"The outcomes of the #COP30 negotiations were once again incredibly disappointing. While we saw important advancements to include a #JustTransition mechanism away from #FossilFuels — the focus continued to be on #ClimateFinance, mobilized through banks and the private sector, and implementing #FalseSolutions like carbon markets and nature based removals that threaten human rights and do nothing to address the root causes of the climate crisis."
#FalseSolutions
"There is a major disconnect between the promises of carbon markets and the practical realities."
"99 per cent of farmers reported receiving no financial rewards."
"28 per cent of participating farmers discontinued these practices by the second year."
"27 per cent of farmers experienced a decline in yields."
#CarbonSinks #CarbonCredit #ClimateFinance #ClimateAction #FalseSolutions
🌍 As #COP30 approaches in #Belém, the legal and moral case for urgent #ClimateAction is undeniable.
CIEL experts will be on the ground and online to cut through the noise and spotlight:
✅ #FossilFuel phaseout
✅ #ClimateJustice
✅ Real #Accountability
✅ No to #FalseSolutions
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The Rise and Fall of #NuScale: a nuclear cautionary tale
Kelly Campbell
October 29, 2024
"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.
"As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as #UAMPS.
"This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true.
"And it was.
"Turns out, NuScale was a #HouseOfCards. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023.
"After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares.
"NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies.
"Why should you care? A different nuclear company, #XEnergy, now in partnership with #AmazonCorp, wants to build and operate small modular #nuclear reactors [#SMRs] near the #ColumbiaRiver, 250 miles upriver from #PortlandOR. #BillGates’s darling, the #Natrium reactor in #Wyoming is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these #FalseSolutions to the #ClimateCrisis divert public resources from #renewables, #EnergyEfficiency and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis.
"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis.
"While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with #UraniumMining and #UraniumMilling which decimates #IndigenousLands. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on #Indigenous and #LowIncome communities.
:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site.
"In #Oregon, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place."
#EnvironmentalRacism #HoltecLies
#NuclearLies #TEPCOLied
#NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #Hanford #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies
More federal funding will only make things worse, leaving states dependent on the federal government to administer their elections. The framers wisely left elections in the hands of the states. To our own detriment, we have ignored that wisdom. #AlabamaElections #FalseSolutions #SecureElections
https://1819news.com/news/item/state-rep-ed-oliver-its-time-to-take-election-security-seriously
I have always been curious why people, especially legislators, seem to be concerned about voter participation. Shouldn't the goal be to improve government? How does improving voter participation improve government? It doesn't. If there was an effort to improve voter participation among 'informed' voters, then it might improve government. Maybe they should just adjust for the inaccurate voter rolls? #AlabamaElections #ElectionTheater #FalseSolutions
https://1819news.com/news/item/municipal-elections-historically-low-turnout-with-high-stakes-consequences
We can join committees, form coalitions, and increase voter turnout, but none of that will be effective if we don't regain local control of the administration of our elections. We will continue to be subjected to the gradual loss of our republican form of government. #AlabamaElections #ReturntoBasics #FalseSolutions
https://1819news.com/news/item/charles-kiplinger-reclaiming-alabamas-conservative-voice
ACTIE · Defend Rempang island!
When the Indigenous population of Rempang heard that they would be forced to leave the island to make space for a solar panel factory, they immediately resisted.
The state, strengthened by investors, responded by sending 1000 cops and soldiers to the island, who forcefully made their way through a peoples' blockade. Het Actiefonds supported actions in solidarity with the people of Rempang and the fight for a truly just transition.
🧵1/5 🚨CIEL sounds the alarm: New #EUClimateLaw’s 90% target is climate action in name only. It leans on #FalseSolutions including international offsets, which lets polluters evade responsibility. You can’t offset your way to a livable future!
3/ The report is crystal clear: ✅Stop ALL new fossil fuel projects ❌No more licenses or expansion 🚫End subsidies & #DefossilizeNOW There’s no room for #FalseSolutions like carbon capture or geoengineering! We must keep fossil fuels in the ground.
As #ExtremeHeat Bakes US, 160+ #Global Groups Demand 'Real' #ClimateAction
Reject #FalseSolutions, such as #NaturalGas, #MegaDams, #geoengineering, #bioenergy, forest offsets, #CarbonTrading schemes, #NuclearEnergy, biodiversity credits, and #CarbonCapture and storage.
Jessica Corbett
Jun 23, 2025
Excerpt: " 'While #governments and #corporations push us deeper into #ClimateChaos, movements around the world are rising,' she noted. 'From every corner of the Earth, women leaders are coming together with solutions and strategies to defend our planet and our communities. We call on governments and financial institutions to heed their voices and ensure effective and equitable policies—from Bonn to Belém and beyond. We must rise boldly, because climate change is not waiting for politics. Our movements are not bending. We are not breaking. We are defining and building a healthy and just future for all.'
