COP26, UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE Glasgow, October 31 to November 12, 2021

OMNI COP26 Glasgow Countdown, 10-31 to 11-5

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CONTENTS OMNI COP26 Glasgow Countdown 10-31 TO 11-5

Arkansas Democrat Gazette (10-31-21), articles on leaderless nations
  and the science of warmng
GLOBAL ENCOUNTER OF PEOPLES IN FAVOR OF MOTHER EARTH AND AGAINST THE CLIMATE CRISIS
John Ross, IPCC Foundations for Advanced Countries’ Carbon Cuts 11-1
Include World Militaries in Climate Goals 11-2
 AR WAND
 Veterans for Peace
 World Beyond War
 Code Pink
 World Beyond War
 ICAN
Biden, “Time Running Out,” AD-G 11-2
Max Ajl, “Change the System,” 11-2
Elizabeth Bast, Oil Change International, 11-4
Veterans for Peace in Glasgow, Daily Reports and The People’s Summit for Climate Justice

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TEXTS  10-31 to 11-5

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Staff from Wire Reports (10-31-21), 1A (but mainly 9A).  “Leaders Set to Home in on Climate.”  Focus on national and in US state leaders, with 2 paragraphs on the science,”clear, scientists say.”  Conclusion on “U.S. Pledge” unreassuring.   No mention of UN.  Biden barely mentioned in one par. describing his feebleness.  Kerry comes across as effete too.  Article mostly about talk and speculation, little to nothing of the “home-in” of the title. No mention of UN.

Seth Borenstein (AP). “Data Shows Global-Warming Effects.” AD-G (10-31-21), 9A.  Scientists doing their duty, facts laid out emphatically; e.g., “Carbon dioxide levels have increased 17% from 353 parts per million in September 1992 to 413 in September 2021, according to NOAA.” 

“World gathering of peoples for our Mother Earth and against the climate crisis – conclusions document”
Originally published: The Red Nation by Justine Teba (October 23, 2021 ).  Posted Nov 01, 2021   Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, HealthGlobalNewswire

GLOBAL ENCOUNTER OF PEOPLES IN FAVOR OF MOTHER EARTH AND AGAINST THE CLIMATE CRISIS

We are children of our Mother Earth, and as such we must take care of her and protect her, respecting her rights and fulfilling our duties and obligations to protect Mother Earth as a living and sacred being.

The climate crisis is one of the gravest global threats that we face in the defense of life, which places our own existence and of our Mother Earth’s at risk.

The current anthropocentric model, which places human beings above nature and other living beings, has produced the current climate crisis and it is modifying the vital cycles of Mother Earth, causing the collapse of many ecosystems, the extinction of species, the change of ways of life of hundreds of millions of people all over the world, expanding hunger and poverty in the world and an increasing climate migration.

We express the urgency of building a new civilizing horizon based on Living Well cosmo-biocentric vision where human beings live in harmony with all living beings of our Mother Earth and the need to put forward a new civilizing horizon that defends the community of life and the coexisting in harmony with nature.

We cannot support an implementation modality based on the Paris Accords that condemns our Mother Earth to a sixth massive extinction and the disappearance of a great part of humanity, in favor of the greed of capitalist developed countries and their corporations. Thus, we demand that the climate negotiations within the framework of the coming COP of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have to be transparent, balanced, with countries protagonist and with effective participation of civil society, creating the conditions for this to happen.

Thereby, the Global Encounter of Peoples for our Mother Earth and against the Climate Crisis, proposes the following measures and actions to curb the climate disruption and restoring the balance with our Mother Earth.

1. FACING THE CLIMATE CRISES STRUCTURALLY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PEOPLES  MORE  https://mronline.org/2021/11/01/world-gathering-of-peoples-for-our-mother-earth-and-against-the-climate-crisis-conclusions-document/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-gathering-of-peoples-for-our-mother-earth-and-against-the-climate-crisis-conclusions-document&mc_cid=d628b778b2&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e

Will Glasgow fix broken climate finance promises?
Posted Nov 04, 2021 by Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Originally published: JOMO (November 1, 2021 ) 
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Current climate mitigation plans will result in a catastrophic 2.7°C world temperature rise. US$1.6–3.8 trillion is needed annually to avoid global warming exceeding 1.5°C.

