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This conversation is brutally honest about the climate crisis. Thanks for having us @SXSW Jane Fonda was truly on fire! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9iaDHh81o
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The Guardian reports renewed pressure on Rishi Sunak as plans to maximize North Sea oil extraction face scrutiny, raising alarms about potential environmental consequences. This warning emphasizes the urgent need for reevaluating energy strategies to align with climate goals. Let's share this, highlighting the importance of sustainable alternatives and holding leaders accountable for decisions that impact our planet's future. Our collective voice is vital in advocating for responsible energy policies and a rapid transition to cleaner, renewable sources. For more information, read the article here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/21/rishi-sunak-facing-renewed-pressure-over-plans-to-max-out-north-sea-oil
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This is worrying and overall bad news.
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"By contrast, investing in clean British energy and electrifying the economy, with heat pumps and electric vehicles, would reduce dependence on insecure and expensive fossil fuels,"
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Prioritizing fossil fuel expansion contradicts efforts to transition towards cleaner energy sources.
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If a company won't listen you have to say it a little louder... The Changing Markets Foundation just released a detailed assessment on the robustness of Nestlés net zero plan. Read the full report here: http://changingmarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CM-Report-layout-Net-Zero-Integrity-Web-light.pdf The Changing Markets Foundation methane campaign team have been working to unpick Nestlé's creative accounting around emissions reductions and call out their lack of integrity ahead of their AGM: ➗ Creative accounting 101. Nestlé claims a 23% reduction in targeted emissions from livestock by 2023, but in fact its actions will only lead to a 5.3% reduction. 🎯 Our new analysis shows that it has only made a 1% reduction since the launch of its net-zero plan and it will miss its 2050 target. 🐄 The team also found Nestlé is hyperfixating on regenerative practices while ignoring science-based strategies like absolute methane reductions. Cutting methane could act as a climate emergency break, but only if we do it fast. Thanks for sharing George Harding-Rolls
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Let's all join in being the voice that is heard! Change starts with you and I
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Great!
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We shout until we're heard
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The world has a problem: Big Oil’s hijacking of the climate action narrative. The power of the legacy energy industry means that mountains of flawed and backwards thinking – much of which contributed to the climate crisis – is preventing major institutions from recognising the most transformative pathways forward. It’s also exposing them to gigantic financial risks which are about to unfold in the next few years. I decided to write directly to Sultan Al Jaber, the UAE President of the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate summit, to provide them with an economic and technological reality-check. Here’s Dr Nafeez Ahmed MA DPhil FRSA FSI very interesting and well written open letter addressed to Sultan Al Jaber : https://ageoftransformation.org/the-cop28-agenda-is-a-recipe-for-economic-armageddon-an-open-letter-to-sultan-al-jaber-president-of-cop28/
The COP28 Agenda is a Recipe for Economic Armageddon: An Open Letter to Sultan Al Jaber, UAE President of COP28
In my open letter to the UAE President of COP28, I provide an economic and technological reality-check on how his proposed policies expose us to gigantic financial and ecological risks.
https://ageoftransformation.org/the-cop28-agenda-is-a-recipe-for-economic-armageddon-an-open-letter-to-sultan-al-jaber-president-of-cop28/
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This is a very concerning statement. The COP28 agenda is designed to provide solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the world today, such as climate change. It is incredibly important that the agenda be able to deliver effective solutions that will help mitigate the catastrophic effects of human-induced climate change and fuel economic growth. If it leads to economic Armageddon, it could have devastating consequences for people, economies and ecosystems all over the world. We must ensure that COP28 is a success and keeps us on track to address the global climate crisis with urgency.
