Tag: COP26

Climate Change

CCPI report COP26 climate summit: Australia ranked last on policy in major international report

Australia has been ranked last among 60 countries on climate change policy in an annual report that dings the nation’s performance in every major category. Overall, Australia dropped four places to 55th in the 2022 Climate Change Performance Index report, which warned even the best-ranked countries in the world were still not doing enough to stave off dangerous climate change. Australia figured poorly in all four categories — greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use and climate policy — but it was on both national and international policy that it copped the biggest battering.

Source: CCPI report COP26 climate summit: Australia ranked last on policy in major international report

Climate Change

The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure and disappointment (despite a few bright spots)

After two hard-fought weeks of negotiations, the Glasgow climate change summit is, at last, over. All 197 participating countries adopted the so-called Glasgow Climate Pact, despite an 11th hour intervention by India in which the final agreement was watered down from “phasing out” coal to “phasing down”.

Source: The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure and disappointment (despite a few bright spots)

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How the Australian govt was embarrassed on the COP26 world stage

Scott Morrison COP26

As the COP26 climate summit comes to a close, the Australian government has little to show for its attendance other than a seemingly battered and bruised global reputation. Australia sat out of agreements to cut methane emissions, coal use and deforestation, despite many of the world’s largest nations signing on to such commitments.

Source: How the Australian govt was embarrassed on the COP26 world stage

Fossil Fuel Industry

COP26 leaves too many loopholes for the fossil fuel industry. Here are 5 of them

Some countries are taking positive steps. The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance that aims to phase out production is key to cutting supply of fossil fuels. Multilateral action such as this, whether as part of COP or outside it – and, crucially, the pressure from below that causes it – must be a focus if we’re to avoid climate change.

Source: COP26 leaves too many loopholes for the fossil fuel industry. Here are 5 of them

LNP, LNP Government, LNP Policy

Coal plan in draft COP26 may be ‘rude shock’ for Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison coal stance will cause G7 regrets

Australia’s plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 does not involve a phase-out of coal, and ( PM Morrison says): “Australia’s coal and gas export industries will continue through to 2050 and beyond, supporting jobs and regional communities.”

“The pressure on Australia, both international and domestic, is just going to keep growing. And the cost will be felt not just in the loss of international reputation, but economic damage as the rest of the world moves faster, and starts to impose border tariffs on Australian exports.”

While Morrison says there is “no line in the sand”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said he hopes the event will be a line-in-the-sand moment that would see “all the countries in the world … move off coal”.

Source: Coal plan in draft COP26 may be ‘rude shock’ for Scott Morrison

Obama

COP26 Glasgow summit: Barack Obama condemns Donald Trump, China, Russia over summit failures

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Barack Obama condemned Donald Trump and the Republican Party for active hostility to climate science. Obama said it was discouraging that Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin had chosen not to attend COP26. He called on the world’s youth to keep active and to vote as though their lives depended on it. The UN was forced to defend the presence of fossil fuel lobbyists at the climate talks.

Source: COP26 Glasgow summit: Barack Obama condemns Donald Trump, China, Russia over summit failures

Scott Morrison

COP26, Boris and Scotty’s cop-out, just a lot of hot air in the end? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

An international laughing-stock who has given offence to three powerful nations, Morrison returns home with his reputation in tatters. His government will never be trusted by any other nation. It’s the most disastrous trip overseas ever taken by an Australian PM. Above all he’s been called out for what he is, a liar. Morrison’s so used to lying at home and getting away with it given this nation’s tamed corporate media monopoly that he is furious that he’s been called on it – and by another leader, no less who has put the lie to his attempt to lie about his lie. The text the PM’s office released to media does not corroborate Morrison’s claim that France knew all along that Australia would go back on its word and abandon its contractual commitment. While the UN’s COP26 may prove disappointing in its capacity to achieve binding commitments from enough nations to cut carbon emissions enough to keep to the 1.5 degree increase in temperature agreed in Paris, on a local level it has been of great benefit to Australia in exposing to the world the duplicity and dishonesty of its mining corporation puppet-government. Forget the hard hat and Hi-Vis, Morrison and his corrupt, rorty government

Source: COP26, Boris and Scotty’s cop-out, just a lot of hot air in the end? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Climate Change

At COP26, It’s People Power vs. Fossil Fuel Dinosaurs | The Smirking Chimp

18 year old Greta Thunberg nailed shamed and revealeled Scott Morrison , his  Plan, and his slogan “The Australian Way” with her simple rebuttal ” Bla Bla Bla ”

The Paris Agreement doesn’t even mention coal, oil or gas, which is why a movement has been launched for a Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation treaty, modeled on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Much of the energy and direction in the climate justice movement is coming from young people around the world. Greta Thunberg, the 18-year-old Swede who sparked the global Fridays for Future student strike movement, slammed the decades-old climate negotiations at a “Pre-COP” in Milan last month: “Build back better, blah, blah, blah. Green economy, blah, blah, blah. Net zero by 2050, blah, blah, blah….This is all we hear from our so-called leaders: words that sound great but so far have led to no action. Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises.” These global youth leaders, including Brianna Fruean from Samoa and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda, bring personal, frontline experiences with the climate emergency and a deep commitment to intersectional organizing and global justice to their work. “It’s now up to people,” Asad Rehman concluded. “People power is the only solution that’s left.”

