Hello i marianna machine and then a quick look at the main stories this hour have been scenes of joy in Harrison City and ukraine after the retreat of russian troops, celebrations well inside the city and across the country. Ukrainian flags also have been raised on public monuments in her son present. Laudermill zalinski said it was a historic day and that the city had never given up Russian Military set. It completed its withdrawal by 5 am on friday. John hall has moved from keith. Its a huge moment to the ukrainians for the ukranian president floated misled sky, of course, essentially, winning back the only regional capital that russia had been able to secure during the course of its invasion here. Going back to february, it puts ukraine very much back on the front foot in regaining that strategic, strangle hold. Down on the south there potentially able to interrupt russias land, bridge between crimea and the mainland potentially even able to menace occupied crime in itself. Meanwhile, satellite images are showing damage to a major diamond, Harrison City of the Russian Forces withdrew the satellite. Company macs are says northern parts and flu skates of the nova golf down have been deliberately destroyed. Russia and ukraine of accused each other of planning to blow out, which could devastate harrison. The images also show significant damage to several bridges that spanned the new pro river or fighting is could flat up in the east and democratic republic of congo where soldiers of battling and 23. 00 rebels on several fronts. The m 23 is had a major resurgence this year, forcing nearly 200000 people from their homes. Im 23 is blamed other groups for the killings. Its recent advances and tension soaring was one to which the Congress Government accuses of supporting rebels and the owners of the mediterranean rescue ship ocean. Viking se european states are failing to deal with a humanitarian crisis vessel carrying hundreds of Asylum Seekers rescue from small boats as finely dodge in the french course of 2 long. Theyve now been transferred to a facility about 20 kilometers away. The ship was refused entry to italy, sparking a major diplomatic dispute. All hello planet is coming up. Next ill have watch more on all of the headlines. Stories for you in the news are 25 minutes time. There is a story being spun, a fantasy whipping sold the notions that we can offset all the carbon we generate that i can even get on to apply 25 to take the right box and crate. A few extra dollars when purchasing my ticket. My journey can be Carbon Neutral with net 0 implications for the final Carbon Offsets net 0 Carbon Neutral. All of these catch phrases, these labels they found to good to be true. Thats because they are with climate breakdown is the existential crisis about age. In fact, its been the more serious threat to life for at least a couple of generations. But now it finally reached a point where a majority of governments and populations agree that this is a monumental issue. And if you listen to politicians and corporate leaders, it seems to pulling out all the stops. Making ambitious pledges to slow down, if not hope, the destruction of our planet. Europe will be the worlds 1st climate neutral continent. Net 0 emissions and thats 0 by 20. 50 near you. Little so here are the sophie, she said, huggles becoming a net 0 Emissions Energy business by 2050, 2030 for our restaurants. No impact on the planet. Were completely net 0. Were completely neutral. Those premises sound great, but when you pull apart the language, those key phrases in terms things get a little mackey. It is important to remember that the language of Carbon Neutral or net 0 emissions is incredibly misleading and high. Its important contradictions. Joanna keybo is an environmental researcher who has spent more than a decade analyzing Climate Policies and Climate Justice issues is basically based on an idea that pollution can be compensated somewhere else by a project implemented mostly in the yellow south that should either avoid the missions or absorb emissions and by doing so pump and say the pollution from the polluter, not because theyre reducing, not because they are capping their emissions, but because they are getting some credits that are doing the compensation that the cleaning up somewhere else. This logic of offsetting is what is misleading in all of these language, because one would think, oh companies are actually doing something about it. They are addressing the problem and that is confusing for people and even society. They are trying to demand some action for Climate Change. The reason climate, scientists, and activists a seriously question Carbon Offsetting or Carbon Neutral programs, is because they just do not do what they claim. They cant, not when the fundamental premise on which these programs are based is so deeply flawed. Lets take an example. Im traveling to test mania where some of these programs are based. And im flying with quantas australias Largest Airline company, which also happens to run one of the largest offsetting programs of any airline in the world called fly Carbon Neutral. You as a passenger one to 5 Carbon Neutral to die. The best way is to voluntarily Carbon Offset your flight. Its an enticing idea when i buy my ticket. The calculation is made by the airline for my contribution to the amount of fuel used for my journey. And therefore emissions released. And i pay an extra fee, in this case, just over 5. 00. That money is then given to a number of other companies for use on Carbon Offsetting projects. Here are the ones that quantas with quantas on my behalf has basically bought a carbon credit permission to keep emitting on the basis that trees or Renewable Energy can offset pollution. One credit represents one ton of Carbon Emissions. The math looks simple. One negative, this one positive equals whats called net 0. But what youre saying, joanna, is that equation doesnt really work. So it is really important that we understand that there are 2 very different types of carbon. And this is fairly, talk a while, but hes full num info. So we have a phosphate carbone. These deposits that are locked under ground for meals and millions of years. And then you have the biological carbon, which is this more dynamic carbon, the flows around trees. They did, they, ocean, i mean, dynamic changes goes from one to the other. But what is not mentioned in the Climate Crisis is that im looking for a carbon that took millions of years to be create thats been our beam burned in the shape of petroleum. Gov or coal mem, matthew scale, and in a short period of time. And thats kind of impossible for the earth capacity to deal with these to absorb, to regulate if we dont stop burning petroleum, oil and gas, we are not addressing the problem. An offset is a way to not talk about the theres really no such new Carbon Offset. If you really look at it, its made up. Tom gold tooth is a climate, justice activist, and executive director of the indigenous environmental network. There is no such thing. Offsetting pollution by transients 3, even the scientists agree with you cant swap carbon thats been part of rushed in process across the field for above ground carbon in the biosphere. That theyre separate entities, but the market system doesnt differentiate that they package it up to gather. So were being scammed when theres really no, i said its just a way of Business People to make money and to look good on paper. So if thats in my there are they also scheme where this molecule is coming from. When was he done or how long it was saying that my fear, what it matters, these, the polluter has an accounting sheet. Some numbers where is the, how many molecules they are meeting . And they also project on the other side comes in teeth where they say, how many c o 2 molecules they are absorbing or reducing or avoiding me. And therefore these trading can happen. Business in the net 0 industry is booming. Amazon, you lever, disney, google sex, and shell a, some of the Largest Companies using offset programs to reach the sustainability goals. Google is the 1st Major Company to eliminate our empire carbon legacy co. Now with all my local lawn, no 1st net 0, c o 2 concrete world 1st certified Carbon Neutral commercial Vehicle Engine oil. These companies and the people managing their offset programs, sound really convinced about the value of their campaigns. We are going to keep improving and why we do that. Were also going to offset our remaining emissions from today. We are offsetting all the Carbon Emissions from our flight with any remaining emissions that you cannot eliminate with real change. You are agreeing to do offsets. Now if by this point you think the whole Carbon Offset net 0 obsession is an elaborate ruse created by big corporations as a destruction and diversion tactic, we wouldnt be completely wrong. Big business, especially big oil, has played a significant role in lobbying for and developing Carbon Trading markets. However, theres been other key players that have been instrumental in the process, including the United Nations and whole bunch of governance. In fact, the very idea of emissions trading of turning carbon into a commodity was one of the highlights of the 1997 kyoto protocol, which was a Milestone International treaty broken by the un to deal with the Climate Crisis. For long industrialized countries that are part of the political have a clear obligation to reduce emissions. To do so, they can use the market to trade a new commodity cabinet. Under the kyoto protocol, signatory governments would participate in a system called cap and trade. The 1st half of this process, the negotiation of carbon caps, would place limits on emissions from countries and big corporations. However, if they couldnt stay within their specified Carbon Emissions limits, then they still had an out. And thats where the trade part of the program would kick in. Corporations could simply buy a carbon credit from another emitter who may have fallen below the threshold of emissions. Oh, from one of a number of other offsetting initiatives. In short, they could pick up a permit to continue emitting cop in the polluting corporation. Sorry. Can i sell banks and trade these permits that are also called allowances . So when the price is low, this scoop them up, they buy them up and bank them for later use when, when prices go up. So