The chimney sweeper of my parents seriously told them
“Don’t let that idiot from Berlin (he probably means Federal Minister #Habeck and the Green Party) rip out your system! It’s still working as good as new!”
And I just don’t understand how people fail (or refuse to) understand that it never was about trashing existing systems but to use the opportunity to upgrade systems to #carbon neutral technologies at their next “natural” upgrade cycle (e.g. when they break on their own)
“When a new technology becomes cheaper than the old one & can do all the same stuff, people switch…
The EV revolution will help save the planet’s environment bc it’ll allow us to electrify most of transportation, which accounts for ~1/4 of global CO2 emissions. 2. It’ll give us cheaper transportation than before, which will boost economic growth & make life easier for lots of people.”
Proposed EPA rules would require almost all coal plants along with large gas plants to cut or capture nearly all their carbon dioxide emissions by 2038
@feld Concrete making is a huge contributor to #carbon production. Techniques like co2 reinjection in #concrete were invented a while back, but could not be used.
#Building#regulations are strict on what concrete is and how it can be made, strength and other properties. So even if solutions exists, you simply might not be allowed to use it.
A good example than solutions like this are part of a system and needs to have a strong framework to be really useful.
Remember, the tax on #JetFuel is now ZERO.
Putting a #carbon price on that of $200 per tonne would increase the price of every flight from New York to Paris by $200. That's impact.
The world's tallest Hempcrete building is soon to open in Cape Town. The 12 storey building's hempcrete blocks are carbon negative. The blocks are 20% more expensive, but that cost will reduce if they become more popular.
The #epas new rule "is expected to require #coal and natural #gas#PowerPlants to cut or capture almost all their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040. But that’s a decade sooner than most of the nation’s largest power producers are aiming to be net #carbon free."
This week, The New Yorker published a special digital issue on bottlenecks in the climate crisis. I hope you will read my contribution, about how our anemic ability to monitor methane emissions led the Environmental Defense Fund to build a spaceship and do it themselves.
Promoting tree functional diversity not only increases aboveground functioning but also mitigates global climate change and reduces soil degradation.
Tree-planting efforts with the
goal of aboveground and belowground C sequestration, for example, should also consider species diversity to better improve soil C and N sequestration.
The ”Net-zero” environmental policy we’ve seen take a large part of the brunt to bear is basically accounting. The accounting magic trick allows fossil fuel companies to expand their production, ”offsetting” their carbon capture sometimes up to the year 2070.
"Rising Sun, David Geffen’s 454ft, 82 room megaship spews an estimated 16,320 tons of #carbon dioxide equivalent gases into the atmosphere annually, 800x wht average American generates in a yr.
"European Union countries and lawmakers will negotiate "Euro 7" proposals this year on tighter limits for car #emissions - for #diesel#cars, but not petrol - and for heavy-duty #trucks and buses, including nitrogen oxide and #carbon monoxide.
The rules would also cover tyre and brake emissions."
This will mean less air pollution and less #microplastics pollution. Car makers balk, but this is still better for them than a big push for public transit.
"The world’s richest people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of #carbon and, unlike ordinary people, 50% to 70% of their emissions result from their investments. New analysis of the ...
Global #carbon#emissions in 2022 remain at record levels – with no sign of the decrease that is urgently needed to limit warming to 1.5°C, according to the #GlobalCarbonProject science team.
If current emissions levels persist, there is now a 50% chance that #GlobalWarming of 1.5°C will be exceeded in 9 years.
“[The report shows that] tackling global #poverty will not overshoot global #carbon budgets, as is often claimed. Failure to address the power and privilege of the polluter elite will. These are related because reducing carbon consumption at the top can free up carbon space to lift people out of poverty.”
As with many things, distribution, not the average, is the important thing.