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  1. A Protracted US–Iran War Could Strain Climate Finance From Wealthy Countries to Developing Nations

    WASHINGTON, D.C.—The ongoing war in Iran is casting a long shadow over the climate finance commitments countries agreed…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #COP29 #DevelopingNations #Finance #IMF #InternationalMonetaryFund #Iran #War #WorldBank
    newsbeep.com/489715/

  2. #COP29 in Aserbaidschan war eine Enttäuschung für die Bekämpfung der #Klimakrise. Aber vielleicht finden wichtige Entscheidungen gerade in Den Haag statt. Der Internationale Gerichtshof erstellt ein Rechtsgutachten darüber, inwieweit Industriestaaten für Klimaschäden im globalen Süden verantwortlich sind, #lossAndDamage. Gestern hat #Vanuatu vorgetragen, heute waren die #Philippinen dran. #Klimaschutz
    rappler.com/world/global-affai

  3. @breadandcircuses

    Well, in fairness (not that fairness is really a thing in this dire picture), the new US ship captain will be passing out blinders to all of his crew. So the other captains might be waiting to see how that goes.

    And the change at the helm will bring new flexibilty--admittedly, not in physics, but in how to ignore physics with real flare...not that there will be other ships around capable of responding to such flares.

    - - - - -

    In all seriousness, though, while people already sold on the urgency of climate change can see cartoons like this and understand them, I actually think that this presentation promotes a misunderstanding of a serious nature.

    Climate change is not a big event that suddenly happens in one particular moment, like the impact with an iceberg, or an asteroid strike in Don't Look Up. But metaphors like this, well meaning as they are in their intent that you focus on different aspects of the analogy, support the particular kind of denial that the new crew will be using a lot of: pointing to the absence of some singular cataclysm like that is proof none is coming.

    And the picture also makes it look like at any time we could just change course and all would be well. It also supports the metaphor that any single person could be the superhero that swoops in to save us by making that singular, smart course correction in any moment before the cataclysm. Neither the problem nor its possible solutions, if any remain at this point, are as crisp and neat and simple as that.

    Climate change, at this point, is more like an endless array of ever-more-densely packed icebergs with a lot of small boats each having the creeping realization that this was not the path we should be on and that there isn't any easy way out of the maze. We watch as our fellow ships, one by one, crash into less dramatic-looking, yet equally deadly, smaller bergs and tell ourselves that this is not what's coming for us, that icebergs of that size are normal, that historically many boats do not get sunk by icebergs, that we'll be fine.

    #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #COP29 #icebergs #ClimateCommunication #Election2024 #Project2025 #NOAA #NASA #FEMA

  4. @jeromeollier @theconversationau carbon credit trading is flawed and abused. Its main outcome is creating a market where the wealthy can become wealthier. Oftentimes, the carbon removal by tree planting is done at cost of local populations (cf. This changes everything by Naomi Klein) #cop29 #climatejustice #carbontrading

  5. The climate talks in Baku 🇦🇿 are officially over! #COP29 opened with a bulldozing through of dangerous #CarbonMarkets and ended with a bulldozing through of an empty promise of rich countries’ legal obligations to protect #HumanRights & the planet: ciel.org/news/cop29-c... A 🧵

    COP29: Rich Countries Shirk Cl...

  6. Report highlights disproportionate killings of #IndigenousEnvironmentalActivists

    PBSNewshour, Nov 16, 2024

    "Leaders at the United Nations’ #COP29 #CimateChange summit are being pressed this year to address the rising threats to #environmentalists and defenders of #HumanRights. Ali Rogin looks at the challenges facing these activists around the world and speaks with Laura Furones, a senior adviser at the environmental watchdog and advocacy group Global Witness, to learn more.

    Watch / read transcript:
    pbs.org/newshour/show/report-h

    #GlobalWitness #Phillipines #SouthAfrica #Malaysia #Colombia #Brazil #IndigenousActivists #MurderedActivists #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #MegaInfrastructureProjects #Mining #Megaprojects #Deforestation #HumanRightsDefenders #ProtectTheForests #WaterIsLife

  7. Stel dat je 250 miljard #klimaat financiering per jaar (#COP29) verdeelt volgens de historische #uitstoot , geeft dit 1,8 miljard €/jaar voor 🇧🇪, waarbij het rijke industriële verleden zorgt voor een stevige bijdrage per inwoner (€151/jaar) in vgl met 🇪🇺-gemiddelde (€92/jaar).

