One day at the COP - D9
COP27, between Bali's "Jet-P" and Lula's private jet
The ballet of planes is incessant above the Sharm el-Sheikh Convention Center which has hosted COP27 since November 7, 2022. © MOHAMMED SALEM / REUTERS
Text by: Géraud Bosman-Delzons Follow
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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) begins its second week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
This 5th "African" COP is being held in an international context that is not conducive to making progress in the fight against global warming, which is making its effects felt more and more frequently around the world.
"One day at the COP" delivers a summary of what was said and tied during the day of negotiations, and goes to meet some of its actors.
The theme of the day was mainly devoted to energy.
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With our special correspondents in Sharm el-Sheikh
IT IS SAID !
The Green Fund and the 100 billion are not at all the same thing.
The Green Fund is $2.5 billion a year, not $100 billion.
We represent 3% of climate financing under the United Nations Convention, 0.5% of global climate financing and 0.1% of needs.
[...] I have often met heads of government who have told me "it is very difficult to access your 100 billion dollars", but it is normal, we do not have them,
told RFI Yannick Glemarec, the executive director of the Green Fund who is trying somehow to get the message across (collected by
Anne-Cécile
Bras)
.
AT COP TODAY
♦ 20 billion for Indonesia.
After South Africa in 2021 (with the $8.5 billion plan
endorsed at the start of COP27
), a new partnership for a just energy transition (“Jet-P”) has been launched in Indonesia, at the occasion of the G20.
20 billion dollars have been announced for this fund which should allow the archipelago to get out of coal.
Japan, the United States, Canada, the European Union, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom have put their hands in their pockets .
Jet-Ps are a new type of cooperation to fight emissions in developing countries.
♦ Twice as much aid
for fuel than for renewables.
In 2021, several States and financial institutions committed to ending their international fossil fuel financing by the end of 2022. Among them, some of the biggest financiers of fossil fuels (main responsible for global warming climate) such as Canada, Germany, Italy, the United States or the United Kingdom and France.
Laurie van der Burg co-directs the NGO Oil Change International, which took stock of these commitments a year later.
"
G20 countries and major development banks fund nearly twice as many fossil fuel projects as clean energy projects each year.
They provide 55 billion each year of public financing for fossil energies against 29 billion for renewable energies.
This is really not consistent with the climate objectives.
And in 2021, at the Glasgow COP, 39 countries and institutions pledged to stop international public funding by the end of 2022. There is just over a month left before the end of the year and only six countries met this commitment, including France, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom and the European Investment Bank.
There have also been worrying signs of backsliding,
replace Russian fossil fuels
.
(Collected by
Jeanne Richard
).
♦
The European Union increases its GHG reduction ambitions by 2%.
Initially forecast at 55% by 2030, the European policies put in place should make it possible to reduce them by at least 57%.
The clarification was made by the Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans.
However, the states of the European Union (EU) are highly criticized for the revival of its consumption of fossil fuels since the launch of the war in Ukraine and its research for gas in Africa.
Frans Timmermans responds to these criticisms: “
We have gone from 40% dependence on Russian gas in a few months to less than 10% today.
This is a considerable effort on the part of EU Member States.
But we must also ensure that our households and businesses survive for the next two years.
And if we could just, with a magic wand, create renewable energy overnight, we would, but it takes time.
We must ensure that this winter, and the two to come, we will have enough fossil fuels.
We must ensure that the gap created by Putin's barbaric war is filled.
If we do not help each other through the next two winters, we will be politically weakened in our Member States,
there will be conflicts in our societies and we will not be able to resist Putin's aggression.
Never forget that this is not just about Ukraine.
It is about an autocrat who tries to spread autocracy across Europe.
And we must defend our democracy, for our freedoms and we will do everything for that.
(Collected by
Charlotte Cosset
)
♦ The Africa group is worried about the direction of the climate negotiations.
Alioune Ndoye, Senegalese Minister of the Environment, spoke on behalf of all his colleagues on the continent, as he chairs the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment.
