Thursday, January 30, 2020

2020 - the kick-off year of the 100 billion €/year Green Climate Fund! Well happy new year to you all!

2020 - the kick-off year of the 100 billion €/year Green Climate Fund! Well happy new year to you all!

Remember that the ong "Climate Action Network Europe" - CAN-Europe, was so proud to announce it's lobbying succeeded to get rid of the CO2e certificate Emission Trading System - the CDM - Clean Development Mechanism and acceptance of CO2e certificates from tree planting projects in developing countries to the European ETS?

And instead, they got a 100 billion €/year Green Climate Fund by 2020?

Here's a reminder from around 2011:
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  1.  Maeve McLynn, Climate and Development Policy Coordinator maeve /at/ caneurope.org Direct line: +32 2 893 09 50 Climate Action Network Europe.  Ms Maeve McLYNN is very proud that with her CAN they managed to get CDM/JI out of the toolbox with tools the EU-28 society can use to reduce CO2e, bring money to the people that are dying from the global climate destabilisation and who didn't contribute to it.  She is very proud that if these poor people need money, they just have to turn to the Green Climate Fund where 100 billion $ / year is SUPPOSED to be transferred from 2020 onwards.

  2.  Ms. Mette QUINN - Directorate General Climate Action  Ms Mettte QUINN DG Climate Action but previsously from DG Industry - just confirms that it was a political decision that the EU-28 will not use CDM/JI anymore.  
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I tried to change their minds - but - I was pointed to as some evil capitalist.
The fossil lawyers and lobbyists were laughing in their corner with all these young women.  They didn't even have to do anything.  The pseudo-intellectual feminist ecologists dug the hole all by themselves.

Did you spot the mistake? Read again: 
"And instead, they got a 100 billion €/year Green Climate Fund by 2020.'
That's what is said, but not what is written in the official documents, nor what is understood. What is:
"And instead, they got a PROMISE for a 100 billion €/year Green Climate Fund by 2020"
A promise ...

So exchanging the CDM solidarity mechanism - that transferred billions of € every month, something that's working and exchange it for a promise?!  Just because you hate capitalism.  Because you hate the invention of money, of coins?

Who are you kidding?

And don't give me that half-truth story of "fractional money being evil" and mixing it with the benefits with the invention of money coins.   By the way, the banks have to guarantee that fractional money system with their own shares.  Fractional money refers to the practise that banks can have 100 € in their vault and yet write out a loan of 1000 €.  But they have to carry the full load of that risk with the shares and everything that the bank owns.  So if some company doesn't pay back that loan, it comes back with a power of 10 as well, straight in the face of the bank.  So they better double check and know the customer and the sector they're in.  The leverage also indicates that someone who has created an additional value for 100 €, there's 10 other people who come up with additional value, the original team hadn't thought of or just don't have time to develop.  There is no problem with fractional money: it better be the risk of the banks, than it would be - as it was in the past - 100% the job of the central bank -minting the money- to determine in every corner of the country if the additional value was really created or not.  The only ones who have the eyes and feet that can visit every local corner, are the local bank people, which they do, because if they don't and the venture goes bust and no real additional value has been created, it's the bank that has to cough up the lost money.  If you don't agree that the leverage should be 20 but only 10, ok - put it in the law - that's what the EU Central Bank has done after the 2008 financing crisis.  Hey, don't put your money in a private bank, do as I and put it in a cooperative bank and keep an interest in who's managing the bank, people!  Why are you with a bank that pays it's CEO & Co those high salaries? Change bank! Create a cooperative bank? Do something! But don't throw away the child with the bath water! Money is a good invention and so is fractional banking for spreading the risk and preventing concentration of power and risk.  Sorry wandering off.

I was against the removal of the CDM/ETS because it was working: billions of € were transferred from the polluters to the victims, together with technologies and local jobs - especially for women, because what is easier to remove or prevent a ton of CO2e than to plant a tree - replace a wood/coal burning unhealthy stove impacting women's lungs? And how to get it all rolling? Women explaining to women of course when working in a seed-plant-nursing greenhouse.
Image: The 100 Billion €/year Green Climate Fund? At the CDM - ETS we were going to double that in 2012!

