New study on #degrowth and other #ClimateMitigation scenarios.
Need to check the detail but it
Looks broadly positive for degrowth: reduces the need for impossible levels of "renewables".
But beware #CarbonTunnelVision.
May 2024 become the year where the worldwide #GreenLobby and discussion groups finally become one vast global #massmovement and succeed -
by sheer force of numbers if nothing else -
in mitigating the #ClimateCrisis!
What is Australia's fair share when it comes to financing the necessary climate transition?
In a headline today, the Australian government has pledged AU$150m in #ClimateFinance for Pacific nations.
Good news, right? Isn't this PM Anthony #Albanese "ending the #ClimateWars" by actually doing what #Australia ought to have done years ago? Let's consider that assumption.
Back in 2009 at the much hyped, but ultimately deeply disappointing international climate negotiations in #Copenhagen known as #COP15, one step forward that was agreed, even as more comprehensive or ambitious agreements slipped away was that the wealthy nations of the world (including #Australia) collectively pledged to be providing US$100b each year to help the poorer nations transition away from #FossilFuels (#ClimateMitigation) and develop in ways that help societies adapt to the warming that cannot be mitigated (#ClimateAdaptation).
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The provision of US$100b in #ClimateFinance per year was promised by 2020, with a #GreenClimateFund being set up in 2010–11 and national contributions commencing in subsequent years. An updated agreement in 2012 clarified that these funds had to be "new and additional", i.e. not simply a rebranding of existing #ForeignAid. And they had to be made to the international Green Climate Fund, not via other bilateral or multilateral agreements.
Disputes over the international distribution of responsibilities for funding #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaptation measures—costly measures that would benefit everyone—had long been one of the main sticking points in the decades of UN climate negotiations since 1992 when the #UNFCCC was established. (UNFCCC = United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, i.e. the international agreement to have international climate negotiations in the first place, and how to go about those negotiations.)
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Appears #ClimateMitigation is not working: "At the time of writing, CO2 is 422.36 parts per million. That is 5.06ppm more than the same day last year. That rise in 12 months is probably the largest ever recorded" 👇
In March 2022, temperatures near the eastern coast of Antarctica spiked at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius) above normal — making it the most intense recorded heat wave to occur anywhere on Earth, according to a recent study. At the time, researchers on-site were wearing shorts and some even removed their shirts to bask in the (relative) warmth. Scientists said such a high was unthinkable. #AureFreePress#climatechange
@umairh Hawaii in flames, 100 dead and counting. Thousands evacuated in Spain. Thousands of hectares of Portugal, on fire. The blazes in Canada? So far, they’ve destroyed an area the size of… Greece. Oh, and Greece? It’s on fire, too. #climatecrisis#climatechange#climatemitigation
We're surrounded by megafailure. 1/7
I have a cheeky question - is there an 'idiot's guide' or '#PlanetaryBoundaries for Dummies' that you know of which I could promulgate to non-specialists throughout the world?
If not, even cheekier question, might you be able to write one for us?
Of course, such a document would only be of value if you think #ClimateMitigation still possible? Just.