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Green cities brings back life
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We need green cities with reduced emissions
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We sure need more of these green cities
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Tongue sucking children is not going to do anything for the environment.
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Produced in partnership with StartupTV, in this new video series we will be presenting our 15 finalists from the 5 categories of the SET Award. Today the kick-off begins with #CleanEnergyWeek. 👏 Founded in 2015, this Swedish start-up is challenging norms in the wind energy industry by spearheading the transition to cost-effective and climate-neutral construction sources. And, this is just the begining! As co-founder and CEO Otto Lundman says, "There is a lot more to do, to bring in more thoughts and diversity when we develop innovations that are going to change the energy system." ✨ 🎬 Be sure to check out this catch-up with Otto Lundman and find out more about Modvion 👉 bit.ly/3PRCq5Z 🗓 On 20 September, you can meet Modvion's team at the SET Tech Festival, where our winners will also be awarded! And you're just in time to book your second early-bird passes here 👉 https://bit.ly/3caykr6 Stay tuned, tomorrow we introduce you to our second finalist from the #CleanEnergyGeneration Category! 😎 #SET100 #CleanEnergyGeneration #ModularTurbines #RacetoZero #Innovation #SETAward #SETTF22
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An interesting approach through material change in wind production.
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Wow. Truly important!
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Such patherships will help realize sustainable development goals
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What about plastic humans??
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How about making the plastics companies pay to create enzymes that are naturally produced by plastic eating animals for use in disposal.
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My Green Pod
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‘SWEET NOTHINGS’ Major chocolate companies failed in pledge to end deforestation, according to comprehensive new study More than four years after the high-profile launch of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative (CFI), Africa’s top cocoa-producing nations continue to see huge areas of forest being destroyed to make room for cocoa production. This is the main finding of ‘Sweet Nothings: How the Chocolate Industry has Failed to Honor Promises to End Deforestation in Cocoa Supply Chains’ by Mighty Earth, the global advocacy organisation working to defend a living planet.. The new data analysis reveals that, even after the industry published action plans in 2019, Côte d’Ivoire lost 19,421 hectares (74.9 square miles) of forest within cocoa growing regions and Ghana lost 39,497 hectares (152.5 square miles). This amounts to a combined area equivalent to the size of the cities of Madrid, Seoul or Chicago. ‘This report unwraps the unsavoury side of the cocoa industry and shows the urgent need to break the link between chocolate products and deforestation. ‘Chocolate companies like Nestlé, Hershey’s, Mondelez and Mars need to stop making empty promises and start working together with governments in the CFI to establish an open and effective joint deforestation monitoring mechanism this year.’ GLENN HUROWITZ CEO of Mighty Earth Deforestation for cocoa Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are estimated to have lost 80% to 90% of their forested area over the last few decades, in large part to make way for cocoa farms. Through a combination of satellite data analysis and on-the-ground field investigations, Mighty Earth has uncovered evidence of ongoing tropical forest clearance for cocoa. This includes deforestation in designated protected areas that provide vital habitats for endangered wildlife – such as chimpanzees and pygmy hippos. These forests are also critical carbon sinks, vital for slowing both the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. Key findings of the report Four and half years after chocolate companies and governments committed in the CFI to a ban on establishing any new cocoa farms, overall levels of deforestation remain near record highs. Within cocoa growing regions, Côte d’Ivoire has lost 2% of its forest since the CFI action plans were published in January 2019, while Ghana has seen the staggeringly high rate of deforestation of 3.9%. In Ghana, 2020 tree cover loss countrywide was 370% higher since January 2019 than it was between 2001 and 2010, and 150% higher than the average tree cover loss between 2011 and 2019. Average countrywide tree cover loss in Côte d’Ivoire has been 230% higher in the period since January 2019 than it was between 2001 and 2017, and 340% higher than the average loss during the 2000s. ‘All of this devastation is entirely preventable and should have been addressed long ago. Meanwhile, forests continue to disappear, endangered species die, and communities suffer. ‘The cocoa industry has the same tools and far more resources than Mighty Earth to track and prevent deforestation, but limited willpower and lack of transparency and accountability continue to be the biggest roadblocks to progress.’ SOULEYMANE FOFANA General coordinator of the Ivorian Human Rights organizations (RAIDH) Checks on imported cocoa Deforestation is still found throughout protected areas in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, with satellite data analysis and observations from Mighty Earth’s field investigation in Côte d’Ivoire revealing that cocoa expansion is playing a major role in this encroachment. Among the report’s recommendations is the call for authorities in the European Union, Japan and the United States to introduce legislation that requires companies to conduct due diligence checks to prevent cocoa or cocoa-derived products linked to deforestation from being imported into their consumer markets. ‘The Cocoa and Forests Initiative has lots of potential but currently is not living up to it. It promised so much but is failing to deliver. Cocoa and chocolate companies have a duty to protect the environment or risk losing the commodity they depend on forever because the current situation is unsustainable.’ OBED OWUSU-ADDAI Managing campaigner at EcoCare Ghana READ MORE GREAT NEWS AT https://www.mygreenpod.com/articles
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Should be on Display@Times Square ..
