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class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-visually_hidden">COP29: Another Fossil Fuel victory or are we going to put up a fight? </h1> </div> <div class="block block-entity-fieldnodefield-image"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field__item"> <img width="800" height="445" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-src="/sites/default/files/styles/800x445/public/2024-11/Prof%20Ioannis%20Tsipouridis%20%282%29.jpg?itok=OvUmFrIK" /> </div> </div> <div class="block block-author"> <div class="author-info clearfix"><strong>12 11 2024</strong> | <span>08:13</span><span class="author"><a href="/el/author/dr-ioannis-tsipouridis-0" hreflang="el">Dr Ioannis Tsipouridis</a></span><span class="author-social"><ul><li><a class="icon icon-mail" href="mailto:?&Subject=COP29: Another Fossil Fuel victory or are we going to put up a fight? 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"></a></li></ul></span></div> </div> <div class="block block-entity-fieldnodebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field__item"><p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">As Spain, one of the latest countries hit hard by the climate crisis, struggles to recover, the ongoing rhetoric of keeping the 1.5°C target alive sounds hollow.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">The official reports of the last few days confirm that we are heading in the wrong direction</span></span><a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" title="" id="_ednref1"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">[i]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a> <a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" title="" id="_ednref2"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">[ii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a> <a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" title="" id="_ednref3"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">[iii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">. In fact, scientists expect the temperature to rise well above 2.0<sup>o</sup>C, even above 2.5<sup>o</sup>C. Which is only to be expected since the fossil fuel industry, in harmony with other industries, the stock exchange and of course decision makers, are moving ahead undeterred, planning even more fossil fuel expansion.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Given that 1.5<sup>o</sup>C temperature rise is already causing climate chaos, with impacts visible in our daily news feed, imagine the devastation a 2.0°C or 2.5°C rise will wreak, especially on vulnerable communities.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">This projection is not up for debate; it’s science. Actually, scientists are now questioning whether the anticipated temperature overshoot may have been underestimated. What does “overshoot” mean? It’s the extent and duration of temperature rise beyond the 1.5°C threshold before eventually returning below it again. Connected to that is also the question of how much worse climate change will actually get in the next years, if e.g. tipping points are crossed. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">In plain English, going back to the climate paradise we had, but didn’t appreciate, will not happen anytime soon, even if all the industries on the planet realised the evil of their energy ways, repented and started acting truly sustainably tomorrow.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">The climate crisis will be with us for a long time.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">As for action, we are in fact, left with only one option: <b><u>managing and cutting our losses</u></b>. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">There is no win scenario possible. We’re facing environmental setbacks that will define the next century. We have been defeated very badly and we will be environmentally relegated. There is no VAR to come to our rescue. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">So, what can we do? The solutions have always been well known, with the most obvious ones being:</span></span></span></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Eliminate Fossil Fuel subsidies immediately</span></span></b></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px; margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Phase out Fossil Fuels immediately</span></span></b></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">By the way, and make no mistake on this, everyone knows that these are the only solutions, even those who deny them.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">I was going to write even Trump, but that’s taking it too far….</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Therefore any and all discussions about climate solutions instead of concrete actions are intended to stall and delay the required climate action.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">The market is in fact embracing solutions that are profitable, in effect using the same “growth” model tools and criteria that brought us to this mess in the first place i.e. exploiting further both people and the planet and prioritizing profit over genuine sustainability.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Hence, it’s no surprise that the global response is very slow, too slow to have any effect on the galloping climate crisis.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">In the meantime, COP’s, have become the epitome of kicking the can down the road.</span></span></u></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">How many COP’s to arrest climate chaos?</span></i></b><i> </i></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:16px; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">(Brilliant </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">placard that was first seen during COP26</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">) </span></i></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:16px; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Are we serious with COP’s? When do we draw the line? At the 40th, 50th or 100<sup>th</sup> COP, which is a nice and round number? </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">And what is actually happening at COP’s?</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">The emblematic COP21, which I was lucky to attend, <b>did not even mention fossil fuels</b> in the final documents.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">It took 26 COP’s just to use the term fossil fuels in the official text and then the reference was only to coal.