Environmental News For The Week Ending 09 May 2019
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Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January high; US Covid deaths are now at the lowest rate since since the second week of July.
John Kerry and Climate Hypocrisy
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He was confronted about the high-emissions ride by Icelandic reporter Johann Bjarni Kolbeinsson, who asked whether the former secretary of state’s private flight was “an environmental way to travel.”
A private jet produces up to 40 times more carbon-dioxide emissions per passenger than a commercial airplane, but Mr. Kerry offered no apologies for his transportation mode, touting his climate bona fides and saying his schedule gave him little choice.
“If you offset your carbon, it’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle,” he said. “I negotiated the Paris accords for the United States. I’ve been involved in this fight for years.”
3 Feb 2021
John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate under President Biden’s administration who consistently sounds the alarm on the dangers of global warming, took a private jet to Iceland in 2019 to accept an environmental award.
The climate czar took a private jet to receive the Arctic Circle Prize for his leadership on climate change, Fox News reported on Wednesday. An interview obtained by the outlet found Kerry defending his climate-unfriendly mode of transportation, asserting that private flight remained “the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.”
When confronted on the matter by Icelandic reporter Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson, Kerry appealed to offsetting his carbon output and highlighted the other environmental efforts he has made in years past including the negotiation of the Paris Accords, which President Biden rejoined upon taking office.
The Arctic nations’ foreign ministers, and leaders of the world’s six Arctic Indigenous organizations, put on a united front at the 2019 Arctic Council ministerial in Rovaniemi, Finland despite the U.S. refusal to sign on to a final declaration that included climate language. All eyes are now on the 2021 ministerial where Iceland will hand over chairmanship of the Arctic Council to Russia. (Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/ AP)
The last quarter of 2020 has witnessed a flurry of activity in the area of Arctic governance and cooperation, including the recent publication of revised regional white papers by both Norway [
in Norwegian] and Sweden, (with an updated Arctic policy from Denmark soon to follow). As well, it was announced this week that the Arctic Economic Council (AEC), based in Tromsø, would be appointing Mads Qvist Frederiksen, formerly of the Confederation of Danish Industry, as its new director.
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