But - no - the CAN people had heard there was some corrupt mafia people somewhere in Indonesia/the Philippines who had cut down an ancient forest - got money for the hardwood - then reforested it with palm oil trees and even got CO2e certificates for it as a reforestation project!  Never underestimate how stupid, stupid people are: they didn't know the earth and their forest is being photographed several times a week, and that already for decades - just look up in a nightly sky and check out the satellites flying over; many of them observe earth.  So the trucks cutting down the trees, they've been photographed, taking out the logs, has been photographed, even to where the wood has been taken; the planing of the palm oil trees, idem.
But what CAN didn't tell, is that there is a button on the UNFCCC / CDM pages where you can file a complaint if a project doesn't do as it promised.  It took less than a year to oust the maffia scam, and the advantage of these electronic CO2e certificates, is that you can, of course, delete them with the press of a button and that's what happened.  So the ETS - CDM - CO2e certificate trading worked.

But - no- CAN had it banned.  So let's see what we have in the 2020 kick-off year of the 100 Billion €/year Green Climate Fund: https://www.greenclimate.fund/news/countries-step-up-ambition-landmark-boost-to-coffers-of-the-world-s-largest-climate-fund?inheritRedirect=true&redirect=%2Fhome

Hmm, a bit confusing to find it on the website of Green Climate Fund itself - too much text - too many pics of smiling people posing in Climate COP's etc.

Let's go to good old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Climate_Fund#Sources_of_finance - in which I earned my +1.000 contribution:

"Green Climate Fund ... As at 17 May 2017, a total of US$10.3 billion has been pledged, which is mostly meant to cover start-up costs.[10]"

Oops?! 10 billion instead of 100 billion? That's a bummer.  That's what we did in a couple of months at the time of the Clean Development Mechanism!
And it's "mostly meant to cover start-up costs." ?! What ?! What can possibly cost 10 BILLION $ to start-up?  Have you heard of any start-up asking for 10 BILLION - just to startup?!

Those CAN people and their friends are pretty expensive people if that's what it takes to start-up, aren't they?

But, it was 100 Billion €/year - allow me to change the $ by a €, because you don't really believe there's too many $ in that fund right? It's mostly European money - so please - I know you like talking about Paris time and Berlin Time - but it's actually Brussels Time and €. It is HERE that the decisions are taken and it is HERE that the real money is and the birth of the Green Economy.  Thanks.

So, 100 Billion €/year; maybe the missing 90 Billion € for 2020 will appear as the months to come? I mean let's say you HAVE to spend 10 Billion €/month to get to a 100 Billion €/year - I assume 2 months of holiday because the work is TREMENDOUS to get 10 billion €/month out of the door without it getting stolen.  You need some darn good project preparation - team selection - and follow-up of all the bills - because in those Least Developed Countries - it's crawling of corrupt people who's profession it is to steal your money and who have no idea of what's the difference between bribing 100 €, 1 million €, 10 million €, 100 million € - a lot is a lot - and who's counting when talking about 100 billion € per YEAR !!! Every single year!
That's a win for life! Swimming pools, yachts, champaign, resorts - come to papa, come to mama, come to CAN - we'll make it an eco-friendly resort! But oh baby!

Really - how much is coming -  of that 100 Billion € - EVERY YEAR? Here it is: 
https://www.greenclimate.fund/how-we-work/resource-mobilization/replenishment#unsg-calls

9,801.78 million $

A 100 Billion € Green Climate Fund/year and you're counting with 2 numbers behind the comma? Really? Just to make it look bigger?!

Seriously 9,801,780,000 $ ? 9.8 Billion $? And that's not for this year? It's for 2021?

Nice work CAN - Climate Action Network Europe!  Nice work Ms CAN Maeve McLynn! You just condemned 90% people in the Least Developing Countries. Ow no, sorry, you need the 10 billion for start-up costs.  Happy new year 2020 to CAN - Climate Action Network!

