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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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For decades we have known that our way of life is causing global warming. And yet, still we haven’t changed direction. Have we been telling the wrong kind of stories about the future? On June 3, Viable Cities’ chief storyteller Per Grankvist took the stage at the STHLM+50 ClimateHub and delivered an energetic and highly entertaining presentation titled ”50 years later – why facts still don’t matter.” The title alluded to the fact that exactly fifty years had now passed since Stockholm hosted the first-ever international conference on environmental issues in 1972. ”We have been pushing facts and scientific solutions for fifty years. We have been talking about how important it is, and playing it out for the people in order to make them change. It isn’t working, and maybe it has to do with the way we tell stories about the future”, Mr Grankvist told the audience at STHLM+50 Climate Hub, a five-day event, organized by We Don’t Have time and the UN Development Program, UNDP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7YEvILR99A So why is storytelling important at Viable Cities? Well, because its mission is to create climate-neutral cities – with a good life for all within the planetary boundaries. The major objective of Viable Cities is to usher 23 Swedish cities – together accounting for 40% of Sweden's population – towards climate neutrality. As a way of reaching this ambitious goal, Viable Cities has developed a method for using storytelling to make elected officials and policymakers understand what a climate-neutral future feels like. By replacing numbers on climate neutrality with narratives the result is that the audience gains a new way of thinking and talking about the future with a high quality of life in focus. Already prior to its launch, the method received international attention from the BBC, Süddeutche Zeitung, and Bloomberg Businessweek among others. During the Stockholm +50 conference, the chief storyteller Per Grankvist explained the research behind the method and presented it in detail for the first time. ”If I say you´re gonna be climate-neutral, it sounds like: ’Okay, I’m gonna take your hamburger away, I’m gonna take your car away, and you can never go to Spain again.’ That sounds boring. We don’t want that, because we are basically kids, all of us. We want fun stuff.” After fifty years of using graphs, stats and diagrams to tell stories about the future, Mr. Grankvist believes it’s time we try something new – using fiction to tell the truth. ”In order for us to be able to relate to stories about the future, they need to be emotionally true. So that was what we began doing within the Viable Cities program, we started to think about: What if we could use storytelling in order to make city officials and policymakers brave again?” He and his colleagues started working on a new concept moving from numbers to narrative. From virtual reality to emotional reality. A fictional form of storytelling that is emotionally true, locally relevant and scientifically correct. ”When we use storytelling in the right way, we can place people somewhere else, and that’s what we’re trying to use as a method”, said Mr Grankvist. Watch the whole presentation to learn more about this new kind of storytelling – and start spreading good stories about a sustainable future. ABOUT STHLM+50 CLIMATE HUB 50 years after the very first UN Environment Conference, placing nature and poverty at the forefront of the international agenda, Stockholm welcomed the world again in June 2022. Together with partners, We Don'tHave Time and UNDP hosted a public arena for the entire week of Stockholm+50, leading up to World Environment Day 2022.
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This is a Climate Idea for the world's largest cement company, responsible for producing 385.6 million tonnes of cement each year. Roughly 1 tonne of CO2 is emitted for every tonne of cement produced. Although LafargeHolcim claims to only produce 561kg of CO2 per tonne of cement produced. That is still a carbon footprint of 216.3 million tonnes each year, not including other supply chain emission. Cement is the second most used substance in the world, behind water and is responsible for 5-6% of global emissions annually. Ironically, the process which generates 60% of the emission during production is called decarbonisation. So can we decarbonise the decarbonisation process? It’s confusing I know… According to Project Drawdown, substituting some of the input materials for volcanic ash, certain clays, finely ground limestone and ground bottle glass, we can sequester/prevent between 7.98-16.1 billion tonnes (gigatonnes) of CO2 from 2020-2050. Remember, this app works like a petition, so if you agree, make sure you click that agree button and if enough of us agree, We Don’t Have time will reach out to the company for a response. Shall we see if we can get a response from LafargeHolcim? Here is the link to learn more about this https://drawdown.org/solutions/alternative-cement
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Good news from France: the new RE2020 environmental regulation will decrease the carbon index of new buildings progressively but quite aggressively. According to Bouygues Construction CTO Christian Cremona, RE2020 effectively phased out 20% of cementitious materials in March 2022, and will raise the stakes by outlawing 50% in 2050, 80% in 2028 and 100% in 2031. This means that materials which can achieve the emission reduction target by 2031 may exist, but are not yet certified nor industrialized. The best time to ramp up those carbon-neutral and carbon-negative construction materials startups is now, at least in France; What about other countries? Who will be next to follow a similar path?
