
Rishi
Sunak - UK Policies adrift from global warming? Damn right!
Rishi Sunak is now steering the leaky ship Britannia on a new
course, trying to avert global catastrophe, while at the same time
dealing with the remnants of government over spending and borrowing over
many years.
Just
about all nations, especially the G20
members, have been burning fossil fuels and super heating their
economies and the planet, in their rush to growth, when they should have
been looking to stabilize the economy, with food security, energy self
sufficiency, affordable homes for young families, and a zero
emission transport system.
Instead
of that, fat bankers and private landlords (non productive workers) have
been creaming off the backs of honest productive workers. Conservative
policy is still to build more executive housing, raising the cost of
living, and perpetuating the renting society. Wealden
District Council is one such local administration, struggling to
provide services, with the Planning Inspectorate steadfastly refusing to
accept that we are in the middle of a climate crisis. Granting consents
in the brick-rush, that people cannot afford to buy. Only rent. Despite
the United Nations sustainability
development goals.
Statute
has to change. The Planning Inspectorate has to refuse permission for
new build houses, that are not energy self sufficient, and do not have EV
charging facilities, in preparation for the 2030-35 bans on diesel
and petrol
vehicles.
In
our view all permissions granted since 2015, that are not affordable
and/or sustainable, should be voided. Since, the councils and/or
Inspectorate, had failed to properly consider the climate implications.
Those consents did not include a climate change analysis, or cost of
living assessment rating.
Jeremy
Hunt has a huge task ahead if he is to dig his Conservative party out
of the shit? But we wish him all the best, and hope he can begin the
steep descent to a Circular
Economy.
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, adding to the £Trillions we owe as part of
the national debt. Under Boris and Rishi Sunack, pensioner's saving have
halved in real terms. They are blood sucking vampires, draining what
little you had saved for your retirement.
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.

