"In addition to pure #VirtualMeetings, Gokus and her co-authors propose hybrid formats and meetings held at a small number of physical hubs, which can then be virtually linked.
This approach has the potential to reduce long-haul travel in particular, which contributes the majority of #emissions.
These choices not only make astronomy meetings greener, they also can make astronomy more inclusive as a discipline."
Youth group, environmental organizations sue Maine for action on climate
"#MaineYouthAction, the Conservation Law Foundation and the Sierra Club filed their lawsuit on Friday in state court. The lawsuit says the #Maine Department of Environmental Protection is under an “existing and ongoing statutory obligation” to reduce #emissions and has failed to do so."
"Compared with the period from 1901 to 1960, cool season rainfall in the last two decades has dropped by 20%. Very wet years have almost completely disappeared.
About half of this change has been blamed on rising greenhouse gas #emissions, which could be an underestimate, according to one study led by Bureau of Meteorology scientists."
"The production of plastic, which is made from #FossilFuels, is greenhouse gas-intensive.
By the middle of the century, global #emissions from #plastic production could triple to account for one-fifth of the Earth’s remaining carbon budget, an analysis has found.
The report was released before the 4th Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) meeting for a global plastics treaty set to start next week in Ottawa, Canada."
Bloomberg: German coal mines emit much more methane than reported, study says. The nation has committed to helping slash global methane emissions 30% by the end of this decade.
Last Tuesday, SBTi’s board took steps to loosen guidelines for how companies can use carbon credits to reduce reported #emissions. The announcement prompted some employees to call for the resignation of the group’s board & CEO https://buff.ly/3Jjsp00
"Most of the funding, $621 million, will go toward 36 projects aimed at bolstering the resilience of existing infrastructure through things like improving draining, moving roadways, and lifting up bridges.
An additional $119 million will go toward protecting, strengthening, or removing at-risk coastal infrastructure like highways."
"The most high-profile rule issued Thursday is the greenhouse gas restriction, which applies to both existing #coal plants and newly constructed #NaturalGas plants.
Under the rule, these power plants are expected to have to capture 90 percent of their carbon dioxide #emissions."
Coal plants: by 2032, gas plants: by 2035.
They have a decade to develop carbon capture as real, cheap, and at scale, or it's the end of coal and gas power plants.
" Bill that would make Vermont the first state to have a 'Climate Superfund' takes a key step forward
The #ClimateSuperfund Act directs the state treasurer to work with climate scientists to catalog the damage Vermont has seen due to #ClimateChange between 1995 and 2024 — and what it will cost to adapt to a warmer future with more volatile weather.
If the bill becomes law, #Vermont could start to seek damages in 2027."
"#Vermont’s measure would task the state treasurer with calculating the costs of needed #climate adaptation work, as well as the damage inflicted by previous disasters such as last summer’s devastating floods.
The program would collect money from companies that emitted more than 1 billion tons of CO2 around the world from 1995 to today. Those companies with business activity in Vermont would be charged according to their percentage of global #emissions."
The word "#Degrowth" seems to scare people so that they don't even stop to see what it's about -- AND it still leaves you in that framing of "growth at all costs".
We need to change the frame.
Think about children: they need to grow when they're little. Then, at some point, you want your child to stop growing: they grow UP. They need to start living according to a paradigm which is not all about growth.
Instead of the scary "degrowth", how about talking about growing up?
Did you know?
ALL of the climate models assume endless economic growth.
but what if we question that assumption?
"The results of the study suggest that fast #emissions reductions in countries like Australia could be enabled in scenarios characterized by reduced or zero #growth. Possibly even faster than in virtually all of the most ambitious mitigation scenarios described in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Scenario Database."
"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."
"Hayek told the Guardian: “The #FAO’s errors were multiple, egregious, conceptual and all had the consequence of reducing the #emissions mitigation possibilities from dietary change far below what they should be. None of the mistakes had the opposite effect.”
Of more than 200 climate scientists surveyed for a recent paper, 78% said it was important for livestock herd sizes to peak by 2025 if the world was to stand a chance of preventing dangerous global heating."