Climate Change and the US Military  11-2-21

Arkansas WAND via gmail.mcsv.net  Include World Militaries in Climate Goals Our mailing address is: Arkansas WAND 2510 Hidden Valley Drive Little Rock, Arkansas 72212	4:39 PM (3 hours ago)
Past wars have left lasting damage to the earth, air and water and ongoing wars are multiplying the damage.   The US, with the most powerful military in the world, could not stop the ravages of Covid -19 with its sophisticated weapons.  After spending trillions on the war on terror, we find that instead of making us safer, our military machine is contributing to another problem that threatens to end life on earth – the climate crisis. Diana Souza President Biden called a meeting of the world’s biggest carbon polluters on Earth Day and announced a new, more ambitious goal for America: to reduce carbon pollution from cars 50% by 2030. He also promised to double financial help for countries struggling with the effects of climate crisis. But what was not mentioned and what we haven’t heard from the media is the amount of pollution the world’s militaries are contributing to climate change.  Climate Change Conference in Glasgow The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) convening October 31 in Glasgow, Scotland, will bring nations together to adopt stricter standards for action by all the countries who agree. Sadly, there is no mention on their agenda of the part world militaries play in climate change.  The US military, with its 800 bases around the world, is the largest carbon polluter in the world. At U.S. insistence, the nations’ militaries were excluded from their pollution reports to the UN at Kyoto and later at Paris.  The media followed suit, and the public is unaware of the huge contribution militaries make to carbon pollution.  Climate and Militarism Event November 4 in Glasgow to ask COP26 to include world militaries in UN goals  Peace and environmental activists from some of the 500 groups around the world will be gathering in Glasgow on November 4 to send a powerful message to the COP26 participants to demand that nations include their militaries when reporting carbon emissions.  “We ask COP26 to set strict greenhouse gas emissions limits that make no exception for militarism, include transparent reporting requirements and independent verification, and do not rely on schemes to “offset” emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions from a country’s overseas military bases must be fully reported and charged to that country, not the country where the base is located.” WHEN: 4 November 2021, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. WHERE: Buchanan Steps, in front of the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. OTHERS COMMENT  “Imagine a limit on dangerous items you can carry on airplanes that makes an exception for nuclear weapons. Here the world is all gathering to impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions that make an exception for militaries. Why? What possible excuse is there for that, unless killing people in the short term is so important to us that we’re willing to kill everyone in the long term. We need to speak up for life, and soon.” David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War “War and militarism are amongst the unnamed enemies of our ecosphere. The last two decades of war have polluted on an almost unimaginable scale. It is a scandal that military emissions are being excluded from the discussion. If we want to end warming we need to end war.” Chris Nineham of Stop the War Coalition “War is obsolete. There is no doubt, the quicker we get rid of it, the quicker we improve the climate.” Tim Pluta, World BEYOND War Chapter Organizer in Asturias, Spain World Beyond War estimates that almost half of the US wars of this century have been fought for oil. The Pentagon spends billions of dollars on oil and gas fighting wars to control oil. Veterans for Peace Speak Up for the Environment Many of our war veterans feel strongly about cutting the military budget. They wrote a letter to Special Climate Envoy John Kerry on April 14th, asking Kerry to recognize that militarism is a key part of the climate crisis. The letter, signed by over 200 environmental, peace and veterans’ organizations asks Kerry to include military Greenhouse Gas emissions in all reporting and promote major reductions in the military and its expenditures, including eliminating hundreds of overseas bases, rejecting nuclear modernization and endless war. Their letter closed with this: How do we ask millions of people to die as a result of a climate catastrophe fueled by endless war and militarism? Veterans for Peace Military Bases Devastate Pacific Islands  Asia-Pacific. The U.S. militarization of these regions is causing mass environmental devastation of sacred ancestral coral reefs and carbon-sequestering forests, while oppressing and harming Indigenous Pacific Islanders through military exercises and accidents, military crime, and the poisoning of drinking water. All of these issues can be traced back to the bloated pentagon budget. It is more evident than ever that the military and fossil fuel industry cannot be trusted with billions of tax-payer dollars each year. We must #CutThePentagon to save the planet! – CODEPINK Pentagon Offers Panacea  On Earth Day, the Pentagon, like many denier corporations, made a public gesture to conservation by offering to put solar panels on its tanks. But war is not green. War destroys everything in its path – the air, water, land, wildlife, and forests.  A few solar panels will not stop the warming of the planet.   What About Nuclear Weapons?  Every step in the production of nuclear weapons adds to pollution – the manufacture, transportation, testing, storage and, tragically, use. But this administration is continuing Trump’s plan to upgrade our arsenal, starting another arms race and adding more pollution. Our neighbors, the Marshallese families in Northwest Arkansas, could tell us a lot about the weapons testing that devastated their once idyllic islands.  First NATO Country to Endorse Nuclear Abolition  The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)’s partner organizations in Norway recently accomplished something groundbreaking: because of their work, Norway became the first NATO country to join the Meeting of the States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna taking place next year. This also makes it the first nuclear weapon-complicit country to join the meeting. ICAN hopes that other NATO countries will follow suit. Currently, conversations to join the coalition are occurring in Germany. These are giant steps for the abolition of nuclear weapons worldwide. To support ICAN’s work, you can donate here.  – Maylee Rollins Cutting the US military, including its nuclear arsenal, is a no-brainer. It would help eliminate the worst effects of climate change and also make the US a true leader for peace by eliminating the threat of a nuclear disaster. And we might be able to stop the next pandemic in its tracks!   BUT – CONGRESS Hasn’t Gotten the Message! The Democratically-led Senate was putting the finishing touches on an astronomical weapons and war budget. They’re prioritizing the failed F-35 fighter jet, nuclear weapons, battleships, bombs, and surveillance tech over the things our communities actually need to meet this crisis. And the entire Congress is preparing to vote on next year’s whopping $778 BILLION Pentagon budget in the coming weeks. SAVE THE PLANET! CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! For a list of numbers, click here Online Course: War and the Environment   World BEYOND War is hosting an online course on war and the environment from Monday, January 17, 2022, to Sunday, February 27, 2022. The course costs $100 and will cover war, imperial militaries, nuclear weapons, how each of them affects the earth, how they are hidden and maintained, and what can be done to counteract their effects. The course does not require participation in Zoom calls, although three 1-hour calls will be included, so you can work at your own pace. At a minimum, the course requires about 1-2 hours of work per week, though this can differ depending on how much you engage with the material. There is an option to earn a certificate as well, but some additional work is required. Register for this course here, but tickets are limited so get them while you can! For more information about the course, contact  World BEYOND War Educator Phill Gittins at phill@worldbeyondwar.org.  – Maylee Rollins Time running out in climate effort, Biden warns.  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.  Nov. 02, 2021. As Chávez said, ‘let’s not change the climate, let’s change the system!’: a conversation with Max Ajl Cira Pascual Marquina.  Mronline.org (11-2-21). An anti-imperialist approach to global warming in the context of COP26.

