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HSBC is planning to continue financing coal for another 2 decades(!).
And this is somehow seen as "good news"???
This really shows how completely out of touch with reality we are and how urgently the narrative needs to change.
#FaceTheClimateEmergency
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
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@joeyayoub No, by 2052 with a 39,78% reduction by 2034
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“Around the world, young women are fighting for our future. Our activism takes different forms but we are working together towards the same goal: changing political and economic systems to prioritize people and our planet.”
Thank you @Malala for letting me guest edit Assembly! twitter.com/Malala/status/…
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"Flera ledande profiler inom skog- och klimatforskningen sitter själva i bolagsstyrelser eller konsultbolag med skogsbolag som kunder."
Häpnadsväckande läsning.
dn.se/sverige/skogsf…
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This has been pointed out over and and over again throughout 2020 by leading experts and yet it has been pretty much completely ignored in the debate. twitter.com/swetac/status/…
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"It is hard to be encouraged by stories of meatless burgers or “moonshot technologies” when communities around you are battling an endless and worsening cycle of drought, famine, cyclones, floods and destruction."
- Vanessa Nakate. #FightFor1Point5 independent.co.uk/voices/climate…
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This is Riehpovuotna/Repparfjord in the northern part of Sápmi, in Norway. The fjord is a protection area for the threatened Atlantic salmon. The Norwegian government has granted a permission to pump 2 million tons of toxic mining waste into the fjord annually. 1/3
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At the #ClimateAmbitionSummit leaders celebrate their shameless loopholes, empty words, distant insufficient goals and
theft of present and future living conditions - calling it "ambition".
There are no climate leaders.
The only ones who can change this is you and me. Together.
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So the ”biggest line item” of Biden's climate focused $2 trillion infrastructure plan will ”fund repairs and renovations to the country’s roads, bridges and airports” with “sustainable and innovative” materials.
Lol.
time.com/5951505/biden-…
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What a day! Today we striked (online or physically in small numbers) in 1068 places in 68 countries!
Soon we’ll be back on the streets again.
Thread with pictures from today->
Pakistan @FFFbalochistan
Antarctica @AWIs4Future
Germany @FridayForFuture
Sierra Leone @FFF_SierraLeone
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“People say we are pessimistic and doomish. But activists are the ones who are really doing something and for that you need to be very optimistic. To be able to think you can actually change something.”
Long in depth conversation on @zeitonline with @Luisamneubauer @Jochen & me. twitter.com/Jochen/status/…
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Yes, there are countless opportunities connected to taking real, bold climate action. But as long as we only treat it as “an opportunity” rather than the existential crisis it is we won’t get out of this mess.
We can’t solve a crisis without treating it like a crisis.
#MindTheGap
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"More than 450 scientists on Wednesday called on the executives of major advertising and public relations firms to drop their fossil fuel clients and stop what the scientists said was their spread of disinformation around climate change."
reuters.com/business/cop/s…
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“The facts are undeniable. This abdication of leadership is criminal. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson on our only home." - @antonioguterres on the new #IPCC report being released today.
“Delay means death”.
#PeopleNotProfit twitter.com/IPCC_CH/status…
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”64% believe the world is in a state of climate emergency”
according to @UNDP in the largest global survey on climate ever made. 1.2 million people in 50 countries participated.
Most interesting:
”just 10 percent believe world leaders are doing enough.”
aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1…
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In the beginning of a climate- and ecological emergency Norway’s prime minister says Norway “remains committed to oil and gas”.
#MindTheGap between words and action.
ft.com/content/91c54c…
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"2021 is seeing a large rebound in coal and oil use /.../ Largely for this reason, it is also seeing the second‐largest annual increase in CO2 emissions in history.”
Well well, who would have thought...
cnbc.com/2021/10/13/iea…
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"If we continue on our current path we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security/.../And if the natural world can no longer support the most basic of our needs, then much of the rest of civilisation will quickly break down."
youtube.com/watch?v=Maweqw…
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We support every effort by world leaders to #FaceTheClimateEmergency
To help them along we’ve created a list of first step actions that would give us a fighting chance to avoid a climate disaster.
You can help by signing and sharing the open letter:
climateemergencyeu.org
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“Global greenhouse gas emissions are likely to rise to record levels in the next two years, as governments fail to ‘build back better’ from the Covid-19 pandemic.”
#MindTheGap between words and action.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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"Goodbye climate deniers, hello – and you’ll pardon me for being blunt here – climate bullshitters."
A nice collection of some "case-study bullshit". And keep in mind - Damian is very kind and generous here...
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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”It’s shameful they’re getting away with it.”
Groundbreaking journalism which shows that unless things fundamentally change, the COPs are bound to fail since the targets and statistics are so incomplete - and since honesty and transparency is missing.
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm