The other part is competitors selling better cars for less.
The EU does not import oil from Russia anymore. Gas is another matter though. However it looks like a trade war with the US is coming and having the option to reduce US oil would be very usefull.
Could just be Trumpbeing in office and not interested in a quick peace.
No need to worry. Trump will remove all the brown people in the south, so god does not need to send hurricanes anymore to punish the US.....
Russian soldiers are not forced to join the military. They do so to get a lot of money from Putin. If they wanted to be save, then they could have done that. Also Russia murders Ukrainian prisoners of war rather often. So no they will not get the option.
All pledges made until November 2024. Also Russia does flare a lot, but that is wasting resources. They prefer to sell it or keep it in the ground. I can not find numbers for 2024, but in 2023 they flared 28bcm of gas and in 2019 it was about 20bcm. So they do flare gas, but not even close to as much as they used to export to the EU.
Global pledges and targets, if reached leave us with 2.1C. That was before the US elected Trump again, which means not pledges and commitments from them. Also obviously pledges and targets have to be reached and that gave us 2.7C. That again was before Trump was elected again and the massive problems the second largest emitter being activly hostile to climate action brings. So it will not just be the US, Trump has already anounced that he is working to sell more US oil and gas, which means making other countries emit more.
So yeah he is probably right. It can be changed, but that is going to a bloody hard journey.
Hell we have enough satellites to track whales. Especially since they have to surface to breath.
That photo shows two partly submerged Russian submarines in a port, so no waves. Those submarines are 73m long, so longer then a normal whale and the part above the water is also larger then your normal whale. In other words there is no way to spot a whale in the open ocean with satellites.
The solution for that problem are carbon tariffs. As in every product imported has to pay X money for every ton of carbon they emitted producing the product.
Also obviously China has to go to zero. Everybody has to and that is why pretty much everybody has signed the Paris Climate Agreement promising to go to zero.
Australia is building out renwables extremely quickly. Fast enough to have overtaken China in share of low carbon electricity in 2023. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-low-carbon?tab=chart®ion=Europe&country=CHN%7EAUS
For example the new nuclear doctrine:
The doctrine now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, will be treated as a joint assault on Russia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4v0rey0jzo
and a Russian lawmaker, when the EU parliament voted to allow all kinds of weapons to be send to Ukraine:
What the European Parliament is calling for leads to a world war using nuclear weapons
The Druzhba pipeline transports oil via Belarus to the EU.
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Have they tried to use them? I am sure once they try them out, they have nothing to complain about....