  8. CIEL's Nikki Reisch makes clear: the only ambition we see at #COP29 is the ambition of rich countries to turn #ClimateAction into a business opportunity, relying on dangerous #CarbonMarkets & putting profits over people & the planet.

  9. 🚨 New #COP29 climate finance text is out. A vague $1.3T target with no teeth, $250B in debt-creating finance, 0 commitment to end fossil fuels & no mention of #HumanRights nor #LossAndDamage. Rich countries are dodging climate responsibilities & vulnerable nations will again pay the price.

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hib5tyjjcjel3x6kdhrgnasm/post/3lbjxtbvz4c2g

  10. Lembrar que a #COP29 está a ocorrer no #Azerbaijao, país rico e de gente de pele clara, mas muçulmano e por isso "não branco" o que lhe dá imensa liberdade para.. oprimir. Por exemplo o TPI nem sequer está a investigar o genocídio feito em 48h no #NagornoKarabakh.

    #Israel, país de gente com muitos tons de pele frequentemente mais escuros do que o que se vê em Baku, é visto como branco porque judeu (ironia da história, recuando 75 anos não eram brancos pq judeus) e claro, responde como tal.

  11. "Essential as ecological carbon stores are, trading them against fossil fuel emissions, which is how these markets operate, cannot possibly work. The carbon that current ecosystems can absorb in one year is pitched against the burning of fossil carbon accumulated by ancient ecosystems over many years.

    Nowhere is this magical thinking more apparent than in soil carbon markets, a great new adventure for commodity traders selling both kinds of carbon market products: official “credits” and voluntary carbon offsets. Every form of wishful thinking, over-claiming and outright fraud that has blighted the carbon market so far is magnified when it comes to soil.

    We should do all we can to protect and restore soil carbon. About 80% of the organic carbon on the land surface of the planet is held in soil. It’s essential for soil health. There should be strong rules and incentives for good soil management. But there is no realistic way in which carbon trading can help. Here are the reasons why."

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #USA #Trump #Science #ClimateChange #COP29 #GlobalWarming #CarbonMarkets

  12. Offener Brief an den Exekutivsekretär des UNFCCC und an den UN-Generalsekretär zur Reform der COP (Conference of the Parties) mit 7 zentralen Forderungen.

    "Now, we must work together with urgency and purpose, transforming the climate COP so that it can take strategic, action-oriented and accountable decisions to deliver the scale of ambition commensurate with the defining challenge of our time."

    clubofrome.org/cop-reform-2024

    #COP #cop29 #UN_Klimakonferenz #Weltklimakonferenz

  13. 📢 “Trillions, not billions!” At #COP29, voices from the Global South demand climate finance that is adequate, predictable, and just. Public finance —not loans— is essential for adaptation, mitigation, and #LossAndDamage. 🌍🌏🌎 🧵1/5 👇

  14. 11 years after Typhoon Haiyan, storms still devastate nations like the Philippines, yet #LossAndDamage risks being excluded from the new finance goal being discussed at #COP29. ⚠️ Loss and damage isn’t optional—it’s essential. Polluters must pay now! ✊🏽 Read more: climatenetwork.org/resource/eco...

    ECO 9, COP29 - Climate Action ...

  15. Forests can't be used in NDC (nationally determined contribution).Forests are in adaptation mode, that is, death by drought, bugs, fires, until new ecosystem members have moved in long after °C is stabilized.
    Trees adapt to longer growth seasons, higher temperatures, over-fertilisation by CO2. This means less water and nutrients and makes them unhealthy.

    Trees only park our CO2, then they burn.

    #Koutsodendris et al 2020 counted pollen at Lake Ohrid, Albania.
    Look at the gap between rising °C 🟡 vs rising pollen count for temperate/mesophilus trees 🟤 🟢.

    Adapting to a new climate takes time, even with seed-carriers and migration corridors: 1000yrs until new ecosystem members have moved in and adaptation to a new stable climate is accomplished.

