According to a draft document seen by Reuters, the European Union will urge the world’s biggest economies to improve their carbon emission targets to fight climate change ahead of COP27, this year’s U.N. climate summit. The news agency has more.
Despite a raft of new emissions-cutting commitments countries announced at last year’s COP26 climate summit, “global climate action remains insufficient”, the EU said in a draft of its negotiations mandate for the COP27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November.
The draft, which faces weeks of negotiations and could change before EU countries approve it in October, said polluters must revise their targets if the world is to stop global warming spiralling beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“[The EU] calls upon all Parties to come forward with ambitious targets and policies and urges in particular major economies that have not yet done so to revisit or strengthen the targets,” it said.
Nearly 200 countries will convene at COP27 after what has been for many a devastating summer of drought, heatwaves and other climate-linked extremes.
But the talks on how to curb emissions, and fund those efforts, face the tough context of an energy crisis that is exhausting state budgets and prompting some countries to burn more coal.
The EU is the world’s third-biggest emitter, after the United States and China.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The average household energy bill will hit £6,600 a year next spring, according to Cornwall Insight. The Telegraph has more.
Stop Press 2: Energy consultancy Auxilione predicts the price cap will rise to £7,263 next April. MailOnline has more.
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The sole intention behind this climate crap is to spark massive public disorder which of course will allow for the move to an EU super state as a possible prelude to one world government.
We won’t recognise our world twelve months from now – those of us still in it.
I must admit this is all happening alot quicker than I anticipated. How nieve of me. I thought we might have another 12 months of relative calm. Looks like the predator class are putting their foot on the gas.
The ‘One China’ policy has always been a mistranslation. The English subtitles of historical drama film ‘Hero’, directed by Zhang Yimou, for example, used ‘One Land’, which demonstrates how far back the ideal goes. In actuality, the ‘One…’ policy is really ‘One World’.
China has harboured a desire to rule the entire planet going back centuries, possibly millennia. The present Chinese version of communism, which manipulates capitalism against liberty via fellow travellers in business and politics in the West, is a means to an end, to create a brutal, planet-wide imperial dictatorship. And right now, China is playing a blinder.
The ‘road’ to dictatorship is like any journey. The landscape slowly changes as you drive through it and the nearer you get to the destination the closer your surroundings resemble it. COVID-19 was a high speed nudge towards totalitarianism and we only have to look at the violent, fanatical youngsters now being pumped out of schools and universities to see the sort of world they’re aiming for. In 20 years’ time, these communist fanatics will be politicians, business leaders, lawyers and doctors, who can make decisions on whether we live or die.
So when does the rebellion kick off.
My guess is when the heating bills come in.
UK plc own more than a century’s worth of Coal, Gas and Oil.
We are being immiserated, not because of an energy shortage, but because of government adherence to Net Zero policy.
The Conservatives, Labour, The SNP, the Lib Dems and the Watermelons want you to be cold and poor this winter.
We are NOT being imiserated because of an adherence to net zero, we are being imiserated for the purpose of being imiserated.
Net zero is the cover story which is being used to hide all the coming restrictions and privations. The expectation is that a cold and hungry population will be much easier to control ; more amenable to being robbed by the state and then given a bit back through a digital bank account, so long as one’s digital ID is up-to-date.
“It’s not always about what they say it’s about.”
I agree.
Inflation was a foreseeable consequence of printing £600bn of furlough funny money. We are expected to believe that Sunak and others in the cabinet and Whitehall did not perform a cost benefit analysis on any of their lockdown measures. The current 18% inflation is a direct result of the devaluation of Sterling and its weaker purchasing power in foreign markets.
This inflation is being compounded by soaring energy costs and the government’s reluctance to use domestic sources of fuel. If every business in the UK has to meet increased costs for energy, it stands to reason that they will pass those increased costs onto their customers by raising prices.
This will make everything more expensive and will cause inflation to spiral out of control.
Out of control inflation is only ever stopped by sharply increasing interest rates or with the introduction of a new currency.
Interest rate hikes are a no-no because of the level of indebtedness in the UK. If mortgage and loan repayments increase significantly people will be bankrupted.
We know Sunak has already got the wheels in motion for a programmable Central Bank Digital Currency.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/19/rishi-sunak-bank-of-england-digital-currency-uk-brexit-eu
This will be accessed through a digital ID and will be programmable so that purchases of naughty items like meat, diesel and alcohol can be restricted.
This is essentially a state controlled digital panopticon. It is Big Brother on steroids.
Please do not consider me facetious but that is more like it. Spot on in fact.
Nothing perpetuating the false claim that five weeks of sunshine in summer would constitute a catastrophe, especially after a year of almost neverending rain, is worth a read. No matter how many non-extremes are linked to climate by putting them into the same headline. This technique became stale in 2020, in the course of the long barrage of COVID events linked to children in the exact same way.
