#COP28 Climate Summit

[nando161mando]

These fuckers are content to watch us die.

This bullshit is going to condemn our species to extinction unless we find a way to depose these sociopaths.

#cop28 #copOut #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

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[realbeijinger]

So next year's COP (UN Climate Change Conference) will be led by Mukhtar Babayev, who spent 26 years working for Azerbaijan's state oil company. Last year, it was headed by Sultan Al Jaber, chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

It’s like if all the different clans got together to fight the Wen clan, but they needed a good leader- someone strong who can command allegiance. How about…. Wen Chao! Ah yes, Wen Chao. Great idea. Even though he is largely responsible for the problem we are trying to solve, even though his organization has caused most of the suffering and destruction we are trying to alleviate, even though his interests are completely opposed to everything we are trying to do, he can be unbiased, surely!

He definitely won't undermine our efforts to work against his own people!

Ughh....

Anyways, sorry for the random analogy but talking about climate change is hard, but talking about MDZS is fun! So I thought I would try to combine them to make it go down easier. Sometimes I need a little BL with my apocalypse, ya know?

Also, this is just the sort of societal hypocrisy WWX would have fought against. When it comes to climate, I think we should too.

[head-post]

COP28 countries reach landmark deal to “transition” away from fossil fuels

The COP28 climate talks in Dubai have culminated in a historic agreement that will see the world phase out all fossil fuels for the first time.

The president of this year’s UN-organised summit, Sultan Al Jaber of the UAE, brokered an agreement that was strong enough for the US and the EU on the need to sharply curb the use of fossil fuels while keeping Saudi Arabia and other oil producers on board.

The final agreement calls for countries to phase out fossil fuels from their energy systems in a swift and orderly fashion, which helped convince sceptics. The agreement also calls for countries to contribute to the global transition effort – rather than explicitly forcing the transition on their own.

The so-called “UAE Consensus” ends the hottest year on record, which led to droughts and devastating wildfires. Al Jaber, who’s also chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, noted:

 “Together we have confronted the realities and sent the world in the right direction.”

Read more HERE

[juliansummerhayes]

8,045,311,447

The above number represents the world's current population.

I can't possibly know if it's accurate but even if it's out by a few % points, it's still a number that bears a little reflection.

I'm not following COP28 save for reading the headlines, but it doesn't look pretty. One person says this. Another that. And a few more something contrary just for (presumably) effect; but the truth is -- capital 'T' truth to my mind -- we're careening off the end of the world and with the population expected to continue to rise, alongside our shopping list of consumerist needs and wants, you don't have to be Einstein or anyone else for that matter, to realise that time, qua humans and many sentient beings, is running out -- FAST.

The real issue isn't whether we can do anything to ameliorate or arrest our terminal decline; it's simply a question of whether we are interested in doing so.

And when I use the all-encompassing and ever-so-slightly tendentious 'we', I am referring not just to each and every one of us but more especially those who have their hands on the capitalist and corporate tillers. I mean, just imagine that there was finally a collective will to not only consider a different story to greed is good et al. but to actually refashion a very different world. But that's chortle-worthy, right! No company exec. or banker or builder of pyramids is going to give it all up for something more animistic.

I realise, of course, that any major change will bring about, at least for a few years, severe pain and hardship when compared to what's gone before, but what's the alternative?

A geo-engineered world?

I don't think so.

No.

Not that.

....

The trouble is with these exhortations is that you can quickly go from the pragmatic, to the dystopian, to the risible..., to no one is remotely interested.

And that means it's pointless adding to the deluge of words that adorn the airwaves, leaving me to, as I've said so often, live out a nice quiet life.

Yes, perhaps that's it.

Perhaps I should pull up the drawbridge on my writing and disappear never to be heard from again. To enter, in other words, my own form of silent order.

Who knows.

I still might but until then I will continue to wonder, if only for the sake of the generations to come (will we even have a history worth mentioning?):

how the hell did it get like this?

Blessings, Julian

Photo by mike1998 on Unsplash

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[odinsblog]

Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading exporter of oil, has become the biggest obstacle to an agreement at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, where countries are debating whether to call for a phaseout of fossil fuels in order to fight global warming, negotiators and other officials said.

The Saudi delegation has flatly opposed any language in a deal that would even mention fossil fuels — the oil, gas and coal that, when burned, create emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. Saudi negotiators have also objected to a provision, endorsed by at least 118 countries, aimed at tripling global renewable energy capacity by 2030.

Saudi diplomats have been particularly skillful at blocking discussions and slowing the talks, according to interviews with a dozen people who have been inside closed-door negotiations. Tactics include inserting words into draft agreements that are considered poison pills by other countries; slow-walking a provision meant to help vulnerable countries adapt to climate change; staging a walkout in a side meeting; and refusing to sit down with negotiators pressing for a phaseout of fossil fuels.