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.
BBC NEWS 6 NOVEMBER 2022 - COP27: RISHI SUNAK URGES WORLD TO MOVE FASTER ON RENEWABLES
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to urge world leaders at COP27 to move "further and faster" in transitioning to renewable energy.
Mr Sunak will travel to Egypt on Sunday for the UN climate summit after U-turning on a decision not to go.
In his address on Monday, he will say Russia's invasion of Ukraine "reinforced" the importance of ending dependence on fossil fuels.
COP27 follows a year of climate-related disasters and record temperatures.
The prime minister will also tell leaders gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh not to "backslide" on commitments made at last year's COP26 summit in Glasgow intended to prevent global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
But Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), has warned that the 1.5C target is "barely within reach".
His comment comes as the UN's weather and climate body released a report showing that the rate at which sea levels are rising has doubled since 1993.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has described the report as a "chronicle of climate chaos" and urged governments at COP27 to answer the planet's "distress signal" with "ambitious, credible climate action".
Mr Sunak will meet French President Emmanuel Macron at the summit this week and the topic of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats will likely be raised.
- The big issues facing Egypt's COP27 climate summit
- Where does Rishi Sunak stand on climate change?
- Is the UK on track to meet its climate targets?
- A really simple guide to climate change
In a statement before his departure, Mr Sunak said: "When the world came together in Glasgow last year, nations agreed an historic roadmap for preventing catastrophic
global
warming. It is more important than ever that we deliver on those pledges.
"Fighting climate change is not just a moral good - it is fundamental to our future prosperity and security.
"Russia's invasion of Ukraine and contemptible manipulation of energy prices has only reinforced the importance of ending our dependence on fossil fuels.
"We need to move further and faster to transition to renewable energy, and I will ensure the UK is at the forefront of this global movement as a clean energy superpower."
It comes after the prime minister backtracked on attending the summit earlier this week.
Mr Sunak had originally stated he would not travel to Egypt, arguing that his priority was to plug a £50bn hole in the public finances ahead of
Chancellor Jeremy
Hunt's autumn statement on 17 November.
Labour's Ed Miliband said the prime minister "dithered" about attending the climate summit, adding that: "Britain needs to be in the climate leadership business."
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the shadow climate change secretary said it was now "cheaper to save the planet than to destroy it".
"We're in the midst of an energy crisis," he said, adding that renewable energy sources were now much cheaper than fossil fuels.
Mr Miliband insisted that switching to renewables was "the opportunity of the future" and that this was the "message we should be taking to COP".
Mr Sunak's initial decision not to attend the summit was widely criticised by climate campaigners, opposition parties and COP26 President and colleague
Alok
Sharma.
Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden has defended the prime minister, saying he was "committed" to environmental issues.
Mr Dowden told Laura Kuenssberg that, when Mr Sunak came to power, his first priority was the economic crisis but that he had worked on the Autumn Statement "to make sure he can go to this summit".
Mr Dowden was also questioned about host country Egypt's human rights record, including its detention of British Egyptian national Alaa Abd El-Fattah, an activist who has been in jail for nine years and is on a hunger strike.
[The UK also has a poor HR record, with planning injustices ongoing and
wrongful conviction issues, where the UK has no Right of Appeal.]
Asked if the prime minister would raise Abdel Fattah's case while at the summit, the cabinet minister said: "I'm sure he will raise it at appropriate forums".
Labour's Mr Miliband said it was a "very serous issue" and that he would "make sure to raise it with the
Egyptians while I'm there".
The prime minister has sent a letter to Abdel Fattah's family pledging that the activist's case is "a priority for the British government both as a human rights defender and as a British national".
However, speaking on Sky News, Abdel Fattah's sister Sanaa Seif said she was concerned No 10's engagement with the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi would come too late.
Speaking of her worry that her brother could die while the climate summit was happening, she urged the British government to be "responsible for getting us proof of life".
WHY THE LATEST UN CLIMATE CONFERENCE MATTERS
The government has faced criticism for approving new oil and gas licences in the
North Sea despite the International Energy Agency saying there can be no more new fossil fuel exploration if the 1.5C target is to be met.
Mr Sunak is expected to chair a meeting of world leaders to drive progress on the pledge signed by 100 countries at Glasgow to halt and reverse deforestation and damaging land use by 2030.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, said he did not think the climate summit this week would be a success.
"I don't think there's been the leadership either from our country or frankly from other countries," he told Laura Kuenssberg.
Meanwhile the King, who made an address at COP26 last year and is known for his passionate interest in environmental issues, will not be attending the summit after
Buckingham Palace agreed with former Prime Minister Liz Truss he would not attend.
Although Downing Street suggested this week they may have come to a different view if Mr Sunak had been installed in No 10 earlier.
The latest round of UN climate talks takes place amid a backdrop of increasingly devastating extreme weather around the globe, and an energy and cost-of-living crisis driven by President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The COP27 agenda will highlight calls to reduce emissions, help countries deal with climate change, and secure technical support and funding for
developing
countries.
The UN has also warned that based on countries' latest climate action plans, there is currently no credible pathway to meet the 1.5C goal intended to avoid the worst impacts of
global warming.
Rich countries are further falling short in providing finance to help developing nations adapt to
climate change, according to the UN.
This year floods in Pakistan left millions homeless and saw the hottest summer on record in Europe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63527460
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CABINET
MPS -MARCH 2020

