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The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, is the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference. COP29 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. Wikipedia
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“Books to help you keep your head after the election and COP29” by Michael Svoboda, November 21, 2024.
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· Books to help you keep your head after the election and COP29 by Michael Svoboda .November 21, 2024.
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Michael Svovoda: While people everywhere, not just in the United States, were still absorbing the impact of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, their representatives began meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan to discuss the global climate crisis. In response, this month’s bookshelf is divided into two separate but related selections that might help readers better understand both events.
The first six titles address Trump 2.0, the new administration that will take office on Jan. 20, 2025. Although Trump distanced his campaign from them over the summer, the conservative thinktank the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025 report have reemerged in the wake of his election. Senior editor-at-large of Breitbart, a far-right news and commentary website, Joel Pollak writes from a different vantage point about the agenda for a second Trump turn in the White House. Readers should remember that the descriptions of titles in YCC’s monthly bookshelves are adapted from copy provided by their publishers. The bombast is in their own words.
The first list continues with a just-published overview of recent American politics, an in-the-trenches account of “the coordinated conservative assault on women’s freedom,” and a guide for “living in a divided nation.”
A new history of the oil industry links the two parts of this month’s bookshelf. Trump’s nomination of Chris Wright, a fracking climate denier, to head the Department of Energy reveals, yet again, the fossil fuel industry’s influence on American politics and global climate negotiations.
The last six titles begin with a Chatham House report on Azerbaijan and two “gap reports” from the United Nations Environment Programme, reports released for COP29, the 29th meeting of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
A fourth report addresses multinational corporations attempting, in good faith, to do “business within planetary boundaries.” And a new Oxfam report argues that addressing egregious global inequalities in wealth could “create a sustainable planet for all.”
The final report, by a team from CAAD (Climate Action Against Disinformation), shows how fossil fuel companies, acting in bad faith, maintain their influence through the relentless production and online dissemination of disinformation about renewables, extreme weather events, and carbon-capture technologies.
The earth-shaking events of the last month bring to mind the poem from Rudyard Kipling that begins: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs …. ” These books and reports might just help with that task.
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steve Groves (Heritage Foundation 2023, 922 pages, free download with registration)
Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to the people. Its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, published in April 2023, is a product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from around the country. The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track. The 180-day Transition Playbook and includes a comprehensive, concrete transition plan for each federal agency. Only through the implementation of specific action plans at each agency will the next conservative presidential Administration be successful.
The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days by Joel B. Pollak, with a foreword by Steve Bannon (Skyhorse Publishing 2024, 160 pages, $24.99). The climate is changing, and our journalists are here to help you make sense of it. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and never miss a story. Sign up
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In The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days, Breitbart senior-editor-at-large Joel B. Pollak presents a roadmap for a post-conviction Trump administration, charged with a mandate for sweeping reform. Pollak outlines a strategic program of action to harness Trump’s energy for real change—and a set of executive orders and actions that can be carried out on Day One. Pollak’s astute insights and unwavering commitment to transformative change shine brightly in The Agenda, a passionate call to arms for those who champion bold leadership and decisive action. Pollak’s steadfast dedication to America’s advancement resonates profoundly, making this book essential reading for anyone invested in the nation’s trajectory.
The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic by Donald G. Nieman (Anthem Press 2024, 464 pages, $39.95 paperback)
How did the world’s oldest democracy lose its mojo? How did we get to a point where we face existential crises like climate change yet leaders can’t agree that there’s a problem let alone develop solutions? Political leaders bear some of the responsibility—Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, to name a few. But they are more a symptom than the cause. The Path to Paralysis examines changes in political culture during the past 60 years—conflicts over race, religion and gender; deepening inequality, hardening regional divisions; and dramatic changes in communications—that made Donald Trump possible, if not inevitable. These cross-currents came together in the early 21st century to create the perfect storm. The result is the toxic and deeply polarized politics that threaten the existence of constitutional government.
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti (Crown Publishing 2024, 256 pages, $25.00)
In her most urgent book yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women’s freedom, cutting through the misinformation and overwhelm to inform, engage, and enrage. From the attacks Americans know about to the ones anti-abortion lawmakers and groups are trying to hide, Valenti details the tactics and horrors that she’s been painstakingly tracking in her acclaimed newsletter, Abortion, Every Day. Valenti gives voice to women’s frustration and outrage in a moment when they’re fed up with being talked over and diminished. She provides the language, facts, and context readers need to feel confident when talking about the attacks on their bodies and freedom. With the wit, expertise, and blunt moral clarity, Valenti offers an essential manifesto in an urgent moment.
