The U.N.’s COP31 climate alarmism summit in Antalya, Turkey, is proving to be a fractious affair, as energy-producing nations insist on their right to sell the fossil fuel products that drive their economies. On Thursday, Venezuela became the latest nation to declare that it will not stop pumping oil.
“We reaffirm our sovereign right to ?strengthen our energy and oil industry as a driver of our national development,” Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, said after hearing the latest U.N. demand to phase out fossil fuels.
“We believe there is no inevitable contradiction between energy development and environmental protection, because a just transition does not shut down economies – it transforms them,” she argued.
Rodriguez and her team actually used the COP31 conference as a venue to drum up more investment in Venezuela’s oil industry, including pitch meetings with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar.
She missed a big opportunity, like most politicians, to call out the hypocrisy of 50K+ taking fossil fueled flights to a climate conference and decry Other People using fossil fuels. I don’t know why they don’t get this, it would be the easiest thing.
Rodriguez offered her own version of this strategy by rolling out “Plan Venezuela Vive” at COP31 on Thursday. She argued that Venezuela is a “net carbon sink” despite selling prodigious amounts of oil, and pledged to sink even more carbon with a national program of forest and ocean conservation.
That would be what the Warmists would call “greenwashing”. And then they take a private fossil fueled jet.
PS: I used that old graphic of Sheldon, then wondered “hey, is he there?”
(Argus) While there is a “pretty solid foundation of work” that has been done on such a carbon boarder adjustment mechanism (CBAM) for the US, the loss of two Republican supporters will make it hard to get through Congress, even as Democrats are poised to hold sizeable majorities in both the Senate and US House of Representatives next year, US senator Sheldon Whitehose (D-Rhode Island) said on Friday.
“We’d need Republican champions to step up”, Whitehouse told reporters at the UN Cop 31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkey.
Was there ever any serious belief that the nations which depend on petroleum/natural gas production to support their economies would continue to extract petroleum and natural gas?
The idea we’ll abandon fossil fuels in anything close to the short term is science fiction, not reality.
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The U.N.’s COP31 climate alarmism summit in Antalya, Turkey, is proving to be a fractious affair, as energy-producing nations insist on their right to sell the fossil fuel products that drive their economies. On Thursday, Venezuela became the latest nation to declare that it will not stop pumping oil.
Was there ever any serious belief that the nations which depend on petroleum/natural gas production to support their economies would continue to extract petroleum and natural gas?
The idea we’ll abandon fossil fuels in anything close to the short term is science fiction, not reality.