Fury as Biden admin argues against climate obligations at top UN court – US says current climate rules are satisfactory, prompting condemnation from activists and vulnerable countries
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/04/us-climate-crisis-legal-court By Nina Lakhani Climate justice campaigners have condemned the US after the world’s largest historic greenhouse gas emitter argued against countries being legally obliged to combat the climate crisis. The US intervention came on Wednesday as part of the historic climate hearing at the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague, where island […]
Are YOU Guilty?! Climate Lawfare Goes International: ‘Demand that the failure to address climate change be declared a violation of international law’
Climate Lawfare Goes International by Ron Clutz DW reports on hearings underway at ICJ International Court of Justice in the Hague. Overview of the proceedings in italics with my bolds. Vanuatu urges ICJ to recognise climate change harms The outcome of the landmark case could lead to the establishment of legal framework for holding countries accountable in the […]
Canada emission fail: ‘$100 billion & no results’ – Auditor General finds ‘Canada is the worst performing G7 nation on climate change since the Paris Climate Accord’
Raquel Dancho – Conservative Member of Parliament – Canada: “$100 billion and no results. According to the Auditor General, Canada is the worst performing G7 nation on climate change since the Paris Climate Accord.
Success is measured by outcomes, not by how much taxpayer money you spend.
The Liberals like to pose as environmentalists, but their record shows otherwise.”
Get climate leadership training from Al Gore!? Gore heads to Europe to train climate activists
Get climate leadership training from Al Gore! Al Gore comes to Europe: Become a Climate Reality leader Seize the opportunity to become a Climate Reality Leader like me! Receive personal training from Al Gore and leading scientists and experts, completely free of charge. … pic.twitter.com/8xRraoumyo — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) December 1, 2024 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1863279767774253179.html Get climate […]
Top 10 Climate & Energy Action Items for Trump in His 2nd Term
Top 10 Climate and Energy Action Items for President Trump in His Second Term By James Taylor, Steven Milloy This list was compiled and presented by The Heartland Institute, E&E Legal Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), Truth in Energy and Climate, and The American Energy Institute. Get the PDF 1. Paris Climate Treaty and Endangerment […]
CNN: ‘The UN climate summit ended in bitterness & accusations of betrayal. Now fears are growing for its future’
CNN: COP29 described by climate activists as “an insult, a joke and a betrayal” – ‘Was set up to fail from the start’ – ‘A conference of chaos’ – ‘Fossil fuel lobbyists’ lobbyists heavily outnumbered most country delegations’ – ‘W
CNN — This year’s UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan kicked off with a fulsome celebration of fossil fuels, praised by the country’s president Ilham Aliyev as a “gift of God.” It ended with a climate finance deal developing countries called an insult, a joke and a betrayal. Amid geopolitical upheaval, including the election of a climate denier in the US, Baku might be remembered as the beginning of the end of multilateral climate action. COP climate summits are always painstaking and fraught. But they have had major successes, most notably the 2015 Paris climate agreement, under which countries committed to keeping global warming to well under 2 degrees Celsius, and preferably to 1.5. And yet, nearly a decade later, the world is on track for the hottest year on record and levels of planet-heating pollution are projected to reach an all-time high.
In many ways, COP29 was set up to fail from the start: Russia ensured the summit was held in a fossil fuel-reliant nation by using its United Nations veto to prevent any European Union country from hosting. It was a conference of chaos. Many wealthy country leaders failed to show up, Argentina pulled out its negotiators, and some developing country groups grew so frustrated in the final throes of talks, they walked out.
COPs have been held in petrostates before. But fossil fuel interests appeared truly unleashed in Baku — potentially emboldened by the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a man who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement. …
More than 1,700 fossil fuel industry players and lobbyists registered to attend the summit, heavily outnumbering most country delegations. And Saudi Arabia, a constant thorn in the side of those pushing ambitious climate action, said the quiet bit out loud at this summit, publicly and explicitly rejecting any mention of fossil fuels in the final agreement. …
Climate groups compared the final deal to a band-aid on a bullet wound, and developing countries reacted with fury. “This is not just a failure; it is a betrayal,” the Least Developed Countries Group on Climate Change said in a statement, adding that the “outright dismissal” of developing countries’ needs “erodes the fragile trust that underpins these negotiations and mocks the spirit of global solidarity.” To succeed, the whole system needs reorienting, Singh said, “to serve the interests of the most vulnerable, rather than those of fossil fuel lobbyists and polluters.” …
This is likely to be tough as the geopolitical terrain changes, and right-wing politicians who embrace fossil fuels and deride climate action see electoral success.
President Donald Trump is reportedly planning on bringing back the Keystone XL Pipeline. “This is going to be a complete ying-yang to what we just went through with Joe Biden,” says @ClimateDepot FULL SEGMENT: https://t.co/ETWKyUC1Wu pic.twitter.com/mFqM1n9CNY — The First (@TheFirstonTV) November 22, 2024 I’m Right w/ Jesse Kelly – The First TV – Broadcast […] My appeal to negotiators & ministers at the #COP29 climate conference: Soften hard lines. Navigate a path through your differences. Keep your eyes on the bigger picture. Never forget that the future of humanity is at stake. pic.twitter.com/bJOb1LHURI — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) November 21, 2024 UN Sec. Gen. (Former head of Socialists International) "Never forget […] https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-can-topple-the-climate-house-of-cards-clean-energy-paris-b1b0e4f8?mod=opinion_lead_pos5 By Paul H. Tice Excerpt: President-elect Trump has an opportunity to put the nation’s energy policy on a sound and rational footing. That will be possible only if the new administration learns from its past mistakes. During his first term, Mr. Trump halted the regulatory attack against the energy sector that began under President Obama by […] Climate scientists officially declare ‘climate emergency’ at an end Press release by the Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) The Chamber of Deputies in session Climate scientists have issued a shock declaration that the “climate emergency” is over. A two-day climate conference in Prague, organised by the Czech division of the international Climate Intelligence Group (Clintel), which […]Watch: Morano on The First TV talks UN’s COP29 climate con & Trump 2.0 Energy’s Plan – ‘A complete ying-yang to what we just went through with Joe Biden’ on energy
Update: UN Sec. Gen. imagines the fate of the planet depends on COP29: ‘Never forget that the future of humanity is at stake’
Analysis: Trump Can Topple the Climate-Change House of Cards – Needs to kill UN Paris climate treaty by submitting it for Senate vote & strike the 2009 (CO2) Endangerment Finding
European scientists refute UN narrative — Declare ‘climate emergency’ at an end during conference in Prague
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