by Oui
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Ed Milliband: "We are on track to lower expected 4 degree rise in global temperature to just 2.5 degrees."
Absent: Trump's USA - China's Xi - India's Modi ... responsible for 55% of global pollution.
The Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greets his Chilean counterpart, Gabriel Boric, at the COP30 Leaders' Summit in Belém, Brazil. (Image: Ricardo Stuckert / Palácio do Planalto, CC BY ND)
It is the first UN climate summit to be held in Latin America for 11 years.
Analysis of EU's New Clean Industrial Deal
The Clean Industrial Deal (CID) is the successor to the Green Deal | Second Term VDL |
During Ursula von der Leyen's first term as President of the European Commission, climate was one of the most important priorities. The ambitious Green Deal, led by Dutch Commissioner Frans Timmermans, symbolised the European view on climate action. An important objective of the Green Deal was to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. One of the means to accomplish this was the implementation of stricter European environmental rules. In recent years, however, resistance to these stricter rules has grown. For instance, in almost all of Europe, farmers took to the streets to protest. Mainly right-wing parties voiced their criticism, seeking to overturn the strict green policies. Nevertheless, climate and sustainability remain high on the European agenda, and the new European Commission is also committed to working on this issue.
However, the European Union (EU) currently seems to pay more attention to another issue: European competitiveness. The report by former President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi, published in September 2024, showed that the EU is, among other things, economically falling behind its competitors China and the United States. Draghi proposed various solutions, such as investing more in innovation. He also identified the high energy price as an important challenge for the EU. Regarding fossil fuels, Europe is largely dependent on imports. Geopolitical tensions and the use of gas as a geopolitical weapon by Russia worsened the situation. There are also several inefficiencies in the functioning of the European energy market, which have contributed to the higher prices.
These two issues may seem difficult to reconcile. Meeting stricter environmental regulations is challenging for European companies, which can hamper their economic position. However, the results of the Draghi report contribute to the European Commission's mission to simultaneously achieve sustainable prosperity and improve the EU's competitiveness. The Draghi report already advocated a common plan for decarbonisation (reducing carbon emissions) and competitiveness. Draghi stated that the global drive for decarbonisation is a growth opportunity for the European industry. Although Chinese competition in, for example, clean tech and electric vehicles is fierce, the EU is still the world leader in clean technologies. Therefore, if Europe wants to maintain this leading role, it is important to continue focusing on these sectors.
Greenhouse gas emissions soar - with China, US and India most at fault | The Guardian - 3 Dec. 2023 |
Electricity generation in China and India, and oil and gas production in the US, have produced the biggest increases in global greenhouse gas emissions since 2015, when the Paris climate agreement was signed, new data has shown.
Emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, have also risen, despite more than 100 countries signing up to a pledge to reduce the gas, according to data published by the Climate Trace project.
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Carbon emissions from fossil fuels will hit record high in 2022 | Carbon Brief |
The European Union Backtracks On Green Energy Transition as Ukraine War Starts to Bite
Geopolitics of Green Energy
Will some smaller countries become new power brokers?
The postwar, U.S.-dominated geopolitical order shaped by oil is yielding to a new system built on carbon-free renewable energy and electric vehicles. In the emerging international scramble for so-called green energy, China is leading, with its control over many supplies of minerals essential for batteries, wind turbines and other technologies. China is also key to addressing climate change because its coal-powered economy creates more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions than any other country.
To counter China, the United States is rallying allies and friendly mineral-rich countries to forge alternative supply chains that can enable green energy industries to scale up. And, faced with Russian aggression in Ukraine, Europe is shedding energy ties to Moscow and expanding its domestic wind and solar power sources. Clean hydrogen may ...
STUBBORN IDEALISM
Geopolitics of the Energy Transition - Energy Security | IRENA |
The acceleration of a renewables-based transition relies on our collective ability to prioritise actions around key enablers such as the modernisation and expansion of infrastructure, policy and market adaptation, and institutional and human capacities. All these areas are strongly linked to energy security, which is still predominantly viewed through the lens of a fossil fuel-dominated era and its geopolitical landscape. Given the rise of renewables, IRENA's members have requested an exploration of the implications of this shift for energy security.
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