COP 29: Climate cash freak out

 By Craig Rucker, President CFACT

$250 billion is an "insult" say climate campaigners at the big UN climate conference in Azerbaijan.

They are demanding over $1 trillion of your dollars per year be transferred to developing nations and their attendant climate profiteers starting now.

The COP 29 presidency released a draft calling for a "collective quantified goal on climate finance" of $250 billion per year, ramping up to $1.3 trillion per year by 2035.

• Read the COP 29 presidency's draft climate finance proposal at CFACT.org.

The Guardian quotes Panama's climate envoy as saying, “This is definitely not enough. What we need is at least $5tn a year, but what we have asked for is just $1.3tn. That is 1% of global GDP. That should not be too much when you’re talking about saving the planet we all live on."  $250 billion "comes to nothing when you split it.”

The COP 29 outcome is now teetering as climate pressure groups and poorer nations insist on higher redistribution of cash.

That monstrous portions of all this spending will end up in the pockets of climate kleptocrats, with little or no impact on the temperature of the Earth, doesn't enter into it.

As three  decade veterans of the UN climate process, CFACT has seen this drama play out many times before. 

The conference goes into a last minute panic, then goes into extra innings.  Then some time over the weekend delegates emerge bleary eyed from a late night session and announce a glorious compromise that lines the wrong pockets while accomplishing nothing meaningful for the planet.

CFACT's Marc Morano told Sky News that, “this whole conference was about money, money, money” for a UN climate "slush fund."

Check out my article at Newsmax calling on once and future President Trump to "Net Zero" the USA out of these UN climate meetings.  I share a pile of climate absurdities and solutions that solve nothing such as eating insects to change the weather.

As UN climate delegates fight over the billions and trillions of dollars they crave, they do so under the cloud of an incoming Trump Administration that is threatening to pull the world's number one economy out.

Let's see how eager Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia are to continue throwing good money after bad if the U.S. calls "game over" and departs the field. 

For nature and people too!

P.S.  Thank you to CFACT's friends and donors. You are the best!  We cannot do it without you. Help CFACT meet our finance goal. Join the fight, please make the most generous gift you can right now.  

G20 Picking Worldwide Pockets for ‘Climate Finance’

Some nations are required to pay extra reparations for their climate crimes.

By John Klar | Nov 21, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

The climate change purse strings are in the collectivist hands of the world’s 20 largest economies, the G20, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for two days while the UN Climate Change summit, the COP29, continues in Baku, Azerbaijan. COP29 claims the world requires at least $1 trillion annually to stave off climate change, yet the European Union and the United States have balked at China’s absence from the donor table. The incoming Trump II administration may threaten doom for climate change funding, prompting global leaders to scramble urgently for financial commitments from member nations before the plug is pulled on “climate finance.”

‘Climate Finance’ to Save the World

Though the policies and workshops promoted by these unelected organizations routinely incorporate gender rights, hunger, and equity in their appeals for money and power over more and more people’s lives, climate change is the foundation of globalist proposals to oversee vast sums of money from member nations. The United Nations defines “climate finance” as:

“[L]ocal, national or transnational financing — drawn from public, private and alternative sources of financing — that seeks to support mitigation and adaptation actions that will address climate change. The Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement call for financial assistance from Parties with more financial resources to those that are less endowed and more vulnerable. This recognizes that the contribution of countries to climate change and their capacity to prevent it and cope with its consequences vary enormously. Climate finance is needed for mitigation, because large-scale investments are required to significantly reduce emissions. Climate finance is equally important for adaptation, as significant financial resources are needed to adapt to the adverse effects and reduce the impacts of a changing climate.”

The rationale is that a lot of money is required to reduce emissions as well as to adapt to a changing climate and that, because they warm the planet more than developing nations, the wealthier ones, such as those in the G20, should contribute $1 trillion per year toward climate change remediation.

G20 Borrowing to Buy Stuff From Themselves

Much of the funding supports technological advances and renewables, which are dubious environmental investments due to the ecotoxins generated in their manufacture. Even assuming these products work as advertised, it is a concerning conflict that the developed nations are using the threat of climate change to justify raising trillions of dollars to purchase solar panels and water-monitoring computers from developed nations to “rescue” poorer nations.

The trillions of dollars in collective “green” funds are held by globalist banks known in UN jargon as “operating entities of the financial mechanism.” In opening remarks at the G20 Summit, President Joe Biden praised this financial centralization:

“We’ve made good progress boosting the firepower of multilateral development banks so they have more resources to address the challenges like pandemics and climate change. In addition, we have to mobilize private capital at scale.

“This group is — within — has within its power to usher in a new era of sustainable development, to go from billions to trillions in assistance to those who — most in need.”

A Change in Financing Climate?

The premise for this arrangement is essentially socialist: “Developing countries argue they can only raise their targets for emissions reductions if rich nations, who are the main culprits for climate change, foot the bill.” Under this calculus, the climate “culprits” must pay the marginalized to prevent the existential threat to the planet, a sort of collective climate reparations bill. The US voters have not been invited to the Rio table, or they might query whether the money being invested in computer monitoring and solar panel arrays might better serve denizens of developing nations to build hospitals or schools.

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The stakes are high for the globalist stakeholders. The EU and others want China to pay more; COP29 is DOA without G20 support; a failure to achieve consensus at this stage portends doom for 2025 and beyond. A face-saving “compromise” is being floated as a resolution, with reports that “negotiators agreed to a text mentioning developing nations’ voluntary contributions to climate finance, stopping short of calling them obligations, according to two diplomats.”

Biden embarrassingly missed a photo shoot with the G20 nation leadership in Rio, symbolic of his waning climate-funding reign. This may prove symbolic as Donald Trump takes the helm of the realm and perhaps will determine that US commitments to all UN, WHO, and NATO programs are similarly “voluntary contributions” to climate finance.

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COP 29: The Big UN Money Grab

By Craig Rucker, President @ CFACT

The sums of money being demanded at the UN climate conference in Azerbaijan are staggering.

The UN estimates that the world currently spend $3 trillion per year on climate and wants to dedicate $3.5 trillion to energy transition per year by 2050.  This would skyrocket total annual global climate spending to $5 trillion.

A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

They are pushing for something they call the “new collective quantified goal” at COP 29 in Baku.  This mainly means a fortune in climate redistribution from the developed to the developing world. 

Delegates are all too aware that this spending largess in no way squares with President-elect Trump's "America first" agenda, but they are hoping to wait him out as they did once before.

One surprising positive development, is that in the process of demanding redistribution, developing nations have woken up to one of the key absurdities of the UN climate regime.  Nations such as China and India are given a pass on emissions reductions and paying out funds.  This, despite the fact that China is the world's number one emitter of greenhouse gases and boasts the second largest economy, while India's economy is all the way up at number five. 

This is due to something the UN calls "common, but differentiated responsibilities," which has been baked into the climate regime going all the way back to 1997's Kyoto Protocol.  China, meanwhile, holds $8.16 trillion of U.S. debt. 

Wherever climate policy goes next, China should equally bear the pain and shoulder the responsibility they advocate for us. 

President Obama shoveled $1 billion over to the UN's Green Climate Fund shortly before President Trump began his first term.  This included $500 million transferred just three days before inauguration day.

Will the Biden Administration try to top that?

The last time President Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement it took four years.  Under the terms of the Agreement, this time he can do it in one.

Let's hope President Trump resurrects climate and energy reality for the U.S. and the world before much more damage is done.

For nature and people too!

P.S.  Thank you to all of CFACT's friends and readers who have given so generously to make CFACT's Mission Azerbaijan possible.  CFACT is your eyes, ears and voice in the UN climate process.  We are approaching our goal, but still have a short way to go.  Please make the most generous gift you can right now.  We cannot do it without you.

A Sincerity Test for the United Nations

November 18, 2024 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

I get annoyed by the virtue-signalling leftism from the United Nations. And it irks me when the U.N. peddles dishonest analysis. And I’m also nauseated by the bureaucracy’s pervasive corruption.

 

But, unlike the International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.N. has very little ability to turn bad ideas into bad policy.

Which is why I rarely write about the United Nations. But rarely is not the same as never.

I’m going to pontificate about the U.N. today because Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute has put forth a very good proposal. He wants the bureaucracy to act like it believes global warming is real.

More than 67,000 delegates are in Baku, Azerbaijan, to attend the United Nations’ annual climate summit. …The United Nations itself sent hundreds of “observers” on behalf of both U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and specialized agencies. …There is normal hypocrisy, and then there is John “[private jets are] the only choice for somebody like me,” Kerry hypocrisy — but all pale in comparison to U.N. hypocrisy. The private and jumbo jets ferrying delegates to Baku, the idling sedans and limousines, the steak dinners and caviar mock any pretense that their climate concern is real.

