The Activist, Cop 26, Glasgow, 2021

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A safe and fair future for all can be delivered at COP27

A safe and fair future for all can be delivered at COP27

The burning question at the upcoming 27th UN Climate Conference (COP27) is whether richer, historically more polluting governments are going to pay up for the loss and damage caused by climate change. With final preparations underway, Greenpeace said significant progress can be made on the justice and support countries most impacted by past, present and future climate disasters deserve. The…

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National Security and Climate Change: Behind the U.S. Pursuit of Military Exemptions to the Kyoto Protocol [Part 12]

Continued from part 11

The U.S. delegates had received partial exemptions in Kyoto. Some called this a mockery of the U.N. climate process and posited that military emissions were so large that they wanted an exemption. They said that this resulted in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change treating military emissions differently than other kinds of emissions.[23] Despite this victory for the Pentagon, the Kyoto Protocol was not ratified by the U.S. Senate. Scholars John Peterson and Mark A. Pollack surmised that due to the political weakness of President Clinton after his impeachment in Congress in late 1998, his advisers decided to not send the climate agreement to the Senate.[24]

This post is reprinted from the National Security Archive website and my History Hermann WordPress blog. Archived here and here.

Journalists have written that the military exemptions in the Kyoto Protocol were “eliminated” under the 2015 Paris Agreement. It was reported that the agreement did not require countries to supply full data on military emissions or to cut these emissions. It was also said that the exemptions were made moot for the U.S. when it pulled out of the Paris Agreement in 2020, although the U.S. rejoined the agreement in 2021. Most countries reportedly agreed with the decision to include language in the Paris Agreement, which changed how emissions were reported. Certain researchers have argued that since reporting military emissions is voluntary, it leads to what they call a “military emissions gap.”

Sarah E. Light, a business ethics scholar, has argued that while the military appears to not be the friend of the environment in its massive energy use, it has a complex relationship with the environment, and has the potential to “make an enormous impact on climate change policy.” She terms this the military-environmental complex, saying the military can make strides in environmental protection and sustainability, which may require it to challenge its “long-held beliefs” about energy consumption.[25]

While the Kyoto Protocol expired at the end of 2020,[26] the Pentagon declared in 2021 that it considered climate change to be a “national security priority.” It drafted plans for climate adaptation and stated that the changing climate is already affecting military readiness.[27] Even so, energy consumption from the military continued to be excluded and not included in national totals.[28] This is despite non-governmental organizations like Staygrounded stating that emissions from “military aviation are likely significant, unchecked and virtually ignored.”[29] It is unlikely that the Pentagon, which emitted almost 52 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in fiscal year 2020 alone, the equivalent of 11.2 million automobiles[30], will get behind a proposal of all countries to submit emissions from warfare and military operations, as the Bolivian delegation asked for in 2011 and activists called for at COP-26, anytime soon.[31]

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अपने पूरे जीवन में पहली बार खेती में हुई इतनी कम पैदावार, पढ़ें ऐसा क्यों कह रहे हैं किसान

अपने पूरे जीवन में पहली बार खेती में हुई इतनी कम पैदावार, पढ़ें ऐसा क्यों कह रहे हैं किसान

गौरतलब है कि सूखे और अधिक वर्षा जैसी परिस्थितियां एक दशक पहले बिल्कुल असमान्य बात थी. पर अब यह सामान्य हो चली है, अब किसानों को हर साल इससे जूझना पड़ रहा है. गेहूं की खेती Image Credit source: File Photo देश में इस साल गेहूं की पैदावार में भारी कमी आई है, गेहूं और आटा के कीमतों में तेजी आई है. इस साल गर्मियों में मौसम में चलने वाले के लिए गर्म हवा के कारण गेहूं की फसल को काफी नुकसान पहुंता है.…

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Climate Change Progress

Climate Change Progress

It seems to me…. “The specter of climate change threatens worsening natural disasters, rapid urbanization, forced migration, and economic hardship for the most vulnerable.  Despite significant global advances, inability to effectively address epidemics and health emergencies still prevail and continuously threaten global health security and economic development.”  ~ Tedros Adhanom[1]. After…

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Cop 26- final choices

Patrick Troughton guests as ruthless racketeer George, out to silence the man who can identify his brother as a murderer, in Dial 999: Key Witness (1.26, ABC, 1959)

actually Bourbon had so many chances of getting outed as a NOC, even if we're not counting the movies

like, both of the people he most worked with (Scotch and Rye) were found out as NOCs, which would personally make me suspicious of him, and the members of the black organization are way more wary about NOCs

not only that, but Akemi Miyano is his childhood friend? she could have let slip something about him and his cover would be blown

there's the time where Taka'aki knew where he was and that Kuroda had to act too, because if he was too late to act, his cover would have been blown in front of Rum of all people

not to mention all the time he can be seen with Kazami? or the fact he uses the same car as Amuro Tooru and Furuya Rei?

you should still vote for 99.9% hitler because that's better than 100% hitler 🤩 i fucking hate americapilled people

Mahmoud Mohieldin : It's necessary to mobilize more investments to enhance the resilience of infrastructure

Mahmoud Mohieldin : It’s necessary to mobilize more investments to enhance the resilience of infrastructure

Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, stressed the need to mobilize more investments needed to enhance the resilience of infrastructure in the face of climate changes, especially in light of some of tensions that the global financing environment is witnessing and the lack of support directed to…

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"2.6° Celsius" - A couple of years ago on the occasion of the COP-26 climate-change conference I made the drawing, "1.5° Celsius", inspired by artworks created by activist-visual-artists at the time. About a year later I thought about making, "2.6° Celsius". Didn't come around to actually doing it until a few moments ago...

...and seeing as COP-28 was just opened a couple of days ago, maybe I should have instead made the left hand have eight fingers (instead of just six), lol 😅😂

Josephine Skriver & more at The Sidaction Gala Dinner in Paris - January 26, 2012.

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the thing is that if you read politically minded art from the 80s you will go WHOA! they really did that! and... whoa.... they really did that....

it’s so so so weird to go back home and visit normies living normie life and realizing that that’s so far disconnected from the life I’m living and that our goals and motives and day to day lives are so fundamentally different that it’s actually hard to relate to them and talk to them normally