Global Methane Pledge | Sep. 19, 2021

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Greenhouse gas emissions
Infrared camera footage showing a plume of methane gas flowing from a vent stack. The gas is 80 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. 

​US and EU pledge 30% cut in methane emissions to limit global heating

Major commitment with deadline of 2030 is big advance towards reaching 1.5C goal set out in Paris agreement

Sep. 17 - ​The US and the EU made a joint pledge on Friday to cut global methane emissions by almost a third in the next decade, in what climate experts hailed as one of the most significant steps yet towards fulfilling the Paris climate agreement.

The pledge came as the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, warned of a “high risk of failure” at the vital UN climate talks, Cop26, set for Glasgow this November.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, about 80 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, and emissions have been rising in recent years. Natural gas production and fracking, meat production and other forms of agriculture are among the chief sources.

The pact between the US and the EU sets a target of cutting at least 30% from global methane emissions, based on 2020 levels, by 2030. If adopted around the world, this would reduce global heating by 0.2C by the 2040s, compared with likely temperature rises by then. The world is now about 1.2C hotter now than in pre-industrial times....     more

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In an interview with WSJ’s Timothy Puko, U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry explains the roles he’d like to see the private sector and countries play in fighting climate change

​Biden Says U.S. Working With EU on Pledge to Cut Global Methane Emissions

​President encourages others to join in target of cutting global emissions by nearly a third by 2030
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Joint US-EU Press Release on the Global Methane Pledge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES

​The United States and European Union announced today the Global Methane Pledge, an initiative to reduce global methane emissions to be launched at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in November in Glasgow.  President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urged countries at the U.S.-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate to join the Pledge and welcomed those that have already signaled their support.  

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and, according to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, accounts for about half of the 1.0 degree Celsius net rise in global average temperature since the pre-industrial era. Rapidly reducing methane emissions is complementary to action on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and is regarded as the single most effective strategy to reduce global warming in the near term and keep the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach.  

Countries joining the Global Methane Pledge commit to a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030 and moving towards using best available inventory methodologies to quantify methane emissions, with a particular focus on high emission sources. Delivering on the Pledge would reduce warming by at least 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2050. Countries have widely varying methane emissions profiles and reduction potential, but all can contribute to achieving the collective global goal through additional domestic methane reduction and international cooperative actions. Major sources of methane emissions include oil and gas, coal, agriculture, and landfills. These sectors have different starting points and varying potential for short-term methane abatement with the greatest potential for targeted mitigation by 2030 in the energy sector.  

Methane abatement delivers additional important benefits, including improved public health and agricultural productivity.  According to the Global Methane Assessment from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), achieving the 2030 goal can prevent over 200,000 premature deaths, hundreds of thousands of asthma-related emergency room visits, and over 20 million tons of crop losses a year by 2030 by reducing ground-level ozone pollution caused in part by methane.  

The European Union and eight countries have already indicated their support for the Global Methane Pledge. These countries include six of the top 15 methane emitters globally and together account for over one-fifth of global methane emissions and nearly half of the global economy.

The European Union has been taking steps to reduce its methane emissions for almost three decades. The European Commission strategy adopted in 1996 helped reduce methane emissions from landfilling by almost a half.  Under the European Green Deal, and to support the European Union’s commitment to climate neutrality by 2050, the European Union adopted in October 2020 a strategy to reduce methane emissions in all key sectors covering energy, agriculture and waste. The reduction of methane emissions in the current decade is an important part of the European Union’s ambition for reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. This year, the European Commission will propose legislation to measure, report and verify methane emission, put limits on venting and flaring, and impose requirements to detect leaks, and repair them.  The European Commission is also working to accelerate the uptake of mitigation technologies through the wider deployment of ‘carbon farming’ in European Union Member States and through their Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plans, and to promote biomethane production from agricultural waste and residues. Finally, the European Commission is supporting UNEP in establishing an independent International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) to address the global data gap and transparency in this area, including through a financial contribution. IMEO will play an important role in creating a sound scientific basis for methane emissions calculations and delivering the Global Methane Pledge in this regard.