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Good and well written idea. The cement industry must go green!
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Won't touch the sides of the problem
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Can you be more specific?
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On 80 hectares of land, east of the city of Helsingborg the future is growing. Skanska plan to develop Sweden's first climate-positive city district – Ljusekulla. This new city district will contribute to a better society by showing how cities can grow and develop without affecting the climate in a negative way. The goal is for Ljusekulla is to be sustainable on several levels. "We also want to inspire Ljusekulla residents to a more sustainable and healthy life, where people of all ages and from different cultures and backgrounds grow as individuals" Says Skanska. Such a beautiful vision! 😊 But this requires a roadmap, set objectives and a lot of work. Here are some things Skanska will develop: - Designing a wood and climate-improved concrete. The steel used is scrap-based and several of the houses are built with a large proportion of recycled material. - Building roads using bio asphalt and walking paths with crushed stone flour. - Machines and vehicles being powered by electricity or fossil-free HVO fuel. - Planting 9000 trees from various native (!) species. - Food cultivation is integrated in all parts of the city district! I love this! 💚 On top of all of this, I would like to draw your attention to a specific innovation, "KliNC". It stands for climate local heating circularity, which in Swedish is abbreviated KliNC. It is the term used for the technical systems that contribute to the district's electricity, heating, cooling, water and taking care of the wastewater. KliNC consists of a number of different technical solutions that together contribute to building the climate-neutral cities of the future. In Ljusekulla, Skanska have created an example of how KliNC can be adapted to create the best possible solution from the perspectives of climate and economy. KliNC is designed in Ljusekulla as an independent solution with a high degree of self-sufficiency, but the system can also be integrated with an existing district heating network. In both cases, KliNC provides a very low climate impact. Curious? Read more: https://www.skanska.se/en-us/about-skanska/sustainability/h22/ljusekulla/
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That's great, I hope we get more climate-positive districts (and entire cities) in the future!
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Plus Pack is dedicated to designing sustainable and customized food packaging solutions, and the goal is to be a preferred partner for these solutions. Plus Pack has over 1200 customers and its products reach over 4 million people with food daily in 50 countries. A company of this size and reach has many challenges as it works with rules and regulations of different countries. However, sustainability is not new to Plus Pack, “The drive to make a difference” has been the motto since the start over 100 years ago. Plus Pack has a vision for sustainable production for the coming three years, called “Circular 2024”, with the target to become a producer of net zero circular food packaging. The vision is to design and produce products for the circular economy, and to be a net zero emitter in scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 2024. The company is focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 12, i.e. Responsible Consumption & Production, which is a natural goal of focus for any producer. Under this goal, Plus Pack is going to do four main things which are: minimizing carbon footprint, fighting food waste, thinking circularly and engaging & inspiring partners. Working systematically on these four, setting science based targets, will have a positive impact on many areas. To name a few, these are switching to renewable energy, minimizing waste, and longer shelf life of food, using materials that are fit for the future and collaboration with partners for knowledge and data. At Tacton we are proud to work with PlusPak to develop sales processes that meet the goals in the ambitious “Circular 2024” strategy. They have developed and implemented key performance indicators for sales of the most environmentally conscious products, where Tactons CPQ (configure-price-quote) is key in enabling customers to make the right choices. To know the details of Plus Pack’s vision “Circular 2024”, watch Ksenija Garbacenka’s, Group Sustainability Manager, Plus Pack, presentation in this video: https://www.tacton.com/about/sustainability/?wchannelid=819tbb375z&wmediaid=0cvpkvm3wg
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Food packaging solutions will definitely make a great impact as it is currently a grey area
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This is the right thing in the right direction. We don't have time.
