NewsFromDubai #7 Signals beyond Consensus

Now that I am back home, conflicts at #COP28 appear to have reached boiling point. Many are dismayed by the lack of leadership (rightfully so !) & some dismiss the whole COP process.
I think they are wrong. First, I think that this outright dismissal of a UN process is dangerous: we need more, not less, multilateralism in our conflict-ridden world. Second, I also think some have unrealistic expectations about what COPs are & what they can do (➡️ ).

https://twitter.com/StefanAykut/status/1734244259312685329

We need to talk about the French anti-wind (and pro-nuclear) lobby.

Below are inputs per country to a EU consultation for an initiative aimed at facilitating renewable projects by simplifying permitting procedures. The procedure has been hijacked by French anti-wind groups.
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https://twitter.com/DecrypteEnergie/status/1501194743853854720

How is this possible, you might ask. In times of the climate crisis and the Russian invasion in Ukraine, simplifying procedures for renewable energy projects to cut our fossil fuel dependence should be a no-brainer, right?

Apparently, not for French anti-wind groups.
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I just watched #DontLookUp AND we just published an article on climate activism. Both ask: why don’t we react adequately to a global crisis, when the facts seem crystal-clear?
A 🧵on how the film (mis)represents the climate crisis & how a social science perspective helps.
1/14 On #DontLookUp: It’s a good film, sometimes hilarious & often painfully precise in depicting the self-referentiality of social systems, esp. politics & media. For a blockbuster, it also finds a reasonably good metaphor for the climate crisis, even though it’s not perfect.
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Below is the full intervention from India during the Informal stocktaking plenary at #COP26. It's an important intervention, bc it clearly shows some of the core dividing lines in the climate debate, but also key problems with a certain conception of development. This conception interprets development as the right to pollute, in a world that can no longer support high-carbon development. It has to be clearly criticized - notwithstanding the historical failure of the Global North to reduce emissions & provide adequate finance.

#COP26 fact check. Is the mention of phasing out fossil fuel subsidies really “the first time we are addressing the main cause of climate change explicitly in a draft decision.” as Fernanda Carvalho from WWF claims?
As the battle is heating up, a bit of history is useful.

1/8 In fact, fossil fuels were already mentioned in the draft text of the Paris agreement ... before being deleted under the pressure of oil & coal producers led by Saudi Arabia.

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