EPISODE · Dec 12, 2023 · 13 MIN
Climate News: 'Climate Defiance' protestors disrupt Exxon-Mobil presentation; COP28 on ABC's 7:30 Report
from Climate Conversations · host Robert McLean
Exxon-Mobil was about to acknowledge and celebrate one of its own when "Climate Defiance" protestors ruined the party. COP28 features on "7:30 Report"; "Jasper to unleash 140km/h winds, dump life-threatening rain"; "‘I’ll just eat on the way’: A climate activist’s 18-hour sprint through COP28"; "Refugees use plants to fight malaria & climate change in Uganda"; "Weather tracker: temperatures hit 43.5C in Australia as 2023 on track to be hottest year"; "Dutch-led coalition moves to phase out fossil fuel subsidies at COP28"; "5 Major Climate Tipping Points Could Be Triggered Within a Decade, Report Warns"; "Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’"; "Protesters at UN COP28 climate summit demonstrate for imprisoned Emirati, Egyptian activists"; "Azerbaijan chosen to host Cop29 after fraught negotiations"; "The Anthropocene Judgments Project: Futureproofing the Common Law"; "Specter of second Trump term looms over global climate talks"; "Cop28 draft agreement drops call for fossil fuel phase out"; "Corporate Cop28: How a defining moment for the climate has been taken over by fossil fuel executives"; "Science vs greed at COP28"; "Time to Rethink Climate Finance"; "At COP28, Vanuatu and Tuvalu lead the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to address climate crisis"; "Fossil fuel phase-out will ‘not avert climate breakdown without protections for nature’"; "OPEC Leader Tells Members to Block Any Climate Summit Deal to Curb Fossil Fuels"; "The hidden death toll of flooding in Bangladesh sends a grim signal about climate and health"; "The Climate Summit Scene: 70,000 People and a Nightly Light Show"; "Cop28 failing on climate adaptation finance so far, African group warns"; "Weather tracker: temperatures hit 43.5C in Australia as 2023 on track to be hottest year": "Tuvalu ex-foreign minister seeks Australia pact changes": "Floods and environmental flows a boon for south-east Australia’s waterbirds, survey shows"; "Thousands of bats likely wiped out after soaring temperatures smash starving colonies"; "Used EVs will soon become much easier to get. This is how to choose a reliable one"; "COP28: Draft agreement 'disappointing', 'insufficient' and 'not adequate', says EU climate chief"; "COP28: Fossil fuel pledges not enough to limit warming, IEA says and food agreements on the table"; "'None of us have had much sleep': Countries urged to phase out fossil fuels on COP28's final days"; "Negative emitters: Denmark leads group of nations aiming to remove more CO2 than they emit"; "‘Stay safe’: Bureau of Meteorology staff evacuated and businesses close as Queensland braces for Cyclone Jasper"; "Anti-Woodside Disrupt Burrup Hub protesters block major Perth street during peak"; "Chris Bowen says agreement on global fossil fuel phase out central to Australia’s renewable energy plans"; "Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent"; "Wall Street Gets Ready to Cash In on $1 Trillion Climate Market"; "There’s a Way to Quit Coal Without Wrecking Jobs and Communities"; "COP28 Enters Final Stretch as UAE Pushes Fossil Fuel Deal"; "Nashville works on recovery as 6 dead following tornadoes, storms": "Major storm slamming East Coast with heavy rain, snow, wind and severe weather"; "8 ways to tone down the Christmas lights to help wildlife – and why we should"; "COP28: ‘We will not go silently to our watery graves"; "Countries Most at Risk Call Proposed Climate Agreement a ‘Death Warrant’"; "The two words island nations are begging to see in a global climate pact"; "Canada’s astonishing and record fire season finally slows down"; "Wintry blast in Europe has brought record snow and bitter cold".
What this episode covers
Exxon-Mobil was about to acknowledge and celebrate one of its own when "Climate Defiance" protestors ruined the party. COP28 features on "7:30 Report"; "Jasper to unleash 140km/h winds, dump life-threatening rain"; "‘I’ll just eat on the way’: A climate activist’s 18-hour sprint through COP28"; "Refugees use plants to fight malaria & climate change in Uganda"; "Weather tracker: temperatures hit 43.5C in Australia as 2023 on track to be hottest year"; "Dutch-led coalition moves to phase out fossil fuel subsidies at COP28"; "5 Major Climate Tipping Points Could Be Triggered Within a Decade, Report Warns"; "Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’"; "Protesters at UN COP28 climate summit demonstrate for imprisoned Emirati, Egyptian activists"; "Azerbaijan chosen to host Cop29 after fraught negotiations"; "The Anthropocene Judgments Project: Futureproofing the Common Law"; "Specter of second Trump term looms over global climate talks"; "Cop28 draft agreement drops call for fossil fuel phase out"; "Corporate Cop28: How a defining moment for the climate has been taken over by fossil fuel executives"; "Science vs greed at COP28"; "Time to Rethink Climate Finance"; "At COP28, Vanuatu and Tuvalu lead the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to address climate crisis"; "Fossil fuel phase-out will ‘not avert climate breakdown without protections for nature’"; "OPEC Leader Tells Members to Block Any Climate Summit Deal to Curb Fossil Fuels"; "The hidden death toll of flooding in Bangladesh sends a grim signal about climate and health"; "The Climate Summit Scene: 70,000 People and a Nightly Light Show"; "Cop28 failing on climate adaptation finance so far, African group warns"; "Weather tracker: temperatures hit 43.5C in Australia as 2023 on track to be hottest year": "Tuvalu ex-foreign minister seeks Australia pact changes": "Floods and environmental flows a boon for south-east Australia’s waterbirds, survey shows"; "Thousands of bats likely wiped out after soaring temperatures smash starving colonies"; "Used EVs will soon become much easier to get. This is how to choose a reliable one"; "COP28: Draft agreement 'disappointing', 'insufficient' and 'not adequate', says EU climate chief"; "COP28: Fossil fuel pledges not enough to limit warming, IEA says and food agreements on the table"; "'None of us have had much sleep': Countries urged to phase out fossil fuels on COP28's final days"; "Negative emitters: Denmark leads group of nations aiming to remove more CO2 than they emit"; "‘Stay safe’: Bureau of Meteorology staff evacuated and businesses close as Queensland braces for Cyclone Jasper"; "Anti-Woodside Disrupt Burrup Hub protesters block major Perth street during peak"; "Chris Bowen says agreement on global fossil fuel phase out central to Australia’s renewable energy plans"; "Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent"; "Wall Street Gets Ready to Cash In on $1 Trillion Climate Market"; "There’s a Way to Quit Coal Without Wrecking Jobs and Communities"; "COP28 Enters Final Stretch as UAE Pushes Fossil Fuel Deal"; "Nashville works on recovery as 6 dead following tornadoes, storms": "Major storm slamming East Coast with heavy rain, snow, wind and severe weather"; "8 ways to tone down the Christmas lights to help wildlife – and why we should"; "COP28: ‘We will not go silently to our watery graves"; "Countries Most at Risk Call Proposed Climate Agreement a ‘Death Warrant’"; "The two words island nations are begging to see in a global climate pact"; "Canada’s astonishing and record fire season finally slows down"; "Wintry blast in Europe has brought record snow and bitter cold".
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Climate News: 'Climate Defiance' protestors disrupt Exxon-Mobil presentation; COP28 on ABC's 7:30 Report
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