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COP29 Opens in Azerbaijan With Climate Finance at Top of Agenda

Mukhtar Babayev, president of COP29, during the opening ceremony of the climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. Hollie Adams—Bloomberg/Getty Images

By Seth Borenstein, Melina Walling, and Sibi Arasu / AP

November 11, 2024 6:53 AM EST

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Soaring rhetoric, urgent pleas and pledges of cooperation contrasted with a backdrop of seismic political changes, global wars and economic hardships as United Nations annual climate talks began Monday and got right to the hard part: money.

In Baku, Azerbaijan, where the world's first oil well was drilled and the smell of the fuel was noticeable outdoors, the two-week session, called COP29, got right to the major focus of striking a new deal on how many hundreds of billions — or even trillions — of dollars a year will flow from rich nations to poor to try to curb and adapt to climate change.

The money is to help the developing world transition their energy systems away from planet-warming fossil fuels and toward clean energy, compensate for climate disasters mostly triggered by carbon pollution from rich nations and adapt to future extreme weather.

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Study shows EV owners have bigger carbon footprint than average because they are wealthier

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Study shows EV owners have bigger carbon footprint than average because they are wealthier

by Bob Yirka , Phys.org

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A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average carbon footprint.

For their paper published in the open-access journal PLOS Climate, Nils Sandman, Elisa Sahari and Aki Koponen analyzed questionnaires sent to thousands of random adults in Finland regarding lifestyle choices, car use, environmental opinions and how they felt about EVs.

As global warming, exacerbated by human-origin greenhouse gas emissions continues, makers of some goods have begun to alter their products in ways that reduce emissions. One such product is the automobile.

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What Is Climate Week?

The annual convening of Climate Week in New York has become one of the largest globally for climate reform, but can the events shore up meaningful commitments amid the worsening effects of global warming?

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September 20, 2024 11:40 am (EST)

Youth protest in New York City as part of climate week. Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images

This September, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) will gridlock New York City. So will Climate Week. Claiming to be the largest of its kind, the annual convocation of climate activists, scientists, academics, and business and political leaders is scheduled to coincide with the meeting of world leaders. Their goal is to spur greater action on climate change, despite mixed results.

What is UN Climate Week?

Climate Week, which will be held from September 22 to September 29, was first launched in 2009 at New York’s Morgan Library to prepare negotiators for the annual UN-sponsored climate convening, the Conference of the Parties (COP). The event lacks the UNGA’s formality, insistence on protocol, and entrenched bureaucracy, offering instead some six hundred events and activities aimed at climate action.

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Pope says battling climate change and religious extremism a common cause

Pope Francis (C) and Grand Imam of Istiqlal Mosque Nasaruddin Umar (center, L) pose with religious leaders at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta on September 5. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images


On visit to Southeast Asia’s largest mosque, Pope says battling climate change and religious extremism a common cause

By Christopher Lamb, Kathleen Magramo, Masrur Jamaluddin, James Legge and Antonia Mortensen, CNN

Updated 2:32 AM EDT, Thu September 5, 2024


Jakarta, IndonesiaCNN —

Since his papacy began in 2013, Pope Francis has signaled his intention to build bridges with other faiths. The global growth of Islam, and the rise of extremism across religions, also made this an urgent priority.

On Thursday, in the biggest mosque in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, the pontiff used a joint statement with Indonesia’s Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar to pinpoint “two serious crises” facing the world: dehumanization and climate change.

“The global phenomenon of dehumanization is marked especially by widespread violence and conflict, frequently leading to an alarming number of victims,” said the statement, signed in the sprawling capital Jakarta.

“It is particularly worrying that religion is often instrumentalized in this regard, causing suffering to many, especially women, children and the elderly,” it continued. “The role of religion, however, should include promoting and safeguarding the dignity of every human life.”

On climate change, the declaration stated that “human exploitation of creation” had led to “various destructive consequences such as natural disasters, global warming and unpredictable weather patterns,” and an “obstacle to the harmonious coexistence of peoples.”

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The American people have many concerns in this modern age. In recent years, the cost of living has skyrocketed, inflation refuses to go away, the housing market is unaffordable, the national debt is soaring, a contentious election looms, there are wars in Europe and the Middle East, and bird flu is not only sickening birds but also cattle and other animals. However, if you read the news, it quickly becomes evident that the media, scientists, politicians, world leaders, and even religious figures such as Pope Francis believe the biggest concern on everyone’s mind should be climate change.