At our cooperative in Burundi, all the fields have flooded because the poor people - fearful of disturbing anybody - built little huts at the top of the steepest hills, to make sure they were not hindering anybody - of course cleared some bushes around their little hut.  Then the rain came - washed all the earth away from the steep hill-tops, more and more trees and bushes got unrooted, all the soil clogged the canalisations towards and in the valleys, and the floods devastated our crops on our fields in the valleys.  Now we're all starving.  Thank you CAN!  We are about the poorest country on the planet! We haven't seen NO money - not ANY money from all your climate funds.  We do have a lot of dead, starving, desperate people here! The poorest first was your slogan, wasn't it?


Bring back that international solidarity mechanism of the ETS and CDM! We have work to do.  You just made us waste 10 years! And for 10 BILLION € start-up costs, I'll make sure there's big red alert button on the front page for everyone to press and signal when a CO2e certificate generating project would be corrupt and the people would get in prison ASAP.  It's actually quite self-regulating: the "capitalist" company or government that needs the CO2e certificates will make damn sure the one who promised to plant the trees in a correct way will do so or they have to shut down their plant or make the fossil cars stop moving in their city.

skype SvenAERTS
Post Grad Engineer
At the annual UNO Global Festival of Action for the Global Goals, 
fundraising project: 1CO2e coins from branches of Space Trees/Peace Trees grown from seeds that germinated in zero gravity at the International Space Station.


We won a prize by the European Commission for our 1CO2e fundraising project from 1CO2e coins generated by planting trees around sport fields and schoolyards in Africa.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

2015 - the year we missed peak temperature, one of the saddest years in Human history ... 2015 was the year where we started the killing the majority of Humanity?

2015 - the year we missed peak temperature,  one of the saddest year in Human history ...

2015 was the year where we started the killing the majority of Humanity?


As per below link, the IPCC found that temperature needed to peak by 2015 to stay below 2°C equivalent energy input. Well, we missed it.  2015 must be the saddest year in Human history? 2015 was the year where we started the killing the majority of Humanity?

As per below link, on the road towards COP21, all nations were asked about their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). The EU-28 engaged itself for -80-95% by 2050 if the rest of the world puts us all on a track to -50% CO2e by 2050 and peak temperature by 2020.  The EU-28 further enters the negotiations with -40% CO2e for 2030. And the EU-28 seems fed up with being the only one to save the planet and won't use CDM nor international JI anymore, that was hundreds of millions of green eco-innovations going to developing countries, hundreds of thousands of local sustainable jobs, all in exchange for CO2e certificates and this every year since 2005.  From now on, we'll do all our CO2e obligations within the EU-28.  The least developed countries and their corrupt regimes want money? They must now go to South Korea where the Green Climate Fund is headquartered and to their own national corrupt GCF delegation offices in the Ministries of Energy, Environment - go figure it out yourselves, I'm fed up writing. Corruption high days: a GCF delegate, just sitting in the GCF national office, waiting for people who need a stamp, make them pay big times and of course a nice % of the money you'll get from the GCF.  CDM is near to death, no more linked futures between rich and poor entrepreneurs, no more entrepreneurialism, no more stick behind the door of companies/financiers that realy need those CDM projects to work because they need the CO2e certificates.  The fossil fuel industry won again, idem the non entrepreneurial NGO's.  The latter did't bother to know the difference between AAU's, EUA's - "Permissions to Pollute" and CDM CER's.  To them it were all "Permissions to Pollute".  Add racism in every community, black facism, slandering endlessly the EU-28, and here's your answer back: a strong EU-28 bone of solidarity has been broken in 2015, dedicated by the EU as year for Development, Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future: no more CDM & JI.

And this in the

  1. 2015–2024 International Decade for People of African Descent #africandescent http://www.un.org/en/events/africandescentdecade/
  2. 2011–2020 Third (!) International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism. 2015-YEAR 5 Time to take stock. Keep the Promise, Claim the Promise? #Colonialism http://www.un.org/en/decolonization/thirdinternatldecade.shtml
  3. 2015 European Year for Development Aid - Our World, Our Future, Our Dignity. #EYD2015
How sad.  I think you didn't even hear about these decades.  I'm just about the only one talking about it here in the EU 28 and I don't have enough network around me, nor let networks or strong organisations enter me nor are they open for collaboration.





