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We need a loss and damage finance facility. We need climate justice. We need action.
Time is running out, which is why decision makers need to step up at #COP27
#GenerateAction ⏰ @CYPavilion
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"Science tells us every day with more precision that urgent action is needed - and I am not dramatizing, this is what science says - if we are to keep the hope of avoiding radical and catastrophic climate change. And for this we must act now. This is a scientific fact." @Pontifex twitter.com/TEDCountdown/s…
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This is a rough quick introduction explaining why technology alone won't "solve" the climate crisis.
Do we need it? - Yes.
Should we invest every possible resource? - Yes, as long as it's holistically sustainable.
Will it be enough? - No, far from it.
bbc.com/news/science-e…
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School strike week 223. Today we are 636 young people in @auroramalet who are suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate action. Therefore we now marched from the parliament to the court.
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #Aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem @auroramalet
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If there's anyone who can help in anyway to evacuate the Fridays For Future activists from Afghanistan - please reach out urgently.
(The other tweet had a spelling error) twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status…
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"The EU's greenhouse gas emissions in the last quarter of 2021 were higher than any quarter since late 2018, scrubbing out the apparent gains made during the pandemic."
Yet, the EU still somehow identifies itself as a "climate leader".
politico.eu/article/eu-cli…
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School strike week 165. This week we have representatives from @FFFMAPA in Stockholm who will join our global climate strike next week.
#climatestrike
#fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate
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School strike week 154. Even though it’s summer holiday we keep on protesting on Fridays.
#MindTheGap
#climatestrikeonline
#fridaysforfuture #FaceTheClimateEmergency
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”Plans to take carbon dioxide out of the air are becoming a giant loophole - just as experts have warned for years.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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School strike week 147. Today we are back outside the Parliament. But the pandemic is still far from over, so we will continue to keep our numbers as low as possible and act in accordance with local restrictions.
#FridaysForFuture #MindTheGap
#climatestrike #schoolstrike4climate
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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."
e360.yale.edu/features/despi…
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We are in a climate- and ecological emergency. What should we do?
I know!
Let’s ban plant-based-dairy-from-displaying-allergen-info,-being-sold-in-cartons,-using-images-of-their-own-products-and-explaining-the-climate-impact-of-food. That’ll fix it. twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/…
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“The rubber-stamping of such a project sends a message not just to our generation but humanity as a whole: The future of our planet & the present well-being of frontline communities are being sacrificed for short-term economic gain & political expediency.”
cnn.com/2023/04/07/opi…
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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"
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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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...
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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“Cancer became just like a flu…”
Ali, a young man from Iraq who lived on a @bp_plc oil field, died of leukaemia last Friday.
His father challenged BP at its AGM, demanding an end to its cancer-causing pollution.
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”Since 2015, around 33 million people have died prematurely due to air pollution.”
#EcologicalCrisis #FaceTheClimateEmergency
theecologist.org/2020/dec/04/dy…
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"New Zealand is one of the world’s worst performers on emission increases. Its emissions rose by 57% between 1990 and 2018 – the second greatest increase of all industrialised countries." writes The Guardian.
theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
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"The combined pressures of global heating and farming are driving a "substantial decline" of insects across the globe"
The number of insects has plunged by half in many places around the world. bbc.com/news/science-e…
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”As the planet warms, the Arctic treeline is accelerating towards the pole, turning the white landscape to green. The trees used to creep forward a few centimetres every year; now they are leaping north at a rate of 40 to 50 metres a year.”
theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm