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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...
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"A 2018 study estimated it would take 40-100 years or more for forests to recapture the carbon emissions from burning the wood pellets, if ever, because forests are subject to hazards like disease and fires."
This is one of many loopholes making net zero targets insufficient. 3/3
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Burning biomass is considered "climate neutral" since the forests eventually absorb the carbon again. But in the timeframe we have for reaching the Paris Agreement - and avoid setting off irreversible feedback loops - this is nowhere near the case. 2/3
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The heavily subsidised energy plant Drax is the biggest single source of CO2 in the UK and third biggest in Europe.
But the emissions are not included in the UK emissions.
This loophole is unfortunately what many international climate targets rely on. 1/3 news.sky.com/story/climate-…
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“North China's Inner Mongolia region has told more than 70 mines to boost annual output capacity by nearly 100 million tonnes”
These 100 million tonnes would amount to about 3% of China's total annual thermal coal consumption…
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”The production and burning of coal, oil and gas was subsidised by $5.9tn in 2020.”
People in power are spending $11 million every minute on practices that destroy our living conditions and life supporting systems.
Ignorance and stupidity defined. theguardian.com/environment/20…
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spoiler: yes. twitter.com/guardianeco/st…
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We’ve already emitted 89% of the CO2 budget that gives us a 66% chance of staying below 1,5°C. That’s why historic emissions not only count - they nearly make up the entire climate crisis. And yet they’re still being almost completely ignored by media and people in power. twitter.com/CarbonBrief/st…
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"European lawmakers have voted to prolong subsidies for fossil fuel gas until 2027".
A few days ago the EU once again clearly showed their priorities and where they stand when it comes to the climate crisis...
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"Global coal demand is set for with a 4.5% increase this year, pushing beyond 2019 levels."
So much for "building back better" and a "green recovery"... We are still speeding in the wrong direction. #MindTheGap #BlahBlahBlah #UprootTheSystem reuters.com/business/energ…
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I shared my #climatechangedme story with @ifrc
Join me and many others all around the world! Tell your story to make governments and decision makers see that the climate crisis is here and we must act now.
Learn more at climatechanged.me
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School strike week 163, in Milano.
#climatestrike
#fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate #UprootTheSystem
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The climate crisis is an accumulative crisis. Our CO2 emissions stay in the atmosphere for up to a thousand years. Being on the list among the biggest historical emitters certainly doesn’t speak to your advantage as “climate leader”. twitter.com/CarbonBrief/st…
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“We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah blah blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action”
My speech at #Youth4Climate #PreCOP26 in Milan.
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Today the #Youth4Climate #PreCOP conference in Milan starts. @vanessa_vash and I will hold keynote speeches during the opening morning session. twitter.com/Y4Cofficial/st…
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“I think naivety and childishness are sometimes a good thing.” The great thing about youth, she says, is you’re not blinded by realpolitik and the assumption of compromise. “I do think older people make things more complicated than they actually are.”
theguardian.com/environment/ng…
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In the German Rhineland, six further villages are planned to be destroyed to expand the largest coal mine of Europe. This is absurd. Today we visited those defending the villages and fighting for the coal to stay in the ground. We are standing with you. #AlleDörferBleiben
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”We must also keep in mind that we cannot negotiate and compromise with nature and the laws of physics.”
Full interview with @Luisamneubauer and me here youtube.com/watch?v=1nUVUz…
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We’re back! Today we were over 100 000 on the strike in Berlin and 620 000 in Germany alone along with many others all over the world, asking world leaders to #UprootTheSystem . There were strikes in over 80 countries! #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
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School strike week 162, in Berlin.
#climatestrike
#fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate #UprootTheSystem
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"In July, wildfires emitted nearly 1.3 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, a record that was topped by August’s 1.4 gigatons. Between the two months, forest fires emitted an amount of carbon dioxide greater than all of India’s carbon emissions in a year."
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On Friday October 1st, I will join the climate strike in Milan with local and international activists. We will demand real climate action based on climate justice, which is the only way to stop the climate crisis. #anotherworldisnecessary #UprootTheSystem #FridaysForFuture
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This Friday there are global climate strikes happening all over the world! I’ll join the strike in Berlin, 12.00 at the Bundestag. To find out more about the strikes happening visit fridaysforfuture.org/september24/ See you in the streets! #UprootTheSystem #FridaysForFuture #AlleFürsKlima twitter.com/FFF_Berlin/sta…
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It’s quite easy to understand why the world’s top emitters of CO2 and the biggest producers of fossil fuels want to make it seem like they’re taking sufficient climate action with fancy speeches. The fact that they still get away with it is another matter… #UNGA
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm