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In 1999, the Swedish parliament accepted 16 environmental quality targets to be met by 2020. In 2020, only 1 of them has been achieved, according to the Swedish EPA. This means we need to act even more radically now! In the picture below, made by DN, the red circles symbolize targets that have not been met, while the green circle is the goal that was met. The yellow circle is "almost met". The arrows signify progress since last year. The environmental quality targets are: - Reduced Climate Impact - Clean Air - Natural Acidification Only - A Non-Toxic Environment - A Protective Ozone Layer (fulfilled) - A Safe Radiation Environment (almost fulfilled) - Zero Eutrophication - Flourishing Lakes and Streams - Good-Quality Groundwater - A Balanced Marine Environment, Flourishing Coastal Areas and Archipelagos - Thriving Wetlands - Sustainable Forests - A Varied Agricultural Landscape - A Magnificent Mountain Landscape - A Good Built Environment - A Rich Diversity of Plant and Animal Life Read more (in Swedish): https://www.dn.se/sverige/darfor-bryter-politikerna-loftet-om-miljon-sverige-missar-malen/
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Sara Jonsson
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This video about the plastic recycling scam is a must-watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g&feature=youtu.be
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Leo Alexander
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In EU alone the estimated average packaging waste per inhabitant was 174 kg (source eurostat statistics 2018). The UK-baser company Notpla is developing sustainable alternatives to plastic packaging. Some years ago they developed small edible water pouches, named Ooho, made from fast growing brown seaweed. One of their newest inventions is a new biodegradable liner for takeout containers, that could replace the plastic liner that is commonly used today to prevent paper containers to leak. Promising inventions from Notpla! We definitely need environment friendly alternatives to todays packagings. Read more: https://www.treehugger.com/notpla-mission-save-world-from-plastic-packaging-5091717
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Ingmar Rentzhog
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Official side event of the 19th Session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), December 2020 At the 2019 ASP in The Hague, small island States Parties to the ICC Vanuatu and Maldives addressed the need for ecocide to be seriously considered by the ICC. Support has been expressed at state level by France and Belgium, with parliamentarians in a growing number of countries now discussing this legal route to sanctioning the worst excesses of environmental damage. The event will cover key legal, historical and political considerations as well as examining the broader implications of this approach to protecting Earth's crucial life-support systems. Kindly hosted by the Republic of Vanuatu in association with the Stop Ecocide Foundation and Institute for Environmental Security. Co-host: Dreli Solomon, First Secretary of the Vanuatan Embassy, Brussels Special Guest: Pekka Haavisto, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finland Speakers: Professor Philippe Sands QC, Matrix Chambers / University College London Kate Mackintosh, Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law Marie Toussaint, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) Judge Tuiloma Neroni Slade, former ICC judge Moderator: Andrew Harding, BBC Africa correspondent ******** Bonus material: at the end of the webinar you can also view the official statement of the Stop Ecocide Foundation to the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties, read by the Foundation’s Chair, Jojo Mehta https://youtu.be/VT50At89zT8
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Ingmar Rentzhog
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What if our world leaders were also pledging how they should lower their personal climate footprint ahead of #COP26? That would be true leadership. Boris Johnson do you accept the challenge? Other leaders will follow! You could calculate your footprint on WeDontHaveTime carbon footprint calculator: https://climatehero.typeform.com/to/NHRiK1
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Ingmar Rentzhog
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"Can anybody still deny that we are facing a dramatic emergency?" Guterres said at the Climate Ambition Summit, "That is why today, I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached." https://news.trust.org/item/20201212131912-le7f7/
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "We are taking the lead with an ambitious new target to reduce our emissions by 2030 faster than any major economy. But this is a global effort." https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-uk-promises-to-cut-emissions-by-more-than-two-thirds-by-2030-12150480
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New Zealand Parliament has declared a climate emergency, committing New Zealand to urgent action on reducing emissions. As part of ongoing work to tackle climate change, they have also announced the Government will be carbon neutral by 2025. Read more: https://bit.ly/3qd7dOu
