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On this week's A Rational Fear we chat with Richie Merzian live in Belem — recorded on Tuesday — and this morning we found out that Australia will not be hosting COP31. Regardless there is lots of fun goss about the machinations of trying to win the COP31 bid. www.arationalfear.com

Australia will not host COP31 but Bowen will be COP President.
With a leaders meeting pre-COP in a pacific island.

Australia’s economic complexity ranking is at a low. @albomp.bsky.social’s response - cut CSIRO staff by 300 - 350🤦‍♂️.

Plenty of money for opulent projects like #AUKUS to fill foreign wallets, not so much money for our future prosperity. #auspol

I met Charlie Kirk in 2015… a real jerk.

That is all.

what

Am so dissatisfied with Labor…

Ruined my 2026 already.

They really know how to activate a guy to run against them.

Congratulations to Labor on running the world’s least convincing campaign to host COP31…

From Peter Malinauskis’ refundable ticket to Brazil

To Albo’s no-show at COP30

Chris Bowen was man of the hour on Monday night in Belém. The Carbon Market Institute hosted the reception for his arrival in Brazil, a tradition at every COP and the presence of the Climate Change and Energy Minister was the drawcard. The event was billed as an exclusive, RSVP-only event with an open bar, held in the massive exhibition hall in front of the Australia pavilion, next door to the Turkish pavilion and directly across from China. Before long the number of people who turned up spilled out beyond the walkway, and the organisers had given up. Bowen had moved through the crowd, shaking hands and making small talk until it came time to speak. His subject was Australia’s bid to host COP-31 in South Australia and his address was designed to rally the troops. People had come to him saying they had heard Australia was giving up, he said, others had suggested Australia had it in the bag. Australia took a “pragmatic” and “sensible” approach to climate change, he said. Turkiye was still refusing to budge in an act of brinkmanship with both the COP process and the nomination, but Australia was not giving up and would keep pushing until the last. “It is not done yet, it is not resolved,” Bowen said. “We’re in it to win it, we’re in it to the end.” It was a phrase Bowen had repeated throughout the day, a typically Australian appeal to sporting idioms when under pressure, one that felt flat to outsiders. His presence, however, had suddenly filled a vacuum. Australia had initially sent Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy Josh Wilson to represent the government in the opening stages of the process. Wilson flew out on Thursday, and in the four days before Bowen’s arrival on Sunday, the vacuum in leadership it created left the Australian delegation without a decision maker. Into this gap flooded an ocean of rumour, speculation, gossip, cynicism and unbounded optimism. Once on the ground, Bowen had wisely sought to make his presence felt. On Monday, he …

A day later, Australia was criticised for sitting out a public call by more than 20 climate ministers for a clear roadmap away from fossil fuels to be adopted before the end of the conference. On Tuesday afternoon, local time in Belém, the group appeared at a press conference organised by the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, to demonstrate public support for a plan outlining how the world might phase out oil, gas and coal. It included Ed Miliband, UK Secretary of State, Climate Change and Energy, Tina Stege, Climate Envoy for Marshall Islands, Carsten Schneider, German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety of Germany, Irene Velez Torres, Colombian Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development, Ali Mohamed, Kenyan Climate Change Envoy, Jiwoh Abdulai and Sierra Leone’s Minister for Environment and Climate. Absent was Bowen, although Australia is understood to have privately signalled support for the adoption of a roadmap in some form. Speaking at the conference, Miliband said that the group represented a “global coalition with Global North and Global South countries” saying the UK was already taking steps to end oil and gas expansion. “We have an opportunity to make COP30 the moment we take forward what we agreed at COP28,” he said. “The actions we are taking in the UK not to issue new oil and gas licenses is about climate, energy security and costs.” “The more secure option for us is cheap, clean renewables. We prioritise this not because it is easy, but because it is hard. This is an issue that must not be ignored, cannot be ignored, and we are saying very clearly it must be at the heart of this cop.” Tina Stege, Climate envoy, Republic of Marshall Islands, described current proposals as “weak”.

Oh wow, this @roycerk2.bsky.social piece on Australia at #COP30

@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social turns up a at a carbon offsets lobby group event - and misses the fossil fuel exit roadmap event.

reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...

The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol

Ed is so good

Lewis Hobba in last week's podcast had a great point — that Labor is hedging on every issue.

They simultaneously have Bow3n out here saving the planet while Watt is out here allowing more methane processing than ever.

The slow degradation of the CSIRO is music to the ears of fossil fuel industry groups.... the government works for them. not us.

Finally a table at Otto is available

Convinced AGI is only used in the group chat for in jokes…how is OpenAI going to monetise that?

CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.

"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."

This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.

www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

Illegal Immigration etc etc.

We'll still send them gasssssssss

Oh no if only someone could have predicted this might happen

Your reminder #cop30 that #Australia has increased gas production by 360% since 2000. Stats c/o @iea.org:

Running into COP30 with Oil and Gas As COP30 gets underway in Brazil, a new report spotlights increased oil and gas production from the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed a decade ago.

Since Paris Agreement, the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada have increased oil and gas production by 40%. At #COP30, some of these same countries have blocked a demand by G-77 (~134 Global South countries) for a just transition mechanism to support workers. ICYMI

drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI

Yep bought one of those! Lol

#BREAKING 🚨 Dugald Saunders has announced his resignation as NSW Nationals leader after two years

Saunders says it is "the right time to allow a new leader to take up the fight" ahead of the 2027 state election, but will remain in parliament

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www.research.net/r/CHSR36G

And the LNP dumps Net Zero

Love the ephemera!