What a nice thing to do. There’s no self interest in this decision at all…
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No, not at all, he probably went off directly this speech to approve another 50 coal and gas mines to celebrate.
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It’s a defence agreement to counter China for the low price of a tiny volume of migration.
Expect other island nations to push for similar agreements.
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“Sultan Al Jaber’s Cop is shaping up to be the Cop of false solutions, inundated by fossil fuel lobbyists pushing empty promises. If Al Jaber is serious – if we are serious – we must immediately reject the CCS [carbon capture and storage] false solution and tackle the existential oil and gas problem head on.’’
The research, based on production data from industry analysts Rystad, found that between 2023 and 2030 Adnoc’s oil and gas would produce an estimated 3,430m tonnes of carbon, including emissions from producing and burning fossil fuels.
By 2030, the company has pledged to increase the amount of carbon it captures to 10m tonnes per annum – a big jump from its current level. But even if it reaches that target, it would still take the company more than 340 years to capture the carbon it produces between now and 2030.
Noronha Gant said: “Carbon capture is a dangerous red herring, and Al Jaber need to look no further than his own oil company for proof.”
Campaigners are concerned that Al Jaber is going to use the Cop28, which starts next month in the United Arab Emirates, to promote technical solutions instead of pushing for large and rapid reductions in fossil fuel production and emissions.
What a disgusting world we live in. These ■■■■■ are sacrificing my daughter’s future so they can buy super yachts. ■■■■ them all to hell.
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France is having trouble moving away from gas, with most of its electricity to come from nuclear power.
The fair price to consumers struck for electricity from nuclear has to include a component for EDF to fund two new nuclear plants.
Not helpful at a time of cost of living, housing pressures.
There’s a lot of nations that have insufficient renewable resources to transition without nuclear. It’s going to be an expensive exercise to build these reactors, although the long term price of nuclear is fairly cheap.
Australia is in a fortunate position of having the best wind and solar resources in the world. We can avoid the major capital spend needed by nuclear.
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There is also a higher maintenance safety cost for nuclear plants, which Is built into the fair price.
Yeah, but their fuel price is negligible over the long term, which makes them more cost effective than coal or gas. But the payback for that is decades before the cost of capital is offset.
“Felt like 58.5C in Rio yesterday…”. A young girl dies of heat exhaustion at a Taylor Swift concert in Brazil, maybe that’s the kind of horror, attached to that ridiculously worshipped figure, that needs to be weaponised to get the idiots off the fence. Taytay could , inadvertently, actually be the saviour.
We’ll just put a roof on every venue and aircon the crap out of it. Problem solved.
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Nah.
A genius president will decide to fire a rocket into the sun, in the hope they push it further away from us…
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Great, now the sun is 99.8600000000000001% of the solar system.
[insert more zeroes]
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You’ve got it backwards. We need to move the Earth further away from the sun…
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Yaaaaaaay…
First the World Cup and now this…I feel like getting drunk forever. Just not stopping drinking.