#aosis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aosis, aggregated by home.social.
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Whatever happened to #AOSIS small #island 🏝️ bloc? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other My archive here https://www.nikolaskozloff.com/blog/tags/AOSIS #colombia #geopolitics #climate #ClimateChange #petro #fossilfuels #santamarta
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Whatever happened to #AOSIS small #island 🏝️ bloc? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other My archive here https://www.nikolaskozloff.com/blog/tags/AOSIS #colombia #geopolitics #climate #ClimateChange #petro #fossilfuels #santamarta
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Whatever happened to #AOSIS small #island 🏝️ bloc? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other My archive here https://www.nikolaskozloff.com/blog/tags/AOSIS #colombia #geopolitics #climate #ClimateChange #petro #fossilfuels #santamarta
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Whatever happened to #AOSIS small #island 🏝️ bloc? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other My archive here https://www.nikolaskozloff.com/blog/tags/AOSIS #colombia #geopolitics #climate #ClimateChange #petro #fossilfuels #santamarta
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Whatever happened to #AOSIS small #island 🏝️ bloc? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other My archive here https://www.nikolaskozloff.com/blog/tags/AOSIS #colombia #geopolitics #climate #ClimateChange #petro #fossilfuels #santamarta
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Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/28/countries-should-keep-their-statehood-if-land-disappears-under-sea-ilc-report
Long-awaited ILC report examines what should happen to vulnerable countries as sea levels rise #climate #AOSIS #statehood #SIDs -
Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/28/countries-should-keep-their-statehood-if-land-disappears-under-sea-ilc-report
Long-awaited ILC report examines what should happen to vulnerable countries as sea levels rise #climate #AOSIS #statehood #SIDs -
Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/28/countries-should-keep-their-statehood-if-land-disappears-under-sea-ilc-report
Long-awaited ILC report examines what should happen to vulnerable countries as sea levels rise #climate #AOSIS #statehood #SIDs -
Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/28/countries-should-keep-their-statehood-if-land-disappears-under-sea-ilc-report
Long-awaited ILC report examines what should happen to vulnerable countries as sea levels rise #climate #AOSIS #statehood #SIDs -
Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/28/countries-should-keep-their-statehood-if-land-disappears-under-sea-ilc-report
Long-awaited ILC report examines what should happen to vulnerable countries as sea levels rise #climate #AOSIS #statehood #SIDs -
'We were ready to leave climate summit' - negotiator tells BBC (BBC, 2024-11-25)
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrlkwz9x9o
------"The walkout happened when talks were over-running by 19 hours and was a moment of high drama in the fraught #COP29 talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, shocking observers.
"#AOSIS [= the Alliance of Small Island States] was accompanied by another block called the Least Developing Countries."
"[finance negotiator for the AOSIS] Mr Robertson said the walk-out was 'spontaneous', not planned. 'It was so quick and instinctive,' he said."
"'You're not hearing us', [E. Njewa, the chair of the Least Developed Group] said. Then he stood up. Everyone stood up with him and then we just left,"
"'As soon as we did that everyone was calling us - the COP presidency, developed counties, the chair of G77 [another powerful bloc of developing countries]...
"'It's really sad that it took us walking out to get that,' he said."
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'We were ready to leave climate summit' - negotiator tells BBC (BBC, 2024-11-25)
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrlkwz9x9o
------"The walkout happened when talks were over-running by 19 hours and was a moment of high drama in the fraught #COP29 talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, shocking observers.
"#AOSIS [= the Alliance of Small Island States] was accompanied by another block called the Least Developing Countries."
"[finance negotiator for the AOSIS] Mr Robertson said the walk-out was 'spontaneous', not planned. 'It was so quick and instinctive,' he said."
"'You're not hearing us', [E. Njewa, the chair of the Least Developed Group] said. Then he stood up. Everyone stood up with him and then we just left,"
"'As soon as we did that everyone was calling us - the COP presidency, developed counties, the chair of G77 [another powerful bloc of developing countries]...
"'It's really sad that it took us walking out to get that,' he said."
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'We were ready to leave climate summit' - negotiator tells BBC (BBC, 2024-11-25)
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrlkwz9x9o
------"The walkout happened when talks were over-running by 19 hours and was a moment of high drama in the fraught #COP29 talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, shocking observers.
"#AOSIS [= the Alliance of Small Island States] was accompanied by another block called the Least Developing Countries."
