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Sara Ivarsson
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This campaign aims to convince Swedish courts and politicians to follow the agreed Climate law and Paris agreement and stop the expansion of Preem refinary in Lysekil. In times where we know we quickly have to phase out our dependence of fossil fuels and heavily reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide, it seems irrational, ill-advised and irresponsible to give a Saudi oil company permission to double its carbon dioxide emissions and further detain us in this destructive direction. In November 2018, Swedish Land and Environment court authorized Preem to expand their refinery in Lysekil, Sweden, thereby doubling the plant’s already heavy carbon dioxide emissions to a shocking 3,5 billion tons a year without a time limit. This decision was taken after Sweden signed the Paris agreement, after Sweden instituted a new climate law and just a few weeks after IPCC’s report was released. In short, Swedish authorities knows that we must heavily reduce our carbon dioxide emissions and phase out our dependence on fossil fuels in order to limit the impact of climate change. So, why did Preem get a permission from Swedish authorities? Are the laws that toothless or are we not following the laws? A private company’s investment of 15 billions in fossil fuels should, in the light of what we know about climate change, be both unprofitable and impossible in 2019. Companies and states should have to invest all available resources in the development in alternatives to fossil fuels instead of expanding an infrastructure that further captures us in the dependence on them. Stopping the expansion of Preem refinery in Lysekil is an important issue in many ways, first of all to prevent the actual increased emissions of carbon dioxide, and not only that, approving this expansion also legitimizes continued investments in fossil fuels, despite the fact that all the world's research shows that we must move quickly in the opposite direction! This means that this is a symbolical issue and a crossroad: will Sweden continue to deny the implications of climate change or should we follow the ambitious goals and visions formulated in the agreed climate law? In March 19th 2019 the Swedish Climate Policy Council handed its report to the Swedish Government, proposing that " the Government should introduce legislation that, in addition to the usual permit examination under the Environmental Code and the Industrial Emissions Directive, gives the government the opportunity to test new activities that may affect the climate". One of the Climate Policy Council's points in the report is to introduce legislation that gives the government the right to test the establishment of activities that counteract the possibilities of achieving the national climate goals. This is obviously highly relevant in the case of Preem refinery in Lysekil. The institutions of society should protect common interest, not the interests of companies and private organizations. And today this means that the institutions and laws created over the last century is out of date and no longer can protect us, so they need to change. And good news! Institutions and laws are socially constructed and formed by us, together, and they can only be legitimate as long as we continue to give them legitimacy. It has become time for us to radically change the system, and it has been done before. History lets us remember the brave women and men in politics and in courts that has changed laws and institutions and thereby changed the paths of mankind. This is why we urge Mark- och miljööverdomstolen to be brave, to have the guts to choose to interpret the climate law as binding and therefore rule against the expansion of the Preem refinery in Lysekil. We believe it is time to demand that the climate law and the Paris agreement is respected by our politicians and institutions. Because soon it may be too late for warnings. Our generation has a time-limited opportunity to limit climate change and stop a total disaster.
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Stephan Savarese
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Saving Our Planet (SavingOurPlanet.net / SavingOurPlanet.fr) issues a Climate Warning to President Emmanuel Macron, Champion of the Earth: to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, it is necessary for France to cut CO2 emissions by at least 5% per year from 2020 on. Delays in achieving this reduction rate mean +0.1 degrees Celsius global warming per year. Our partner organization Climate Scorecard has evaluated that "governments must strengthen their Paris Agreement pledges by 2020 to make them in line with the 1.5 degree global warming tipping point". People say it’s impossible, but “impossible is not French”. Are you really a Champion of the Earth, President Macron? If so, please bear with me... France can show the way using 4 simple Climate actions: 1. Shut down all remaining coal power plants in France, all 5 plants before end 2020. 2. Stop increasing electricity prices by removing unfair taxes on electricity and save by cutting subsidies on fossil fuels or extremely expensive power sources or capacity mechanisms when the French power mix is already available on-demand, affordable, low carbon and reliable. Please keep doing what works now and keep innovations at experimental levels until scaling up makes economic sense. If new power sources are cheaper or have achieved grid parity, why are they still paid guaranteed purchase prices higher than spot and average market prices, even for recent contracts? 3. Support tree planting on N0CO2 ( http://N0CO2.org or http://N0CO2.fr ) and carbon-negative materials to capture CO2 as fast as possible and create new carbon sinks ! 4. Support and commit to the Citizens'Call for an Ecological Europe on http://ObjectiveEarth.eu or http://ObjectifTerre.eu Agree to this campaign to demand an answer from Emanuel Macron.
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1 year later : france still cannot shut down it’s last coal power plants ....
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The most urgent and worthwhile thing Macron can do is to get that “50% nuclear” law removed. This rule has absolutely no justification. But it forces France to close down a perfectly functioning nuclear plant (Fessenheim)... in order to build another! Substituting low carbon energies (wind, solar) for another (nuclear) does nothing to reduce CO2 emissions. Dominique Minière considers that ALL of France’s nuclear reactors can be kept running until they reach 60 years. To destroy these plants before it’s necessary is a huge waste of money. It also puts our security of supply at risk, impedes our capacity to reach our CO2 reduction goals and puts our Planet in more danger from climate change. The President of France can revoke the “50%” rule. It’s the most important thing he can do for the Climate. We need to tell him!
Nasreen Al-amin
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On March 19, the minister of mines and steel appointed by President Buhari made an announcement that Nigeria will begin to generate energy from coal-fired plant by 2020. By March 21st, The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the climate change bill for the second time in less than two years. The climate change bill if passed will situate policies that won’t support fossil industry activities like President Buhari’s new agenda to generate energy from coal. This is unacceptable for a country that has signed the Paris agreement to transcend into low carbon emission. We argue that this is a turn in the wrong direction, President Buhari should focus on how to divest Nigeria from fossil industry and transcend into clean energy models instead of expanding dirty fossil territory. In President Buhari’s attempt to revive Nigeria’s coal industry, he is not just taking up a failed endeavor as the world is moving away from dirty coal but also endangering the future of our planet. The best argument this decision by The President can present is that coal mining will provide jobs for hundreds if not thousands of people. However, the impacts of digging coal is tremendous, whether in open cast or underground mines, mining coal destroys nature, pollutes water, damages homes and forces relocation of entire villages. When you take into account health and environmental impacts and long term negative effects on ecosystems diving into coal production when the planet is in dire need of climate resolutions is simply a catastrophic approach Energy efficiency can be achieved through investment in renewable energy, Nigeria situated in the Sahel can easily tap into solar power. This in turn can create jobs and integrate sustainable approach skills thereby reducing dependent on fossil fuels. We have launched a campaign #CoalFreeNigeria to demand climate justice from President Buhari’s decision to mine coal. The government has failed to protect us the citizens, our livelihoods and our future, therefore we must take gross action towards the negligence of duty shown by president Muhammadu Buhari and his government. Agree to this campaign if you stand with us and want President Buhari to revoke his decision to mine coal in Nigeria. And if you are a company, an organisation or a public person and officially want to take a stand for #CoalFreeNigeria, please leave a message taking a stand. Feel free to help improve this campaign by leaving a comment on this post and share it on all your social media accounts.
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Hope we make a difference.
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Really clever to target This campaign to land and the environmental court.
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Hello, Today the court ruling is expected. And this morning we sent your collective climate warning in an email to the Swedish court and selected Swedish politicians and media. Thank you for standing up on this issue and our future on this planet 🌎 /David, We Don’t Have Time