Poland on Tuesday named the EU’s largest producer of high-quality coking coal among several coal-sector companies that it chose to partner with the UN’s COP 24 global climate summit opening this weekend in the southern coal city of Katowice. —AFP, 28 November 2018
Brazil has withdrawn its offer to host the annual UN climate summit next year, citing budgetary constraints and the transition to a new government. The U-turn follows last month’s election of Jair Bolsonaro as president, ushering in an administration skeptical of globalism and action to tackle climate change. —Climate Home News, 28 November 2018
Germany is likely to show up empty-handed to the COP24 summit in Poland in December as the country’s coal exit commission has decided to extend its work beyond the original end-of-2018 deadline. —Euractiv, 28 November 2018
The Kobe project is one of more than 30 new power stations being planned or built by Japan that burn coal. —Nikkei Asian Review, 22 November 2018
The US has struck a small blow to the Paris Agreement days before the high-level annual climate change negotiations kick-off at Katowice, Poland. In a UN report on climate finance, it has forced the scrubbing of all explicit references to the responsibility of developed countries for providing funds and resources to the developing countries for tackling climate change. —Nitin Sethi, Business Standard, 27 November 2018
President Donald Trump doubled-down on disagreements with dire predictions made in the latest U.S. government global warming report. “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump told The Washington Post in an Oval Office interview Tuesday. –Michael Bastasch, The Daily Caller, 27 November 2018
I can still remember all the fanfare they made when they held the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio all the usial coverage from the M.S. Media the usial persons there the Tree of Life with the leaf shaped cards the school kids made Just think about all those kilowatts hours of electricity and all that water as well and they all used Fossil Fuels and Greenpeace was forced to serve drinks in plastic/styrofoam cups because they forgot to bring their ceramic ones