You don´t have to be a climate denialist to realize that some of the points in this attack on COP29 are...well, true. Note also that the anti-fossil fuel conference is held in Azerbaijan, a nation that has a large fossil fuel industry!
From the first article:
>>>Somehow the climate movement is just fine with the world’s largest greenhouse gas polluter, China, doing little except mouthing some lip service at climate conferences and making money off other nations buying solar panels and electric vehicle batteries, markets China has completely cornered.
>>>China announced last year that it will exceed its Paris Agreement emissions goals by over 110 percent by 2030, and growing industrial powerhouse India has likewise ignored its “commitments” to reduce carbon emissions.
>>>China, India, and Russia are all founding members of BRICS, a rapidly-expanding economic bloc that openly declares its members will not make any sacrifices for climate change because they view it as purely a U.S. and European responsibility.
>>>China’s white-knuckled grip on green energy components might be loosened someday — assuming environmentalists are willing to stand by and allow other countries to dig up their rare earth minerals with enthusiasm approaching China’s — but that day will not be soon.
>>>China has enough power over the rare-earths market to keep competitors out by surging supply and cratering prices, which makes fabulously expensive mining start-ups look like bad risks.
From the second article (published in 2023):
>>>The report surveyed 20 countries that produce and consume the majority of the world’s fossil fuels, headed up by India and China. Both have rapidly growing industrial sectors and neither is interested in restraining their energy needs to appease climate activists, although China loves to talk about it while exhorting Western countries to make greater sacrifices, and it wholeheartedly favors growing the electric vehicle (EV) industry, which Beijing has under hammerlock control.
>>>China is already producing and burning peak amounts of coal, producing 57 percent of the world’s output and importing even more to fuel its energy appetite.
>>>The report gave China a great deal of credit for spending heavily on green energy and pledging to “achieve carbon neutrality before 2060,” without dwelling on how China’s feverish construction of new coal-burning power plants might call the sincerity of its climate promises into question. If China’s climate pledges are serious, then it is currently spending billions of dollars to build coal plants that it will stop using a year or two after they come online and spending billions more to stockpile mountains of coal that it will never use.
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