In reality, the annual environmental conference is glorified tourism under the guise of activism. Nothing occurs in Baku that the U.N. could not conduct online and in video breakout sessions at a tiny fraction of the cost and carbon footprint. The same is true for almost every other U.N. conference. U.N. employees often fly first or business class. If the U.N. went online, it could slash not only its travel expenses but administrative ones as well. …Moving environmental conferences online would end U.N. climate hypocrisy and could serve as a test to curtail U.N. jet-setting and shrink the administrative bureaucracy that supports that lifestyle.

Amen. This change would be good for taxpayers and good for the environment.

 

When I issued my Eighteenth Theorem of Government, I was mostly thinking about the preening nitwits in the British royal family and the hypocrites in who go to Davos.

But it obviously applies perfectly to the type of people who attend U.N. climate conferences.

P.S. I’ve participated in two conferences at the United Nations. Sadly, both were in New York City so I didn’t get to travel to some exotic location.

COP 29: Ruffling Climate Feathers, Making Energy Inroads

Craig Rucker President of CFACT 

CFACT is at UN COP 29 in Azerbaijan where if the Left wants to give us the credit, we'll take it! 

• “One of the reasons why the COP hasn’t been as successful as it should be is because of people like Marc [Morano]. He and the oil industry have hijacked the process, and that’s one of the reasons why it’s not making further progress.”-  Grahame Buss, spokesman for Just Stop Oil, during a TV debate at COP29 in Baku.
• “People like Marc [and his organization CFACT] who have actually not allowed the real progress to be made.”  - Harjeet Singh, Director at Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty Initiative – During a live TV debate from COP29 in Baku

Such comments from our adversaries are high praise of Marc Morano’s and CFACT’s impact at these UN climate conferences. We wear such derision by the climate-hysteria cottage industry as a badge of honor.

Of course, this is not the first time we’ve been given backhanded praise by the political Left for our work at United Nations COP meetings. We’ve been called out by the media and others during prior climate summits in Indonesia, Peru, South Africa, and pretty much every other one. It is always good to hear reconfirmation of CFACT’s effectiveness at challenging the UN’s climate narrative. When you’re taking flak, it means you’re over the target.

So how do we do it? There’s a variety of ways, but in this latest example, I will call it “informal negotiations.”

Unless your organization is well-connected to a current presidential administration in power, (which CFACT is not while the lame-duck Biden crew remains), making an impact at a UN meeting like COP 29 is always a challenge for a conservative/libertarian NGO. But the nice thing about being accredited for attendance to the COP summits is that you are afforded opportunities to meet state delegates from other nations who often agree with our message – and those delegates carry our message into the proceedings.

Such rendezvous might occur inside the main plenary sessions, official side events, or other formal meetings that take place during a COP. After having covered these proceedings for more than two decades, the CFACT delegation has found that many of our best opportunities to make an impact occur while having meals at the hotel, sharing taxis to the event, or simply walking among the conference attendees at the venue outside the summit meetings.

This morning in Baku was a case in point. While eating breakfast at our Masazir New City Hotel, I had a chance to brush up on my French by conversing with a representative of the African nation of Togo. Her name was Bossa Makagni, and she was full of surprises.

She was supportive of the American people’s election of Donald Trump as president and said having a strong leader like him was important not just for America, but the world. She also told me she was weighing whether these COP meetings could help her country, and was happy to get information from CFACT, including exploring future projects such as our organization’s Stewardship in Action in several African and Asian developing nations.

Another encounter with an African COP representative this week occurred during my flight to Azerbaijan. His name was Dr. Patrick Kormawa, a representative of the nation of Sierra Leone. He also very much liked President Trump, and we met again during the conference at the COP 29 food court. Dr. Kormawa and CFACT have much in common. He understood that fossil fuels, hydro power, and especially nuclear power (not principally renewables, as is touted by the UN) are vital for African development. Our discussion at the summit was captured on film by a French News Team which was interested in the dialogue and plans to broadcast it.

It is not just nation’s delegates whom we influence at these meetings. While walking the streets of downtown Baku, CFACT Senior Fellow Peter Murphy and I encountered several U.S. college students who were attending COP 29 as observers. While shopping at the city’s tourist venues for souvenirs, they told us they were quite worried about their future and even felt great distress over what lies ahead for them and humanity because of climate change. 

This was a great opportunity, so we gave them a little primer on why hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and heatwaves are neither unprecedented, nor raging out of control. We informed them of various predictions made by the UN IPCC and climate advocates that never came true, and then urged them to look into the facts and not just believe what they are told at the conference or by their university professors. They seemed genuinely relieved to talk to us, and we parted company — but not before taking time to haggle over and buy some Baku store items with vendors.

