"For the first time there will be a dedicated food day, and #food, #agriculture and #water will be the focus of at least 22 major events during the fortnight of #COP28 talks in Dubai.
For the first time, too, the FAO will outline how food systems must change for the world to stay within the globally agreed goal of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels."
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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
Over fifteen thousand people have signed our open letter to the oil industry pledging to resist them every step of the way if they take Christoper Luxon's invitation to come back down to Aotearoa to start new oil exploration.
As #GretaThunberg courageously takes the lead on travelling to #Kyiv to meet President #Zelenskyy and speaking out about the #ecocide caused by #RussianTerrorists, it is a good time to remind ourselves that letting rashists get away with it will make it much, much worse, and we will ALL suffer as a consequence of accelerating natural disasters.
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....
In Marshallese culture, there is a prominent attitude of "Enaaj Emman," which translates loosely to "It will be okay." It is strongly embedded in the culture and people's everyday thinking. If you are ever despondent, somebody is always there to remind you that "enaaj emman." It is a focus on hope and happiness that pervades daily life despite the struggles, setbacks, and disappointments that inevitably happen. People retain this optimism even after being irradiated by nuclear testing by the USGovt throughout the 1950s.
Having lived in the Marshall Islands for eight years, I am acutely aware of the threats and dangers posed by both nuclear waste and fossil fuels.
At this point, I expect to see this country of beautiful coral atolls and generous, gentle people be subsumed by rising sea levels. They are undergoing severe stress at 1.1C and will be completely uninhabitable at 1.5C. We will push past 1.5C by the end of this decade, and I don't think we have enough time, nor are we doing the right things, to reverse the momentum. These islands will be gone, and an entire country and culture will have been displaced or extinguished.
It fills me with profound sadness, especially when I think how it all could have been prevented but for the fraud perpetrated by fossil fuel energy companies and the greed of their executives. And let's not forget about the collusion of our politicians through bribery, nor forget about the perpetuation of the fraud through mass media owned by members of the same bourgeois class.
I understand the need to continue seeking solutions. I hope people create those solutions. Enaaj emman. I appreciate people like @pvonhellermannn who, despite feeling despondent, has provided to us long threads informing us about this crisis. Hope is still alive as Tina Stege, #ClimateEnvoy from the Marshall Islands, impresses upon us in these two posts:
Yet I am despondent. I am also very angry. My reaction is to want to dislodge and remove the parasitical elites of the 1%, punish them harshly, and completely dismantle their capitalist systems. I despair that billions will have to die before we make that happen. Certainly among the first great wave of casualties will the Marshall Islanders. And that fills me with rage.
It also brings back memories of living in the islands. It's as close to an anarchist way of life as I've ever seen in the world. And I'm now reminded of an elder woman who was asked by another Peace Corps Volunteer, "Who do you think is the best US president?" Her response: "I think President Kennedy was the smartest president. He sent all these young people here so they could learn "mantin majel" (Marshallese custom). There is so much wisdom in that statement, that it resonates even more strongly for me 35 years later. The world needs to learn Mantin Majel and enact its inherent values of peace, cooperation, solidarity, and optimism.
“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.