
ALOK
SHARMA - CONSERVATIVE MP READING
UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE
REPORT 2022
In its annual state of the climate report, the United Nations’ weather agency said that sea level rise in the past decade was double what it was in the 1990s and since January 2020 has jumped at a higher rate than that. Since the decade began, seas are rising at 5 millimeters a year (.2 inches) compared to 2.1 millimeters (.08 inches) in the 1990s.
The data on sea level and average temperatures are nothing compared to how climate change has hit people in extreme weather. The report highlights the summer’s incredible flood in Pakistan that killed more than 1,700 people and displaced 7.9 million, a crippling four-year drought in East Africa that has more than 18 million hungry, the Yangtze River drying to its lowest level in August, and record heat-waves broiling people in Europe and China.
“This latest report from the World Meteorological Organization reads like a lab report for a critically ill patient, but in this case the patient is Earth,” said climate scientist Jennifer Francis of the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Cape Cod, who wasn’t part of the report.
Levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached record high levels, with potent methane increasing at a record pace, the report said.
That means more than just warming temperatures on land. Ice, both Greenland’s ice sheet and the world’s glaciers, are shrinking precipitously, the report said. For the 26th year in a row, Greenland lost ice when all types of ice are factored in. The volume of glacier snow in Switzerland dropped by more than one-third from 2001 to 2022, the report said.
But 90% of the heat trapped on Earth goes into the ocean and the upper 2000 meters (6561 feet) of the ocean is getting warmer faster. The rate of warming the last 15 years is 67% faster than since 1971, the report said.
DOUBLE
STANDARDS - Greenpeace has threatened to take the
Conservative government to court if it approves drilling at a new oil field in Scotland.
Where most would imagine that leading by example would be the order of
the day in all matters leading up to Cop26, ministers are considering green-lighting the gas and oil project at Cambo, a North
Atlantic site west of Shetland. No matter how you cut it, if this application gets the go ahead, how will the UK be able to hold its head up high when seeking to persuade India and China to stop burning
coal.
It's like the ongoing grants of permission for houses that add to
climate chaos, where councils are investing ratepayer's dollars in oil,
instead of renewables. CIL payments are not going to the Community
as Infrastructure Levies, they are (it is alleged) being used to
make up the shortfall in pension plans for council employees. We agree
with Greenpeace,
this should be the subject of a Judicial Review or Public Inquiry.
GROUNDS - In a climate emergency, any
government serious about meeting the Paris 1.5 degree target, without a
definite plan as to how to achieve that goal, should not be pursuing
fossil fuel agendas, that can only add to the problem, contrary to the
principles of sustainability and circularity. This is especially so
where the UK is one country with wind energy from coastal advantage,
that is under exploited. For example, development of hydrogen fuels from
renewable energy and distribution infrastructure, is more appropriate.
The only argument in favour of drilling for offshore oil, is where there
is no alternative. It may be that the country is in debt, but that is
because it has been pursuing policies that are unsustainable - such as
exploiting reserves, just for the sake of taxation.
Over 190 world leaders are expected to attend the conference in
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where they will be joined by government representatives, businesses, non-profit organisations and citizens for 12 days of climate
talks, from 6 to 18 November 2022, that we know flopped in miserably
2021 without commitment from
China, Russia, USA, India and Australia.
Never have we hoped so much to be proven wrong, but it is 7 years since
the 2015 Paris
Agreement, and nobody is doing, all of the key players are carrying
on as usual. In fact they are all
backpedaling. It is time for a serious trade war, blocking cheap imports
from China, a nation selling the West goods made from coal-fired
generating stations. Are we mad! Why are we buying goods that are
heating the planet? These are not cheap goods. They extremely expensive,
because they are killing life
on earth.
FOSSIL
FOOLS - Geriatric politicians with 'climate-senile' policies will
find in difficult to break away from their corrupt ways, as part time
politicians with two jobs. Their main job being to find paid consultancy
work, rather than craft policies and create statute that works to
protect our voters from lung
cancer, energy shortages and a lack of affordable (sustainable)
housing.
The
'zerophobics' are the undertakers of the political world, sending
millions of ordinary people to an early grave, while loading us with NHS,
hospital and staff costs that would not be needed if we had clean air in
our cities.
Basically,
the longer you are in politics, the more likely you are to be exposed to
bribes, from climate
deniers, mostly fossil fuel and energy companies, looking to keep on
pumping toxic fumes into the atmosphere, so they can keep making money.
The political undertakers are working with them to keep hospitals
stocked with cancer victims. They are blood sucking vampires, draining
what little you had saved for your retirement.

1995
COP 1, BERLIN, GERMANY
1996
COP 2, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1997
COP 3, KYOTO, JAPAN
1998
COP 4, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
1999
COP 5, BONN, GERMANY
2000:COP
6, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
2001
COP 7, MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
2002
COP 8, NEW DELHI, INDIA
2003
COP 9, MILAN, ITALY
2004
COP 10, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
2005
COP 11/CMP 1, MONTREAL, CANADA
2006
COP 12/CMP 2, NAIROBI, KENYA
2007
COP 13/CMP 3, BALI, INDONESIA
2008
COP 14/CMP 4, POZNAN, POLAND
2009
COP 15/CMP 5, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
2010
COP 16/CMP 6, CANCUN, MEXICO
2011
COP 17/CMP 7, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
2012
COP 18/CMP 8, DOHA, QATAR
2013
COP 19/CMP 9, WARSAW, POLAND
2014
COP 20/CMP 10, LIMA, PERU
2015
COP 21/CMP 11, Paris, France
2016
COP 22/CMP 12/CMA 1, Marrakech, Morocco
2017
COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 2, Bonn, Germany
2018
COP 24/CMP 14/CMA 3, Katowice, Poland
2019
COP 25/CMP 15/CMA 4 Spain
2020 - Postponed - A year without any progress, that the planet can ill afford
2021
COP 26 Glasgow, Scotland 1st-12th November

