#netzero
COMPENSER LE CARBONE, VRAIMENT ?
#climat #compensationcarbone #vulgarisation #arbres #planterunarbre #GIEC #capitalisme #écologie #environnement #Forêt #pollution #CO2 #pollueurspayeurs #mascarade #foutagedegueule #neutralitécarbone #accorddeparis #droitdepolluer #sergelemytho
#bombesdecarbones #extraction #netzero #énergie #décroissance #savetheplanet
Sorry, but I never thought they were a "silver bullet" no matter how much happy talk was put behind it, and that's because I was in Illinois when the Clinton IL nuke plant went online and there were always cost over-runs of gargantuan proportions. Always looks good on paper but shitty IRL.
♲ Mackaj - 2024-02-25 20:51:34 GMT
What a disappointment Small Nuclear Reactors have turned out to be. They're not that small, or cheap or being produced and deployed at the rate and speed they were supposed to be.Not a technology we can rely on to help us react to climate change in a meaningful way.
Was erzählen die ihren Kindern?
♲ Hart - 2023-11-09 21:05:20 GMT
Ist das alles noch zu fassen, die Erde steht vor einem #klimakollaps und der Verbrauch von fossilen Energien wird weltweit weiterhin gesteigert
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow #endfossilfuels #NetZero
The bicibús: how Barcelona got kids cycling safely to school – and loving it!
he bus leaves Monday to Friday at 8.30am sharp outside the Sant Antoni market in #Barcelona’s #Eixample district, but this is no ordinary vehicle; it has hundreds of wheels, dozens of drivers – and no passengers. This is the Barcelona #bicibús, the fun, safe mode of transport that makes going to school feel like a party.
On a cool September morning, a group of about 60 parents and children aged three to 11, on bikes and scooters, gather in the Plaça Conxita Pérez for the school run.
#Bicycle #Cycling #school #SchoolRun #students #BikeBus #ClimageChange #GlobalWarming #exercise #ClimateEmergency #NetZero
https://youtu.be/Ya3Jw7MHKgc
i was aware they use greta, i naively foolishly thought mere opportunistically.
didnt really consider (as the start of this seems suggest) she was an asset, a tool, of the crooks, from the start.
#greta #crooks #mediaawareness #bigbrainwash #heartsandminds #psyop #globalterror #bigbank #bigbaron #connections #thisisnotwhatenvironmentalismlookslike #mediaawareness #theyusegreta #propaganda #psyop #peoplebuypeoplefirst #manipulation #deception #bescared #dontthink #usefulidiots #youwillownnothingandbehappy #globalhegemony #cryptofascist #netzero #globalecoterrorism #oligarchy #plutarchy #kleptarchy #kakistarchy #suppressedsolutions #nofear #crookplanmomentum #genocide #anthrocide #humancull #mysanthropy #thisisnotwhatdemocracylookslike #postscarcity #nocullnecessary #nogenocidenecessay #nopovertynecessary #cleanenergynow #desecretcleanenergy #emancipationtechnology #noneedtobeslaves #to #rentiers #riggedgame #pollution #butnotfortherich #justbuycarboncredits #keepthelittlepeopledown #and #poisoned #no #stopit #stopfallingforit #metoo #dumbfucks #weareinalotoftrouble #nostrongmantosaveus #evolve #wecanstillmendthis #itsjustpeople #istillcareiamjustaware #therebecrooks #fauxlanthropy #whyobeycrooks #fauxlanthropists #stopobeyingcrooks #puppets #compliedyourwayoutoftyrannyyet #bigbully #compliedyourwayoutoftotalitarianismyet #mrbig #strongman #problemreactionsolution #itsjustaride #wecanchangethis #acoice #betweenfearandlove #lovingkindness #wellbeing #peacefullyatease #happy #i #we #they #all #forgoodnesssake #WhereCrooksRuleDisobey
ps, i miss #theyrule. that website made it easy to catch these things. anyone else remember theyrule.net? great tool for people to see the connections in power, it let you explore and expand the network mesh of boards of directors and the corporations, governmental agencies, ngo, etc they're on the board of (and there are more connections than one might first naively presume).
pps, lol, oops, before i fell into that lede-burying tag rant, i was just gonna tag this with merely #greta #crooks
#RishiSunak planning to drop #NetZero policies in pre-election challenge to #Labour | #GreenPolitics | The Guardian
As if you needed any further confirmation that the #Tories are a bunch of self-serving scumbags.
#all #governments are #Total #Liars!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKCvVbc8E8U
From net zero to migration to health emergencies to ULEZ to speed limits to war, we are being constantly lied to!
#ukpolitics #netzero #migration
its all out war on the poor by the evil ones
Sturgeon sinking!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hZfOBWCTI
Things are not looking good for Scotland’s former First Minister and ex-leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, are they?
