Deren Konzentration in der Atmosphäre hat 2022 einen neuen Höchststand erreicht.
Der „Earth Summit“ in Rio de Janeiro im Jahr 1992 war die erste große internationale Konferenz, auf der Umweltfragen in einem globalen Rahmen diskutiert wurden.
In Dubai wird der 31. Gipfel Anfang Dezember stattfinden & "Wir bewegen uns noch immer in die falsche Richtung".
[La Libre] - Les 1% les plus riches émettent autant de #CO2 que deux tiers de l'humanité.
En 2019, la frange la plus riche de la population mondiale (1%) a généré autant de CO2 que 5 milliards de personnes, qui représentaient alors les deux tiers les plus pauvres de l'humanité, indique l'ONG #Oxfam dans un rapport publié lundi, à deux semaines de l'ouverture de la #COP28 à #Dubaï.
The problem of brine from desalination in #Dubai, where #COP28 the next UN Climaye Conference will be held.
Brine will impact Persian Gulf biodiversity and economics: "About 70 percent of the Gulf’s coral reefs have disappeared, with 21 species of coral-dependent fish at elevated risk of extinction. These shifts have resulted in a regional loss of $94 billion a year for tourism, aquaculture and fisheries"
#dubai: "If no immediate action is taken … desalination, in combination with climate change, will increase the Gulf’s coastal waters temperature by at least 5° F across more than 50% of the area by 2050 …
Beyond powering flashy recreational features, [it is] a thirsty city.The city desalinated ~163 billion gallons of water last year, according to the sustainability report. For each gallon an average of a gallon and a half of brine is released into the ocean."
... "In #Dubai, the Jebel Ali Power and Desalination Complex — the largest facility of its kind in the world — pipes water from the sea, sending it through a series of treatment phases, then to the city as drinkable water. But Jebel Ali’s 43 desalination plants are powered by fossil fuels. The U.A.E. produced more than 200 million tons of carbon in 2022, among the highest emissions per capita worldwide."
Am
Flughafen Düsseldorf entdeckten Zöllner bei einer aus #Dubai zurückkehrenden Reisenden #Luxuswaren im Wert von fast 74.000 € – Goldring, Handtaschen, Armreif und Uhr.
5.3 metres – the degree of sea level rise now unavoidable from West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting ALONE – is sufficient to entirely submerge most of urban Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, and an enormous area of southern Iraq (Qatar gets off surprisingly lightly).
#ClimateDiary There is no question that #COP28 will be the most important yet. The #GlobalStocktake will be the “biggest accountability moment in history”, and on its basis leaders will need to make crucial key decisions about fiscal and policy commitments. With less than two months to go, we need to all be as well informed as possible and put pressure on leaders as much as we can. I thought I would start a 🧵that I will keep going in the run up 1/n
2/n but a 🧵that is meant as an open, ongoing conversation, where we can all contribute thoughts and perhaps, even, come up with a collective #ClimateDiary action of some kind!
As a start: i would be grateful if people could keep cynical responses - COPs are all useless, they never work, they are captured by #FossilFuel industry (this one is in #Dubai ffs!) etc etc - to a minimum [* EDIT: see post 6!] I am aware of all this and have these thoughts too. But #COP28 is nevertheless important,
"Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai."
Funniest part about having lived in the UAE for a while is the BS detector I’ve developed in knowing exactly when people lie about how much they like certain parts of the Middle East.
There is just this tone of enforced gratitude: “no better place to be”; “land of opportunity”; “I’m so lucky to have a chance to come here” that sounds completely insincere and borderline fearful
It’s even funnier when I see people’s press releases. I’ve worked with those publications lol they just want money
Ok, a small take.
Some days ago, my #CTF team was selected for a physical CTF on #dubai. I attended the selections because I wasn't expecting to be selected. You'll probably tell me "Yeah, great job!"… But, have you already seen a #trans person at Dubai? I'm afraid to not been able to attend to it…
Please, make accessible events, for deaf persons, for those who use wheelchair, and for #lgbt ones also ✨