"[finance negotiator for the AOSIS] Mr Robertson said the walk-out was 'spontaneous', not planned. 'It was so quick and instinctive,' he said."
"'You're not hearing us', [E. Njewa, the chair of the Least Developed Group] said. Then he stood up. Everyone stood up with him and then we just left,"
"'As soon as we did that everyone was calling us - the COP presidency, developed counties, the chair of G77 [another powerful bloc of developing countries]...
"'It's really sad that it took us walking out to get that,' he said."
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'We were ready to leave climate summit' - negotiator tells BBC (BBC, 2024-11-25)
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrlkwz9x9o
------"The walkout happened when talks were over-running by 19 hours and was a moment of high drama in the fraught #COP29 talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, shocking observers.
"#AOSIS [= the Alliance of Small Island States] was accompanied by another block called the Least Developing Countries."
"[finance negotiator for the AOSIS] Mr Robertson said the walk-out was 'spontaneous', not planned. 'It was so quick and instinctive,' he said."
"'You're not hearing us', [E. Njewa, the chair of the Least Developed Group] said. Then he stood up. Everyone stood up with him and then we just left,"
"'As soon as we did that everyone was calling us - the COP presidency, developed counties, the chair of G77 [another powerful bloc of developing countries]...
"'It's really sad that it took us walking out to get that,' he said."
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'We were ready to leave climate summit' - negotiator tells BBC (BBC, 2024-11-25)
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpwrlkwz9x9o
------"The walkout happened when talks were over-running by 19 hours and was a moment of high drama in the fraught #COP29 talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, shocking observers.
"#AOSIS [= the Alliance of Small Island States] was accompanied by another block called the Least Developing Countries."
"[finance negotiator for the AOSIS] Mr Robertson said the walk-out was 'spontaneous', not planned. 'It was so quick and instinctive,' he said."
"'You're not hearing us', [E. Njewa, the chair of the Least Developed Group] said. Then he stood up. Everyone stood up with him and then we just left,"
"'As soon as we did that everyone was calling us - the COP presidency, developed counties, the chair of G77 [another powerful bloc of developing countries]...
"'It's really sad that it took us walking out to get that,' he said."
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Cop29 negotiations aren’t moving fast enough. The Pacific is running out of time
Surangel Whipps Jr https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/cop29-negotiations-arent-moving-fast-enough-the-pacific-is-running-out-of-time
Small island states must continue to be protected by special circumstances and need access to sufficient climate-based finance, Palau’s president writes
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"Developing nations on Monday pleaded at the U.N. General Assembly for the world's richest to do more to help them cope with the hardships they face from #climate extremes.
Leaders of small island states most at risk from rising sea levels said it was time for those countries that burn most of the fossil fuels blamed for rising temperatures to stop paying "lip service" to the issue."
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/companies-ask-world-leaders-un-follow-through-renewables-targets-2024-09-23/
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Pacific Islands Forum: UN Secretary-General issues SOS over ‘devastating’ new sea level rise research https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pacific-islands-forum-un-secretary-general-issues-sos-over-devastating-new-sea-level-rise-research/YJVAYR2AXNFTVO2T3X34MZ23NA/ #COP29 #climate #AOSIS #PacificForum
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Pacific Islands Forum: UN Secretary-General issues SOS over ‘devastating’ new sea level rise research https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pacific-islands-forum-un-secretary-general-issues-sos-over-devastating-new-sea-level-rise-research/YJVAYR2AXNFTVO2T3X34MZ23NA/ #COP29 #climate #AOSIS #PacificForum
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Pacific Islands Forum: UN Secretary-General issues SOS over ‘devastating’ new sea level rise research https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pacific-islands-forum-un-secretary-general-issues-sos-over-devastating-new-sea-level-rise-research/YJVAYR2AXNFTVO2T3X34MZ23NA/ #COP29 #climate #AOSIS #PacificForum
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Pacific Islands Forum: UN Secretary-General issues SOS over ‘devastating’ new sea level rise research https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pacific-islands-forum-un-secretary-general-issues-sos-over-devastating-new-sea-level-rise-research/YJVAYR2AXNFTVO2T3X34MZ23NA/ #COP29 #climate #AOSIS #PacificForum
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Pacific Islands Forum: UN Secretary-General issues SOS over ‘devastating’ new sea level rise research https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pacific-islands-forum-un-secretary-general-issues-sos-over-devastating-new-sea-level-rise-research/YJVAYR2AXNFTVO2T3X34MZ23NA/ #COP29 #climate #AOSIS #PacificForum
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‘A crisis entirely of humanity’s making’: UN chief issues climate SOS on trip to Pacific https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/27/a-crisis-entirely-of-humanitys-making-un-chief-issues-climate-sos-on-trip-to-pacific
António Guterres calls for a ‘massive’ increase in finance and support for the countries most vulnerable to rising sea levels. -
Alliance of small Island States (#AOSIS): we see a litany of loopholes.