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wonderful ideas
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Impressive, hope COP28 President will get this and deliver, and to the energy companies it's time to make sacrifices for the betterment of our climate
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The organization Aurora's lawsuit against the state for lack of climate policy is taken up in Nacka district court. - The demands are clear enough that I believe they can be tried in court, says councilor Olof Roos. The state has three months to respond. The action in the case was brought in November and the court issued the summons on Tuesday, Nacka District Court announces. - I believe that the lawsuit can be tried as a class action. At this stage, no assessment is made of how things will go. An assessment is made as to whether the claim is so clearly formulated that it can be processed again, says Olof Roos. Within three months of the state being served with the summons, it must respond to the class action. The state is represented by the Chancellor of Justice. The court must then decide whether the policy being pursued is contrary to the law. The case is likely to be heard during a trial, but it can also be decided in writing. The organization Aurora has been working on the lawsuit for two years. - It is great fun that it is now starting after all this time. It will be very exciting to hear the state's response, to see what they accept and what they dispute, says Anton Foley, one of the representatives of Aurora. - We believe that the state violates the European Convention on Human Rights by not doing its part of the climate work. It is clear that the climate work that does not succeed in limiting warming is contrary to this, he continues. The lawsuit is one in a series of hundreds of climate lawsuits around the world that are being tried in court. One of the most notable is the so-called Urgenda case in the Netherlands, where the Urgenda foundation sued the state for responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions - and was right. - It is a global trend for people to sue states and also companies, and just as we have been inspired by similar processes abroad, we hope that others can be inspired by us. There are many processes that have relied on the European Convention just like us. We hope that it is a trend to use all means for the climate, says Anton Foley. Jonas Ebbesson, professor of environmental law at Stockholm University, emphasizes that the announcement from the district court does not say anything about how big a chance the organization has of finally being right. But the decision is a confirmation that this type of goal can be pursued in Sweden. - It is still an announcement that has significance, because the court has not rejected the case for formal reasons and it has not rejected the request to pursue the case as a class action, he says. In a class action, the notified class members must be informed and then indicate whether they want to participate, which 300 of the members have done, according to the court. One of those behind the lawsuit against the state is Greta Thunberg. It is the first time this type of case has been pursued in court in Sweden and it may take years before it is decided. - The state will probably have objections to the matter itself, and claim that it does not violate the European Convention. But it can also have views on whether the process can be run in this way, says Jonas Ebbesson. How important is this type of mood in global climate work? - They show that the state has two types of responsibility, one political and one legal. It is important to emphasize that the state also has legal obligations in the climate area and these must be able to be assessed in court. Courts should not run climate policy, but the legal processes show that climate change can take place within the framework of the rule of law. The state is failing in several steps, says Aurora: 1. The state has not investigated how large Sweden's share of global climate work should be - i.e. how quickly Swedish emissions must decrease. 2. In addition, feasible plans for comprehensive emission reductions are lacking. Even emissions that are not currently covered by the Swedish climate goals need to be reduced, the organization believes. 3. Finally, the state has also failed in the implementation, writes the organization in its lawsuit. https://www.dn.se/sverige/klimataktivister-far-gront-ljus-for-att-stamma-staten/
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This is a win for climate activists all over the world it sets the ground for more lawsuits and recognition of ecocide as a crime
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Terrific!
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Great news! I am very much looking forward to seeing the evolution of this
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French company SNCF and German Deutsche Bahn intend to launch a direct train between Paris and Berlin at the end of 2023. The manager says, "It's quite symbolic of the evolution of our society, and of the wish of many of our fellow citizens to favor the train". What happens when more and more people decide to take the train? …Fewer emissions, more fun, and a better travel experience. With options like this, it will become easier for people to take the train between countries. 🚆 The best way to encourage people to take trains instead of planes is by making trains go where they don't already and by using the latest technology to enhance their travel experience. Way forward to a sustainable future! 💪 https://www.geo.fr/voyage/un-tgv-paris-berlin-fin-2023-annoncent-la-sncf-et-la-deutsche-bahn-210063
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I wish we had an easier way to plan travels across several European countries. It's almost impossible to plan a longer trip
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When alternatives are available, one makes the right decision.
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Great!!a commendable step..
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Below is one of the very best articles about the ongoing fight against Climate Change I've read in a very long time. It is so because it talks about the need for stories, art and entertainment to win over the popular imagination, and the power that stories have to move mountains. We have the technology, and we have the money to set it up. What needs to move is policy, systems and organisations of people driving entire nations, and to do this we need the right stories to tell. Take the time to read it, and share it around to your friends who are artists, writers, video makers, and all sorts of creative types, so they understand that the world needs them more than ever: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/12/rebecca-solnit-climate-crisis-popular-imagination-why-we-need-new-stories
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Wow, I missed this, it's great!!