Progress is clearly being made as we push back against the pervasive climate narrative . More people are having their eyes opened as CFACT corrects the record with data and sources to substantiate.  President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming Administration, delegations from other nations, our ever growing reach of media outlets, and our impact with college students, all are reassured that their future is promising, and the planet will endure. Information is being shared. Public education is occurring. Media interviews are being conducted with outlets around the world. And the CFACT message of sound science, economics and conservation is getting out.

Twenty years ago the climate establishment attempted to to shun CFACT as pariahs.  We still encounter that, but less so today. We find delegates praising Donald Trump, touting nuclear power and oil and gas (like the President of Azerbaijan did yesterday), and delegates completely amenable to receiving materials from climate realists to distribute to their delegations. Good things are happening. We are having a serious impact.

Who knows? Maybe we’ll see those young students we talked to a CFACT Collegians program soon! They would be following a long line of CFACT Collegians who proceeded them.

For nature and people too!

P.S.  Thank you to everyone who has given so generously to make it possible for CFACT to be your representatives in the UN climate process.  There is much more to do and we can't keep going without support from friends like you.  Please make the strongest gift you can right now.

Are You Even Aware That There Is Another Big UN Climate Conference Going On?

November 14, 2024/ Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

The overwhelming focus of the environmental movement over the past three decades and more has been the push to eliminate the use of hydrocarbon fuels and transform the world’s energy system into something based on supposedly cleaner wind and sun. This effort has always been doomed to failure, because energy produced by wind and sun does not work satisfactorily and is wildly too expensive. So it has long been obvious to the well-informed that this whole effort will inevitably go away at some point. But after the desperate cries of crisis and alarm from thousands of activists for decades on end, and after the trillions of dollars government funds invested, how could that possibly occur?

My prediction has long been that at some point the whole thing would just quietly fade away, as if it had never happened. It would become like dozens of other (admittedly less pervasive) environmental scares of my lifetime, from acid rain to gypsy moths to alar to bee colony collapse and many more. One day there would just be no more news stories about these things, and they would pass from public attention. Despite the much larger effort behind the climate scare, there is no reason that the same thing could not happen. Nobody who had promoted the scare would ever admit they were wrong. Those people would just move on to the next cause without mentioning that this one had been forgotten.

Frankly, with regard to the global warming scare, I thought that this would have occurred well before now. However, somehow trillions of dollars of government funding can have a magical effect of motivating those feasting on the bounty to keep the scare going.

But very recently, something significant seems to be changing. It’s not only that Donald Trump just decisively won the presidency on a promise of “drill, baby, drill”; or that Kamala Harris, to try to win the swing states, decided to back off her prior promises to ban fracking and internal combustion cars. As an example that something bigger may be going on, how about this: Do you even know that one of the big annual UN climate conferences just got under way in Baku, Azerbaijan?

These annual UN conferences have been big news for almost as long as I can remember. They started back in 1992 following the UN’s so-called Framework Convention on Climate Change; and they have occurred almost every year since, going by the name of “Conferences of Parties,” or “COP.” COP 21, held in Paris in 2015, was the meeting when the Paris Climate Agreement was signed, supposedly committing all the nations of the world to emissions reductions and energy transformations. 

Lots of big names showed up, including then U.S. President Barack Obama. The world press reacted with glee. There were hundreds upon hundreds of stories. Six years later, after a year off for the pandemic, it was COP 26, held in Glasgow, Scotland. The UK chaired the conference, and wowed the world with enhanced pledges of emissions reductions. 

No fewer than 120 heads of state attended, just a few highlights being UN secretary-general António Guterres, United States president Joe Biden, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, Indonesian president Joko Widodo, Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven. Again, the zone got flooded with press coverage.

By contrast, this year’s conference is passing largely under the radar. This year’s event goes by the name COP 29, now being held for the second year running in a petro-state (last year it was in Qatar). It would be an understatement to say that this conference has been totally overshadowed by the U.S. election. At the New York Times, one of their climate activist reporters, David Wallace-Wells bemoans the new situation in an article yesterday with the headline “Climate Change Is Losing Its Grip on Our Politics.” Excerpt:

[Donald Trump’s] election is . . . a confirmation of an international turn in the politics of warming as much as it is a sharp or distinctly American break. Yes, a global renewables boom is well underway, with worldwide investment in clean energy reaching $2 trillion this year and total solar capacity doubling since 2022. But the climate logic of that transition increasingly goes unspoken in all but the most committed corners, replaced by chin-scratching about energy politics. Governments have retreated from even their legally binding promises to decarbonize, trusting markets to deliver comparatively meager emissions reductions instead, and activists have been unable to generate meaningful public outrage at the walkback.