Source: At COP26, It’s People Power vs. Fossil Fuel Dinosaurs | The Smirking Chimp

Climate Change

Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!

Like Greta’s School Strike for the Climate, the climate movement in the streets of Glasgow is informed by the recognition that the science is clear and the solutions to the climate crisis are readily available. It is only political will that is lacking. This must be supplied by ordinary people, from all walks of life, through creative, dramatic action and mass mobilization, to demand the political and economic transformation we so desperately need. The usually mild-mannered UN Secretary General Guterres made it clear that “street heat” will be key to saving humanity. “The climate action army – led by young people – is unstoppable,” he told world leaders in Glasgow. “They are larger. They are louder. And, I assure you, they are not going away.”

Source: Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!

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Scott Morrison

Dig up, prime minister | The Monthly

Image of Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Image via ABC News

When the Artful Dodger proved to be Artless

Today Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Dig up, prime minister By Nick Feik Image of Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Image via ABC News Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Image via ABC News Morrison is in a hole, and making things worse In response to the comments that French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at Scott Morrison yesterday (“Do you think he lied to you?” a journalist asked Macron. “I don’t think, I know,” Macron replied), Morrison has proceeded to dig himself in deeper. First the PM’s staff leaked a text message from Macron to the Coalition’s favourite propaganda outlet, The Daily Telegraph, which dutifully ran a story around it. (Funnily enough, the Tele was one of the few mastheads that hadn’t run a major story on the fact that the French president had accused the Australian PM of lying.) The Tele proposed that the text message from Macron (“Should I expect good or bad news for our joint submarines ambitions?”) somehow proved that he had been told that Australia was cancelling its submarine contract – and that the Frenchman “just didn’t want to hear it”. It proved nothing of the sort, and there was no evidence to support this contention other than the single text message and the assertions of “sources familiar with talks between the two men”. (Gee, who could they be?)

Not content with the diplomatically disastrous ploy of leaking private messages and backgrounding against foreign leaders to the press, Morrison then took a public shot at Macron, accusing him of attacking Australia’s integrity. What’s more, Morrison added, “I’m not going to cop sledging of Australia, I’m not going to cop that on behalf of Australians.”

To be clear: Macron had not sledged Australians generally. He had sledged Morrison personally. (“I have a lot of respect for your country,” Macron said. “I have a lot of respect – and a lot of friendship – for your people.”)

Source: Dig up, prime minister | The Monthly

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As Australians gamble on the Melbourne Cup, Prime Minister makes each-way bet on climate change at COP26 – ABC News

Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson share the stage at COP26

He claims he’s not a liar but then he claime Macron insulted the Australian Public an immediate lie to boost his claim he’s not a liar. He’s a dud a real dud. Tim Smith was merely DUI. Morrison is a serial bullshitter who was sacked by NZ and Australia for his inexcusable “clumsiness”, poor judgement, and communication skills. We have witnessed all of it for the past  3 years.

In failing to offer more action this decade — the main objective of COP26 — Scott Morrison needed to make a case for Australian exceptionalism. In some sense he succeeded, but not as hoped. “The Australian Way” seems to have highlighted that this nation, as in past COP meetings, is acting as a brake on climate action, not a ready participant. Which makes it all the harder to convince ‘developing’ countries — which includes the likes of China and India — to follow suit. Scott Morrison will depart Glasgow with Australia’s six-year-old 2030 target unchanged. He may be able to brush off the criticism Australia is copping at COP26, but it is likely to follow him. Frank Bainimarama, the strong man and powerful voice of the Pacific, made it clear that success in limiting climate change should not be left to chance. “We have moral authority,” he said. “You have a moral obligation.”

Source: As Australians gamble on the Melbourne Cup, Prime Minister makes each-way bet on climate change at COP26 – ABC News

Climate Change

COP26: Biden first President to Back Sweeping Measures on Climate, as for-profit Press lets Denialist Republicans off the Hook

America and The UK have left Australia eating their dust

Biden is the first president to take the climate emergency seriously as an emergency. He has many levers of power to begin turning the USS America around on this issue, and if he can get us headed in the right direction, that will have enormous downstream impacts on our future and the future of the globe.