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It's great to learn about Plus pack, what type of material do they use?
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When in some countries politicians are having an auction on the price of gasoline (hej Sweden) in Spain the government is implementing other types of measures to fight inflation. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, announced the multi-trip tickets for Renfe trains on commuter and medium-distance trips will be free from September 1 to December 31. "This measure encourages the use of this type of collective public transport to the maximum to guarantee the necessary daily trips with a safe, reliable, comfortable, economical and sustainable means of transport, in the midst of the extraordinary circumstances of a constant increase in the prices of energy and fuels," the Spanish Transport Ministry said in a statement. The measure will be partly funded by a temporary tax on energy companies and banks. The taxes on the banks and natural gas, electricity and petroleum companies are expected to bring in 7 billion euros over two years. Other measures include a discount for urban mass transit services. Of course, some questions arise: will there be enough trains? Is it just a pre-election move? Maybe, but it still interesting to see that some politicians are willing to take measures to help people in these complicated times and the planet as well. https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/07/13/espana-multiviaje-trenes-gratis-trax/
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Dear Sarah Chabane Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Pedro Sánchez and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Marine We Don't Have Time
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Fantastic. Let’s help the people not big oil as in Sweden
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Great Spain!
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NEW YORK & STOCKHOLM — March 10. World governments are spending $11 million dollars on subsidizing fossil fuels – every single minute. That’s just under $6 trillion a year, according to calculations by the International Monetary Fund, IMF. The governments spending these staggering amounts of public funds are the same governments that have made commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement to decarbonize their economies and collectively achieve a net-zero emission world by 2050. Register here – it is free. How can this be? Who benefits from these subsidies? And what effect do they have on our societies, today and tomorrow? In the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow, the United Nations Development Program, UNDP, launched the #DontChooseExtinction campaign, featuring Frankie the dinosaur. It is UNDP's most successful campaign ever and has reached 1,5 billion on social media. It also helped bring fossil fuel subsidies up on the agenda during the climate conference. Now it’s time for the next step: the Dino Talks. Dino Talks is a whole new broadcast series co-created by UNDP and We Don’t Have Time, and supported by the circular tech company Prime Computer. In ten episodes, Dino Talks will bring in experts to help dig deeper into the fossil fuel subsidies and how they accelerate everything from extreme weather events to deadly health problems, while also slowing down innovation and sustainable development. Boaz Paldi is the United Nations Development Programme's Global Partnership & Campaigns Manager, and a key force behind the #DontChooseExtinction campaign. He says: ”With the 'Don’t Choose Extinction' campaign we sparked a global conversation around the issue of fossil fuel subsidies. The partnership with We Don’t Have Time was pivotal in reaching citizens across the globe. Dino Talks is the natural evolution of the excellent partnership and will allow our audience a deep dive into this very critical issue.” Ingmar Rentzhog, founder and CEO of We Don’t Have Time: ”The fossil-fuel subsidies have managed to stay under the radar for decades. Last year’s amazing UNDP campaign was a wake-up call, and we are extremely proud to extend our partnership with UNDP by taking the next step in spreading awareness about this destructive spending of public funds. We aim high and expect to reach millions of viewers globally.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Wkg_f02Zk ABOUT THE BROADCASTS The first three episodes of Dino Talks will be co-hosted by Boaz Paldi and Nick Nuttall, one of the world’s leading experts in environmental communication. A former Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Nick Nuttall has led the communications team at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and was the UN spokesperson for the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. He is now Director of Global Communications at We Don’t Have Time. Episode 1: Why do we still subsidize fossil fuels? March 14, 15:00 CET. Guests: George Gray Molina (Bolivia), Head of Strategic Engagement and Chief Economist at UNDP, who has helped coordinate a several landmark reports on fossil fuel subsidies. Ploy Achakulwisut (US), scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute. She served as a SustainUS youth delegate to the 2014 UN climate negotiations and was included in Grist magazine’s top 50 fixers in 2019. Episode 2: Deeper dive into damage caused by fossil fuel subsidies April 4, 15:00 CET Guests: Michael Taylor (New Zealand), Senior energy analyst at the International Renewable Energy Agency. Ivo Mulder (Netherlands), Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme, and lead author on the State of Finance for Nature. Episode 3: Why are governments struggling to change? May 2, 