It’s almost as if nobody cares any more. This is most notable in Wallace-Wells’s list of who failed to show up — in summary, everybody important:

When the COP29 climate conference comes to an end next week, it will have concluded without an appearance by President Biden. . . . The president-elect isn’t attending, either. Neither is Vice President Kamala Harris. . . . Hardly any of the world’s most powerful leaders will be making an appearance in Baku, Azerbaijan . . . . President Xi Jinping of China won’t be there, and neither will Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. President Emmanuel Macron of France, . . . is skipping the conference, too. Also missing will be Lula da Silva, who is the leader not just of Brazil but also of the Group of 20. As recently as the Glasgow summit in 2021, the annual climate confab was a who’s who of global power politics. These days, it’s more about who’s missing.

A separate New York Times article here notes that over 50,000 people will be attending this year’s conference, including participants, observers and media. That is a lot, but well down from around 70,000 last year. And what will they all be doing? It seems that the main point of the meeting is the attempt to reach a new “climate finance agreement “ — otherwise known as the effort by the governing cliques in developing countries to shake down the rich countries for sums in excess of $100 billion per year, using the cover of “climate” to fill their Swiss bank accounts. From Reuters, yesterday:

The main task for nearly 200 countries at the U.N.'s COP29 climate summit is to broker a deal that ensures up to trillions of dollars in financing for climate projects worldwide. . . . Wealthy countries pledged in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year to help developing nations cope with the costs of a transition to clean energy and adapting to the conditions of a warming world. . . . Those payments began in 2020 but were only fully met in 2022. The $100 billion pledge expires this year. Countries are negotiating a higher target for payments starting next year. . . .

Yes, outgoing President Biden fell for this scam and sent off billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funds. Put this at the top of President Trump’s agenda: zero this one out. Once it becomes clear that the U.S. isn’t going along any more, maybe we can even save the annual expense of sending thousands of people off to these remote corners of the world.

Azerbaijan President says fossil fuels a “Gift from God”, UN parades world leaders

By Craig Rucker |November 13th, 2024 7 Comments @ CFACT

Day two of the UN Conference of the Parties meeting (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, saw numerous heads of state roll into town to pay homage to he global warming cause. In all, some 100 world leaders were represented, with many ushered into the main plenary stage to deliver short testimonials on how their nation is on course to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, long before which they will be out of office or dead.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres set the tenor of the event by focusing on what many, particularly in the developing world, flew all this way in their gas-guzzling jets to discuss: Money. “Developing countries must not leave Baku empty-handed. A deal is a must and I’m confident it will be reached… On climate finance, the world must pay up, or humanity will pay the price,” Guterres said to applause.

Notably absent from this high-brow affair were major world leaders from China, India, Germany, France, Canada and the U.S.A., the nations that would most likely “pay up” as Mr. Guterres demanded. Instead, the list mostly included smaller nations such as Morrocco, Congo, Kenya, Tuvulu and the Bahamas; in other words, countries that would be on the cash-receiving end.

There were exceptions. Great Britain’s new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, made his climate debut appearance at COP 29. He showed up specifically to announce his country’s determination to rid itself of energy abundance. Taking his turn on stage, he boasted that “In the first 100 days of this government….We scrapped the ban on onshore wind…We committed to no new North Sea oil and gas licenses… [and] we closed the UK’s final coal power plant at the end of September.”  In their place he said they would commit to more green energy, and finished his remarks with a bang by announcing that by 2035 the UK will “reduce all greenhouse gas emissions by at least 81% on 1990 levels.”

Spain’s President Pedro Sanchez also spoke, pinning climate change as culpable for his nation’s recent flooding that left 220 dead; as did Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, who pledged more financial assistance to developing countries to help them “strengthen adaptation and build resilience” to climate impacts.

Not all were amused, however, by the UN’s showcase of international pomp and show.

A group called CARE, which works on global poverty, complained about the gender mix which contained too much testosterone onstage. “Women and girls bear the brunt of the climate crisis and often design the solutions, yet only 8 out of the 78 world leaders participating in COP29 are women,” the group noted in a press release. “While the Conference of Parties (COP) strive to be an inclusive summit, the negotiation table remains far from diverse.”

