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According to a new UN report the national targets (NDC) made so far put us on a path to achieve only a 1% reduction of greenhouse gases by 2030.
I’ll repeat that; 1%.
Our leaders are failing mankind completely. And media is letting them get away with it.
bit.ly/NDC21
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No one is safe until everyone is safe. But when you get offered a vaccine, don’t hesitate. It saves lives. #VaccineEquity #VaccineForAll
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"An estimated 2.1 million Kenyans face starvation due to a drought in half the country, which is affecting harvests." theguardian.com/global-develop…
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School strike week 119. Today is black Friday. Overconsumption is wrecking present and future living conditions and the planet itself.
Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.
#ClimateStrikeOnline #fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate #flattenthecurve #FaceTheClimateEmergency
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“We need to stop focusing on dates and numbers and actually accept and acknowledge the fact that we need to reduce our emissions right now. We can talk about 2030 or 2040 as much as we want. But it is what we are doing now that really matters."
ft.com/content/6ee4bb…
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Even if you are only 15 years old, then 30% of all global fossil fuel CO₂ emissions since 1751 have occurred in your lifetime.
This really shows the historic responsibility of our current leaders. twitter.com/neilrkaye/stat…
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"More snowfall during winter storms is an expected outcome of climate change. That’s because a warmer planet is evaporating more water into the atmosphere."
This should of course be basic, common knowledge by now, but apparently it isn't...
edf.org/card/4-reasons…
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We ask the European Commission @vonderleyen and @TimmermansEU to #StopFakeRenewables and remove forest biomass from the Renewable Energy Directive.
You can plant trees, but you cannot plant forests. Forests are not renewable.
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Climate strike week 228. The climate crisis doesn’t go on holiday. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #PeopleNotProfit
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A must watch, especially now during #COP26 twitter.com/thejuicemedia/…
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The European Parliament just voted to label fossil gas as “green” energy. This will delay a desperately needed real sustainable transition and deepen our dependency on Russian fuels. The hypocrisy is striking, but unfortunately not surprising.
This is still #NotMyTaxonomy
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"This agricultural support damages people’s health, fuels the climate crisis, destroys nature and drives inequality by excluding smallholder farmers, many of whom are women, according to the UN agencies."
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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The UK government has decided not to intervene with the plans of opening a brand new English coal mine.
This really shows the true meaning of so called “net zero 2050”.
These vague, insufficient targets long into the future basically mean nothing today. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
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”We are pushing nature to its limits. /…/ We are creating conditions in which epidemics flourish” - Dr Mike Ryan from WHO telling it like it is.
This is exactly the clarity we need from world leaders in order to bring real hope to the world. #FaceTheClimateEmergency twitter.com/rice_e/status/…
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Right now everyone is talking about the climate emergency - and rightly so. But as soon as these tragedies are over we'll most likely forget about it and move on like before.
Unless we treat the crisis like a crisis all the time, we will not be able to halt the climate emergency. twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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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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Some people make it seem as if we’re not doing enough to stop the climate crisis. But that’s not true.
Because to not do enough, you have to do something. And the truth is that we are basically not doing anything apart from “creative carbon accounting” and creating loopholes.1/2
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2,4°C if all govts met the 2030 targets, 2,7°C with current policies.
These NDCs are based on flawed and underreported numbers. And this is IF leaders meet their promises, which judging by their track record is not very likely...
This is what some seem to celebrate today. #COP26 twitter.com/climateactiont…
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I have put together a book with over 100 contributors that will share expertise and experiences from people all over the world. These crises are the biggest story in the world, and they must be spoken as far and wide as our voices can carry, and much further still.
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Today is #IntlForestDay
We’re loosing 10 million acres of forest every year, at a time when we need to maximise every possible carbon sink.
In some places planting trees is a great solution but given our timeframe the most effective way is to protect and rewild existing forests.
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But, hey! Our leaders have set up some vague hypothetical targets decades into the future full of loopholes and based on incomplete numbers - so we can all continue to ignore the consequences of our actions, pretend everything is all right and go back to sleep! twitter.com/tveitdal/statu…
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It becomes clearer and clearer that it doesn’t seem to end with giving up on empathy, equality, facts and science.
It appears after that follows diminishing or denying democracy itself.
A global phenomenon - all for greed and power.
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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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We're today discussing a #WorldWithoutNature as if it meant that "our children won't be able to see pandas in the future" or that "we won't be able to eat certain types of food".
A world without nature is no world. Stop separating "humans" and "nature". Humans are part of nature.
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2020 was the hottest year ever recorded - NASA.
The last 6 years have all been the hottest on record.
We’re in a climate emergency and the changes needed are still nowhere in sight. The only ones who can change that are us.
Spread awareness. Be the change.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm