Daily Archives: November 13, 2021

2021-11-13: News Headlines

_____ (2021-11-13). China And Solutions To Climate Change. popularresistance.org Last year, President Xi Jinping, pledged that China's CO2 emissions would peak before 2030, and China would become carbon neutral before 2060. | China has a track history of setting ambitious, nearly impossible goals and then achieving them–often before deadline–so this pledge is significant. Under the CPC, China has already created "an economic miracle" in transforming China into the largest economy in the world. It ended extreme poverty while creating the largest middle class in the world. It has virtually eradicated Covid through non-pharmaceutical methods, while vaccinating up to 20 million people daily, an…

Phoebe Barnard, William Moomaw (2021-11-13). Six areas where action must focus to rescue this planet. nationofchange.org In the next three decades, the world must dramatically decrease greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to return to a more stable climate.

Binoy Kampmark (2021-11-13). Lying in Public Life: The Scott Morrison Formula. dissidentvoice.org He has some gall. Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a person who finds the truth a creature best beaten, shunned and ignored, is now moving into what looks like campaign mode. At COP26 in Glasgow, he sold the world a climate change model that kept company with countries where fumes linger stubbornly, and the fossil …

Juan Cole (2021-11-13). Good Climate News: US will increase Solar Power by nearly 50% in 2022, and add 29 Gigawatts of Wind. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Both at COP26 and in the U.S. Congress, a lot of attention is rightly focused on what governments are doing to confront the dire challenges of our climate emergency. Ultimately, governments are the only entities with sufficient reach and power to guarantee an energy transition away from fossil fuels. Nevertheless, …

Clean Energy Wire (2021-11-13). As Activists sue, Judges are not waiting on Politicians to rule against Carbon Emissions. juancole.com By Isabel Sutton | — ( Clean Energy Wire) — A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the courts into a new and powerful line of defence in the fight against climate change. An increasing number of judges now consider global warming a human rights issue, and therefore …

_____ (2021-11-13). Judge Allows Testimony On Impacts Of Climate Change And Role Of Banks. popularresistance.org In a trial that took place on the last scheduled day of the COP 26 global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Judge Kerry Taylor allowed the 11 pro se defendants who last June sat in rocking chairs in the main thoroughfare in front of JP Morgan Chase Bank's credit card headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, to submit testimony about the climate crisis and the role of banks in funding it. | Defendants pursued a "choice of evils" strategy, which under Delaware law allows someone to break the law to prevent a greater "imminent" harm. The prosecutor, who was the arresting officer, kept asking defendants who took the…

Mahati Kalaparthy (2021-11-13). Climate Summit Debates Funding for Developing Countries to Combat Climate Change. indybay.org As the climate summit approaches its final days in Scotland, 200 countries negotiate an agreement to combat climate change.

TripleJusticeCollective (2021-11-13). Saturday 11/20: After Party for: SF Bay Area Climate Crisis People's Assembly. indybay.org Civic Center Park Berkeley CA (at MLK)…

Leon Kunstenaar (2021-11-13). Extinction Rebellion March Repudiates COP26 "Blah, Blah, Blah" indybay.org March from SF Embarcadero to Aquatic Park with drums and large displays demands environmental action from world leaders…

Staff (2021-11-12). Headlines for November 12, 2021. democracynow.org New Draft Agreement Weakens Earlier Calls to Phase Out Coal, Fossil Fuel Funding as COP26 Nears End, Beyond Oil and Gas: Denmark and Costa Rica Lead New Push to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Biden and Xi Jinping to Hold Virtual Summit Amid Ongoing Tensions, NIH and Moderna in Legal Battle over COVID Vaccine Patent Rights, Another Explosion Targets Mosque in Afghanistan, 5,000 Afghan Refugees Fleeing to Iran Every Day as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens, U.N.: 84 Million People Worldwide Displaced by War, Insecurity and the Climate Crisis, Eastern Europe Refugee Crisis Intensifies as Poland Blocks Border, Belarus Issues Thre…

John Bachtell (2021-11-12). China and U.S. announce climate cooperation as world receives dire warning. peoplesworld.org

_____ (2021-11-12). Activists Hold 'People's Plenary' In COP26 Hall As Protests Expected. popularresistance.org The COP26 Coalition has released its declaration for climate justice. It states that: | Climate change already impacts and threatens billions of lives, with billions more on the line: it is those that have done the least to cause climate change that are most impacted, especially women, Black, Indigenous Peoples, and people of colour, peasants and rural people, youth, people with disabilities, local communities and frontline communities.The climate crisis also amplifies the structural inequalities and injustices that have been hardwired into our economic and political systems that have resulted in a spiralling deb…

_____ (2021-11-12). Why Are You Asking Us To Compromise On Our Lives? popularresistance.org Nothing useful seemed to emerge from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at COP26 this week. The leaders of developed countries made tired speeches about their commitment to reversing the climate catastrophe. Their words rang with the clichés of spin doctors, their sincerity zero, their actual commitments to lowering carbon emissions nil. Mitzi Jonelle Tan, a Filipino climate activist and spokesperson for Fridays for Future, said that these leaders 'spew empty, tired promises', leaving young people like her with a 'sense of betrayal'. As a child, she said, she felt the danger of bei…