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Palmetto believes that clean energy should be accessible to everyone. We work under a mission focused on mitigating climate change; a global initiative requiring international partnerships. Our full support is for clean energy for everyone, as our CEO and Founder Chris Kemper says so well. To ensure that everyone has access to clean energy, we work locally to make an impact globally. With our Palmetto’s Get Solar, Give Solar Program, we have helped provide underserved communities with access to solar energy products. That’s why we’re so proud to have been working with Solar Sister and their mission to invest in women entrepreneurs that spread clean energy across their local and rural communities in Africa. When we kicked off the Get Solar, Give Solar program during Climate Week NYC 2021, we knew working with Solar Sisters would be a rewarding partnership. Solar Sister takes a focused approach to ensuring that women are the key part of the clean energy solution – and we love this. The $5 million we committed to Solar Sister was an easy decision since we view clean energy as the vessel to bring the world closer together while saving people money and the environment along the way. On this $5 million commitment, Chris says, ”Solar Sister’s focus on bringing clean energy to last-mile communities in Africa is deeply aligned with our values - it is a true personification of what we at Palmetto are ultimately here to contribute. Together, we can bridge a growing clean energy resource gap by harnessing global technology to deliver locally-led solutions in the most overlooked and underserved communities.” About Solar Sister Solar Sister envisions a brighter world powered by women entrepreneurs. With more than 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lacking access to electricity and over 700 million people relying on harmful fossil fuels, women are disproportionately sustaining the effects of energy poverty and climate change. Independent research from the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University has shown that Solar Sister’s approach to centering clean energy solutions through women not only improves a woman’s household income, but also strengthens their health, education, status, and control over resources. When the clean energy revolution is women-focused and women-led, it has led to some fantastic results. From 2015 to 2022, with 87% of women entrepreneurs leading the way, Solar Sister has been able to: - Make 8,047 people entrepreneurs - Reach 3,400,000 people with clean energy - Sell 718,669 products https://youtu.be/CmHYYZx8v5c Interested in learning more about Solar Sister? Check out their website. You can send Solar Sister a Climate Love by clicking here.
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Clean energy is the new norm!
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Well Done for a great result and empowering our African sisters. Keep it up!
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This is great, clean energy is our future
Ingrid Hesser
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European parlament decided November 10 to adopt new reporting rules for multinationals to end greenwashing Real Change is coming up. The European Parliament today adopted the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, expanding (times 4) the number of companies that will have to report on their ESG performance. The first tranche of reporters will report for periods starting 1 January 2024. Companies will have to report on how they are impacted by environmental, climate and social matters, but also on how they impact nature and society (double materiality) https://lnkd.in/dS7yfhWX. Important to note that Non-EU companies with substantial activity in the EU (with a turnover over €150 million euro in the EU) will also have to comply. All large companies in the EU will need to disclose data on the impact of their activities on people and the planet and any sustainability risks they are exposed to. The Corporate Social Reporting Directive (CSRD) is one of the cornerstones of the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Finance Agenda and part of a wider EU policy to commit companies to respect human rights and reduce their impact on the planet. European Green Deal https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20221107IPR49611/sustainable-economy-parliament-adopts-new-reporting-rules-for-multinationals
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To make something like that possible in such a big and diverse organisation is a huge accomplishment. And these pros don't get much limelight for it.
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Gerald Kutney
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Of all the crises facing the world, the most alarming for the greatest number of people was, is and will be the climate emergency. We asked ourselves: what can the Guardian do? The answer: to relentlessly report on the crisis each day – its causes, consequences and casualties. To keep pressure on government and businesses to decarbonise, mitigate, go green. And to look at our own business to ensure that we are doing everything we can to reduce our own footprint. Now, we are updating our readers and supporters on our efforts. Here is our progress against our six promises. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/10/the-guardians-climate-pledge-2022
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Dear Gerald Kutney Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to The Guardian and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Muhammad We Don't Have Time
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Wow! How amazing you are, how great commitment you have for our planet! Great six pillars you have! Congratulations 👏 for reaching over 65millions with your first pillar out of the six, you need a salutations for being like a torch 🔦 light in all. Keep it up!
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This should be mandatory reading for all media organizations.
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The Climate Museum is the first museum in the US dedicated to the climate crisis. With the Climate Museum's inclusive, equity-centered culture for action on tackling the climate crisis, visitors to the Climate Museum feel less resigned to anxiety or helplessness when learning about climate change. Exhibitions at the Climate Museum include displays on the New York estuary, climate and inequality, and fossil fuel's ongoing disinformation campaign against green energy. According to the American Alliance of Museums, 97% of Americans believe that museums are educational assets for their communities. Also, the AAM reports that American public opinion shows that 96% of Americans would think positively of their elected officials for taking legislative action to support museums. The Climate Museum can bridge the divide with Americans' challenging relationship with trusting the media by tapping into Americans' ingrained trust in museums. Displaying climate information at museums is a great way to learn and build public confidence in green solutions. If you find yourself in NYC, the Climate Museum would be a fun excursion to tack onto your trip! The photo is a part of an exhibition at the Climate Museum where participants could create their signal about climate. What do you think yours would be? The Climate Museum Website - https://climatemuseum.org/mission Link to report about American public opinion over museums: https://bit.ly/2SbZ3oJ
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That's so good
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This is great... The more we talk about climate change the more relevant the issue becomes hence people start working on it
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This is fantastic!
