A draft text released Friday from the environmental negotiators at the U.N.’s COP29 climate alarmism summit would demand that wealthy nations commit to gifting poorer countries $250 billion a year between now and 2035.
A coalition of climate alarmism activists published a letter to the United Nations on Friday calling for a “fundamental overhaul” of the Conference of Parties (COP) environmental conferences, protesting that they have become platforms for fossil fuel interests to mingle and countries to continue polluting without consequence.
Climate groups are crying foul that Azerbaijan, host of the COP29 global climate summit in November, is planning to dramatically increase its production of natural gas over the next decade.
Ilham Aliyev, the strongman president of Azerbaijan, used his platform at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Germany on Friday to declare the presence of fossil fuels in his country a “gift of the gods” and declare his intention to expand Baku’s exports to Europe.
India’s Ministry of Coal says it will not be transitioning to any alternative form of energy in the “foreseeable future.”
COP28 went into “overtime” Tuesday and hammered out a “historic” compromise deal to “transition away” from fossil fuels.
Peter Schweizer notes that one of the leading climate change apostles, former vice president Al Gore, is these days co-running an investment fund called Millennium Generation.
Some 80,000 delegates who had flown in from around the world to attend the COP28 climate talks in Dubai joined in the clapping and cheering Wednesday as a call to transition away from fossil fuels was declared at the U.N.-sponsored talks.
The unhappy COP28 climate alarmism summit in Dubai rolled into its final scheduled day on Tuesday without the crown jewel sought by hardcore activists: a worldwide agreement to phase out fossil fuels.
John Kerry’s call to end all coal-powered electricity generation is “silly” and “self-destructive,” writes Newt Gingrich, and “makes the United States look delusional.”
The Associated Press (AP) on Sunday denounced the “shocking level of censorship” imposed by the United Arab Emirate (UAE) on the COP28 climate change conference in Dubai. The AP was mortified by “sharp restrictions on what demonstrators could say, where they could walk and what their signs could portray.”
U.N. climate negotiators confirmed Monday they are pushing for a deal at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that will be the beginning of the end for fossil fuels.
Former Vice President Al Gore is calling for a ban on social media algorithms, which he bizarrely compared to AR-15s, saying they are the “digital equivalent” of the firearm leftists love to hate.
Endlessly talking about the weather and ways to redistribute wealth from rich nations to the poor is exhausting work. Just ask the 80,000-plus delicate climate alarmists who have flown to Dubai for the COP28 climate conference.
Pope Francis has signed an interfaith statement asserting that humanity faces a “global climate crisis” that demands phasing out fossil fuels.
John Kerry is nothing if not carbon emissions conscious so the time might have come for him to check his own gaseous contributions to the atmosphere.
John Kerry is confident the U.S. can be trusted to act on “climate change” no matter who gains the White House at next year’s election because the democratic process “is like sex.”
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister rejected any phase down of fossil fuel now or in the future on Monday, using an interview at the U.N.’s COP28 conference to reject the increasingly strident demands of climate activists.
COP28 concluded Sunday with minimal chatter on carbon emissions and a slew of new commitments to reduce methane emissions.
Achim Steiner, the head of the United Nations Development Programme, criticized the U.N.’s ongoing COP28 climate change summit on Monday, noting that the event has “become too big” as overall attendance and some countries’ delegations have become increasingly bloated, raising the logistical difficulty of the event.
Breitbart’s Rome Bureau Chief Dr. Thomas Williams discusses Pope Francis’s statement for the COP28 UN Climate Summit calling climate change “a religious problem.”
Coal plants should not be permitted “anywhere in the world” the self-described “militant” U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Sunday at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.
The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has declared there is “no science” behind climate alarmist demands for an end to fossil fuel use, adding any phase-out of coal, oil, and gas would plunge the world into societal decay and “back into caves.”
The Biden administration announced Saturday it is sending $3 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds to the U.N.’s flagship Green Climate Fund (GCF) in a move applauded by Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.
Pope Francis asserted Sunday that the global climate crisis is “a religious problem” whose roots lie in humanity’s “presumption of self-sufficiency.”
Pope Francis sent a message Saturday to the COP28 U.N. climate summit decrying the “unbridled exploitation” of the environment by first world nations.
At COP28, EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen demanded new taxes and other schemes to take green agenda investment into the “trillions”.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), host of the COP28 climate conference that kicked off this week in Dubai, on Friday announced a $30 billion climate fund called ALTERRA that seeks to attract $250 billion in investment by 2030.
Cimate envoy John Kerry scolded the world for not making enough sacrifices to fight climate change at the COP28 climate conference.
King Abdullah II of Jordan told the attendees at COP28 that Palestinians were “on the frontlines of climate change.”
King Charles III warned the world Friday it must change its ways to avoid climate calamity after he flew over 3,000 miles to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai to personally deliver his opening address.
The U.N.’s COP28 climate summit begins on Thursday, hosted by one of the world’s great oil powers, the United Arab Emirates.
ROME — The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will fly out to Dubai in early December to attend the U.N.’s COP28 climate summit.
Sultan al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, who also heads one of the country’s state oil companies, told senior officials from Europe, Canada and China gathered in Brussels that record-breaking heat seen in parts of the world recently shows the need for urgent action to curb emissions.
