This Friday (11), the topic of the day at COP was the decarbonisation.
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We had more protests. Highlight the complaint from doctors, nurses, pharmacists, scientists and medical students from around the world: climate carnage is killing their patients!
Professionals attributed the increase in deaths worldwide to the climate crisis, which is causing pollution air pollution, malnutrition and lack of access to healthcare.
Transition fuel?
Experts stated that gas producers and their financiers are seeing COP27 as an opportunity to make a kind of “rebranding” of natural gas, selling the idea that it can be seen as a “transition fuel” instead of another fossil fuelsystem. (The Guardian*)
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The push would be coming from host Egypt and its gas-producing allies, amid a global energy crisis worsened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
But it is worth remembering that burning gas, although it is less polluting than coal, can increase the global warming well beyond the 1,5°C stipulated by the Paris Agreement.
Biden at COP
Another highlight of the day was the participation of the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
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Biden proclaimed that the US is back as a global leader against climate change after the approval of the Inflation Reduction Law, which included about $370 billion in clean energy incentives aimed at reducing the use of harmful greenhouse gases.
He spoke of how he immediately returned the U.S. to the 2015 Paris climate agreement upon taking office after his predecessor, President Donald J. Trump, withdrew the country: “I apologize for pulling out of the agreement,” he said.
Furthermore, he announced new support, worth US$150 million, to accelerate the President's Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) efforts across Africa.
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Biden, however, made no mention of one of the hot topics of this COP27: the demand from developing countries that the most industrialized nations, historically responsible for the bulk of emissions, fund a fund to compensate them for losses and damages of the climate emergency.
“Scary” growth
It was released this Friday (11), during the COP27, a report that shows that despite the International Energy Agency's (IEA) call for no new oil and gas exploration plants, 655 out of 685 (96%) of exploration and production companies have expansion plans.
According to the document, prepared by the German NGO Urgewald and 50 partner NGOs, planning for the “scary” expansion would result in the release of 115 billion tons of CO2, which is equivalent to more than 24 years of US emissions.
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Keep an eye on the schedule:
Saturday (12) will be dedicated to the debate on climate adaptation and agriculture. The following week begins with discussions about gender and water, on the 14th. Tuesday (15th) is the day to talk about civil society and energy. On the 16th, the subject is biodiversity, and on Thursday (17th), climate solutions.
The United Nations (UN) International Conference on Climate Change – COP27 – began last Sunday (6), in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. COP is the UN's major annual event whose objective is to discuss actions aimed at combating climate change.
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