Compiled on 2 March, updated on 8 July 2024
Climate is always about money, this is nothing new.
But today, after the farce of the climate conference, this is even more evident: COP28: the Agreement reached forgets the Global South:
“Five hundred million for the Global Loss&Damage Fund?
To understand how ridiculous this is, one only has to think that in Emilia Romagna alone, the May floods caused 8.8 billion euros worth of damage, and current estimates of the damage suffered by developing countries are around 400 billion a year.
The Cop has failed again’.
Below: climate change, as seen from the state of Tuvalu. But going beyond the symbolic photos, that nature is in danger is a fact: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is undergoing a new mass bleaching (the fifth in eight years). Corriere dell Sera of 8 March 2024.
The US was assisted by its allies.
Below is a statement from the president of COP28.
Sultan Al Jaber “forgets” that even Exxon has admitted the role of fossil fuels in climate change.
And below is a ‘reflection’ by Inglobando on the US, China, oil, coal and COP 28:
“the announcements are for a future of reducing emissions but the reality is something else
- as of September 2023, the US has extracted 13.2 million barrels per day on its territory
- is their all-time record
- the US extracts more oil than the Arabs and even the Russians
- china still uses coal as its main source of electricity production
the announcements are nice and bombastic and the way to the end of fossil fuels is perhaps marked, the reality, at least today. is made of something else.”
Climate is all about money :oil and gas profits triple under Joe Biden: their 2023 earnings are on track to have amassed a combined net profit of $313 billion in the first three years of the Biden administration, compared to $112 billion in the same period under Donald Trump.
About money and lobbies, as Milena Gabbanelli explains.
Conclusion:
i don’t think we need any more articles with data, figures, etc.
A few photos are enough: this is the reef of the Philippines. Or rather what is left of it.
Because most of the corals are dead and the ‘show’ is visible to the naked eye.
I wish I was wrong, but I believe that in five years’ time this will all be gone. With very serious consequences for the country’s economy as well.
The only positive sign is that the Australians, after having denied the effects of global warming for years, have started to take concrete steps to save their reef: they have understood the correlation between coral extinction and disasters – e.g.: tsunamis – that threaten to hit their coasts without reef protection.
The ‘climate’ is always a question of money.
Read : “The sixth extinction is underway, the objective data is terrible”.
N.B.: Exxon leads industry fight against UN plans to limit plastic
Petrochemical companies oppose global agreement that would cut production to curb pollution
Below: the latest coral news, as of 24 April 2024. For an update on global warming read here.
