Australia’s export-driven economy could bear the brunt of a global net-zero-by-2050 movement as trading partners take steps to adopt more stringent carbon abatement measures. Australia declared a goal to reach net zero by 2050 last week, with world leaders meeting this week at the 26th United Nations climate change summit, COP26. Analysis by the advisory…
China’s Xi Calls for Stronger Action on Climate Change, But Makes No New Commitments
China’s leader Xi Jinping called for stronger action in dealing with climate change on Nov. 1, days after submitting a revised plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that disappointed many climate observers. In a written statement to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Xi called on “developed countries not only to do more but…
Glasgow Bin Collectors Go on Strike as UN Climate Summit COP26 Opens
Bin collectors and street cleaners have gone on strike in the Scottish city of Glasgow, which is hosting the United Nations climate conference, also known as COP26. The strike began at one minute past midnight on Monday, hours before more than 100 world leaders were set to arrive in Glasgow for a two-day world leaders’…
Beijing Disappoints COP26 Climate Analysts With Lackluster Promises
News Analysis The COP26 climate conference is taking place in Scotland, and China has already disappointed analysts who say it is not doing enough to stop catastrophic global warming. World leaders are converging on Glasgow for the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26), and all eyes are on the world’s biggest polluter: China. But Beijing isn’t…
New Zealand Pledges to Halve Emissions by 2030
New Zealand (NZ) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Climate Change Minister James Shaw have set the pacific nation an ambitious target to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2030. The move comes as the United Nations international climate change conference, COP26, gets underway in Glasgow, Scotland. The NZ government is setting itself a new Nationally…
Sleep Walking Into Subservience: Sovereignty or COP26
Commentary Some Australians are more worried about net zero climate policies than defending our freedom and sovereignty, ironically against the largest polluter the world has ever known. And some Australians are profiting from pushing climate policies. At no time since World War II has Australia, the Indo-Pacific, and the free world been at more risk…
French President Urges China to Send a Clear Signal for Climate Change
Despite French President Emmanuel Macron calling on China’s authoritarian leader Xi Jinping to send a “clear signal” to the world on climate change before the COP26 Scotland summit, China hasn’t submitted a clear emission goal, and Xi didn’t attend the summit. On Oct. 26, the French Presidential Palace said in a statement that Macron urged…
Global Climate Summit Will Be Undermined by Anti-Humanism, Unscientific Alarmism
Commentary We don’t need to wait for media coverage and live tweets from the United Nations’ climate change conference to know that the results of COP26 will be more of the same old hysterical alarmism—tinged with a deeply troubling anti-humanism. The 20,000 wealthy diplomats, Wall Street financiers, and activists converging on Glasgow—ironically fresh from their…
Australia Agrees to a Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Plan
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, ahead of the 2021 United Nations (U.N.) Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. Morrison has also assured regional Australia would not take the brunt of a new climate policy that would spell a dramatic shift in how businesses operate….
We Must Reject Huge Financial Demands at UN Climate Conference
Commentary In the 1996 award-winning film “Jerry McGuire,” pro football player Rod Tidwell had a single demand of his agent: “Show me the money!” “Show us the money” is precisely what thousands of bureaucrats from developing countries will demand at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, from Oct. 31–Nov. 12….
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