The top 5 China, USA, India, EU and Russia emit a combined 64% of global emissions. The top 10 emitters adding Japan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia(,Germany but it is part of the EU) and South Korea are at 74%. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-share-of-co2-emissions?tab=table

Of the lot only the USA has actually put in a contribution and well it then left the Paris Climate Agreement. So nobody really did.

United Arab Emirates (wait, really?)

They had COP28 in Dubai.

Hydro and quite a bit of it.

Which shows how far along the EU is in terms of clean tech rollout. Also your numbers are from 2023. With more renewables, less coal and more gas German emissions should have fallen rather quickly.

The other part is competitors selling better cars for less.

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…

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&region=Europe&country=CHN~AUS

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

https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/leading-russian-lawmaker-threatens-to-nuke-strasbourg-after-european-parliament-vote/

It is also that Russia is threatening to nuke the EU and expand into EU territory namely the Baltics. You do not need the US to tell the EU, that that is a problem, especially when that country started a massive war. Obviously the UK prefers the EU over Russia for a lot of reasons.

Btw a similar thing is happening with the US right now. Trump trying to force Denmark to give him Greenland is seen in a very similar light to Russian actions in the Baltics and Ukraine.

Oh and small countries have agency as well. There is a reason Georgia has EU membership as a goal in its constitution due a invasions and those were not by the US. A lot of eastern European countries have similar feelings about Russia for good reasons. Those countries also lobby the UK.

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Most of Russias oil exports go through ports in the European part of Russia. Those are currently being attacked by Ukraine. For example Ukraine managed to hit an oil pumping station shutting down the oil port of Ust-Luga, which handles 20% of Russian oil exports.

Not if say Russia is taken out of the global oil market, which looks rather likely.

Due to a lot of hydro Norway is at 99% renewable electricity generation.

You mean the guys feeding the deer, so there are more of them and easier to hunt?

Because he was supposed to be back in the office at a certain point and was unable to make it without flying. That was agreed to months earlier and without the delays it would have been possible for him to slow travel back.