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2022-11-15: News Headlines

____ (2022-11-15). China's envoy urges developed countries to 'make pie bigger' on climate finance. ecns.cn China's climate envoy on Monday urged developed countries to fulfill their promises and "make the pie bigger" on climate finance at the ongoing UN climate conference.

____ (2022-11-15). They Say: China's strategy on climate adaptation lauded. ecns.cn

Editor (2022-11-15). Imperialist powers abandon climate pledges at COP 27 summit. mronline.org According to a new study by Oxfam, 125 billionaires and their investments are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than countries such as France, Egypt or Argentina. One of these billionaires emits 393 million tonnes of CO2 a year, a million times more than any member of the lower 90 percent of society.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-15). Towards a Just Transition: Breaking with the Existing Order. libya360.wordpress.com Hamza Hamouchene, Ouafa Haddioui and Katie Sandwell The action proposed by world leaders, their advisors, and corporate lobbyists at the climate talks (COP27) in Egypt are neoliberal, market-based, and focused on preserving a racist and capitalist global order. Introducing a collection of papers on the climate emergency in North Africa, Hamza Hamouchene, Ouafa Haddioui and…

En.mehrnews (2022-11-15). Iran taken important steps towards sustainable development. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 15 (MNA) — "Despite illegal sanctions, Iran has taken important steps towards sustainable development," Ali Salajegheh, the chief of Iran's Department of Environment told the 27th annual UN meeting on climate, COP27, in Egypt.

Editor (2022-11-15). Greta Thunberg: 'Wake up and treat the climate emergency as an emergency'. mronline.org Climate activist Greta Thunberg was interviewed by ABC's 7.30 presenter Sarah Ferguson on November 3. Below is a transcript of the interview.

____ (2022-11-15). G20 summit kicks off with economic recovery, climate change high on agenda. ecns.cn The 17th Group of 20 (G20) Summit kicked off here on Tuesday, with issues pertaining to world economic recovery, world health systems and climate change taking the center stage.

____ (2022-11-15). 17th G20 summit kicks off with focus on economic recovery, climate change. ecns.cn The 17th Group of 20 (G20) Summit kicked off on Tuesday, with issues pertaining to world economic recovery, world health systems and climate change taking the center stage.

Ruchira Talukdar (2022-11-15). India: Adivasi resistance to coal shows centrality of forest rights and climate justice to green climate action. greenleft.org.au As India showcases its climate performance at COP27 in Egypt, a prominent protest by Adivasi Indigenous communities is taking place in central India's Hasdeo forests, where new coal mines are being pushed without consent, writes Ruchira Talukdar.

____ (2022-11-14). Xi, Biden try to put ties back on track. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping and United States President Joe Biden agreed on Monday to take concrete steps to put bilateral ties back on the track of stable development, as the two sides reached consensus on key issues such as climate change, trade, public health, agriculture and food security.

Ben Radford (2022-11-15). Gustavo Petro, Nicolás Maduro at COP27: 'Capitalism will not cure the climate crisis'. greenleft.org.au Latin American leaders have used COP27 in Egypt to highlight the global capitalist system as the cause of the climate crisis and demand that rich countries take meaningful action, reports Ben Radford.

Rachel Evans (2022-11-15). COP27 protest calls on Labor to stop expanding fossil fuels. greenleft.org.au A climate protest calling on Labor to stop expanding fossil fuels attracted more than 400 people. Rachel Evans reports.

_____ (2022-11-14). Commoning Our Way Through The Climate Crisis. popularresistance.org In early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic forced a retreat into our homes in a grand finale of our atomization and separation from nature — a separation that was exacerbated by enclosures. Yet physically distanced (and with the fragility of the economic system exposed) we remembered our interdependence. Many of us rediscovered ways of self-organizing and returned to the culture of commoning that has been overlooked as a vital way to address many issues, like climate change. | Across countries, collective responses to the climate crisis have flourished at local levels, particularly where there were existing netwo…

_____ (2022-11-14). Global Carbon Budget Will Be Spent In Nine Years At Current Rate. popularresistance.org The 2022 Global Carbon Budget report is out, and it shows that nations are still emitting beyond their means. | The report, which was released Friday amidst the COP27 UN climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, found that there is now a 50 percent chance that we will burn past the 1.5 degree Celsius temperature goal in just nine years if greenhouse gas emissions continue at current levels. | "This year we see yet another rise in global fossil CO2 emissions, when we need a rapid decline," study leader Professor Pierre Friedlingstein of Exeter's Global Systems Institute said in a statement emailed to EcoWatch.

_____ (2022-11-14). Real Challenge At COP27 Is Private Greed Versus Devastation Of All. popularresistance.org The COP27 meet is underway at Sharm el-Sheikh. Although the Ukraine War and mid-term elections in the United States shifted our immediate focus away from the battle against global warming, it remains a central concern of our epoch. Reports indicate we are not only failing to meet climate change goals but falling short of the targets by a large margin. Worse, methane greenhouse gas emissions have grown far faster than we knew, and pose as much of a climate change threat as carbon dioxide. Methane lasts for a shorter time in the atmosphere, but seen over a 100-year period, it is a more potent greenhouse gas than ca…

_____ (2022-11-14). Agribusiness To Dominate 'Not Inclusive' COP27 Talks. popularresistance.org Farming initiatives at COP27 will be dominated by agri-business players and will lack farmers' voices, sustainable campaigners and small-holders organisations have warned ahead of the global summit's day devoted to agriculture. | For the first time, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gathered in these days in Egypt will address food systems and agriculture. | A dedicated Agriculture and Food Pavillion at the COP27 premises has been set by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the global partnership Consultative Group for Internatio…

