COP29 hosts urges collaboration as final negotiations of the deal enter stage
Azerbaijan, the host of COP29's climate summit, urged participants to come up with a financial deal by Friday as negotiations for the two-week long conference reached their final hours. The world governments present at the Baku meeting, in the Caspian Sea City, are required to agree on a comprehensive plan whereby rich countries would pledge hundreds of billions to assist poorer nations deal with the increasing impacts of global climate change. The wealthy nations are resisting the need to provide at least $1 trillion per year by the end decade.
UN chief warns at COP29 that if you don't pay up, the climate will lead to disaster for humanity.
At the COP29 Summit on Tuesday, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders to "pay up", in order to prevent climate-driven humanitarian disasters. He also said that time was running short to limit a destructive increase in global temperatures. Nearly 200 countries have gathered in Baku for the annual U.N. Climate Summit. This year, the summit is focused on raising hundreds and billions of dollars so that the world can transition to cleaner sources of energy while limiting the damage to the climate caused by carbon emission.
Companies call on world leaders to meet renewable energy targets
On Monday, executives from major companies urged leaders to implement an international agreement made at the COP28 Summit in Dubai last year to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, to combat climate change. The statement was made at a side event to the United Nations Climate Week, in New York. Companies like Amazon.com, a massive energy user and power producers such as Vestas and Iberdrola were among those who issued it. The United Nations has called for countries to submit their national climate plans, due to be presented to the U.N.
UN chief warns that Africa's inability to access debt relief could lead to social unrest
The lack of resources and insufficient debt relief for African countries is a recipe to create social unrest. This was the conclusion reached by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday. He proposed new reforms to international financial institutions. In recent months, a growing debt crisis has sparked civil unrest across Africa's 1 billion people. Protests in Kenya where police clashed against demonstrators protesting proposed tax increases, inspired people in Nigeria and Uganda to take to their streets over the rising cost of living.
USA to Make Paris Climate Exit Official
The Trump administration will file paperwork with the United Nations as early as Monday to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, marking the first formal step in a one-year process to exit the global pact to fight climate change.The move would finalize a decision President Donald Trump promised early in his term to unfetter America’s domestic oil, gas and coal industries."What we won’t do is punish the American people while enriching foreign polluters,” Trump said at a shale gas industry conference in Pennsylvania on Oct.
Oil Companies Push Carbon-capture Efforts
A group of 13 major oil companies charted out a plan on Monday to promote investments in carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS), ahead of a gathering in New York.Oil chiefs grappling with growing demand for action to fight climate change have looked to invest in carbon-capture and sequestration techniques that some executives, including Occidental Petroleum Corp CEO Vicki Hollub, say could make drilling carbon neutral.With fossil fuel development growing worldwide…
UN Calls for Investigation on Tanker Attacks
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Friday for an independent investigation to establish the facts and who was responsible for attacks on two oil tankers this week in the Gulf of Oman.The United States blamed Iran for the attacks on Thursday, a charge Tehran rejected. Amid the rising tensions, Guterres said he was available to mediate if the parties agreed, however he added that "at the present moment we don't see a mechanism of dialogue possible to be in place."Tehran and Washington have both said they have no interest in starting a war…
U.S. and Gulf Allies Face Task Protecting Oil Shipping Lanes
The United States and its allies may need to to start escorting commercial vessels to prevent further attacks in Gulf oil shipping lanes, Gulf sources and experts said.Even then, the conventional naval and air capabilities of Western and Gulf powers tasked with policing vital commercial waters may be of limited use against the asymmetric warfare tactics suspected in recent operations, including naval mines.Six tankers have been hit in the past month in two attacks near the Strait of Hormuz…