Samoa’s lead delegate Anne Rasmussen, on behalf of small island nations, complained that they weren’t even in the room when Al Jaber said the deal was done. She said that “the course correction that is needed has not been secured,” with the deal representing business-as-usual instead of exponential emissions-cutting efforts.
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Lead negotiator of #AOSIS (Small Island States Alliance):
“It is not enough to reference the science and then ignore what the science is telling us we should do.”
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Lead negotiator of #AOSIS (Small Island States Alliance):
“We didn’t want to interrupt the standing ovation – but we are confused. It seems you just gavelled the decision and the small island states were not in the room.
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#COP28 dangled the prospect of #FossilFuelPhaseOut and then snatched it away.
Key text: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/GST_2.pdf
Updates: https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-tracking-negotiating-texts-at-cop28-climate-summit/#COP26 decisions aligned with oil & gas industry in the North; #COP28 makes tiny concessions to the South, but includes all the oily language - when you hear 'Carbon capture' think capture of states and process.
#COP29 in Azerbaijan, another petrostate.Should #LDCs, CVF and #Aosis accept baby steps or call out fossil lobbyists?
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#COP28 dangled the prospect of #FossilFuelPhaseOut and then snatched it away.
Key text: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/GST_2.pdf
Updates: https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-tracking-negotiating-texts-at-cop28-climate-summit/#COP26 decisions aligned with oil & gas industry in the North; #COP28 makes tiny concessions to the South, but includes all the oily language - when you hear 'Carbon capture' think capture of states and process.
#COP29 in Azerbaijan, another petrostate.Should #LDCs, CVF and #Aosis accept baby steps or call out fossil lobbyists?
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#COP28 dangled the prospect of #FossilFuelPhaseOut and then snatched it away.
Key text: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/GST_2.pdf
Updates: https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-tracking-negotiating-texts-at-cop28-climate-summit/#COP26 decisions aligned with oil & gas industry in the North; #COP28 makes tiny concessions to the South, but includes all the oily language - when you hear 'Carbon capture' think capture of states and process.
#COP29 in Azerbaijan, another petrostate.Should #LDCs, CVF and #Aosis accept baby steps or call out fossil lobbyists?
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#COP28 dangled the prospect of #FossilFuelPhaseOut and then snatched it away.
Key text: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/GST_2.pdf
Updates: https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-tracking-negotiating-texts-at-cop28-climate-summit/#COP26 decisions aligned with oil & gas industry in the North; #COP28 makes tiny concessions to the South, but includes all the oily language - when you hear 'Carbon capture' think capture of states and process.
#COP29 in Azerbaijan, another petrostate.Should #LDCs, CVF and #Aosis accept baby steps or call out fossil lobbyists?
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#COP28 dangled the prospect of #FossilFuelPhaseOut and then snatched it away.
Key text: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/GST_2.pdf
Updates: https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-tracking-negotiating-texts-at-cop28-climate-summit/#COP26 decisions aligned with oil & gas industry in the North; #COP28 makes tiny concessions to the South, but includes all the oily language - when you hear 'Carbon capture' think capture of states and process.
#COP29 in Azerbaijan, another petrostate.Should #LDCs, CVF and #Aosis accept baby steps or call out fossil lobbyists?
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So ... #Cop28 #Dubai #Cop #UN cop-out? It looks that way. Here is a quick summary of comments from people in the know ... (largely from the #Guardian live-feed)
- Simon Evans of Carbon Brief, who notes that hardly any of the verbs in the latest draft global stocktake text at Cop28 actually ask for action.- the #EU - “"We think there are elements in the text that are fully unacceptable,” says Ribera. “We want to have 1.5C being the safe space. We are going to fight for 1.5C. The current text provides some reference to the science, some reference to 1.5C, but it is not consistent with dealing with #energy. We need to get into deeper discussions with many other partners, and of course with the president. I cannot hide the fact from you that as it stands, the text is disappointing", said Hoekstra."