15:00 CET Guests: Lourdes Sanchez, (Spain), Senior Policy Advisor and Lead, Indonesia, at the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Nathalie Girouard (Canada), Head of the Division for Environmental Performance and Information at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD. HOW TO WATCH: Dino Talks will be broadcast on WeDontHaveTime.org Register here to watch the shows and receive updates on upcoming episodes. FOR MORE INFORMATION and requests regarding interviews with featured experts: Nick Nuttall, Strategic Communications Director, We Don’t Have Time +49 160 211 11 02 nick.nutall@wedonthavetime.org Boaz Paldi, Global Engagement & Partnership Manager, UNDP boaz.paldi@undp.org ABOUT UNDP, United Nations lead agency on international development, works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate power and reduce inequality. UNDP helps countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities, and to build resilience to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Its work is concentrated in three focus areas; sustainable development, democratic governance and peacebuilding, and climate and disaster resilience. We Don’t Have Time is the world’s largest review platform for climate solutions. Headquartered in Stockholm, and with offices in Washington DC and Nairobi, We Don’t Have Time has a monthly social media reach of over 70 million. Among its 200+ partners are UNDP, Ericsson, Volvo, Logitech, Vodafone, Nordic Co-Operation, Scania, and BT. Download the app or sign up on WeDontHaveTime.org A special thanks to our tech partner Prime Computer. Prime Computer is a young, fast-growing, climate-neutral and international award-winning tech company offering sustainable hardware and services. The company produces cutting-edge green IT devices in a closed-loop, accelerates the circular economy and thus contributes to a greener planet. Read more.
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Laudable initiative really. Over dependence on fossil fuel not only drive global warming, but also greed, corruption and bad governance. Everything about fossil fuel almost always spell doom.
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This can be a very important series, thank you to @UNDP for starting the initiative!
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A very important message in these dark days. A big thanks to Prime Computer as well for enabling this important series
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ABB will provide the electrical systems for two U.S. hydrogen plants being built by fuel-cell provider Plug Power. Why it matters: Plug Power is the largest buyer of liquid hydrogen in the world. The big picture: The first of the company's two new plants, "Project Gateway," will be North America's largest production facility for so-called green hydrogen. Located in Gennessee County in Upstate New York, it is set to produce 45 metric tons of liquid hydrogen daily. The second plant, located in Camden County in southeastern Georgia, will produce 15 tons of liquid green hydrogen per day. The plants, already under construction, are expected to begin producing hydrogen as soon as 2023. Context: Companies are racing to deploy clean-burning hydrogen as a fuel in vehicles — especially those where batteries face greater technical and economic challenges, such as heavy trucks — and as a power source. Full story: https://www.axios.com/plug-power-taps-abb-for-300m-hydrogen-plants-04ae46bc-dcd5-4db4-b10b-45483246e8ec.html
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Dear Universal Hydrogen Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to ABB and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Climate change and the loss of ecosystem services pose major collective action problems. This means that even though all individuals would benefit from cooperating and taking action, they fail to do so due to conflicting interests and insufficient incentives to act alone. On top of this situation, institutional inertia makes it even more difficult to deal with climate change. In this context, it is worth wondering what role collective-choice arenas could play in increasing the mobilization of civil society organizations to more effectively adapt to and mitigate climate change. The authors of the paper “Urban Commons and Collective Action to Address Climate Change” focus more specifically on urban commons, defined as natural and societal resources in urban areas that are accessible to all members of a local community or group. The members (and only them) use, share and manage resources together, based on the rules and norms they set. According to the scientific literature, these urban commons play a role in climate-proofing, which refers to the process of turning climate change into mitigation and/or adaptation strategies. Using a multi-layered and cross-disciplinary approach addressing both social and environmental issues, the authors aim at providing an answer to the following question: what role do environmentally-oriented urban commons have in instigating climate-proofing activities in urban areas? Main conclusions: Environmental urban commons Urban green commons help their users learn about environmental issues and climate change adaptation and mitigation. This concept refers to green spaces in urban areas that depend on collective management and organization. Individuals of the group hold rights to it, including the rights to create their own rules and norms and to decide whom to exclude from or include in the management. Allotment gardens, community gardens, or urban community forests are some examples of these environmental urban commons. Urban green commons constitute learning arenas that help raise awareness on and