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/
https://countercurrents.org/2022/08/scientists-petition-epa-to-take-bold-steps/
Scientists are working on a plan to go beyond the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) recently signed by President Biden, which is supposed to tackle global warming, which, in turn, is tearing the planet apart, piece-by-piece. There’s more info on this very important petition filed by scientists to follow below, including a request for supporting signatures.
The planet has turned into a heat machine. It’s not only America that’s sweltering. According to NASA and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, the planet as a whole is trapping heat twice as fast as 15 years ago. That’s more than threatening; it’s an outright emergency requiring the big guns.
Of even more immediate concern, as the planet dries out, major reservoirs fail, power outages hit, rivers run dry, and tens of thousands of people scramble for water. This is happening right now well ahead of several years build-out of the Inflation Reduction Act.
The vastness and reach of this existential climate threat is finally sinking in with the public as developed mature countries are reduced to third-world status, people standing in line with bottles and jugs waiting for water trucks, for example, more than 200 towns and villages in France and Italy have run out of water. Local reservoirs are dry. They’re gone!
This dystopian illustration is spreading across the globe. The real question is whether there’s enough time to press ahead with the Inflation Reduction Act. It needs to be rapidly accelerated with considerably more funding. Plus, this same climate bill also promotes fossil fuels. There’s something unsettling and untenable about that.
10/08/1022
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DECADE OF CHANGE: India in the Climate Challenged World (Climate Conference 2022) Apr , 2022
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF-zP31hsPw0mhZPn_xpWLMkIm5ckQFhK
Mr Ravi Pandit, Chairman, KPIT Technologies and Trustee, PIC, Pune -
Prof Amitav Mallik, Conference Convenerand Trustee, PIC -
Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, Scientist, IITM, Pune
Dr Priyadarshini Karve, National Convener, INECC, Visakhapatnam
Ms Archana Soreng, Research Officer, TISS, India
Mr Yash Agrawal, Assistant Professor,Somaiya College, Mumbai
Mr Prithviraj Lingayat, Climate Collective Pune, Pune
Mr Aaditya Thackeray, MOECC, Government of Maharashtra Dr Vijay Kelkar, Vice President, PIC, Pune
Mr Siddharth Bhagwat, EECC Researcher, PIC,
Panel Talk by Dr Deepa Badrinarayana, Professor, Chapman University, California
Panel Talk by Dr Gurudas Nulkar, Trustee, Ecological Society, Pune
Mr Gagan Sidhu, Director, CEEW- CEF, Delhi - Session 3
Climate Collective Pune
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
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