*[Enwl-eng] COP25 Media Monitoring - Day 5 - Friday

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COP25 Media Monitoring - Day 5 - Friday


Media coverage begins to deepen on issues around science and impacts. We are 
seeing more stories on the risks to vulnerable countries, the implications 
of not scaling action, and the launch of a platform that will boost 
science-based ocean solutions. As discussions deepen over urgency, so do 
moral calls for action. In his message to COP25 leaders, Pope Francis asked 
for more political will to safeguard a healthy planet.


Despite economists promoting carbon markets as “a powerful tool in the fight 
against climate change”, environmental organisations are not convinced - 
many criticise the mechanism as a form of greenwashing.



Science / Impacts

Latest UN Emissions Gap Report finds world must ramp up climate ambitions at 
least threefold to meet Paris goals (Mongabay)

“Inger Andersen, UNEP’s Executive Director, said that it is still possible 
to meet the Paris Climate Agreement’s targets, but that solutions must be 
deployed at a much faster rate and at a much larger scale.

“Our collective failure to act early and hard on climate change means we now 
must deliver deep cuts to emissions — over 7 per cent each year, if we break 
it down evenly over the next decade,” Andersen said in a statement. “This 
shows that countries simply cannot wait until the end of 2020, when new 
climate commitments are due, to step up action. They — and every city, 
region, business and individual — need to act now.””


Climate risks increase worldwide, even for rich countries: report 
(Xinhuanet)

“"The Climate Risk Index shows that climate change has disastrous impacts 
especially for poor countries, but also causes increasingly severe damages 
in industrialized countries like Japan or Germany," said David Eckstein of 
Germanwatch, who also called for more financial support for poor countries 
that suffer extreme weather events.”


Chile Launches Platform for Science-based Ocean Solutions at COP 25 (IISD)

“The Platform will encourage and guide implementation of policies, 
programmes and projects to support evidence on climate change and its impact 
on the ocean, and will support the creation of a community of practice to 
share lessons learned, offer inspiration to support the transfer and uptake 
of solutions in other contexts and advance ocean-climate action. The 
Platform also seeks to engage a large number of actors in ocean-climate 
action, including the public and private sectors, civil society and 
academia.”


As Climate Change Worsens, A Cascade of Tipping Points Looms (Yale.360)

“The researchers once considered these tipping points to be largely 
independent of each other. Now they warn that the world faces a “cascade” of 
abrupt shifts in the planet’s climate system, as global warming takes hold. 
“We might already have crossed the threshold for a cascade of inter-related 
tipping points,” they wrote in Nature. This “could trigger a shift in the 
state of the Earth system as a whole,” one of the authors, Will Steffen of 
the Australian National University in Canberra, told Yale Environment 360.”


Climate models have accurately predicted global heating, study finds (The 
Guardian)

““We found that climate models – even those published back in the 1970s – 
did remarkably well, with 14 out of the 17 model projections 
indistinguishable from what actually occurred,” said Zeke Hausfather, of the 
University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of the paper, published 
in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.”


Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming (Carbon 
Brief)

COP25 set to open as study reports hottest decade (Church Times)

Delayed Indian monsoon, Cyclone Fani ‘high impact’ events of 2019 (Mongabay)

Island States Highlight Nature-based Solutions to Combat Climate Change 
(IISD)

UN climate talks kick off in Madrid with focus on ocean solutions (The 
Economist Group)

Climate change hits health, yet funds lacking: WHO (Reuters)



Vulnerable Countries

Puerto Rico Is the Most Vulnerable Country to Climate Change, Says Report 
(Latin Post)

“Compared to the CRI 2019, which considered the period from 1998 to 2017, 
there have been a few changes in the CRI ranking: while Puerto Rico remains 
at the top of the list, Myanmar and Haiti each move up one place to become 
one of the three most affected countries over the past two decades. [...]

“According to the study, poor and developing countries are most vulnerable 
to climate risks and are often hit the hardest, seeing higher rates of 
deaths and hardships. Despite this, researchers also found that high-income 
countries are also feeling climate impacts more than ever before.”


India is fifth most vulnerable of 181 countries to climate change fallouts: 
Report (First Post)

“Overall, India’s economic losses due to climate change were the second 
highest in the world with a loss of Rs 2.7 lakh crore ($37 billion) – nearly 
as much as its defence budget in 2018 – the report said. This translates to 
losing about 0.36 percent per unit of gross domestic product.”



Urgency and ambition / Loss and Damage

Let’s assess failure of developed countries in acting on climate, says India 
(The Indian Express)

“Amidst growing urgency over the need for enhanced actions on climate 
change, India, China, Brazil and some other developing countries have sought 
an assessment of the failures of developed countries to fulfil their climate 
obligations in the pre-2020 period.

At the Madrid climate change meeting, these countries argued on Thursday 
that the main reason why the world seemed headed towards a climate disaster 
was that the developed countries never met their obligations under the Kyoto 
Protocol, the 1997 climate agreement that expires next year and is set to be 
replaced by the Paris Agreement.

India and the other countries said that the developed countries must be 
given another two years, until 2022, to fulfil their earlier commitments.”


Cop25 Bulletin: A rare press conference (Climate Home)

“In a rare press conference hosted by the government of China, a panel of 
experts (which didn’t include any government officials) dodged questions 
about whether Beijing would enhance its climate plan next year.

China’s current plan to peak emissions by 2030 and before if possible “was 
already made with great ambition,” they said.

“He Jiankun, a professor from Tsinghua University and the deputy director of 
the national expert committee on climate change, said China was “shifting 
from an economy developing at high speed to an economy developing at high 
quality.””


