Blog by NASA PAO staff/ US Naval Air Reserve JO in 1970s; pedopriest survivor, and former flower child. Now in my 70s I'm a little old lady [LOL] with a laptop on a mountaintop saying what I think.
Producing City of Angels Blog since Jan. 2007, first as coverage of the pedophile priest crisis in the Catholic Church as one of the survivors, then 30 other topics at CofA 1-30
I am today announcing UK support for the Amplify program. It will aim to secure 5 billion pounds of new private finance for clean energy projects around the world. Last week's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting brought home to me the climate premium paid by developing nations as they bear the brunt of this crisis. As the UK takes up the presidency of the G20 next year, we will put climate resilience back on the agenda with debt development and insurance as key issues.
We recognize that the work at this COP is about the future of our natural world too and the condition in which we pass it on to the next generation. I spent my first three weeks as prime minister responding to the worst wildfires Britain has ever experienced. I decided then it was important for me to be here to show British leadership in a world where climate issues have taken too much of a backseat. The climate crisis is not a distant threat. It is upon us all now devastating lives and livelihoods everywhere
[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Andy Burnham, has been in office since July 20, 2026]
Excellencies, the security of every one of your nations depends on climate action. And international climate cooperation with national efforts is delivering, driving down the global temperature rise from well over 4°, a death sentence for every economy, to around 2.6° today.
Cooperation has helped move Adaptation from the margins to the mainstream and unleash an energy revolution. Clean energy investment now out strips fossil fuels.
But action is not yet fast enough.
The science demands we drastically pace up.
And it's not yet Fair enough. the benefits have not been shared equally.
Nations need far more support, particularly the more vulnerable who have done practically nothing to cause the crisis.
The political costs of fossil fuel dependency are unforgiving.
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[Once again, this is what President Jimmy Carter was saying in 1977. Our addiction to oil makes us vulnerable to every outside power.]
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Climate action can help relieve the pressure. Clean energy is secure energy and more sustainable and stable economies, protected from fossil fuel volatility.
Climate Justice and respect for science are both foundational.
Your countries have National Climate action plans, blueprints for jobs and growth. At this cop we're going to be working differently, focusing on helping to convert these targets and plans into practical solutions.
Electrifying every economy.
Crippling finance for adaptation.
This is a chance to bank the benefits of climate action.
It's up to you to take it.
So now let's get to work.
[He reminds me of US astronaut Michael Collins* who wrote a book in a style that was clear straightforward sentences that got across complex ideas, which is a skill that is badly needed in the climate crisis communications world.]
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Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is above speaker.
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Next speaker is president of the general assembly
Dr. Khalilur Rahman, the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
Ladies and gentlemen, the clock is ticking.
The 12 warmest years ever recorded are the last 12 years.
Paris promised 1.5° and here we are on track for 2.8
This is not a gap, it's a chasm, and people are falling into it everyday.
Our ambition must translate into concrete results.
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^ Michael Collins also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs
The first time I heard the word implementation in a speech, I was a teenager from Pasadena at a Peace and Freedom Party meeting in a seedy part of LA. The speaker was a brainiac from Berkeley and I was a wide-eyed theater arts dropout aroused to passion over the Vietnam War. I ended up volunteering every day, which led to a paid office job, so at one point in my weird life, I was a 19 year old employee of the Peace and Freedom Party in California.
That inspiring man at that first meeting kept repeating: implementation implementation implementation; and then after each time, he gave examples of what people could do to carry out action. Our goal was to stop the war in Vietnam back then, we weren't very successful but we tried.
Many speakers at the Cop31 meeting in Turkey this week are using that word implementation implementation implementation in every speech and I just wish they would follow up with more of what the word means because I don't think people around the world realize how dumb Americans have gotten in the last few decades, but I digress. Back in 1967 I had to look it up.