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">It took 27 COP’s to admit that <b>Loss and Damage</b> was worth discussing about, but, of course, no mention of liability—only vague commitments to “support” those affected.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">COPs have become a playground for fossil fuel lobbyists. They even have the nerve to sign new fossil fuel exploration deals during COP’s. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">So why do we go there? Our presence simply legitimises such practices.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Can we at least make this one count? Like our life depended on it?</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Can COP29 be the last COP? Wouldn’t that be something?</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Otherwise maybe we should boycott, walk out or disrupt COP29. How much worse will it be, if we do so?</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">All decisions taken in the last few years on all three planetary fronts, biodiversity, pollution and climate change, would have had any meaning and any effect at all, if they had been taken a few decades ago. Now they don’t even begin to scratch the surface of the issues. Time is not on humanity’s side. Delaying further is disastrous and yet this is the path chosen by the powers that be.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Every day we delay action the “Loss and Damage bill” increases exponentially. And let’s not forget that money might replace property, but it won’t bring back lives or comfort those facing climate-driven anxiety and loss.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">And with climate displacement on the rise, how many more climate refugees will it take before we acknowledge this mounting fourth planetary crisis? One displaced person is already one too many. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">One of the ironies of the climate crisis era is that we live in a period where unprecedented volumes of information are available to us, only to be surpassed by even greater volumes of misinformation. The truth, it seems, has become indiscernible. This environment of confusion and disorientation accelerates the planetary crisis we are experiencing. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">When the truth about the climate crisis is obscured, the causes—and therefore the solutions—are also cast into doubt. This ambiguity is a “gift” to industries and corporations responsible for much of humanity's suffering, who leverage their influence to obscure reality and stall climate action.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">But perhaps the greatest tragedy of the climate crisis is the generational impact. Our children, for whom we profess love and a duty to protect, will inherit a reality we barely understand ourselves. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">The hardest truth to convey to them is that the climate crisis isn’t going away, and they’ll have to live in its shadow.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">They will live in a world shaped by the consequences of our inaction. As global temperatures rise the likelihood of catastrophic weather events—floods, droughts, wildfires—will increase. Their futures will be defined by these challenges. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">It’s time to stop telling fairy tales about net-zero by 2050 and 1.5<sup>o</sup>C.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">The climate has changed and it will not change back any time soon.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Our children are headed for a dystopian future.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="line-height:150%">Our children have the right to know. </span></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d">Dr. Ioannis Tsipouridis </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d">Renewable Energy Consultant Engineer and Climate Action Advocate</span></span></span></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d">Director at <b>RECCReC (Renewable Energy & Climate Change Research Center at TUM) &</b> Visiting Professor @ </span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tum.ac.ke/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1711799483000000&usg=AOvVaw3QH2bho1rCwk9u6KKzJV0f" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">Technical University of Mombasa (TUM)</span></b></a> </span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#26282a">Senior Research Fellow @ </span></span><a href="https://strathmore.edu/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">Strathmore University</span></b></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d">Editor </span></span><a href="https://www.e-mc2.gr/el" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">Emc2</span></b></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d">Member of </span></span></b><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fossilfueltreaty.org/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1711799483000000&usg=AOvVaw13kWP-zOGYBiLFE10AnEIV" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d"> and </span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d">Member of</span></span></b> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1711799483000000&usg=AOvVaw3W8aR3rKVdI7poew2eG9xP" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">Loss and Damage Collaboration Group</span></b></a></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d">Project Manager </span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.iam-compact.eu/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1711799483000000&usg=AOvVaw2ByMr700gn74lMF0FKrDHq" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">IAM COMPACT</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d"> and </span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fuelphoria.eu/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1711799483000000&usg=AOvVaw0NxoNzDeUQ-HQlbiHW3im8" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US">FUELPHORIA</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#1f497d"> EU Horizon Projects</span></span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <div> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="edn1"> <p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" title="" id="_edn1"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">[i]</span></span></span></span></span></a> <a href="https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024</a></span></span></p> </div> <div id="edn2"> <p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span 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