Other malcontents, like the nation of Paupau New Guinea, didn’t even show up to criticize the event, as they bailed out before it took place. “There’s no point going if we are falling asleep because of jet lag because we’re not getting anything done,” Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko said. “COP is a total waste of time.”

Perhaps the most newsworthy event of Day 2 in Baku, however, was not what was scripted onstage by the UN hierarchy, but what was said by the President of the host country of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.

He greeted the delegates in his opening remarks by saying oil and gas a “gift from God”, and then went on to praise fossil fuel use and slam critics of his nation’s export of gas and oil to build its economy.

“Fake news media of the country which is (the) number one oil and gas producer in the world and produces 30 times more oil than Azerbaijan, call us ‘petrostate’,” President Aliyev said. “They better look at themselves.” He also took aim at “so-called independent NGOs and some politicians, as if (they) were competing in spreading disinformation and false information about our country”.

These remarks, needless to say, made some on the Left go ballistic. Martin Kaiser, head of Greenpeace Germany, described the statement as a ‘‘slap in the face’’. “For all those who are already suffering from the consequences of climate change, such as the Pacific island states. The scientific community is unanimous: in order to prevent the worst effects of global warming, no more new coal, oil and gas extraction projects should be built,” he said.

To be sure, it was an eventful day 2 at COP 29. Stayed tuned for more updates from CFACT in Azerbaijan coming soon.

With your help, CFACT is working to ensure the climate Left fails and energy realists prevail.  For nature and people too.  CFACT is the preeminent organization fully engaged with UN climate diplomacy from a free market, sound science, energy realist perspective.  Thank you to everyone who has already given so generously to make it possible for CFACT to be your eyes, ears and voice here at the big UN climate conference in Azerbaijan.  We cannot do it without you.  Please make the most generous gift you can right now.

 

Major UN embarrassment as COP 29 host proclaims oil and gas gifts from God

 You can't make this stuff up! 

By Craig Rucker, President of CFACT, November 13th, 2024|1 Comment

In a major embarrassment for the UN climate regime the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, took the stage at COP 29 and proclaimed oil and gas to be gifts from God. (Watch Now @ CFACT.org.) That's not exactly how the Left's climate narrative is supposed to go.

CFACT's delegation is at UN COP 29, the biggest UN climate conference of the year.  Azerbaijan is this year's host country.

Aliyev also denounced what he called the "fake news" media for hypocrisy in labeling his country a "petro state," while the United States and Europe produce many times more oil and gas than his nation.  He also told the assembled conference delegates that Azerbaijan's greenhouse gas emissions (if that's your thing) are tiny when compared to other nations and the world.

The UN climate process has degenerated into farce, although it remains an incredibly expensive farce.

The Wall Street Journal called for this to be the last UN climate conference, writing that:

"The real joke of these summits is that so many people still take them seriously. Whatever one thinks of the arguments surrounding climate change, there won’t be a material reduction in global carbon emissions until China, India and other developing countries—such as, say, Azerbaijan—agree to sacrifice their economic growth on the altar of Western green fixations. This isn’t happening in practice, and Mr. Aliyev’s comments suggest leaders of those countries feel less pressure to pretend.

It makes you wonder if COP29 may be the last time anyone tries to organize a spectacle like this. The world should be so lucky."

The UN climate regime is indeed faltering.  President Biden skipped COP 29 as did many other world leaders.

I told OAN News that, "you don't see a Macron here, you don't see a Justin Trudeau here, you don't see leaders of the various western countries because they would be the ones giving out the money.  What you do see at COP 29 are leaders from a number of developing countries looking for money."

Donald Trump's victory poses a major challenge to the UN and the climate Left.

While there is plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the usual suspects, you'd be surprised how many delegates and attendees here at COP 29 are quietly (sometimes not so quietly) cheering America on for our election results.

As I told OAN, many representatives of the developing world think it is crazy to talk about giving up private automobiles, abundant electricity and eating meat.  They want a high living standard for their countries.  They view President Trump as the leader who can restore sanity to climate and energy policy. 

With your help, CFACT is working to ensure the climate Left fails and energy realists prevail.  For nature and people too.  CFACT is the preeminent organization fully engaged with UN climate diplomacy from a free market, sound science, energy realist perspective.  Thank you to everyone who has already given so generously to make it possible for CFACT to be your eyes, ears and voice here at the big UN climate conference in Azerbaijan.  We cannot do it without you.  Please make the most generous gift you can right now.