon
🇰🇷 République de Corée
🇲🇩 Moldavie
🇲🇳 Mongolie
🇲🇦 Maroc
🇳🇱 Pays-Bas
🇵🇱 Pologne
🇷🇴 Roumanie
🇸🇰 Slovaquie
🇸🇮 Slovénie
🇸🇪 Suède
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇦🇪 Emirats Arabes Unis
🇺🇸 États-Unis
🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni
Nous avons 30 ans à rattraper à présent, et 30 ans devant nous. Pour sortir des combustibles fossiles, pour produire efficacement de l'énergie propre pour tous, pour autoriser un futur vivable aux enfants de ce monde, les décennies à venir seront celles des bâtisseurs.
Passer maintenant des discours aux actes ne sera pas la partie la plus facile. Pour cet acte 2, même et surtout dans les moments de doute, nous devrons soutenir les efforts.
Last night's (fairly) successful team in action: we scored our 2nd highest placing in the #CBquiz ever coming in 13th out of more than 60 teams.
@kristianpagh turns out to be a secret weapon when it came to the solar power per capita picture round and @leifdenby valiantly joined our remote @dmidk team (also remotely).. #CBquiz23
A good result in the #Science + #Energy rounds saved a rather ignominious (as usual) performance on #UNFCCC + #climatePolicy
Take a step back: The #UNFCCC#GlobalStocktake released today is a damning indictment of our collective failure to take the existential threat of climate change seriously. We have just 2 years for global emissions to peak if we are to stand a >67% chance of limiting warming to 2°C
▪️ World not on track to reach global warming reduction goals
▪️ Ahead of Dubai climate talks, U.N. issues call for action
▪️ Another 20 gigatonnes of CO2 reductions needed this decade