He deplores the deadlock on the financing of the adaptation of poor countries and in particular in Africa to climate change.
(Collected by
Claire Fages
).
We are concerned about the lack of progress on important issues for our group
Alioune Ndoye
♦ Behind the discussions on the sums expected by the countries of the South to help them adapt to the consequences of climate change, there are strong geopolitical tensions, explains Sébastien Treyer, Director General of IDDRI (collected by
Anne-Cécile Bras
and
Francois Porcheron
).
🌍 #Finance is at the heart of negotiations at #COP27.
Behind the sums expected by the countries of the South, there are strong #geopolitical tensions.
Interview with @SebastienTreyer @IDDRI & special week to follow with @CestPasDuVent 👉 https://t.co/Jm6qs5lp5w pic.twitter.com/neRDGOgbAM
– RFI – Mag (@RFImag) November 15, 2022
BEHIND THE SCENES OF COP.
Russian press conference disrupted
This Tuesday evening was a side event dedicated to Russia's adaptation and mitigation.
Different personalities were announced, including at least one sub: the special envoy on climate change, the deputy minister of natural resources and ecology, the number two in the Russian parliament, a deputy director of Rosatom (the Federal Agency of atomic energy) or a senior representative of industrialists… A panel of senior Russian personalities noticed by Ukrainian activists, who wanted to disrupt the holding of this meeting.
Charlotte Cosset
was in the room for RFI.
She tells.
[Reportage] At COP27, Ukrainians protest at a conference with Russian officials
Charlotte Cosset
Russia's fossil fuel laden delegation was allowed to host an event at #COP27 while Russian missiles hit Ukraine https://t.co/iAxmy7duwy
— Louis J Wilson (@LouisJWilsonUK) November 15, 2022
THEY MAKE THE COP.
Testimonial: two French students at the heart of the negotiations
The École Normale Supérieure in Paris sent seven of its students as observers of the climate negotiations.
They have access to the heart of the machine.
Thibaud Schlesinger is interested in transport and the army, Alice Guipouy-Munoz dissects the geopolitics of energy, climate diplomacy and
loss and damage
.
They shared their impressions and information with us.
Coming…
ON THE NETWORKS.
Jet 27
Controversy 🇧🇷: Lula will travel to COP27 Egypt aboard the private jet of entrepreneur José Seripieri Junior, founder of Qualicorp and boss of Qsaúde, in the health mutual sector.
A 12-seater Gulfstream model.
— Bruno Meyerfeld (@brunomeyerfeld) November 14, 2022
New Brazilian President Lula da Silva is due to arrive in Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday.
With a double controversy in his luggage.
The heartthrob of Jair Bolsonaro, on October 30, made the trip in a private jet, loaned by an economic actor deemed infrequent in Brazil: José Seripieri Junior, involved in cases of embezzlement twenty years ago.
“
Lula is not yet President of the Republic, he does not have access to the government plane
”, defended a member of his team.
"
There are things you should not do as president, even before taking the oath
," castigated a minister.
Here at the COP, Brazil's Minister of the Environment also reacted: "
Philanthropists, leaders and businessmen and their always exaggerated number of advisers come in private jets to the luxurious seaside resort of the Red Sea to demand emission reduction targets from others - suggesting ultra-modern hydrogen or 100% electric cars -
completely disconnected
from the reality of different regions of Brazil and the world.
»
After the Bolsonaro years marked by a resurgence of climate skeptics, everyone
expects a 180 degree turn in
Brazilian policy on the environment.
Some reactions (at the microphone of
Jeanne Richard
).
“Climate change affects us terribly.
We lose our seeds, our crops, our fish and all our animals.
And if we continue, it will not only be the indigenous peoples who will be affected… but all the peoples of the world.”
Lula da Silva eagerly awaited at the COP
►Also read: One day at the COP - D8 - When the Minister of the Environment of Congo-Brazzaville slams the door of COP27
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