Most COPs were abject failures considering the political machinations of self-serving fossil fuel lobbyits that made all of them (with the possible excpetion of the first one in Paris) tawdry affairs achieving nothing concrete to wean the world off its dependence on buring carbon.

With this first international conference on ending our obsession with oil and its byproducts the ground rules have been reset;

“The Parliamentarians for a Fossil Fuel Free Future initiative started off the parliamentarian meetings processes. Their call is for a clear phase-out of fossil fuels, and critically, an end to the public subsidies that continue to prop them up.

The Fossil Free Rising declaration captures this mood succinctly: governments cannot claim climate leadership while expanding fossil fuel production and financing the very industries driving the crisis.

Bringing it back to Australia

Australia finds itself in an increasingly uncomfortable position.

While no Minister level delegates have attended, they are dealing with political challenges over fossil fuels and gas taxation at home, a handful of federal government representatives are in Santa Marta, joining more than 80 countries that have committed to phasing out fossil fuels following discussions at the 2025 United Nations General Assembly in Belém.”

Read more:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260428-the-conversations-in-santa-marta-are-quietly-radical-and-difficult-for-australia-to-ignore

#FossilFuels #SantaMartaConference #PhaseOutFossilFuels #FossilFreeRising #FossilFuelFreeFuture #Belém #UNGeneralAssembly #ClimateCrisis

Agenzia Nova: Cina: presidente Assemblea generale Onu Baerbock attesa oggi a Pechino

29 apr 05:50 - (Agenzia Nova) - La presidente dell'80ma sessione dell'Assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite, Annalena Baerbock, inizia oggi... (Cip)

China: UN General Assembly President Baerbock expected in Beijing today

29 Apr 05:50 - (Agenzia Nova) - The President of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock, begins today... (Cip)

#China #UNGeneralAssembly #Baerbock #Beijing #AgenziaNova #AnnalenaBaerbock

https://www.agenzianova.com/a/69f184ad961888.63390152/7328528/2026-04-29/cina-presidente-assemblea-generale-onu-baerbock-attesa-oggi-a-pechino

"This is not a policy crafted out of fiscal responsibility, it is a policy crafted out of spite and vindictiveness. It is a policy so cruel that it violates the United Nations “Mandela Rules”, the basic standard for treatment of #prisoners, adopted unanimously by the #UNGeneralAssembly in 2015." https://www.jakelandau.ca/p/why-doesnt-carney-want-prison-inmates

#cdnpoli #CarneyCons #books #prison #education #literacy

Timewasting thread #5883

Where would it be better to relocate the UN General Assembly to?

(Trick question there - just about anywhere outside the USA and active warzones would be better.)

I'll leave the obvious location aside and start the ball rolling by proposing "somewhere in Africa on the coast with a climate that both Lapplanders and Berbers can be moderately comfortable in".

#UN #UNGeneralAssembly #FascistUSA

After New York, a Shake-Up in Astana: Tokayev Resets His Foreign Policy Team

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/after-new-york-a-shake-up-in-astana-tokayev-resets-his-foreign-policy-team/

Afghanistan Absent, Not Forgotten – Central Asia’s UNGA Strategy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/afghanistan-absent-not-forgotten-central-asias-unga-strategy/

(2) A Japanese research team won the Ig Nobel Prize in biology for studying whether zebra-like stripes painted on cows reduce fly bites.

(3) Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba went to the UN General Assembly, even though last week government sources said that he would probably not attend.

#japannews #explorejapan #japanesepolitics #discoveryjapan #japantravels #日本好きな人と繋がりたい #おしえてさかまた #expatsinjapan #foreignerinjapan #rorshokjapan #英語学習 #ニュース #英語勉強 #learnenglishdaily #lgnobelprize #sciencefun #zebracow #ungeneralassembly #shigeruishiba #palestine