The Climate Diary Of India: Part-II 2023

Hello friends, 

Maanvinder here, the founder and the writer of this project. I'm writing to inform you that the Part-II of The Climate Diary of India summary for 2023 has been cancelled because i was unable to write the whole summary due to my busy schedule that includes covering the climate conference COP28 held in Dubai, UAE and preparing for my exams. I was able to write the summary for July, August and September only so the three month summary was still left to write. I had great hope with this project that i would be able to use my social media platforms to amplify the message of climate justice. However, it didn't turned out so well. I still don't know about my plans for the year 2024 but however if i will write the summary, i will write it as a whole summary for a year and not in two parts. 

Thank you for understanding me

Maanvinder Pilania

COP28 Day 12 Updates

Today is the last day of the climate conference and the summit is ending with no agreement on phasing out of fossil fuels. Here are the updates:

• The total pledged money in the Loss and damage fund stands at $700 million with no new pledges from the countries. The loss and damage fund was a huge step but the pledges did not even reached a $1 billion.
• COP28 is ending with no agreement on phasing out of fossil fuels. The draft released yesterday have no mention of the phrase “ phasing out of fossil fuels”, instead it advises countries to reduce the “consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner”. This means the summit was a complete failure.

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COP28 Day 11 Updates

Today is the day 11 at COP28 and here are the updates:

• COP28 Precidency released a draft text that does not includes anything about phasing out of fossil fuels, leading the summit to a failure.

• Brazil will host COP30 and Azerbaijan will host COP29 next year.

• Earlier today, a 12 years old Indian climate activist Licypriya Kangujam stormed the COP28 stage calling for phasing out of fossil fuels. According to her mother, she was kicked out of the conference and her badges have been taken away. Such treatment from the host country with a kid who is standing up for her rights is unjust and is not acceptable.

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COP28 Day 10 Updates

Today is day 10 of the climate conference and here are all the latest developments:

• The International Energy Agency has warned that emissions cutting pledges made by 100 countries and 50 fossil firms are not enough to limit the temperature rise to 1.5°C. The IEA has said that if these emissions pledges are delivered then it will only be able to reduce our emissions which is just the 30% cut of what needs in order to limit the temperature rise.

• Draft COP28 text proposes Azerbaijan to be the next host for the 2024 climate summit between November 11 and 22, The Reuters has reported.

• Today 350 dot Org activists disrupted the event organised by the oil group OPEC, in which the OPEC's Secretary General was trying to justify why we need oil and gas.

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COP28 Day 9 Updates

Today is the day 9 at COP28 and here are the updates:

• 340 lobbyists from the industrial agriculture industry are present at the COP28, that’s according to the DeSmog. And out of these 340, 120 are from the meat and dairy industry. 
• An army of 1900 greenwashing bots have been discovered on twitter which is promoting a environmentally friendly image of the climate conference. That’s according to the disinformation expert Marc Owen Jones.
• 21 countries have endorsed the Mangrove Breakthrough, a project which aims to restore and protect 15 million hectares of mangroves globally by the year 2030.

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COP28 Day 8 Updates

Today the climate talks have resumed after the official rest day at the COP28. And here are the updates:

• Over 800 leaders, scientists, mayor's of European cities and CEOs have written a letter to the COP28 President calling for a deal that keeps 1.5°C within reach. One of the major thing outlined in the letter was phasing out of fossil fuels which was called as “taking World back in cave” by the COP28 president itself. The signatories include mayor of Paris, the architect of the Paris Climate Agreement Christiana Figueres and Sir Richard Branson.

• COP28 is finally the most restrictive , according to the civil groups on the ground. They are saying that they aren't allowed to protest, and if they are then it is limited. The protests have been moved to the invisible areas of the Expo city. Protesters calling for the ceasefire now weren't allowed to say this according to the campaigners on the ground.

• 100 Indigenous leaders and the activists have signed an open letter calling for negotiators to protect Indigenous rights as part of the clean energy transition.

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COP28 Day 7 Updates

Day 7 at COP28 and here are the updates:

• According to Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2023 is the hottest year on record.
• World’s 10 largest companies are uniting to decarbonize the cement industry. UK’s largest Cemex and United States largest Holcim are planning a new strategy to get to net zero emissions within 25 years. The combined emissions from these two companies are responsible for 8% global greenhouse emissions.
• According to the Natural Resources Defense Coucil’s COP28 Fund tracker, no other new country has made any pledges to the loss and damage fund. The total loss and damage fund still stands at $655.9 million.

Note- On tomorrow that is December 7, 2023 there will be no climate negotiations at the climate conference in Dubai because its the official rest day for the delegates at the summit. Delegates will rest, go shopping or do whatever they want. 

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