    But we don't have migration corridors. We have settlements and agricultural wastelands with pesticides everywhere.

    Also, sinks start outgassing once ppm drops. So if your #NDC include negative emissions by DACS or CCS to undo a temperature #overshoot, to really remove 1t CO2 from the system, you must remove 1.5t once we're in the negative emissions phase.

    Outgassing is a physical process to balance changes in atmosphere composition. But of course, when ppm drops considerably, it also changes °C and regional climate and hydrological cycles – again. So your ecosystem is going into adaptation mode all over again. Forests burn.. again.

    Overshoot scenarios aren't a good idea, even if we had working technology and concepts. CO2 removal adds another stressful phase and prolongs adaptation to changing factors – for us and our human systems, and for ecosystems on land and in the ocean.

    #ClimateCrisis #COP29 #NDC #CCS #DACS #DAC #afforestation #deforestation #reforestation #landsink

  16. #Trump Picks #ClimateDenying #Oil&Gas Magnate as #EnergySecretary. He Once Drank #FrackingFluid on Live TV

    #DemocracyNow, November 18, 2024

    "As we broadcast all week from the #COP29 talks in #Azerbaijan, we look at what Donald Trump’s reelection as U.S. president means for the #climate. #CleanEnergy and #environmental advocates are raising alarm over Trump’s picks for key roles in his administration, including #fracking magnate #ChrisWright to serve as energy secretary and #NorthDakota Governor #DougBurgum to lead the #InteriorDepartment, where he could greatly expand #drilling on #FederalLands. #Burgum, a major ally of the #FossilFuel industry, was also tapped to head a newly created #NationalEnergyCouncil aimed at increasing oil and gas production.

    "For more on the #WhiteHouse transition, we speak with #ManishBapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council [#NRDC] and Natural Resources Defense Council Action. He calls Trump’s picks 'deeply troubling' but says there is still room for optimism. 'The clean energy transition in the United States is unstoppable. It’s going to hit some speed bumps now, but it will move forward,' says Bapna."

    Watch / Transcript:
    democracynow.org/2024/11/18/co

    #ViewerSupportedNews #BigOilAndGas #TrumpAppointments #LeaveItInTheGround

  17. Die #Weltklimakonferenz #COP29 geht heute in die zweite Woche und verhandelt über die #Klimafinanzierung. Während in #Baku Klimaschutz global diskutiert wird, haben wir einen Blick auf die nationale Ebene geworfen. Wie denkt das Grundgesetz Klima- und Umweltschutz?

    Jetzt reinhören in unseren Podcast #Grundgesetzlich: grundgesetzlich.org/podcast/7-

  18. Egypt and Australia will act as chairs for this week’s deliberations on the #NCQG, attempting to find common ground regarding the structure, quantum, and contributors in high-level political talks, while technical discussions on other issues continue until tomorrow.

    #COP29

  19. Mám rád ty zvláštní náhody, kdy profíci a vědci po celým světě se mýlí, protože #ČEZ, #KSČ a #SPD má šokující vědecké oběvy, které nikdo nebere vážně.

    Jeden by řekl, že se proti nim spikl celej svět...

    .. nebo že by to bylo jinak?

    Výborný čtení na #Voxpot

    #politika #GreenDeal #COP29
    RE: mastodonczech.cz/users/honzaja…

  20. COP29 in Baku - Über 1.700 Fossil-Lobbyisten bei der UN-Klimakonferenz

    Umweltschützer fordern, den Zugang von Lobbyisten bei Klimakonferenzen zu beschränken. Über 1.700 Öl- und Gas-Vertreter sind bei der COP29 in Baku anwesend.#Weltklimakonferenz #COP29 #UN-Klimakonferenz #BAKU #Argentinien
    Über 1.700 Fossil-Lobbyisten bei Weltklimakonferenz in Baku

  21. 🌡️ How should we deal with the 1.5°C limit? The German Climate Consortium #DKK, of which the #MPIM is a member, has published a position paper 📗 with recommendations. According to the paper, which was co-authored by our director Jochem Marotzke, the goal of keeping #globalwarming below 1.5°C is no longer achievable, but it must not be abandoned either. The publication is in German, but the translation of the key messages can be found on our website: ➡️ mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication
    #COP29 #COP29Baku