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New York (CNN Business)Pinterest on Wednesday announced a new policy prohibiting users from sharing climate misinformation on its platform, making it the rare social platform to ban such content outright. Pinterest, a service where users can bookmark and share visual posts, said it will remove content that denies the existence or impacts of climate change as well as the role of humans in causing climate change. It also plans to take action on false or misleading content about climate change solutions, content misrepresenting scientific data that could erode trust in experts, and harmful false or misleading content about climate change-related public safety emergencies. The platform will also ban ads containing false information or conspiracy theories related to climate change. Repeat offenders of the policy may face further action by the platform, including potential removal of their accounts. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/06/tech/pinterest-climate-change-misinformation-policy/index.html
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Dear zelda ninga Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Pinterest and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Muhammad We Don't Have Time
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BP (NYSE:BP) expects to double crude oil production from its Thunder Horse project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and launch its latest production platform by the end of this year, a company executive said on Monday at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, as reported by Reuters. The company expects to produce ~200K boe/day by year-end 2022 from the current 100K boe/day at Thunder Horse, according to Starlee Sykes, BP's Senior VP for the Gulf of Mexico and Canada. BP (BP) also is preparing to start its fifth operated platform this year - Argos - the centerpiece of its $9B Mad Dog 2 project in the Gulf, but Sykes declined to specify in which quarter production would start. "More Gulf of Mexico oil and gas helps improve emissions globally," Sykes said, according to Reuters. Last September, BP (BP) announced the start-up of Thunder Horse South's phase 2 expansion and said a total of eight wells would be drilled to increase oil and gas production to ~400K boe/day by the mid-2020s. BP is scheduled to announce Q1 earnings results before the open on May 3.
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This is just insane
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Does BP know that we are in a climate crisis and that we need to stop using fossil fuels???? At this point, they really just value money more than human lives...
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Aude Boulord
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I hate to be a party pooper, but La Tomatina festival isn't so fun. La Tomatina is a Spanish celebration happening each year during summer time in Valencia. In August, participants will throw tomatoes and get involved in a tomato fight purely for entertainment purposes. It is basically a food fight but much, much bigger than the one you had when you were at kindergarten. Here, there will be about 20 000 to 40 000 adults wasting an average of 130 tons of tomatoes. 🍅🗑️ La Tomatina is a great example of waste culture and consumerism, at a time where countries are being hit by war, economic crisis, and political conflicts that affect millions of people (here comes the party pooper part) : In 2016, 80% of the annual crop of tomatoes was lost in Nigeria. While Nigeria was in a state of emergency, at the very same time, Spain was throwing 130 tons of food on the ground. Responding to Nigeria’s outrage of La Tomatina, Bunol’s mayor, Rafa Pérez Gil said, “If you look at the garbage bins in Spain, there is more waste thrown away every day than tomatoes used at La Tomatina.” If this is true, then one issue doesn't erase the other but instead add up to the problem : Spain has a big, serious issue with its food waste management. The main excuse about this waste is that the tomatoes used during the festival aren't good enough to be sold in supermarkets anyway, therefore were meant to feed the trash in the first place. First of all, isn't it a weird thing ? Why would you produce so much food that you know will turn bad? Most of these tomatoes are already rotten (how come? Poor production management?), and are bought extremely cheaply from the Extremadura region of Spain (is this ethical?), with such low quality that they were pretty much inedible to start with. My question is, why this production exists in the first place then, if this is not meant for our consumption? And why is the production such a poor quality? Spain should maybe use its land in Extremadura in a smarter way in order to produce good quality tomatoes - or any other veggies - that would end up where it should : in our plates. Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/la-tomatina-food-fight https://www.dailysabah.com/europe/2015/08/27/la-tomatina-spains-bunol-painted-red-as-150-tons-of-food-wasted
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Great questions in this review,I wish they can consider to answer those vital questions. Anyway some cultures sounds weird!
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Disgusting!
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This is so outdated.Turning into something else for the celebrations would be better since we're looking into exacerbating the climate crisis if they still use 🍅 come next month.
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@rick_m_witan yea but still, there's no correlation with having a good weather and being wasteful. Not at all. Plus it's quite insulting towards the third world countries being at the front line of the climate crisis. I give you a simple example. I am from South-East of France and living up North in Sweden. Sweden or Norway, both will never turn off their lights, which was shocking to me when I first moved in here. In my country not only it would be non sense to leave an empty room with lights on, but people even go outside and turn off lights of the shops. Sweden, despite its harsh weather, will burn all of its wood in a quite unsustainable way since there's been quite a huge damage to biodiversity due to this industry. Another example of being 'wasteful' in the South : France has been the first country in the world adopting a law against food waste. And trust me that Spain has its loads of good actions as well! My point is that, there is no correlation with weather and being wasteful. Each country will have their flows... Once we start blaming our neighbors, that's when things get bad.
