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from the archives: The IAEA will continue to try to hijack the global climate conference

You gotta hand it to Rafael Grossi as a top salesman. His organisation has international prestige – with its job of monitoring the safety of nuclear facilities.

But what’s the REAL JOB of the International Atomic Energy Agency?

Grossi knows full well which side HIS bread is buttered on. It’s just all about selling the nuclear industry to gullible governments, media, and the world in general.

And now – what a bonanza!

With America suddenly a lame-duck on climate action, with a completely amoral, climate-denying President -elect. With most of the world’s leaders jilting the COP 29 Climate Summit, with the venue a human-rights delinquent petrostate – full of lobbyists for dirty industries – well Grossi will be in his sales-pitching element

So – the IAEA dutifully trots out a new report – “IAEA at COP29: Nuclear Solutions for Climate Change” –

“As the world grapples with the escalating impacts of climate change, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi will join global leaders and stakeholders at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP29, to highlight the vast potential of nuclear solutions for climate change mitigation, adaptation and monitoring.

The IAEA will showcase nuclear solutions for climate action in some 40 events at COP29, which will take place from 11 to 22 November 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Agency’s Atoms4Climate pavilion will feature an exhibit on nuclear applications, with IAEA experts ready to answer questions about how nuclear energy contributes to net-zero emissions and how nuclear science can address climate-related challenges to food security, water resources and ocean health.

COP29 will build on the global consensus that emerged at COP28 in Dubai, where the Global Stocktake marked a historic turning point with its call for accelerating the deployment of nuclear energy……………………………..

On 13 November, Mr. Grossi will join high-level representatives from the COP29 Presidency, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), multilateral development banks and the nuclear industry in an event hosted by the COP29 Presidency on “Financing Low Carbon Technology, including Nuclear Energy” to discuss the crucial role of governments, multilateral development banks and the private sector in scaling up nuclear energy.

Small Modular Reactors: A Flexible Solution

Mr Grossi will co-host a high-level event with the Government of the United States of America on small modular reactors (SMRs), which offer flexible, cost-effective options for powering small energy grids, making them suitable for developing countries, as well as energy-intensive industries, data centers and even commercial ships.

November 11, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized