COP26
COP26
The Conference of Parties (COP) is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing UNFCCC recommendations on global warming and climate change.reviewing UNFCCC recommendations on global warming and climate change.
International Efforts:
Last 25 COPs since 1995, have failed to limit the Global Warming.
The Global Leadership is yet to provide a clear direction for mitigating Climate Change impacts.
COP-26 starting from 31 Oct 2021 could be the last chance for Humanity to avoid catastrophic decline.
The Main themes of COP 26:
- Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees
- Global emissions must halve by 2030
- Globally reach ‘net-zero’ by 2050
- Mobilize Climate Finance
COP 21 at Paris in 2015 saw over 195 countries pledging NDCs to reduce CO2 emissions, But post- pandemic Economic recovery is seeing large rebound to Coal & Oil use with 2nd largest annual increase in CO2 emissions in the History
Will COP 26 be hijacked by finance issues, without committing emission reductions?
Taken from: CCP New Bulletin October 2021 https://www.climatecollectivepune.org/
Episode 29 - Communicating Climate: Demystifying vs Greenwashing The India Energy Hour https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/episode-29-communicating-climate-demystifying-vs-greenwashing/id1549673056?i=1000575732757 ..Aarti Khosla launched what can be said to be India's first dedicated climate communication platform Climate Trends. Khosla is also Director, CarbonCopy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w8-M0jJhrA
Response by Leo Saldanha
Aarti Khosla of Climate Trends & Carbon Copy makes the case here that India requires fundamental education on climate change, & the pathway to it is by addressing “influencers” & not the “bottom of the pit”, i.e., the wide public. This phrasing might attract attention; particular of “influencers”, who I have begun to notice of late include a variety of international foundations that are keen to pushing India’s mature Envtl jurisprudence to subordinate to market forces.
Aarti’s narrative here does more disservice to multiple efforts that have been underway to ensure there are fundamental transformations that the country will adopt to not contribute to global warming, as AKN Reddy, Anil Agarwal, Vandana Shiva, etc. have eloquently argued already in the 1980s, and I fear mocks the extraordinary struggles Medha Patkar, Vimal Bhai, Dr. G D Agarwal, Sundarlal BAHUGUNA, Madhav Gadgil, etc. have initiated based on a deep understanding of the short term and long term implications of extractivist, capitalised & hegemonic developmental choices.
The report recommends that these six nations- Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, and South Africa (BRIICS) – decarbonize and diversify their revenues or they might risk a revenue gap that could ruin the gains made by them on poverty eradication and economic development so far. This revenue gap has been estimated to grow up to USD 278 billion by 2030, equivalent to the combined total government revenues of Indonesia and South Africa in 2019. Therefore they need to better start adjusting their fiscal policies to account for declining fossil fuel use.
Titled ‘Boom and Bust: The Fiscal Implications of Fossil Fuel Phase-Out in Six Large Emerging Economies’, the report highlights the vulnerabilities of BRIICS for their heavy dependence on fossil fuel.
All countries around the world have to cut back on fossil fuel use to comply with the Paris Agreement, which is a legally binding international treaty on climate change adopted by 196 Parties on 12 December 2015. Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels by reducing greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a climate neutral world by mid-century.
by Seema Sharma
12/07/2022
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The need of the hour: A Renewables revolution Antonio Guterres https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/climate-change-crisis-energy-fuels-coal-oil-gas-renewable-energy-8004060/
The only true path to energy security, stable power prices, prosperity and a livable planet lies in abandoning polluting fossil fuels and accelerating the renewables-based energy transition. To that end, I have called on G20 governments to dismantle coal infrastructure, with a full phase-out by 2030 for OECD countries and 2040 for all others. I have urged financial actors to abandon fossil fuel finance and invest in renewable energy. And I have proposed a five-point plan to boost renewable energy around the world.
In his response from Shankar Sharma in open letter said " the global objective for a sustainable future for humankind (SDGs?) should have the primary focus on those economic activities to meet the essential needs of the communities...Such a changed developmental paradigm will require unwavering global focus on those economic activities which will not lead to further diversion of forest/ agricultural lands; which will not demand a lot of water, materials and energy; which will not lead to pollution of land, air and water; and which will lead to sustainable harnessing of our natural resources, while providing large number of job opportunities." for full text of letter
Global warming has long been subjected to the propagandistic influence of a wide variety of public relations (PR) organizations. Yet, despite its overwhelming importance, the impact of public relations/propaganda on our awareness of global warming has long been overlooked.
https://countercurrents.org/2022/07/how-pr-is-preventing-awareness-of-global-warming/
Over the past decades, gas and oil corporations have engaged many – if not almost all – top PR firms in their quest to prevent people from getting to know the corporate pathologies that cause global warming – including our potential and impending global death. Global warming has the potential to end humanity as we know it.
Perhaps the height of corporate engagement by these key PR firms has come since the end of the 1980s. Up to now, they continue to work on circumventing scientific knowledge about global warming. Their task is to ensure that this does not reach the public domain. Simultaneously, they also seek to defame whom and what they have identified as the enemy of polluting corporations: environmental NGOs, politicians, government agencies, and related (often scientific and research) institutions. Much of this has a long history.
What they learned from the tobacco battle and the 100 million people who died from the products of tobacco corporations, they are now applying to global warming. One of the more common PR methods is known as PR’s 3Ds: deny that global warming exists at all; and when this is no longer possible, move to deflect, claiming that climate change is not really that severe an issue; and when this stops working, move to delay, just adapt to global warming and everything will be fine.
05/07/2022
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Climate Summit in US: A critical time for India in charting out its sustainable future https://counterview.org/2021/04/05/climate-summit-in-us-a-critical-time-for-india-in-charting-out-its-sustainable-future/ https://counterview.org/2021/04/05/climate-summit-in-us-a-critical-time-for-india-in-charting-out-its-sustainable-future/ India, being the third largest and still growing polluter of the atmospheric GHG content, has a critical role in the fight against global warming. It should become evidently clear to our policy makers that without India’s active and effective participation in reducing the global GHG emissions, the global target to achieve the 50% reduction in GHG levels by 2030 as compared to 2005 levels, and to achieve global net-zero level by 2050 will be impossible. It will not suffice for India to make repeated and rhetoric statements that it wants to be a leader in the fight against global warming.
India must not miss this chance to become a sort of a global icon in the fight against Global Warming, and also to chart out a sustainable and green pathway for its vast and highly vulnerable population?
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