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To respect the 1.5 objective, global emissions must start decreasing by 7 to 8 per cent per year right away,” he said.
“Seven per cent is India’s share of world emissions. So for the plan to work, India’s emissions would have to disappear next year. In year two, two-thirds of Europe’s need to go. That’s the rate at which things must evolve. Even for two degrees, we would need an extra Covid each year to stay on track.”
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It's so sad. And then the next article I read says:
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The IPCC in 2018 predicted that most reefs would disappear if global warming reached 1.5C, and effectively all of them would die if it reached 2C.
(...)
Fishing for species that live in or near reefs is a multi-billion-dollar industry that feeds millions of people. And reefs are an eco-tourist attraction: more than 2 million people per year visit the iconic Great Barrier Reef off the Australian coast.
""" https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/what-would-happen-if-we-lost-all-coral-reefs
@jackofalltrades it is sad. To quote Alex Steffen, we're not ready for what's already happening. At some point there will be a normative/cultural correction in the public conversation about this and it's going to make the Reformation look like a tea party.
New post: "Designing for all audiences: Mapping the future of food". Stamen designer Caroline Carter shares how we worked with The Plotline from Earth Genome to visualize which food crops are best-suited to the changing climate in Africa.
There are 2 facets to the call for inclusion. Persons with disabilities “bring unique experiences & knowledge to the table of climate negotiations”.
Most nation don't refer to didabled ppl in their country’s plans to reduce emissions, signalling how far removed disability is from climate action.
The UAE 🇦🇪, host of last year's #COP28 climate summit, called on Tuesday for governments to take action in transitioning away from #FossilFuelshttps://buff.ly/3SHNMwt
If you wanted a good argument for why #FossilFuels firms cannot be at the centre of our response to #climatechange, then this might be it:
“There is overwhelming evidence the oil & gas industry has been misleading the public & regulators around the climate risks of their product for 70 years. Trusting them to be part of the solutions is foolhardy...”!
No wonder they are now seeking to disrupt the COP meetings....
“G77 president Pedro Pedroso warns #COP28 deal risks failing if polluters like UK, US and Canada don’t rethink plans to expand oil and gas
As we speak, unless we lie to ourselves, none of the major developed countries, who are the most important historical emitters, have policies that are moving away from fossil fuels, on the contrary, they are expanding,” said Pedroso.
First of all:
Pedroso's credibility is sub zero as he fails to single all the other rich states exploiting oil and gas:
Russia, China, all the gulf petrostates to name just a few.
It's an inconvenient truth that the climate crisis is physics, and physics doesn't care who emits how many GHG - physics responds to the total.
And that's why all oil & gas exploitations are inacceptable.