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Ingmar Rentzhog
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Wow! The speech delivered by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on December 2 really gave me the goosebumps. His special address on ”The State of the planet" was given at the World Leaders Forum at Columbia University, New York, and it was definitely the most important speech held by any world leader this year. Or possibly any year. Scroll down to watch the recording of this speech. "Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. It must be the top, top priority for everyone, everywhere." Dear friends, Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back -- and it is already doing so with growing force and fury. Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes. Deserts are spreading. Wetlands are being lost. Every year, we lose 10 million hectares of forests. Oceans are overfished -- and choking with plastic waste. The carbon dioxide they absorb is acidifying the seas. Coral reefs are bleached and dying. Air and water pollution are killing 9 million people annually – more than six times the current toll of the pandemic. And with people and livestock encroaching further into animal habitats and disrupting wild spaces, we could see more viruses and other disease-causing agents jump from animals to humans. Let’s not forget that 75 per cent of new and emerging human infectious diseases are zoonotic. Today, two new authoritative reports from the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme spell out how close we are to climate catastrophe. 2020 is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record globally – even with the cooling effect of this year’s La Nina. The past decade was the hottest in human history. Ocean heat is at record levels. This year, more than 80 per cent of the world’s oceans experienced marine heatwaves. In the Arctic, 2020 has seen exceptional warmth, with temperatures more than 3 degrees Celsius above average – and more than 5 degrees in northern Siberia. Arctic sea ice in October was the lowest on record – and now re-freezing has been the slowest on record. Greenland ice has continued its long-term decline, losing an average of 278 gigatons a year. Permafrost is melting and so releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Apocalyptic fires and floods, cyclones and hurricanes are increasingly the new normal. The North Atlantic hurricane season has seen 30 storms, more than double the long-term average and breaking the record for a full season. Central America is still reeling from two back-to-back hurricanes, part of the most intense period for such storms in recent years. Last year such disasters cost the world $150 billion. COVID-19 lockdowns have temporarily reduced emissions and pollution. But carbon dioxide levels are still at record highs – and rising. In 2019, carbon dioxide levels reached 148 per cent of pre-industrial levels. In 2020, the upward trend has continued despite the pandemic. Methane soared even higher – to 260 per cent. Nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas but also a gas that harms the ozone layer, has escalated by 123 per cent. Meanwhile, climate policies have yet to rise to the challenge. Emissions are 62 per cent higher now than when international climate negotiations began in 1990. Every tenth of a degree of warming matters. Today, we are at 1.2 degrees of warming and already witnessing unprecedented climate extremes and volatility in every region and on every continent. We are headed for a thundering temperature rise of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius this century. The science is crystal clear: to limit temperature rise to 1.5-degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the world needs to decrease fossil fuel production by roughly 6 per cent every year between now and 2030. Instead, the world is going in the opposite direction — planning an annual increase of 2 per cent. The fallout of the assault on our planet is impeding our efforts to eliminate poverty and imperiling food security. And it is making our work for peace even more difficult, as the disruptions drive instability, displacement and conflict. It is no coincidence that seventy per cent of the most climate vulnerable countries are also among the most politically and economically fragile. It is not happenstance that of the 15 countries most susceptible to climate risks, eight host a United Nations peacekeeping or special political mission. As always, the impacts fall most heavily on the world’s most vulnerable people. Those who have done the least to cause the problem are suffering the most. Even in the developed world, the marginalized are the first victims of disasters and the last to recover. Dear friends, Let’s be clear: human activities are at the root of our descent towards chaos. But that means human action can help solve it. Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. It must be the top, top priority for everyone, everywhere. In this context, the recovery from the pandemic is an opportunity. We can see rays of hope in the form of a vaccine. But there is no vaccine for the planet. Nature needs a bailout. In overcoming the pandemic, we can also avert climate cataclysm and restore our planet. This is an epic policy test. But ultimately this is a moral test. The trillions of dollars needed for COVID recovery is money that we are borrowing from future generations. Every last penny. We cannot use those resources to lock in policies that burden them with a mountain of debt on a broken planet. It is time to flick the “green switch”. We have a chance to not simply reset the world economy but to transform it. A sustainable economy driven by renewable energies will create new jobs, cleaner infrastructure and a resilient future. An inclusive world will help ensure that people can enjoy better health and the full respect of their human rights, and live with dignity on a healthy planet. COVID recovery and our planet’s repair must be the two sides of the same coin. Dear friends, Let me start with the climate emergency. We face three imperatives in addressing the climate crisis: First, we need to achieve global carbon neutrality within the next three decades. Second, we have to align global finance behind the Paris Agreement, the world’s blueprint for climate action. Third, we must deliver a breakthrough on adaptation to protect the world – and especially the most vulnerable people and countries -- from climate impacts. Let me take these in turn. First, carbon neutrality – net zero emissions of greenhouse gases. In recent weeks, we have seen important positive developments. The European Union has committed to become first climate neutral continent by 2050 – and I expect it will decide to reduce its emissions to at least 55 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030. The United Kingdom, Japan, the Republic of Korea and more than 110 countries have committed to carbon neutrality by 2050. The incoming United States administration has announced exactly the same goal. China has committed to get there before 2060. This means that by early next year, countries representing more than 65 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions and more than 70 per cent of the world economy will have made ambitious commitments to carbon neutrality. We must turn this momentum into a movement. https://youtu.be/2BpFEoGK4jU?t=328 Full speech: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2020-12-02/address-columbia-university-the-state-of-the-planet Video: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/un-secretary-general-speaks-state-planet
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Per Holknekt
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Here’s to Länsförsäkringar bank. Recently withdrew all investments in online gambling, only to follow up with ending investments in the oil industry. I love this courage, as much as I despise greed driven banks cowardice. Dirty profits will self destruct when the next generation customers chose banking partner. Beautiful move for true sustainability Länsförsäkringar Sweden.
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Sara Jonsson
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On this day, 28 November 1985, an internal document circulated within the Shell oil corporation stated that "there has been global warming over the last 100 years, that the 0.5 degrees increase is a result of CO2 buildup, that we will see a further 1-2 degree warming over the next 40 year. Such a rise would be greater than any change in the last 1,000 years… The global mean sea level has risen by some 15 cm over the last 100 years… By 2050, the range of uncertainty of the rise in global mean sea level is 20-120 cm." It formed part of an extensive confidential internal report by the company produced in 1988 on the greenhouse effect which definitively showed that from at least 1981 Shell was aware of climate change, that it was human-made, that burning fossil fuel was its primary cause, and that it would have catastrophic effects. Despite this, for decades, the company covered up its findings, sponsored fake public studies to deny climate change, and fought any government attempts to limit CO2 emissions. Credit for this post: https://workingclasshistory.com
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Markus Lutteman
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Hey Apple, why not release a durable, reliable iPhone that could be used at least seven or eight years, stretching to ten years? An IPhone made for the not-so-anxious customers, the ones who doesn’t care that much about the latest colour in fashion, the few extra camera mega pixels or the latest designer changes in the corners of the shield. But who cares about the future. Our kids. Our environment. Our climate. This iPhone would of course be 100 % made out or recycled components, and it would also be 100 % recyclable after a decade of good use. If a chip or other component needed to be replaced, it should be an easy thing for the customer to do. Apple could even charge us 10 dollars for major software upgrades, as long as we wouldn't have to buy a new phone all the time. So what do you say Apple, time to create a truly modern IPhone?
