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CP Daily: Saturday December 9, 2023 – COP Special
‘It’s all about entitlement. Simple’: the rampant acts of tree vandalism on Australia’s foreshores | Paul Daley
Trees are a public asset. When they are illegally destroyed in pursuit of better views or property prices, the losses are many and profound
Woodford Bay on Sydney’s lower north shore, its exclusive white mansions and quaint boat sheds nestled into gnarly, urban bush abutting the harbour, has the type of serenity only lots of money can buy in Australia’s most ostentatiously wealthy city. Birdsong – of currawongs, magpies, kookaburras and gulls – is the bay’s bucolic daytime symphony, interrupted occasionally by the jarring cough of an outboard motor or car ignition.
By night you’d hear the metaphoric pin drop. And yet, confoundingly, nobody seems to have heard whoever, under night’s cover, recently illegally cut down almost 300 trees and hundreds of other plants on public bushland. Among the destroyed mature trees are eucalypts (including angophora), banksia and casuarina.
Continue reading...Cop28: China ‘would like to see agreement to substitute renewables for fossil fuels’
But country’s climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, would not say whether it would support phase-out wording in climate deal
China would like to see nations agree to substitute renewable energy for fossil fuels, the country’s chief climate official has said, as nations wrangled over the weekend on the wording of a deal on the climate crisis.
Xie Zhenhua, China’s climate envoy, would not be explicit on whether China supported or opposed a phase-out of fossil fuels, which more than 100 governments are pushing for at crucial climate talks, the Cop28 UN summit.
Continue reading...COP28: Momentum builds behind fossil phaseout in “wild” Global Stocktake language
COP28: A flag without a country – Marshall Islands calls for work on shipping emissions, even as maritime flagging trade earns revenue
COP28: Fossil-friendly nations back High Ambition Coalition declaration to end their use
COP28: UN carbon crediting rules heading towards adoption despite “melodrama” in negotiation rooms
COP28: Sweden and Switzerland announce carbon removals Article 6 cooperation
COP28: Brazil climbs, UK slips in latest climate change performance index
COP28: Most UN summit announcements will not result in meaningful emissions cuts, says report
Azerbaijan chosen to host Cop29 after fraught negotiations
Climate activists likely to be concerned by another fossil fuel-reliant country taking over summit presidency
Azerbaijan has been announced as the host of next year’s climate summit after fraught negotiations.
Under UN rules it was eastern Europe’s turn to take over the rotating presidency but the groups need to unanimously decide on the host. Russia had blocked EU countries and Azerbaijan and Armenia were blocking each other’s bids.
Continue reading...COP28: Australia needs to fund Nature Repair Market pilot projects to instil confidence
COP28: Finland pursues negative emissions around 2040 through “aggressive” carbon capture
COP28: Azerbaijan to be confirmed as host of next UN climate summit
Cop28 failing on climate adaptation finance so far, African group warns
Continent’s chief negotiator says an agreement for fair and equitable funding is a matter of life and death
Fair and equitable finance for climate adaptation is a matter of life and death for the African continent, but talks at Cop28 so far have failed to deliver, the chief negotiator for the African group has warned.
Adaptation is being discussed as part of the global stocktake (GST), the assessment of where the world is on delivering the commitments made in the 2015 Paris agreement. The long-awaited global goal on adaptation (GGA) – a collective commitment proposed by the African group in 2013 and established under the Paris agreement – to drive political action and finance for adaptation on the same scale as mitigation, is also due to be completed in Dubai.
Continue reading...Failure to agree fossil fuel phase-out at Cop28 ‘will push world into climate breakdown’
UK’s former climate chief Alok Sharma says phase-out crucial to limit global warming to 1.5C
Failure to agree a phase-out of fossil fuels at the UN Cop28 climate summit would push the world beyond the crucial 1.5C temperature limit and into climate breakdown, the UK’s former climate chief has warned.
Alok Sharma, who was president of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, said it was vital that governments made a clear commitment in the next few days to eliminate coal, oil and gas.
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