I 've set-up AfricaCO2e and the EU and Diaspora Leadership Development Institute and Academy with the EU Diaspora, we're very open, but unfortunately we're no match for the large ngo's and they're not open for collaborating with us.  Myself and our diaspora have to jiggle too many plates at the same time in the air: surviving, trying to balance work with family life, staying out of trouble, lifelong learning, ... .

If the IPCC finds that we have to reach peak temperature by 2015 - well, we missed it.  2015 must be the saddest year in human history? Just look at the table in the link below and look into what next best scenario we've entered.  It is forbidden to the IPCC to do estimates on the number of death people. It is allowed to publish how much biodiversity loss, hence how much biodiversity the survivors will have to see to manage their living, growing crops, fighting microbes/bacteria/virusses etc. without all that biodiversity.  I read on the IPCC report: -40% biodiversity. Wow! True, estimating how many people will die by 2050, there's lots of variables, but so is for biodiversity loss.  I think a guessed number is better than nothing? I think : 400 - 440 ppm => 2.4 - 2.8 °C & sea level rise 0,5-1,7 m (that's my wife's height !) and if peak year reached between 2000 - 2020, I estimate 2 billion people death by 2050 and about 50% of Biodiversity left for the survivors to somehow try to survive with, grow food, make medicine, etc..  2 billion out of 7 billion people will die.  World War II counted  60 million death.
Therefore I invite you to this conference:

InfoPoint Lunch-time conference: Launch of the 2015 Global Hunger Index- Armed conflict and the challenge of hunger!

2015-10-19 - 12.30 External Cooperation InfoPoint - Rue de la Loi 43-45 - 1049 Bruxelles - Belgium

 I'm interested to ask how they integrated these facts in their Global Hunger Index-Armed Conflicts.

Hope to see you there,
skype SvenAERTS


https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/spms5.html
http://svenaerts228.blogspot.be/2013/05/climate-change-adding-column-how-many.html

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

How to solve the worlds most pressing problems / Creating wealth and economic growth in developing countries thanks to smarter currencies and linking the private sector destiny with the destiny of their peers in developing countries.

How to solve the worlds most pressing problems / Creating wealth and economic growth in developing countries thanks to smarter currencies and linking the private sector destiny with the destiny of their peers in developing countries. 


By Sven AERTS 


We know the world's most pressing issues, just read the Millennium Development Goals or Sustainable Development Goals. Imagine you could earn money by solving them. Take the goals on Climate Change: if you know how to capture 1 ton of CO2e - get people to plant trees - or 1 CO2e not emitted - because you know how to replace a fossil fuel electrogenerator by solar techs, you get 1CO2e certificate = Carbon Money. Catch: you can only print the CO2e certificate or Carbon Money if you implement the projects in the developing countries. That is the CDM of Clean Development Mechanism. So if you are a green or innovative company mastering the best technology and techniques and you know how to save CO2e, and you team-up or take over your peers in develping countries, you added a business activity : printing money, carbon money... but it is money. A banker would drool on this: having a printing machine of money in their basement. Now you can have it and solve one of our planet's most hot issues. 

You can transfer this to all the other goals: determine the size of the problem, find a unit, ask every nation how many units they engage them for and set-up a unit Trading System. e.g. Millennium Development Goal nr 2: bringing Universal Primary Education - UPE. So many countries don't seem to now or succeed in graduating their youth. If you DO know and manage to graduate e.g. 1.000 students, you get a UPE certificate and you can sell it over the commodities exchange or directly to those who don't. So: those who solve the world's problems get a bit richer, and those who don't get a bit poorer. And that's how you "Creatie wealth and economic growth in developing countries thanks to smarter currencies and link the private sector's destiny with the destiny of their peers in developing countries". 

Ist die Phantasie stark genug,
hält die Realität nicht stand - Hegel

Is the imagination strong enough,
reality won't be able to withold it. - Hegel