PARIS: “I am particularly proud and honoured to be one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people taking action on the climate. This world ranking recognizes the actions that I’ve been carrying out in Paris for more than ten years. And we will continue!”
— Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
Mayors can be, SHOULD BE, climate leaders.
Amid growing concerns over plastic pollution and ongoing efforts to develop a global plastics treaty, this paper critically examines plastic credits as a compensatory measure for addressing plastic pollution. Despite claims of being a novel financing and control measure, plastic credits mirror the shortcomings of carbon credits and fail to account for the material complexities and varied impacts of different types of plastics. If linked to public policy, plastic credits risk creating regulatory loopholes and delaying more effective measures like sector-specific plastic reduction. We argue that plastic credits do not represent an innovative approach to genuine plastic pollution reduction or its financing; instead, they could exacerbate fragmented plastics governance and reinforce legitimation of waste colonialism. [This preprint version is currently under peer review]
“One way or another, change is coming.”
#climatechange #climate #climatecrisis #stormbabet #climateemergency
For the mathematicians in the room, that's the second derivative pointing in the right direction at last.
For the rest of us: bathtub overflowing, and we are no longer turning up the spigot even further.
Good news. Now, to get CO₂ emissions down, to zero.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-could-peak-as-soon-as-2023-iea-data-reveals/
#climate
RT @ScientistsX
“It is a relief to have the Crown Court recognise that our actions were not criminal, but rather constituted legitimate political protest" - @ProfColinDavis
In a paper published today in Environmental Research Letters, Manon Berger, Lester Kwiatkowski, Laurent Bopp, and I used a high-resolution ocean biogeochemical model (NEMO-PISCES) to examine the efficacy and efficiency of #kelp-based ocean CO₂ removal (#CDR). 1/n
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acb06e/meta
Catastrophic (and to be frank - hugely depressing)
This new research in @PNASNews suggests earth will cross the 1.5 degrees C temperature increase threshold in the next decade (within just 10 to 15 years) and is likely to exceed 2 degrees C by around 2060.
This should be THE lead story on the news today (and onwards) and the lead action point for our governments. It should trigger a massive call for real global action to combat the #climateemergency - sadly though I fear this news will barely register.
We have to stop believing the siren calls of future technology solutions and #carbonoffsets - the immediate need is a rapid end to the use of #fossilfuels and a massive rollout of #renewableenergy
Brent Toderian
Dr. Melanie Bergmann
Mark@RCR 🌀
Gernot Wagner
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
ted byfield
Prof. Tatiana Ilyina
David Ho
Professor Mark Osborn