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  1. Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer haben wenig zum Klimawandel beigetragen, sind aber oft besonders stark betroffen. Deshalb haben die Industrienationen beschlossen, den Ländern des Globalen Südens finanziell zu helfen. Klappt das?

    #Klima #GreenClimateFund

    t3n.de/news/klimaschutz-so-sch

  2. Der Ex-Bürgermeister von New York und 100Mrd €-reiche Bloomberg will die Finanzierungslücke füllen, die der President Of The United Sadists in die UN Klimakasse gerissen hat.

    rnd.de/politik/us-rueckzug-aus

    Nun geht aber leider aus dem Artikel nicht hervor, wieviel und WELCHE Lücke geschlossen werden soll.
    Ist ursprünglich von der dpa. Und bei der dpa laufen nur "Journalisten" rum, die konsequent klimadoof und stolz drauf sind. Beim RND offenkundig ähnlich.

    Kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass Bloomberg zB die – viel zu niedrigen, aber immerhin mehrere Milliarden $-Zahlungen an den #GreenClimateFund übernehmen will, womit ärmere Länder dann entweder Projekte für Anpassungsmaßnahmen oder Energietransformation finanzieren.
    Mit seinen 100Mrd € könnte er den bisherigen, zu niedrigen, jährlichen US-Beitrag an den GCF ganz allein 30 Jahre lang stemmen und wäre immernoch unverschämt reich.

    Außerdem hat er das Geld derzeit vermutlich bei Blackrock geparkt – und wenn er es denen wegnimmt, bedeutet das auch weniger Investment in Fossile Firmen.

    A girl can dream.

  3. In the table regarding #climatefinance I miss the option "force fossil fuel companies and their shareholders to pay $100bn per year".

    Why is this not on the agenda at all? 2022 brought additional $130bn profits for BigOil. That's a whole year for the recipients of the #GreenClimateFund. As grants, of course.

    BigOIl lied, deceived, and murdered for 40 years. And their shareholders in this turbo capitalist self-destruction-project nodded gracefully. And are still doing it.
    Forcing them to pay these $100bn/a agreed on in Paris does not let them off the hook. They need to be jailed too, all of them. But the money is needed to speed up replacing fossil fuel with renewables.

    carbonbrief.org/bonn-climate-t

  4. And to make up for the last four years of contributing nothing (and even putting aside the many years of failure under the #Coalition between 2013–19 when finances ought to have been ramping up to meet the 2020 goal), #Australia has a backlog of about $AU20b to be seen as anything like a 'fair' contributor to the #GreenClimateFund, remembering that the US$100b/yr represents only a fraction of what the developing world needs to ensure a just and swift transition to a climate-stable future.

    And that's before we consider the #LossAndDamage fund announced a few days ago (another long-term sticking point in #UNFCCC negotiations and a separate piece of international #ClimateFinance), to which Australia has not yet made any kind of pledge.

    Until Australia takes credible steps towards those kinds of figures, Australian government promises ought to be treated by all our neighbours as so much smoke.
    7/8
    #AusPol #ClimatePol

  5. So, today's announcement by PM #Albanese is at least a re-engagement with the global community on #ClimateFinance after years of #Coalition isolationism. However, it is worth noting that of the AU$150m announced today, only $50m goes to the #GreenClimateFund, with $100m directed towards a different multilateral body, the Pacific Resilience Facility. That's the equivalent of about US$33m, or 0.002% of Australia's #GNI of roughly US$1.6 trillion (2022 figures).

    To be contributing the 0.22% of GNI mentioned earlier, Australia would need to contribute more than one hundred times that much each year (around US$3.5b, or AU$5.3b).
    6/8

    #AusPol

  6. When the #GreenClimateFund was being established, Australia's Prime Minister was #TonyAbbott, a #ClimateDenier, who had won the 2013 federal election promising to dismantle the baby steps towards a #ClimatePolicy the previous #Labor government had made.

    So there was little surprise when PM Abbott announced in Nov 2013 that #Australia would be contributing a massive sum of $0 to the Green Climate Fund.

    At the time, he claimed Australia would chip in AU$200m (then =USD$187m) over four years, but since this was merely a rebranding of existing #ForeignAid, it clearly didn't count as "new and additional funding", a fact that most journalists blithely ignored, falling for the bait-and-switch. Or we might say instead that the Australian government was overstating its foreign aid commitments by $200m over those years.

    Nonetheless, the four years were soon gone, as was Tony Abbott, as well as his successor #MalcolmTurnbull, who in turn had been replaced as PM by #ScottMorrison. When it came time to pledge again in 2018, Morrison announced Australia would be pulling out of the Green Climate Fund entirely, a path also taken by the #Trump administration at the time, whom Morrison was often cribbing notes from when it came to what kinds of #cruelty and #selfishness he could get away with.
    5/8

    #AusPol

  7. So what's a fair share of the #GreenClimateFund for each wealthy nation to contribute?

    Calculations by the #WorldResourcesInstitute a couple of years ago claimed that a 'fair share' for each wealthy nation that had pledged to contribute would be the equivalent of 0.22% of Gross National Income (#GNI) each year by 2020. The World Resources Institute found that during 2016–2018 (the first three years of the Green Climate Fund), only four countries were actually already meeting or exceeding their fair share of climate finance contributions: #Germany, #Japan, #France and #Luxembourg. #Sweden and #Norway were close (>80%). #Denmark was the only other country over 66%. At the very bottom of the list came the #USA and #Australia.

    For Australia to be making a 0.22% 'fair share' of its (then) roughly US$1.3 trillion GNI, this would amount to around US$2.86b each year (=AU$4.33b). This obviously was not happening. How far short of its pledge had the Coalition government fallen? How much was Australia actually contributing? Even less than the World Resources Institute recorded...
    4/8

  8. Over the last ten years, the promise of a #GreenClimateFund has been a big piece of the puzzle when it comes to global climate agreement. Arguably, the #ParisClimateAgreement reached in 2015 and signed by every nation in the world (bar war-torn #Syria) in 2016 was one of the biggest steps forward in international cooperation over a global crisis in the history of humanity (while still being thunderously inadequate to the scale of the #ClimateCrisis). After decades of arguing and partial steps, 2015 was the first time a major agreement had been reached that included all the major polluting nations promising to reduce their carbon emissions towards a goal of at least somewhat #HabitablePlanet

    And the pledge of a US$100bn/yr Green Climate Fund was widely acknowledged in international negotiations as a major enabler of this historic Paris Climate Agreement. Though still far from adequate (some estimates said that to be fair, it really ought to have been five times as large), it was nonetheless a solid first formal step towards recognising the massively unequal responsibilities of various nations when it comes to causing planetary #ClimateDisruption.
    3/8

  9. The provision of US$100b in #ClimateFinance per year was promised by 2020, with a #GreenClimateFund being set up in 2010–11 and national contributions commencing in subsequent years. An updated agreement in 2012 clarified that these funds had to be "new and additional", i.e. not simply a rebranding of existing #ForeignAid. And they had to be made to the international Green Climate Fund, not via other bilateral or multilateral agreements.

    Disputes over the international distribution of responsibilities for funding #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaptation measures—costly measures that would benefit everyone—had long been one of the main sticking points in the decades of UN climate negotiations since 1992 when the #UNFCCC was established. (UNFCCC = United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, i.e. the international agreement to have international climate negotiations in the first place, and how to go about those negotiations.)
    2/8

  10. "Pledges so far represent a fraction of roughly $250 billion that developing countries would need every year by 2030 just to adapt to a warmer world, according to the United Nations. In addition to supporting climate adaptation, the fund also finances projects to help countries shift to clean energy."

    #GreenClimateFund
    reuters.com/sustainability/sus

  11. "The #UnitedStates has pledged $3 billion to the #GreenClimateFund, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday in Dubai at the U.N. #COP28 climate summit.

    The latest pledge would be additional to another $2 billion previously delivered by the United States. The politically divided U.S. Congress needs to authorize the funding."

    reuters.com/sustainability/sus

  12. The 52nd Pacific Islands Forum Meeting is in Rarotonga, Cook Islands from 6-10 November 2023, in lead up to #COP28. China and Australia's climate targets on the agenda as Pacific Islands Forum meeting kicks off in Cook Islands.