Seth Borenstein (2022-11-14). Carbon dioxide emissions rising worldwide, but drop in China. peoplesworld.org SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The world's burning of coal, oil and natural gas this year is putting 1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air than last year, bad news for the fight against climate change but with an odd twist, according to scientists who track emissions. China's carbon pollution was down 0.9% this year compared …

Media Lens (2022-11-14). "On The Highway To Climate Hell": The Climate Crisis, Activism And Broken Politics. dissidentvoice.org Last month, the United Nation's environment agency issued arguably its starkest warning yet about the climate crisis. The failure by governments around the world to cut carbon emissions means there is 'no credible pathway to 1.5C in place'. Limiting the rise of global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels was the international agreement at COP21, …

____ (2022-11-14). 'On the Highway to Climate Hell' — The Climate Crisis, Activism and Broken Politics. transcend.org 14 Nov 2022 – Last month, the UN Environment Agency issued its starkest warning yet about the climate crisis. The failure by governments around the world to cut carbon emissions means there is 'no credible pathway to 1.5C in place'. Limiting the rise of global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels was the international agreement at COP21, the UN Climate Summit in Paris in 2015.

Rishika Pardikar (2022-11-14). Does Post-Nazi Germany Hold The Secret To Climate Reparations? levernews.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-14). COP27 Deliberations Reaffirm Imperialist States as Main Obstacle to Ending Climate Change. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe Cop In Egypt Where People Protested Climate Policy Developing countries and mass organizations continue to demand compensation for damage and loss After one week of speeches, discussions, demonstrations and debate, the 27th United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) has once again stalled over the questions of which global interests are actually responsible for environmental…

TeleSUR (2022-11-14). Indonesia is Ready for the Start of the G20 Summit. telesurenglish.net The 17th Group of 20 (G20) Summit is going to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Bali, Indonesia. The summit, themed "Recover Together, Recover Stronger," will focus on global economic recovery, global health architecture, digital transformation, sustainable energy transition and climate change, among other topics. | RELATED: | The summit will be held in person this year after being held virtually in 2020 with Saudi Arabia as the cha…

TeleSUR (2022-11-14). Lula Travels to COP27 With an Agenda of Bilateral Meetings. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Brazil's President-elect Lula da Silva traveled to Egypt to take part in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27). | RELATED: | "Brazil, which was diplomatically isolated during the administration of the far-right, climate-sceptic President Jair Bolsonaro, has new hope," the French outlet Les Echos commented on the Workers' Party leader, adding that "Lula is expected in Egypt as if he were a star."

Editor (2022-11-14). Offloading climate responsibility on the victims of climate change. mronline.org Nnimmo Bassey (NB): Simple solutions are avoided in today's world because they don't support capital.

Dean Baker (2022-11-14). Crypto Meltdown is a Great Time to Eliminate Waste in Bloated Financial Sector. cepr.net I remember talking to a progressive group a bit more than a decade ago, arguing for the merits of a financial transactions tax (FTT). After I laid out the case, someone asked me if we had lost the opportunity to push for an FTT, now that the financial crisis was over. I assured the person …

____ (2022-11-14). Stop Funding Climate Disaster. transcend.org 2 Nov 2022 – Big Bankers Are Part of the Problem, Not the Solution — Declaration: We cannot save the planet from disastrous climate change without tackling financial markets. As long as trillions of dollars go unhindered to fund yet more fossil fuels and deforestation, it will not be possible to halt climate change or enable communities to adapt.

Osprey Orielle Lake (2022-11-14). New Report Highlights Serious Gender Gaps in G20 Countries' Climate Policy. commondreams.org While the G20 is convening in Indonesia and nations continue climate talks in Egypt, we hope they will heed the calls from civil society for an effective response to both the climate crisis and global gender inequality.

____ (2022-11-14). Climate Change — Let's Just Pretend. transcend.org Why Do We Need to Do Anything Following COP27?>

____ (2022-11-14). What Is Missing from the Climate Debate. transcend.org 7 Nov 2022 – "The destabilisation of the Earth's climate systems is the consequence of violating the ecological processes and cycles of the earth, violating the Rights of the Earth, Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of Future Generations. — Dr. Vandana Shiva…

Brett Wilkins (2022-11-14). Climate Actions Like Throwing Soup at Art Dampen Support for Cause: Survey. commondreams.org Researchers found that "overall, the public expresses general disapproval of nonviolent, disruptive protests to raise attention to the dangers of climate change."

Sarah Anderson (2022-11-14). Global Climate Talks Spark Action Against Investment Treaties Favoring Fossil Fuel Corporations Over People and Planet. inequality.org

Sophie Rigg (2022-11-14). The Gendered Injustice of Climate Change: Why Women's Rights Matter at COP27. commondreams.org The world must factor in the losses women disproportionately suffer, from education to security, due to climate change.

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-11-14). COP27: Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis. indybay.org CODEPINK will join hundreds of high school students from all over the Bay Area, led by the group Youth Vs. Apocalypse (YVA), for a COP27 Climate Strike march with the theme "Militarism and Climate".

_____ (2022-11-14). Egypt: a milestone in climate change policy. journal-neo.org From November 6-18, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) will take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, launching a series of negotiations and discussions aimed at saving the planet and all life on it from the catastrophic effects of climate change. Against the backdrop of a turbulent global environment caused by the West's armed …

Joseph Gerson (2022-11-13). The Ukraine War and the U.S. National Security Strategy: Dangerous Great Power Confrontations. commondreams.org With the Ukraine war, new Cold Wars, and the U.N. General Secretary warning that humanity's foot is on the accelerator to climate hell, the great powers and humankind are sleepwalking toward catastrophe.

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2022-11-13). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".

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