boost understanding of environmental issues among their members. Urban gardening, for instance, is seen as an “active way of learning by doing”, in which participants learn not only about gardening but also about local ecological conditions, self-organization, and urban space politics. It instils them with new, or reinforced, awareness of climate change at a greater scale than the garden itself. Moreover, urban green commons are key institutional arrangements for individuals and civil society groups to learn about climate change adaptation and mitigation and to become more involved in building cities' resilience. Their practices promote climate-proofing in different ways. For example, by protecting community forests or green structures for biodiversity reasons or to adapt cities to the impacts of flooding (adaptation), they enhance cities’ resilience and also help to sequester carbon (mitigation). Furthermore, urban green commons do not only create opportunities for civil society groups to act on climate change, but they also bring a sociocultural context to adaptation and mitigation efforts, that could, later on, be instigated in the wider society. These local institutions are also more flexible than formal ones and therefore can respond to environmental feedback much faster. For all that they bring, these environmental urban commons should be more widely developed in society. To do so, property rights regimes and socio-economic investments that support this are needed. Coworking spaces Coworking spaces can play a role in climate change mitigation through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the benefits provided by a sharing economy. Firstly, coworking contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by diminishing domestic transportation and commuting distance. As a matter of fact, according to a study from Switzerland, the development of coworking has led to a reduction of 10% in CO2 emissions. Secondly, coworking spaces introduce the notion of sharing economy, which has many benefits and plays a significant role in achieving several Agenda 2030 goals. Through the use of shared offices, coworking contributes to reducing 38-70% GHG emissions and energy use by increasing resource efficiency. It also helps build communities, creates new social ties, and can even lead to the creation of new jobs and new income forms. By allowing and facilitating eye-to-eye contact and physical meetings of community members, coworking spaces play an important role in trust-building and the exchange of tacit knowledge. This is all the more important as climate change represents a collective action problem that depends on trust-building and cooperation for its mitigation. However, it is necessary to underline the fact that these coworking spaces are not always socially sustainable, as they deeply rely on and are managed by public-private partnerships. These can affect public spaces by fragmentizing them and controlling the crowd. They can also contribute to the loss of “third places” – spaces where people socialize in a free and informal way – due to the lack of public funding. Community climate commons Community climate commons play a significant role in instigating climate-proofing activities in urban areas as they represent catalysts of civil society mobilization. They are common places where local communities can meet and mobilize together to create shared low-carbon assets. They hold the potential to empower these groups, by providing them with a location where they can get an education or participate in lectures and debates, as well as a place where they can gather, cooperate and mobilize as a community against climate change. This allows them to have greater influence and ownership of the transformation needed to reach net-zero emissions. The community center Folkets Husby, in Sweden, can be an example of a community climate commons. Self- and democratically governed by local voluntary associations, it constitutes the basis for strong local mobilizations for the socially sustainable development of segregated neighborhoods in Stockholm and has managed to put issues such as social segregation on the agenda. To conclude, environmentally-oriented urban commons help instigate climate-proofing activities in urban areas, by providing local communities with knowledge, and places to gather and mobilize. Nevertheless, barriers exist, mainly linked to the unwillingness of local governments to transfer power and property rights to groups of stakeholders, to the lack of financial means, and also to the lack of knowledge about the virtues of urban commons. This publication was supported by We Don't HaveTime's partner FAIRTRANS, a MISTRA-sponsored research programme to promote transformations to a fair and fossil-free future, led by Stockholm University and the University of Gävle. FACT BOX Article: “Urban Commons and Collective Action to Address Climate Change”. Johan Colding, Department of Building Engineering, Energy Systems and Sustainability Science, University of Gävle, Sweden, and The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden. Stephan Barthel, Department of Building Engineering, Energy Systems and Sustainability Science, University of Gävle, Sweden, and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden. Robert Ljung, Department of Building Engineering, Energy Systems and Sustainability Science, University of Gävle, Sweden, and Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise, Sweden. Felix Eriksson, Department of Building Engineering, Energy Systems and Sustainability Science, University of Gävle, Sweden. Stefan Sjöberg, Department of Social Work and Criminology, University of Gävle, Sweden. Published in 2022, in Social Inclusion, Volume 10, Issue 1
