Vice President Harris pledges $3 billion from U.S. to climate fund - MSNBC Reports

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Vice President Kamala Harris says that the U.S. is pledging $3 billion to the U.N.'s main climate fund to help developing countries fight climate change. NBC's Josh Lederman reports on the challenge to remain focused on climate at the summit in Dubai due to the Israel-Hamas war. - Aired on 12/02/2023.

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1. Hopefully this will help toward...

...de-railing Saudi Arabia's plans to addict the world's fastest growing population of Africa to oil before Africa has a chance to build out their own sovereign clean energy economy...

The Guardian, Nov. 27, 2023

Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil

Climate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demand

Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed to get countries “hooked on its harmful products”.

Little was known about the oil demand sustainability programme (ODSP) but the investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.

The ODSP plans to accelerate the development of supersonic air travel, which it notes uses three times more jet fuel than conventional planes, and partner with a carmaker to mass produce a cheap combustion engine vehicle. Further plans promote power ships, which use polluting heavy fuel oil or gas to provide electricity to coastal communities.

The ODSP is overseen by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, and involves its biggest organisations, such as the $700bn Public Investment Fund, the world’s largest oil company, Aramco, the petrochemicals firm Sabic, and the government’s most important ministries.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/27/revealed-saudi-arabia-plan-poor-countries-oil

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2. Good Grief! I sure hope so, too!

Thanks for the follow up...