[✔️] November 11, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

Richard Pauli Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Fri Nov 11 10:12:14 EST 2022 

/*November 11, 2022*/

/[ Greta Tweeted ] /
Greta Thunberg
@GretaThunberg
*”Global Witness found more than 600 people at the talks in Egypt are 
linked to fossil fuels.*
That's more than the combined delegations from the 10 most 
climate-impacted countries.”

"If you want to address malaria, you don't invite the mosquitoes”
#COP27

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/[ Head counting of the Count Draculas in attendance ]/
*Over 100 more fossil fuel lobbyists than last year, flooding crucial 
COP climate talks*
Nov 10, 2022
Researchers counted the number of individuals registered - either 
directly affiliated with fossil fuel corporations, including the likes 
of Shell, Chevron and BP; or attending as members of delegations that 
act on behalf of the fossil fuel industry.

The analysis finds that oil and gas influence at COP is growing:

    - 636 fossil fuel lobbyists registered at COP27, an increase of over
    25% from COP26 held last year in Glasgow
    - More fossil fuel lobbyists than any single national delegation,
    besides the UAE who have registered 1,070 delegates compared to 176
    last year. 70 of their delegation this year are classed as fossil
    fuel lobbyists.
    - Despite being the “African COP” there are more fossil fuel
    lobbyists registered than any national delegation from the African
    continent.
    - 29 countries in total have fossil fuel lobbyists within their
    national delegations. After the UAE, Russia has the second most with
    33.
    - There are more fossil fuel lobbyists registered than
    representatives of the ten countries most impacted by climate change
    according to GermanWatch (Puerto Rico, Myanmar, Haiti, Philippines,
    Mozambique, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal)

It comes as Global South activists, indigenous communities and others 
who are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the climate crisis have 
effectively been shut out of the talks by high costs, visa challenges, 
and repressive actions by the hosting country.

“Tobacco lobbyists wouldn’t be welcome at health conferences, arms 
dealers can’t promote their trade at peace conventions. Those 
perpetuating the world's fossil fuel addiction should not be allowed 
through the doors of a climate conference. It’s time governments got out 
of the pockets of polluters, come to their senses and help make COP27 
the success the world vitally needs it to be.”
The presence of lobbyists at COP does not end with the fossil fuel 
industry. Other polluting industries deeply implicated in the climate 
crisis, such as finance, agribusiness, and transportation are also 
present, although they are not included in this particular analysis.
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This is the second year running the organisations have conducted this 
analysis, last year finding that there were 503 fossil fuel lobbyists 
registered in Glasgow.
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/over-100-more-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-last-year-flooding-crucial-cop-climate-talks/

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/[ read it from the source ]/
*636 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to COP27*
Nov 10, 2022
*List of all the fossil fuel lobbyists we identified, including what 
delegation they attended as part of --*
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-gas/636-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-granted-access-cop27/

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/[ just one of the live discussions at COP 27]/
*The ‘Country of Permafrost’ is the Major Emitter Missing from COP*
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xBTieQlZo


/[ Planet Critical offers deep discussions - video ]/
*Crisis Policies: What We Need From COP27 | Laurie Laybourn*
Planet: Critical
Nov 9, 2022
Laurie Laybourn is a policy researcher and author. He leads Cohort 2040, 
which explores how to deepen rapid action toward a more sustainable and 
equitable world even as the effects of the environmental crisis get far 
worse. Laurie is a visiting fellow at Chatham House and at the Global 
Systems Institute, University of Exeter, as well as an associate fellow 
at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He is a regular 
commentator on TV and radio and co-author of Planet on Fire (Verso 2021).

We discuss the opportunity in crisis moments throughout history, with 
Laurie revealing the best policies for navigating the climate crisis, 
nationally and internationally, as well as those for a sustainable 
future. He also explains how the our current fiscal ideologies, 
including our relationship to debt, impedes necessary climate action 
around the world whilst hobbling the global south’s capacity to respond 
to increasing catastrophes. Laurie says the climate crisis is a fiscal 
problem—could reimagining fiscal policies keep 1.5 alive?
Discover Laurie's work: https://laurielaybourn.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou89vunM0-4



/[ NYTimes published opinion from the top climate journalist - text clips ]/
*David Wallace-Wells*
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Our carbon budget is running out quickly
By David Wallace-Wells
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This week in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, delegates reconvened for COP27, 
this year’s conference, amid a flurry of confident assertions that the 
same goal — which has energized and mobilized a global generation of 
activists and provides the conventional standard for judging progress on 
emissions — was now dead...
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“Say goodbye to 1.5° C,” The Economist intoned on a cover this month, in 
an edition that called climate adaptation “the challenge of our age” and 
also raised the specter of cooling the planet with geoengineering. With 
an image of the flooded Cologne Cathedral — repurposed from a 1986 issue 
warning of a coming “Klima-Katastrophe” — the November cover of Der 
Spiegel announced that the target would be missed and advised, grimly: 
“Save yourself, those who can.” The United Nations secretary general 
António Guterres, who has spent the last few years raising the 
rhetorical stakes, declared on Monday that “we are on a highway to 
climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.”

