{"id":414594,"date":"2025-11-25T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414594"},"modified":"2025-12-27T03:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:41:08","slug":"iran-demands-climate-cash-to-reduce-co2-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414594","title":{"rendered":"Iran Demands Climate Cash to Reduce CO2 Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran is currently facing ecological catastrophe caused by drought and misallocation of public resources. But apparently climate cash will fix the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COP30: Iran says climate action impossible without financing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 21, 2025 \u2013 15:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TEHRAN \u2013 Sediqeh Torabi, an official with the Department of Environment (DOE), has emphasized the need for sufficient and predictable financing for implementing climate actions by developing countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Referring to the intensifying impacts of climate change in one of the world\u2019s driest and most sensitive regions, Torabi said that frequent droughts, water scarcity, extreme heat, forest fires, as well as sand and dust storms have adversely affected Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She made the remarks on Tuesday, November 18, during a plenary session at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP30, being held in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official noted that Iran cannot support raised ambition in emissions reductions or new targets unless financing, technology transfer, and capacity-building for developing countries are fully and reliably provided. She said that ambition must be matched by the means of implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a meeting with Anacl\u00e1udia Rossbach, executive director of the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), Ansari highlighted the need for comprehensive urban planning to mitigate climate change impacts, improve the sustainability and resilience of cities in the face of rising heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite economic and climate challenges, Iran is doing its best to utilize regional and global scientific capacities to make cities more sustainable,\u201d She noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rossbach, for her part, emphasized the effective role of the UN-Habitat office in Iran. The official stressed the need to boost joint efforts in improving urban management and climate risk management, as well as improving the quality of urban life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/520662\/COP30-Iran-says-climate-action-impossible-without-financing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iran has experienced severe drought for the last 5 years. But Iran\u2019s problems aren\u2019t just caused by lack of rainfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iran\u2019s water crisis exposes collapse of the regime<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decades of corruption, mismanagement and misplaced nuclear priorities leave Tehran facing rationing, empty reservoirs and potential evacuation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Ilan Berman \u2013 Monday, November 17, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The taps are running dry in Tehran<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran\u2019s capital is now experiencing a massive and deepening water shortage. After months of drought and scorching heat, the five reservoirs feeding the city of more than 10 million are mostly empty. Local authorities have been forced to mandate water rationing, and the situation has become so dire that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian recently warned that, unless the region experiences rainfall in the coming weeks, the city may need to be evacuated altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reasons have everything to do with the skewed priorities of Iran\u2019s ruling clerical regime. True to their revolutionary pedigree, Iran\u2019s ayatollahs have consistently preferred guns over butter. They have poured billions of dollars into the country\u2019s nuclear program, its burgeoning arsenal of ballistic missiles and its extensive network of terrorist proxies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What they have not done is make a meaningful, sustained nationwide effort to reverse the country\u2019s worsening water situation. Now that the crisis has truly hit, Iranian officials are predictably trying to deflect the blame onto the Iranian people themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/17\/irans-water-crisis-exposes-collapse-regime\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The author of the following article is Nikahang Kowsar<\/a>, a University of Tehran trained geologist who once stood for election as a reformist candidate for Tehran City Council, but currently lives in exile in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grand Theft Hydrology: How Iran\u2019s Water Mafia Engineered a Drought\u2014Then Sent the Bill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran\u2019s drought isn\u2019t some angry weather god punishing us with a dry spell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>NIK KOWSAR<\/a>
MAY 23, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter the Water Mafia\u2014a term I\u2019ve been using<\/a> for years, finally getting the attention<\/a> it deserves after some recent geopolitical truth bombs. Imagine a cozy little cartel of IRGC contractors, consultants with magical impact assessments, ex-revolutionaries rebranded as \u201chydropolitical visionaries,\u201d and a revolving door of Energy Ministry officials who always seem to retire in Dubai or Vancouver\u2026 right around the time the rivers disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These folks don\u2019t manage collapse\u2014they monetize<\/strong> it. Every dried-up wetland, every cracked riverbed, every tanker-truck village is another invoice: signed, sealed, and cashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s the real magic: even in wet years, there\u2019s still a crisis. Why? Because they\u2019ve already sucked the aquifers dry\u2014and surprise, they\u2019re not refilling. Iran\u2019s water policy is basically looting the savings account and<\/em> burning down the vault. What used to be underground reservoirs\u2014nature\u2019s emergency fund\u2014is now either empty or, thanks to land subsidence, permanently damaged. Entire basins have collapsed like a Ponzi scheme in a sandstorm. You can\u2019t store water in a sunken sponge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s be clear: this isn\u2019t just environmental collapse. It\u2019s theft<\/strong>. It\u2019s a crime scene. A slow-motion disaster that was warned1<\/a> about, predicted2<\/a>, entirely preventable, and\u2014most unforgivably\u2014profitable.

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/nikkowsar.substack.com\/p\/grand-theft-hydrology-how-irans-water<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yep, I\u2019m sure dropping a truck load of climate cash into that situation would fix everything. Do I need a \/sarc tag?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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