mongabay, to news
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Hopes for a worldwide plastics treaty gained some momentum at the fourth of five scheduled summits to hash out an agreement. But while the week-long session of the UN International Negotiating Committee made some headway, it didn’t leave environmentalists feeling overly optimistic.

by Charles Pekow
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/at-its-fourth-summit-170-nations-strive-toward-a-global-plastics-treaty-by-2025/

#News #Conservation #Environment #PlasticPollution #EnvironmentalPolicy

jruoh, to sustainability

Earth is at risk: a global cultural shift is needed.

An interesting review article that calls for an urgent paradigm shift to replace the exploitative, wealth-oriented capitalism with a sustainable, resilient and just economic model.

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/4/pgae106/7638480

notes, to climate
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CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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Climate organization puts $120M into 2024 election

League of Conservation Voters statement:
"Trump and MAGA Republicans have been clear that if they are in control, they will stop at nothing to dismantle progress and our democratic institutions in favor of fulfilling Big Oil’s agenda. Meanwhile, President Biden has done more to fight the climate crisis than any other president in our country’s history.”

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4542873-climate-org-puts-money-2024-election/

notes,
@notes@social.coop avatar

@CelloMomOnCars
"The America that Project 2025 wants would end attempts to enhance and throughout the government and shut down agencies that track progress on this front. Efforts to tackle issues such as would be ended, and politicized research produced to back the project’s views on , the evils of “,” and would take priority." https://globalextremism.org/project-2025-the-far-right-playbook-for-american-authoritarianism/
@Moira

SustainabilityEconomicsNews, to climate
andrijson, to climate

South Australia is going a long way to shifting steel making from a very carbon creating process to creating Green steel
Using excess renewable energy during the day to create hydrogen that will be used to power peaking plants when the renewable supply falls
Tom Koutsontonis, the energy minister is across the details in a refreshing way and continues his leadership for SA to have a modern renewable powered, manufacturing industry
https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-takes-another-bold-leap-into-deep-green-energy-future/




florian_altermatt, to Ethics

Today is the day:

Launch of the new degree program @ University of Zurich!

https://biodiversitaet.uzh.ch/de.html

Only degree program in🇨🇭🇩🇪🇦🇹 with focus on organismal biodiversity, preparing students for academic research & practice, incl. interdisciplinary skills such as , ,

After 2+ years of preparation, we welcomed today >160 students (80 Major/80 Minor) at the Irchel campus. Many thanks to all who are involved & provide teaching.

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jrefior, to random
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"he led the work which described a link between air pollution and kidney disease and ­– separately – described the global and national burden of diabetes attributable to air pollution"
https://publichealth.wustl.edu/people/ziyad-al-aly/


magdelenehall, to random German
@magdelenehall@mastodon.social avatar

Rishi Sunak’s green backtracking contrasts strongly with previous prime ministers’ efforts
https://theconversation.com/rishi-sunaks-green-backtracking-contrasts-strongly-with-previous-prime-ministers-efforts-210917

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