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</font></div><div><div style=""><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2018 (December)</font></b></div><div style=""><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the UNFCCC COP24 in Katowice, Poland, delegates approve a “rule book” for moving</font></b></div><div style=""><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">forward with the Paris Agreement</font></b></div><div style=""><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 24th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">faces serious problems including the United States’ announced withdrawal from the Paris</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Agreement, violent protests in Paris against a fuel tax hike, expanding coal use around the world,</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and several countries’ backsliding on meeting the goals of the voluntary commitments made in</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paris in 2015. And for the first time in the history of the UN process of responding to climate</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">change, the Conference fails to formally accept a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate Change that it had commissioned, on the impact of a 1.5o C. increase in global</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">temperatures [see 2018 (October)]. Saudi Arabia, the United States, Russia and Kuwait join in</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">objecting to “welcoming” the report, agreeing only to “take note” of it.* The parties’ final</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">agreement on a “rule book” for going forward, including some flexibility on the mandatory</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">emissions reporting requirements for the poorest countries, and confirming methods for</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">uniformly accounting for greenhouse gas inventories* is described by The Washington Post as</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“somewhat miraculous.” </font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is generally acknowledged that the world is not on track to meet the</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">goal of keeping global temperatures from increasing 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by 2100. While activists’ hopes are dashed that participants would commit to specific higher</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">voluntary reductions at this meeting, several countries, including India, Canada, Ukraine, and</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jamaica, pledge to increase their commitments by 2020. And in response to the rejection of</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the IPCC’s 1.5C report, the EU, Canada, New Zealand and scores of developing countries join a</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“High Ambition Coalition,” pledging to toughen their existing commitments to help the world to</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">stay within a 1.5C rise in global warming. Wendel Trio, director of the Climate Action Network</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Europe, is quoted in The Guardian: “The spirit of Paris is back. The statement will boost greater</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ambition at the crunch time of these so far underwhelming talks. … We call upon the countries </font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">that have not signed the statement so far to stop ignoring the science.” Frank Bainimarama, the</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">prime minister of Fiji, warns that by ignoring the IPCC report we will go down in history as “the</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">generation that blew it – that sacrificed the health of our world and ultimately betrayed humanity</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">because we didn’t have the courage and foresight to go beyond our short-term individual</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">concerns: craven, irresponsible and selfish.”* Comments Rupert Darwall in the Wall Street</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Journal: “As interest rates rise, renewable energy can’t compete without carbon pricing—</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">economists’ magic bullet to solve global warming. Therein lies the biggest cause of despair at</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Katowice. Thanks to French President Emmanuel Macron’s carbon-tax folly, politicians of all</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">stripes are likely to treat carbon pricing like the plague. … Reality has a way of fighting</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">back.”</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matt McGrath, “Climate change: COP24 fails to adopt key scientific report,” BBC News, December 8, 2018,</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46496967</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joshua Busby, “The latest global climate negotiations just finished. Here’s what happened,” Washington Post, December 17, 2018,</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/12/17/the-latest-global-climate-negotiations-just-finished-heres-whathappened/</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fiona Harvey, Ben Doherty and Jonathan Watts, “Climate change talks lead to heightened pledge to cut emissions,” Guardian,</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">December 12, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/12/un-chief-antonio-guterres-attempts-to-revive-flaggingclimate-change-talks</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rupert Darwall, “Defeat in the Air at the Climate Conference,” Wall Street Journal, December 18, 2018,</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.wsj.com/articles/defeat-in-the-air-at-the-climate-conference-11545178525</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">200B$ world bank</font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The World Is at a Crossroads’: Urgent Climate Talks Begin in Poland as Negotiators Meet a Day Early</font></h1></div><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url css-listicle-body-2622244324" data-elid="2622244324" data-authors="Olivia Rosane" data-headline="'The World Is at a Crossroads’: Urgent Climate Talks Begin in Poland as Negotiators Meet a Day Early" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="body-description"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">Negotiators in the climate talks <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/cop24-climate-2621562738.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">that will decide</a> the future of the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/paris-agreement" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Paris agreement</a> began meeting a day early in Katowice, Poland on Sunday as pressure builds to take meaningful global action against <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/climate-change" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate change</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46398057" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">BBC News reported</a>.