For his part, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church lashed out against climate skeptics in a recent television interview. “There are people who are foolish and foolish even if you show them research, they don’t believe it. Why? They don’t understand the situation or because of their interest, but climate change exists,” Pope Francis told CBS News. (1) On April 22, 2024, which was celebrated as Earth Day, the Pope doubled down on his message when he posted on X, “Our generation has bequeathed many riches, but we have failed to protect the planet and we are not safeguarding peace. We are called to become artisans and caretakers of our common home, the Earth which is ‘falling into ruin.’” (2)

In March 2024, after it had been reported that 2023 was the hottest year on record, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proclaimed, “Earth’s issuing a distress call. Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos off the charts.” He then insisted, “Changes are speeding up.” (3) Celeste Saulo, who is the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, also expressed her displeasure when she said, “I am now sounding the red alert about the state of the climate. 2023 set new records for every single climate indicator.” (4)

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Rockefeller’s Dream: Global Governance Through ‘Climate Change’

Rockefeller’s Dream: Global Governance Through ‘Climate Change’

Like the left's “long march through the institutions,” David Rockefeller played the long game.

by PAUL E. SCATES

December 9, 2023, 10:35 PM





David Rockefeller, grandson of oil magnate John D. and longtime head of the Chase Manhattan Bank, must be laughing his head off right now, for his global government dream might come into existence through one of the most ridiculous and unbelievable scams in history, called “climate change.”

So, “global warming” was invented by men who are still committed to eliminating over seven billion humans from the earth.

Rockefeller created, funded, or joined various secret societies that spawned globalist conspiracy theories, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, and the Trilateral Commission, and Rockefeller often stoked those theories with provocative statements:“Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are … conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” [David Rockefeller, Memoirs]
“But [today] the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.” [1991 speech at Bilderberg meeting in Berlin]

Another Rockefeller-funded group is the Club of Rome, co-founded by Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei and Scotsman Alexander King in 1968, whose stated goal was to reduce the world’s population to a “sustainable” level of between 500 million and 1 billion people. Their 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, explained their Malthusian vision: too many people on earth, using too much of the planet’s resources, would result in a catastrophic world-wide societal collapse within 100 years “if something wasn’t done immediately.” They believed that only a world government could implement that “something.” (READ MORE: VIDEO: Kerry Promises to Get Rid of Coal Faster. That’s Not Good.)

Fast-forward to today, when we’re scolded by climate zealots that “we only have 12 years left to save the planet” from the effects of global warming. Same scaremongering, just a shorter timeframe.

In both cases the dire warnings were just useful lies, as the Club of Rome openly admitted in 1991 in a book titled The First Global Revolution, co-authored by co-founder Alexander King. In the intro to Part II, he quoted French futurist Gaston Berger: “We must no longer wait for tomorrow; it has to be invented.” So invent they did: King noted that the end of the Cold War resulted in the sudden absence of traditional enemies against which support for global government could be justified. He wrote, “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that … the threat of global warming … would fit the bill.” (italics mine)

So “global warming” was invented, a new Frankenstein’s monster against which the gullible world would zealously unite. But, just like Miss Shelly’s frightful creature, “global warming” (later “climate change”) is an imaginary monster; the real threat to human society are the “solutions” proposed and backed by avid globalists.

I had thought that the Club of Rome was just a group of bored elitists who would quickly move on to EST, Scientology, etc., but I was wrong. In a 2017 interview, co-author of The Limits to Growth (and World Economic Forum member) Dennis Meadows said that “86 percent of the world’s population needs to be eliminated. But a benevolent dictator could accomplish that peacefully.” (italics mine)

So, “global warming” was invented by men who are still committed to eliminating over seven billion humans from the earth, men who recognize that only a global government can accomplish that task.

Another David Rockefeller protégé was Canadian millionaire Maurice (pronounced “Morris”) Strong. A high school dropout, at age 18 he met Rockefeller, who took Strong under his wing, introducing him to “the Canadian Rockefellers,” the Desmarais family. Strong went to work for them in the Alberta oil fields, and by age 28 was a millionaire, at which time Rockefeller got him his first job at the United Nations. (READ MORE: Al Gore for President)

In 1972, Strong was selected to head the UN’s new Environment Program (UNEP), where he convened the first international expert group on climate issues, and created the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Under the UNFCCC, he formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body that provides the climate Assessment Reports that have been termed “the Environmentalists’ Bible” (that the computer models used for those assessments have been repeatedly and embarrassingly wrong hasn’t deterred climate zealots from renewed hysteria at every IPCC report release).

