COP30 highlights leadership failures in climate policy, as most major emitters submit weak or delayed plans, while citizens and subnational actors are driving meaningful progress toward a viable energy transition. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/25/world/the-real-failure-on-climate-change/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #cop30 #climatechange #globalwarming #pollution #brazil #belem
Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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To anyone who's been following human rights issues in #Tibet or the #Uyghur regions, or Chinese links to illegal #rareearth mining in #Laos & #Myanmar (including de-facto support for the ruthless #junta), the fact that #China derailed the inclusion of mining and critical minerals in the #COP30 #JustTransition Work Program is no surprise.
In the latest issue of @codastory newsletter, I explore this, and more.
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/chinas-green-energy-miracle-and-a-conspiracy-of-silence/
To anyone who's been following human rights issues in #Tibet or the #Uyghur regions, or Chinese links to illegal #rareearth mining in #Laos & #Myanmar (including de-facto support for the ruthless #junta), the fact that #China derailed the inclusion of mining and critical minerals in the #COP30 #JustTransition Work Program is no surprise.
In the latest issue of @codastory newsletter, I explore this, and more.
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/chinas-green-energy-miracle-and-a-conspiracy-of-silence/
Claudius Link
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Dear People of Brazil: We, Germans, are very sorry for these arrogant, rascist and stupid things our (not loved) chancellor told you about #Brasil & your city #Belém - most of us didn't vote for him. He is a constant nuisance and says mean things even about German cities and is absolutely wrong about migration, climate crisis and its solutions. I often get woozy shaking my head just listening to news.
So, pls forgive us - our country Germany. We all do hope our head of gov will retire VERY soon.
everton137
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Eigentor
Dear Brazilians! The comments made by German Chancellor Merz (who is VERY unpopular in Germany) about Belém and Brazil have caused outrage among German news channels and the German population. We Germans are saddened that the Brazilian people might think Merz is the face of Germany. He is definitely NOT! We Germans would like to apologize 🙏🏽 to you for our chancellor's bad and racist behavior.
Caros brasileiros! As declarações do chanceler alemão Merz (que é MUITO impopular na Alemanha) sobre Belém e o Brasil causaram indignação nas emissoras de notícias alemãs e na população alemã. Nós, alemães, estamos tristes pelo facto de o povo brasileiro poder pensar que Merz é a cara da Alemanha. Ele definitivamente NÃO é! Nós, alemães, gostaríamos de pedir desculpas 🙏🏽 pelo mau comportamento do nosso chanceler.
Dear Brazilians! The comments made by German Chancellor Merz (who is VERY unpopular in Germany) about Belém and Brazil have caused outrage among German news channels and the German population. We Germans are saddened that the Brazilian people might think Merz is the face of Germany. He is definitely NOT! We Germans would like to apologize 🙏🏽 to you for our chancellor's bad and racist behavior.
Dear People of Brazil: We, Germans, are very sorry for these arrogant, rascist and stupid things our (not loved) chancellor told you about #Brasil & your city #Belém - most of us didn't vote for him. He is a constant nuisance and says mean things even about German cities and is absolutely wrong about migration, climate crisis and its solutions. I often get woozy shaking my head just listening to news.
So, pls forgive us - our country Germany. We all do hope our head of gov will retire VERY soon.
Eigentor
Gert V 🇵🇸
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“What’s happening in #Belém is not a climate conference but a hostage negotiation over the future of the planet where those holding the detonators – the soy barons, the beef cartels, the pesticide peddlers – are seated at the table as honest brokers,” said Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/big-agriculture-lobbyists-cop30-climate-summit
“What’s happening in #Belém is not a climate conference but a hostage negotiation over the future of the planet where those holding the detonators – the soy barons, the beef cartels, the pesticide peddlers – are seated at the table as honest brokers,” said Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/big-agriculture-lobbyists-cop30-climate-summit
Merz‘ Komfortzone scheint ziemlich klein zu sein.
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/rede-kanzler-handelskongress-2393818
Es gibt sie doch, die guten Nachrichten zum #Klimaschutz: Erneuerbare haben Kohle beim Anteil an der globalen Stromversorgung überholt; die Entwaldung im Amazonas geht zurück; und ein Bündnis von Staaten und öffentlichen Banken setzt sein Versprechen vom Klimagipfel 2021, Zahlungen für fossile Energie drastisch zu reduzieren, um.
Doch wenn jetzt in #Belem die #COP30 beginnt, ist klar: Das alles reicht bei weitem nicht. Und jetzt?
Mein Report für @Spektrumverlag (€) https://www.spektrum.de/news/cop30-geopolitische-orientierungssuche-am-amazonas/2294831
As Bill Gates recently acknowledged, the world’s “biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/07/world/cop30-should-be-about-human-welfare/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #cop30 #billgates #brazil #climatechange #globalwarming #belem #poverty
hypebot
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UN-Generalsekretär sieht "tödliche Fahrlässigkeit" bei Klimawandel
UN-Generalsekretär Guterres warnt vor einem Scheitern der Weltklimakonferenz: Es brauche einen drastischen Kurswechsel, um die Klimakatastrophe abzufedern. Er sieht aber auch Hoffnungsschimmer im Kampf gegen den CO2-Ausstoß.
#Weltklimakonferenz #Guterres #Klimawandel #CO2 #Belem #COP30
UN-Generalsekretär sieht "tödliche Fahrlässigkeit" bei Klimawandel
UN-Generalsekretär Guterres warnt vor einem Scheitern der Weltklimakonferenz: Es brauche einen drastischen Kurswechsel, um die Klimakatastrophe abzufedern. Er sieht aber auch Hoffnungsschimmer im Kampf gegen den CO2-Ausstoß.
#Weltklimakonferenz #Guterres #Klimawandel #CO2 #Belem #COP30