if, if these permits arent enough, ah, the polluters can purchase more Carbon Offsets from other sources with upsets. It has been actually a very cheap way or investor less qualities and companies to get off the hook to have no response. I really their account believe the really, really big for their pollution or her. They are distraction and we dont know a structural change. Advocates of the kyoto protocol would argue that the United Nations did create a scheme to encourage structural change, the Clean Development mechanism, or cdn, set up in 2001. It was the worlds 1st and so far largest Carbon Offset scheme. Countries with high emissions like canada, japan and australia could help achieve their own care to targets by purchasing credits linked to cobb and reduction programs in countries like china, india, and brazil, which needed to keep National Economic development on track. But it committed to do so without generating the volume of emissions rich countries produced when they were growing their economies. So for example, if a power plant in australia needed to shape 10 percent of its emissions, it could buy offsets from a solar power project in india. The power plant there might initially have been coal fueled, but the sale of carbon credits could help cover the high costs of developing solar power. The gap, an emissions between the hypothetical co plant and the actual solar farm would constitute the animated carbon that could now be sold as units of certified emissions reductions. Basically permission slips to allow polluting entities to put out the carbon that was supposedly being held from the atmosphere. The stadium was extremely popular in its heyday. More than 8000. 00 projects in a 111. 00 countries have registered with this game, which is handed out more than 2000000000. 00 carbon credits, representing a claim of more than 2000000000. 00 tons of Carbon Dioxide reduction, or avoidance. The un says the cdn has also funded more than 900000000000. 00 worth of Renewable Energy investment in developing countries. However, the program has been wired and complexity and controversy. It has been widely researched that the Clean Development mckinney some brought about incredible amount of injustice on the ground. So we see, for example, hydro electric dams are being said to produce clean energy. Is another misleading claim because it is in fact not clinical. We have the Energy Production that is produced by lab there, but there is a whole infrastructure that was built on, sometimes a forest or another river. It was system and the energy that these are deals there. Usually most of that im not going to be the lever to the Community Around that are most of the times without access to energy is going to be most of the times for Mining Industry that are nearby that need the energy in order to keep extracting. So we see how that the sign of the scheme is not really taking consideration of the social aspects of the environmental aspects. But hes only considering that accounting. Shes the cdm wasnt the only program of its kind 10 years after the kyoto protocol in 2007, another u. N backed program came into being the title made the mission pretty clear. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in short formed, read it tackled head on one of the most urgent problems facing those. Working on the Climate Crisis. The rapid degradation of vital forest sooner with the red plan was quite ingenious. In its simplicity, developing countries would basically be paid not to cut down trees. So i was big ones and never more. But it told us what is philo is a deforestation modeling expert in brazil, i was invited as our to Scientific Meeting with the 1st red project, brazil and amazon for me to gather which was several science. And then and, and i found that was not really cited roger, but roger sale coming french, what elements of your work were included in the red program . Were, were ione in developing modeling for simulating for station and a borrowed those methods to develop design, delusional reb baseline. So, doesnt matter. The technical details, if the, the math of the methods brit helter refers to, is basically the maths. It begins with an estimation of how much deforestation could be expected in an area. If the financial incentives from red didnt exist. Unsurprisingly, the more deforestation you anticipate, the more carbon credits you generate, the more money you can make. The whole system is very vulnerable to being gained, so to try and add legitimacy by predicting deforestation. More accurately, some red projects employed a piece of Free Software developed by protell though cord jamica ega. The program focused land use changes over time and was designed to measure the specific impact of policy decisions on forested areas. For example, measuring the potential impact of expanding katelyn sway industries in the amazon basin. But as patel to points out, models are used to avert an undesirable outcome and cannot be used to predict feature. We have exclaim, well, dont support, apply visual models to set up baselines. It grows. Deforestation advanced much more on the National Lead on. So if you say, im going back to this region, the