Biden Pushes Out Over $100 Billion in Clean Energy Grants as Term Winds Down
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-12-03/biden-pushes-out-over-100-billion-in-clean-energy-grants-as-term-winds-down WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has awarded over $100 billion in grants created by its signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, a senior administration official said. The administration hopes the spending milestone will help to continue the deployment of clean energy even after President-elect Donald Trump, a climate change skeptic […]
Farmers turn into climate activists to keep IRA ‘green’ subsidies flowing to farms?! Farmers’ lobbies have ‘softened’ climate skepticism ‘as funding for climate-focused programs has flowed to farmers…based on carbon storing-farming practices’
Inside Climate News: The most powerful agricultural lobby group, the American Farm Bureau Federation, shifted its position on climate change, influencing conversations in farm country. The group had long denied the scientific consensus that human activity is driving greenhouse gas emissions, but has since softened its denial as funding for climate-focused programs has flowed to farmers and as carbon markets, based on carbon storing-farming practices, have promised the potential of revenue to its members.
So far, farms and farmers have received roughly $7 billion to help them implement “climate smart” farming practices under the Biden administration’s signature climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. Another $13 billion or so is still on the way, though Congress’ efforts to pass a Farm Bill, which would direct those funds in coming years, are stalled. Republican versions of the legislation call for removing the requirement that the funding support climate-specific practices.
The USDA is investing another $3 billion in climate-focused agricultural practices under the agency’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities.
Wall Street Journal: Trump Vowed to Kill Biden’s Climate Law. Republicans Say Not So Fast
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-biden-climate-bill-renewable-energy-b3e5fe03 Billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs are at stake in red states By Scott Patterson WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s campaign-trail vow to end President Biden’s signature climate law is running into a cold reality: Too many Republican lawmakers want to keep it. The Inflation Reduction Act has channeled billions of dollars to renewable-energy […]
COP29: The Famished Freeloaders of Baku
The Famished Freeloaders of Baku By Tony Thomas This fictional story is “inspired by true events”, as they like to label movies these days. The setting is COP29 last week in Baku, where the Blue Zone is exclusive to the 17,680 official reps (“Parties”) and 16,305 official hangers-on, the latter dubbed “Party Overflow”.[1] The COP official list included […]
COP FLOP: ‘Woefully inadequate’: activists slam COP29 UN climate finance deal – ‘A death sentence for the millions on the climate front lines’ & ‘The world is still on course for runaway collapse’
A report produced for the UN talks by economic experts concluded that developing countries outside China would need $2.4 trillion a year by 2030 – a four-fold increase in total global climate investments. It proposed that around $1 trillion a year would come from domestic budgets, with the rest raised by a combination of public and private finance. This could include novel global forms of taxation, such as on financial transactions, extreme wealth, and frequent flying. Countries also disagreed over who should contribute. The donor base for the $100 billion comprises the 24 countries who were members of the OECD in 1992 when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed.
Developed countries such as the US and EU argued that countries that have since become wealthier and emit high levels of greenhouse gases such as China and Saudi Arabia should now pay into the new fund. The final agreed text calls for “all actors” to scale up funds from “all public and private sources”, and leaves an option for voluntary donations from other countries that have not previously donated.
Jasper Inventor, head of the COP29 Greenpeace delegation, called the agreement “woefully inadequate”, adding that it was “overshadowed by the level of despair and scale of action needed”.
WaterAid described the deal as a “death sentence for millions” and labelled the sum a “mere fraction”.
Lesley Pories, lead policy analyst for water, sanitation and hygiene finance at WaterAid, said: “Failure to deliver on its most anticipated financial commitment at the so-called ‘finance COP’ is nothing less than a death sentence for the millions on the climate front lines.” “The clue is in the name. Next year countries will try for the 30th time. What is clear is the era of oil and gas must end: fast, fairly and forever.”
Just Stop Oil called for people to “get off our screens and on to the streets”, adding: “Twenty-nine COPs with the fossil fuel lobby at the helm, and the world is still on course for runaway collapse.”
Extinction Rebellion also slammed the summit. “The clue is in the name. Next year countries will try for the 30th time. What is clear is the era of oil and gas must end: fast, fairly and forever.”
COP 29: Climate cash freak out – Seeking trillions to ‘end up in the pockets of climate kleptocrats’
https://www.cfact.org/2024/11/22/cop-29-climate-cash-freak-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cop-29-climate-cash-freak-out&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cop-29-climate-cash-freak-out By Craig Rucker $250 billion is an “insult” say climate campaigners at the big UN climate conference in Azerbaijan. They are demanding over $1 trillion of your dollars per year be transferred to developing nations and their attendant climate profiteers starting now. The COP 29 presidency released a draft calling for a “collective quantified goal on […]
At COP29, Officials Want To ‘Trump-Proof’ Their Green Funding With Global Climate Tax
At COP29, Officials Want To ‘Trump-Proof’ Their Green Funding With Global Climate Tax By Nick Pope Foreign government officials attending the ongoing U.N. climate change summit are advocating for de facto global climate taxes to fund green energy development in poor countries ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to Financial Times. [emphasis, links added] […]
Watch: Morano on Sky News TV: ‘UN climate slush fund’: ‘This whole UN conference was about money, money, money’
Broadcast November 20, 2024 Video here: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/chris-kenny/un-climate-slush-fund-cop-conferences-all-about-money/video/01ed5c56fa1b212403595b962adc4c3d ‘Climate Depot’ Executive Director Marc Morano claims COP29 was all about money and labelled the conference a “UN climate slush fund”. “This whole conference was about money, money, money,” Mr Morano told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “They want to go from 100 billion a year to 1 […]
EXTINCTION REBELLION: You’re not a grass roots movement if like all other psyops you’re funded by Rockefeller Soros et al.
https://lawyerlisa.substack.com/p/extinction-rebellion-youre-not-a By LawyerLisa Extinction Rebellion So literally the ‘grass roots’ movement of the people, is being funded by the uber elite of society. And we don’t think climate is a scam for our volunteering ourselves into our good night? Well it has a circle as a logo and a couple of triangles – usually a […]
Place Your Bids! POLITICO: ‘Global climate talk: Show me the money’ – 200 nations have one week to reveal ‘how much money will be collectively delivered every year to stop climate change’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/11/18/cop-talk-show-me-the-money-00190172 By ARIANNA SKIBELL The nearly 200 countries represented in this year’s global climate talks have one week to come up with a very important figure: how much money will be collectively delivered every year to stop climate change. Reaching an agreement is not going well so far, write Sara Schonhardt, Zia Weise and Karl Mathiesen. Much […]