Facing the Fracture: How to Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation by Tania Israel (Green Books Group 2024, 232 pages, $ paperback)
Unsettled by provocative news, clashing politicians, and social fragmentation, Americans struggle to navigate the challenges of living in a divided country. Facing the Fracture offers a path out of the distress and disempowerment plaguing everyday people. Grounded in psychological research, this book offers readers strategies to foster resilience in the face of political polarization. In this valuable book, Israel moves beyond explaining the problem of polarization to demonstrate how individuals can cope with the political divide, which seems to widen with each passing day. Readers will find guidance to reduce toxic input from media, manage polarizing thoughts and feelings, and engage effectively with others. And they will learn that they have the power to improve their well-being, relationships, community, and country.
Azerbaijan’s Climate Leadership Challenge: What’s at Stake at COP29 and Beyond by Ruth Townsend et al (Chatham House 2024, 76 pages, free download)
Azerbaijan hosts the UN’s 29th climate Conference of the Parties (COP29), from 11 to 22 November, at a critical moment for multilateral efforts to address climate change. Climate impacts are worsening, yet action is inadequate to the scale of the crisis. Most urgently, vastly more money – in the trillions of dollars – must be mobilized to support developing countries’ climate responses. Delivering an agreement on increased climate financing is the key task for COP29 and for Azerbaijan in guiding the summit’s negotiations. But the country’s fossil fuel-dependent economy and inexperience in environmental action suggest it will struggle to provide credible leadership. Nevertheless, there is potential for Azerbaijan to engage other oil and gas producers constructively around the dilemmas of the energy transition.
Emissions Gap Report 2024: No More Hot Air … Please! by UNEP Research Team (United Nations Environment Programme 2024, 100 pages, free download). As climate impacts intensify globally, the Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! finds that nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions or the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal will be gone within a few years. A failure to increase ambition in these new NDCs and start delivering immediately would put the world on course for a temperature increase of 2.6-3.1°C over the course of this century. This would bring debilitating impacts to people, planet and economies. The report is the 15th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.
The Adaptation Gap Report: Come Hell and High Water by UNEP Research Team (United Nations Environment Programme 2024, 124 pages, free download).
As climate impacts intensify and hit the world’s poorest, The Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come Hell and High Water finds that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts, starting with a commitment to act on finance. Given the scale of the challenge, bridging the adaptation finance gap will also require innovative approaches to mobilize additional financial resources. Adaptation financing needs to shift from reactive, incremental, project-based financing to more anticipatory, strategic and transformational adaptation. In addition to finance, there is a need to strengthen capacity building and technology transfer to improve the effectiveness of adaptation actions. The report provides specific recommendations for renewed increased efforts to reach the 11 targets of the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience.
Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power and the Making of the World Market by Adam Hanieh (Verso Books 2024, 336 pages, $29.95)
This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as ‘prize’ or ‘curse’, Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our modern world: the rise of an American-centered global order; the breakdown of Empire and anti-colonial rebellion; contemporary finance and US dollar hegemony; debt and militarism; and the emergence of new forms of synthetic consumption. The book provides an original and fine-grained empirical analysis of corporate ownership and control, including of refining and petrochemicals. By exposing these structures of power, Crude Capitalism makes an essential contribution to debates around oil-dependency and the struggle for climate justice.
“Doing Business Within Planetary Boundaries” by Beatrice Crona et al (Stockholm Resilience Center 2024, 34 pages, free download) .
This report builds on ten years of transdisciplinary science, combining sustainable finance with ecological economics, resilience science, and Earth system science. In an evolving corporate reporting landscape, it offers guidance to businesses, investors, and policymakers to significantly improve the reliability of their assessment of nature-related impacts, risks and opportunities.
The authors stress the need for a shift in perspective, from company to the planet. To support this shift, the report introduces “Essential Environmental Impact Variables,” which capture the most essential environmental impact of companies in a standardized manner. These disclosures must account for where, what, and how much impact happens. Armed with this information, companies and their investors can more accurately assess their impacts and the resulting risks.
