Every year, the annual UN climate conference heralds two weeks of intergovernmental pantomime. Without fail, we are told that time is running out, that it’s one minute to midnight, that we are drinking in the last chance saloon, and that it’s the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/cop26-was-a-flop-yet-again/

Unreliabilitiy of renewables has been put in the spotlight by the revelation that the official electricity supplier to COP26, the Griffin wind farm in Scotland, has been paid substantial constraint payments during the conference.

https://www.netzerowatch.com/cop26-windfarm-highlights-foolish-energy-policies/

On 3 November 2021, a lack of wind power led to skyrocketing costs on the GB Balancing Mechanism. Only fossil fuels saved the day.

https://www.netzerowatch.com/coal-keeps-lights-on-at-cop26-as-low-wind-strikes-again/

China has been keen to emphasise its ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 and has announced a target to achieve a 65% reduction in the emissions intensity of its economy by 2030. However, some analysts have suggested that all is not as it seems.

https://www.netzerowatch.com/webinar-cop26-what-are-chinas-real-intentions/

To mitigate the impacts of the price crunch, coal power plants have been reopened and  governments have rolled back taxes for energy companies, essentially providing subsidies for fossil fuels. The current hike in energy prices is threatening to overshadow the COP26 _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/europes-energy-crisis-risks-derailing-cop26/

London, 20 September – The Global Warning Policy Forum (GWPF) is calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to take swift and radical action to suspend damaging climate policies and prevent the looming energy crisis from turning into an economic and _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/suspend-climate-policies-and-cancel-cop26-to-save-britain-from-looming-energy-disaster/

More evidence is emerging that Boris Johnson’s COP26 plans are in serious trouble: According to reports in the Sunday Telegraph, Britain is facing global embarrassment because the government is unlikely to have passed its flagship Environment Bill in time for _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/cop26-crisis-deepens-as-boris-johnson-plans-last-ditch-attempt-to-save-un-climate-summit/

After months of hype, hubris and denial UK officials have finally acknowledged that Boris Johnson’s shambolic climate diplomacy and the COP26 summit in Glasgow are heading for the rocks. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that leaked documents reveal that China _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/as-predicted-cop26-at-risk-of-failure-over-chinas-refusal-to-slash-emissions/

Days after China sent US climate envoy John Kerry home empty handed, Beijing has given Alok Sharma, the COP26 President and the UK’s senior climate official, the same message: China won’t cave in to Western demands, plunging Joe Biden’s and _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/un-climate-summit-cop26-in-trouble-as-china-rebuffs-uk/

The Independent on Sunday is reporting that some of the world’s top financial figures are resigned to what we have been predicting for some time — the likely failure of the UN climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) to achieve ‘anything _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/financial-leaders-have-given-up-on-anything-meaningful-being-achieved-at-cop26/

Up to 15 applications from nuclear-related bodies are understood to have been rejected by Mr Sharma’s COP26 Unit in the Cabinet Office Alok Sharma has come under fire for preventing a series of nuclear bodies from displaying exhibits at the COP26 _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/uk-govt-under-fire-as-nuclear-industry-claim-they-have-been-banned-from-cop26/

This November, political leaders from the West will attempt to formalise a more radical emission reduction strategy at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow. However, with the growing opposition to Net Zero plans and other extreme emission reduction policies like the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/vijay-jayaraj-indias-energy-priorities-are-a-major-roadblock-for-net-zero-and-cop26/