The Saudi opposition is significant because U.N. rules require that any agreement forged at the climate summit be unanimously endorsed. Any one of the 198 participating nations can thwart a deal.

Saudi Arabia isn’t the only country raising concerns about more ambitious global efforts to fight climate change. The United States has sought to inject caveats into the fossil fuel phaseout language. India and China have opposed language that would single out coal, the most polluting of fossil fuels.

…Saudi Arabia has stood out as the most implacable opponent of any agreement on fossil fuels.

“Most countries vary on the degree or speed of how fast you get out of fossil fuels,” said Linda Kalcher, a former climate adviser to the United Nations who has been in negotiating rooms this week. Saudi Arabia, she said, “doesn’t even want to have the conversation.”

Saudi officials did not respond to requests for comment.

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[nando161mando]

[iibislintu]

[thehopefuljournalist]

On August 7-9th, eight Amazonian nations will meet in Brazil to agree on future joint strategies that will protect the rainforest.

Experts and civil society groups broadly commend the event, although some organizations demand greater Indigenous inclusion in Amazon-related decision-making.

The Amazon Summit, initiated by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will be held in Belém, the capital of Pará, and unites Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, as well as other international representatives, with the intent of renewing the Amazon Cooperation Treaty and strengthening the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) between the countries.

Over the three days of the summit, the nations will think of an approach to protect the rainforest and its populations, cease crime and deforestation and promote sustainable development across the entire region.

Lula aims to present the joint agreement at COP28, which takes place in the United Arab Emirates in November.

This commitment, shown by the Amazonian countries to work together on tackling these urgent rainforest issues, is considered a very critical step forward in the global climate debate surrounding emissions and deforestation.

“The Amazon Basin is shared by nine countries and requires integrated actions for environmental conservation in the region,” Antonio Oviedo, a researcher from Instituto Socioambiental (ISA, the Socio-Environmental Institute), a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of Indigenous and traditional peoples, told Mongabay.

Before the event, more than 5,000 people will participate in a pre-summit called Amazon Dialogues, including representatives of Indigenous communities, social movements, academia, research centers and government agencies. 

However, some Indigenous organizations say this isn’t enough. In an interview with Italian news agency ANSA, reproduced in Brazilian news outlet UOL, the Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara said “it is necessary to increase Indigenous participation in these discussions of Amazon protection and in decision-making spaces.”

It seems, though, that experts and conservationists running this summit are expecting the presidents to place Indigenous peoples at the center of policymaking. 

Among the proposals set to be presented during the Amazon Dialogues sessions include a call from Indigenous organizations from across the region for 80% of the Amazon to be protected by 2025, which includes demarcating 100 million hectares (24.1 million acres) of Indigenous territories to help protect 255 million hectares (630.1 million acres) of undesignated Key Priority Areas. 

Published on August 4th, 2023

[head-post]

UAE president to establish $30bn fund to bridge climate finance gap

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the COP28 climate summit, announced the establishment of a $30 billion fund for global climate solutions on Friday.

The fund, dubbed ALTÉRRA, will allocate $25 billion for climate strategies and $5 billion to attract $250 billion in investments by the end of the decade, according to the COP28 chairman’s statement.

In a statement, ALTÉRRA, in collaboration with global asset managers BlackRock, Brookfield and TPG, announced that it has committed $6.5 billion in climate change funds for global investments, including the Global South.

The programme “aims to steer private markets towards climate investment and focus on transforming emerging markets and developing economies, where traditional investment has been lacking due to the higher perceived risks across those geographies.”

Learn more HERE

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"#COP28 president secretly used #climatesummit role to push oil trade with foreign government officials"

Even though the team has since moved into a separate office, the whistleblowers alleged that COP28 meetings are still regularly held at Adnoc headquarters and Al Jaber frequently works on summit business from his office at the oil company."

[naipan]

“Jeder Artikel über die Weltklimakonferenz klingt wie "das ambitionierte Ziel bis 2032 einen Plan zu fassen, wie man eventuell aufhören könnte Welpen zu würgen, wurde von Interessenverband der Welpenwürgindustrie, der aus irgendwelchen Gründen mitreden darf, leider abgelehnt" (@elhotzo)

“Every article about the World Climate Conference sounds like “the ambitious goal of coming up with a plan by 2032 to possibly stop choking puppies has unfortunately been rejected by the puppy choking industry advocacy group, which for some reason is allowed to have a say” (@elhotzo) [google translated]

[geohoneylovers]

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