{"id":41802,"date":"2018-12-19T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41802"},"modified":"2018-12-19T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:07:20","slug":"developing-country-issues-at-cop24-and-a-bit-of-good-news-for-solar-power-and-carbon-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41802","title":{"rendered":"Developing Country Issues at COP24 \u2026 and a Bit of Good News for Solar Power and Carbon Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Developing Country Issues at COP24 \u2026 and a Bit of Good News for Solar Power and Carbon Capture<\/a><\/h3>\n
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We humans are an interesting species \u2026\u00a0instead of seeing eye-to-eye, we are inclined to see eye-to-nose.\u00a0 We focus on the present and ourselves, particularly where our comfort is concerned, no matter how dire the predictions for the future.<\/p>\n

Although these are now over, such has been evident at the climate change talks in Katowice, Poland.\u00a0 An effort to mandate the Paris agreement, in light of the dire 1.5C report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been stymied repeatedly by Saudi Arabia, the US, Russia and Kuwait.\u00a0 Particularly disturbed are island countries like the Maldives that are literally disappearing with sea-level rise.\u00a0 One of\u00a0the last spats was on the word \u201cwelcoming\u201d<\/a>\u00a0as in welcoming the IPCC 1.5C report.\u00a0 It has been changed to \u201cwelcomes the timely completion of \u2026 \u201d in the final draft thereby not endorsing its conclusions, stark warnings or more ambitious goals.<\/p>\n

The serious sticking point has been Article 6.\u00a0 It deals with country plans and is of special concern to the poorer countries promised financial support.\u00a0 But to obtain it Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of carbon emissions reduction is sought by donor agencies and private sector groups.<\/p>\n

Thus Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is an international organization promoting balanced economic growth, that is without harming the environment.\u00a0 It can help prepare a low emissions development strategy\u00a0by\u00a0<\/a>assisting in developing viable MRV schemes<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 It has for Colombia, Fiji and Mongolia, and is pursuing the same for others like Laos, Mozambique, Nepal and Senegal among others,\u00a0 Sri Lanka, a vulnerable island nation, has prepared MRV systems for energy and transportation but requires help in other areas like agriculture, animal husbandry and industrial emissions.<\/p>\n

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Developing Country Issues at COP24 \u2026 and a Bit of Good News for Solar Power and Carbon Capture Photo Source Doman84 | CC BY 2.0 We humans are an interesting species \u2026\u00a0instead of seeing eye-to-eye, we are inclined to see eye-to-nose.\u00a0 We focus on the present and ourselves, particularly where our comfort is concerned, no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[20493,23203,141,23255,5493,1859],"class_list":["post-41802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-arshad-khan","tag-carbon-capture","tag-climate-change","tag-cop24","tag-counterpunch","tag-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41803,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802\/revisions\/41803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}