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Showing posts with label COP24. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COP24. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Australia performs very poorly in 2019 Climate Change Performance Index

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Australia was ranked 55 out of 60 countries in the Climate Change Performance Index published in December 2018 during COP24 UN Climate Con...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Paris Agreement Rulebook (mostly) delivered at COP24 but ambition still lacking

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Well The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice - COP24 - did give us a deal, it did provide the Paris Rulebook (mostly), bu...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Sydney and Melbourne join Powering Past Coal Alliance at COP24

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The Powering Past Coal Alliance announced on Friday that Sydney and Melbourne had joined the Alliance at an event: Accelerating the global...

Stop Adani raised at COP24 in youth climate action side event

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17 year old Toby Thorpe, from Hobart, a member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC), raised the need to stop the Adani coal mi...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Climate emergency: "We cannot solve the crisis without treating it as a crisis" Greta Thunberg warns COP24 Plenary

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"You are not mature enough to tell it like it is, even that burden you leave to us children. But I don't care about being unpopul...

Pacific and Climate Vulnerable Concerns over lack of ambition at COP24 given the climate emergency

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Pacific Island Nations, Least Developed Countries, and Climate Vulnerable Forum have all raised concerns over the level of ambition by the...

Poland wins Colossal Fossil award of #COP24, while Pacific nations provide a Ray of Light

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No surprises here that host Country Poland has received the Colossal Fossil Award of COP24 for it's behaviour incongruent with a clima...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Deciphering Australia's High Level statement to COP24 by Melissa Price

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As I watched and listened to Australian Environment Minister Melissa Price statement on behalf of Australia to the High Level Segment of t...

Fossil Award to Australia for not ruling out Kyoto carbon credits for Paris target use

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It just wouldn't be a United Nations Climate Change conference COP in recent years without Australia at the Fossil of the Day Awards. ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Climate policies on the rise globally, but ambition level still lacking

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The latest assessment of country emissions and climate policies aggregated globally shows that there is still a substantial gap to meet, a...

Egypt wins Fossil Award for being dead set on no-ambition strategy in Talanoa

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Well today's Fossil Award came from the leftfield. But on some days the least expected step up to be the worst, who does the most to...

Tracking Australia's Environment Minister Melissa Price at COP24

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So what is Australia's Environment Minister Melissa Price getting up to at COP24? Attending the Umbrella Group meetings, photo opps wi...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Two Fossils Awards: Developed Countries for lack of Loss and Damage climate finance, and Austria for facilitating coal subsidies

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Some unusual suspects today. While everyone was looking at SBSTA discussion on to 'note' or 'welcome' the IPCC special rep...

US clean coal side-event with Australian ambassador disrupted at COP24

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The Australian Ambassador for the Environment, Patrick Suckling, appeared on a panel for a US government side-event pushing clean coal tec...
Monday, December 10, 2018

What is in a word? Lots when it comes to welcoming the IPCC special report on 1.5C to #COP24

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During negotiations on Saturday at the UN climate change conference fossil fuel major countries blocked welcoming the IPCC Special report ...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

USA gets the Fossil Award for arguing against inclusion of mention of human rights

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Eleanor Roosevelt would be turning in her grave at the current US Administration antics at COP24. Yes, the USA picks up today's Foss...
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Fossil Awards: to Germany over progress on emission targets, and Switzerland over climate finance

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Two Fossil Awards today. The first placed Fossil Award to Germany for failing to make substantial progress on it's 2020 targets, fail...
Friday, December 7, 2018

Are human rights being included in Paris Agreement rulebook at COP24?

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Civil society organisations fought hard at the United Nations Climate Change conference COP21 in Paris in 2015 for human rights obligation...

Arab group wins (again) #FossiloftheDay at COP24 for being not okay with IPCC 1.5C report

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Well the Arab Group is off to a great start this Conference of the Parties (COP) in Poland with a second fossil award. This time it was ...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Guest Post: Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high

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Pep Canadell , CSIRO ; Corinne Le Quéré , University of East Anglia ; Glen Peters , Center for International Climate and Environment Resea...