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It feels that some of these companies deserve climate warnings ⚠️ deforestation isn't a good price to pay for eating low quality chocolate
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As a chocolate lover this makes me sad that I can't trust in the pledges of the cocoa industry :(
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Circular Table Talks "Plastic: Molding a Sustainable Future Now" 🗓 February 8 🕒 15:00 CET We Don't Have Time and Ragn-Sells are proud to present the fourth episode in a series of six in-depth table talks on the subject of circularity. This episode will focus on plastics and plastic waste, examining how we can fast forward, real and sustainable markets for recycled waste plastics. Hearing from guests about the global situation and spotlighting some breakthroughs in circularity such as new processes for bringing back previously hard to reuse plastics. Ask your questions to our guests in the comments section down below ⬇ https://youtu.be/7w3n-G7GmYs
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We need to get to these 'treaties' pretty quick! Many have no concept of how ineffective our current measures are. We managed without plastic and most uses are not essential. Use it ONLY where it makes sense.
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such an initiative would be beneficial in African countries where we have a huge plastic waste problem.
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Do we really need all the plastics to avoid food waste? France is gradually getting rid of its plastics for fruits and vegetable are other countries using food waste as an excuse not to follow?
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Bad timing for UK customers to do this, as of spring 2022. I tried changing over my Electricity bill provider to Ecotricity last September. Later that month, my electricity biller went bust (which explains why their customer service were being so useless), so Ofgem put me onto a cap price with one of the big providers. With the April 1st cap price set to rise to 7p/kWh gas 28p/kWh electricity, shopping around won't help this summer, whether to seek savings in CO2 or in £. Even the greenest billers are stuck with buying expensive wholesale energy to top up what they can generate renewably. The Only genuine solution, I say, is for more of us to get more renewables installed at home. I'll still be paying about £1 per day for bought electricity this summer, but at least half of what I use will be genuine renewable from the silicon solar panels on the roof.
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Hi Dan, if you fit Radflek behind your radiators they will be 45% hotter.
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Great initiative, hope to see in UK soon.
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Adapted Racket
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Brain??
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We Don't Have Time and the United Nations Development Programme need your help ahead of the UN COP26 meeting. If we all come together, we can make a huge difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJswVu-Fh8 Did you know that all our governments around the world actively supports the destructive fossil-fuel industry with $11 million in subsidies — per minute! That needs to end if we are to at least have a chance of achieving the goals in the Paris Agreement and avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis. Today, October 27th at 00:01 AM EDT, we will help our partner, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launch the global campaign #DontChooseExtinction to urge our world leaders to abolish all fossil fuel subsidies. Share the English video on Twitter, Linked In, Facebook, Youtube, or use the below social media kit for more assets and to share it in over 30 languages. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #DontChooseExtinction and #WeDontHaveTime Unique to our users, we have been given permission from UNDP to give everyone access to their social media kit for partners. user: Friend_of_Frankie, pwd: NowOrNever2021 Campaign microsite with all assets and playbook: Click on below video and follow the instructions on how to share it, it is available in more than 30 languages! Thank you so much! Together we are the solution to the climate crisis.
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This is an inspirational quote of life being normal to work and change..in place of old idea that was work and explore..
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using taxpayers money to keep is in the fossil era is about as stupid as it gets!
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It´s high time to put an end to fossil fuels subsidies.
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BLOOD MINERALS The Taliban now controls one of the world’s biggest lithium deposits When Taliban fighters entered Kabul on Aug. 15, they didn’t just seize control of the Afghan government. They also gained the ability to control access to huge deposits of minerals that are crucial to the global clean energy economy. In 2010, an internal US Department of Defense memo called Afghanistan “the Saudi Arabia of lithium,” after American geologists discovered the vast extent of the country’s mineral wealth, valued at at least $1 trillion. The silvery metal is essential for electric vehicles and renewable energy batteries. Read more: https://qz.com/2047785/under-the-taliban-what-will-happen-to-afghanistans-minerals/?utm_source=reddit.com
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I wonder what our favourite Pet–Detective would have to say about this. @Ventura …Ace, are you listening?
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This is ridiculous!! Canadas' environment minister is pushing other leaders to fulfill their promises towards cutting off fossil fuels while they are doing nothing about this, on their own land.
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Canada's expanding presence in Latin America has brought economic benefits, but it's crucial to ensure responsible environmental practices accompany these investments. Sustainable development should be a priority for both Canada and the region. 🌎🌿 #ClimateAction #Sustainability