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Prince William is saying “Saving Earth should come before space tourism.” Do you agree? https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-58903078.amp
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The single biggest thing the royals - and celebs - could do is very publicly announce a no-fly policy. This would signal to everyone [a] that the climate catastrophe is here and fast getting worse [b] that *we* drive huge CO2 emissions with our flying, our cruises, and our car-buying [c] it is perfectly possible to live a contented life without air travel [d] that they are prepared to show the wider public a lead on the kind of drastic changes needed. Global airlines make the same CO2 as a large volcanic eruption (10million tons) every 5 days and plan to make more (http://bit.ly/airlineCO2), and their claims about "sustainable aviation fuel" are a big lie (https://bit.ly/no-sustainable-fuel).
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The amount of resources required for space travel let alone money is insane when the planet we live on needs rescuing from our greed and consumerism!
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Elon Musk takes the risk that we're unable to solve this crisis very seriously. He approaches the crisis as an investment: dividing his capital over opposing bets. Tesla is betting on solving the climate crisis and SpaceX is betting against solving the crisis. If not solving wasn't a very real scenario, this app wouldn't be called "We Don't Have Time." But it's not entirely that black and white. For the example of space tourism: a side-effect of going to space is the "overview effect" or "orbital perspective." Viewing Earth from space tends to evoke a deep realization that Earth is a very fragile ecosystem, which has protected life for millions of years. It's an unlikely dot in the vastness of space on which we're all linked together, yet we're destroying this ecosystem and each other. Maybe it's exactly the ones who miss that sense of perspective who are now lining up just for the thrill to come back with a sense of the effect their companies have been having on Earth. Maybe it's worth every dollar to give the CEO's of China Coal, Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, National Iranian Oil Company and ExxonMobil a new perspective on life. It's gonna take a profound experience to change their perspective. Although you could argue dragging someone to The Hague for crimes against humanity is absolutely cheaper, space tourism may strangely proof to be faster. At the same time the effects of rocket launches is still poorly understood but it's clear that the potential harm is more complex than CO2 or money spent alone. Unfortunately the industry is highly unregulated. There is currently no regulation on the type of fuel used in rockets, while rockets leave their exhaust in the highest layers of our atmosphere, where it barely dissipates and warms up and interacts with our ozon layer. There is also little push to regulate the space industry. But regulation efforts like https://banfossilfuelads.org are currently focused on the current largest source of climate change. Climate change is the most important issue we are facing today, it is also the most complex issue we have ever faced that can't be captured in one-liners designed to do well on Twitter.
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PARTNER UPDATE. Veterinarians International is on a mission of empowering and training a worldwide community of vets to respond to animal disease and suffering. How is that a climate action? The answer, they propose, is naturally quite simple… Guided by the One Health approach—an understanding that human health is integrally connected to the health of animals and our shared environments—Veterinarians International keeps its eye on the critical linkages between healthy wildlife, healthy domesticated animals and global human health. “Vets International became a We Don’t Have Time partner in order to represent the plight of the animal kingdom and its vulnerability to climate change, while informing the public about the disease risks that will escalate as climate change intensifies,” says Dr. Scarlett Magda, Founding President of the U.S.-based non-profit. Watch Dr. Scarlett Magda speaking during STHLM+50 Climate Hub The carbon value of a thriving elephant? Priceless. She works closely with Ralph Chami, who is the assistant director at the International Monetary Fund’s Institute for Capacity Development, currently on sabbatical. Ralph is helping to place specific financial values on the ecosystem services of the wildlife that Scarlett’s vet teams care for in economically challenged areas. These values can translate directly to the carbon credit market. Ralph explains, “This work started with Fabio Berzaghi’s paper in Nature, where he found that the elephants in the forests of the Congo basin increase carbon sequestration in the forest between seven and fourteen percent, depending on their density in the forest.” “Working with Fabio, we were able to give a value to the service—the carbon sequestration service—of a single elephant,” says Ralph. “And, at the time, we came up with a value of 1.75 million USD, the value of the service of a single elephant in terms of carbon sequestration alone.” In short, the idea is to sell an elephant’s services—which means simply being an elephant as an elephant naturally is—onto the carbon credit exchange. And the possibilities extend well beyond elephants and carbon, to include other mammals and ecosystem services. “Vets International is taking this concept and looking at other species and the ecosystem web,” says Scarlett. “We’re exploring how to look beyond individual animals’ services, to evaluating the whole ecosystem.” The underlying principle is simple: Nature does what it naturally does, and that has inherent value. But Nature must be cared for or, in many cases, nursed back to health for it to do that work. The healthier the individual animals are within the forests, for instance, the healthier that forest ecosystem is. A healthy forest sequesters more carbon as well as provides other ecosystem services. On the cusp of the carbon exchange To whom would the elephants’ and other animals’ services be sold? “To all the companies that want to offset carbon,” says Ralph. “So a big tech company, for example, can purchase these services, and tick off its box for its carbon footprint, while also ticking off a box for saving elephants. Then, by saving elephants, they’re also paying the rangers that look after the elephants.” “There’s also an employment aspect to this as in employing rangers,” he explains. “In buying the services, that big tech company is also compensating local farmers for whatever interactions they might have with the elephants—because