The United States is pursuing significant methane reductions on multiple fronts. In response to an Executive Order that President Biden issued on the first day of his presidency, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promulgating new regulations to curtail methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. In parallel, the EPA has taken steps to implement stronger pollution standards for landfills, and the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials and Safety Administration is continuing to take steps that will reduce methane leakage from pipelines and related facilities. At the President’s urging and in partnership with U.S. farmers and ranchers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to significantly expand the voluntary adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices that will reduce methane emissions from key agriculture sources by incentivizing the deployment of improved manure management systems, anaerobic digesters, new livestock feeds, composting, and other practices. The U.S. Congress is considering supplemental funding that would support many of these efforts. Among the proposals before the Congress, for example, is a major initiative to plug and remediate orphaned and abandoned oil, gas, and coal wells and mines, which would significantly reduce methane emissions.  In addition, the United States continues to support collaborative international methane mitigation efforts, especially through its leadership of the Global Methane Initiative and CCAC.

​The European Union and eight countries have already indicated their support for the Global Methane Pledge: 

• Argentina
• European Union 
• Ghana
• Indonesia
• Iraq
• Italy
• Mexico
• United Kingdom
• United States

The United States, the European Union, and other early supporters will continue to enlist additional countries to join the Global Methane Pledge pending its formal launch at COP 26.

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Sep 19, 2021

How can I take your picture if…
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Fuss-Budget
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Good night, Herr Beethoven!
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How can you stand being so good to me?
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You’re so…
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Davenport
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That’s the way it goes
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Snoopy & Lucy
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James Blunt | Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals/黑煙訊號

"Smoke Signials"

One by one they pass me by

And I used up my supplies

Out of water

Out of hope

Can't make fire

Only smoke

 

Here I am alone in silence

Cast away on a desert island

A traveler in ocean

lost at sea

 

Smoke signals in the night sky

Hope you see them as you pass by

I'm screaming from a clifftop

You're the only one that got to rescue me

To rescue me

Why can't you see, why can't you see?

I don't think that I'll survive

I'll die here without you

Oh, I can't live without you

 

Sun comes up

The Sun goes down

Wonder if I'd ever be found

 

Here I am alone in silence

Cast away on a desert island

A traveler in ocean

Lost at sea

 

Smoke signals in the night sky

Hope you see them as you pass by

I'm screaming from a clifftop

You're the only one that got to rescue me

To rescue me

Why can't you see, why can't you see?

I don't think that I'll survive

I'll die here without you

Oh, I can't live without you

 

Smoke signals in the night sky

Hope you see them as you pass by

I'm screaming from a clifftop

You're the only one that got to rescue me

To rescue me

Why can't you see, why can't you see?

I don't think that I'll survive

I'll die here without you

Oh, I can't live without you

"Smoke Signals"

by James Blunt | Translated by yy

《黑煙訊號》

一個接一個地在我面前溜走

而我用盡我的補充用品

水用完了

希望也沒有了

無法起火

只有黑煙

無言的我一個人在這兒

被丟在荒島上

一位海洋中的旅客

在海上迷路

夜空下的黑煙訊號 

希望你經過我的時候會看得見

我在斷崖高峰嘶聲吶喊

只有你，你一定要救我

一定要救我

你為何看不見呢，你為何看不見呢？

我想我無法繼續生存下去

沒有你我就死在這兒

喔，沒有你我就活不成了

太陽出來 

太陽降落

我想知道真的有人會發現我嗎

 

無言的我一個人在這兒

被丟在荒島上

一位海洋中的旅客

在海上迷路

 

夜空下的黑煙訊號 

希望你經過我的時候會看得見

我在斷崖高峰嘶聲吶喊

只有你，你一定要救我

一定要救我

你為何看不見呢，你為何看不見呢？

我想我無法繼續生存下去

沒有你我就死在這兒

喔，沒有你我就活不成了

 

夜空下的黑煙訊號 

希望你經過我的時候會看得見

我在斷崖高峰嘶聲吶喊

只有你，你一定要救我

一定要救我

你為何看不見呢，你為何看不見呢？

我想我無法繼續生存下去

沒有你我就死在這兒

喔，沒有你我就活不成了

James Blunt | OK

OK/沒事

I really need you

I really need your love right now, I'm fading fast

Not gonna last

I'm really stupid

I'm burning up, I'm going down

I win it back

Don't even ask.

 

When I find myself in the middle, in the middle, in the middle

Could you love me more, just a little, just a little?

Over-complicate but it's simple, but it's simple, but it's simple

Would you love me more, just a little?