- ‘Epic mess’ – Bill Hare of Climate Analytics - The climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics, Dr Bill Hare, has been to 27 Cops in person and attended the 28th - Cop26 in Glasgow - virtually due to Covid19.
He told the Guardian the text was an “epic mess” and there was “no way if it was operationalised that it would keep 1.5C in reach. I would say it’s giving every #FossilFuel exporter on the planet everything they need to expand #Fossilfuels production. They might not say it, they might have crocodile tears, but I think any country involved in exporting #coal, #oil or #gas would be privately very happy.”
- “It’s full of weaker proposals than we’d hoped, and internal contradictions,” said Tom Evans, at thinktank #E3G. “On the one hand, it talks of the need to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, to peak #emissions in 2025, to cut emissions 43% by [2030] and 60% by 2055. But all of those require concrete actions. What’s in this text doesn’t add up: you have a long menu of options on the energy section, [but] not including the clear, unambiguous #PhaseOut fossil fuels.”
- David Waskow, at the World Resources Institute, said: “This text doesn’t send the clear signals that are needed to avert the climate crisis. The suggested set of actions is merely a pick-your-own menu.”
- "Meena Raman, #Cop veteran and climate policy expert from the Third World Network, says that she’s relieved that it’s not totally biased towards the wealthy nations, and that there’s likely to be a diversity of reactions from the developing and developed world."
- "A more nuanced take by Bob Ward, the policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science - "This has the makings of an historic text, which recognises for the first time in the outcome of a United Nations climate change summit that the production and consumption of fossil fuels need to be cut and replaced by cleaner alternatives in order to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by mid-century. However, the text is too weak at the moment because it only suggests parties could, rather than should, reduce fossil fuels consumption and production. This should not be optional""
- ‘We need [phase out] in the text’, says Colombia minister
- Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, said - “We need [phase out] in the text. We need to acknowledge that we need 43% reduction by 2030, which is not here. We need 1.5C. 2050 is too late. If we don’t get 2030, we don’t have 2050 and we don’t have 1.5C."
- Cedric Schuster, the chair of #AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) and a cabinet minister of #Samoa, said in a statement - “We are concerned that the process at this time is not in the spirit of multilateralism. As #SIDS [small island developing states], we feel our voices are not being heard, while it appears that several other parties have enjoyed preferential treatment, compromising the transparency and inclusivity of the process.
We are greatly concerned that this lack of a platform to air our views has resulted in weak language that will obliterate our chances of maintaining the 1.5C warming limit …
Finance and mitigation must go hand in hand. Developed countries must lead because they have the resources to do so, we call on major economies to take the lead here in finance flows.
We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on phasing out #FossilFuels."
#Climate #Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSummit #Capitalism #Oil #Coal #Gas #Carbon #CO2 #Methane #CH4
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So ... #Cop28 #Dubai #Cop #UN cop-out? It looks that way. Here is a quick summary of comments from people in the know ... (largely from the #Guardian live-feed)
- Simon Evans of Carbon Brief, who notes that hardly any of the verbs in the latest draft global stocktake text at Cop28 actually ask for action.- the #EU - “"We think there are elements in the text that are fully unacceptable,” says Ribera. “We want to have 1.5C being the safe space. We are going to fight for 1.5C. The current text provides some reference to the science, some reference to 1.5C, but it is not consistent with dealing with #energy. We need to get into deeper discussions with many other partners, and of course with the president. I cannot hide the fact from you that as it stands, the text is disappointing", said Hoekstra."
- ‘Epic mess’ – Bill Hare of Climate Analytics - The climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics, Dr Bill Hare, has been to 27 Cops in person and attended the 28th - Cop26 in Glasgow - virtually due to Covid19.
He told the Guardian the text was an “epic mess” and there was “no way if it was operationalised that it would keep 1.5C in reach. I would say it’s giving every #FossilFuel exporter on the planet everything they need to expand #Fossilfuels production. They might not say it, they might have crocodile tears, but I think any country involved in exporting #coal, #oil or #gas would be privately very happy.”
- “It’s full of weaker proposals than we’d hoped, and internal contradictions,” said Tom Evans, at thinktank #E3G. “On the one hand, it talks of the need to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, to peak #emissions in 2025, to cut emissions 43% by [2030] and 60% by 2055. But all of those require concrete actions. What’s in this text doesn’t add up: you have a long menu of options on the energy section, [but] not including the clear, unambiguous #PhaseOut fossil fuels.”