sometimes there are clashes between the local people and elephants that are hungry and going into farmland and such.” “So you’re alleviating poverty. You’re creating resilience in Nature, and therefore creating resilience for the people, stabilizing them on their lands in their land.” “And the regulated exchange is ready,” says Ralph. “What we need is the supply.” “For a market to happen, you need demand, you need supply, and you need an intermediary that puts the two together. The demand for carbon sequestration is there, and insatiable, because we have a world out there wanting to go net zero, carbon neutral, by a certain date. The exchange—the intermediary—is there,” Ralph says. “Now we need to release the supply from the politics of it all, so we can get on with it.” “Nature is the only solution for this problem,” he says. “It’s not high tech. There’s no machine that’s going to do the carbon sequestration for us, and God help us with what other unknown things it’s going to do. It’s about Nature. It has been around for billions of years, and there are no side effects.” Watch Ralph Chami speaking on the STHLM +50 Climate Hub Ecocide Law panel * * * Ralph sums up the work as a whole. “If you leave Nature alone, if you help it restore and rejuvenate, two things can happen. Nature comes back, and it rewards us by helping to fight climate change.” “How wonderful is that? And how simple,” he says. “We regain our contact with Nature, and we come back home.” He pauses, then: “We’ve been lost for a while. It’s time to come home.” For more information Visit the Veterinarians International website to learn more about their work, or get involved as an ambassador, volunteer, donate, give at work, or help them raise funds in a variety of ways.
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We recommend you very much
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very important work they are doing! We need to protect the world's biodiversity
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@marine_stephan thank you, we sure do!
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A wildfire was burning out of control Monday in forest outside Los Angeles after a weekend of record-breaking temperatures, and as forecasters warn of fire danger across the parched US West. Almost 1,000 acres (400 hectares) had been charred by the Sheep fire since it erupted in the Los Angeles national forest on Saturday evening. Thousands were warned to evacuate their homes in the community of Wrightwood, with the fire just five percent contained. Firefighters battling the blaze said it was ripping through an area with thick vegetation. "The terrain is very steep—it's a bad area," Alison Hesterly of Cal Fire San Bernardino told the Los Angeles Times. Over 200 firefighters were battling the blaze, including from the air. "They're really focusing hard on the edges on the northwest side and the south end to secure those edges, to hope that the wind won't blow the fire out of the containment lines," Hesterly said. "That's a huge focus for today—securing those high-risk areas with hose lines and hand lines." Video on social media showed towering flames gripping trees and being fanned by strong winds. The fire erupted as parts of California and the West were smothered in extreme heat, with temperatures in Palm Springs on Saturday hitting 114 Fahrenheit (45.5 Celsius), the highest for the day since records began. The Southwest has been baked by a once-in-a-thousand-years drought that has left vegetation exceedingly dry and flammable. Fire chiefs are warning that 2022 looks set to be a terrible year for wildfire. "Given the fuel conditions, the fire conditions that we're here talking about, I foresee a very tough four, five, six months in front of us," Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy said last week. The National Weather Service said Monday that fire danger was widespread across the region. "An expansive area of critical fire weather conditions is expected across the Southwest into the southern and central Rockies and High Plains," the NWS said on its website. "Red Flag Warnings have been raised today for large portions of southeastern Utah, southwestern Colorado, northern and central Arizona and New Mexico today. "Dry and windy conditions will promote the rapid spread of fires across these areas." In New Mexico, hundreds of thousands of acres of forest have been consumed in wildfires that have been burning for months. US President Joe Biden on Saturday flew over some of the blazes, before being briefed on efforts to combat the fires. Temperature variations and wildfires are both expected parts of the natural cycle. But global warming, driven chiefly by humanity's unchecked burning of fossil fuels, has knocked the climate out of kilter. Hot periods are hotter than they were and weather cycles are less stable. This has exacerbated droughts and vastly increases the risk of disastrous wildfires. https://phys.org/news/2022-06-wildfire-california-forest-temperatures-rocket.html
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Dear Edwin wangombe Thank you for getting your climate warning to level 2! We have reached out to Governor of California and asked for a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Sarah We Don't Have Time
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Global warming ⚠️
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RAILROAD REFLECTIONS A few days ago me and my family got back from a two week train trip in Europe. It was such a great experience, and I would therefore like to share with you my very personal top 3-list of the major benefits of traveling by railroad instead of flying: 🚆 The great feeling of falling asleep in a city like Hamburg and waking up the next morning in the Austrian Alps. 🚆 The even better feeling of always arriving in the middle of town, of grabbing your backpack, leaving the train, stepping out of the station and just suddenly being right there, in the centre of things. No security check, no waiting for luggade, no airport shuttle, no hassle. Just simplicity. 🚆 The never-ending opportunities to combine a few days visit in a super cool city like Berlin, with a period of complete relaxation and/or beach life in one of the stunningly picturesque towns surrounding Lake Garda in Northern Italy – and then choose to board another train to spend a few days in the great mountains of Austria. It was also great to experience first-hand how Germany had chosen to tackle higher prices on fossil energy, by giving everyone the opportunity to travel by bus or train for only 9 euros for a whole month in June, July and August. What a great way to encourage a more sustainable way of travel! My family alone saved almost 1,5 ton of CO2 by travelling the way we did (compared to flying). Just imagine the combined climate benefit of Germany’s decision.