I googled it just now for definition
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implementation
/ˌimpləmənˈtāSHən/
Implementation is the act of putting a plan, decision, law, model, or system into action. It is the noun form of the verb implement and bridges the gap between a conceptual idea and real-world results. [1,2,3,4,5]
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Ah Merriam- "bridges the gap between a conceptual idea and real-world results" -In other words, stop talking and do something
The anti Vietnam war movement dwindled and all but disappeared not long after '67 and the war went on for nine more years. I hope the word implementation repeated at cop31 has better results than in the Peace and Freedom Party in 1967.
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The Prime Minister of Australia is there Day 3 saying,
"This is a historic moment for my country. Australia is proud to be playing a leading role with Turkey on climate change negotiations for the world at this United Nations conference of the parties, proud to be a leader on climate action, proud to be a renewable energy leader creating the clean industries businesses and jobs of the future, and proud to be here fighting for the interest of our Pacific family.
Now that we've passed 1.5, "Every fraction of a degree of warming we prevent will count"
Accelerate electrification
And I plead with you to join our campaign to help the nations of the Pacific confront a climate challenge that they certainly did not create.
Let's turn ambition into implementation, commitment into action, and keep forging ahead never forgetting the generations to come.
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More to come soon from today at COP.
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"Yes this is the second year without the US presence but there's greater representation from US subnationals and non-state actors, a very significant presence.
"And we have seen that despite positions that are taken at a federal level, there is still significant appetite in the US for the Paris agreement at a subnational level.
"And that will be reflected at a subnational level and certainly contributes to the overall tone of this year's COP. Now in this era of implementation, we will see expanding on the voluntary basis. Despite the politics of climate and despite the yawning gap between science and the action that is being taken."
"We are seeing levels of acceleration that we have not ever seen before. That acceleration needs further acceleration and that is what this COP is all about."
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Above speaker is
Simon Stiel who is UN climate change executive secretary, answering a question from The New York Times
In 2013, Stiell was appointed to theSenate of Grenada, as a member of theNew National Party.[5]. In March 2018, he was appointed the country's environment andclimate resilience minister. Stiell continued until June 2022, when his New National
Earlier he had said
They are meeting there this year
"to bring the benefits of climate action to more people in more places faster and much much fairer
"This COP is taking place amid very rough times And tough times.
"As climate driven destruction reps millions of lies and rips threads of gdp's around the world, as fossil fuel costs this year have sent the global economies on a wild ride letting loose the dogs of inflation-
No COP has a magic wand that can solve these multiple crises overnight.
Today's focus is electrification.
Today's nations now face a choice
Electric or shock.
Rewire the global economy For the electrical age or accept the cost of fossil fuels Fossil fuels pain for families, firms, and national budgets,
90% of large renewable projects are now cheaper than fossil fuel Fuel alternatives, according to irina, something unimaginable when the Paris agreement was struck at the 21st UN climate conference."
WATCH: LIVE: Day 2 of COP31 summit in Turkey's Antalya
Reuters Nov 10 COP31 host Turkey will urge countries to place a goal to expand the share of electricity in global energy use at the centre of the conference's final agreement despite criticism the plan could do little to cut emission
Part 2 starts on video at 6.31.31
As we speak Another energy crisis is hitting households and businesses.The ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is driving up home fuel bills, Transport costs, and food prices
Once again we are faced with a clear fact.
Our dependence on imported fossil fuels leaves our economies exposed to disruptions beyond our control.
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[President Jimmy Carter was saying that back in 1976.]
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Our climate ambition Economic competitiveness and Energy security are inseparable. We must secure the supplies we need today before exposing ourselves to the next shock.
We are entering what the IAEA has called the age of electricity And our ambition in Europe is to become an electrical continent.
At 6.31.,31
How important electrification is to keep us from going past 1.5 C And the task is both ambitious and achievable It's ambitious because while 35 may not seem like a large number, it's a big lift But we do need a big lift in activity toTo achieve it We need to move four times faster transitioning to electricity to prevent going over 1.5 C
"There are some countries that are working at that speed to change, That's the good news."