JEREMY
HUNT - Mr
uninformed, or simply nuclear dumb? This reminds us of PG&E, and Erin
Brokovich, where the energy company was telling locals that
carcinogenic chromium was good for them. But secretly knew they were
killing them, and watched while cancer
consumed many residents. We hear that Johnson and Hunt are being
considered as the new leads in a remake of Dumb
& Dumber. The bottom line is that politicians are not elected to
feather their nests, but to represent the wishes and needs of the
people. They are tasked with, and required by law to provide an
effective administration. We are waiting for one that does - and it's
not going to be the Tories anytime before the year 2050. So, don't hold
your breath, and should you live that long.

THE
CLIMATE DIRTY DOZEN 2021 - IN ORDER OF CO2, METHANE AND COAL FIRED INSANITY

Chinese
President
Xi
Jinping
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US
President
Joe
Biden
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EU
President
Ursula
von der Leyen
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Indian
PM
Narendra
Modi
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Vladimir
Putin
Russian
PM
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Japanese
PM
Fumio Kishida
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Kim
Boo-kuym
South
Korean PM
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Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi
Arabian Ruler
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Justin
Trudeau
Canadian
PM
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Jair Bolsonaro
Brazilian
PM
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Joko Widodo
Indonesian
PM
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Scott
Morrison
Australian
PM
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LINKS
& REFERENCE
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/alok-sharma
http://www.aloksharma.co.uk/
CLIMATE
CHANGE COP HISTORY
1995
COP 1, BERLIN, GERMANY
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2008
COP 14/CMP 4, POZNAN, POLAND
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1996
COP 2, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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2009
COP 15/CMP 5, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
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1997
COP 3, KYOTO, JAPAN
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2010
COP 16/CMP 6, CANCUN, MEXICO
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1998
COP 4, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
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2011
COP 17/CMP 7, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
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1999
COP 5, BONN, GERMANY
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2012
COP 18/CMP 8, DOHA, QATAR
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2000:COP
6, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
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2013
COP 19/CMP 9, WARSAW, POLAND
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2001
COP 7, MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
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2014
COP 20/CMP 10, LIMA, PERU
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2002
COP 8, NEW DELHI, INDIA
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2015
COP 21/CMP 11, Paris, France
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2003
COP 9, MILAN, ITALY
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2016
COP 22/CMP 12/CMA 1, Marrakech, Morocco
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2004
COP 10, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
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2017
COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 2, Bonn, Germany
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2005
COP 11/CMP 1, MONTREAL, CANADA
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2018
COP 24/CMP 14/CMA -, Katowice, Poland
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2006
COP 12/CMP 2, NAIROBI, KENYA
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2019
COP 25/CMP 15/CMA -, Santiago, Chile
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2007
COP 13/CMP 3, BALI, INDONESIA
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2020
COP 26/CMP 16/CMA
3, Glasgow,
Scotland
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DESERTIFICATION
COP HISTORY
COP
1: Rome, Italy,
29 Sept to 10 Oct 1997
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COP
9: Buenos
Aires, Argentina, 21 Sept to 2 Oct 2009
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COP
2: Dakar
(Senegal), 30 Nov to 11 Dec 1998
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COP
10: Changwon
(South Korea), 10 to 20 Oct 2011
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COP
3: Recife
(Brazil), 15 to 26 Nov 1999
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COP
11: Windhoek
(Namibia), 16 to 27 Sept 2013
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COP
4: Bonn
(Germany), 11 to 22 Dec 2000
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COP
12: Ankara
(Turkey), 12 to 23 Oct 2015
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COP
5: Geneva
(Switzerland), 1 to 12 Oct 2001
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COP
13: Ordos City
(China), 6 to 16 Sept 2017
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COP
6: Havana
(Cuba), 25 August to 5 Sept 2003
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COP
14: New Delhi
(India), 2 to 13 Sept 2019
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COP
7: Nairobi
(Kenya), 17 to 28 Oct 2005
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COP
15: 2020
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COP
8: Madrid,
Spain, 3 to 14 Sept 2007
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COP
16: 2021
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BIODIVERSITY
COP HISTORY
COP
1: 1994 Nassau,
Bahamas, Nov & Dec
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COP
8: 2006
Curitiba, Brazil, 8 Mar
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COP
2: 1995
Jakarta, Indonesia, Nov
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COP
9: 2008 Bonn,
Germany, May
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COP
3: 1996 Buenos
Aires, Argentina, Nov
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COP
10: 2010
Nagoya, Japan, Oct
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COP
4: 1998
Bratislava, Slovakia, May
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COP
11: 2012
Hyderabad, India
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EXCOP:
1999 Cartagena, Colombia, Feb
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COP
12: 2014
Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, Oct
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COP
5: 2000
Nairobi, Kenya, May
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COP
13: 2016
Cancun, Mexico, 2 to 17 Dec
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COP
6: 2002 The
Hague, Netherlands, April
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COP
14: 2018
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 17 to 29 Nov
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COP
7: 2004 Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, Feb
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COP
15: 2020 Kunming, Yunnan, China
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UN
CLIMATE ACTION PORTFOLIOS
1.
Finance
2. Energy
Transition
3. Industry
Transition
4. Nature-Based
Solutions
5. Cities
and Local Action
6. Resilience
and Adaptation
7. Mitigation
Strategy
8. Youth
Engagement & Public Mobilization
9. Social
and Political Drivers

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