COP28 Day 3 Methane
The Global Decarbonization Accelerator (GDA), is a series of landmark initiatives designed to speed up the energy transition and drastically reduce global emissions. The GDA is focused on three key pillars: rapidly scaling the energy system of tomorrow; decarbonizing the energy system of today; and targeting methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs)
Methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases
The third pillar of the GDA will addresses methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases through economy-wide methane-emission reduction. In support of this more than $1 billion will be mobilized for methane abatement projects
‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health
Today the COP28 Presidency joined with the World Health Organization to announce a new ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health’ (the Declaration) to accelerate actions to protect people’s health from growing climate impacts. The Declaration was announced at the World Climate Action Summit, where world leaders have gathered for the start of COP28.
Green Industrialization Initiative
At COP28, Kenya’s President Ruto convenes African Leaders to launch Green Industrialization Initiative, capitalizing on UAE’s Clean Energy Pipeline in Africa.
The Initiative builds upon the success of the UAE’s existing USD 4.5 billion Africa Green Investment Initiative, which aim to finance 15 GW of renewable energy capacity in Africa by the end of the decade and unlock catalytic investments in Africa’s green industrialization.
Hey Mr President of COP28
The graph to the left ( or above if looking on a phone) provides indisputable evidence for man made global warming. Every 150,000 years or so the Earth reaches a peak of CO2 in the atmosphere of 300ppm ish. The general trend is then downwards until we get below 200ppm ish when we enter into an ice age. Our CO2 ppm should be falling.
The last time the concentration of CO2 was as high as 400 ppm was probably in the Pliocene Epoch, between 2.6 million and 5.3 million years ago. Until the 20th century, it certainly hadn’t exceeded 300 ppm, let alone 400 ppm, for at least 800,000 years.
And… don’t bother with the target of 1.5oC max rise …. that will most likely happen before 2030 when you are still ramping up your oil extraction levels.
The recognised planet level of CO2 is measured on top of a mountain called Mauna Loa in Hawaii by an organisation called NOAA.
The daily CO2 levels are published. Why don’t you have a look to see what the levels are today?
The levels rise up and down due to the summer and winter months. In the summer, the CO2 levels are lower due to deciduous trees in full leaf photosynthesizing and removing CO2. In winter this removal doesn’t happen so the levels go up.
This is why the levels peak in May- due to the release of CO2 throughout the winter, and then rapidly falls in the summer months as the trees remove it.