#UN Climate Summit

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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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"#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."

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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plain

Lucas Bessire

Finalist for the National Book Award An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland

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The UK government is set to take a decisive step in the global fight against climate change by announcing more stringent emissions targets at the upcoming UN Climate Summit COP29, scheduled in Azerbaijan this November. This anticipated move marks a significant shift in the UK’s climate policy and positions the nation as a key player in international efforts to curb global warming.

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Caring for God’s Creation: Whitworth Students Attend UN Climate Summit

Whitworth University

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Harvard Professor Daniel Jacob shares his perspectives at the COP27 panel, “Measuring up to the Methane Challenge,” on Nov. 17, 2022. The event, sponsored by IPIECA and held in the IETA Pavilion, focused on the ways in which the energy industry can advance efforts to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector to help achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. 

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🌍 Highlights from Day 5 of COP28: Major strides in sustainable finance, innovative climate-resilient debt provisions & carbon credit initiatives, and global commitments to curb methane emissions. Explore more, click the link

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COP-28 Concludes with Positive Momentum, Affirms Prime Minister Dahal

KATHMANDU, Dec 4: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the UN Climate Change Summit, COP-28, has become effective and result-oriented. Addressing a news conference at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) upon his arrival after attending the COP-28 in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday evening, PM Dahal shared that Nepal presented its agendas in an effective and objective manner this…

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UN chief compared global emissions gap to a “canyon”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated on Monday that “it is possible to make the 1.5 degree limit a reality,” notwithstanding a recent climate change report showing the world would warm by almost 3C (5.4F).

Today’s Emissions Gap report shows that if nothing changes, in 2030, emissions will be 22 Gigatonnes higher than the 1.5 degree-limit will allow. That’s roughly the total present annual emissions of the USA, China and the EU combined.

At the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report launch, Guterres stated that current trends would lead the planet to a “dead-end three-degree temperature rise,” with the emissions gap being “more like an emissions canyon.”

The world could warm by as much as 2.9°C (5.2F) by the end of the century under current climate policies, according to the report.

“We know it is still possible to make the 1.5 degree limit a reality. It requires tearing out the poisoned root of the climate crisis: fossil fuels. And it demands a just, equitable renewables transition.”

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Sultan Al Jaber: “We are not powerless” to overcome the climate crisis and urges world to “Get after Gigatons”

Today, COP28 President-Designate Dr. Sultan Al Jaber addressed the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York where he reminded the international community that “we are not powerless” to overcome the climate crisis and urged the world to “get after gigatons”. The summit, which is the landmark climate engagement during United Nations General Assembly and was convened by the UN Secretary-General…

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So much good to listen to in today’s show: Klein tries to make sense of her doppelganger and riffs about denialism, cooptation, victimhood, the rupture between words and meaning…..Burtynsky puts capitalism on a point, literally. Kopecky tries to makes some sense about who isn’t showing up, why he is, and why we should.

REUNITE WORDS WITH ACTIONS.

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DOMESTIC TERROR ATTACKS MORE LIKELY

The late-August revelation that a migrant smuggling ring with ties to ISIS had assisted over a dozen individuals reach the U.S. from Mexico must be understood as a reminder, as the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is commemorated today, that terrorist groups have not given up hopes of carrying out more attacks on the homeland. Little is known about these people’s whereabouts, and the worst…

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when i was younger i thought dust mites were sentient/actually little animals because those little shits just refused to make their way into my dustpan