We know emissions are increasing every year. We need more than a little lip service from our politicians. Trudeau claimed he was going to stop the handouts and subsidies to the fossil fuel companies when he was elected in 2015. But, he didn’t!
Every year it’s the same story. They tell us how much they are working towards net-zero, but increase subsidies and lower taxes for the companies in Canada who are the biggest emitters. This is really sad…
COP27: Sharp rise in fossil fuel industry delegates at climate summit – BBC News
The number of delegates with links to fossil fuels at the UN climate summit
has jumped 25% from the last meeting, analysis shared with the BBC
shows.**
Campaign group Global Witness found more than 600 people at the talks in Egypt are linked to fossil fuels.
That’s more than the combined delegations from the 10 most climate-impacted countries.
Around 35,000 people are expected to attend the COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
These conferences have always attracted significant numbers from the coal,
oil and gas industries, who are keen to influence the shape of the
debate. |Read more https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63571610|
#world #environment #cop27 #fossil tradeshow #increasing emissions
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Royal Bank of Canada: Surging Finance of Fires, Floods & Climate Chaos
This report provides an urgent and up-to-date reckoning of the Royal
Bank of Canada’s (RBC)’s fossil fuel financing, with a focus on the
loans, underwriting and investments it has provided the largest fossil
fuel expansionist companies from 2016 to September 30, 2022 (the end of
Q3). This report also provides a comparison of fossil financing before
and after RBC joined the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a sub
alliance of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net-Zero (GFANZ). |Read more https://stand.earth/resources/royal-bank-of-canada-surging-finance-of-fires-floods-climate-chaos/)|
#RBC #fossil fuels #greenwashing
Watching the world burn
As the planet reels from unprecedented heatwaves, floods, wildfires and droughts, you may be feeling a rising sense of unease or even panic.
My own “Oh Shit!” moment https://correspondent.afp.com/climate-change-oh-shit-moment came in early 2009, two years after I began writing on the science and geopolitics of climate change for Agence France-Presse. I had reported
on scores of peer-reviewed studies, talked to scientists, attended UN
climate summits, and interviewed Pacific islanders whose tiny nations
were sinking beneath the waves. But the knee-buckling realisation that
unchecked global warming would upend civilisation had not yet hit me in
the gut and left me gasping for air.
That sucker-punch came at a conference in Oxford where a wide range of experts were asked to imagine a planet that had warmed four degrees Celsius. The tableau that emerged was a waking nightmare. It left me feeling as if I were in possession of terrifying knowledge that others somehow failed to see.
“We have to give people hope,” a colleague told me. But there is no good news, at least not from nature or science
#global warming #increasing emissions #world #cdnpoli #environment
Watching the world burn https://correspondent.afp.com/watching-world-burn
Don’t Gas Africa
To ensure Africa is not locked-in fossil gas production ahead of COP27, we join with movements across Africa in demanding an end to fossil gas and other dirty, dangerous, obsolete and inappropriate energy systems.
We call for an end to fossil-fuel-induced energy apartheid in Africa which has left 600 million Africans without access to modern clean renewable energy. Scaling up cost-effective, clean, decentralized, renewable energy is the fastest and best way to end energy exclusion and meet the needs of Africa’s people.
We call for a transformative, people-led process involving rapid social, economic and political change to achieve energy democracy and deliver renewable energy assets into the hands of people and communities across the continent.
Supported by our allies around the world, we call on governments to serve the interests of the people, not corporate fossil fuel polluters.
#africa #fosssil fuels #cop27 #global warming #environment #support
|Read more https://dont-gas-africa.org/|