difference, its very small because all the drivers of it for station really control it by the political signal that the government pass on paper. It makes sense to make Forest Conservation as lucrative as forest destruction is given that just making deforestation illegal with serious penalties doesnt seem to work anywhere. State corruption, Corporate Law being vested political and business interests, have all meant that. Outlawing deforestation has minimal impact, especially pointless. Red has not been able to develop a market for carbon credits that is robust and actually truly incentivizes forest protection. All of this means that deforestation is on the rise. Just take a look at the stats from brazil alone. New satellite data from brazils National Institute for Space Research shows that more than 3980 square kilometers of the amazon, an area, 2 and a half times the size of bangkok was cleared in the 1st 6 months of 2022. Thats an increase of 10. 6 percent from the Previous Year and the highest figure since 2015 when the institute began this type of monitoring, this green story is being repeated around the world in places like the congo emperor tongue gold to it has been a long time critic of Carbon Offsetting in general and programs like read in particular in 2010, he was blocked from entering the cop 16 conference center. The day after he publicly criticized the u. N. Process for Carbon Trading and red. Expanding Carbon Offset have real and damage and impacts on Indigenous Peoples and local communities, organization, and many the networks in my south was really major speaker about this. We are lose stickers with red on it with the black line, you know, read. I noticed it as i was boring out to exit the un meeting as i swipe my badge, their, their computer screen powder red line through my face were viewed as troublemakers you could say. But were, were really looking for Real Solutions as what were doing. Criticism of how read programs are executed and not misplaced. In 2015, a french study into a 120. 00 read projects across latin america, east africa and asia found that nearly 40 percent overlapped with existing protected lands Like National parks. Many had failed. The edition ality criteria, and the authors of the study concluded that red had been reduced to simply a logo to attract financing. Then is the 2018 findings out of no way by far the most generous supporter of red while simultaneously being a major exporter of oil and natural gas noise office of the order to general found that despite a decades work and 3000000000. 00 in funding results, from red projects were delayed and uncertain, especially since there was considerable risk of whats called leakage, which is basically when protecting one patch of land leads to deforestation elsewhere. Theres also the issue of permanence in order for trays to capture emissions. Those trees need to be around for a long time, centurys not years, but because of Climate Change during carbon in trees has become increasingly unstable. Drought, fire, and flood will see many of the offset projects created today destroyed in the coming decades. Finally, theres a big issue with land there simply isnt enough of it on earth to soak up the sheer amount of corporate Carbon Emissions. A 2021 oxfam report estimates that the amount of land required to meet the wilson at 0 targets could amount to 5 times the size of india. Thats more than the entire area of pharma and on the planet. Much of it, whatever available land there is rightfully belongs to indigenous and other local peoples. In many cases, they have not been properly consulted and their rights to their traditional territory. I simply ignored with the system so full of holes. All wet has done is create a new market for climate profiteers. Now after years, so having those, the scheme in place and running, we see how long they are and how many projects that have been certified actually have a lot of conflicts on the ground and have a lot of irregularities. So there is a problem from the technical part of point of view or from the social aspect of the project. But nevertheless, the certifies are 3rd becoming a lot of these projects because its a business who is regulating the regulators like to support market your buyers market. From one, then youve been resell to somebody else at this person, then resell to another one. And so it goes on. The market can become a monster itself and pick its own bath. The graziano final go up market, make profit. Not really to mitigate trying change. The problems with red just kept piling up, even the u. N. Eventually couldnt dismiss issues at cop 25 in 2019 changes were made, read was re branded. It was now part of a series of schemes that a broadly called Nature Based Solutions among the many entities promoting versions of this phrase at the un climate meeting was a group of private corporations including b, p, shell, aramco and chevron, together with a number of other the corporations, they call themselves the International Emissions trading association, or i e t 8 through their markets for natural climate solutions. They say they will use nature in its entirety to both remove Greenhouse Gases and to manage emissions. Assessing