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[CLKD]

 

The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has learned.

Leaked briefing documents reveal plans to discuss fossil fuel deals with 15 nations.

The UN body responsible for the COP28 summit told the BBC hosts were expected to act without bias or self-interest.

The UAE team did not deny using COP28 meetings for business talks, and said "private meetings are private".

It declined to comment on what was discussed in the meetings and said its work has been focused on "meaningful climate action".


Looking at this with some logic, why not discuss future oil deals whilst everyone is over there: rather than flying back/forth in the New Year

[CLKD]

We have a good system in that we have a food waste caddy, collected every week.  The black bin contents go to landfill/digestor.  Blue bin [we have 2] is for cardboard, paper, glass, bottles, jars with lids, plastics; green bin [we have 2 even though we home compost] are charged for annually, which take garden waste. 

How do other Councils sort household rubbish? 

[star35]

We have a bin that takes paper and cardboard, a bin for plastics, glass and metal, a food bin and a bin for everything  else that goes to landfill. Food bin is taken every week but the paper and general waste alternate with the plastic bin. We can have a bin for garden waste if we pay but we take ours to the tip as it is only 5 minutes away.

[CLKD]

Landfill space is getting scarce, hence the need for more digesters ........ also I would love to go round a recycling plant to see how it all works!

[Joaniepat]

We have a box for glass (so that broken glass doesn't contaminate the rest of the recycling), a bin for recycling (paper, cardboard, some plastics, tin cans, foil trays if clean enough), a bin for non-recyclables and a food caddy. Textiles can be left out in a clear bag, but are often not collected because the compartment on the lorry is too small. All the aforementioned goes weekly. I subscribe to the fortnightly garden waste scheme too.
CLKD, I would also love to go round a recycling plant. Will you be firing up the charabanc any time soon 😉?
JP x

[CLKD]

Of course: need to pump up the tyres, clean the windows and lights then away we go.   . My biggest problem is those tiny TePee brushes that I've been advised to use, wondering whether they jamb up the works! 

I've decided to clean out jam jars as several people were asking on local FB pages during the year, seems a shame to bin them, they can go into the attic and when I get 6-ish I'll offer them up.

[CLKD]

Michaela Strachan flies in from South Africa to present a programme .........     

[CLKD]

So they all fly to somewhere warm and exotic and Prince William is somewhere promoting Awards relating to climate activities: I think S Africa?

However there most of us are, trying to recycle as much as possible: 

A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report.

A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan's COP29 team, Elnur Soltanov, discussing "investment opportunities" in the state oil and gas company with a man posing as a potential investor.

"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," he says.

A former head of the UN body responsible for the climate talks told the BBC that Soltanov's actions were "completely unacceptable" and a "betrayal" of the COP process.


And don't get me started on Companies that leave lights blazing all night 

[CLKD]

So we have COP? - which will achieve what exactly?  Today in Waitrose I've seen Brazil nuts: from Bolivia, packed in Italy then flown to the UK  .  The World is mad.  Nuts didn't arrive in the shops until late November when I was a kid, along with those slices of crystallised lemon/orange in round boxes.  Then dates in long boxes  Showing my age now 

[CLKD]

Watcihing the 1st motorE race of the Season from Sao Paolo, have been told by a commentator that this is the only sport that is totally carbon neutral.  Still trying to work that one out!

The cars have to be made from scratch.  Batteries have to be made from scratch. All parts have to be transported B4 being built into racing cars.  Plus the drivers, mechanics plus computer bods fly all over the World with this Sport.  As well as all the media personnel ........ tyres have to be manufactured.  However much the vehicles are running on batteries how can this sport be carbon neutral ...........

All participants have to be fed and watered which all has to be flushed away.  Their motor homes are HUGE! or they stay in Hotels = servicing required: water, food, bedding, heating ...... looking at the screen there are tents which have to be made, transported etc..  .......

[Taz2]

Does this help? https://www.fiaformulae.com/it/news/10318
 

[CLKD]

Tnx but no.  Companies are letting the public know how they intend to become carbon neutral.  It isn't possible. All those components have to be made in factories that have to be built = people travelling to/from work. Those buildings: bricks, steel, tiles, solar panels etc., have to be made off site and transported as do the vehicles.

It's known as green washing.  Drivers and race cars need to be transported around the World .......... journalists and TV trucks with operating crews will travel.  Marshalls will travel.  They all need somewhere to stay during the time of the preparation, race day and clear down.  This can take as much as 2 weeks overall.  Plus barriers need to be built somewhere, transported and erected to protect the watching public. 

There was an article yesterday about Scottish ferries which are more environmentally friendly than the new version 

[Taz2]

I thought the carbon neutral mention was purely for the fuel not the whole sport?

[CLKD]

That's not how I read it  ........ regardless, fuel has to be made, transported .... disposed of.  It's an interesting concept throughout industry and sporting events. 

It's the bits that are left out that the public rarely decide to follow up ........ including sourcing Rare Earth for batteries  . What happens when the Rare Earth runs out ....... 

[CLKD]

The carbon footprint of a long-delayed new "green" ferry will be far larger than the 31-year-old diesel ship that usually serves the route between the Scottish mainland and the island of Arran.

An emissions analysis by CalMac has calculated MV Glen Sannox will emit 10,391 equivalent tonnes of CO2 a year compared with 7,732 for MV Caledonian Isles.

The dual-fuel ferry has more car capacity but requires larger engines which also emit methane, a greenhouse gas with a far greater global warming effect than CO2.