- David Waskow, at the World Resources Institute, said: “This text doesn’t send the clear signals that are needed to avert the climate crisis. The suggested set of actions is merely a pick-your-own menu.”
- "Meena Raman, #Cop veteran and climate policy expert from the Third World Network, says that she’s relieved that it’s not totally biased towards the wealthy nations, and that there’s likely to be a diversity of reactions from the developing and developed world."
- "A more nuanced take by Bob Ward, the policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science - "This has the makings of an historic text, which recognises for the first time in the outcome of a United Nations climate change summit that the production and consumption of fossil fuels need to be cut and replaced by cleaner alternatives in order to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by mid-century. However, the text is too weak at the moment because it only suggests parties could, rather than should, reduce fossil fuels consumption and production. This should not be optional""
- ‘We need [phase out] in the text’, says Colombia minister
- Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, said - “We need [phase out] in the text. We need to acknowledge that we need 43% reduction by 2030, which is not here. We need 1.5C. 2050 is too late. If we don’t get 2030, we don’t have 2050 and we don’t have 1.5C."
- Cedric Schuster, the chair of #AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) and a cabinet minister of #Samoa, said in a statement - “We are concerned that the process at this time is not in the spirit of multilateralism. As #SIDS [small island developing states], we feel our voices are not being heard, while it appears that several other parties have enjoyed preferential treatment, compromising the transparency and inclusivity of the process.
We are greatly concerned that this lack of a platform to air our views has resulted in weak language that will obliterate our chances of maintaining the 1.5C warming limit …
Finance and mitigation must go hand in hand. Developed countries must lead because they have the resources to do so, we call on major economies to take the lead here in finance flows.
We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on phasing out #FossilFuels."
#Climate #Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSummit #Capitalism #Oil #Coal #Gas #Carbon #CO2 #Methane #CH4
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So ... #Cop28 #Dubai #Cop #UN cop-out? It looks that way. Here is a quick summary of comments from people in the know ... (largely from the #Guardian live-feed)
- Simon Evans of Carbon Brief, who notes that hardly any of the verbs in the latest draft global stocktake text at Cop28 actually ask for action.- the #EU - “"We think there are elements in the text that are fully unacceptable,” says Ribera. “We want to have 1.5C being the safe space. We are going to fight for 1.5C. The current text provides some reference to the science, some reference to 1.5C, but it is not consistent with dealing with #energy. We need to get into deeper discussions with many other partners, and of course with the president. I cannot hide the fact from you that as it stands, the text is disappointing", said Hoekstra."
- ‘Epic mess’ – Bill Hare of Climate Analytics - The climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics, Dr Bill Hare, has been to 27 Cops in person and attended the 28th - Cop26 in Glasgow - virtually due to Covid19.
He told the Guardian the text was an “epic mess” and there was “no way if it was operationalised that it would keep 1.5C in reach. I would say it’s giving every #FossilFuel exporter on the planet everything they need to expand #Fossilfuels production. They might not say it, they might have crocodile tears, but I think any country involved in exporting #coal, #oil or #gas would be privately very happy.”
- “It’s full of weaker proposals than we’d hoped, and internal contradictions,” said Tom Evans, at thinktank #E3G. “On the one hand, it talks of the need to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, to peak #emissions in 2025, to cut emissions 43% by [2030] and 60% by 2055. But all of those require concrete actions. What’s in this text doesn’t add up: you have a long menu of options on the energy section, [but] not including the clear, unambiguous #PhaseOut fossil fuels.”
- David Waskow, at the World Resources Institute, said: “This text doesn’t send the clear signals that are needed to avert the climate crisis. The suggested set of actions is merely a pick-your-own menu.”
- "Meena Raman, #Cop veteran and climate policy expert from the Third World Network, says that she’s relieved that it’s not totally biased towards the wealthy nations, and that there’s likely to be a diversity of reactions from the developing and developed world."
- "A more nuanced take by Bob Ward, the policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science - "This has the makings of an historic text, which recognises for the first time in the outcome of a United Nations climate change summit that the production and consumption of fossil fuels need to be cut and replaced by cleaner alternatives in order to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by mid-century. However, the text is too weak at the moment because it only suggests parties could, rather than should, reduce fossil fuels consumption and production. This should not be optional""
- ‘We need [phase out] in the text’, says Colombia minister
- Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, said - “We need [phase out] in the text. We need to acknowledge that we need 43% reduction by 2030, which is not here. We need 1.5C. 2050 is too late. If we don’t get 2030, we don’t have 2050 and we don’t have 1.5C."