Boris
Johnson
Prime
Minister
|

Rishi
Sunack
Chancellor
Exchequer
|

Priti
Patel
Home
Secretary
|

Dominic
Raab
Foreign
Secretary
|

Michael
Gove
Chancellor
D. Lancaster
|

Ben
Wallace
Defence
Secretary
|

Matt
Hancock
Health
& Social Care
|

Liz
Truss
International
Trade
|

Gavin
Williamson
Education
|

Oliver
Dowden
Culture
|

Alok
Sharma
MP
Reading West
|

Robert
Jenrick
Housing,
Local Gov.
|

Therese
Coffey
Work
& Pensions
|

Robert
Buckland
Justice
|

Anne-Marie
Trevelyan
International
Dev.
|

Grant
Shapps
Transport
|

George
Eustice
Environment
|

Brandon
Lewis
Northern
Ireland
|

Alister
Jack
Scottish
Sec. State
|

Simon
Hart
Welsh
Sec. State
|

Baroness
Evans
Leader
Lords
|

Amanda
Milling
Party
Chairman
|

Jacob
Rees-Mogg
Leader
Commons
|

Mark
Spencer
Chief
Whip
|
|

Suella
Braverman
Attorney
General
|
|

Stephen
Barclay
Treasury
Sec.
|
|
|
CONSERVATIVE
MPS 2017-2020

Boris
Johnson - Prime
Minister
MP
Uxbridge & South Ruislip
|

Rishi
Sunack
MP
for Richmond, Yorkshire
|

Grant
Shapps
MP
Welwyn Hatfield
|

Philip
Hammond
MP
Runnymede & Weybridge
|

Alok
Sharma
MP
Reading West
|

Damian
Green
MP
for Ashford
|

Gavin
Williamson
MP
South Staffordshire
|

Liam
Fox
MP
North Somerset
|

David
Lidlington
MP
for Aylesbury
|

Baroness
Evans
MP
Bowes Park Haringey
|

Jeremy
Hunt
MP
South West Surrey
|

Justine
Greening
MP
for Putney
|

Chris
Grayling
MP
Epsom & Ewell
|

Karen
Bradley
MP
Staffordshire Moorlands
|

Michael
Gove
MP
Surrey Heath
|

David
Gauke
MP
South West Hertfordshire
|

Sajid
Javid
MP
for Bromsgrove
|

James
Brokenshire
MP
Old Bexley & Sidcup
|

Alun
Cairns
MP
Vale of Glamorgan
|

David
Mundell MP
Dumfriesshire
Clydes & Tweeddale
|

Patrick
McLoughlin
MP Derbyshire
Dales
|

Greg
Clark
MP
Tunbridge Wells
|

Penny
Mordaunt
MP Portsmouth
North
|

Andrea
Leadsom
MP South Northamptonshire
|

Jeremy
Wright
MP
Kenilworth & Southam
|

Liz
Truss
MP
South West Norfolk
|

Brandon
Lewis
MP
Great Yarmouth
|

MP
Nus
Ghani
MP
Wealden
|

Huw
Merriman
MP
Battle
|

Steve
Double
MP
St Austell & Newquay
|

Sarah
Newton
MP
Truro & Falmouth
|

Rebecca
Pow
MP
Taunton Deane
|

Jacob
Rees-Mogg
MP Somerset
|

Gavin
Williamson
MP
Staffordshire
|

Thérèse Coffey
MP
Suffolk Coastal
|

Caroline
Ansell
MP Eastbourne
|
.
David
Davis
MP
Haltemprice & Howden
|

Claire
Perry
MP
for Devizes
|

Amber
Rudd
MP
Hastings & Rye
|
.
|

Theresa
May - former PM
MP
for Maindenhead
|

David
Cameron
Former
Prime
Minister
|

John
Major
Former
Prime
Minister
|

Margaret
Thatcher
Former
Prime
Minister
|
UK
POLITICS
The
United Kingdom has many political parties, some of which are
represented in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Below are links to the websites of the political parties that were
represented in the House of Commons after the 2015 General Election:
CONSERVATIVE
PARTY
CO-OPERATIVE
PARTY
DEMOCRAT
UNIONIST PARTY
GREEN
PARTY
LABOUR
PARTY
LIBERAL
DEMOCRATS
PLAID
CYMRU
SCOTTISH
NATIONAL PARTY
SINN
FEIN
SOCIAL
DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY
UK
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
ULSTER
UNIONIST PARTY
Conservative
Party
Co-operative
Party
Democratic
Unionist Party
Green
Party
Labour
Party
Liberal
Democrats
Plaid
Cymru
Scottish
National Party
Sinn
Féin
Social
Democratic and Labour Party
UK
Independence Party
Ulster
Unionist Party
SIX
(SUGGESTED) STEPS TOWARD A COOLER PLANET
1.
TRANSPORT:
Phase out polluting vehicles. Governments aim to end the sale of new
petrol,
and diesel
vehicles by 2040 but have no infrastructure plan to support such
ambition. Marine transport can be carbon neutral. Zero
carbon shipping is gaining ground with offshore solar boat racers
reaching 35knots (Delft University @ Monaco 2019). The first solar
powered circumnavigation
record was set in 2012 by PlanetSolar.
That record could be halved by another contender
on the drawing board.
2.
RENEWABLES:
Renewable energy should replace carbon-based fuels (coal, oil
and gas)
in our electricity, heating and transport. We are well on the way to
that with solar
and wind
power now price competitive to fossil
fuels.
3.
HOUSING:
On site micro or macro generation is the best option, starting with
new build homes that are affordable and built of wood for improved
