And of course, lines of conflict not only became visible about phasing out fossil fuels, but also about historical responsibility, climate finance, and a just and equitable transition. But here too, lines of conflict & possible alliances become clearer with each COP.

At #COP28, we witnessed 127+ countries support the phase out of ALL fossil fuels. At #COP27, they were only 80. A year earlier @ #COP26, debates were only on coal and fossil subsidies phase out/down.
https://www.pican.org/media/cop28-end-to-fossil-fuel-era

19/n After #COP26 i really thought that surely the #Ratchet and NDCs were where we should focus - climate activists in each country putting pressure on their governments to improve their NDCs substantially every year. But it turned out that i was alone in this. Like, even a year or so on, when i searched ratchet or NDCs in Twitter, i quickly came to my own tweets! Others explained this lack of interest in disillusion. Maybe but I am still a bit curious why noone ever talks about this.

18/n One of the (few) successes of #COP26 in #Glasgow was the establishment of an #AnnualRatchet : NDCs have to be “ratched up” every year, and they can’t go back. In theory, the #RatchetMechanism IS a good system

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/15/ratchets-phase-downs-and-a-fragile-agreement-how-cop26-played-out

4/n it’s also the case that most of us are just not well-informed enough about processes and details; we have placards that say “system change now”, but would it not sometimes be better to at least understand what specific commitments our governments need to make at what points and ask for those? I am inspired in all this by this photo by #GuyShrubsole during #COP26 (will try and find picture!) But fully acknowledge my take may be naive, uninformed and misguided itself.

3/n and we need to at least try to do whatever we can to ensure the best possible outcome - even if this is minimal and will only highlight our powerlessness etc. as a minimum, we have to understand what’s going on.

I am saying this as after #COP26 and in the run up to #COP27 i kept on tweeting about the #RatchetMechanism but seemed to be virtually the only one. It may well be that I was misguided but i couldn’t help wondering whether

https://www.energymonitor.ai/opinion/opinion-when-the-dust-has-settled-at-cop26-it-is-the-ratchet-mechanism-that-will-keep-1-5c-alive/

@fulelo @farhanasultana @ericholthaus
Here some extracts of the article (to make you read it, it's totally worth ):

"While the global community congratulates itself on achieving what is politically possible, we cannot overlook the anemic nature of the agreement considering the magnitude of the problem. It will not avoid the death of millions – because they simply do not matter.” (Pulido, 2018, p. 128)
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Ernstson and Swyngedouw (2019) termed the depoliticizing technocratic discourse that coexists with obscene capitalist accumulation and waste as the Anthropo-obscene (critiquing the totalizing banner of Anthropocene that homogenizes an undifferentiated humanity that does not exist).
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A performance of diversion, delay, co-optation, and performativity without substance is repeated almost annually. Nonetheless, these are also spaces of opportunities to challenge the system, to utter necessary words for more people to hear, collectivize among young and old activists, learn from different positionalities, create new openings and possibilities of alliances – in other words, a repoliticization of climate instead of the depoliticized techno-economist utopias that never deliver.
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আমরা কোথায় যাব, আমাদের কি ভবিষ্যৎ? আমরাকি হত্তছারা, পরিত্যক্ত? (Where will my people go, what future do we have? Must we remain abandoned, forsaken?) The disproportionate burden of climate damage is falling on formerly colonized and brutalized racialized communities in the developing world. We are still colonized, but this time through climate change, the development industry, and globalization. I feel an immense responsibility to do something. But no one is going to listen to someone like me, and even more importantly, more marginalized peoples, women and children, farmers and fisherfolk, writers and scholars. But we are all expected to be resilient because we have no choice.
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Climate coloniality is perpetuated through global land and water grabs, REDD+ programs, neoliberal conservations projects, rare earth mineral mining, deforestation for growth, fossil fuel warfare, and new green revolutions for agriculture – which benefit a few while dispossessing larger numbers of historically-impoverished, often elsewhere.
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I stop now, there is too much truth. You should read the article anyway
#ClimateChange #DeColonization #AntiColonization #ClimateJustice #ClimateColonialism #ClimateColoniality #EnvironmentalJustice #Capitalism #NeoColonialism #Racism #Cop26 #Cop27 #ScholarActivism #IndigenousScholars

A plan outlining some #climate solutions, by Prof. @jasonhickel - published years ago, after #COP26 :

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/11/what-would-it-look-like-if-we-treated-climate-change-as-an-actual-emergency

"The single most important intervention is the one that so far no government has been willing to touch: #cap #fossil #fuel use and scale it down, on a binding annual schedule, until the industry is mostly dismantled by the middle of the century. That’s it. This is the only fail-safe way to stop climate breakdown"

Part 2

3- On the eve of the #COP26 U.N. climate summit in 2021, hosted by the UK, Sunak announced a plan to halve #taxes on domestic flights, encouraging air travel and boosting emissions.

4- He cut the U.K.'s foreign aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of national revenue, slashing millions from the nation's funds aimed at helping poorer countries to adapt to #ClimateChange. African countries are spending billions to cope with the #ClimateCrisis risking deeper #poverty.

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