- Cedric Schuster, the chair of #AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) and a cabinet minister of #Samoa, said in a statement - “We are concerned that the process at this time is not in the spirit of multilateralism. As #SIDS [small island developing states], we feel our voices are not being heard, while it appears that several other parties have enjoyed preferential treatment, compromising the transparency and inclusivity of the process.
We are greatly concerned that this lack of a platform to air our views has resulted in weak language that will obliterate our chances of maintaining the 1.5C warming limit …
Finance and mitigation must go hand in hand. Developed countries must lead because they have the resources to do so, we call on major economies to take the lead here in finance flows.
We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on phasing out #FossilFuels."
#Climate #Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSummit #Capitalism #Oil #Coal #Gas #Carbon #CO2 #Methane #CH4
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So ... #Cop28 #Dubai #Cop #UN cop-out? It looks that way. Here is a quick summary of comments from people in the know ... (largely from the #Guardian live-feed)
- Simon Evans of Carbon Brief, who notes that hardly any of the verbs in the latest draft global stocktake text at Cop28 actually ask for action.- the #EU - “"We think there are elements in the text that are fully unacceptable,” says Ribera. “We want to have 1.5C being the safe space. We are going to fight for 1.5C. The current text provides some reference to the science, some reference to 1.5C, but it is not consistent with dealing with #energy. We need to get into deeper discussions with many other partners, and of course with the president. I cannot hide the fact from you that as it stands, the text is disappointing", said Hoekstra."
- ‘Epic mess’ – Bill Hare of Climate Analytics - The climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics, Dr Bill Hare, has been to 27 Cops in person and attended the 28th - Cop26 in Glasgow - virtually due to Covid19.
He told the Guardian the text was an “epic mess” and there was “no way if it was operationalised that it would keep 1.5C in reach. I would say it’s giving every #FossilFuel exporter on the planet everything they need to expand #Fossilfuels production. They might not say it, they might have crocodile tears, but I think any country involved in exporting #coal, #oil or #gas would be privately very happy.”
- “It’s full of weaker proposals than we’d hoped, and internal contradictions,” said Tom Evans, at thinktank #E3G. “On the one hand, it talks of the need to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, to peak #emissions in 2025, to cut emissions 43% by [2030] and 60% by 2055. But all of those require concrete actions. What’s in this text doesn’t add up: you have a long menu of options on the energy section, [but] not including the clear, unambiguous #PhaseOut fossil fuels.”
- David Waskow, at the World Resources Institute, said: “This text doesn’t send the clear signals that are needed to avert the climate crisis. The suggested set of actions is merely a pick-your-own menu.”
- "Meena Raman, #Cop veteran and climate policy expert from the Third World Network, says that she’s relieved that it’s not totally biased towards the wealthy nations, and that there’s likely to be a diversity of reactions from the developing and developed world."
- "A more nuanced take by Bob Ward, the policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science - "This has the makings of an historic text, which recognises for the first time in the outcome of a United Nations climate change summit that the production and consumption of fossil fuels need to be cut and replaced by cleaner alternatives in order to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by mid-century. However, the text is too weak at the moment because it only suggests parties could, rather than should, reduce fossil fuels consumption and production. This should not be optional""
- ‘We need [phase out] in the text’, says Colombia minister
- Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, said - “We need [phase out] in the text. We need to acknowledge that we need 43% reduction by 2030, which is not here. We need 1.5C. 2050 is too late. If we don’t get 2030, we don’t have 2050 and we don’t have 1.5C."
- Cedric Schuster, the chair of #AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) and a cabinet minister of #Samoa, said in a statement - “We are concerned that the process at this time is not in the spirit of multilateralism. As #SIDS [small island developing states], we feel our voices are not being heard, while it appears that several other parties have enjoyed preferential treatment, compromising the transparency and inclusivity of the process.
We are greatly concerned that this lack of a platform to air our views has resulted in weak language that will obliterate our chances of maintaining the 1.5C warming limit …
Finance and mitigation must go hand in hand. Developed countries must lead because they have the resources to do so, we call on major economies to take the lead here in finance flows.