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Very interesting article! Thank you for sharing. It is interesting to read that these urban commons could actually help to mitigate climate change. They should be developed even more
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I just finished a candy bag of "Gott & Blandat" (good and mixed in English) and when I was about to throw the bag away, I noticed the information on the bag - That 35 percent of the package material came from suger canes. The candy was also free from gelatin, palm oil and artificial dyes. Keep up the good work Cloetta, even though I know candy is not good for you, but it feels little better when it is good for the planet and the animals (without gelatin and palm oil). https://www.cloetta.com/en/
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Nice! You're giving me a good excuse to eat candies 😄
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Wrapping made from sugar canes - maybe you could eat it?😀
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The University of Calgary has suspended admission for its oil and gas engineering bachelor program amidst a downturn in Canada’s energy sector and a transition towards a more renewable future. In fact, enrollment for the program has hit an all-time low with only about 10 students registered over the course of the last two years. https://beta-ctvnews-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/calgary/2021/7/8/1_5502133.html
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Dear Sara Jonsson Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to University of Calgary and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Quite a statement from the University of Calgary, I hope other Universities will be inspired to do the same!
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In contrast, the world needs more (bio)chemical engineers and natural products chemists.
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Tony's Chocolonely is on a mission to produce chocolate in a way where the farmers are well paid. This impacts poverty reduction & climate action as farmers with profits are more open to dialoge and are more likely to adopt good practices. Read here about Tony's impact: https://tonyschocolonely.com/uk/en/our-mission/tonys-impact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7awChZJGP0
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Quite a bold step by Tony's Chocolonely, when people are given prority over profits by other organizations it becomes easy to engage with them and reason together. Hope other organizations will follow suit in pushing the sustainability agenda.
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And on top of that their chocolate is delicious!
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Muhammad Fehd Khan products chocolate🍫 in way farmers👳👳👳💦 with povfits Good👍 morning Sir
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We are proud to be presenting the first in a series of 6 of Circular Tables Talks in a collaboration between Ragn-Sells and We Don't Have Time. The very first show will focus on circularity and the prize on carbon. Bringing together experts on the circular economy, showing examples of projects applying these principles in real life and challenging preconceived notions of what is and isn't waste. The broadcast will go live on Thursday, July 1st, at 15:00 CEST / 9:00 am EST. Speaker program and more info: https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/circulartabletalks Use the comment section below if you have questions for the speakers. https://youtu.be/IvMI3YwCU3I
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Join us next Thursday, July 1st, at 15:00 CEST / 9:00 am EST. Read more: https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/circulartabletalks
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What a great show 👍🏻
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That's great! We're looking forward to it. We, us humans, and Prime Computer need to move the industry towards a more circular behaviour with less waste, more energy efficiency & and without compromise in Design and functionality. Reduce - Reuse - Recycle ♻️ Here at Prime Computer, we already follow a circular approach that focuses on our products’ energy efficiency, sustainable material management, reuse and recycling of products. The future needs not only to be about regenerating, but mostly about how to create a more circular more and therefore less waste. 💙
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As a novice much of the information was above my head, however I must say I have learned much more than I knew before. Thank you so much for such an informative 'Circular Table Talk.'
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A climate ⚠️ as not only are we breaking temp records but ‘solving’ the problem with another problem in buying air conditioners. Bad idea and all around unsustainable too. The energy grid will collapse and emergency systems overtaxed. What a mess we need to dig out of and fast.
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Boris Johnson put on a spectacular airshow for G7 leaders. Celebrating business as usual! Is this how we should tackle the climate crisis? The way to lead and communicate "progress"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9RJaQMxMFs
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Dear Sarah Dawes Thank you for getting your climate warning to level 2! We have reached out to Boris Johnson and asked for a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Am with you there Sarah - disgraceful and out of touch with the mood of the public they say they serve! It's a climate emergency - dimwits!
