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@althecat
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#BonnClimateConference 2024 #MidCop waiting for the formal kickoff.
Whilst waiting I’ve been looking at this, a document assessing competing bids to host the Santiago Network unfccc.int/santiago-netwo… which was finally agreed to go forward - to. E operationalised - at COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh. Image
The history of the “Loss & Damages” work program within the UNFCCC post the Paris Treaty is somewhat fraught politically which makes the decision making process on this question politically interesting. And the increasing incidence of weather disasters needing a “loss & damages”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
(Note - there is now movement on stage here in #BonnClimateConference) ImageImage
As previously mentioned, recent history in relation to Loss & Damages makes the subject politically complicated. Especially given that the two contenders for the role come from opposite ends of the geopolitical spectrum.
The Glasgow COP26 in particular resulted in a very significant disappointment for the developing world when a Scottish Govt “Loss & Damages” facility was dropped on the final night following opposition from developed nations. This was only reversed in Sharm at COP27 after a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Thé meeting has now started and UNFCCC Exec Sec. Simon Stiell has just raised the subject of getting the Loss & Damages work underway at the top of his speech. ImageImage
“We need to show that the era of implementation (of the Paris Agreement) has begun.”

Earlier Stiell said that we (humanity) are at a “tipping point” following a long gestational period of COPs. (which did not deliver enough action). Image
After remarks from the SBSTA chair we are now hearing from the SBI (Subsidiary body on implementation) chair who hails from Pakistan where there was a massive flood last year affecting 33 million people. Image
“When we arrived in Egypt Loss & Damages was not even on the Agenda and yet we ended up with a result.” Image
This plenary meeting is about agreeing on the Agenda for this #BonnClimateConference. Apparently it is not yet agreed.
The expectations for the agenda for this meeting was set out in a note to the conference some time ago.

Note that it’s not unusual for their to be disagreements on the Agenda in COP Meetings.

The consensus based decision making process makes agreement on the work program… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Classic COP they can’t even agree on the Agenda. But have agreed to begin nevertheless and come back to the Agenda later after consultations.

I’m going to move to check out the Loss & Damages session which I am now wondering whether it’s one of the agenda items in dispute.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Jun 7
The UkraineWar and wider issues related to Geopolitics are having an increasing impact at #BonnClimateConference on day three of the #COP28 intersessional meeting which concludes on June 15.
On Day 1 of #BonnClimateConference Ukraine and Russia exchanged words in the extended opening plenary about the war. The meeting was ultimately adjourned due to a lack of agreement on the formal Agenda. (Albeit not related to the war)

During the exchanges several delegations… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Meanwhile in the Gulf (Middle East) there is another complex Geopolitical situation developing following a statement from the Iranians asserting that Gulf Countries (Iran, Saudi and the UAE (the President of #COP28 will take over naval security from a US led force.
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Jun 6
There is a very large amount of news today about @SecBlinken

This report seemingly confirms reports following @SecDef’s visit to Singapore suggesting a possible rapprochement between the two superpowers.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/06…
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samaaenglish.tv/news/40038012
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Jun 5
Beautiful dawn for the first day of the Bonn Climate Conference which runs till the 15th of June. Looks like it will be hot. ImageImageImageImage
The venue is to the right of the buildings you see here. The smallest one in the front of the two larger ones is the new office of the UNFCCC secretariat. Which came into being in the 1990s and was followed by the Kyoto Protocol. Image
COP 28 is due to be held in Dubai in December - somewhat controversially as the incoming President heads a massive Emirati oil conglomerate.

This meeting will host preparation discussions between the nations of the “Conference Of the Parties to the UNFCCC” from which COP gets… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImage
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Apr 25
People in the street did not feel it in Wellington it seems.
Ok random sample of Wellington’s ground level inhabitants and pedestrians no-one felt it. Ellieway in L’affare Cuba St was kinda surprised when she looked it up. ImageImageImage
Quake epicenter cluster of earthquakes. The two red ones were the largest. The first on the right 5.9 the one on the left 5.4 which in NZ quake terms are not huge. Image
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Apr 22
The role of @patrickwight1 (who has a Locked @Twitter account) in attacking the work and reputations of @BronwynBruton (FP scholar US) & @afitz3105 (Canadian Professor & leading scholar in Ethiopian military matters) - relentlessly over recent weeks is completely disgraceful.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@patrickwight1 @Twitter @BronwynBruton @afitz3105 And as a thread…..

1/ The role of @patrickwight1 (who has a Locked @Twitter account) in attacking the work and reputations of @BronwynBruton (FP scholar US) & @afitz3105 (Canadian Professor & leading scholar in Ethiopian military matters) - relentlessly over recent weeks is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2/ It is to be remembered that Wight's partner in abuse of journalistic ethics at @EthiopiaInsight is @wldavison10
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Apr 3
This @HolocaustMuseum hosted event was as dreadful as I feared it would be. THREAD.

Ethiopian Voices on Current Mass Atrocity Risks youtube.com/live/XPV_U8HTQ…
A series of diaspora information warriors/propagandists (excepting Moges who was a last minute addition to the lineup) + @wdavison10 of @crisisgroup defending on ethnic lines a cacophony of lies about the largest war of the 21st Century (in casualties civilians & combatants)
The event neatly illustrates the special circumstances of this conflict, especially wrt the sophistication of the information warfare in Western Narratives that so effectively drowned out the truth in this nightmarish conflict.
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