{"id":17132,"date":"2021-11-09T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/?p=17132"},"modified":"2021-11-09T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:28:04","slug":"fossil-of-the-day-el-fosil-del-dia-eco-8-cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatenetwork.org\/2021\/11\/09\/fossil-of-the-day-el-fosil-del-dia-eco-8-cop26\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil of the Day \/ El f\u00f3sil del d\u00eda (ECO 8, COP26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First Fossil of the Day Award goes to the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first Fossil of the Day in this second week of COP, we have a tie between Saudi Arabia and the UK for their sterling efforts in securing a weak new Work Programme on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE), which we\u2019re now going to be lumbered with for the next decade!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all the UK Presidency appears to have been eager to finish work early on Friday. They dispensed with making the shaping of the text inclusive, instead pushing all parties to come to an agreement that evening, dashing the hopes of civil society organisations and youth groups, who had worked so hard, of having more time to help shape the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that it may have made any difference anyway – Saudi Arabia gets their first Fossil for manipulating the rushed and restrictive decision making process, to keep the words \u201chuman\u201d and \u201crights\u201d out of the final text. ACE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if by magic, or maybe by maintaining a hardline position, \u201cHuman rights-based approach\u201d disappeared from the guiding principles. We think we can guess why those oil kings think the next generation doesn\u2019t need a robust climate education….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In second place is Mexico!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico has worked hard to earn its Fossil of the Day award. Ranked as the 13th largest emitter of CO2 in the world, it\u2019s not exactly spearheading energy transition. Its government is pumping more, not less, money into the fossil fuel industry, building oil refineries and delaying policies aimed at carbon emissions reductions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is coming from a country where, in 2020 alone, at least 101,000 people were forcibly displaced because of natural disasters, according to the annual report of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. Then they turned up in Glasgow with out of date NDCs from 2015, previously rated as \u2018insufficient\u2019 to achieve the 1.5C degree goal and with no loss and damage or emissions mitigation data. And surprise, surprise, they also failed to support the recent \u2018Global Coal to Clean Power
Transition\u2019 Statement which championed a just and inclusive transition to prevent loss and damage and human rights violations they\u2019ve been linked to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019ve now fallen even further behind with a rating of \u201chighly insufficient<\/em>\u201d on their climate policies. How much further can this country slide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Fossil of the Day Award goes to the Czech Republic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 used the COP26 World Leaders’ Forum to brand the EU Green Deal “ideology, not a deal”, it appeared he had mistaken the Glasgow event for a climate change deniers\u2019 conference.
And we can see why – his country has the third highest GHG emissions per capita in the EU and emissions levels are going up rather than down. Alongside avoiding mitigation activities at home, it has sidestepped helping the most vulnerable and impacted countries abroad and hasn\u2019t provided a single koruna to the Green Climate Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Babi\u0161 has also been known to point the finger of climate responsibility outside the EU whilst his minions in the Senate of the Czech Republic have recently attempted to reject seven parts of the EU\u2019s Fit for 55 package. For these national and international efforts to avoid climate responsibility you\u2019ve truly earned your fossil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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**** SPANISH ****<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El f\u00f3sil del d\u00eda<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

