The countries committed to permanently ending fossil fuel use now far outnumber those against. Their problem? Their chief organising conference, the 30-year-old COP conferences, comes with vetoes from the petro-states. This year, 1,600 fossil industry lobbyists attended, and they managed to get any mention of fossil fuels scrubbed from the final agreement.
This ridiculous state of affairs can’t continue, and this is a classic move to break the deadlock. Sideline COP & the petrostates, by creating an alternative, they don’t have power in.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Nepal, Netherlands, Panama, Spain, Slovenia, Vanuatu and Tuvalu.
Good start!!
Where’s Germany? The damn Green party better step up!
And of course Sweden isn’t on there. Fucking joke of a government we have right now.
As a Canadian, I’d like to apologies that our cheap imitation of Texas is beholden to its American owners and this precludes our involvement. I’m sick and weary of so much concentrated stupid, and let me add my apology to the list for the embarrassment in our midst.
We’re in a terrible spot right now, but we’re counting on the local aborigines to pass up so.much.payola and block this new greasy pipeline, and it’s 50-50.
Haida Nation is not going to allow tankers on northern BC coast.
https://www.wcel.org/blog/support-oil-tanker-moratorium-act-has-history-its-side
fuck, at this point I’m sick and wary of what they might do, not just weary of it
You’ve listed 24 countries but none of them are the UK which is in the title (as Britain). Something’s off or someone else joined.
I thought it was strange, but it’s what was listed.
Mexico,UK and Australia have extensive fossil fuel resources/production. Though Australia is a global leader in solar policy that has permitted 0 electricity rates for a couple of hours per day. Mexico is extremely vulnerable to US oligarchist pressure, and UK is under direct US rulership. China should be part of the conference because it is the most economically capable of both delivering aid, and alternative energy production.
China burns more coal than anyone else put together.
That’s because the west exported all of its manufacturing there.
China is among the highest in raw carbon emissions, but has an extremely low per-capita emissions rate. Compared to the US, who’s per-capita emissions rate is among the highest in the world.
Plus, China is making a sharp pivot towards the development of renewable energy, electric vehicles, and transit oriented development.
And the global supply chain its been building, whatever one might think of the Belt and Road initiative, allows them to cheaply sell things like solar panels and rail infrastructure back to the countries supplying them with raw materials. Allowing those countries to electrify in such a way as to skip over more carbon heavy forms of power generation.
There’s context here, and saying “But China burns so much coal!” doesn’t tell the whole story. They’re not burning it in a vacuum, for funsies.
They’re a full eighth of our entire species population and a massive manufacturing hub.
No.
Shit.
There one of the minority of nations that are reducing emissions despite massive energy consumption growth
China manufactures more shit for us to consume than everyone else put together too, I’m pretty sure.
They’re not exactly burning a bunch of coal in a vacuum.