Tory-Parteitag in Großbritannien
Von Dominic Johnson
Premier Sunak spricht in seiner Abschlussrede viel von „Wandel“. Klassische Tory-Themen streift er nur, aber stellt sich als Nachfolger Thatchers dar.
#taz #tageszeitung #Großbritannien #Rishi #Sunak #Tories #Thatcher
"The Defence Secretary said that this is something that is quite possible. But it is something in the long term, not now."
The British saw the reaction to their own insinuations and backtracked. Everyone is tired of Ukraine, even Britain, the most loyal and constant sponsor of the war. What will #Zelensky do if the West stops funding him?
PS. Who wants to bet that Mr. Sunal is not the one making decisions here?
NRC
Uitstel van klimaatbeleid - In het Verenigd Koninkrijk, in Frankrijk, in Duitsland, overal in Europa vertragen politici ambitieuze klimaatplannen uit vrees daarop bij verkiezingen afgerekend te worden. (...)
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Een windmolenpark in aanbouw in het zuiden van Frankrijk. Politici in heel Europa krabbelen terug met klimaatbeleid uit vrees voor maatschappelijke weerstand. Foto Raymond Roig/AFP.
Met zijn U-bocht [in het klimaatbeleid], zoals die in de Britse media werd genoemd, baarde Sunak opzien. Het Verenigd Koninkrijk, waar politici van links tot rechts voorstander zijn van een ambitieus klimaatbeleid, heeft al jaren een voortrekkersrol. (...)
Sunak is niet de enige regeringsleider die de afgelopen tijd zo’n U-bocht maakte. In mei riep de Franse president Emmanuel Macron Brussel op om pas op de plaats te maken met nieuwe klimaatplannen. (...)
Hij kreeg bijval van de Belgische premier Alexander de Croo, die bij de Europese Commissie aandrong op het gebruik van „een pauzeknop” voor het klimaatbeleid. (...)
Macron en De Croo echoden een geluid dat al een tijdje in het Europees Parlement klonk, met name bij de centrumrechtse Europese Volkspartij (EVP). Die partij voelde zich bedreigd door de winst van de BBB bij de Provinciale Statenverkiezingen in Nederland en door boerenprotesten in diverse Europese landen. (...)
Ook de Duitse coalitie, waar de Groene minister Robert Habeck verantwoordelijk is voor klimaat, stuit op toenemend verzet nu klimaatbeleid al lang niet meer alleen gaat over windmolens en zonneparken, maar directe gevolgen heeft voor burgers en de eigen industrie. (...)
In Nederland durfde klimaatminister Rob Jetten maatregelen die burgers in de portemonnee zouden raken, niet aan. Ook al zeiden zijn adviseurs dat die veel beter werkten en zeker op termijn goedkoper zouden uitpakken dan het stimuleren van klimaatbeleid met subsidies. (...)
Zelfs klimaatkoploper Zweden stuitte vorige week op de grenzen van zijn ambities. Het plan om al in 2045 klimaatneutraal te zijn, dreigt onbereikbaar te worden. (...)
„De opgave voor 2030 red je misschien nog met geleidelijke verandering; netto nul in 2050 is een opdracht tot transformatie. En die moet decennia van tevoren worden ingezet. Nu dus”, schreven Heleen de Coninck en Gert Jan Kramer twee jaar geleden in een opiniestuk in NRC. (...)
De vertraging komt bovendien op een ongelukkig moment. Op de klimaattop in Dubai moet begin december de eerste formele ‘stocktake’ plaatsvinden, een vijfjaarlijkse inventarisatie en beoordeling van alle mondiale klimaatplannen. (...)
De conclusie is duidelijk. „Een vernietigend rapport voor de mondiale klimaatinspanningen”, schrijft Ani Dasgupta, ceo van het gerenommeerde World Resources Institute. „Koolstofuitstoot? Nog steeds aan het stijgen. Financiële verplichtingen van de rijke landen? Achterstallig. Ondersteuning van arme landen om zich aan te passen? Blijft jammerlijk achter.”
Tags: #nederlands #klimaat #klimaatverandering #klimaatcrisis #klimaatbeleid #co2 #fossiele_brandstof #biomassa #ondergrondse_opslag #co2-compensatie #energie #energietransitie #zonne-energie #windenergie #overstromingen #extreem_weer #hittegolven #droogte #ontbossing #bosbranden #vk #verenigd_koninkrijk #sunak #frankrijk #macron #nederland #jetten #zweden #duitsland #eu #green_deal #europese_unie #belgie #verkiezingen
Großbritannien verschiebt Klimaziele
Von Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski
Großbritannien war einmal Vorreiter im Kampf gegen die Erderhitzung. Nun verzögert Premier Sunak Verkehrs- und Wärmewende. Aus „Pragmatismus“.
