Mastodawn

Dear Greenpeace! A fiery new video urging us to treat the climate emergency seriously—time to rethink opposition to nuclear power and focus on defeating fossil fuels. Clear, urgent, and science-forward—must-watch for anyone into real climate solutions! #ClimateEmergency #NuclearPower #CleanEnergy #Decarbonize #ClimateAction #FossilFuels #Science #English
https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/f5ed7ed8-6806-4fe9-8916-b711b7fb190a

Dear Greenpeace!

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LM Little Oct 10

Excellent analysis! https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-environ-112823-064813

#carbon #CO2 #emissions #carbonOffset #climateEmergency #decarbonize

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?

This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their probable climate impact often by a factor of five to ten or more. Credit quality has remained a problem since the inception of carbon credits, despite repeated efforts to address the core challenges of additionality, leakage, double counting, environmental injustice, verification, and permanence. Combined, these issues have led many to conclude that overcrediting in carbon offsets is an intractable problem. These challenges helped stall the rapid growth in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) earlier this decade. They warrant renewed focus in the wake of COP29, where 200 nations significantly advanced the effort begun with the Paris Agreement to create the rules governing a global compliance market for carbon credits. But COP29 did not substantially address the quality problem, creating the risk the Paris compliance market will be rife with overcrediting and other problems—and that the VCM could undermine the Paris market. We recommend that all stakeholders begin focusing on high-integrity, durable carbon dioxide removal and storage, while recognizing that the recent literature has raised the question of whether durable means 100 years, 1,000 years, or longer. Ultimately, we find that many of the most popular offset project types feature intractable quality problems. We should focus on creating rules to find and fund the relatively few types of high-quality projects while employing alternative finance and strategies such as contribution claims for the critical projects in conservation, renewable energy, and sustainable development.

Annual Reviews

The Wild Aug 11, 2025

Geothermal energy systems offer a path to decarbonize buildings and move away from natural gas reliance. #Geothermal #Decarbonize #CleanEnergy

https://grist.org/climate-energy/decarbonizing-buildings-geothermal-network-solutions/

The secret to decarbonizing buildings might be right beneath your feet

Networked geothermal systems use the energy in the ground to heat and cool the buildings above. Could they push utilities off natural gas?

Grist

dr. gianluca grimalda Jun 6, 2025

New job, new film, new book...Merci Olivier Monod @libe Liberation for summarising my 2025 so far!
Indeed I accepted a job offer @ Masaryk University in Czechia. They have a programme on regional peripheries that seems perfect to continue my research on the effects of climate change & market integration on indigenous communities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) (among my other research on social cohesion).

The film "The Researcher" by @produzionifuorifuoco has already been screened in 13 different countries around the world and recently won the award for "Best Educational Pathway Film" @ International Frome Climate Film Festival.

Finally, my book "A fuoco" (Zooming in) has just been published by @feltrinelli_. It’s the diary of my 28,000 km #NoFly journey from PNG to Europe to reduce my carbon footprint.

Many people ask me if losing my job was "worthwhile". These outcomes would make one feel that it was. But, honestly, I would have done the same even if no one had talked about my story and I hadn't "achieved" anything. For me, the important thing was to remain true to my "climate conscience". I couldn't have done otherwise.

Read article (in French)👉:
https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/licencie-pour-avoir-refuse-de-prendre-lavion-lobjecteur-de-conscience-climatique-gianluca-grimalda-a-retrouve-un-emploi-20250604_PDX6ADGP5FAS3O2XPMMBNEW6R4/

Watch trailer of the film👉https://www.produzionifuorifuoco.it/portfolio_researcher.html

Read extract of the book (in Italian): https://www.feltrinellieditore.it/opera/a-fuoco/

#RefuseToFly #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #Decarbonize
Photo @ Alexander Pohl/Sipa USA

DoomsdaysCW Mar 9, 2025

Highlighting for #SolarPunkSunday:

@breadandcircuses Let's talk about #Degrowth...

"Imagine an economy designed to serve the planet and ALL its inhabitants, not just the most powerful. What might that look like?
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Countries that have overshot ecological limits would scale back their non-essential production and consumption to lessen environmental impacts and to decarbonise more rapidly by:

❇️ Reducing reliance on cheap fossil energy
❇️ Reducing the use of material-intensive luxuries like SUVs, private jets, and oversized homes
❇️ Stopping unsustainable practices such as the industrial production of meat and the culture of fast fashion
❇️ Curbing the wealth excesses of the very rich
❇️ Promoting public transportation over private vehicle use
❇️ Fostering a culture of durability and repairability in consumer goods

Simultaneously, the focus would shift toward enhancing social progress and human well-being by:

🔷 Guaranteeing universal access to high-quality essential public services like healthcare, education, childcare, and transportation
🔷 Ensuring affordable housing and living wages for all
🔷 Implementing a public job guarantee; a nationally-funded program where the municipal government provides jobs to those willing and able to work

Embracing these changes does *not* mean rejecting technology. A balanced approach where technological innovation and efficiency improvements are pursued as long as they are sustainable, safe, and equitable should be encouraged. The focus is on using resources efficiently, distributing them fairly, and scaling down non-essential production to help societies achieve self-sufficiency and justice."
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LEARN MORE ➡️ https://explore.degrowth.net/degrowth/a-degrowth-economy-explained/

Original post:
https://kolektiva.social/@breadandcirc[email protected]/114115863645398123
#Degrowth #SelfSufficiency #RightToRepair #Decarbonize #SolarPunk

A Degrowth Economy Explained | Explore degrowth

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Feb 5, 2025

@noelreports

#WarInUkraine

Sorry, can't help it:

s/: #Decarbonize the #KremlinRegime!--they need to pay their fair share to battle the #ClimateCrisis. /s 😏

https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/113950281471406067

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video In Krasnodar Krai, Ukrainian drones struck the Albashnafta oil depot overnight. The facility has a processing capacity of up to 320,000 tons of hydrocarbons per year.

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Aimee Curtright Feb 4, 2025

Aviation will be one of the hardest sectors to #decarbonize. We found that electrochemical fuels (e-fuels) will require (much) more innovation to become part of the solution. Absent strong policy signals, it's not likely to take off. ✈️ In the meantime, hop on a train. 🚅 www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

Decarbonizing Aviation with El...

dr. gianluca grimalda Dec 22, 2024

Great 1.000km train travel from Brno to Milan. Truly love night trains by @unsereOEBB. No wonder trains are fully packed. With @Eurail 2 days of travel cost €100.
✈️=215kg
🚗=166kg
🚌=30kg
🚄= 5kg
Sources:@CarbonAcademy+@atmosfair #Decarbonize #ClimateEmergency
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