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It’s time for a whole-of-mission approach to the planet’s crisis. The West wants fossil fuels choked while the Global South eyes solutions in carbon dioxide removal, renewable energy and nuclear power along with direct efforts to compress emissions. Widen the agenda.

Even though the final text of the COP28 Declaration disappoints in enforcing binding targets on GHG emissions by 2050, the Dubai summit is another milestone after the 2015 Paris Agreement. Much has been put into a global agreement for the first time, , COP 28, Magazine 30 December 2023, unfccc, UNFCCC COP28

The silver lining of this month’s United Nations COP28 global warming conference is the growing consensus that nuclear energy is critical to meeting national carbon dioxide reduction goals.

Like a script from a dystopian drama where the villains are fossil fuels, and the heroes are, well, apparently not the attendees of COP28.

The trajectory of the COP28 negotiations from “phase out” to “transition away” highlighted how word crafting and linguistic acrobatics took priority over science and human impact. What needs to be seen now is whether any concrete action on fossil fuels will follow

...but for billions of people such stations are the difference between life and death, light and dark, food and no food.

Courtesy of Josh and Net Zero Watch, a trip back down memory lane, from COP13 to COP28, the “breakthroughs” followed by the “cold light of day!:

It is difficult to not feel defeated by COP28’s end results.

Climate deal means new business for clean tech companies, as new headaches arise for the world's richest man.

Financing and technology access was mostly left vague. Sadly, climate politics is a zero-sum game for the most part and Planet Earth always seems to be on the losing side.