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How unbelievably low-gifted and disgraceful. Just empty words as usual. Probably NOT dragonfruit and sprulina in that exhaust smoke... Wouldn't surprise if they each took a big steak of some poor animals body parts afterwards. Sorry, but most of the worlds leaders just makes me sick and leaves me with headaches, tears for my childrens future and some taste of vomit down the throat.
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The Economist Group is now weaving sustainability into the fabric of its growth strategy and operations. We're committing to reducing emissions by 25% to 2025 as an interim science-based target on the trajectory to net zero. Read more in the 2021 Annual Report released today, link here: https://lnkd.in/dRaawjP (from page 30)
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Dear Sara Jonsson Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to The Economist and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Dear Oatly! I really like your product. I drink it daily. I have defended you against criticism when you brought in new investors who are not sustainable themselves. Tried to make others understand that you do not always can choose your investors if you want to grow. That you, after all, stand for better values and can influence your owners from within. I have been on your side and signed your petitions against the big dairy companies who with the help of legal means tried to stop you from calling your oat drink for oat milk. I have bought your own arguments that big diaries have no right to the name milk or design of their packaging. I have bought your argument that your business's main priority is that you want to help reduce the world's emissions. But now I honestly don't know anymore. What are your motives for suing a small family-owned Oat company for using the letter oaty (Pureoaty) in their name and by having a blue color on their packaging like yours? Do you seriously believe consumers can't tell the difference? Of cause they can. Shouldn't consumers choose your product based on the taste and your sustainability work? Not because you have the most expensive lawyers? I would like an answer to this climate warning. Why are your arguments protecting your “intellectual property” better than big dairies' arguments doing the same? And exactly how do you see this helping the climate? I hope your answer is good. Otherwise, I have to stop buying your products. I think many agree. Companies must work together to solve the climate crisis. We don't have time to sue each other. Some companies even give away their patents for free to speed up change in society. What do you do? Some links: Oatly campaign against big dairy https://www.oatly.com/int/stop-plant-based-censorship Oatly suing Pureoaty manufacture https://www.farmersguide.co.uk/oatly-accused-of-bullying-british-family-farm-in-trademark-row/ Picture: Do you think they look the same?
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Dear Ingmar! Thank you for reaching out and for everything you’ve done for us so far, we hope this response will show you that we are still the same company with the same sustainable mission. We still want to make it easier for people to eat and drink healthy, tasty foods without taxing the planet’s resources. We want to inspire and encourage all food companies to go plant-based, even oat-based if they like, in their own unique way. This recent lawsuit is not about that. A lot of people think our disagreement with Glebe Farm is about the packaging or the use of the word oat or oats. Like you, they draw parallels to our campaign against Amendment 171. First, let us clarify that we are still not allowed to call oat drink ‘milk’ in Europe. Amendment 171 was about the milk lobby wanting to take it even further and convince the EU to prevent the entire plant-based category from using phrases like “Use as cream”, “This is not milk” and comparing the Co2e-emissions between plant-based and animal-based dairy. Luckily, the EU politicians prevented the milk lobby from succeeding in this and we can still call our oats creamy, use the same sort of packaging and tell consumers it’s not milk from a cow. Just like we think all oat-based companies should be able to use the same sort of packaging and call their oats oat. This recent lawsuit is not about that either. What is it about then? If we say we hope to inspire others – companies and consumers – to join the plant-based revolution, why do we do this? Our first patent was released to the world in 2014 and has since been available for all to use. Around the same time we did a rebranding and aimed for the global market, wanting to show everyone that you can put sustainability first and still do good profitable business. Because, as you say, we’re all in the same team when it comes to the planet and the climate. A few companies caught on early, and in the last couple of years we’ve seen many more join in. We are working together to solve the climate crisis (or the parts of it we have the power to change anyway). Big dairy companies are doing oat drinks now. That’s a win for the planet we didn’t dare to even imagine when we started out in the 1990’s. Global investors are looking for plant-based and sustainable companies to invest in. That’s another giant win. This year we took it to the next level and went public. This means we now have a lot of new shareholders – a huge variety of investors, some of them small private ones, people who have decided to bet their savings on our idea. So, yes, we are all on the same team. But we will only win if all players are ready to do the work needed and find their own voice. We cannot have some players sitting on the shoulders of others all the way to the finish line. Some might unintentionally tag along for the ride, and others might do it intentionally. And when it comes to trademark protection, there’s no distinction between the two. If we want to protect the uniqueness of Oatly that we’ve worked for over a long period of time - a uniqueness that has been an essential voice in the plant-based movement – this is the path we need to take. There is no denying the similarities between OATLY and OATY and that’s why we asked Glebe Farm to stop using it, first outside of the court room and then inside it. If they are allowed to use the word OATY in their branding, it will make it free for all to use, and we could very well have a dairy company producing an oat drink under the name THE ORIGINAL OATY. No thanks. We would love for Glebe Farm to continue selling their oat drink in the way they sell their Almond drink, Soya drink and Coconut drink. All we ask is that every player on the team do the work and find their own unique voice. That’s what this is recent lawsuit is about.
