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To respect the 1.5 objective, global emissions must start decreasing by 7 to 8 per cent per year right away,” he said.
“Seven per cent is India’s share of world emissions. So for the plan to work, India’s emissions would have to disappear next year. In year two, two-thirds of Europe’s need to go. That’s the rate at which things must evolve. Even for two degrees, we would need an extra Covid each year to stay on track.”
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New post: "Designing for all audiences: Mapping the future of food". Stamen designer Caroline Carter shares how we worked with The Plotline from Earth Genome to visualize which food crops are best-suited to the changing climate in Africa.
There are 2 facets to the call for inclusion. Persons with disabilities “bring unique experiences & knowledge to the table of climate negotiations”.
Most nation don't refer to didabled ppl in their country’s plans to reduce emissions, signalling how far removed disability is from climate action.
The UAE 🇦🇪, host of last year's #COP28 climate summit, called on Tuesday for governments to take action in transitioning away from #FossilFuelshttps://buff.ly/3SHNMwt
If you wanted a good argument for why #FossilFuels firms cannot be at the centre of our response to #climatechange, then this might be it:
“There is overwhelming evidence the oil & gas industry has been misleading the public & regulators around the climate risks of their product for 70 years. Trusting them to be part of the solutions is foolhardy...”!
No wonder they are now seeking to disrupt the COP meetings....
“G77 president Pedro Pedroso warns #COP28 deal risks failing if polluters like UK, US and Canada don’t rethink plans to expand oil and gas
As we speak, unless we lie to ourselves, none of the major developed countries, who are the most important historical emitters, have policies that are moving away from fossil fuels, on the contrary, they are expanding,” said Pedroso.
Drax will extract money from consumers & taxpayers (yes, often the same people), for their massive roll-out of a at-best un-proven technology in the fight against #climatechange; no doubt boosted by #COP28's championing of this elaborate con.
Die Welt hat letztes Jahr 50% mehr #Erneuerbare installiert als im Vorjahr, in absoluten Zahlen das Doppelte der gesamten 🇩🇪 Stromleistung. Das ist der Weg zur globalen Energiewende und zum #COP28-Ziel: der Verdreifachung von Solar&Wind. Bericht der #IEA👇https://iea.li/41QZoRW
this is good news in the face of the relatively failure of #COP28 & associated global leaders' shilly-shallying about the #greentransition away from #fossilfuels.
Perhaps states are pragmatically getting on with putting in place the conditions for the uptake of #GreenEnergy?
We can hope this will be soon enough to make a difference but without too much confidence it now can quickly
After the #fossilfuels friendly #COP28 was engineered to be short on firm commitments & long on pious #oil industry-friendly 'aspirations'... the news that #COP29 in #Baku will be chaired by (another) oil industry veteran, should finally put paid to the idea that we can expect a radical & accelerated #greentransition through this process.
Time ran out a while back to follow the oil industry's gradualism - our political generation is just fiddling while the planet burns!