El primer premio al f\u00f3sil del d\u00eda es para el Reino Unido y el Reino de Arabia Saud\u00ed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para el primer F\u00f3sil del D\u00eda en esta segunda semana de la COP, tenemos un empate entre Arabia Saud\u00ed y el Reino Unido por sus excelentes esfuerzos para asegurar un nuevo y d\u00e9bil Programa de Trabajo sobre la Acci\u00f3n para el Empoderamiento Clim\u00e1tico (ACE) que ahora vamos a tener que soportar durante la pr\u00f3xima d\u00e9cada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En primer lugar, la Presidencia brit\u00e1nica parece haber querido terminar el trabajo antes de tiempo el viernes. Prescindieron de dar forma al texto de forma inclusiva, y en su lugar presionaron a todas las partes para que llegaran a un acuerdo esa misma noche, frustrando las esperanzas de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y los grupos de j\u00f3venes, que tanto hab\u00edan trabajado, de tener m\u00e1s tiempo para ayudar a dar forma al texto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De todos modos, no es que haya cambiado nada: Arabia Saud\u00ed se lleva su primer f\u00f3sil por manipular el apresurado y restrictivo proceso de toma de decisiones, para mantener las palabras “humano” y “derechos” fuera del texto final. \u00a1ACE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Como por arte de magia, o tal vez por mantener una posici\u00f3n de l\u00ednea dura, el “enfoque basado en los derechos humanos” desapareci\u00f3 de los principios rectores. Creemos que podemos adivinar por qu\u00e9 esos reyes del petr\u00f3leo piensan que la pr\u00f3xima generaci\u00f3n no necesita una educaci\u00f3n clim\u00e1tica s\u00f3lida….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El segundo lugar lo ocupa M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

M\u00e9xico ha trabajado duro para ganarse el premio al F\u00f3sil del D\u00eda. Clasificado como el 13\u00ba mayor emisor de CO2 del mundo, no es precisamente la punta de lanza de la transici\u00f3n energ\u00e9tica. Su gobierno est\u00e1 inyectando m\u00e1s, y no menos, dinero en la industria de los combustibles f\u00f3siles, construyendo refiner\u00edas de petr\u00f3leo y retrasando las pol\u00edticas destinadas a reducir las emisiones de carbono.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y esto viene de un pa\u00eds en el que, s\u00f3lo en 2020, al menos 101.000 personas fueron desplazadas a la fuerza a causa de desastres naturales, seg\u00fan el informe anual del Centro de Seguimiento de los Desplazamientos Internos. Luego se presentaron en Glasgow con unos NDC desfasados de 2015, calificados previamente como “insuficientes” para alcanzar el objetivo de 1,5C grados y sin datos de p\u00e9rdidas y da\u00f1os o de mitigaci\u00f3n de emisiones. Y, sorpresa, sorpresa, tampoco apoyaron la reciente declaraci\u00f3n “Global Coal to Clean Power\u201d que defend\u00eda una transici\u00f3n justa e inclusiva para evitar las p\u00e9rdidas y los da\u00f1os y las violaciones de los derechos humanos a las que se les ha vinculado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahora se han quedado a\u00fan m\u00e1s atr\u00e1s con una calificaci\u00f3n de “muy insuficiente” en sus pol\u00edticas clim\u00e1ticas. \u00bfCu\u00e1nto m\u00e1s puede resbalar este pa\u00eds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El tercer premio F\u00f3sil del D\u00eda es para la Rep\u00fablica Checa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuando el Primer Ministro checo, Andrej Babi\u0161, aprovech\u00f3 el Foro de L\u00edderes Mundiales de la COP26 para calificar el Acuerdo Verde de la UE de “ideolog\u00eda, no de acuerdo”, parec\u00eda que hab\u00eda confundido el evento de Glasgow con una conferencia de negacionistas del cambio clim\u00e1tico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y podemos ver por qu\u00e9: su pa\u00eds es el tercero con m\u00e1s emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero per c\u00e1pita de la UE y los niveles de emisiones aumentan en lugar de disminuir. Adem\u00e1s de evitar las actividades de mitigaci\u00f3n en su pa\u00eds, ha eludido ayudar a los pa\u00edses m\u00e1s vulnerables e impactados en el extranjero y no ha aportado ni una sola corona al Fondo Verde para el Clima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Sr. Babi\u0161 tambi\u00e9n ha se\u00f1alado con el dedo la responsabilidad clim\u00e1tica fuera de la UE, mientras que sus secuaces en el Senado de la Rep\u00fablica Checa han intentado recientemente rechazar siete partes del paquete Fit for 55 de la UE. Por estos esfuerzos nacionales e internacionales para evitar la responsabilidad clim\u00e1tica se ha ganado realmente su f\u00f3sil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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