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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: COP26 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: COP26 en Sun, 31 May 2026 07:21:47 +0000 chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-369524 Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:41:55 +0000 chdot 369524@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ “ COP26 feels like a lifetime ago. At the summit on the banks of the Clyde, the UK Government’s Alok Sharma looked pretty distraught when the Indian government changed key wording of the ‘Glasgow Agreement’. A deal for world leaders to agree to “phase out” fossil fuels had been watered down to “phase down” the polluting single-use fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. Mr Sharma, the president of COP26, looked visibly upset by the setback. Two years ago, when the climate crisis was centre-stage in Scotland, the UK Government, at least with its optics, cared about the climate crisis. “ <a href="https://archive.is/c4kqk" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/c4kqk</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-358764 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:37:38 +0000 chdot 358764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/28/impact-of-climate-crisis-much-worse-than-predicted-says-alok-sharma" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/28/impact-of-climate-crisis-much-worse-than-predicted-says-alok-sharma</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-358369 Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:34:32 +0000 chdot 358369@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ “ Last month, the UK government overrode the Welsh government to permit the massive extension of a coalmine. This will produce 40m tonnes of coal: in other words, it’s almost 15 times bigger than the proposed new mine in Cumbria. Yet the media, perhaps because so many English journalists struggle to locate Wales on the map, has scarcely mentioned it. Also in January, the government approved a new oil and gas field called the Abigail. Last week, it overruled the local authority to force through an extension of Bristol airport. Far be it from me to accuse this upstanding administration of insincerity, but you could almost imagine that its commitments at the climate summit last November did not mean what they appeared to mean. “ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/09/costs-going-green-tories-energy-bills-environmental-levies-tax" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/09/costs-going-green-tories-energy-bills-environmental-levies-tax</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-357867 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:37:12 +0000 chdot 357867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/11/boris-johnson-climate-action-net-zero-conservative-party" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/11/boris-johnson-climate-action-net-zero-conservative-party</a> LaidBack on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-357082 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:16:17 +0000 LaidBack 357082@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Is he going to embargo some countries by putting them on a trading black list? Like a super Brexit type of blockade where you just make trading difficult just to punish them? chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-357074 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 15:43:49 +0000 chdot 357074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/23/uk-governments-climate-pledges-cop26-president-alok-sharma" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/23/uk-governments-climate-pledges-cop26-president-alok-sharma</a> crowriver on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-356999 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:56:04 +0000 crowriver 356999@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Beeb web site has some decent coverage of the crisis in BC. But it also has this: --- The boom in buying a car without ever leaving your sofa <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59295353" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59295353</a> LaidBack on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-356993 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 13:53:22 +0000 LaidBack 356993@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ They're still assessing. Some say it's a once in 500 year event. TransCanada Highway out. Rail too with reports that rail will have to divert via Portland Oregon to go round. Lot of freight on trains in Canada. Tar sands pipeline construction halted. Vancouver port was cut off. <a href="https://vancouversun.com/opinion/terry-glavin-the-scale-of-the-disaster-unfolding-in-b-c-is-unprecedented/wcm/834d74a9-0c38-459d-be9a-cab0dcc24c03" rel="nofollow">https://vancouversun.com/opinion/terry-glavin-the-scale-of-the-disaster-unfolding-in-b-c-is-unprecedented/wcm/834d74a9-0c38-459d-be9a-cab0dcc24c03</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=8#post-356991 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 13:12:47 +0000 chdot 356991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ “ sort of event. That is a worrying next step. 'What can we do?' 'No-one from UK is involved so not too bad.' “ Not disagreeing, I don’t know if I don’t know ‘how bad’ recent events are in Canada (compared with, say, recent flooding in Germany), due to under/disinterested reporting, but I think it’s clear (not just UK) that there are increasingly elements of both ‘oh well that’s the new normal’ and ‘can’t do anything, so not my problem’. Of course not helped (UK and elsewhere) by ‘business as usual/more of the same/ASAP pronouncements and polices from Govs. It’s clear that ‘the Market will solve the problems’ isn’t true - both because market/business/capitalism isn’t that interested - except in bits that might make money - after Gov (taxpayers…) has paid for development/startup costs. It’s also because it’s not that simple. ‘ALL we need to do is plant enough of the right trees in the right places and capture ALL current and legacy carbon and pump it under the North Sea’. Yeah right. fimm on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356990 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:46:51 +0000 fimm 356990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I have cousins in the Vancouver area - one of my uncles and his wife (now both dead) moved out there before I was born. I'm not in contact with my cousins beyond being friends on Facebook... SRD on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356989 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:26:44 +0000 SRD 356989@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ off topic digression i was at an event on the weekend - sat at a table with three retired couples (medical professionals, teachers etc) and a colleague who works in aid. all scottish. all of them also had several family members based in canada and/or had studied/worked there. maybe just that generation? wild. LaidBack on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356988 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:15:40 +0000 LaidBack 356988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Notice the low key reaction to what is happening in BC? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/nov/18/canada-storm-vancouver-air-force-arrives-to-help-residents-in-british-columbia-live" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/nov/18/canada-storm-vancouver-air-force-arrives-to-help-residents-in-british-columbia-live</a> I think that apart from the actual severity of damage done to Canada's western infrastructure the actual reaction says we are 'resigned' to this sort of event. That is a worrying next step. 'What can we do?' 'No-one from UK is involved so not too bad.' ' Canada is far away from us...' 'Not as if we are connected...(!)' 