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Op woensdag 15 november om 15 uur verstoorden activisten van het GrowthKills-collectief [1] het "re-use v. recycle"-panel op de jaarlijkse Sustainability Future Week van Politico in Brussel, een evenement waar verslaggevers en redacteuren belangrijke politici, wetenschappers, campagnevoerders en bedrijfsleiders interviewen over het energie- en klimaatbeleid van de EU [2].

We are writing to urge you to push the United Arab Emirates to withdraw the appointment of Sultan Al Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, as President-designate of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties 28 (COP 28). The decision to name the chief executive of one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies as president of the next U.N. Climate Change Conference risks jeopardizing climate progress from successive U.N. Climate Conferences. To help ensure that COP 28 is a serious and productive climate summit, we believe the United States should urge the United Arab Emirates to name a different lead for COP 28 or, at a minimum, seek assurances that it will promote an ambitious COP 28 aligned with the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings and take concrete steps to demonstrate domestic and regional leadership toward this end.

Que penser d’une loi sur le climat saluée aussi bien par Shell et ExxonMobil que les ONG et une partie des militants écologistes ? Côté pile, le « plan climat » comporte d’importants investissements publics dans le domaine du renouvelable, financés par des taxes sur les profits des entreprises – qui, pour une fois, paieront. Côté face, il refuse toute logique coercitive face aux pétroliers, et demeure dans une logique d’incitation. Pire : d’importantes concessions ont été faites aux lobbies du pétrole, du gaz et du charbon.

The Bootleg Fire is raging through a project in southern Oregon, where 400,000 acres of forest owned by Green Diamond Resource Co. are being preserved to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere. Microsoft in February paid Green Diamond to offset a quarter million tons of the tech giant’s 2021 carbon emissions.Two other wildfires are active within a Colville Indian Reservation carbon project in eastern Washington.

A Belgian climatologist surveys the wreckage of his hometown. Pierre Ozer has been expecting these floods for decades.