Notices by CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social), page 6

"Private adaptation finance undisputedly has a role in providing the upfront finance for major adaptation investments. And while there is scope to increase current adaptation funding, it is not enough.

More international public climate finance is required to increase grants and highly concessional finance for particularly vulnerable countries, and to play a smaller but catalytic role in other developing countries."

Grants.
Concessional finance.
NOT profit-making loans.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2025/11/10/how-much-can-business-contribute-to-financing-climate-resilience/

"Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UNFCCC, addressed the gathering of ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries, in a stark portrayal of the price of failure on the climate crisis.

“Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP,” he said.

“When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven.” "

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/it-will-never-be-forgiven-un-climate-chief-warns-world-to-act-or-face-disaster

But progress on climate action would be MUCH faster without the meddling of the fossil fuel industry.

Kick them out.

"More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are registered for COP30, according to an analysis by a coalition of environmental and social justice groups.

The group’s review of people granted access to COP30 found that fossil fuel lobbyists at the climate talks outnumber the delegations from nearly every country ([except host country Brazil). "

https://www.newsweek.com/cop30-climate-talks-flooded-with-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-report-11045180

"The evidence of nearly three decades of climate diplomacy is that when we set ourselves an objective, more often than not we will hit it.

Consider the European Union’s first pledge under the 2015 Paris Agreement to cut emissions in 2030 to 40% below levels in 1990.

Plenty scoffed at the time.

In fact, greenhouse pollution last year was already 37% below 1990, and on current trends the EU may achieve a 54% cut, almost enough to hit a stricter target passed in 2020."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-13/how-the-world-is-quietly-winning-on-climate

Why climate summits fail – and three ways to save them

"Reforms that go beyond current blanket consensus are necessary.

Second, it is necessary to streamline the chaotic array of climate-related financial instruments.

Third, we absolutely need to change the format of Cop itself."

https://theconversation.com/why-climate-summits-fail-and-three-ways-to-save-them-267470

"Below are five key issues being negotiated in the lead-up to Belém

– Stronger national climate plans with clearer investment pathways
– Mobilizing trillions for climate action in developing countries
– Incentivizing sustainable and climate-aligned investment
– Finalizing the rules for a UN-backed global carbon market
– Coordinating fair and inclusive transitions"

https://www.unepfi.org/themes/climate-change/road-to-cop30-five-negotiation-outcomes-that-could-shape-global-finance/

"Hundreds of environmental and human rights groups have urged #COP30 to confront the historical roots of the climate crisis, and put reparations on the agenda.

The letter argues that historical crimes, such as enslavement and colonialism, created global inequalities in resource access, drove asymmetrical contributions to emissions, increased vulnerability to disasters, and continue to exclude many from climate decision-making."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/cop30-urged-link-climate-justice-with-reparations-historical-crimes-2025-09-26/

"In past conference cities — including resort areas and playgrounds for the rich such as Bali, Cancun, Paris, Sharm El-Sheikh and Dubai — host nations show off both their amenities and what their communities have done about climate change.

But this fall’s conference is in a high-poverty city on the edge of the Amazon to demonstrate what needs to be done, said the diplomat who will run the mega-negotiations in Belem known as #COP30 or Conference of Parties."

https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-cop30-brazil-climate-do-lago-1968c645b24a5cfc5aa363da01d44495

"The calculation marked the first time the UNFCCC has forecast a steady decline in global emissions, which have consistently increased since 1990.
The projected 10% cut is far short of the 60% emissions drop needed by 2035 to limit global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/countries-new-climate-plans-start-cutting-global-emissions-un-says-2025-10-28/

Still awaiting many countries' NDCs, including Europe's.

"More than 60 countries have so far submitted national plans on greenhouse gas emissions to the UN, setting out how they will curb carbon for the next decade.

Taken together, these plans would cut carbon by only about 10% by 2035 compared with 2019 levels. This is only about a sixth of the drop in global emissions needed to limit global heating to 1.5C."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/worlds-climate-plans-fall-drastically-short-of-action-needed-analysis-shows

"Prabowo backed a Brazilian-initiated forest finance scheme, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). The initiative aims to raise US$125 billion, with 80% sourced from capital market investors and 20% from wealthy nation donors. The fund’s financial structure is ambitious, with a target return 7.5%, which is disbursed to forest-owning countries meeting specific deforestation reduction criteria. The TFFF is scheduled for an official launch at COP30."

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/indonesia-values-forests-can-it-fund-trees

" “The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences.”

[António Guterres] did not give up on the target though, and said it may still be possible to temporarily overshoot and then bring temperatures down in time to return to 1.5C by the end of the century, but this would require a change of direction at and beyond #COP30."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head?CMP=soc_567

Humanity is on path toward ‘climate chaos,’ scientists warn

"Industries and individuals around the world burned record amounts of oil, gas and coal last year, releasing more greenhouse gases than ever before, a group of leading scientists said in a new report, warning that humanity is hurtling toward “climate chaos.” "

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-29/state-of-climate-2025

"Australian tropical rainforest trees have become the first in the world to switch from being a carbon sink to an emissions source due to increasingly extreme temperatures and drier conditions.

“It’s the first tropical forest of its kind to show this symptom of change,” said lead author Dr Hannah Carle from Western Sydney University."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/australian-tropical-rainforest-trees-switch-carbon-sink-emissions-source

"Right-wing media are pushing hard to disparage New Jersey’s renewable energy investments, which they misleadingly blame for high electricity rates.

Several factors are contributing to the rate hikes in New Jersey. They include increased demand for electricity to power new data centers and New Jersey grid operator PJM Interconnection’s reported failure to quickly connect renewable projects to the grid."

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-business/murdoch-media-continues-scapegoating-renewable-energy-new-jersey

"The remnants of Typhoon Halong brought hurricane-force winds and catastrophic flooding to coastal communities in western Alaska on Sunday, pushing entire houses off their foundations.  

“We have received reports that people’s homes have floated away and that people were potentially in those homes,” Zidek told the Associated Press."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-flooding-typhoon-halong/

" Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in a request to the White House for a major disaster declaration."

https://apnews.com/article/alaska-typhoon-flooding-7e6e6b72c5587c3a00b82982ffab56bd

And on the east coast:
"New Jersey and parts of New York City were under a state of emergency on Monday as slow-moving nor’easter moved up the easter US seaboard, while in western Alaska remnants of Typhoon Halong lashed coastal hamlets and ripped houses off their foundations."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/13/us-east-coast-noreaster-storm-alaska

"While East Coast homeowners recovering from a nor’easter that flooded parts of New Jersey and other states the same weekend can run to Home Depot for supplies or drive to a hotel if their home floods, none of that exists in remote Native villages.

Everything is 100 times more complicated when it comes to building in remote communities. Even if national or state help is approved, it would be next summer before most homes could be rebuilt."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/why-recovery-will-be-tough-for-alaskas-villages-flooded-by-an-unusually-powerful-storm

"For decades, the Pentagon viewed climate change as a national security threat — not for environmental reasons, but because it undermined operations and readiness.

Now the Trump administration is dismantling that approach."

“It sends a message to our competitors and adversaries … ‘We’re going to be weak because we’re not going to be ready.’ ”

https://floodlightnews.org/pentagon-rolls-back-climate-action-as-troops-face-extreme-weather/