insulation and carbon lock. New units might not need planning consents
if energy self-sufficient, or very nearly so. Planning consents should
be struck for genuinely affordable/sustainable housing and self builds
where cost is below £50,000. See letter to
Nus Ghani July 2019.
4.
AGRICULTURE:
We need trees to absorb carbon emissions from a growing population,
flying, and to build new homes. Reducing food waste and promoting less
energy intensive eating habits such as no meat Mondays.
5.
INDUSTRY:
Factories should be aiming for solar heating and onsite renewable energy
generation. This could be done simply by making it a 106 type (mitigation)
condition of new builds that they include solar heating and photovoltaic
panels. Too many units were built in the last 3 years without climate
friendly features, such as EV charging points.
6.
POLITICS:
- National governing bodies need to adopt rules to eliminate
administrative wastages, restrain local authority empire building, scale
down spending on war machines, educate the public and support
sustainable social policies that mesh with other cultures transparently.
Ban kleptocratic
policies. Open your doors to transparency and a new era of honest
politics. Local authorities are famous for finding the loopholes to keep
on doing favours for mates. Simply close those loopholes with binding
statute. Any gray areas should be made black and white in writing. Even
then councils will break the law, so introduce a task force to prosecute
offending local authorities..
LINKS
& REFERENCE
https://
CLIMATE
CHANGE COP HISTORY
1995
COP 1, BERLIN, GERMANY
|
2008
COP 14/CMP 4, POZNAN, POLAND
|
1996
COP 2, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
|
2009
COP 15/CMP 5, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
|
1997
COP 3, KYOTO, JAPAN
|
2010
COP 16/CMP 6, CANCUN, MEXICO
|
1998
COP 4, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
|
2011
COP 17/CMP 7, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
|
1999
COP 5, BONN, GERMANY
|
2012
COP 18/CMP 8, DOHA, QATAR
|
2000:COP
6, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
|
2013
COP 19/CMP 9, WARSAW, POLAND
|
2001
COP 7, MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
|
2014
COP 20/CMP 10, LIMA, PERU
|
2002
COP 8, NEW DELHI, INDIA
|
2015
COP 21/CMP 11, Paris, France
|
2003
COP 9, MILAN, ITALY
|
2016
COP 22/CMP 12/CMA 1, Marrakech, Morocco
|
2004
COP 10, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
|
2017
COP 23/CMP 13/CMA 2, Bonn, Germany
|
2005
COP 11/CMP 1, MONTREAL, CANADA
|
2018
COP 24/CMP 14/CMA -, Katowice, Poland
|
2006
COP 12/CMP 2, NAIROBI, KENYA
|
2019
COP 25/CMP 15/CMA -, Santiago, Chile
|
2007
COP 13/CMP 3, BALI, INDONESIA
|
2020
COP 26/CMP 16/CMA
3, Glasgow,
Scotland
|
DESERTIFICATION
COP HISTORY
COP
1: Rome, Italy,
29 Sept to 10 Oct 1997
|
COP
9: Buenos
Aires, Argentina, 21 Sept to 2 Oct 2009
|
COP
2: Dakar
(Senegal), 30 Nov to 11 Dec 1998
|
COP
10: Changwon
(South Korea), 10 to 20 Oct 2011
|
COP
3: Recife
(Brazil), 15 to 26 Nov 1999
|
COP
11: Windhoek
(Namibia), 16 to 27 Sept 2013
|
COP
4: Bonn
(Germany), 11 to 22 Dec 2000
|
COP
12: Ankara
(Turkey), 12 to 23 Oct 2015
|
COP
5: Geneva
(Switzerland), 1 to 12 Oct 2001
|
COP
13: Ordos City
(China), 6 to 16 Sept 2017
|
COP
6: Havana
(Cuba), 25 August to 5 Sept 2003
|
COP
14: New Delhi
(India), 2 to 13 Sept 2019
|
COP
7: Nairobi
(Kenya), 17 to 28 Oct 2005
|
COP
15: 2020
|
COP
8: Madrid,
Spain, 3 to 14 Sept 2007
|
COP
16: 2021
|
BIODIVERSITY
COP HISTORY
COP
1: 1994 Nassau,
Bahamas, Nov & Dec
|
COP
8: 2006
Curitiba, Brazil, 8 Mar
|
COP
2: 1995
Jakarta, Indonesia, Nov
|
COP
9: 2008 Bonn,
Germany, May
|
COP
3: 1996 Buenos
Aires, Argentina, Nov
|
COP
10: 2010
Nagoya, Japan, Oct
|
COP
4: 1998
Bratislava, Slovakia, May
|
COP
11: 2012
Hyderabad, India
|
EXCOP:
1999 Cartagena, Colombia, Feb
|
COP
12: 2014
Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, Oct
|
COP
5: 2000
Nairobi, Kenya, May
|
COP
13: 2016
Cancun, Mexico, 2 to 17 Dec
|
COP
6: 2002 The
Hague, Netherlands, April
|
COP
14: 2018
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 17 to 29 Nov
|
COP
7: 2004 Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, Feb
|
COP
15: 2020 Kunming, Yunnan, China
|
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