The #G7HiroshimaSummit seems to be unusually productive, with the leaders agreeing on a very large list of actions. Among them, combined with new bilateral US/Australia pacts, are possibly profound energy & #climate resolutions.
2/I'll quote a few examples from the Joint Declaration.
- accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs ), recognizing that reducing poverty & tackling the #climate and nature crisis go hand in hand;
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3/ - preserve the planet by accelerating the decarbonization of our energy sector & the deployment of renewables, end plastic pollution & protect the oceans;
- deepen cooperation through Just Energy Transition Partnerships, the #Climate Club & new Country Packages for...
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4/ Forest, Nature & #Climate;
- We will work w/our intl partners to achieve a world that is human-centered, inclusive & resilient, leaving no one behind
- We welcome Climate Resilient Debt Clauses to enhance the safety net for borrowers facing the impacts of climate change.
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5/ - We emphasize the importance of a disaster preparedness approach & investment in human capital, goods & infrastructure that contribute not only to “risk transfer” but also to “risk reduction,” resulting in the strengthening of anticipatory actions.
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6/ - We remain committed to holding ourselves accountable, in an open & transparent way, for the promises we have made.
- Our planet is facing unprecedented challenges from the triple global crisis of #climate change, #biodiversity loss and #pollution ...We are steadfast...
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7/ in our commitment to the Paris agreement, keeping a limit of 1.5°C global temperature rise w/in reach through scaled up action in this critical decade, halting & reversing biodiversity loss by 2030, & ensuring energy security, whilst leveraging synergies
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8/ - our goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 at the latest remains unchanged.
- Accordingly, we call on all Parties...to revisit & strengthen the 2030 targets & publish or update their LTSs as soon as possible & well before UNFCCC-#COP28UAE
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9/ - We reaffirm commitment to the Global Methane Pledge & we will step up efforts to collectively reduce global anthropogenic #methane emissions by at least 30% below 2020 levels by 2030
- reaffirm our strong commitment to supporting developing countries’ energy transitions
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10/ - We reaffirm the important role of high integrity carbon markets & carbon pricing to foster cost-efficient reductions in emission levels, drive innovation & enable a transformation to net zero, through the optimal use of a range of policy levers to price carbon.
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11/ There is much more in the #G7HiroshimaSummit Declaration about energy transformation & #climate change. Sure, summits are bags of words. But leaders' public commitments can be used at home to hold them accountable.
Let's clear: NONE of the above would happen under #Trump .
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This utterly reprehensible Pentagon disinfo campaign executed by the #Trump admin to create Asian suspicion of the Chinese #COVID #vaccine is reminiscent of the CIA's use of a fake #polio vax effort in Pakistan to obtain...
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...DNA samples from children living in the Osama bin Laden compound in 2011. In both cases, geopolitics trumped public health, leading to countless deaths, assaults on health workers and vaccinators and undermining the credibility of #vaccines . This is appalling.
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In resp to angry public health leaders who later learned of the 2011 #CIA/#polio/binLaden effort, the #Obama admin on May16, 2014 stated that since Aug2013 a policy was in place forbidding the CIA from using #vaccination progs, workers, or genetic materials obtained...for intell.
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Trump’s deal to Big Oil [give my campaign $1B & all #Biden climate & green policies will be void] echoes the Teapot Dome Scandal in another #Republican #POTUS race 100 yrs ago. Until now, it was the biggest presidential corruption case in US history.
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In 1920, the US Navy was converting its fleet from coal to oil and wanted oil on federal lands reserved for military needs. Republican Warren Harding was running for POTUS: he told oil execs to back him & he would let them drill those reserves. When he became President...
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Harding appointed mining bigwig & Big Oil ally Alfred Fall as Sec. of Interior. Fall handed over prime oil drilling rights to Sinclair's Mammoth Oil & 1 other company, without competitive bidding. By 1923 Sinclair was sucking so much oil out of Teapot Dome WY that...
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Big Oil execs met at #MarAlago and...
"Trump’s response stunned several of the execs: You all are wealthy enough, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. He vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President #Biden #environmental rules & policies & stop new ones from being enacted."
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2/ "Giving $1 billion would be a 'deal,' #Trump said, because of the taxation & regulation they would avoid thanks to him.
Trump’s remarkably blunt & transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid." mediaite.com/trump/trump-st…
3/ "Oil industry lawyers have taken it upon themselves to fill the gap, drafting executive orders undoing Biden’s policies if Trump’s put back in the White House...
“'You’ll see a lot of #Biden regulations that have come out in the past 6 months checked one way or another'."
"The campaign’s policy website, Agenda 47, states #Trump wants to 'drill, baby, drill' to increase oil & natural gas production domestically in order to lower consumer energy costs, regardless of the environmental impact." rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Folks @Reuters made clear, graphic evidence of the collapse of US Congress : in both houses it's seen its productivity plummet by more than half in the 21st Century. At the rate they're going, soon, no laws of significance will pass. MORE reuters.com/graphics/USA-C…
Since the Reagan Era Congressional legislation has fallen by 2/3rds -- not to mention its failure to pass a full, on-time budget.
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In this Century, Congress has proven most capable of legislating -- doing its job -- when #Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Conversely, its performance and productivity plummeted when under #Republican control. Just the facts, Ma'am.
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With so much political news this week -- today's top one being #PakistanElection2024 results! -- I fear I gave short shrift to some key elements of #climate science.
Starting with: New studies suggest that the heating of the #AtlanticOcean is so severe...
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we may being heading into a collapse of AMOC -- the key ocean circulation system.
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Ocean heating now in all of the 7 Seas is so severe that coral reefs are sickening (bleaching) & dying. And this has so accelerated in recent months that @NOAA added 3 new alert levels for reefs.
"Monday, Monday.
Can't trust that day.
Monday, Monday.
Seems like it just turns out that way."
DC appeals court ruled against #Trump claims of immunity from fedl prosecution for crimes committed while he was #POTUS w/a Monday deadline for him to ask #SCOTUS to put his case on its docket.
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I have so many questions that I fantasize #SCOTUS Justices asking, such as: 1. Is this immunity inviolable? (#Trump lawyers say only impeachment can remove immunity.) 2. Trump is the only federal official to ever have been impeached 2Xs – is that enough to lift his --
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-- alleged immunity? (Trump lawyers say he’s immune unless BOTH HOUSES impeached him, following a Senate trial.) 3. How would this “immunity” have applied to Richard Nixon and Watergate activities? To Bill Clinton and the famous blue dress? To George Bush?
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