How has the sanctions war waged by the U.S. and its NATO allies against Russia and China impacted global efforts to halt the relentless rise in #GHG emissions?
An excerpt from Jeff Rubin’s “A Map of the New Normal.” #uspoli
#CarbonMajors is a database of historic production data from 122 of the world’s largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers.
• Investor-owned companies account for 31% of emissions, with Chevron, ExxonMobil, and BP the three largest contributors.
• State-owned companies are linked to 33%, with Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, and the National Iranian Oil Company being the largest contributors.
• Nation-states account for the remaining 36%.
“The #CarbonMajors database makes it dramatically easier to document, calculate, and visually demonstrate the growing chasm between the urgent demands of climate reality and the continued reckless and intentional growth of oil and gas production,” said Carroll Muffet, President and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law #CIEL.
"There is already more than enough LNG export capacity to meet global demand for the fuel, if countries meet national and international climate goals."
To hit its climate targets, #Germany needs a “barrage of investments” to modernise industry and reduce the carbon footprint from heating.
“The crisis-related slump in production weakens the German economy. If emissions are subsequently relocated abroad, then nothing has been achieved for the climate.”
Only 15% of the reduction in 2023 constitutes “permanent emissions savings”.
A journalist asked me recently whether #climatechangedenial has decreased or even disappeared.
Sure, only that they re-branded themselves.
Some switched to become #climatedoomers - why bother, we can’t do anything anyway. Some others are selling the ‚positive‘ effects of #climatechange on welfare of people.
All the same and they might even still find their audience.
The UN claims to be almost entirely climate neutral, yet that claim is based on buying millions of carbon offset credits that experts say do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, The New Humanitarian and Mongabay found in a year-long investigation.