This kind of rhetoric, designed to focus attention and clarify the 
stakes of inaction, can also make things murky. What is the line between 
climate danger and climate disaster? Or between climate normal and 
climate disruption, and climate catastrophe and climate apocalypse? Is 
“climate hell” what awaits us past 1.5 degrees, or past two degrees, or 
at the level the U.N. expects the world’s current policy commitments to 
take us this century, 2.6 degrees?

The language is useful as a reminder of the grim impacts to come, but 
less so as a measure of progress — how much has been done, how far short 
we are falling, and how much faster we might have to move to actually 
reach our temperature targets. For that, we have a much more coldhearted 
standard: the carbon math, which tells us how much the world is 
emitting, how much more it can produce while retaining a decent chance 
of a particular temperature threshold and, therefore, how plausible or 
implausible each threshold really is...
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And while cutting emissions more aggressively now would mean more time 
to ultimately get all the way to zero emissions, what that requires in 
the short term already looks daunting.

For a 66 percent chance of limiting warming to two degrees there is a 
longer timeline than for the 1.5 target, but not much longer — that full 
carbon budget would be exhausted in 26 years of current emissions. From 
now, emissions would have to drop globally by 5 percent every year, 
still a much faster drop than has ever been engineered globally in any 
year by anything but the Covid-19 pandemic. This is why the climate 
scientist Glen Peters often says, cheekily, that 1.5 degrees may be 
impossible and two degrees only extremely hard, with 2.5 degrees, 
relatively speaking, “a walk in the park.”

When you look at charts plotting climate promises made by the nations of 
the world, they tell a relatively reassuring story, with Climate Action 
Tracker’s analysis suggesting that, if fully implemented, those promises 
could deliver a global temperature rise below two degrees, with a 
central estimate landing at 1.8 degrees.

But those headline promises paper over an enormous amount of sketchy 
accounting. A separate Climate Action Tracker analysis of 37 countries 
and the European Union, which account for the vast majority of world 
emissions combined, finds that none has a climate policy even 
“compatible” with a 1.5-degree goal. According to the Land Gap report 
released Nov. 1, global climate pledges by countries require 
reforestation and other sequestration measures taking up more land than 
the entire United States — indeed, require using as much land to 
sequester carbon as is used to produce all the world’s croplands today. 
The world’s governments are planning twice as much fossil fuel 
development as would be consistent with 1.5-degree goals, and 93 percent 
of corporations with net-zero pledges are off track to meet them.

For decades, those worrying about the geopolitics of climate change 
would often drift into debates about possible enforcement mechanisms, 
worrying that nations would be simply unwilling to move on their own. 
The world has changed more recently, with a moralistic model of 
decarbonization as a necessary burden giving way to a green energy arms 
race defined by new competition and rivalry. Even so, ambition is 
woefully lagging, and in a world full of climate promises without any 
meaningful leadership for carbon-based sanctions, enforcement looks less 
like planetary governance forcing countries and corporations to move 
faster than like finding ways to hold them to their own promises.

That is the premise of a report delivered to the secretary general in 
Egypt this week that pointed squarely at the problem of climate 
hypocrisy — and the delusion that promises and good intentions could 
substitute for good math.

The greenwashing report, focused on private sector pledges, outlines 10 
gold standards, including that companies should not be able to describe 
themselves as “net-zero-aligned” while continuing to invest in fossil 
fuels of any kind, buy cheap carbon credits that don’t stand up to 
independent scrutiny, only reduce the intensity of their work and not 
the absolute emissions produced by it, and lobby against climate action 
or participate only in voluntary disclosure protocols rather than more 
transparent regulatory frameworks.

“You walk down the street and we have oil and gas companies saying, 
guess what, we’re net zero, we’re carbon neutral, whatever,” said 
Catherine McKenna, the former environment minister of Canada and current 
chair of the group that wrote the report. “The problem is everyone’s 
making announcements, there’s billboards, there’s all these things out 
there. And if you’re a regular person, you’re like: I don’t know, is 
that true or not?”

Whether the United Nations builds a true oversight program for net-zero 
pledges, as is called for in the report, is an open question, but, 
McKenna said, “we do need to move to a more rigorous structure for sure.”

“And that goes for governments too,” she went on. “They need to actually 
not just have targets. They need to actually be having policies that are 
going to help them reach those targets. And then they’re gonna have to 
be more ambitious,” she said. “You have to be more ambitious.”

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/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*November 11, 2014*/
November 11, 2014:
The New York Times reports:

    "Denmark, a tiny country on the northern fringe of Europe, is
    pursuing the world’s most ambitious policy against climate change.
    It aims to end the burning of fossil fuels in any form by 2050 — not
    just in electricity production, as some other countries hope to do,
    but in transportation as well."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/earth/denmark-aims-for-100-percent-renewable-energy.html?mwrsm=Email


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