the effectiveness of so called nature based is not particularly challenging. All of the initiatives, whether associated with protecting and restoring forests, soils, wetlands, or marine environments replicate. And in fact, magnify the fundamental floor present in the Clean Development mechanism and red that it is a compensation based system, Carbon Emissions, and not reduced in said theyre supposedly offset through complex and take emissions trading market. Enabling companies to say that they are Carbon Neutral. Even though they are still burning fossil fuels, any onset of trading air in a colonial market system treats it as a property. Right. So the question that is often resolved in these to go, she ation is the corporation in the enough only the property of the carbon in the trees. This idea, which is the complete, nearly ready face of the time at the base where all nature should become a therapy provider to human is very be alarming threat before the people because kind of each of these claims there is land that hes being in close for doing enough projects, so what we called is that there is a conservation in between now with governments and corporations saying offsets are a key part of the solution. Average consumers can not contribute further to the degradation of our planet. Had been persuaded to take part in the charade. There are military programs being sold to offset everything from household emissions to car emissions, and something called yep. A website that enables individuals to offset their own breath for 27. 00 a year. Carbon market scenarios are being utilized to allow Civil Society to relieve their guilt if a diversion technique used by carbon traders to distract the public from the apartment action of keeping oil and hole in the ground. Thats the bottom line. What we see all these years of us and they will see a shows and climate the base is the pollution anything even though so many have been put in place, we need to think of also the scheme that hes actually making the problem worse. Not the poll making it but so there is no book project for but project only certification is just kind of masks that quickly said that if im there needs after 25 plus years of fighting the carbon market, i think we can reasonably claim that carbon treaty offset the carbon prize scene and all of the iterations of red plus Nature Based Solutions. Net 0 emissions target. And its all the same thing. It is the biggest destruction and scam on mother earth on the planet. Theres a story being spun, a lie, were being told, its the notion that we can offset all the cars and we generate the only way to reduce Carbon Pollution is to reduce Carbon Emissions. To actually cut fossil fuel extraction and usage. All of the other stuff tree planting, protecting and restoring ecosystems investing and Renewable Energy. All of that great and very much needed. But without reducing our structural demand for, for, for fuel. We are in effect, not just doing nothing when making things way up to time making us believe that something is being done when actually what is being done is worth sending. The problem is allowing the driver to go on to even claim that hes green, but he sustainable. So instead of talking about fuel, we are talking about c o 2 molecule and well doing so, it actually feels all the violence and abuse of power that the fuel fuel industry is billed upon. Ah, indonesia your investment destination, the worlds 10th largest economy, is busy transforming, ready to be your Business Partner with a robust pool, politically and economically stable and strong policies being the power house in the museum is confirmed by the g. 20 presidency. Bringing opportunities for you, invest indonesia know hello there all eyes are on the skies across southern and eastern areas of australia as the unsettled weather continues. Were going to see the heavy rain and threat of severe thunderstorm continued this weekend for the southern australia as well as victoria tasmania and new south wales. We could even see a tornado here from those storms. The rush of showers continues pushing up north into queensland and northern australia, but he remains an issue in the knolls and crust is some improvement, however, to be found in the west for the likes of perth. And thats as that cold front sweeps across the bite. Taking the worst of the wet weather to the southeast, once again with the temperature the yo yo, for the likes of melbourne. If we have a look at the 3 day, they have been some exceptional warmth about. Well be closer to the average on sunday and below it on monday. But its a washout of a weekend. And speaking of rain as we move to new zealand, the north island is going to see plenty of rain in the bay of plenty is more in the way of thunderstorms. However, than a heavy rain. We can see that rain picking up across the south island, and therell be more of that putting into the very south by the time we get into sunday. Now as we move to southeast asia, its been rather dry across much of indo china, but well see the heavy rain start to pull up into vietnam and cambodia by saturday and sunday. Thats whoever ah, ah
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