Ben Matthews

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Cake day: September 15th, 2023

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  • Il y a nombreux années, j’ai participé au sein de ma délégation nationale aux plusieurs réunions des nations-unis (FCCC), ou je me suis toujours arrivée avec mon vélo pliant Brompton, parfois avec telles consequences sur le pantalon. J’ai noté que le chef de notre délégation regardait souvent de façon semblant un peu critique vers mon vélo et jambes. Mais enfin après quelques réunions il arrive avec un tel Brompton soi-même…




  • Important topic. If more effort had been put earlier into lie-defence, maybe they’d need less air-defence.
    But I’m confused by this part - seems contradictory, can anybody clarify - does he have roles for people to fill, or not ?

    Nonetheless, Ukraine needs a new training and certification scheme, Potiy said, ambitiously aiming at fostering a new generation of cyber security specialists, “tens of thousands if not more,” with solid jobs within Ukraine. It is one of his core ambitions for his first year in charge of the agency. “We have educational institutions that turn out cybersecurity specialists who could provide services,” Potiy continued. “But there’s no job market.”


  • I’d like to have no phone at all, I don’t like small screens, nor being interrupted. Problem is that phone apps are now almost obligatory for IDs, transport tickets, passes, banking, etc. So I’d just like a phone-receiver (modem) with a sim card on a USB stick that can enable phone-app-stuff via my laptop or tablet. (Yes some tablets have data sim cards, but we still need sms and occasional phone functions for ‘verification’ etc.). Any suggestions?



  • This sounds positive, albeit unlikely it’s enough.
    As I don’t follow the biodiversity COPs like the climate COPs, I’ll ask - was this like a COP16bis, and deal with or without US ?
    I still recall UNFCCC-COP6bis which was a success despite Bush govt pulling out, inspired the rest of the world to unite.
    And are people optimistic about COP17 in Armenia? Hope inspired to do better than Azerbaijan with climate. I suppose all Caucasus has much unique mountain biodiversity, maybe this can help overcome political divisions.






  • It seems the problem is the regional governments , which are prioritising regional coal mining, to prioritise regional jobs. In China there is plenty of renewable energy capacity but the sun and wind are mainly in the W and S, while the old coal mines are in the E and N. China has plenty of climate scientists and diplomats pushing central government policy, but these have less influence on ‘local government’. As many ‘local governments’ in China govern populations larger than European countries, this is something like Poland trying to keep it’s coal mines alive, in contradiction to European climate policy. Eventually there will be surplus energy, some coal contracts are going to break, question is who wins and loses then. Western observers tend to think of China as a big centrally controlled monolith - it isn’t, the ‘local’ chiefs have a lot of power. Similar central / ‘local’ governance problem with housing bubble and debt.