#ClimateChange
RT: But as @Davidxvx put it to me, by doubling down on expanding production, Canada is "either gambling on a failure to achieve the Paris goals or they’re hoping that some other oil-and-gas-producing nation will blink first and strand their assets" 7/
🔗https://twitter.com/ngottliebphoto/status/1595837436302880768
#ClimateChange Even as China is one of those singled out and blamed for fossil fuel language, the nice Canadians get away with planet destroying projects.
RT: Earlier this year, @guardianeco released an investigation into the world's "carbon bombs" - massive fossil fuel projects that hold the potential to blow away any remaining carbon budget we have. 12 of these projects are in Canada, being aggressively pushed by our govt.
🔗https://twitter.com/ngottliebphoto/status/1595837422000300032
“Earlier this year, @guardianeco released an investigation into the world's "carbon bombs" - massive fossil fuel projects that hold the potential to blow away any remaining carbon budget we have. 12 of these projects are in Canada, being aggressively pushed by our govt. 🧵1/”
#ClimateChange "At the root of the problem is the fact that most dams in India were built in the 1970s, and designed for the atmospheric realities of that period...as those realities shift dramatically with the climate crisis, the same dams that help with irrigation, drinking water and electricity generation are increasingly becoming causes of immense destruction."
RT: Two honours for Scroll’s coverage of climate change — both in-depth pieces published in Common Ground
🔗https://twitter.com/sharmasupriya/status/1596152815646294019
The greatest consistent thing about media outlets in the West is their inability to speak the whole truth. Constantly position to paint countries other than their own as villains or hypocrites. How are people supposed to resist their govt?
BBC fails to point out that Canada brought its own O&G rep in its official delegation to #COP27. This isn’t a behavior restricted to Mauritania. Canada, the world’s nice guys (TM) can do no wrong.
🔗https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63584993
🔗https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-gas/636-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-granted-access-cop27/
Incredible framing by DW News #COP27. "Developed nations left the conference not particularly happy about a lack of progress in cutting emissions". 👍
You know why 'equity' is not 'sellable' to your constituents, Annex I? Because you pathetic loser governments always portray yourself as being higher-than-thou, and never miss an opportunity to paint developing countries as obstructionist.
🔗https://twitter.com/NiranjanAjit/status/1594603411290619904
“cop27 tl;dr: world leaders agreed to set up a fund for rich polluters to pay poor ones for some of the damage they've caused but did almost nothing to stop burning fossil fuels with the urgency scientists have shown is needed to honor their promises to stop the planet heating”
@Sustainable2050 @edouardstenger
👍 Perhaps I would then reconsider selectively terming only certain govts obstructionists. Because open obstruction hides a lot of negotiation text & dishonest policy maneuvering. Canada started with a NO to 'all FF'.
(There's a parallel: analysis of this from WTO talks over the 1990s and the Doha Round. India was the 'fall guy' then).
It sets up bogeymen for the general public.
One reason I suspect why many HICs says certain things won't sell to their voters.
@edouardstenger @Sustainable2050
An argument I would make to Global South governments as well-the higher emitters-because all these 30-40 years of dragging feet have precisely gotten to this point where we just have to do it faster.
IF the argument is that equity no longer applies (a fact Bolivia repeatedly pointed out), how come out of 24 seats in the Transition Committee for Loss and Damage, 10 seats are for Annex1 (43 countries, what's the population?). Trust comes from real power sharing
