Man muss trotzdem nicht die Bürotür für einen getreuen Putins öffnen.

The US under Trump is going to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement and probably no longer going to COPs. They are the biggest supporter of Israel and climate reparations are going to be a very hard sell, with the largest historic emitter not paying anything at all. Actually it is even worse as the US already is giving less then other historical emitters. So best case is that mainly Europe pays for the US share as well and stops its support for Israel.

Also the headline is deliberatly missleading. Gaza is obviously not a massive topic at a COP.

Cooperative banking begs to differ, that the problem is them being a bank.

The original press release:

https://globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-co2-emissions-increase-again-in-2024/

81% by 2035 if anybody is wondering. That however is a strong target. Lets see how they plan to meet it.

When you take “Fuck Nazis” to literal.

When you adjust for trade it still would be China, USA and then EU in terms of total emissions. In terms of per capita the US leads, but by now I am not sure if China or the EU has higher emissions. Europe is obviously worse though, as Russia is a massive polluter.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions?tab=table&time=earliest..2021

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita?tab=chart&country=CHN~OWID_EU27

In international relation rhetoric is policy. Just saying.

If no location is found, then it defaults to Germany hosting the COP.

Same reason BP promoted the carbon footprint. They want COP to look like proper climate action, so less people use their energy to do something better. COP looking like an oil sells event, is awful PR for them.

The EU had an 8% decline in emissions last year. That is roughly in line with meeting the 1.5C target and mainly done using reasonable policy.

China also invests a lot in Green technology. With the trade war, it is certainly possible that the Chinese economy crashes, which would mean lower energy consumption growth and hence lower Chinese emissions.

There also is a strong chance that Trump launches a massive war in the Middle East. He loves Israel and bombing Arabs. If that includes attacks on oil and gas infrastructure, that could be great for the climate(although horrible on so many other levels).

They got a deal done, which does not seem to solve the border conflict, but just allows patrols from both sites:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/22/how-india-and-china-pulled-back-from-a-border-war-and-why

Dugin does want to give Estonia to Germany though. Yes he is weird.

They can move to Estonia, which would be in the German sphere of influence.

Wissing ist noch Minister.

Schade ein Grüner Verkehrsminister wäre echt gut. Da könnte man gut Autobahnbauprojekte in Probleme führen.

It has its positives though. The Euro is the second most important currency in the world. If Trump succeeds in destroying trade, the EU might very well end up as the worlds reserve currency.

A lot of countries do not like China. India and China have regulare border fights that alone is massive, the EU does not like China too much either(Ukraine being a big part of that), Indonesia has just hit China with 200% on textiles, Mexico, Brazil and Chile have added anti dumping tariffs on Chinese steel, Thailand is looking into Chinese dumping as well. There also are border conflicts with the seven dash line with most nearby countries like Vietnam, Philipines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

BRICS is a group of countries, who do not like the US. That however does not mean they like China. That is why you hear the term multipolar world order a lot from those countries. As in no country should rule the world.

Migrants in America are fucked as well. Mass deportation, if they are lucky, if not they kill them.

She has done something for the climate in the past and unlike Trump actually understands that climate change is real.