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This is really inspiring. Thanks for sharing Markus! What was your favorite train?
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This is enlightening... Thanks for sharing.. and I hope you and your family had fun...I would love to tour around Europe using railroad
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🎥 Have you watched “Our Great National Parks” featuring Barack Obama, yet? As he notes, nature can be so healing when we have felt contained to one spot, and who could relate to this more than him?? Join him with his personal photographer, Pete Souza, as they relive special moments in America’s National Parks and be reminded to E-X-P-L-O-R-E this amazing country we get to share! We must take the time to remember we what we are fighting for! 🏕🎒🏞
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It's such an interesting documentary to watch.
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It's an awesome documentary that showcases biodiversity and the fact that Obama is the narrator makes it interesting to watch and listen
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Emissions from aviation are a significant contributor to climate change. Airplanes burn fossil fuel which not only releases CO2 emissions but also has strong warming non-CO2 effects due to nitrogen oxides (NOx), vapour trails and cloud formation triggered by the altitude at which aircraft operate. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/disney-vip-world-tour-will-emit-62-tonnes-of-carbon-for-each-guest
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Dear zelda ninga Your climate warning has received over 50 agrees! We have reached out to Disney by email and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! To reach more people and increase the chance of a response, click the Share button above to share the review on your social accounts. For every new member that joins We Don't Have Time from your network, we will plant a tree and attribute it to you! /Varsa, We Don't Have Time
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It's a Daffy Duck idea..time for the Lion King, Bambi and Mary Poppins to tell the Disney management to can this idea, or turn them into white mice immediately!
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This is insane: Disney is marketing a $110,000-a-ticket elite package tour that comes with a carbon price tag of 6.2 tonnes of emissions for each guest – 20 times more than a person in a low-income country accounts for in an entire year.
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The conventional coal fuel cycle is among the most destructive activities on earth, threatening our health, fouling our air and water, harming our land, and contributing to global warming. Fortunately, there are solutions available right now: Energy efficiency and renewable resources can help us meet our energy demands without the negative impacts of coal. https://phys.org/news/2022-07-china-coal-greenpeace.html
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Terrible decision.
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we don't have time for more fossil fuels!
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Hopeless... when you know that 900 million people in China are suffering from the current heatwave, this is scary
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Adding a small proportion of seaweed to a cow’s daily feed — about 0.2 of a percent of the total feed intake in a recent study — can reduce the amount of methane by 98 percent (!!!!). That’s a stunning drop when most other existing solutions cut methane by about 20 or 30 percent. The potential of this is significant because livestock overall account for about 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, with nearly 40 percent of that linked to methane from the digestive process, according to the FAO. The amount of methane from livestock production alone is about the equivalent of the emissions from about 650 million cars. Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/11/27/climate-solutions-seaweed-methane/?arc404=true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtG24Vmwyzw
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Adding as little as 0.2% of seaweed to a cow’s daily diet can reduce its methane emissions by up to 98 percent. ⚠️💨 This is significant because: ✔️Livestock accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with nearly 40 percent of that linked to methane from the digestive process (source: FAO). ✔️The amount of methane from livestock production alone is equivalent to the emissions from about 650 million cars 🚗
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Cows digest cellulosa. So for small farming in Scandinavia they are self-supplied in the summer. They also used the same method in the winter time. Then its called hay. The problems starts when you loose the respect for the animals. And for the Environment.
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@anne_svare I couldn't agree more. We need to respect animals in the same way we respect humans.
