The Cop28 presidency has teamed up with the fossil gasoline trade on an initiative to scale back the emissions from producing – however not utilizing – oil and fuel.
In case you’re getting deja vu, that’s as a result of there’s been an alphabet soup of comparable initiatives just lately. The NZPF, the OGCI, the EIERGHGFF…you get the image!
All of them get the identical criticism. Why deal with the comparatively small chunk of oil and fuel emissions which come from producing the stuff and never the a lot bigger emissions from burning it?
However satellites just lately revealed that leaks from Turkmenistan’s oil and fuel infrastructure final 12 months did extra injury to the local weather than the entire of the UK does.
On condition that even underneath the IEA’s 1.5-aligned situation we’ll be utilizing oil and fuel for not less than 30 years, it might be good to plug these leaks not less than.
However will these initiatives assist with that? Or are they only a public relations stunt, so oil and fuel corporations can say they’re doing one thing whereas pumping extra oil?
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The Paris Settlement is famously voluntary, counting on peer stress and encouragement moderately than guidelines and self-discipline.
Nevertheless it does have some legally-binding elements. And now the closest factor it has to a police pressure has been set as much as implement them.
It’s begun its work with a reprimand to one of many world’s tiniest and holiest nations, who’ve did not submit a local weather plan to the UN.
That scenario needs to be mounted simply. However the committee is more likely to tackle greater nations and more durable circumstances quickly.
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