With one or two exceptions, the #Tories have no interest in tackling #GlobalWarming.
The prime minister praised #Policy Exchange, which received $30,000 from #oil and #gas giant #ExxonMobil in 2017, for shaping laws that target green activists.
#uk #politics #news #environment #law #future #problem #protest #europe
„Kampfjet-Koalition“ für die Ukraine
Die Lieferung von F-16-Kampfjets an die Ukraine rückt näher: Erst die Piloten ausbilden, dann die Jets liefern? Die USA sind vorerst skeptisch.
Schwerpunkt: Krieg in der Ukraine
#taz #tageszeitung #Kampfjets #Rishi #Sunak #Mark #Rutte #Emmanuel #Macron #Marie-Agnes #Strack-Zimmermann #Waffenlieferung #Krieg #Waffen
Kommunalwahlen in England und Wales
Von Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski
Die Torys erleiden massive Verluste bei den Wahlen auf der Insel. Premier Sunak rückt zunehmend in den Fokus parteiinterner Kritik.
#taz #tageszeitung #England #Großbritannien #Rishi #Sunak #Tories #Boris #Johnson
Kommunalwahlen in England
Von Dominic Johnson
Die Kommunalwahlen haben den Tories eine riesige Niederlage beschert. Auch für Labour sieht es schlecht aus. Freuen können sich nur die Grünen.
#taz #tageszeitung #Wahlen #Großbritannien #Rishi #Sunak #Keir #Starmer #Jeremy #Corbyn
Proud to be one of 677 #UK researchers to sign a letter to #PrimeMinister Rishi #Sunak calling on him to prevent any new #oil and #gas field development.
#FossilFuel #ClimateChange
♲ Caroline Lucas - 2023-03-29 20:23:32 GMT
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RT @CambridgeZero: Cambridge Zero Director @emilyshuckburgh and 676 other academics across the UK ask @RishiSunak to end all new oil and gas development.See the letter and full list of signatories here: https://www.zero.cam.ac.uk/who-we-are/blog/news/hundreds-uk-scientists-and-academics-urge-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-prevent🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1641173548487045131
The fascist coalition government of Netanyahu/BenGvir is facing an ever growing resistance to their push to change basic laws of Israel and to make the Prime minister, untouchable.
Even Israel's minister of war, has warned that the policies of the current administration is endangering Israel's national security as 1000s of reservists and regular army staff have joined the protests and refusing to show up for duty.
In the mean time, #Sunak, the PM of UK had "warm and productive" talks with #Netanyahu who was visiting UK in the push to gain support for his push to bomb Iran and to lean on UK to put pressure on US to give strategic support to Israeli fighter jets by providing tankers to help IAF jets to safely return home after their operation across Iran.
#Politics #Israel #Protests #Fascism #Iran #UK
PS. Picture from demonstrations in TelAviv today.
Einigung um Nordirland-Protokoll
Von Ralf Sotscheck
Im Streit zwischen um das sogenannte Nordirland-Protokoll zum Brexit gibt es eine Einigung. Jetzt sind Nordirlands Unionisten am Zug.
#taz #tageszeitung #Großbritannien #Nordirland #Ursula #von #der #Leyen #Irland #Rishi #Sunak
These obvious comparisons just cannot be reported in #UK national media.
#Hypocrisy #WarCriminals #DoubleStandard #WarProfiteers #SaudiArabia
🇬🇧 In #Knowsley am Stadtrand von #Liverpool führte eine Demonstration von rassistischen Rechtsextremisten zu Riots - die Rhetorik von #Braverman & #Sunak trägt Früchte. #Refugees und Unterstützer*innen sind eingeschlossen. Ein Polizeiauto wurde in Brand gesetzt.
via @Care4Calais
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/02/shell-profits-2022-surging-oil-prices-gas-ukraine
Opposition parties and trade unions described Shell’s #bonanza, the biggest in its 115 year #history, as “outrageous” and accused Rishi #Sunak of letting fossil #fuel companies “off the hook”.
#capitalism #lobby #economy #uk #politics #fail #problem #finance #money #news #environment #energy
Jonathan Cook (Middle East Eye)
A lack of public concern in the West at dealing with the impending climate catastrophe isn’t accidental. It’s been engineered.