“Carbon Inequality Kills: Why Curbing the Excessive Emissions of an Elite Few Can Create a Sustainable Planet for All”by Mira Alestig et al (Oxfam 2024, 41 pages, free download). The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. We share new evidence of how the yachts, jets and polluting investments of 50 of the world’s richest billionaires are accelerating the climate crisis. Oxfam’s research shows that the emissions of the world’s super-rich 1% are causing economic losses of trillions of dollars; contributing to huge crop losses; and leading to millions of excess deaths. As global temperatures continue to rise, risking the lives and livelihoods of people living in poverty and precarity, we must act now to curb the emissions of the super-rich, and make rich polluters pay.
“Extreme Weather, Extreme Content: How Big Tech Enables Climate Disinformation in a World on the Brink” by Research Team (Climate Action Against Disinformation 2024, 63 pages, free download) .
As COP29 gets underway, the consequences of climate change are ever more extreme. So too with climate mis- and disinformation, now ubiquitous online.The digital information landscape is dangerously polluted, obscuring the truth and delaying the urgent action we need to protect our future. Big Oil and Big Tech are facilitating an ongoing reframing of extreme weather events, as well as ready solutions to the crisis, turning them into fodder for opposition to climate action.The report presents three case studies that provide snapshots of the online world of English-language climate disinformation: Opposition to Renewables (by framing them as tools of control), Weaponizing Wildfires (by decoupling them from environmental drivers), and Fossil Fuel Advertising on Meta. One final finding: accessing the necessary data is increasingly difficult.
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| Tell U.S. Climate Envoy Podesta: WAR IS NOT GREEN! TAKE ACTION! Dear Dick, While I write this, it’s 70 degrees in New York and a bunch of war criminals are getting ready to visit a petrostate to talk about “climate solutions.” The climate crisis is pressing down on us, yet one of the largest contributors remains hidden from view, from measurement, and from accountability. The U.S. military-industrial complex is the #1 institutional driver of this crisis, but efforts are being made to keep its impact out of sight. As the UN Climate Convention (COP) begins today, we have a chance to highlight this overlooked contributor and expose the true costs of militarism. Those responsible for pushing our planet toward disaster must be held accountable. We need to demand transparency on the environmental costs of war. Tell U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Podesta, that WAR IS NOT GREEN! To address the climate crisis, you must address the war machine! John Podesta, who built his career defending warmongers and expanding U.S. militarism, is leading the United States delegation to COP as the war lobbyist. We cannot let Podesta strut a veneer of faux environmentalism, while deliberately ignoring the largest polluter in the world—the U.S. military. If he ignores the elephant in the room, Podesta will doom us. The crisis is clear for those living under the boot of the U.S. Empire. The crisis has been clear for those whose homes have been destroyed by flooding in Appalachia. For my friends and neighbors in New York City, where it has been 70-80° in the first few days of November, it is terrifyingly clear that we are in crisis. The result of the U.S. election unveiled to some that no politician can protect us in this crisis. Many of our leaders who are charged with caring about the climate, are actually driving us further into this crisis full steam ahead—because they’re unwilling to say aloud that their foreign policy and military build up is one of the largest contributors to climate change that the world has ever seen. In the past year, the war on Gaza has unleashed complete devastation on the entire region, as children’s bodies are torn open by U.S.-made and funded bombs. The first two months of the genocide alone produced more emissions than 26 countries combined. As the slaughter continues, U.S. police continue to participate in a deadly tactics exchange with Israeli soldiers, followed by continued training in potential facilities like Atlanta’s Cop City, which threatens to destroy the critical Weelaunee Forest– land stolen from indigenous protectors, whose sovereign land make up 80% of the world’s biodiversity globally. Militarism is killing us in every way imaginable, and it is more clear than ever that we cannot rely on elected officials to make the necessary changes for our protection. Much less their puppeteers, who show up and use their fancy talk and sleight of hand to keep what they don’t want to address hidden. Yet we can’t ignore them when they use our tax dollars to create catastrophe. We need you to tell Podesta: WAR IS NOT GREEN! The Biden/Harris administration produced one of the largest military budgets in history. By doing so, they produced one of the largest contributions to climate change in history. We have been in a crisis, and it will continue to escalate. Yet crisis can open doors by clarifying and exposing what we need to oppose and what we need to strengthen. This is not a silver lining but a task that becomes thrust on us for the survival of one another, whose mutual liberation we depend on. And to do so, our goals can’t be hidden. I’m ready to take on this task of survival to build a world where we all can thrive, and I’m energized to build it with you all. Take action now by telling Podesta: to address the climate crisis, you must address the war machine! And learn more: · Check out the War Is Not Green page for webinars and additional information · Learn about the Imperial Hypocrisy of Podesta’s U.S.-China Climate Talks Until Liberation, Aaron, Jodie and the entire CODEPINK team |
Tell U.S. Climate Envoy Podesta: WAR IS NOT GREEN!