</font></p><p>The 24th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/cop24" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">COP24</a>) is the first major international climate meeting since the UN's <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a> (IPCC) issued an<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-ipcc-report-2610866229.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> urgent report</a> that world leaders have only 12 years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 45 percent of 2010 levels if they want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Paris agreement set a goal of limiting warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius, and talks over the next two weeks will determine how the countries involved will move towards that goal.</p><p>"The world is at a crossroads and decisive action in the next two years will be crucial to tackle these urgent threats," the presidents of the last four UN climate talks warned in a first-of-its kind <a href="http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/this_2018_12_01_cop24_call_of_former_cop_presidents.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">statement</a> Sunday. "The challenges are there, as are the solutions. We require deep transformations of our economies and societies to build a better world for all. This must be powered by multilateral cooperation."</p><p>In a move BBC News called "unprecedented," Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, Moroccan politician Salaheddine Mezouar, former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and <a href="https://www.worldwildlife.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">World Wildlife Fund</a> climate and energy leader Manuel Pulgar Vidal of Peru issued the statement calling on decision makers in Katowice to up ambitious climate action by 2020 in order to meet the goals of the Paris agreement.</p><p>...</p></div></div><div style="">
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</div><div style=""><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">Trump Team Plans 'Sideshow on Coal' at UN Climate Talks</h1></div><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url css-listicle-body-2619873172" data-elid="2619873172" data-authors="Lorraine Chow" data-headline="Trump Team Plans 'Sideshow on Coal' at UN Climate Talks" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p>No one really expects the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-energy-commission-nominee-2619703706.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">coal-friendly</a> <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/trump" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a> administration to take significant action on <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate change</a>, but this is just trolling.</p><p>A new <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-accord-trump-exclusive/exclusive-at-u-n-climate-talks-trump-team-plans-sideshow-on-coal-idUSKCN1NK1MJ" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">exclusive from Reuters</a> claims that the president's team will "set up a side-event promoting <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/fossil-fuels" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fossil fuels</a>" at the global climate summit this December, aka COP 24, in Katowice, Poland.</p><p>Citing three sources, the American officials will "highlight the benefits of technologies that more efficiently burn fuels including <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">coal</a>," Reuters reported.</p><p>This sounds similar to what the U.S. delegation did last year at the COP 23 climate talks in Bonn, Germany. The so-called "clean fossil fuels" event was <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/protestors-cop23-bloomberg-2509352387.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">widely criticized</a> for promoting "false" global warming solutions such as <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/nuclear" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">nuclear</a> power, "clean coal" and carbon capture and storage or CCS. Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/930121983492280320" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">compared</a> it to "promoting tobacco at a cancer summit."</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed" /><p>The Katowice panel, scheduled possibly for Dec. 10., will include proponents of coal, natural gas and likely nuclear power, a source involved with planning the event told Reuters. There are currently no plans to include a representative from the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">renewable energy</a> industry, the source added.
</p><p>"Quite frankly, the U.S. is the only party to the convention that appears to be willing to push a rational discussion on the role of cleaner, more efficient fossil (fuels) and the role of civilian nuclear energy," the source told the news service.</p><p>The panel will be led by Wells Griffith, Trump's international energy and climate adviser, and include a U.S. Energy Department representative, according to Reuters.</p><p>The White House and the State Department, which represents the United States at the COP talks, did not respond to Reuters' request for a comment. </p><p>C<span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">OP 24 will be dedicated to the implementation of the</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/paris-agreement" target="self" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">Paris agreement</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">, which has been</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><a href="https://unfccc.int/process/the-paris-agreement/status-of-ratification" target="blank" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">ratified</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">by a vast majority of the world's governments.</span></p><p>The all-important Katowice summit will be held just months after a <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-ipcc-report-2610866229.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">dire climate report</a> from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that warned that the world has a very narrow 12-year window to drastically reduce consumption of fossil fuels and ramp up renewable energy sources such as wind and solar to avoid catastrophic global warming.</p><p>Trump, however, infamously intends to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-fracking-mining-national-forests-2612772313.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">continues to push</a>polluting, planet-warming fossil fuels. Just last month, the president said the climate will "<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-climate-scientists-political-agenda-2612537150.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">change back again</a>."</p><p>Under the terms of the Paris agreement, the earliest the U.S. can officially exit the pact is the day after the 2020 election.</p></div></div></div><div style="">
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