Climate Emergency CoP 25: Its market versus market in Madrid (Down to Earth)

“The ghost of pre-2020 carbon market mechanism has started to haunt the 
Madrid negotiations over a new climate market mechanism proposed for the 
post-2020 Paris regime. The negotiations for the new carbon market regime, 
which falls under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, will take centre stage 
along with the other outstanding issue of “Loss and Damage” before the 
agreement gets rolling on ground.

“According to sources, some developing countries, in private discussions, 
have already raised the demand that the Kyoto Protocol phase II should be 
pushed back for couple of years to ensure that the developed countries 
complete their commitments under the protocol. Developing countries are 
pointing out that the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, which 
officialises the second commitment period from 2013 to 2020, is yet to be 
ratified by requisite number of developed countries and hence did not get 
started on ground, though its scheduled closure has almost reached.”


Rich countries refuse to pay for green projects in poor nations (India 
Climate Dialogue)

““How can they describe as worthless all the work done by developing 
countries for 15 years?” an angry senior Indian government negotiator 
riposted. “Who is polluting – these CERs, or the rich countries? Why don’t 
they look at the reports on which countries are meeting their Paris 
commitments as of today? There’s not a single developed country there.” 
India is one of the few large economies meeting the Paris agreement goal to 
do its share to keep average temperature rise within two degrees Celsius 
from preindustrial times.”


The missed opportunity of COP25 (Global Americans)

COP25: Diving into the first Blue COP (GreenBiz)

COP25 Convenes in Madrid to Finalize Rules on the Paris Agreement (Fortune)



Carbon markets

Trading carbon credits from nature sparks fiery debate at UN talks (Reuters)

““When it comes to taking action in the climate space, the world has been 
very long on say and very short on do,” said Duncan van Bergen, vice 
president for nature-based solutions with Shell New Energies.

“We believe that nature has a role to play - not instead of, but in addition 
to, a lot of hard work that needs to happen to decarbonise energy, 
transportation, agriculture and other sectors of the economy,” he added.”


Environmental organizations denounce carbon markets, green washing in Cop 
(EFE)

“Carbon markets "represent a threat to people, politics and the planet", and 
are a "green washing" strategy, Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous 
Environmental Network, said.”


Climate Justice Groups Protest Use of Carbon Markets for Meeting Paris Goals 
(Inside Climate News)

“"Over and over again, carbon markets have proven that they are not 
effective in reducing emissions," said Tere Almaguer, environmental justice 
organizer for PODER in San Francisco. Her group focuses on organizing Latino 
communities—including those who live near California refineries and feel 
that they bear the brunt of poor air quality from fossil fuel emissions.”


UN Climate Talks Aim to Pave Way for Global Carbon Market (VOA)

“Economists say that carbon markets like the one Otterpohl uses can become a 
powerful tool in the fight against climate change, by giving emitters a 
financial incentive to reduce greenhouse gases. But despite making progress 
in other areas, governments have for years been unable to agree on the rules 
that would allow truly global trade in carbon permits to flourish.”



Youth / Mobilization

Jeremy Clarkson lashes out at ‘dangerous’ Greta Thunberg once more 
(news.com.au)

“During the interview, Clarkson spoke about how filming in Southeast Asia 
changed his views on the impact of climate change.

“I don’t think I have ever actually seen the effect of global warming. When 
you see those houses on stilts in the show … and the water is miles away, 
that is a remarkable thing,” he said.

“And I know there will be a load of kids go, ‘Ha, you see. There you are’. 
Fine. Now go to school, learn science and do something about it.””


COP25: Parents plead for planet to be saved for their children (The 
National)

“In an open declaration signed by 222 associations from 27 countries, the 
concerned parents wrote: “Our children are being handed a broken world on 
the verge of climate chaos and ecological breakdown.

“As parents, seeing this is agonising.””


All About UN Climate Change COP25 Conference and Why Greta Thunberg is There 
Now (One Green Planet)

Vision 2020: Bermuda Climate Action Network (Bernews)

Protesters Cry ‘Won’t Somebody Think of the Children’ at COP25 Climate 
Summit (Breitbart)

Indigenous youth take global stage in Madrid to voice climate change worries 
(PRI)



Moral Calls for Action

At Madrid climate talks, Catholics work to provide 'moral perspective' 
(Earth Beat)

“In a statement, the Vatican-based Caritas Internationalis said it was 
taking a "call for unity, solidarity and justice" to COP25, at a time when 
the Paris commitment to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees was not being 
observed, and "robust rules" were needed to "ensure transparent and fair 
counting of carbon emissions reductions" and better protection of indigenous 
peoples.”


Climate crisis is 'challenge of civilisation', says pope (The Guardian)

““We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate 
with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and 
technological resources [to the climate crisis],” he said, in the pontifical 
message, which was welcomed by activists.”



Other articles

Renewable Energy Groups Push NY to Put a Price on Carbon (US News)

Climate policy needs negative carbon-dioxide emissions (The Economist)

25 billion reasons: Why Saudi is listing its crown jewel (CNA)

How satellites will help solve the climate crisis (Deutsche Welle)

Five questions with… Yukon Regional Chief and COP25 participant Kluane 
Adamek (Open Canada)

On the train to COP25: a public transport journey (The Brussels Times)

Iberdrola seals EUR-690m loan with EIB at COP25 (Renewables Now)

Waste management vital to keep COP25 waste and emissions free (Xinhuanet)

Norwegian Air Becomes First Airline to Sign UN Climate Action Initiative 
(Aviation Pros)

What we know so far about countries' 2020 climate commitments (GreenBiz)

UNEP at COP25 (UN)

The Climate Group at COP25 (The Climate Group)

COP25 climate change conference: What are you giving up for environment? 
(BBC)



This media brief is compiled from major international English-language news 
sources. It's designed to provide a snapshot of the major themes in coverage 
of the COP25, and is not comprehensive.






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