Dear Dick,
While I write this, it’s 70 degrees in New York and a bunch of war criminals are getting ready to visit a petrostate to talk about “climate solutions.” The climate crisis is pressing down on us, yet one of the largest contributors remains hidden from view, from measurement, and from accountability. The U.S. military-industrial complex is the #1 institutional driver of this crisis, but efforts are being made to keep its impact out of sight. As the UN Climate Convention (COP) begins today, we have a chance to highlight this overlooked contributor and expose the true costs of militarism. Those responsible for pushing our planet toward disaster must be held accountable. We need to demand transparency on the environmental costs of war.
John Podesta, who built his career defending warmongers and expanding U.S. militarism, is leading the United States delegation to COP as the war lobbyist. We cannot let Podesta strut a veneer of faux environmentalism, while deliberately ignoring the largest polluter in the world—the U.S. military. If he ignores the elephant in the room, Podesta will doom us.
The crisis is clear for those living under the boot of the U.S. Empire. The crisis has been clear for those whose homes have been destroyed by flooding in Appalachia. For my friends and neighbors in New York City, where it has been 70-80° in the first few days of November, it is terrifyingly clear that we are in crisis. The result of the U.S. election unveiled to some that no politician can protect us in this crisis. Many of our leaders who are charged with caring about the climate, are actually driving us further into this crisis full steam ahead—because they’re unwilling to say aloud that their foreign policy and military build up is one of the largest contributors to climate change that the world has ever seen.
In the past year, the war on Gaza has unleashed complete devastation on the entire region, as children’s bodies are torn open by U.S.-made and funded bombs. The first two months of the genocide alone produced more emissions than 26 countries combined. As the slaughter continues, U.S. police continue to participate in a deadly tactics exchange with Israeli soldiers, followed by continued training in potential facilities like Atlanta’s Cop City, which threatens to destroy the critical Weelaunee Forest– land stolen from indigenous protectors, whose sovereign land make up 80% of the world’s biodiversity globally. Militarism is killing us in every way imaginable, and it is more clear than ever that we cannot rely on elected officials to make the necessary changes for our protection. Much less their puppeteers, who show up and use their fancy talk and sleight of hand to keep what they don’t want to address hidden. Yet we can’t ignore them when they use our tax dollars to create catastrophe.
We need you to tell Podesta: WAR IS NOT GREEN!
The Biden/Harris administration produced one of the largest military budgets in history. By doing so, they produced one of the largest contributions to climate change in history. We have been in a crisis, and it will continue to escalate. Yet crisis can open doors by clarifying and exposing what we need to oppose and what we need to strengthen. This is not a silver lining but a task that becomes thrust on us for the survival of one another, whose mutual liberation we depend on. And to do so, our goals can’t be hidden. I’m ready to take on this task of survival to build a world where we all can thrive, and I’m energized to build it with you all.
Take action now by telling Podesta: to address the climate crisis, you must address the war machine!
And learn more:
· Check out the War Is Not Green page for webinars and additional information
· Learn about the Imperial Hypocrisy of Podesta’s U.S.-China Climate Talks
Until Liberation,
Aaron, Jodie and the entire CODEPINK team
New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show The World Is Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action. Inside Climate News (11-2-24).
BY BOB BERWYN
The currently projected warming of about 3 degrees Celsius is “too hot to handle,” says Ko Barrett, a NOAA climate advisor and deputy secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization.
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| Environmental Dynamics Student Selected to Participate in U.N. Climate Change Convention. UofA News (11-11-24) |
Jessie Abrego Bonilla was nine years old in 1998 when one of the largest El Ninos in recorded history hit Panama. That same year a solar eclipse occurred, and conversations ran rampant in her community about the end of the world.
Bonilla was chosen as a member of the COP 29 Roster of Experts for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty established in 1992 during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Its primary objective is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. With 197 parties, including almost every country in the world, the UNFCCC serves as a critical framework for global efforts to address and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
The organization supports and coordinates international cooperation on climate action, including the creation and implementation of important agreements like the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. These agreements set binding and non-binding targets for countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change. . . .
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