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Katharine does a honest review of the good, the bad, and the ugly of COP28.
But has been the case at the recent COP’s, the usual suspects are offering false promises.
“the latest draft of the Global Stocktake agreement they’re hammering out at COP28. …….”
“calls on countries to “take actions that could include ... phasing down unabated coal, accelerating efforts towards net zero emissions and low carbon fuels, enhancing efforts towards substitution of unabated fossil fuels, substantially reducing non-CO2 emissions such as methane, and phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies."
“As I talk about here, “unabated” is what I refer to as a weasel word: it allows fossil fuel producers to weasel out of reductions by promising to capture their carbon at some time in the future (and when they get to that time, they’ll most likely claim it was too expensive/too hard to do what they promised). Not only that, but the health impacts of coal are so severe that we've known for nearly 25 years that phasing it out would have net benefits.”
“it’s likely that Azerbaijan will be chosen to host next year’s COP29 gathering. That would make it the third big oil and gas producer in a row to host the conference.”
After COP27, now COP28, and next year COP29, all being held in petroleum aligned states and heavily dominated by oil and gas lobbyists, this whole process has really lost all credibility.
For a realistic view of what (doesn’t) happen and who gets squeezed out and forgotten at COP listen to Season 4 “Time to 1.5” of the Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Threshold especially episodes 11 through 13 on COP26.
Hasn't this always been the issue: science vs. greed?
I hope we get much stronger wording, in order of the magnitude of the multiple environmental crises the world is facing.
Katharine does a honest review of the good, the bad, and the ugly of COP28.
But has been the case at the recent COP’s, the usual suspects are offering false promises.
“the latest draft of the Global Stocktake agreement they’re hammering out at COP28. …….”
“calls on countries to “take actions that could include ... phasing down unabated coal, accelerating efforts towards net zero emissions and low carbon fuels, enhancing efforts towards substitution of unabated fossil fuels, substantially reducing non-CO2 emissions such as methane, and phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies."
“As I talk about here, “unabated” is what I refer to as a weasel word: it allows fossil fuel producers to weasel out of reductions by promising to capture their carbon at some time in the future (and when they get to that time, they’ll most likely claim it was too expensive/too hard to do what they promised). Not only that, but the health impacts of coal are so severe that we've known for nearly 25 years that phasing it out would have net benefits.”
“it’s likely that Azerbaijan will be chosen to host next year’s COP29 gathering. That would make it the third big oil and gas producer in a row to host the conference.”
After COP27, now COP28, and next year COP29, all being held in petroleum aligned states and heavily dominated by oil and gas lobbyists, this whole process has really lost all credibility.
For a realistic view of what (doesn’t) happen and who gets squeezed out and forgotten at COP listen to Season 4 “Time to 1.5” of the Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Threshold especially episodes 11 through 13 on COP26.
https://www.thresholdpodcast.org/season04