The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 has reached its third day with complaints about censorship in Egypt, which hosted the event.
The prospects for the US elections and the statement by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), the elected president of Brazil (PT) on establishing the position of the National Climate Authority, also steered the day during the main UN climate event.
Censor. According to Gizmodo, journalists and human rights websites were blocked during the conference.
The list of blocked sites includes blogging platforms like Medium and pages like global organization HRW (Human Rights Watch), independent news agency Mada Masr, and news agency Al Jazeera. HRW has previously warned of Egypt’s crackdown on journalists, political activists and environmentalists.
Censorship in the country is no surprise. In 2017, the Mada Masr and Al Jazeera websites went offline at the behest of the Egyptian government led by President Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi since 2014.
US elections. Elections in the US are also causing anticipation at the UN conference, where activists urged President Joe Biden’s government to accelerate transformations in their country.
“Many states have won many climate champions,” said Frances Colon, climate policy director at the Center for American Progress think tank. “I hope they take advantage of this moment to make more climate policy.”
Biden will speak at the COP27 meeting on Friday (11). “I think it would be a disastrous mistake if President Biden doesn’t seize this unique opportunity to become the ‘climate president’ the world needs,” said Jean Su, director of the Energy Justice program at the Center for Biodiversity. American.
“We are at a really important moment for the world not to be an uninhabitable place,” he said at a press conference today. Biden added that he should use his presidential powers to declare a climate emergency. However, Su expressed satisfaction with the promising results of the many candidates who are campaigning on climate as part of their agenda.
American environmentalists say they believe Biden’s $370 billion in climate investment is unlikely to be eliminated by a Congress that seems sharply divided.
Kerry offers a carbon credit plan. US Special Representative for Climate, Former Senator John Kerry announced a carbon offset plan at the conference today. The idea is to connect US private companies to energy transition actions in developing countries. The plan has already been criticized for its intention to propose a fixed price for cash purchases of carbon credits.
Lula needs to make an announcement at the COP. COP27 attendees, waiting for the next president to be present next week, are starting to show expectations regarding the announcements at the event. Lula should use his presence at the conference to announce the creation of the ANC (National Climate Authority) position and offer an invitation for one of the next COPs, which will likely take place in Brazil in 2025.
this COP28, from 2023, is already planned for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. There is still no decision for 2024 but there is an offer from Australia.
Joe Biden’s proposal to form the ANC, inspired by the model adopted by the US government and inspired by the model that brought former Senator John Kerry to the post, had already been raised during the campaign and was approved by Lula when presented by the federal lawmaker. While declaring his support for the candidacy, he chose Marina Silva (Rede) as one of his proposals.
Higher than reported oil and gas emissions. According to Climate TRACE, a new platform based on satellite information, greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas will be three times higher than official data. Presented this Wednesday at COP27.
The tool has identified 70,000 plants across the planet that emit emissions into the atmosphere, belonging to industries such as heavy industry, energy, agriculture, transportation and mining.
The Climate TRACE platform uses Artificial Intelligence to analyze data from more than 300 satellites and thousands of sensors on land and at sea. In this way, he found that all 14 of the largest sources of emissions are oil and gas extraction facilities.
Former US Vice President Al Gore, one of the founders of the project, who will update his information regularly, said that the most polluting point on the planet is the Texas Permian Basin, one of the world’s largest oil fields in the United States. .
Latin America Agenda. Sebastián Nieto, responsible for the region at the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), said during today’s COP27 that the green agenda is Latin America’s strong point on the world stage.
According to him, the region has several factors in its favour: it concentrates half of the world’s biodiversity, produces 33% of its energy from renewable sources – compared to the world average of 13% – and has high reserves of essential minerals for life. ecological transition such as lithium (61%), copper (39%) and nickel (32%).
Commitment from rich countries. Several wealthy countries have pledged to free up resources to cover the “loss and damage” caused by climate change in the most vulnerable countries, one of the focal points of the event held in Egypt on Wednesday.
Developing countries have long demanded that a special mechanism be established to receive funds from the richest countries to prevent and cope with disasters such as droughts or floods.
(with AFP and Reuters)
source: Noticias