Strong is credited with coining the term “climate change” when “global warming” became awkward due to declining global temperatures starting around the year 2000. His most important legacy, though, is the UN’s Agenda 21/Sustainable Development program, unveiled in 1972 (rebranded in 2015 as Agenda 2030).

Agenda 21/2030 is the blueprint of the global government scheme, using “climate change” as its alluring mask. In the UN’s own words, it “will require a profound re-orientation of all humans, unlike anything the world has ever experienced.” Such as the massive redistribution of wealth from Western democracies to the developing world: “Between $3.3–$4.5 trillion per year … to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” That staggering amount would cripple the Western economies, thus removing a major barrier to global government — the ultimate goal of the “climate change” ruse.

Agenda 21/2030, Chapter 4 calls for drastically reducing consumption and production of everything, which comports nicely with the Club of Rome’s 2018 Climate Emergency Plan, which calls for halving consumption/production and halting all fossil fuel investment. (Neither document addresses the millions of jobs that would destroy, or the poverty and vulnerability of the populace that would ensue.) Chapter 5 almost lets the cat out of the bag, blaming the growth of world population for “placing increasingly severe stress on our planet.” Chapter 7 calls for an end to private property, claiming that “social justice … can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society-as-a-whole.”

Lest you think I’m misinterpreting the true goals of Agenda 21/2030, in 1991 Maurice Strong wrote in a report for the UN’s Conference on Environment and Development: “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class — high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, home and workplace air-conditioning and suburban housing — are not sustainable.” (italics mine). So “the good life” that most humans aspire to must be abandoned to “save the planet.” But is it worth saving the planet if most of us must exist only in wrenching poverty, disease, and hopelessness?

It’s telling that Strong was on the board of the Club of Rome, the group that invented “global warming” to justify its call for global government largely to eliminate seven billion people from the planet. He wrote in his autobiography (Where on Earth Are We Going?) that the death of two-thirds of humanity would be “a glimmer of hope” for the future. So the man most responsible for the decades-long climate hysteria was a committed de-population advocate. But there’s more.

Maurice Strong was also a Foundation Director of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab’s “self-selected coalition” with the answers to all the world’s problems. Upon Strong’s death in 2015, Schwab credited him with being “my mentor since the creation of the Forum.” In 1973 Klaus Schwab invited Club of Rome co-founder Peccei to give the keynote address at the European Management Symposium (later the World Economic Forum), providing an influential global audience for the Club’s de-population ideas. (READ MORE: A Climate Change Believer’s Curse)

There is yet another Rockefeller connection to the UN and the WEF: Rockefeller’s longtime friend Henry Kissinger tutored Schwab for two years at Harvard’s International Business Seminar, and Schwab named him (along with Strong) as a mentor. Kissinger was the architect of the secret 1974 U.S. National Security Study Memorandum 200, which called for abortion on demand, widespread birth control, and sterilization to stem global fertility rates and “overpopulation.”

In 2019, Schwab signed an agreement with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to “accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030 across the globe.” And oh, my, has Herr Schwab “accelerated” that process! A 2019 WEF video titled, “8 Predictions for 2030” gives the lie to the “factcheckers” at CNN, Reuters, USA Today, and others who deny that the WEF ever claimed “you’ll own nothing and be happy,” for that is the first of the eight predictions.

Aside from the questionable science of climate change, it’s the same old hackneyed lust for power and control by a small group of elites.

The video also calls for a merging of capitalism and socialism, more government intervention in the lives of citizens “for fairness,” and more public/private partnerships (once known as “fascism,” where corporations collude with government to make a shambles of Constitutional rights and free markets). Again, the aim of all this is to cripple the Western democracies, smoothing the way for globalist control. Rockefeller’s minions at the UN and the WEF are getting closer to that goal.

In his book The Great Reset, Schwab proposes “to change and move on from free-market capitalism,” replacing it with his idea of “stakeholder capitalism,” which requires companies to consider the interests of employees, customers, suppliers, and community instead of just investors (thus the ESG and DEI travesties). But Schwab’s scheme is modeled after a 1937 Nazi Shareholder Law that required companies to consider “public welfare before individual gain.” Just another lie supporting the “necessity” of draconian actions that will decimate Western societies, clearing the path for globalist control.

In light of this evidence, it seems that the “climate change” hysteria that has overtaken Western institutions has less to do with the problems associated with a changing climate and much to do with global elites’ efforts to acquire power and control for their de-population schemes, and possibly even for their own enrichment. But here is the bottom line: Eliminating fossil fuels, the basis of the modern world economy, will effectively return us to the material world of the mid-1800s, depriving the rest of us of the means and wherewithal necessary to resist the globalists’ dictates.