Contributing to the water shortage in EU Countries, is promotion and subsidy for very thirsty non-native crops like avocado, mango, kiwi to reduce ‘carbon emissions’ from shipping these in from far away places, by growing them in Europe.
Plus a move to maize (another thirsty crop) to feed cattle instead of grass to cut down on the new gaseous demon on the block, methane.
And environmental regulation making expanding water resources virtually impossible.
All part of the climate doom plan.
There is no water shortage in Europe. Absent better desert areas like the Castilian or Greek highlands.
Oh?
‘Water restrictions in force across France as drought threatens crop production’
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220802-nc
Could be a UK headline from two weeks ago. Water restrictions are in place in Berkshire, heavy rainfall on two occasions during the last two weeks and more to come in the not too distant future notwithstanding. That’s because climate action groups have been lobbying hard for them for weeks. As with COVID, this is nothing but centrally controlled (and presumably, largely centrally written) propaganda distributed to supposedly national media outlets.
Please throw yr citizens over the cliff too, there’s a mattress down there somewhere we think. If the EU/UK are an advert for net zero, hardly a good one. Old grannies freezing to death this winter will be further disappointing marketing materials, though they’ll try and blame Russia for that.
It’s more like, sacrifice significant numbers of your population to hardship, poverty and early death to save yourself and other better off people like you from a future danger that we tell you is coming but we can’t actually prove. You have to take it on faith (known in certain circles as “The Science”).
And if you question what I am telling you to do, you are evil and dangerous.
If we frack a small area of land, we can have enough gas to power our country for half a century. We could have a steel industry again, use proper lightbulbs and afford to live. There isn’t a moment now where you don’t feel the state impinging on your life. Even a decade ago, it wasn’t this bad. If the people in power were genuine about the environment, they’d be fracking and using the gas while pouring money into getting nuclear fusion, which has now been achieved, into mainstream use.
People have taken to cutting down trees and burning logs. That will be the next thing to be banned. We’re being programmed to be obedient little drones. The super-rich looked at people taking budget airline flights abroad and decided the oiks had got above themselves. We’re entering a new period of feudalism where the Gates, Zuckerbergs and others are so rich that they can tell governments what to do, aided by the likes of Larry Fink, who can kill a business or a country with a swipe of a pen.
Well put Dom.
No democratic votes matter now, just destruction and extremism by the puppets, no reasonableness or moderation given to the lives of the populations
This is how it works, wreck citizens lives be granted enormous riches. Net zero and lock down are the two growth markets in state corruption. Formerly they had overseas aid in order to steal off tax payers, but that was a cottage industry relatively.
Wonder what life will be like for us when they reach Cop30
They’ll probably decided being alive is a crime against the environment and do a Jonestown on the world! It’s the thing I never understand about the eco mob: they consider human life a crime, yet they don’t kill themselves, which surely will be the best way – from their perspective – to save the environment!
True.
And never forget that to feel REALLY rich, you need to see others starving in the gutter.
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
The plan is to get people to think its not worth voting.. end of democracy
Throughout my lifetime we have been fed the myth that we in the West live in a democracy. It is now becoming blatantly obvious that we have never lived in a democracy. We have been given the time and just sufficient space to allow ourselves the conceit that we DID live in a democracy but the reality is that we were simply playing a game for the amusement of others.
Very sadly, voting should now be seen as a shallow pastime exercised not for the benefit of ourselves or our fellow citizens but for the aggrandisement of a selected few.
The Brexit vote was intended to cement the charade of “democracy” such that the ridiculous joke – on us – could be perpetuated. Sadly, TPTB got this seriously wrong and ended up with egg on their faces. Cameron may well have stuck his neck out in calling for the vote but when he lost he was ordered to go.
Bozo thought he was positioning himself as the plucky British Bulldog fighting the good fight and knowing that when he lost he could trade for evermore on his valiant underdog credentials. The shock result is one that he has clearly never come to terms with.
The Brexit vote and the Trump vote, the rise of populist Nationalism in Europe is what spurred the Davos Deviants in to action. In effect they brought forward their demonic playbook and the Reset button was pressed and at Warp speed.
Agenda 2030 here we come.
I don’t believe in the democratic process any more than the climate mullahs do.
Firstly, when public opinion is canvassed it is done so in a very manipulative way. So of course, if you ask people something like “do you agree with taking measures to avoid catastrophic climate change”, most people won’t necessarily realise it’s a ridiculously loaded question. They’re more likely just to say – of course I do.
Secondly, we’ve all seen now that the media most people encounter is completely under the control of the establishment and the very people that are pushing these policies. So I have no faith at all that the public have been given anything fair, honest and balanced information on the subject.
