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   S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸 (stevenbodzin@thepit.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 23:52:25 JST S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸

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   • Gernot Wagner

   @gwagner that nyt story yesterday just reinforced my take that all COPs are bad

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     Gernot Wagner (gwagner@fediscience.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 23:52:27 JST Gernot Wagner

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     All you need to know about the breathless headlines celebrating the inclusion of "fossil fuels" in the #COP28 Agreement is Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz praising it, "adding that the deal would not affect the ability of the world's top oil exporter to sell its crude." https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/saudi-energy-minister-agreement-with-cop28-presidency-final-deal-2023-12-13/

     So yes, I'll stick to my guns: doubling rate of efficiency improvements by 2030, and tripling renewables by 2030 and nuclear by 2050 are the big deal here. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/cop28-pledges-methane-still-matters-even-if-oil-gas-industry-focusing-on-own-interests-by-gernot-wagner-2023-12
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     Gernot Wagner (gwagner@fediscience.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 23:52:28 JST Gernot Wagner

     The gavel just came down on #COP28, surely one of the most surreal climate summits to date. The main COP agreement is anything but "historic," as a few of today's headlines seem to suggest.

     But there was something bigger happening in Dubai: a clear move toward delivering on clean energy.

     My latest column just out, on "How to Assess the Outcome of COP28": https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/cop28-pledges-methane-still-matters-even-if-oil-gas-industry-focusing-on-own-interests-by-gernot-wagner-2023-12
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