*[Enwl-eng] COP25 Media Monitoring - Day 5 - Friday
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COP25 Media Monitoring - Day 5 - Friday
Media coverage begins to
deepen on issues around science and impacts. We are seeing more stories on the
risks to vulnerable countries, the implications of not scaling action, and the
launch of a platform that will boost science-based ocean solutions. As
discussions deepen over urgency, so do moral calls for action. In his message to
COP25 leaders, Pope Francis asked for more political will to safeguard a healthy
planet.
Despite economists promoting carbon markets as “a powerful tool in the fight
against climate change”, environmental organisations are not convinced - many
criticise the mechanism as a form of greenwashing.
Science / Impacts
“Inger Andersen, UNEP’s Executive Director, said that it is still possible to meet the Paris Climate Agreement’s targets, but that solutions must be deployed at a much faster rate and at a much larger scale.
“Our collective failure to act early and hard on climate change means we now must deliver deep cuts to emissions — over 7 per cent each year, if we break it down evenly over the next decade,” Andersen said in a statement. “This shows that countries simply cannot wait until the end of 2020, when new climate commitments are due, to step up action. They — and every city, region, business and individual — need to act now.””
Climate risks increase worldwide, even for rich
countries: report (Xinhuanet)
“"The Climate Risk Index shows that climate change has disastrous impacts especially for poor countries, but also causes increasingly severe damages in industrialized countries like Japan or Germany," said David Eckstein of Germanwatch, who also called for more financial support for poor countries that suffer extreme weather events.”
Chile Launches Platform for Science-based Ocean
Solutions at COP 25 (IISD)
“The Platform will encourage and guide implementation of policies, programmes and projects to support evidence on climate change and its impact on the ocean, and will support the creation of a community of practice to share lessons learned, offer inspiration to support the transfer and uptake of solutions in other contexts and advance ocean-climate action. The Platform also seeks to engage a large number of actors in ocean-climate action, including the public and private sectors, civil society and academia.”
As Climate Change Worsens, A Cascade of Tipping
Points Looms (Yale.360)
“The researchers once considered these tipping points to be largely independent of each other. Now they warn that the world faces a “cascade” of abrupt shifts in the planet’s climate system, as global warming takes hold. “We might already have crossed the threshold for a cascade of inter-related tipping points,” they wrote in Nature. This “could trigger a shift in the state of the Earth system as a whole,” one of the authors, Will Steffen of the Australian National University in Canberra, told Yale Environment 360.”
Climate models have accurately predicted global
heating, study finds (The Guardian)
““We found that climate models – even those published back in the 1970s – did remarkably well, with 14 out of the 17 model projections indistinguishable from what actually occurred,” said Zeke Hausfather, of the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of the paper, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.”
Even 50-year-old climate models correctly
predicted global warming (Carbon Brief)
COP25 set to open as study reports hottest decade (Church Times)
Delayed Indian monsoon, Cyclone Fani ‘high impact’ events of 2019 (Mongabay)
Island States Highlight Nature-based Solutions to Combat Climate Change (IISD)
UN climate talks kick off in Madrid with focus on ocean solutions (The Economist Group)
Climate change hits health, yet funds lacking: WHO (Reuters)
Vulnerable Countries
Puerto Rico Is the Most Vulnerable Country to Climate Change, Says Report (Latin Post)
“Compared to the CRI 2019, which considered the period from 1998 to 2017, there have been a few changes in the CRI ranking: while Puerto Rico remains at the top of the list, Myanmar and Haiti each move up one place to become one of the three most affected countries over the past two decades. [...]
“According to the study, poor and developing countries are most vulnerable to climate risks and are often hit the hardest, seeing higher rates of deaths and hardships. Despite this, researchers also found that high-income countries are also feeling climate impacts more than ever before.”
India is fifth most vulnerable of 181 countries
to climate change fallouts: Report (First Post)
“Overall, India’s economic losses due to climate change were the second highest in the world with a loss of Rs 2.7 lakh crore ($37 billion) – nearly as much as its defence budget in 2018 – the report said. This translates to losing about 0.36 percent per unit of gross domestic product.”
Urgency and ambition / Loss and Damage
Let’s assess failure of developed countries in acting on climate, says India (The Indian Express)
“Amidst growing urgency over the need for enhanced actions on climate change, India, China, Brazil and some other developing countries have sought an assessment of the failures of developed countries to fulfil their climate obligations in the pre-2020 period.
At the Madrid climate change meeting, these countries argued on Thursday that the main reason why the world seemed headed towards a climate disaster was that the developed countries never met their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 climate agreement that expires next year and is set to be replaced by the Paris Agreement.
India and the other countries said that the developed countries must be given another two years, until 2022, to fulfil their earlier commitments.”
Cop25 Bulletin: A rare press conference
(Climate Home)
“In a rare press conference hosted by the government of China, a panel of experts (which didn’t include any government officials) dodged questions about whether Beijing would enhance its climate plan next year.
China’s current plan to peak emissions by 2030 and before if possible “was already made with great ambition,” they said.
“He Jiankun, a professor from Tsinghua University and the deputy director of the national expert committee on climate change, said China was “shifting from an economy developing at high speed to an economy developing at high quality.””
Climate Emergency CoP 25: Its market versus
market in Madrid (Down to Earth)
“The ghost of pre-2020 carbon market mechanism has started to haunt the Madrid negotiations over a new climate market mechanism proposed for the post-2020 Paris regime. The negotiations for the new carbon market regime, which falls under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, will take centre stage along with the other outstanding issue of “Loss and Damage” before the agreement gets rolling on ground.
