From Bonn to budget reconciliation, climate talks heat up

Diplomats from around the world will converge in Bonn, Germany, this week to prepare for the next United Nations climate conference in Egypt in November.

The talks will reveal whether nations intend to follow through on their commitments from the U.N. climate summit in Scotland last fall, despite heightened geopolitical tensions and a global energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile in Washington, congressional Democrats will return to Capitol Hill this week in the hopes of clinching a deal on President Biden's stalled budget reconciliation bill, including its $555 billion package of climate provisions.

...“In the context of the current war and global instability, countries are doubling down on fossil fuel production, using the pretext of ‘energy security’ and a global recession to justify new avenues for fossil fuel extraction,” Mohamed Adow, director of the Nairobi-based climate and energy think tank Power Shift Africa, said in an email to The Climate 202. “We call out this hypocrisy and lies and demand an equitable and just phaseout of all fossil fuels.”