Our expectations for the UN climate talks  11-4-21

Veterans for Peace Weekly E-News  11-4-21

“Climate Crisis & Militarism Project Hard at Work.”  VFP E-News (Fall 2021). 

“Climate Disruption and U.S. Militarism” slideshow by Cindy Piester.  vfpclimateaction@gmail.com

12 Days to Change Our Climate Destiny – COP 26 in Glasgow

 Just look what the climate movement has done

Wow, Dick.

I almost can’t believe it. Yesterday, at the UN climate talks in Scotland, 20 countries and institutions finally promised to stop funding coal, oil and gas projects with our money. This is the first international commitment of its kind, and could shift $15 billion away from fossil fuels. [1]Around the world, we have organised, campaigned, and stood up for climate justice. We let our governments know: we won’t stand by while they keep funding destructive fossil fuels with public money. But while every penny taken from fossil fuels is a victory, this news won’t stop big polluters from destroying our homes with their dirty business. The pledges don’t stop private banks from funding fossil fuels. They don’t stop our governments from funding coal, oil and gas projects at home. The fossil fuel industry’s ties to governments and banks run deep. The only way we’re going to make sure these institutions keep their promises and move to a clean, sustainable future is by keeping up the pressure, together.   MORE Will you share this news with your friends and family and invite them to be part of the climate movement?

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do little.” —Edmund Burke
How many variations on this theme can you create in five minutes?   Nobody made a greater mistake than he who took a vacation instead of looking steadfastly at the climate emergency. ,. . .

Earlier OMNI COP26 Glasgow Countdown, 10-22/31-21 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-un-climate-change-conference.html  

END OMNI Glasgow Countdown, 10-31 to 11-5