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Oatly has just lost this case https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/pureoaty-v-oatly-cambs-family-21233155
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Absolutely agree! A big part of Oatly’s success can be seen in the light of their huge marketing campaigns positioning them as underdogs against “big dairy”. Going from being bullied to bullying it seems. Not impressed. The product oat milk is super simply put water and oats. Get over yourselves.
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1. They look very very different. Could be differentiated from a mile! Oatly should withdraw the lawsuit. 2. I agree with Ingmar. @oatly should give us an answer that is good enough to keep us buying its products.
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Most pregnancy tests used years ago are still somewhere on this planet. But, there is a sustainable and biodegradable, plastic-free test on its way! 🤰⠀ ⠀ Lia Diagnostics is a company committed to “revolutionizing reproductive health.” They want to make the hormone-detection process more sustainable. 99% accurate and 0% plastics. The test biodegrades 100% in 10 weeks in soil. These pregnancy tests disintegrate 98% (by weight) in the soil in 3 months under municipal composting.⠀ ⠀ For more info, check their website 👉 https://meetlia.com
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Dear Plastic Soup Foundation Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Lia and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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More sustainable options are always great. Though the already existing pregnancy strip tests, used by health professionals and way more efficient and cheaper than the plastic ones (https://bit.ly/3zDtkm9) are already basically plastic-free. I read that people like having plastic pregnancy tests to be able to show the results to their partner especially when it spells "pregnant/not pregnant".
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Just like most surgical instruments these pg test kits are widely and are oftenly used in huge numbers.unlike in a hospital set up whereby they could be properly disposed by incineration those home take aways are irregularly dumped in the all purpose bins and wherever finally dumped they don't decompose and so it's great to have decomposable ones upon dumping.
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"For Shell, this ruling does not mean a change, but rather an acceleration of our strategy," Shell CEO on LinkedIn. That is exactly what we need. #WeDontHaveTime to wait. Shell needs to accelerate more! If they speed up things. They are changing! Please continue! Interesting answer after court rule from Shell CEO on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/spirit-shell-rise-challenge-ben-van-beurden/?trackingId=fxgzdU%2BmQn2AYw9MuATRSQ%3D%3D Read the article in BBC about it: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57415965.amp It is still very frustrating that they are not going to drop the appeal from the court ruling in Netherlands forcing them to speed up their transition to a fossil-free company. Maybe we just can't expect more from big oil? I give them love anyway. I hope they will deserve it. Time will tell!
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Given that they're not dropping the appeal in speeding up transition to ascend to being fossil free,it leaves us begging for more clarity but seems so much foggy in their efforts to climate change.
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The ruling has had much critic by pro and con. Maybe overturn. Or more for clarity, because the logic of the judge wasn't so clear. It is not unexpected. The ruling has made much more possible anyway.
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I don't know if I believe these people
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@jehannes_ros I Don’t agree. If Shell will ditch fossil fuels and use all their money in green energy Russia and Saudi Arabia will have a hard time to sell their expensive dirty energy.
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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!