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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
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The net zero transition brings many changes and some opportunities. But it is not a silver bullet
The net zero transition is crucial to the planet, and to making the UK a greener and healthier place to live. Our ability to navigate it is underpinned by a high degree of public consensus, but maintaining that requires clear sightedness about the opportunities, and disruption, it brings. The latter won’t be in the form of large-scale job losses, with job change rather than destruction the norm. For example, 24 per cent of those working in emissions-intensive ‘brown’ jobs are large goods vehicle drivers – whose jobs will not disappear even as the vehicles they use become greener.
Instead, major disruption risks hitting people as consumers, as our net zero commitments require significant investment in low-carbon infrastructure that has to be paid for before benefits from lower operating costs arrive. In the 2020s, this is principally about making our homes more energy efficient. Here there is a risk of outright failure to accelerate the transition, which has stalled after a 90 per cent fall in insulation installations since 2013. In order to remain on track, the challenge facing policy makers will be to ensure the costs of insulating homes and installing heat pumps are fairly borne.
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The UK government is likely to miss its targets under the Paris climate agreement by a wide margin, analysis shows, dealing a devastating blow to Britain’s standing on the international stage.
Under current policies, the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be 59% lower in 2030 than they were in 1990 – but the country’s internationally agreed target is for a 68% reduction by the end of this decade. The gap is likely to leave Britain in breach of these commitments.
The 2030 emissions goal was agreed at Cop26, the UN climate summit hosted by the UK in Glasgow in 2021, and has been reaffirmed at Cop28, taking place in Dubai this week.
Failure to meet the UK’s commitments would hinder international efforts to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/05/uk-miss-paris-climate-targets-emissions
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Money offered so far falls far short of estimated $400bn in losses developing countries face each year
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Elements of new text are ‘fully unacceptable’, say EU climate chiefs
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COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates and For the Petrostates.” It is deeply offensive to all who have taken this process seriously. There are 24 hours left to show whose side the world is on: the side that wants to protect humanity’s future by kickstarting the orderly phase out of fossil fuels or the side of the petrostates and the leaders of the oil and gas companies that are fueling the historic climate catastrophe. In order to prevent COP28 from being the most embarrassing and dismal failure in 28 years of international climate negotiations, the final text must include clear language on phasing out fossil fuels. Anything else is a massive step backwards from where the world needs to be to truly address the climate crisis and make sure the 1.5°C goal doesn’t die in Dubai.
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Human destruction of nature is pushing the planet to a point of no return, and even a phase-out of fossil fuels will not stave off climate breakdown unless we also protect the natural world, one of the world’s top climate scientists has warned.
Johan Rockström, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told the Guardian: “Even if we phase out all fossil fuels, if we do not get involved in nature, [the destruction of natural landscapes and habitats] can make us lose what we all have agreed on the safe future for humanity on Earth – that is, to stay within the 1.5C limit. It’s really decisive, that we get it right on nature.”
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Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful
The Life Scientific Jim Al-Khalili chats to a 'solutions scientist' about how to solve our CO2 problem.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tbg5
She’s a professor at H-W
May or may not confirm/challenge opinions
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She works for Mercedes?
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More likely she just has the same first name as the lass that the motor car brand was named after (note the lack of an apostrophe in chdot's post).
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UK accused of ‘outrageous dereliction of leadership’ as climate change minister leaves conference
Fury as Graham Stuart returns to London as Caroline Lucas says UK has ‘obliterated its moral authority’
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One of the most intriguing, albeit unintended, consequences of doubling Scotland’s renewable energy capacity, is the opportunity that it affords our community and voluntary sector to become financially independent of the public purse. Whether the powers that be would consider that prospect a threat or an opportunity is increasingly moot because no one seems even remotely interested in discussing it. Setting aside the current system of ‘voluntary’ community benefit payments from developers (£5k per MW) which, considering the projected scale of expansion, is in serious need of a refresh, it is in ownership where the real potential lies. The fact that developers now routinely offer shared ownership as an added enticement to get their proposals over the line is the clue to the extraordinary profits being extracted from, rather than invested in, our communities. Full ownership by a community is however, the game changer. By way of illustration - Point and Sandwick Trust, owner of a small wind farm on Lewis, pays an average net dividend to its community of £1.1m pa. If the turbines had been privately owned, the community would have received a payment in the region of £45k. It’s chalk and cheese. What are we waiting for?
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Angus Hardie, Director
scottish community alliance
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Mixed news today in the UK on the hydrogen front – the Government has issued an update to its hydrogen strategy cancelling the Redcar Hydrogen Village Trial and approved hydrogen blending into the gas system. The first is good news, fully in line with what science, engineering and economics would dictate – the second is… not.
The Redcar decision deals a near-killer blow to hydrogen heating in the UK and kicks the legs out from under any idea that we will be moving to a hydrogen economy,
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uk-hydrogen-good-news-bad-michael-liebreich-v4x8c
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Climate justice
Despite progress at Cop28 in setting up a “loss and damage fund”, developing nations, which are most affected by the climate crisis but least to blame, say richer, industrialised countries are not paying enough to help them adapt and transition away from fossil fuels.
Future generations and other species
The biggest victims of the climate crisis remain under-represented in decision-making processes. Despite the record heat of 2023, this is still likely to be one of the coolest years in the lives of many young people. The goal of zero global deforestation by 2030 was welcomed by conservation groups, but many ecosystems will continue to be eroded by rising temperatures.
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“At the end of the day, remember, it is the demand that will decide and dictate what sort of energy source will help meet the growing global energy requirements,” [Al Jaber] added
then...
“The world continues to need low-carbon oil and gas and low-cost oil and gas,”
He knows perfectly well that low-cost oil and gas will mean that people will consume more of it. The old "predict and provide" model, and we know how "well" that worked for traffic and road building.
He needs to go to <rule 2>ing jail for crimes against humanity, not hailed as a "hero"
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However, planning officers recommended approval, saying it would bring a redundant building in the town centre back into use and stating there would be no "adverse impacts".
Cllr Dave Dempsey said: "I'm a bit sceptical about the notion that a five-bedroom dwelling, which is going to be occupied one would imagine by a fair number of people and not all children, just because it's in the town centre you don't need to provide any parking spaces?
"If it's a family with kids are they all going to travel everywhere by bus?"
Planner Derek Simpson said that for town centre locations they can "relax" parking standards and added: "Obviously transportation are objecting because it doesn't comply with their guidelines but we feel the benefits associated with the scheme, and the location of the property, means we're satisfied on balance that the lack of parking isn't a reason for refusing this application."
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https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/23992606.fife-council-say-no-new-inverkeithing-home-proposals/
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Like frogs being slowly heated in a saucepan of water. The heating won’t stop until we stop burning fossils. So if we won’t stop now, when will we stop?
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“So if we won’t stop now, when will we stop?”
That is of course a key question!
Apart from the fact there are Cos and Govs who don’t seem too keen on trying (enough), seems that after latest COP there is a lot of ‘hope’/fantasy/gaslighting about “carbon capture”.
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World will look back at 2023 as year ‘humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis’, scientists warn
Disastrous events included flash flooding in Africa and wildfires in Europe and North America
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