"The new call to action points out that 'last year, the world breached this threshold with global average temperatures exceeding 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels. This alarming milestone is not yet a permanent breach of the Paris agreement guardrail, which refers to long-term warming, although scientists predict that 2024 will be the first of a 20-year period reaching 1.5ºC warming.'
" 'Although the pathway is drastically narrowing, the International Energy Agency affirms that the goal of the Paris agreement is still attainable,' the publication continues. 'Scientists assert that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC will require significant and urgent action from governments and financial institutions.'
"Specifically, the coalition outlined 10 broad actions for governments and financial institutions, beginning with urging both the public and private sectors to end fossil fuel expansion and extraction, and to 'reject false solutions, such as natural gas, mega-dams, geoengineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, nuclear energy, biodiversity credits, and carbon capture and storage.'
"The collective also called for accelerating a just transition, promoting women's leadership and gender equity, protecting the rights of #IndigenousPeoples, safeguarding #forests and #biodiversity, preserving oceans and freshwater, advancing #FoodSecurity and #sovereignty, implementing the #RightsOfNature, providing robust climate finance, and cutting off financial institutions' support for 'harmful projects and redirecting resources into climate solutions.' "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-solutions
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Klimatkris #WaterIsLife #Heatwaves #NoNukes #CorporateColonialism #CapitalismKills #ClimateSolutions #Greenwashing
From Palestine to Panama, Sri Lanka to Senegal, our fisher communities, especially women, Indigenous peoples, and youth, are resisting. We are not here to tick participation boxes—we are here to set the agenda and demand justice.
We are the oceans. We are the waters. We are the peoples.
#COP2 #OceanPeoples #StopOceanGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ReclaimOurOceans #UNOC3Counter #MaritorialRights #FalseSolutions #WFFP #ClimateJustice #FisherResistance #OurOceanOurFuture
Once and for all.
#BlueSky is a #FalseSolution.
Just like 'Climate Smart Agriculture' or Redd+ is.
None of these are meant to solve any issues.
All these are ways and means to stop anyone from challenging corporate power. All these are ways to maintain the status quo.
So fall for real solutions.
Chuck #FalseSolutions.
"They roll back environmental and social protections: pulling out of agreements on climate mitigation, desperately promoting a building boom, directing expenditure to the military, promoting non-solutions such as nuclear power, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, all in the name of GDP growth, for they know no other god."
Ever heard of #CleanTransitionDialogues? 🇪🇺channel for co-regulation with #FossilFuel industry & other #BigPolluters pushing their #falsesolutions like #H2 #CCS @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu “I am very grateful for these dialogues because the results have shaped the priorities of my new Commission”
#CID deepens 🇪🇺 commitment to #FalseSolutions to the climate emergency like #H2, #CCS #CarbonRemovals & boosts #gas Keeps #BigEnergy in the driving seat with: ⚠️ industry-led alliances on hydrogen + raw materials ⚠️ industry forum on CCS ⚠️ industry-only advisory group on securing new gas
Wasted opportunity to properly discuss a huge portfolio on competition, climate & industrial policies. What’s on the table now is a charter for deregulation & #FalseSolutions to the #ClimateCrisis 2/
corporateeurope.org/en/2024/09/c...
'Competitiveness': inside the ...
#CensoredNews: United Nations #COP16 #Biodiversity Conference in Colombia
October 22, 2024
"#CaseyCampHorinek, #Ponca, is at COP16 in Cali, Colombia today. "The Ponca Nation is on the ground here at COP16 in Colombia, trying to raise up the issue of #FalseSolutions to the climate conference, like #CarbonCredits and #BiodiversityCredits that are killing #nature.' She said #FossilFuels must be phased out.
"The #PoncaNation is among the nations of the world that have followed #Ecuador's lead and recognized the #RightsOfNature by law.
Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, spoke today on false solutions, including carbon credits which allow #corporations to continue and #pollute. 'Don't give them permission to murder.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/live-from-united-nations-cop16.html
#RightsofNature #Biodiversity #PeaceWithNature #IndigenousRights #ClimateAction #COP16 #WECAN #ProtectOurPlanet #GBF #KMGBF #BiodiversityProtection #UNBiodiversity
Our research in the #Climate #FalseSolutions newsletter!
"Ladanijirah found that many of the future energy scenarios predicted by the database heavily relied on false solutions (such as bioenergy, hydroelectricity, and nuclear power), and therefore concluded that “a radically different approach may be necessary for the construction of justice-based scenarios.”
🤫 Why is the EU pushing industry's #FalseSolutions like risky, costly #CCS when better alternatives exist?
Welcome to the #ICMForum, a club of the #FossilFuel industry designing EU’s key energy policies.
#ICMForum meets in Pau 🇫🇷October 10-11
Read all about it 👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/CarbonCoupRevisited
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