Source: COP26: Biden first President to Back Sweeping Measures on Climate, as for-profit Press lets Denialist Republicans off the Hook

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Old Dog Thought- Morrison seems to have always had “a plan” and he’s executed it.  Labelled it “The Australian Way” (MAGA ) and shamed us all.
May be an image of 3 people and text that says 'he's got a pamphlet memey S A'

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Informed Comment

And this is the bloke we’re sending to Glasgow! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

My thought for the day When he arrives in Scotland, the prime minister won’t be greeted with handshakes of possibility but a kick up the arse for pursuing nothing. (John Lord)

Source: And this is the bloke we’re sending to Glasgow! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

Paul Bongiorno: Morrison’s win over Nationals looking like a pyrrhic victory

Ironically the Prime Minister and his fellow converts in the News Corp tabloids around the nation on Monday were trumpeting the opportunities net zero will present for jobs and growth something they all decried as reckless at the 2019 election. Mr Morrison in question time ridiculed Labor for not having a plan to reach the 30-year target apparently oblivious to the fact that so far he hasn’t taken the nation into his confidence about his hitherto secret plan. Hopefully before he boards his plane on Thursday all will be revealed. Either way he won’t be asking the Parliament to do anything about it.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Morrison’s win over Nationals looking like a pyrrhic victory

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Australia’s stumbling, last-minute dash for climate respectability doesn’t negate a decade of abject failure

The Embarrassment of it all!  Is we have one LNP but seemingly two governments that for 8 years have been in step and still march to the same silent tune. However their public performance has left us all aghast!

A week before a major international meeting aimed at saving life on Earth, the Morrison government has apparently seen the light. Granted, it’s a start. But the new targets are less than the bare minimum required. The government’s last-minute jump on the bandwagon is not quite the Damascene conversion it would have the public believe. Will Australia’s stumbling, last-minute dash towards climate respectability be well-received in Glasgow? Don’t hold your breath.

Source: Australia’s stumbling, last-minute dash for climate respectability doesn’t negate a decade of abject failure

Coal

Climate change: Why Australia refuses to give up coal – BBC News

Scott Morrison holding up a fossilised lump of coal in parliament in 2017

What the world really thinks of Australia and why Morrison is reluctant to attend COP26. Morrison sees no space for a positive photoshoot.

In a world racing to reduce pollution, Australia is a stark outlier. It is one of the dirtiest countries per head of population and a massive global supplier of fossil fuels. Unusually for a rich nation, it also still burns coal for most of its electricity. Australia’s 2030 emissions target – a 26% cut on 2005 levels – is half the US and UK benchmarks. Canberra has also resisted joining the two-thirds of countries who have pledged net zero emissions by 2050. And instead of phasing out coal – the worst fossil fuel – it’s committed to digging for more. So it’s no surprise that Australia is being viewed as a “bad guy” going into the COP26 global climate talks in Glasgow, analysts say. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government is under huge pressure to do more.

Source: Climate change: Why Australia refuses to give up coal – BBC News

Informed Comment

COP26 Glasgow summit: On net zero, the Nats can’t go quietly

Illustration by Andrew Dyson

That old saying “we get what we pay for ” certainly doesn’t apply to the caliber of our politicians any longer. We can put that old cherry to bed.

That was best distilled when Barnaby Joyce complained that the Nats couldn’t resolve the issue in their party room meeting this week because they didn’t have enough time. As though the government hasn’t had years to think about this. It was like watching someone start cramming the night before an exam, having not cracked open the textbook all year.

Source: COP26 Glasgow summit: On net zero, the Nats can’t go quietly

Informed Comment

Cheap Grace and Climate Change: Australia and COP26 – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It was not for everybody, but the shock advertising tactics of the Australian comedian Dan Ilic made an appropriate point. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a famed coal hugger, has vacillated about whether to even go to the climate conference in Glasgow. Having himself turned the country’s prime ministerial office into an extended advertising agency, Ilic was speaking his language. The language was promoted through sponsored imagery in Times Square, New York, with advertising space purchased by a crowdfunding campaign of considerable success. Billboards featured the prime minister as a “Coal-o-phile Dundee,” mercilessly mocked Australia’s climate policies and responses to the murderously scorching bushfires of 2020.

Source: Cheap Grace and Climate Change: Australia and COP26 – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Cooking with gas - Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce.

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Waking up to Climate Change Dinosaurs – » The Australian Independent Media Network

As things stand, it is a wonder Prime Minister Scott Morrison is even bothering. The Australian delegation in Glasgow is bound to be poorly briefed, confused and barely able. The coalition government, still weighed down by fossil-fuel fantasists, will continue to be engaged in a battle of such stunning incoherence any undertakings on carbon neutrality and change can only be regarded as unreliable and disingenuous. As McKenzie and a few of her lobotomised colleagues would have you believe, climate change is something that happens to other people. In the meantime, fossil fuel socialists the world over, unite!

Source: Waking up to Climate Change Dinosaurs – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Climate Change

Climate change: The world gallops to Glasgow COP26 United Nations climate summit while Australia trundles the other way

The steelworks and coal loading facility at Port Kembla. Australia learnt this week its coal and gas exports will be hit by Japan’s plans to almost halve its use of the fossil fuels by 2030.

Friday marked 100 days until the critical COP26 United Nations climate summit starts in Glasgow and the milestone was marked by renewed urgency in climate action. Alok Sharma, the Conservative UK cabinet minister who will be the formal host of the Glasgow talks, used it to write to relevant ministers around the world and call upon them to raise ambitions. “Although significant progress has been made, we must be honest that collectively we have not yet delivered at the scale and pace that science requires,” read his letter. “The world will be watching in Glasgow and it is our shared responsibility to rise to the challenge.”

Source: Climate change: The world gallops to Glasgow COP26 United Nations climate summit while Australia trundles the other way