California, a state known for its aggressive #greenhousegasemissions reduction policies, is ironically the nation’s greatest emitter of one: sulfuryl fluoride. As much as 17% of global emissions of this gas, a common pesticide for treating termites and other wood-infesting insects, stem from the United States. The majority of those emissions trace back to just a few counties in California, finds a new study led by Johns Hopkins University. https://yubanet.com/california/california-leads-u-s-emissions-of-little-known-greenhouse-gas/
A video explaining the systemic interdepencies and promoting #Indian models for coping with it.
"Did you know that the #food we consume has a significant impact on climate change?
Our food production systems emit #GreenhouseGasEmissions [#GGE) just like #FossilFuels. But we don't talk enough about it. This is because] more than any other economic sector,...
China’s energy sector carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased 5.2% in 2023, meaning a record fall of 4-6% is needed by 2025 to meet the government’s “carbon intensity” target.
...#CarIndustry, which had been lying about real NOx and other #GreenhouseGasEmissions (#GGE) for decades to develop an upgrade kit for each and every car they sold that does not meet environmental standards in real-life use. It was mass fraud, so they should be made to pay up.
As there were no regulations nor government subsidies, as there had been in the 1980's for #CatalyticConverters, upgrade companies either shelved many of their developments or went bust.//
"In the U.S., forests take up 12% of the nation’s #GreenhouseGasEmissions annually and store the carbon long term in trees and soils.
Mature and old-growth forests, with larger trees than younger forests, play an outsized role.
Remarkably, however, #logging is hardly considered in the Forest Service’s initial analysis, although studies show that it causes greater carbon losses than wildfires and pest infestations."