“According to sources, some developing countries, in private discussions, have already raised the demand that the Kyoto Protocol phase II should be pushed back for couple of years to ensure that the developed countries complete their commitments under the protocol. Developing countries are pointing out that the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, which officialises the second commitment period from 2013 to 2020, is yet to be ratified by requisite number of developed countries and hence did not get started on ground, though its scheduled closure has almost reached.”
Rich countries refuse to pay for green projects
in poor nations (India Climate Dialogue)
““How can they describe as worthless all the work done by developing countries for 15 years?” an angry senior Indian government negotiator riposted. “Who is polluting – these CERs, or the rich countries? Why don’t they look at the reports on which countries are meeting their Paris commitments as of today? There’s not a single developed country there.” India is one of the few large economies meeting the Paris agreement goal to do its share to keep average temperature rise within two degrees Celsius from preindustrial times.”
The missed opportunity of COP25 (Global
Americans)
COP25: Diving into the first Blue COP (GreenBiz)
COP25 Convenes in Madrid to Finalize Rules on the Paris Agreement (Fortune)
Carbon markets
Trading carbon credits from nature sparks fiery debate at UN talks (Reuters)
““When it comes to taking action in the climate space, the world has been very long on say and very short on do,” said Duncan van Bergen, vice president for nature-based solutions with Shell New Energies.
“We believe that nature has a role to play - not instead of, but in addition to, a lot of hard work that needs to happen to decarbonise energy, transportation, agriculture and other sectors of the economy,” he added.”
Environmental organizations denounce carbon
markets, green washing in Cop (EFE)
“Carbon markets "represent a threat to people, politics and the planet", and are a "green washing" strategy, Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said.”
Climate Justice Groups Protest Use of Carbon
Markets for Meeting Paris Goals (Inside Climate News)
“"Over and over again, carbon markets have proven that they are not effective in reducing emissions," said Tere Almaguer, environmental justice organizer for PODER in San Francisco. Her group focuses on organizing Latino communities—including those who live near California refineries and feel that they bear the brunt of poor air quality from fossil fuel emissions.”
UN Climate Talks Aim to Pave Way for Global
Carbon Market (VOA)
“Economists say that carbon markets like the one Otterpohl uses can become a powerful tool in the fight against climate change, by giving emitters a financial incentive to reduce greenhouse gases. But despite making progress in other areas, governments have for years been unable to agree on the rules that would allow truly global trade in carbon permits to flourish.”
Youth / Mobilization
Jeremy Clarkson lashes out at ‘dangerous’ Greta Thunberg once more (news.com.au)
“During the interview, Clarkson spoke about how filming in Southeast
Asia changed his views on the impact of climate change.
“I don’t think I
have ever actually seen the effect of global warming. When you see those houses
on stilts in the show … and the water is miles away, that is a remarkable
thing,” he said.
“And I know there will be a load of kids go, ‘Ha, you see. There you are’. Fine. Now go to school, learn science and do something about it.””
COP25: Parents plead for planet to be saved for
their children (The National)
“In an open declaration signed by 222 associations from 27 countries,
the concerned parents wrote: “Our children are being handed a broken world on
the verge of climate chaos and ecological breakdown.
“As parents, seeing
this is agonising.””
All About UN Climate Change COP25 Conference
and Why Greta Thunberg is There Now (One Green Planet)
Vision 2020: Bermuda Climate Action Network (Bernews)
Protesters Cry ‘Won’t Somebody Think of the Children’ at COP25 Climate Summit (Breitbart)
Indigenous youth take global stage in Madrid to voice climate change worries (PRI)
Moral Calls for Action
At Madrid climate talks, Catholics work to provide 'moral perspective' (Earth Beat)
“In a statement, the Vatican-based Caritas Internationalis said it was taking a "call for unity, solidarity and justice" to COP25, at a time when the Paris commitment to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees was not being observed, and "robust rules" were needed to "ensure transparent and fair counting of carbon emissions reductions" and better protection of indigenous peoples.”
Climate crisis is 'challenge of civilisation',
says pope (The Guardian)
““We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources [to the climate crisis],” he said, in the pontifical message, which was welcomed by activists.”
Other articles
Renewable Energy Groups Push NY to Put a Price on Carbon (US News)
Climate policy needs negative carbon-dioxide emissions (The Economist)
25 billion reasons: Why Saudi is listing its crown jewel (CNA)
How satellites will help solve the climate crisis (Deutsche Welle)
Five questions with… Yukon Regional Chief and COP25 participant Kluane Adamek (Open Canada)
On the train to COP25: a public transport journey (The Brussels Times)
Iberdrola seals EUR-690m loan with EIB at COP25 (Renewables Now)
Waste management vital to keep COP25 waste and emissions free (Xinhuanet)
Norwegian Air Becomes First Airline to Sign UN Climate Action Initiative (Aviation Pros)
What we know so far about countries' 2020 climate commitments (GreenBiz)
UNEP at COP25 (UN)
The Climate Group at COP25 (The Climate Group)
COP25 climate change conference: What are you giving up for environment? (BBC)
This media brief is compiled from major international English-language news sources. It's designed to provide a snapshot of the major themes in coverage of the COP25, and is not comprehensive.
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