 

So tell me now

When every star falls from the sky

And every last heart in the world breaks

Oh hold me now

When every ship is going down

I don't fear nothing when I hear you say.

 

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK.

 

I'm really sorry

Sorry I dragged you into this

I overthink, that's all it is

The way you love me

The way you love me 'til the end

The way you love me

Oh yeah, it makes me king again.

 

When I find myself in the middle, in the middle, in the middle

Could you love me more, just a little, just a little?

Over-complicate but it's simple, but it's simple, but it's simple

Would you love me more, just a little?

 

So tell me now

When every star falls from the sky

And every last heart in the world breaks

Oh hold me now

When every ship is going down

I don't fear nothing when I hear you say.

 

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK.

 

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK.

 

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK

It's gonna be OK.

 

When every star falls from the sky

And every last heart in the world breaks

It's gonna be OK

When every ship is going down

I don't fear nothing when I hear you say

It's gonna be OK (OK, OK, OK, OK).

《沒事》

我非常需要妳

我現在非常需要妳的愛，我就快要昏倒

快支持不住

我好笨

我著火了，我的情緒低沈

結果我贏回她嗎？

答案是沒有這還得問

當我發現自己是一位中年人，中年人 ，中年人

妳能否再愛我，多一點，一點就好了

異常複雜，但卻是很簡單，很簡單，很簡單

妳可否願意再愛我，多一點就好了？

 

所以現在請告訴我

當天上的每顆星掉下來時

和世界最後一顆心破碎時

現在請抓緊我啊

當每艄船在往下沉沒時

當我明白你的意思時我就一點都不害怕

過一會兒就沒事啦 

過一會兒就沒事啦

過一會兒就沒事啦

過一會兒就沒事啦

我感覺非常內疚

抱歉把妳拖入這個

我想太多了，只是那樣子而已

當妳愛我時的那付模樣

當妳愛我時的那付模樣直到劇終

當妳愛我時的那付模

哦是的，使我感覺像過去當國王的我

當我發現自己是一位中年人，中年人 ，中年人

妳能否再愛我，多一點，一點就好了

異常複雜，但卻是很簡單

妳可否願意再愛我，多一點？

 

所以現在請告訴我

當天上的每顆星掉下來時

世界最後一顆心破碎時

現在請抓緊我啊

當每艄船在往下沉沒時

當我明白你的意思時，我就一點都不害怕

過一會兒就沒事啦 

過一會兒就沒事啦

過一會兒就沒事啦

過一會兒就沒事啦

 

過一會兒就沒事啦 

過一會兒就沒事啦

過一會兒就沒事啦

過一會兒就沒事啦

 

過一會兒就沒事啦 

過一會兒就沒事啦

過一會兒就沒事啦

過一會兒就沒事啦

 

當天上的每顆星掉下來時

世界最後一顆心破碎時

過一會兒就沒事啦

當每艄船在往下沉沒時

當我明白你的意思時我就一點都不害怕

過一會兒就沒事啦 (沒事，沒事，沒事，沒事)

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Xi-Biden talks | Sep. 11, 2021

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President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi hold first phone call in seven months
Sep 10, 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke for the first time since February on Friday.

It marked the second call between the leaders since Biden took office in January, as tensions between the world’s two largest economies simmer.

“President Biden underscored the United States’ enduring interest in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict,” the White House said in a readout of the call released Friday morning.

Chinese state media confirmed the call shortly afterwards.

Xi said in the report that, “on the basis of respecting each other’s core concerns and properly managing differences,” relevant departments of the two countries can engage for cooperation on climate, Covid prevention, economic recovery and major international and regional issues.

He said if there’s “confrontation” between China and the U.S., “both countries and the world will suffer,” while all will benefit if the two nations work together. That’s according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese text.

The state media report also included some description of Biden’s comments, including a remark that: “The two countries have no reason to fall into conflict as a result of competition.”

The two leaders last spoke just before the Lunar New Year — China’s most important holiday — in February in a call Biden said lasted two hours.

Friday’s call, which lasted for about 90 minutes, discussed a range of transnational issues and touched on economic issues, although that aspect of U.S.-China policy remains under review, Reuters reported, citing a senior U.S. administration official. The two leaders are able to be candid and honest with each other without lecturing, the official said.

The U.S. focus must be on rallying partners and allies, the official said in the report.

