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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. 2023 will be remembered as the hottest year ever, the year of extreme weather events, heat waves, droughts, devastating fires, floods, the year of the criminalization of climate activists and one of the United Nations Climate Change most controversial ever he brought at the beginning of the end of the era of fossil fuels, without however putting their gradual elimination on paper. The agreement reached at COP28 and our future In early 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) spoke peak oil, gas and coal consumption will be exceeded for the first time before 2030.“It's not a question of 'if', but 'how soon' - and the sooner it happens, the better for all of us,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA.According to a scenario proposed by the International Energy Agency, based on the policies declared by the governments of various states around the wo...

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 weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In recent days the Sultan, Al Jaber, head of the next United Nations Climate Conference, COP28, which will be held from 30 November to 12 December in Dubai, organized two days of pre-COP talks in Abu Dhabi.Many have defined them crucial.Why? Because these conversations came in a very particular context:after a summer characterized by prolonged heat waves, droughts, storms, floods;during the war between Israel and Hamas;following the publication of a series of studies and analyzes on the state of the melting of glaciers, on the trend of CO2 emissions, on deforestation, on global warming which are in some ways disheartening. A recent study on Nature found that extreme heat waves in Western Europe increased faster than the 170 climate simulations analyzed by the research expected.Extreme weather events follow one another non-stop, we know what we have to do, yet there is still a strong 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...