COP28

A historic agreement and equally disappointing.COP28, the United Nations Climate Conference in Dubai, agrees with the climate movements:the climate crisis is the fossil fuel crisis.But the countries that signed the agreement do not follow through with this admission.A historic agreement, because for the first time fossil fuels are indicated as the main cause of the climate crisis;disappointing and devastating for the commitments made, or rather not made.With winners and losers. COP28:the transition begins, but with many concessions to the fossil fuel industry He wins the oil and gas industry who rejoices because there is no clear obligation to "abandon fossil fuels" and there are many loopholes in order to continue to exist;they win the United States and China, the world's two largest emitters that can continue to produce oil and build coal plants;wins Sultan Al Jaber, the president of COP28 and of the state oil company of the United Arab Emirates, which obtained an agreem...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “Beyond imagination”, “Farcical”, “Lies”, “When you put Count Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank…”.The statements made public by COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber have sparked a wave of global disapproval Guardian and from Center for Climate Reporting last Sunday. Two weeks ago during an online meeting, moderated by Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, now an important supporter of the ecological transition, Al Jaber - who, in addition to the United Nations Climate Conference underway in Dubai, is also head of Adnoc, the national oil company of the United Arab Emirates, and Masdar, the state renewable energy company – he stated [min.4] that there is no scientific evidence to demonstrate that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and that phasing out fossil fuels would not allow for a sustainable development unless...

COP, the United Nations Climate Conference, is probably the only place where, not at all delighted – given that everything could have been different and everything could have been done more courageously and better, but above all earlier – I will stand up and applaud an oilman, almost in tears I will embrace Ferdinand, he is truly in tears while hiding his face in his hands, and speaking in the plural I will ask the friends I will say goodbye to and see each other again in a year according to this timetable of our own:what do you think?What do we think?What do we do now? If there is one thing that this COP has demonstrated, the Spanish Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, told me, it is the power of consensus.What's more, he did it when there was no one left to believe it.Not even we, the press, the so-called guardians of democracy.Because on the penultimate day, a reporter asked whether the rules should be changed for the sake of negotiations.At the moment they re...

The phase-out, the gradual abandonment of fossil fuels, was not included in the final text of Global Stocktake (GST). The document on which its greatest expectations were focused COP28 it was approved on the morning of December 13, one day after the work was scheduled to end. However, fossil fuels unmentionable for oil producing countries e unnamed in the texts of the last three decades of United Nations climate conferences, for the first time appear, although not in the formula that many would have liked:there were almost 130 countries lined up for the phase out, but the resistance of those oil producers did not allow more. The text invite (calls on, a terminology deemed weak in the jargon of climate diplomacy, there is no urgency) the parts to make one transition that you bring them away from fossil fuels, that it is “fair and orderly”, with decisive action in this “critical decade”.The English term on which the agreement was reached is new, it was not present in the drafts ci...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. More than 70,000 diplomats, politicians, business leaders and environmental advocates from around the world are expected to attend the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference which this year will be held in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, from November 30 to December 12. In fact, every year delegates from almost 200 states meet to discuss how to limit the increase in global temperatures and avoid the most disastrous consequences of climate change.This year's conference could be especially important as carbon emissions continue to hit record highs and the planet approaches potential tipping points that could send global warming out of control and trigger irreversible changes. Life on Earth is 'under siege' by man The Dubai summit comes after a summer of extreme weather events at all latitudes and in the midst of wars in Europe and the Middle East which could further...