Both countries build regional ties

Biden’s strategy for dealing with China has centered on working with traditional U.S. allies. The preceding Trump administration had taken a more singlehanded approach of applying tariffs and sanctions on China in an effort to address longstanding business complaints of unequal market access and forced technology transfer.

The geopolitical landscape has grown more complex this summer with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban in a region that shares a border with China.

In the last several months, both China and the U.S. have increased efforts to build up political and economic ties with regional partners.

On Thursday, Xi said at a virtual meeting of the five BRICS countries — China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa and India — that Beijing would chair the BRICS summit next year and looked forward to working more with member nations, according to state media.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired this year’s meeting.

Morning News NOW Full Broadcast - September 10​
Sep 11, 2021
President Biden announces his new Covid-19 plan that includes mandating vaccines for millions of Americans, the president and vice president prepare to pay their respects at sites of 9/11on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, and how the Department of Homeland Security has grown since its post-9/11 creation. 

Overseas experts say Xi-Biden talks send positive signals to world
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Sep 11 - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday morning took a phone call from his U.S. counterpart, Joseph R. Biden, and the two leaders had candid, in-depth and extensive strategic communication and exchanges on China-U.S. relations and relevant issues of mutual interest.

​The in-depth communication concerning the bilateral relations as well as major international issues between the two heads of states is vital for development of the bilateral ties, and the two sides should bring China-U.S. relations back to the right track of stable development as soon as possible for the good of the people in both countries and around the world, experts have said.

Martin Jacques, former senior fellow at the University of Cambridge, hailed the phone call between Xi and Biden as "a welcome development," adding that the two sides should continue communication on major issues in a bid to achieve better development of bilateral ties.

Jihad Awdah, a professor of international relations at Egypt's Helwan University, also noted that the phone conversation between the two presidents is an important step to ensure not turning the current competition between the two countries into future clash that could not be controlled.

The China-U.S. cooperation will prevent world chaos and bring benefits for the world, Awdah added.

As the world's two largest economies, China and the United States should act in good faith and cultivate trust, as paddling back the China-U.S. relations to the path of stability is a task that the two countries must take seriously, said Adhere Cavince, a Kenyan international relations researcher.

The preservation and stabilization of the China-U.S. relations is important for the well-being of people in both countries, and for peace, stability and development of the world, said French writer and sinologist Sonia Bressler.

"History and reality show that China and the United States have everything to gain from cooperating and everything to lose from fighting," she noted.

Biden, Xi hold 'candid' phone call for first time in seven months • FRANCE 24 English
Sep 10, 2021
US President Joe #Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have held a 90-minute telephone conversation, discussing the need to try to avoid their rivalry veering into conflict. The Biden administration has yet to establish a trade policy with #China. Despite worsening diplomatic tensions, bilateral trade has boomed this year, partly due to the pandemic.  Plus, Facebook teams up with #Ray-Ban to launch "smart glasses" that let wearers listen to music, take photos and videos and share them online. 

US President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping are shown in a combined image
US President Biden, Xi Jinping Speak by Phone, With Beijing Saying US ‘Needs Cooperation’

​phone call comes amid growing tensions over Chinese actions in Tibet, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea.

Sep. 9 - U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping spoke in a phone conversation Thursday described by the White House as part of an effort to manage competition between the two powers, while Beijing on Friday called the outreach driven by American “anxiety” and need for Chinese cooperation on a range of global issues.

The conversation on Thursday night U.S. time, the two leaders’ second since Biden took office in January, covered “areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values, and perspectives diverge,” the White House said in a Sept. 9 statement.

“This discussion, as President Biden made clear, was part of the United States’ ongoing effort to responsibly manage the competition between the United States and the [People’s Republic of China],” the White House said.

“President Biden underscored the United States’ enduring interest in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world, and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict.”

China’s state-controlled media asserted on Friday that China had gained the upper hand in the exchange, however, noting that the conversation had been initiated at the request of the United States.

The phone call “highlighted Washington’s growing anxiety and need for China’s cooperation on key global issues,” including the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, climate change, and efforts to contain the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, China’s Global Times said in a Sept. 10 report.

“While the discussions sent positive signals that both sides are aiming to maintain communication, the U.S. should take more action in correcting previous wrong deeds and respecting China’s interests, and not expecting China to cooperate while keeping it as an adversary,” the nationalistic, Chinese Communist Party-backed tabloid said...     more

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