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Climate Brief: Ukrainian Diplomats @COP17: It's an Ecocide [1]
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Date: 2022-11-13
War causes emissions, as does its aftermath. Ukraine estimates that rebuilding its shattered towns, cities and industry will cause nearly 50m tonnes of carbon dioxide to be emitted. “Military emissions in peacetime and times of war are relevant, they are material,” said Axel Michaelowa, a climate economist who has studied wartime pollution. “The emissions are comparable to that of entire countries.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed world leaders and COP delegates Tuesday via video and said that “there can be no effective climate policy without the peace”.
“It’s difficult to talk about a green transition now when people don’t have anything to heat themselves and winter is coming,” Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist told the Guardian at COP27. “We will just try to do our best to survive. But we all need to all realize our dependency on fossil fuels, we need to think about energy independence, not just from Russia but from fossil fuels. The most reliable energy source is the sun and we need to use it.”
Adaptation and Agriculture Thematic Day at COP27 Focuses on How the World Will Feed 8 Billion
Four initiatives - Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST), Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace (CRSP), Decent Life for a Climate Resilient Africa and Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) – will urgently address the transformation of agrifood systems, the integration of climate responses to peace and security, the improvement of the quality of life of the most vulnerable in Africa by 2030, and delivery of healthy diets respectively. The focus comes at a particularly challenging year for food security as 37 million people now face starvation in the Greater Horn of Africa after four consecutive droughts; in Pakistan, unprecedented floods have battered the country’s major agricultural regions; and record-breaking temperatures across Europe and the United States have led to drastically reduced crop yields. Russia’s war in Ukraine has caused global shortages and price hikes in wheat, oilseeds and fertiliser, underscoring the fragility of the fossil-fuel dependent food industry that has sacrificed diversity, sustainability and resilience for mass production and profits.
Climate extremes from the Poles to the Tropics
A new analysis by the Met Office - which builds on work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other sources - has looked at six types of extreme event and climate change impact and tried to assess overlapping trends across different regions of the world. The six categories covered in the study are: Extreme high temperatures
Heavy rainfall
River flows
Agricultural drought
Fire weather
Loss of ice mass from glaciers Nearly all regions are suffering multiple impacts, including many in the Global South with the least historical responsibility for climate change. All inhabited continents have regions seeing at increases in at least four of the six extremes or impacts assessed, and in many cases this could be an underestimate due a lack of data. This highlights the need for the world to work together on urgent action both on emissions reductions and adaptation.” Increases in extreme high temperatures is the factor affecting most of the study’s 46 regions; at least 40 are affected.
COP27 what to watch: week two
the real work begins as delegates hammer out the details and ministers arrive to help navigate deadlocks.
Brazil’s new leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrives.
Egypt works on the overarching document which will define the conference and lay out the actions countries have agreed on to meet their climate pledges.
More traction for loss and damage as US Climate Envoy John Kerry says the United States is “!00% ready” for a detailed discussion.
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