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Western proposals are based on a reliance on renewable (solar, wind, and hydroelectric) resources, whereas China and Russia place emphasis on the balanced use of multiple resources, including natural gas, carbon capture technologies, and, in Russia’s case, the capacity of forests, peatlands, etc., to absorb carbon dioxide. Both concepts assign a significant role to nuclear power, and China plans to build 150 new nuclear reactors by 2035.

Naturally, the future plans of Beijing and Moscow are not without differences, as they are tailored to the situation in each country. At the same time, they represent a serious alternative to the Western vision, and many of their points have other supporters as well. France advocates for the recognition of nuclear energy as a green resource, while Canada and Brazil support the inclusion of forests in the climate neutrality balance, among others. Furthermore, these proposed principles minimise the risks of energy crises, and the energy transition promises to be cheaper than the 'green' alternative. Admittedly, it would also be slower, particularly in a climate where the prevailing opinion is that delay threatens catastrophe.

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Massive attention from Western media was triggered by the fact that political leaders and multimillionaires arrived at it in large numbers on private jets. This is despite the fact that a medium-distance flight with an average number of passengers on a private jet or so-called air taxi results in about 10 times more CO2 emissions per person than a flight on a standard commercial service, and 150 times more than a journey by train.

And, most significantly, the Glasgow summit was also attended by air taxi, by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a fervent preacher of the European Union's (EU) Green Deal on the world stage, who once again called on everyone at the summit to "do everything possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius". Even though she herself, according to calculations by The Telegraph, has taken a private jet for 18 of her total 34 foreign trips. This includes several flights from Brussels to London and Paris (a journey of less than an hour and a half by high-speed train) or even, on one occasion, from Budapest to Vienna (around 50 kilometres).
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