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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.
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!
Meanwhile in #Antartica, the #climatecrisis continues to shift & change the pole's weather & environment, with consequences that will be felt across the world....
But, don't worry, #COP28 agreed we should consider transitoning away from #fossilfuels.... so that'a alright then - nothing to see here!
Dr Neil Grant (Climate Analytics) offers a glimmer of hope on #fossilfuels & the #climate crisis:
'For years, energy demand growth has outstripped renewables deployment, despite record additions of wind and solar. We’re now approaching the tipping point, where renewables overtake demand growth & start displacing coal, oil and gas. This would mark the beginning of the end for the fossil economy'.
If so this'll be despite the machinations of #COP28 not because of them
As we reflect on a year when #JustStopOil have been derided & prosecuted for their 'unreasonable' actions;
we should recall that across history little substantive #political change has ever been achieved by reasoned argument alone.
You may be uncomfortable with the 'fanatics' & their antics, but we should be clear being 'reasonable' for 30 years on the #ClimateCrisis got us to #COP28.... now is the time to be unreasonable as well. before we all sink below the waves!
If you were in charge of evaluating the success of climate conferences based on one key metric, namely the atmospheric concentration of CO2, would you conclude they’re successful or need only a few adjustments such as more “commitment” or “bold actions” by decision makers or would you say they’re fully inadequate for their purpose?
"Nonetheless, the capitalist system’s industrialists and financiers, and the governments that cater to them and bend to their will, would like nothing more than to continue business as usual. That will soon be impossible. Once again, our descendants — living in a world of flooded cities, food shortages, resource depletion, mass species die-offs, unprecedented human migration and large numbers of people dying should business as usual continue — are not likely to believe that their ruined world would be a fair tradeoff for a handful of industrialists and financiers of the past getting obscenely rich. We live in a global economic system under which it is profitable for a handful of powerful people to profit from the destruction of the environment, and this behavior is richly rewarded. The end of capitalism is precisely what must be envisioned. Organize like your life depends on it, because it does."
The UAE, host to the latest UN climate conference, showcases the vices that need to be vanquished if we’re going to have anything approaching a green society.
telegramm an alle welt: -..- konferenz in london beendet -..- verhandlungen ergebnislos -..- bildung von vier internationalen kommissionen -..- nächste konferenz beschlossen -..- wegen tagungsort ich meinungsverschiedenheiten -..--..—-..——
Das 1949 erschienene Buch „Die Konferenz der Tiere“ ist eine seltsam vertraute, aktuelle Mahnung, andere Perspektiven anzunehmen: „Wir werden die Welt schon in Ordnung bringen! Wir sind ja schließlich keine Menschen!“, weiß der Elefant Oskar ..