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We Don't Have Time
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We Don't Have Time is ready to scale and this is where we will be in five years. Do you want to invest in the future? Join our founder @Rentzhog and NOAH Advisors Ltd. for another ChangeMakers We Don't Have Time talks. How can your money solve the climate crisis? Learn how to invest in the world's largest social network for climate action wedonthavetime.org, European Tesla for the people, Torsten Kiedel @ Sono Motors GmbH, and the future of fossil-free transport Robert Falck @ Einride. Also learn from the best impact investors out there. Marco Rodzynek, Jan Ståhlberg @ Trill Impact, Richard Georg Engström @ The One Initiative, Anette Nordvall and others. Register for our impact investment seminar on Nov 26 13:00 CET, Dec 2 10:00 CET, and Dec 8 19:00 CET. It's free, but you will only get access to it if you register. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-44uLmTYL0Y&feature=youtu.be
Emelie Eriksson
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Scania plans to invest well over 1 billion SEK in a battery assembly plant in Södertälje, Sweden. The plant will assemble battery modules and packs from cells which will be delivered from Northvolt’s battery factory in Skellefteå, Sweden. “This is a tangible manifestation of our determination to take a leading role in heavy vehicle electrification, which is needed to fulfil our commitment to science-based climate targets,” says Ruthger de Vries, Head of Production and Logistics at Scania. Well done, Scania! You truely lead by example 👏 (Image borrowed from Scania’s website)
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Boyan Slat (27 July 1994) is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technological solutions to global problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup; a Dutch foundation which develops advanced systems to rid world’s oceans of plastic. Age 18, Boyan devised a concept which utilises the natural oceanic forces to passively catch and concentrate ocean plastic, through which the theoretical cleanup time could be reduced from millennia to mere years. In February 2013 he dropped out of his Aerospace Engineering study at TU Delft to start The Ocean Cleanup. As The Ocean Cleanup’s CEO, Boyan currently gives lead to a team of about 80 people, but spends most of his time on research and engineering, through which he co-authored about a dozen scientific papers and multiple patents. After 4 years of reconnaissance expeditions, testing and many design iterations, on September 8 2018 the world’s first ocean cleanup system was launched from San Francisco, soon after followed by deployment inside the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Boyan Slat is the youngest-ever recipient of the UN’s highest environmental accolade; Champion of the Earth. In 2015, HM King Harald of Norway awarded Boyan the maritime industry's Young Entrepreneur Award. Foreign Policy included Boyan in their 2015 list of preeminent thought leaders and Forbes included him in their 30 under 30 edition in 2016. That same year, Boyan was awarded a Thiel Fellowship. In 2017, Elsevier named him Dutchman of the Year, Reader’s Digest chose him as the European of the Year and he was given the Thor Heyerdahl Award for innovation in the maritime industry. In 2018, Boyan was named ‘European Entrepreneur of the Year’ by Euronews. That year, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff pointed out Boyan as one of the ‘25 people that will shape the next 25 years’ in WIRED magazine. The Ocean Cleanup has been chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2015. In 2019, the European Commission elected Boyan as one of the experts to advise the commission on its multi-billion-euro innovation strategy. Boyan Slat unveils The Ocean Cleanup’s First Product: Sunglasses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzeI0kth22E https://products.theoceancleanup.com/ How the oceans can clean themselves: Boyan Slat at TEDxDelft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROW9F-c0kIQ Well Done Boyan! We would love to see you sharing more of your wonderful ideas/solutions on We Don't Have Time.
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On Black Friday let´s not forget that this week started with #circularmonday – a movement that was created as a counterpoint to the insane consumption that Black Friday brings. Consumption is possible but most importantly without requiring new resources from the earth...so if we need to buy something why not do it circular and support all entrepreneurs and founders who tirelessly work to show that every day! 🌱
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Sweta Chakraborty
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ClimateChange is a slow-moving threat. And humans aren't responding to climate change despite the mounds of evidence that support the impact that we have on our environment. I had the opportunity to share the behavioral patterns of humans and why we are prone to taking little to no action to help eliminate global warming at Virginia Wesleyan University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osROUfAeiJA&feature=emb_title
Emelie Eriksson
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The power of peer-to-peer🤝🌍🤝 This summer we installed solar panels on our roof. Being thrilled about the investment and results so far I wrote about our experience in our local facebook group and shared some information about the advantsges of solar power including the offer we recieved. Now 10 households plus a housing cooperative of 30 households are interested in doing the same! Never underestimate the power of peer to peer💚🌍
Emelie Eriksson
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Why not try something else this December? With many employees working remote - we will use the upcoming season to create awareness within the field of sustainability. We are creating an advent calendar with one new sustainable tip each day shared on our intranet. We are on our way to collect our employees best practices and tips on how to live and be sustainable to our planet and to ourselves, hoping to spread engagement before the up-coming holiday. Picture borrowed from sustyvibes.com
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