COP27, the United Nations’ annual climate conference attended by world leaders, kicked off in Egypt at the weekend in the midst of a wave of civil disobedience actions in the UK.
The protests have been led by environmental groups such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, and come as oil giants have announced massive profits from surging energy prices caused by the Ukraine war, and new reports show catastrophic climate change is soon to reach a tipping point, becoming irreversible. (...)
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Protesters, with their necks padlocked together, block the road as they take part in a protest by Just Stop Oil climate activists at Piccadilly Circus, London, on 9 October 2022 (AFP)
Most of these actions have been ignored by the media or dismissed as the antisocial posturings of individuals divorced from the concerns of ordinary people. (...)
But the criticism most widely hurled at these various forms of direct action is that they are counterproductive, that they antagonise ordinary people and make them stop listening.
There is an obvious rejoinder. No one appeared to be listening before the activists took to the streets. Endless scientific warnings have made little impact on public discourse. The establishment media have paid only lip service to the dangers, even as the effects on the climate have become harder to overlook. And governments have made placatory noises while doing nothing meaningful to reverse the collision course humanity is on with the planet. (...)
The World Meteorological Organization, meanwhile, noted that the three greenhouse gases have reached record highs, with methane – the biggest offender – showing the largest year-on-year jump.
Civil disobedience is a symptom not of the climate crisis – nature won’t listen to the protesters – but of the inaction that continues to be the default position of governing political elites, as well as the billionaire-owned media that is supposed to serve as a watchdog on their power. (...)
The establishment media is playing a crucial part in twisting social and political priorities. Every time it focuses on the inconvenience caused by the climate protests – or the potential risk of someone dying in an ambulance caught in a hold-up – it is downplaying what are already the tangible, lethal consequences of the climate emergency. (...)
Nonetheless, the claim that there is widespread antipathy in Britain towards acts of civil disobedience on the climate is greatly overstated – and by the very same media outlets determined to play down the climate crisis. (...)
Despite this, the rightwing Conservative government in London has been progressively eradicating the right of protest – precisely to prevent actions to highlight its continuing crimes against the planet.
A spate of recent legislation has been designed to criminalise any expression of dissent. (...)
Actions like glueing oneself to railings, sitting in a road, obstructing fracking machinery or tunnelling can result in up to three years’ imprisonment. “Disruption prevent orders” can be issued to anyone who has attended a protest in the last five years, banning them from taking part in future demonstrations for two years. Activists’ freedom of movement can be limited by orders requiring them to wear an electronic tag or denying them entry to specified areas. (...)
One might have hoped that at least Britain’s opposition party would be vowing to reverse such draconian measures once in office. But Labour leader Keir Starmer has suggested he would legislate even stiffer penalties for those taking direct action on the climate. (...)
What all this represents is a shift over the past decade from one kind of political insanity – a denial, either implicitly or explicitly, of a climate crisis – to a different kind of insanity: official acknowledgment of a looming climate catastrophe but a refusal to do something meaningful to avert it. (...)
But even more troubling, wars seem to be increasingly useful as a distraction. (...)
In this way, wars helpfully deflect attention from the far bigger global crisis of the environment, one in which Western leaders cannot present themselves as the Good Guys – because they are, in fact, the worst, the greediest and the most destructive of the Bad Guys.
The endless War on Terror has served this purpose all too well over the past two decades, when the climate crisis should have been the world’s top priority. (...)
Instead the constant chatter in western capitals, on TV and in the press, is about how to find new ways to generate gas and oil for public consumption to overcome the energy crisis, not how to wean ourselves off these climate-destroying fuels. (...)
But in a world of self-inflicted collapse, Putin is no more insane than his western counterparts. In truth, the only sane people are those trying to wake up everyone else, whether by glueing their hands to the road, climbing bridges or hurling soup at paintings.
> See also: Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis (Media Lens)
Tags: #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #global_warming #sea_level #ocean_level #water_security #drought #desertification #paris_agreement #cop26 #cop27 #government #international_cooperation #pollution #water #water_quality #supreme_court #lobby #rupert_murdoch #media #journalism #journalist #corporate_media #state #public_opinion #heat_wave #extreme_weather #food_shortages #deforestation #bush_fires #propaganda #public_order_bill #police_bill #disruption_prevent_orders #conservatives #labour #keir_starmer #starmer #sunak #rishi_sunak #energy #energy_transition #fossil_fuel #gas #oil #extinction_rebellion #just_stop_oil
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