Daniel Yergin – Yale Boom

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What is Solidarity in Practice? Climate Justice Solutions

The Racial Justice Network – May 19, 2022

Our 4th session of Race and Climate Justice Learning 2022 took place on 26th April;
During this session we co organised with Climate Action Leeds. With a panel of practitioners working in the West Yorkshire area, we explored the different solutions on how to address the issues of the climate’ As crisis, as Emergency, and as Justice.

The group also discussed how to practically and meaningfully apply the 13th Recommendation by thinking and doing the framework,

Our sessions are held on the last Tuesday of every month.
Next session; Tuesday 31st May 2022

UN holds special meet on global food security crisis, warns that food crisis could last decades

WION – May 18, 2022

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The United Nations held a special meeting on the ongoing global food security crisis and warns that the food crisis could last decades.

Food-matters,

UN Chief Calls on Nations to Act Together to End Food Insecurity

CCTV Video News Agency– May 19, 2022

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for concerted and quick action to combat the current surge in global food insecurity triggered by the pandemic, regional tensions and climate change.

Food-matters,

New climate report warns four key climate change indicators reach record levels in 2021 | ANC

ANC 24/7 May 19, 2022

Rundown: A new climate report is again sounding the alarm over the devastating effects of climate change.

UN Secretary General António Guterres: “The only sustainable future is a renewable one.”

EKOenergy ecolabel – May 19, 2022

Secretary-General’s video message on the launch of the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Global Climate 2021 Report

(Video originally posted on the UN website, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k1q…)

TRANSCRIPT:

Today’s State of the Climate report is a dismal litany of humanity’s failure to tackle climate disruption.
– Sea level rise, ocean heat, greenhouse gas concentrations, and ocean acidification – set alarming new records in 2021.
– Global mean sea level increased at more than double the previous rate and is mainly due to accelerating loss of ice mass.
– Ocean warming also shows a particularly strong increase in the past two decades, and is penetrating to ever deeper levels.
– Much of the ocean experienced at least one strong marine heatwave at some point in 2021.

Professor Taalas and WMO colleagues will unpack the science.
But I will give you the bottom line. The global energy system is broken and bringing us ever closer to climate catastrophe.
Fossil fuels are a dead end — environmentally and economically.
The war in Ukraine and its immediate effects on energy prices is yet another wake-up call.
The only sustainable future is a renewable one.
We must end fossil fuel pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition, before we incinerate our only home.
Time is running out.
To keep 1.5 alive and prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis, the world must act in this decade.
The good news is that the lifeline is right in front of us.
Transforming energy systems is low-hanging fruit.
Renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar are readily available and in most cases, cheaper than coal and other fossil fuels.
Over the past decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by more than half. The cost of solar energy and batteries has plummeted 85 per cent.
And investment in renewables creates jobs — three times more jobs than fossil fuels.
We don’t have a moment to lose.
That is why today I am proposing five critical actions to jump-start the renewable energy transition.
– First, renewable energy technologies, such as battery storage, must be treated as essential and freely-available global public goods.
Removing obstacles to knowledge sharing and technological transfer – including intellectual property constraints — is crucial for a rapid and fair renewable energy transition.
Storing renewable electricity is often cited as the greatest barrier to the clean energy transition.
I am therefore calling for a global coalition on battery storage to fast-track innovation and deployment – a coalition led and driven by governments, bringing together tech companies, manufacturers, and financiers.
– Second, we must secure, scale up and diversify the supply of critical components and raw materials for renewable energy technologies.
Today’s supply chains for renewable energy technology and raw materials are concentrated in a handful of countries.
The renewable age cannot flourish until we bridge this vast chasm.
This will take concerted international coordination. Governments must invest in skills training, research and innovation, and incentives to build supply chains.
– Third, governments must build frameworks and reform bureaucracies to level the playing field for renewables.
In many countries, these systems still favour deadly fossil fuels.
We must prevent bottlenecks, where gigawatts of renewable projects are held up by red tape, permits and grid connections. I call on governments to fast-track and streamline approvals of solar and wind projects, modernize grids and set ambitious 1.5-degree-aligned renewable energy targets that provide certainty to investors, developers, consumers and producers.
Renewable energy policies are fundamental to reduce market risk and drive investment into the sector.
– Fourth, governments must shift subsidies away from fossil fuels to protect the poor and most vulnerable people and communities. Every minute of every day, coal, oil and gas receive roughly $11 million dollars in subsidies.
Each year, governments around the world pour around half a trillion dollars into artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels — more than triple what renewables receive.
While people suffer from high prices at the pump, the oil and gas industry is raking in billions from a distorted market.
This scandal must stop.
Fifth, private and public investments in renewable energy must triple to at least $4 trillion dollars a year.
For solar and wind power, upfront payments account for 80 per cent of lifetime costs. That means big investments now will reap big rewards for years to come.
But some developing countries pay seven times more in financing costs than developed countries.

(For the rest of the transcription, see https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k1q…)

That means big investments now will reap big rewards for years to come. But some developing countries pay seven times more in financing costs than developed countries. (For the rest of the transcription, see https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k1q…)

BBC Report – Newshour 18 May 2022

Food-matters,

Climate change indicators hit record highs in 2021: UN • FRANCE 24 English

FRANCE 24 English – May 19, 2022

Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that the global energy system was driving humanity towards catastrophe.

BBC Report – Newshour 17 May 2022

http://ecoethics.net/YSOLI/201907-Climate/Audio/20220518-Newshour-UN-Warning-Climate.mp3

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres speaks on climate change

Tesla Live – May 19, 2022

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, spoke about climate change at the launch of the World Meteorological Organization’s. State of the Global Climate 2021 Report, on Wednesday 18 May. The remarks include ‘five critical actions to jumpstart the renewable energy transition.

António Guterres Says Renewable Energy Can Prevent Climate Change Crisis

TVC News Nigeria May 19, 2022

World Meteorological Organization is launching its annual State of the Global Climate report, United Nations Secretary-General has outlined 5 critical actions for renewable energy. Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rises, ocean heat levels, and acidification, all set new records during 2021, while some glaciers reached the point of no return, that’s according to the latest flagship report from the World Meteorological Organization, published on Wednesday.

BBC World Service – Africa Today, UN Secretary General pledges support for African countries

During a recent trip to Nigeria as part of a traditional Ramadan tour, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres praised the governor of Borno States for his work in fighting terrorism.

Also in the pod: at least ten Burundian soldiers are killed in Somalia during an AMISOM mission; And why are internet shutdowns so common in Africa?