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Today on #IntlForestDay 24 NGOs and 44 indigenous communities send an open letter telling the EU to unite behind the science, remove forest biomass from the Renewable Energy Directive and protect EU’s natural forests to keep the carbon in the forests.
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"This is ‘sports-wash’– when heavily polluting industries sponsor sport to appear as friends of healthy activity, when in fact they’re pumping lethal pollution into the very air that athletes have to breathe, and wrecking the climate that sport depends on"
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"The technology, known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), could prove a cure worse than the disease, at least when it comes to water stress."
The moment we include holistic thinking we see there are no quick fixes to the climate crisis. newscientist.com/article/227022…
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"Some countries are racing to vaccinate their entire populations, while other countries have nothing."
@DrTedros says vaccine inequality is "becoming more grotesque every day".
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”UK government to allow new North Sea oil and gas exploration”
UK petroleum reserves stand at ca 5.2 billion barrels, the combustion of these fuels would add a further 2.2 gigatons CO2, but now drillers will look for more ”climate compatible” oil...
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Fossil gas and burning trees for energy will play key part in EU's so-called "Green Deal".
A leak shows the EU is surrendering to lobbyists - giving up on fulfilling their promises and on the Paris Agreement.
#NoMoreEmptyPromises #FaceTheClimateEmergency greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues…
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Isn't it funny that the same people who are calling us naive for believing change is possible are the ones who believe fossil fuel companies, big polluters and oil producing nations will ”fix” the climate- and ecological crisis with their vague, distant ”net zero” commitments...?
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Or could it be that they... I don't know... maybe just don't really care? And that they are doing everything in their power to maintain business-as-usual and delay real change for as long as they can get away with it?
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However, it's becoming painfully clear that no real change will happen until this dominates the news so that the Business-As-Usual-Activists can be held accountable. Now they can get away with anything since the climate- and ecological crisis doesn't exist in the public debate.
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"Despite the economic recession induced by the coronavirus pandemic, more money went into the industry in 2020 than in 2016"
Since the signing of the Paris Agreement the world's 60 largest banks have invested 3.8 trillion USD in the fossil fuel industry.
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“...people were suggesting planting trees in natural grasslands, savannah, and tundra. I think that would be a terrible mistake because, as our results imply, there is a very large potential to increase soil carbon storage in grasslands."
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Det är såklart negativt att Sverige - återigen - inte är i närheten av att nå sina ”klimatmål”.
Men det är förstås mycket värre att målen i sig är vetenskapligt väldigt långt ifrån tillräckliga.
Och värst av allt är kanske att ingen pratar om det…
(Grafik från DN)
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"China continues to build coal-fired power plants at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined. In 2020, China brought 38.4 gigawatts of new coal-fired power into operation, more than three times what was brought on line everywhere else."
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See you all at the next climate strike:) twitter.com/SkyNews/status…
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Today on #ClimateStrike week 136 I strike outside the EU Commission’s representation in Sweden.
Ahead of our meeting with @TimmermansEU and the super trilogue we’re again asking the European Commission to #WithDrawTheCAP as it violates the Paris Agreement
#NoMoreEmptyPromises
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I am asking @TimmermansEU, @vonderleyen, @2021PortugalEU and @EUAgri to #WithdrawTheCAP
This CAP (EU’s common agricultural policy) will lock in 7 further years of climate- and environmental destruction.
Your legacies are at stake.
We say #NoMoreEmptyPromises
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You say that you listen to us young people. You say that you care.
Now you must prove it.
The only morally right thing to do is to #WithdrawTheCAP and you know that. How do you wish to be remembered?
@TimmermansEU @vonderleyen @EU_Commission @EUAgri @2021PortugalEU
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And in case anyone’s worried about emissions from Evergreen ships like these, carrying our stuff from outsourced factories, don’t be! Emissions from intl aviation and shipping are excluded from our statistics. So in theory, they don’t exist. It feels better that way, doesn’t it?
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Picture taken by Suez Canal Authority via Reuters
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The world needs to stand in solidarity with the protesters fighting for their rights in Myanmar. #WhatIsHappeningInMyanmar twitter.com/AJEnglish/stat…
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I don’t get it. Why is it seen as a success that richer countries vaccinate 10s of millions healthy young people, if that leads to further delays of vaccinating risk groups and frontline workers in other parts of the world? Surely solidarity and common sense must come first? -> twitter.com/wellcometrust/…
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"Countries that are now vaccinating younger, healthy people at low risk of disease, are doing so at the cost of the lives of health workers, older people and other at-risk groups in other countries."
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In the EU many are frustrated about the slow speed of vaccinations. And that’s very understandable. But why is no one talking about the aspect of equity? And why can we never see the whole picture?
We can of course not solve these global crises we face without global cooperation.
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm