Originally posted on Stigmatis:
“Loss and damage is a way of both recognizing past harm and compensating for that past harm,” said Dartmouth climate scientist Justin Mankin. Activists encourage world leaders to maintain policies that limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and provide reparations for loss and damage at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, Nov.…
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COP27 – UK lead negotiator: “I’m incredibly disappointed”
Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop:
Photosynthesis: nature requires carbon dioxide Still claiming a minor trace gas essential to nature causes ‘huge climate impacts’. Unbelievable. – – – A historic deal has been struck at the UN’s COP27 summit that will see rich nations pay poorer countries for damage and economic losses caused by climate…
Is the Top a Flop
We are in an era of upheaval, termed by some as a polycrisis, and Cop27 was never itself going to resolve the biggest of these – the climate emergency. Indeed, the most significant recent progress may well have already happened far from Sharm El-Sheikh, in the form of the American midterm elections and the rapprochement between the US and China, the two world’s largest emitters, on climate issues at the G20 in Bali.
Composted Reads for 17 November
Draft Cop27 agreement fails to call for ‘phase-down’ of all fossil fuels
‘Bleak’ findings come from report at Cop27
We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing. Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible. We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,
Composted Reads for 8 November 2022
Story of the day Developing countries ‘will need $2tn a year in climate funding by 2030’ Report says figure required to switch away from fossil fuels and cope with extreme weather impacts. About $2tn (£1.75tn) will be needed each year by 2030 to help developing countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions and cope with theContinue reading “Composted Reads for 8 November 2022”
System change, not climate change
We need to change the way we measure economic growth and development – from GDP and profit to the improvement of the quality of people’s lives.
The Guardian reviewing 2022 July 18 – July 24
July 18 Heatwave / UK braces for record temperature as first ever red heat warning comes into effect Network Rail says to avoid trains unless absolutely necessary, with much of country covered by extreme heat alert ‘Shameful diversion tactic’ / UK’s ‘quick-fix’ asylum policies criticised in damning MPs’ report ‘It’s socialism’ / Heated Tory leadershipContinue reading “The Guardian reviewing 2022 July 18 – July 24”
Supreme Court ruling has made it harder for Biden to put his country on track to have the US halving its emissions by 2030
The Supreme Court ruling has made it harder for Biden to put his country on track to meet the climate goal. It comes on top of stalled climate legislations that would have helped.
The supreme court has left the US with no plan for the climate crisis
The US supreme court has restricted the ability of the world’s largest historical carbon polluter to address the climate crisis.
Some View on the World 