'Global Britain' would like to think itself interested / a friend of a country with loads of Scottish connections. In the past such events would have resonated politically. I think they still do to the public with friends and relations there but this news is being downplayed. Wonder how it would have been reacted to if it had happened during COP26? @SRD will be getting a transatlantic slant on it although NFL is closer to us than to BC. chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356941 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 09:26:58 +0000 chdot 356941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/16/indigenous-climate-activists-cop26-endangers-native-communities" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/16/indigenous-climate-activists-cop26-endangers-native-communities</a> LaidBack on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356886 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:33:17 +0000 LaidBack 356886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19721151.nicola-sturgeon-finally-says-cambo-oil-field-shouldnt-get-green-light/" rel="nofollow">https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19721151.nicola-sturgeon-finally-says-cambo-oil-field-shouldnt-get-green-light/</a> People reading that in many ways. Does force other politicians to make a statement on whether they think one more oilfield is OK while telling people in coal producing countries they should change their ways. crowriver on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356874 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:49:37 +0000 crowriver 356874@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Tories sensing that the petrolhead vote needs shoring up. Reckon they already have most of those voters though? The equivalent who vote SNP are likely to be put off by the union flag waving routine? Are they hoping that the "Ah good I can keep driving everywhere I just need to go electric" brigade will vote Tory as a protest if trunk road building slows down? I mean, I suppose it might happen, but seems a bit unlikely. Perhaps hoping to convert a few current Labour voters who are also keen drivists? Yodhrin on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356869 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:00:46 +0000 Yodhrin 356869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ It doesn't have to be true, just truthy, Tories love a bit of truthiness. chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356868 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:44:27 +0000 chdot 356868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Really?? “ THE SCOTTISH Conservatives are calling on the SNP Government to commit to support improvements to crucial trunk roads – amid claims they have been “neglected” since Nicola Sturgeon’s party came to power 14 years ago. “ <a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19718939.tories-urge-snp-commit-road-building-deal-greens/" rel="nofollow">https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19718939.tories-urge-snp-commit-road-building-deal-greens/</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356863 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:02:42 +0000 chdot 356863@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Looks like SNP Bad, Greens Worse mischief making. It will be interesting to see how N ‘I think COP26 was important’ S handles this. ‘We agree that in some parts of Scotland alternatives to private car use are poor or non existent. We will continue to maintain and improve the road network as necessary. In addition we will ensure provision of and access to PT is improved significantly. However we are aware that most journeys and transport choices are made in urban areas where, in most cases, the present infrastructure that has evolved over decades seriously disadvantages people choosing and or wanting to choose walking, bus/train use and cycling. So will now be putting considerable time and resources into realising the legally binding commitment to reduce car mileage by 20%.’ Or something. gembo on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356862 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:41:28 +0000 gembo 356862@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Not many buses in Achiltibuie, maybe the post bus! But no need to drive in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Dundee, Humberside. Morningsider on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356861 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:35:20 +0000 Morningsider 356861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Tory motion for debate at the Scottish Parliament this week: <blockquote>Graham Simpson: Delivering promised road infrastructure across Scotland That the Parliament recognises that driving in most parts of Scotland is a necessity; believes that the Cooperation Agreement between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Green Party Parliamentary Group should not prevent or delay the delivery of any future road projects, and calls upon the Scottish Government to reaffirm its commitment to dualling the A9 and A96 and commit to upgrading the A1, A75, A77, A82, A83 and A90. </blockquote> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356848 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:09:45 +0000 chdot 356848@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ “ Greta Thunberg has said the eventual agreement struck at COP26 was "very vague" with many loopholes. The 18-year-old - who came to Glasgow for the summit - said it only succeeded in "watering down the blah blah blah." “ <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59296859.amp" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59296859.amp</a> gembo on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356826 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:59:17 +0000 gembo 356826@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Up in chilly Jocko Land somewhere Wiff Waff Pass the port chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356824 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:36:32 +0000 chdot 356824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/environment/cop26-prime-minister-boris-johnson-mistakenly-says-climate-summit-was-held-in-edinburgh-during-downing-street-press-conference-3457688" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/environment/cop26-prime-minister-boris-johnson-mistakenly-says-climate-summit-was-held-in-edinburgh-during-downing-street-press-conference-3457688</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356797 Sun, 14 Nov 2021 09:33:54 +0000 chdot 356797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ “ Meanwhile, others argue we need fewer cars on the road - walking and cycling more could also be among the changes we make. “ <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59263761" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59263761</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356796 Sun, 14 Nov 2021 08:31:24 +0000 chdot 356796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/14/the-pressure-for-change-is-building-reactions-to-the-glasgow-climate-pact" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/14/the-pressure-for-change-is-building-reactions-to-the-glasgow-climate-pact</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356795 Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:37:41 +0000 chdot 356795@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ “ Final #COP26 text leaves 1.5 degrees on life support & fails the Global South - $100bn still not delivered, no $$ mechanism for #LossAndDamage. Global leaders have failed. But it doesn’t end here - we’ll mobilise like never before to put #ClimateJustice at heart of future process “ <a href="https://twitter.com/carolinelucas/status/1459615975595204620" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/carolinelucas/status/1459615975595204620</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356794 Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:36:51 +0000 chdot 356794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ “ COP26 climate deal includes historic reference to fossil fuels but doesn't meet urgency of the crisis “ <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/13/world/cop26-agreement-final-climate-intl/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/13/world/cop26-agreement-final-climate-intl/index.html</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356793 Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:23:20 +0000 chdot 356793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Thread <a href="https://twitter.com/envoyrmi/status/1459631013760483330" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/envoyrmi/status/1459631013760483330</a> chdot on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356791 Sat, 13 Nov 2021 22:44:31 +0000 chdot 356791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ OFFICIAL <a href="https://twitter.com/cop26/status/1459610589433638919" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/cop26/status/1459610589433638919</a> gembo on "COP26" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19981&page=7#post-356788 Sat, 13 Nov 2021 20:52:41 +0000 gembo 356788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ India smash in with a new term for doing nothing - phase-down