    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-07/pac

    🇦🇺 PM Albanese is likely to commit about $50 million for the #GreenClimateFund and a substantially larger sum for the Pacific Resilience Facility, and will continue to seek support for hosting COP31 in 2026. Australia will likely come under pressure for expanding coal and gas as Pacific nations stress the Port Vila Call to Action for a Just Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific.
    pican.org/_files/ugd/923d4b_8c

    Official PIF website: forumsec.org/

    #Pacific #PacificIslandsForum #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #CookIslands

  13. The High-level Pledging Conference for Green Climate Fund second replenishment (GCF-2) is taking place today in Bonn
    greenclimate.fund/event/high-l

    Australia is not there, although this morning Australia's Foreign Minister did commit Australia to rejoin and make a 'modest' financial commitment. It is a small ray of sunshine.
    #GreenClimateFund #Australia #ClimateFinance #ClimateDiary
    takvera.blogspot.com/2023/10/a

  14. Die zugesagten 100 Milliarden Dollar jährlich für #Klimaschutz im Süden sind noch immer nicht zusammengekommen. Strittig ist, ob das Ziel knapp oder weit verfehlt wurde. Am Donnerstag soll eine Auffüllung des #GreenClimateFund die Lücke verkleinern.
    ▶️ deutschlandfunk.de/geberkonfer

  15. "Prolonged heatwaves, floods, raging wildfires and devastating hurricanes have struck these wealthier regions, leaving them bewildered.

    Against this backdrop, it should surprise no one if richer nations redirect financing that was previously allocated for the Global South’s adaptation efforts, channelling it instead towards domestic recovery efforts."

    #ClimateFinance #GreenClimateFund
    aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/

  16. African nations are demanding climate justice. Their continent suffers the most from a warming planet and they want wealthy nations to help with the cost. Th...
    Do Africans have the means to achieve green development? | Inside Story
  17. The avarice of rich nations is something to behold.

    "The £11.6bn is the #UK’s contribution to the $100bn of #ClimateFinance from wealthy countries that was pledged in 2009 at Cop15 in Copenhagen has still not been delivered by rich nations.
    The UK spent £5.8bn over the previous five years up to 2021."

    You don't realise how behind the UK is in payments until you realise the #GreenClimateFund was a pledge of $100 bn PER YEAR.

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  18. @breadandcircuses

    Biden just upped the US contribution to the #GreenClimateFund by $ 1bn. Up from $ 3bn. That's ten bucks for every American. Embarrassing, if you ask me.

    share.america.gov/us-to-give-g

    Of course House Republicans are trying to scotch even that.

  19. Germany is the first major donor to announce its contribution for the upcoming pledging conference for the #GreenClimateFund

    Not sure that this number means, so I looked up:
    GDP of OECD countries: $58 tn.
    GDP of Germany: $ 4.3 tn (in USD), or 7.4% of the $ 58 tn.
    Soooo, it's not unreasonable to expect Germany to contribute $7.4 billion into the global climate fund which needs to add up to $100bn?

    #ClimateJustice
    reliefweb.int/report/world/ger

  20. Climate change guilty of doing too little

    The past decade was America‘s hottest on record. They are seeing more droughts, floods, and wildfires than ever before and these days low temperatures have many blocked.  Though still lots of Americans are not convinced they too should try to reduce waste, pollution and should use less of the earth’s resources just like there is plenty-fold.

    A vast array of physical and biological systems across the Earth are being affected by human-induced global warming (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    Good to see a president who dares to call onto the citizens and to warn them that they may not stay blind, because

    Climate change is happening, and the effects are visible all around us.

    But a lot of people still have questions about climate change:

    what it means, how bad it really is, and what we can do to fight it.

    Still too many do not want to see what is going on in nature. They prefer to put their head in the sand. How climate change will impact on the world, and what must be done to avert a catastrophic four-degree rise in global temperature, many governments only offer obfuscation and excuses.

    Denial: Australians burying their heads in the sands of Bondi Beach to send a message to Prime Minister Tony Abbott about the dangers of climate change.

    To be fully committed in the fight against climate change, we all have to understand why it’s such a serious issue.

    We may see or hear that there are state organisations like Fish and Wildlife Service officials who try to get a good federal protection and present listings and have distributed guidelines on how to best log forests without harming bats for example. These recommendations suggest restricted logging from April through October, which led to push-back from the forest industry. That timber industry in the whole of America keeps cutting trees like nothing and each day football fields of green lounges disappear. where is the state control and why can not they catch the limber thieves?

    The “burning embers” diagram above was produced by the IPCC in 2001. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    In the meantime lots of people do heat their houses like saunas in Winter and cool it like freezers in Summer, whilst the factories fill the air with fumes of all sorts.

    Unless global emissions peak and decline in short order, the world will pass a point where global warming can be limited to two degrees.

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent report calculated the remaining amount of carbon dioxide humans can emit and still have a likely chance of limiting global warming to less than two degrees. It comes to about another 1,000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.

    In 2012, global emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane were around 54 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. To meet that “carbon budget”, UNEP calculates global emissions must be no higher than 44 gigatonnes in 2020, and 42 gigatonnes in 2030.