It's Going Down (2021-11-12). With the Lights Out: A Discussion with Lobelia Commons on Mutual Aid, Climate Change, and Hurricane Ida. itsgoingdown.org What happens with the lights go out and the police guard stores filled with food? Will our networks be ready to sustain ourselves? Will we be able to help our neighbors or keep to ourselves? Can networks of mutual aid and autonomy form out of disasters, or will they only further entrench inequality and domination?…

The Canary (2021-11-12). Activists hold 'People's Plenary' in COP26 hall as protests expected outside. thecanary.co Activists from around the world have taken to the stage at COP26 for a "People's Plenary" session. | The COP26 Coalition organised the event on Friday, with one of the UN climate conference's halls filled with hundreds of representatives from civil society groups. | As Read…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-12). People's COP26: Youth climate activists from most affected areas tell their stories. peoplesdispatch.org Youth in the global south are growing up in some of the most devastating conditions as they face frequent extreme climate events, often watching their homes and livelihoods disappear.

Staff (2021-11-12). Walkout: Outraged by New COP26 Pact, Civil Society Holds People's Plenary & Leaves Climate Summit. democracynow.org As the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow concludes, activists staged a walkout Friday in response to late decisions made by negotiators to severely weaken commitments in the final agreement. While the earlier draft of the unbinding Glasgow Agreement called for "phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels," the new draft calls for the phaseout of "unabated coal power and of inefficient subsidies for fossil fuels." We get an update on the walkout from one of its leaders: COP26 Coalition lead spokesperson Asad Rehman. "We should not call it a Glasgow pact, we should call it the Glasgow suicide pact for the poore…

sputniknews (2021-11-12). 'Sh**show': Extinction Rebellion Leaves Pile of Waste in Front of Australian Minister's Office. sputniknews.com The climate protesters previously called for "disruptive civil resistance" in the wake of the Glasgow Climate Conference results, which they consider insufficient.

Amy Goodman (2021-11-12). Climate Activists Say Loopholes in COP26 Pact "Make Mockery" of Negotiations. truthout.org As the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow concludes, activists staged a walkout Friday in response to late decisions made by negotiators to severely weaken commitments in the final agreement. While the earlier draft of the unbinding Glasgow Agreement called for "phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels," the new draft calls for the phaseout of "unabated coal power and of inefficient subsidies for fossil fuels." We get an update on the walkout from one of its leaders: COP26 Coalition lead spo…

George Monbiot (2021-11-12). How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency. zcomm.org "Everything we've been hearing here and at the previous 25 summits is basically distraction," says Monbiot, adding that global leaders could "fix" the worst impacts of the climate crisis "in no time at all if they wanted to."

Jake Johnson (2021-11-12). Petition From 14 Youth Leaders Says UN Must 'Declare a Systemwide Climate Emergency'. zcomm.org "The climate emergency—which threatens every person on the planet into the foreseeable future—is at least as serious a threat as a global pandemic and similarly requires urgent international action."

Staff (2021-11-12). Climate Crisis = Health Emergency: Air Pollution, Pandemics & Displacement Make the World Sick. democracynow.org Health leaders are warning governments of "unimaginable" health consequences from the climate crisis if world leaders don't take decisive action to decarbonize. This week at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, the Global Climate and Health Alliance presented a letter to the COP26 president signed by 46 million health workers who are calling for global climate action on health. Meanwhile, a delegation of mothers from Brazil, Britain, India, Nigeria, Poland and South Africa attended COP26 to deliver their own letter to the summit's president that was signed by about 500 parent groups from 44 countries and calls for…

teleSUR (2021-11-12). COP26 New Draft Agreement Softens Demands on Fossil Fuels. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the British presidency of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) presented a new draft of the final agreement, which calls for fewer efforts from developed countries in the fight against climate change. | RELATED: | While the first draft called on countries to "accelerate the end of coal and fossil fuel subsidies", the new text limits itself to calling for the elimination of "inefficient f…

_____ (2021-11-12). Indigenous Campaigners Demand JPMorgan End Fossil Fuel Finance. popularresistance.org Glasgow, Scotland — Indigenous activists on Wednesday staged a protest outside JPMorgan Chase headquarters in central Glasgow as pressure on banks to halt oil and gas extraction grows. | A crowd of over a hundred chanted "enough is enough" and "shame on you" outside the American multinational bank's office building, just over a mile from where crucial talks at the COP26 climate conference are currently taking place. | JPMorgan Chase is the world's biggest financier of fossil fuels, according to environmental organisations. In 2020 the bank pledged to end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and phase o…

_____ (2021-11-12). Turkey Took Up the Use of Climate Weapons. journal-neo.org Because of drought, crop failures, and shortages of freshwater water wars are today becoming for the population of many regions as urgent as the dangers of wars involving nuclear bombs, chemicals, and other means of mass destruction. They cause mass migration, exacerbate the political situation, hostilities and wars. In this context, for example, the Nile …

_____ (2021-11-12). COP26: Governments Play Deaf To Social Movements. popularresistance.org Glasgow, Scotland – One element that runs through all social movement climate summits is their rejection of the official meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the low ambition of its outcomes — and the treaty's 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) was no exception. | The leaders of the UNFCCC "gladly welcome those who caused the crisis. COP26 has done nothing but pretend and greenwash," Mitzi Jonelle Tan, a member of the non-governmental organization Youth Advocates for Climate Action from the Philippines, told IPS during a rally at the Glasgow Screening Room, a…

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