Report to be discussed at Cop30 says global agreements should target carbon intensive activities and ‘ultra high net worth individuals’
The roadmap will form the basis of discussions of climate finance at Cop30. Last year’s “conference of the parties” in Baku set a goal of £1.3tn to be provided annually to poor countries by 2035, to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of extreme weather. But there was a bitter taste for many when rich countries pledged to stump up only $300bn of that sum, leaving the rest to come from potential new taxes and levies, the private sector, and related sources.
What?
They have modern cities, but that’s not where most live.
Their rural areas burn coal in house, which is incredibly inefficient and causing more pollution in a plant.
But the big problem is US is shipping it all the way over there and I to those rural areas, causing pollution the whole way.
We shouldn’t be mining any coal, but the least we can do is burn it here in modern plants. Were pretty much doing the worst possible course right now.
Building new coal plants in any country at any time is absolutely NOT a good solution. The USA also exports only a small fraction of what China uses to them. So I don’t see how the US is the “big problem” in this specific case.The majority of their coal come from Indonesia. Creating a combination of nat gas, hydro nuclear and solar infrastructure is the best solution. I’m not talking out of my ass here, I’m a mechanical engineer in the stationary engineering field working at a major power plant.
Huh?
We’re moving around 120 million tons of coal to China annually…
I’m not saying America should burn coal.
I’m saying if we’re blowing up our mountains to get it, burning it here where it’s regulated would be better than shipping 120,000,000 tons of coal to China so they could burn it over there.
Obviously the ideal would be to leave it buried in the ground and invest in renewables.
My point is domestic use isn’t the metric to look at, it’s domestic production. Other countries can’t burn our coal when there’s a mountain on top of it.
Yes we do, China burns 4.5 BILLION tons year so as I said, we export a small fraction of what they use. So again your statement that the US is the BIG problem is wrong. I agree we don’t need to dig coal for fuel anymore. But your assumption this is a US problem isn’t even close to the whole picture.
I literally can’t tell what that’s supposed to mean…
But clearly explaining this more times isn’t going to help
I stated digging coal is bad in any case. My point is your blaming the US as the major contributor is inaccurate based on the numbers.
It costs more to generate power from coal and diesel.