Thirdly, as we’ve also seen, once people have been scared to wits with alarmist information, they’ll actually put up with a lot.
So long as people don’t feel the sharp edge of the policies that are being pushed on them, they won’t try to push back. And it might take a bit more than high electric bills.
The pretense of a democracy was enough to keep boundaries on both sides, the electorate who thought they had some say and the politicians who wanted to keep their jobs, all falling apart now
Off topic, but I have been trying unsuccessfully to listen to the London Calling podcast. All I get is a “Playback error” message. Can anyone help?
The supplier I use https://www.ovoenergy.com for both Electricity and Gas has just spewed out a lengthy email about the price rises. A point worth noting is: “Due to a recent change Ofgem have made, the price cap will now change every three months rather than every six. This is so it can be more responsive to wholesale energy prices – which are changing rapidly.
The next change to the price cap is going to be in January. With wholesale energy prices continuing to rise, the price cap and your energy bills are likely to increase again.”
Thus Ofgem have changed it to quarterly rises – Oct, Jan, Apr, July etc.
A more succinct expression of the fact that there is no competition in the energy sector, just a cartel of private profiteers holding a public ransom who expect to be more then generously overcompensated for whatever their efforts happen to be could hardly be made.
The cash complexity of the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS) is worth noting. It appears via https://www.ovoenergy.com/energy-bills-support-scheme that the rebate will be split into 6 payments from October – presumably this is regarded as non-taxable income, otherwise they’d be clawing it back at variable rates. The other possibility – or even likelihood – is that there will be further price rises before the rebates end, so the net effect of the change in next tax year will be a wide gap.
As the cash will flow from Ofgem via the suppliers account into mine (and yours), it is possible that the latter will be able to be in credit for a few days – might not be of any extra value, but you never know whether they might be able to profit from it!
‘…after what has been for many a devastating summer of drought, heatwaves and other climate-linked extremes.’
Weather related extremes. And since ‘climate’ is an average of weather over long periods, ‘average’ means there will be extremes at both ends of the scale.
‘… seemingly blind to the energy crisis engulfing the continent.’
Not blind – not an energy crisis, it’s the plan. See ‘Great Reset’.
And the rate of global warming has been static, even slight decline for two decades, so it can spiralling out of control is just more absurd nonsense.
Global warming is a nonsense term as there is no such thing as a global temperature. The mathematical algorithm of averaging can be applied to any set of numbers. But this doesn’t mean doing so makes any sense. If an average of the temperatures recorded by some (everchanging) set of surface temperature measurement stations rises, this means the temperatures recorded by some subset of this measurement stations rose, eg, the subset of measurements stations located in urban heat islands. This doesn’t mean it got warmer everywhere, at least not necessarily, and very likely not at all: We don’t know anything about the average temperature rise per station. This strongly suggest it’s not the the liking of the climate politicians.
And we know for certain that “old” temperature records have very widely been “adjusted” downwards, on an industrial scale, to exaggerate the trivial and absolutely beneficial warming since the end of the Little Ice Age.
Even if you aren’t scientifically trained, easy enough to see a barefaced liar.
Can I guess that COP27 is going to be like all the others back to COP1 where they get a stream of loons to stand up and tell us if we don’t do this now, it will all be too late.
In the words of Noel Coward (coincidentally in a song about hot weather) they’re obviously definitely nuts. The sooner the Brussels (and Strassburg and Letzebureg) regime ends, the better.
this ‘great reset’ net zero carbon agenda is demonstrably based on egregious data frauds. present and past weather and climate data are being falsified. independent forensic climate analysts such as Tony Heller and John Robson demonstrate that there’s absolutely no genuine scientific evidence of anthropogenic influence on CO2, temperature, sea levels, polar ice, and extreme weather events. this ‘great reset’ World Economic Forum agenda is essentially satanic, intending impoverishment, digital enslavement, and genocide of humanity. they attempted to fool us with their data fraud based covid blag. we must not allow ourselves to be fooled by their climate blag. humanity is awakening. for all perpetrators and principal accomplices of the World Economic Forum criminal cabal’s ‘great reset’, there will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. they are delusional, their power is illusory, and they are now becoming increasingly confused and terrified. The Fates are weaving for them the greatest Nemesis in human history. please remember the actual environmental truth – we live on Planet SuperAbundance.
Welcome aboard. Great post.
The airline industry, on its knees after two years of the plandemic will be thrilled with the zero emissions strategy. What really is going on. A complete collapse, chaos to bring in the new world order according to god, I mean the WEF.
. Buckle up folks it is going to be a turbulent ride.
Basically, the Globalists have decided they need to turn the screw more quickly.
Presumably because the wheels have come off the Covid/Jab propaganda far sooner than they anticipated.