It calls on countries to take actions to reduce planet-warming pollution, which could include reducing the consumption and production of oil, coal and gas. Many climate experts and observers have blasted the draft for its vague language and a lack of concrete timelines.

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Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/climate/cop-28-draft-agreement-fossil-fuel-monday/index.html

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Low-carbon hydrogen already has a big fan-base and is forecast to play a major role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from heavy industries and some forms of transport.

But it is expensive to produce and often needs government support to compete against fossil fuels.

The United States, for example, is offering large incentives for producing it under President Joe Biden’s $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-doubles-down-hydrogen-fuel-future-2022-12-05/

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In its bid to cut planet-warming emissions by 55 per cent by 2030 from 1990 levels, the European Commission has proposed a 100 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions from new cars by 2035.

That means it would be impossible to sell combustion engine cars from then.

European Parliament lawmakers backed the proposals this month, before negotiations with EU countries on the final law took place.

Speaking at an event hosted by Germany’s BDI industry association, Lindner said there would continue to be opportunities for combustion engines.

So a ban was wrong, he confirmed, saying the government would not agree to this European legislation.

But Lindner, a member of the pro-business Free Democrats, which shares power with the Social Democrats and Greens, said Germany would still be a leading market for electric vehicles.

By speeding the shift to zero-emission electric vehicles, the EU aims to tackle the quarter of EU emissions that come from transport, which in recent years have been rising.

Firms including Volkswagen have already announced plans to stop selling combustion engine cars in Europe by 2035, but some industry groups have warned against banning a specific technology, and said more ambitious targets can only be met if policymakers support a massive rollout of charging infrastructure.

The EU is also negotiating proposals to require countries to install public charging points at regular intervals along major roads.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/06/22/germany-refuses-to-agree-to-eu-ban-on-new-fossil-fuel-cars-from-2035

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“This is what I’m talking about,” the text from Rachel reads, with an attached image of Time’s latest cover story, entitled “Our Sinking Planet.” U.S. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stares back at me on the cover, nearly waist-deep in rising murky seas.

Rachel is a mom like I am. We both have small children and she’s part of the circle of friends I somehow manage to meet for lunch now and then between work deadlines and dance recitals. She’s anxious about climate change again, reaching out to me for reassurance.

I am concerned too, but it’s different. There’s no question that our climate reality is dire, but having worked at the intersection of science and climate challenges for decades, the new barrage of what I’ve come to call doomsday porn is perplexing.

Climate scientists, biologists, engineers and others with expertise have been speaking and writing about our changing planet for a long time. My own work has focused on how we’ll figure out a way to come to terms with billions more people, limited resources and more extreme extremes. Droughts will be worse. Floods more severe. Storms increasingly intense.

I’ve often felt like a modern Cassandra, writing and speaking about the dramatic and unprecedented planetary shifts taking place due to short-sighted policy choices. Deforestation, the burning of fossil fuels, and the ways we use water and produce food inevitably do take a toll on the environment, our health and security. As a marine scientist, I observed firsthand how the pH of oceans has been changing along urban coasts in a process called acidification due to excess emissions.

The evidence of climate change has been all around us for a long time. Protecting people and Earth’s co-inhabitants from its most devastating impacts will require institutional reckoning and action.

Massive social movements to organize, march and strike have collectively shone a light on growing public awareness and urgency. Candidates and policymakers, long reticent to mention climate change, are finally openly talking about it and developing detailed policy plans to address uncertainty and emerging related security challenges.

Scientists are already developing new ways to produce food in hotter, drier and wetter climates. The energy landscape has been rapidly transitioning and new technologies now allow us to be more efficient with water, waste less in agriculture and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Plant-based meat alternatives and cell-cultured meat are swiftly entering the global marketplace to have a less damaging environmental impact than their traditionally produced counterparts. We are preparing future generations for conditions on a changing planet, but the lack of public awareness, trust, and support of the research involved will hinder our progress.

Doomsday scenarios may generate clicks and sell advertisements, but they always fail to convey that science is nuanced. Arbitrary “time left to the apocalypse” predictions are not evidence-based and the story of climate change doesn’t fit neatly into brief bullet points competing for your attention in today’s saturated media environment. Stoking panic and fear offers a false narrative that can overwhelm readers, leading to inaction and hopelessness.

When I worked on Capitol Hill 13 years ago, I faced a cacophony of staffers and lawmakers choosing inaction on the assumption that climate change wasn’t real. Today many of the same people point to the dire predictions dominating the news and shrug off better policies with the excuse that the world is ending anyway.

If history teaches us anything, it’s that humans have a penchant for anticipating our End Times. Ancient mythologies from cultures all around the world describe catastrophic floods and religious cults continue to recruit followers with predictions of death by a comet or solar flare.

Climate change cannot become yet another doomsday narrative. It’s far too important and deadly serious. Climate change deserves to be addressed with a level of gravity that spurs informed policies, thoughtful planning and dedicated leadership at the local, national and global scale. Journalists must figure out how to convey the precarious state of our world along with the opportunities still available to adapt and change our behavior to mitigate the worst possible outcomes.

Earth isn’t ending in 12 years. It didn’t end at Y2K or when the Mayan calendar predicted the collapse of civilization in 2012. Earth, as a whole, will be okay—for at least another few billion years. What’s less settled is how humans and the rest of biodiversity on the planet will fare in the decades and centuries to come. That’s up to us and I hope we work to highlight hope over Armageddon.

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In a series of tweets, Moore slammed Ocasio-Cortez, who has called for drastically reducing fossil fuel production, and said the freshman congresswoman doesn’t realize what would happen across the world if the radical plan were implemented.

Moore left Greenpeace after 15 years and is now critical of the group, even writing the book, “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist.” Greenpeace has distanced themselves from Moore and accused him of overstating his past affiliation with them.

On “Hannity” Monday, Moore said Ocasio-Cortez’s plan to get the U.S. off fossil fuels within ten years would be “a suicide pact.”

He explained that more than 80 percent of the United States’ energy comes from fossil fuels, and they are absolutely critical for transporting goods and people.

He claimed the only reason to ban fossil fuels is because of dire warnings about the looming “climate apocalypse” from activists like Ocasio-Cortez.

He lamented that supporters of the Green New Deal have been using children to push their policies, such as when a group of children confronted Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) last month.

“The whole climate change movement has now reverted to using kids as a front for not only climate change and ending the use of fossil fuels but the whole ball of wax about socialism. I think that’s what they’re really trying to sell.”

Source: https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/03/05/greenpeace-co-founder-patrick-moore-slams-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal

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