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The Swedish bank Swedbank have released its first ”Paris Aligned” funds. The classification and method are based on the EU Sustainable Finance climate benchmark guidelines, aligning fund investments with the climate targets in the Paris agreement. The funds also invest in companies working actively to reduce climate risks. https://news.cision.com/swedbank/r/swedbank-robur-presents-its-first--paris-aligned--funds,c3201555
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⚠⚠⚠ Three major banks in Sweden – SEB, Nordea and Swedbank – continue to finance companies looking for new oil and gas discoveries in the Norwegian part of the Arctic. In total, the banks have supported the oil companies with SEK 43 billion in new loans and financing services in the last two years, which is an increase of over 30 percent compared to the previous years.
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Great news! Thank you Swedbank
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A recent exposé on fast-fashion retailer H&M alleges that the company’s environmental promise is undermined by greenwashing. H&M was using a scorecard system to inform customers about the environmental soundness of each product, but a report by Quartz claims that more than half of the scorecards portrayed products as being better for the environment than they actually were. The report also found some instances in which H&M’s scorecards allegedly gave information about the sustainability of a product that was completely opposite from the truth. H&M has removed the scorecards in the wake of Quartz’s report. The scorecards were created based on the Higg Material Sustainability Index (MSI) by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). The trade group has paused the use of the consumer-facing transparency scorecards in response to a complaint by the Norwegian Consumer Authority and is reassessing their methodology. (It has not paused the full use of the Higg MSI.) A watchdog group found that the scorecards use only averages of the environmental impact of types of textile, rather than giving the full environmental impact of the manufacture and sale of a particular finished piece of clothing, Just Style reported. H&M’s transgressions may go beyond that, though, with some of the product information shown mixing up data — touting products that used 30 percent more water as using 30 percent less water, contradicting the SAC version of the scorecard. Take action HM! 🛑 Stop relying on trade associations as the arbiters of sustainability or eco-impact scoring, ♻️ Engage directly with organizations exclusively focused on reducing environmental impact and increasing the sustainability and reuse of products. ♻️ Establish a more sophisticated end to end supply chain. Having a strong planning, merchandising and allocation system will better ensure that the right amount of products get made and go to the right places to the right consumers. ‼️Produce less waste upfront. https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/retailwire/2022/07/13/hm-case-shows-how-greenwashing-breaks-brand-promise/amp/
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Dear Ingrid Hesser Thank you for getting your climate warning to level 2! We have reached out to H&M and asked for a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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We need to stop promoting fast fashion and they need to change. NOW
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This not sustainable at all. We need legislation that regulates green washing.
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Dear EU-parliamentarians. So you have just voted yes to labeling fossil gas as ”green”. Happy with your decision? You shouldn't be. Here's why: • Natural gas is not clean. • Natural gas is not sustainable. • Natural gas is not part of the future. Voting yes to label fossil gas as a green investment – thereby allowing potentially billions of euros of funding from environmental investors – was an act of cowardice, and a spit in the face of the younger generations, and all the companies that are working hard to get financing for energy solutions that are actually sustainable. Also, no matter what view anyone might have on nuclear power, is in fact a completely different form of energy source compared to natural gas, and should therefore have been handled separately. That might have made this important discussion a bit more mature – and it would probably also have increased the chances of a NO to fossil gas. Learn more: https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/eu-parliament-vote-green-gas-nuclear-rules-2022-07-06/ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220701IPR34365/taxonomy-meps-do-not-object-to-inclusion-of-gas-and-nuclear-activities
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Dear Markus Lutteman Thank you for getting your climate warning to level 2! We have reached out to European Parliament and asked for a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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I'm really wondering how much these politicians got sponsored from certain industries to get to a such danger and complete destructive decision....
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Omg Jane Fonda is 🔥I’m sure as hell am mad as hell too! Thx for sharing this
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Alan Solomon here from southern California. I just watched the "Hollywood and Activism: Insights from Jane Fonda, David Fenton, and Sweta Chakraborty | SXSW 2024" and I am as PISSED OFF as Jane is!! I can hear it in Jane's voice. I can see it in her face. I can feel her energy through my computer monitor. I am glad you have this comment section available. How could you air a video like this without a comment section?? There are many, many people out there that are just as PISSED OFF and passionate about this as I am, but they don't know where to go or where to turn to find the correct avenue to voice their feelings, thoughts and ideas and to help and educate the other millions and millions and millions and millions of people out there. For that last 18 years I have researched and studied our environment, wildlife and stopping climate change. I would love an opportunity to volunteer to train these same people or speak to and educate people, in my community, in the U.S. or globally about the truth, which is what Sweta, Jane and David spoke about in this video. This is a very critical time for human civilization. Our planet, not so much. Our planet will continue on for hundreds of millions of years after mankind. Please let those who want to help and be of service, help and be of service Today. Please contact or email me to discuss this further. Thanks for your time Today. asolomon777@gmail.com