The unquestioning zealotry of the virtue-signaling supporters of Net Zero, “sustainable development,” and the elimination of fossil fuels are blissfully making that gloomy future a certainty, decrying “greedy capitalists” even as they mindlessly help create a real tyranny of wealthy elitist masters. (READ MORE: Whitmer Signs Michigan’s Green New Dystopia)

Aside from the questionable science of climate change, it’s the same old hackneyed lust for power and control by a small group of elites … only this time the whole world has fallen for it because it’s disguised as a noble cause to “save the planet.” But in that 2017 interview, Limits to Growth co-author Dennis Meadows explained that de-population (under the guise of climate change) was necessary “in order to maintain the survivors’ freedom and standard of living.” Not such a noble cause after all, is it?

Like the communists’ “long march through the institutions,” David Rockefeller played the long game, and placed his minions in positions of influence and power to eventually achieve his globalist dream. The Club of Rome, the UN, Agenda 2030, Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset … are all part of the pre-determined “solution” to the false crisis of “climate change,” a solution that gives them the global power and control they’d never be able to achieve otherwise. Somewhere, David Rockefeller is smiling.

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COP28 opens with plea to work together on fossil fuels

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By Kate Abnett, Maha El Dahan and Valerie Volcovici

November 30, 20236:25 AM EST

Updated an hour ago



Attendees arrive for the opening of U.N.'s COP28 climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 30, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky 

Summary

• COP28 president says engaging on fossil fuels 'essential'
• Countries and oil companies urged to work together
• Summit delegates hope for early approval of disaster fund deal

DUBAI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The incoming COP28 president, Sultan al-Jaber, opened this year's U.N. climate summit on Thursday by urging countries and fossil fuel companies to work together to meet global climate goals.

Governments are preparing for marathon negotiations on whether to agree, for the first time, to phase out the world's use of CO2-emitting coal, oil and gas, the main source of warming emissions.

Jaber, who is also the CEO of the United Arab Emirates' national oil company ADNOC, aimed to strike a conciliatory tone following months of criticism over his appointment at the head of COP28.

In his opening remarks, Jaber acknowledged that there were "strong views about the idea of including language on fossil fuels and renewables in the negotiated text. ... I ask you to work together."

"It is essential that no issue is left off the table. And yes, as I have been saying we must look for ways and ensure the inclusion of the role of fossil fuels."

He touted his country's decision to "proactively engage" with fossil fuel companies, and noted that many national oil companies had adopted net-zero targets for 2050.

"I am grateful that they have stepped up to join this game-changing journey," Jaber said. "But, I must say, it is not enough, and I know that they can do much more."

DISASTER FUND

As the U.N. climate conference kicked off, delegates were hoping to clinch an early victory on a disaster fund. The COP28 presidency published a proposal late Wednesday for countries to formally adopt the outlines of a new U.N. fund for poor countries being hit by climate disasters like extreme flooding or persistent drought.

An early breakthrough on the damage fund - which poorer nations have demanded for years - could help grease the wheels for other compromises to be made during the two-week summit.

Some diplomats said they hoped the draft deal for the fund would be approved quickly, with one delegate describing the possibility of objections at this point as "opening Pandora's box". The deal was crafted over many months of tough negotiations involving wealthy and developing countries.

Establishing the fund allows rich countries to begin pledging money for it, and nations including Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands are expected to announce contributions over the next few days, European diplomats told Reuters.

The European Union has pledged a "substantial" contribution, but wants countries whose economies have boomed in recent decades, like China and the UAE, to follow suit.

"Everyone with the ability to pay should contribute," said EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, who said he wanted to "broaden the donor base beyond the usual suspects, simply because that reflects the reality of 2023."

Adnan Amin, CEO of the COP28 summit, told Reuters this month the aim was to secure several hundred million U.S. dollars for the climate disaster fund during the event. He said he was "hopeful" that the UAE would make a contribution.

"We cannot rest until this fund is adequately financed and starts to actually alleviate the burden of vulnerable communities," said Samoa's Ambassador to Europe, Pa’olelei Luteru, who is also the chairman of the Association of Small Island States (AOSIS) negotiating bloc.

Another major task at the summit will be for countries to assess their progress in meeting global climate goals - chiefly the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

This process, known as the global stocktake, should yield a high-level plan telling countries what they need to do.


Reporting by Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and Maha El Dahan; Writing by Katy Daigle; Editing by Matthew Lewis, Miral Fahmy and Christina Fincher

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