    But current climate targets don’t stick within these limits. World leaders are currently committed to targets that imply global emissions will be 52 to 54 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2020, and 56 to 59 gigatonnes in 2030. UNEP says that leaves an “emissions gap” between where we’re headed and where we need to be.

    In the West of Europe many people and governments are realizing the gravity of this problem, and are already taking action on the issue. In the wake of the historic joint climate announcement by the U.S. and China at the beginning of this month, the importance of American leadership in the fight against climate change cannot be understated.

    Lots of Americans live in imaginary Pollyanna Land in the United States, much like the rest of the so-called developed world.

    We’re the biggest, the best, the brightest, the strongest, the most noble. We’re a shining city on a hill, a beacon of justice and morality, righting wrongs, fighting evil everywhere, and guiding the world to the promised land of unlimited growth, wealth, and opportunity.  {Battling Environmental Depression: Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene}

    Fortunately, a majority of Americans believe that climate change is real, but there’s still a lot of confusion and misinformation out there.
    That’s why it’s critical that every opportunity is taken to set the record straight, and to make sure that everyone’s as informed and knowledgeable about it as possible.

    Energy efficiency improvements could prevent 22 to 24 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions between 2015 and 2030, UNEP estimates, with new energy efficiency policies reducing energy demand by about five to seven per cent.

    The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of Queensland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    Perhaps the world wants to wait to much for what North America is doing, though the American president last week called on Australia’s youth to rise up and demand more action to combat climate change, remarking that

    “incredible natural glory of the Great Barrier Reef is threatened”.

    The future of the Reef is an international issue therefore the world could see the US President, Barack Obama, talking about his desire for his grandchildren’s generation to still be able to enjoy the Reef in the way that we’re able to today. Knowing how to plan and manage the best outcomes for it is of the upmost importance.

    On Sunday, Premier Campbell Newman said he was not about to “criticise our guest” but added that Mr Obama had relied on misinformation and he would tell US officials about what was “actually going on with the reef”.

    In response the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop replied the Reef was

    “not under threat from climate change because its biggest threat is the nutrient runoffs agricultural land, the second biggest threat is natural disasters, but this has been for 200 years”

    Until now Prime Minister Tony Abbott has tried to limit the extent of discussion of climate change, but he has revealed he raised the issue during a bilateral meeting with French President François Hollande.

    After years of arguing that Australia should only move faster once major polluters also moved, like so many other countries think, he has now described climate change as

    “an important subject”

    and one

    “the world needs to tackle as a whole”.

    The declaration followed one-on-one talks with his French counterpart, President Francois Hollande, in Canberra ranging across trade, security and the need for binding emissions targets. But he said individual country commitments to reduce carbon pollution must not come at the expense of jobs and growth or they will inevitably fail.

    The apparent shift from climate change resister to global action advocate came as he added the giant European Union to his priority list for a free trade agreement and called for greater intelligence sharing with the French on counter-terrorism, and the difficult issue of foreign fighters travelling to and from Iraq and Syria.

    Mr Abbott said Australia and France were working side by side to defeat the Islamic State organisation in Iraq but pointedly added that “we’ve got more to do particularly when it comes to intelligence-sharing on the question of foreign fighters”.

    “Climate change is an important subject. It is a subject that the world needs to tackle as a whole. Yes, each country has to do its bit to tackle the emissions problem. We are all doing what we can, Australia as well, and we need a strong and effective agreement from Paris next year.”

    Mr Abbott said on Wednesday.

    Obama rallied the world’s leaders and tried to organize action to slow carbon emissions and climate change. He announced a $3 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund. The GCF helps developing countries curb carbon emissions and deal with the effects of climate change such as heat waves, mudslides and rising sea levels. Japan also announced a $1.5 million contribution during the G20 Summit. On November 20, at a meeting in Berlin, many other wealthy nations pledged money to the fund.

    Continuing his efforts to portray climate change as a global problem in need of a global solution, Obama spoke to an audience at the University of Queensland about environmental responsibility. The crowd applauded every time Obama mentioned climate change. He asserted that the Asia-Pacific region had more at stake from extreme weather and rising oceans than any other part of the world. {Obama Champions the Great Barrier Reef Despite Resistance}

    For the North Americans Dr. John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy is willing to do everything he can to help.

    Ask Dr. John P. Holdren anything you want to know about climate change, and forward this to anyone you know who has questions, too.

    Mean surface temperature change for 1999–2008 relative to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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