We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on phasing out #FossilFuels."
#Climate #Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSummit #Capitalism #Oil #Coal #Gas #Carbon #CO2 #Methane #CH4
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So ... #Cop28 #Dubai #Cop #UN cop-out? It looks that way. Here is a quick summary of comments from people in the know ... (largely from the #Guardian live-feed)
- Simon Evans of Carbon Brief, who notes that hardly any of the verbs in the latest draft global stocktake text at Cop28 actually ask for action.- the #EU - “"We think there are elements in the text that are fully unacceptable,” says Ribera. “We want to have 1.5C being the safe space. We are going to fight for 1.5C. The current text provides some reference to the science, some reference to 1.5C, but it is not consistent with dealing with #energy. We need to get into deeper discussions with many other partners, and of course with the president. I cannot hide the fact from you that as it stands, the text is disappointing", said Hoekstra."
- ‘Epic mess’ – Bill Hare of Climate Analytics - The climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics, Dr Bill Hare, has been to 27 Cops in person and attended the 28th - Cop26 in Glasgow - virtually due to Covid19.
He told the Guardian the text was an “epic mess” and there was “no way if it was operationalised that it would keep 1.5C in reach. I would say it’s giving every #FossilFuel exporter on the planet everything they need to expand #Fossilfuels production. They might not say it, they might have crocodile tears, but I think any country involved in exporting #coal, #oil or #gas would be privately very happy.”
- “It’s full of weaker proposals than we’d hoped, and internal contradictions,” said Tom Evans, at thinktank #E3G. “On the one hand, it talks of the need to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, to peak #emissions in 2025, to cut emissions 43% by [2030] and 60% by 2055. But all of those require concrete actions. What’s in this text doesn’t add up: you have a long menu of options on the energy section, [but] not including the clear, unambiguous #PhaseOut fossil fuels.”
- David Waskow, at the World Resources Institute, said: “This text doesn’t send the clear signals that are needed to avert the climate crisis. The suggested set of actions is merely a pick-your-own menu.”
- "Meena Raman, #Cop veteran and climate policy expert from the Third World Network, says that she’s relieved that it’s not totally biased towards the wealthy nations, and that there’s likely to be a diversity of reactions from the developing and developed world."
- "A more nuanced take by Bob Ward, the policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science - "This has the makings of an historic text, which recognises for the first time in the outcome of a United Nations climate change summit that the production and consumption of fossil fuels need to be cut and replaced by cleaner alternatives in order to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by mid-century. However, the text is too weak at the moment because it only suggests parties could, rather than should, reduce fossil fuels consumption and production. This should not be optional""
- ‘We need [phase out] in the text’, says Colombia minister
- Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, said - “We need [phase out] in the text. We need to acknowledge that we need 43% reduction by 2030, which is not here. We need 1.5C. 2050 is too late. If we don’t get 2030, we don’t have 2050 and we don’t have 1.5C."
- Cedric Schuster, the chair of #AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) and a cabinet minister of #Samoa, said in a statement - “We are concerned that the process at this time is not in the spirit of multilateralism. As #SIDS [small island developing states], we feel our voices are not being heard, while it appears that several other parties have enjoyed preferential treatment, compromising the transparency and inclusivity of the process.
We are greatly concerned that this lack of a platform to air our views has resulted in weak language that will obliterate our chances of maintaining the 1.5C warming limit …
Finance and mitigation must go hand in hand. Developed countries must lead because they have the resources to do so, we call on major economies to take the lead here in finance flows.
We will not sign our death certificate. We cannot sign on to text that does not have strong commitments on phasing out #FossilFuels."
#Climate #Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSummit #Capitalism #Oil #Coal #Gas #Carbon #CO2 #Methane #CH4
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It really does seem as though they've just written off large portions of humanity (almost none of whom are white), and are betting that they can bullshit their way through hundreds of millions of deaths, and keep their power the whole time.
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #AOSIS #SeaLevelRise #SeaLevel #Paris
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„Der Meeresspiegel steigt immer schneller an. Vertreter kleiner Inselstaaten beklagen zugleich die Untätigkeit des reichen Nordens.“ Neuer Artikel von @WolfgangPomrehn zu den Folgen der #Klimakatastrophe
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Der-Anstieg-der-Meere-beschleunigt-sich-7335933.html
#Klimaversagen #COP27 #AOSIS #Meeresspiegel #FFF