#ukpolitics #SNP #nicolasturgeon #netzero #fraud #treason
this one is so so evil ,she thought she could get away scot free, not a chance
she will be chopped down as karma is a bitch
Scottish National Party Admit To Felling 15.7 MILLION Trees To Develop Wind Farms (23rd Jul)
It was never about Climate Change. It was ALWAYS about money and seeing how much money politicians can launder before their populations wake up and then rope them up. The lies about climate change can be understood in just 42 seconds @
Source Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltq9-6iQ0n8
SNP admit to felling 15.7 MILLION trees to develop wind farms | Scottish MSP says it’s ‘astonishing’
#Trees they have no value, they are only #equivalents and #sinks, but mostly they just get in the way.
Net Zero - SNP cuts down millions of trees to build wind farms on public land
Mairi #Gougeon, the Scottish Government's Rural Affairs Secretary, admitted that they had felled millions of trees in order to build more turbines. It forms part of the #SNP administration's plans to make #Scotland net zero over the next decade.
And she claimed that many of the felled trees will have been "replanted on site" or replaced elsewhere, with the vast majority of them being part of a commercial crop that would have been chopped down anyway "at the end of their rotation”.
#netzero #environment #politics #nature #nodealfornature #wind #windfarm #Windpark #energy #new_normal
A map of the intensity of air flights from #NATO countries to the Polish Rzeszow airfield in just a month from October 1 to November 1, 2022. Rzeszow is the central logistics hub for the supply of military equipment, weapons and ammunition to #Ukraine.
Lets change your light bulbs to LEDs, use bikes and cut back on your red meat consumption. I am sure it will compensate for the flights by NATO that can't be included in the nation's total CO2 emission.
All those countries at=re at #COP27 bragging about their fantastic plans toward #NetZero by 2050.
Beyond net-zero: we should, if we can, cool the planet back to pre-industrial levels
'Net-zero emissions will be reached when humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere are balanced by their removal from the atmosphere. We would likely need to reach global net-zero well within the next 50 years to keep global warming well below 2℃.'
#netzero #planet #nature #environment #climatechange #greenhouse-effect #humanity #globalwarming #globalcooling
Legal challenge launched against UK's "unlawful" Net Zero Strategy
A not-for-profit organisation is taking legal action against the UK government's strategy for achieving net-zero carbon emissions, claiming it fails to meet its legal obligations under the Climate Change Act.
Not-for-profit Good Law Project launched a legal challenge to "force the government to revise and strengthen" the Net Zero Strategy by 30 June.
The group alleges that the strategy is unlawful because it fails to set out the policies or proposals needed to achieve its target, to bring the amount of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere down to net-zero by 2050.
According to the Climate Change Act of 2008, the government is legally committed to achieving this target.
"Right now, there is no way the government's Net Zero Strategy meets its legal obligations under the Climate Change Act," said Jo Maugham, founder of Good Law Project.
"The government may have set out a vision, but it hasn't set out the specific policies needed to lead us to net-zero, and it isn't measuring the emissions reductions its initiatives are meant to achieve," said Maugham.
"So while the government has set the grand target of net-zero by 2050, it fails to set out how we will actually get there. We believe this is unlawful."
ClientEarth also launched legal challenge
The government is facing a separate legal challenge from environmental organisation ClientEarth, which has also accused the business department of breaching its legal duty under sections 13 and 14 of the Climate Change Act.
ClientEarth senior lawyer Sam Hunter Jones described the strategy as "a pie-in-the-sky approach to net zero".
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"It's not enough for the UK government simply to have a net-zero strategy, it needs to include real-world policies that ensure it succeeds," said Hunter Jones.
"Anything less is a breach of its legal duties and amounts to greenwashing and climate delay."
The move comes as members of the UK's ruling Conservative Party are agitating to bin the Net Zero Strategy, falsely claiming it is the cause of high energy prices.
Net Zero Strategy widely criticised
The Net Zero Strategy was published on 18 October, ahead of the COP26 climate summit, and has been widely criticised.
Cambridge University engineering professor Julian Allwood told Dezeen the strategy is too focused on fledgling, future technologies, while the RIBA and other architecture industry groups believe more policies are needed to regulate embodied carbon.
A key criticism is that, unlike previous government roadmaps on decarbonisation like the Clean Growth Strategy of 2017 or The Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution of 2020, the Net Zero Strategy doesn't include a breakdown of how each individual policy will reduce emissions.
Good Law Project has applied to the court to force them to disclose documents revealing how the emission reduction figures were calculated.
The organisation got involved after the government refused a freedom of information request from New Scientist magazine.
Its lawyers, Baker McKenzie, sent a pre-action protocol letter to the government's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on 22 December 2021, calling for the information to be revealed.
The request was denied in a government response letter dated 12 January 2022.
"What we need is a real plan"
Good Law Project has also set up a crowdfunding campaign to cover the legal fees and limited costs risk. At the time of publishing, it had raised £27,800 of its £30,000 target with 14 days left to go.
"Making promises that you can leave to future politicians to meet is easy, and pointless," said Maugham.
"What we need is a real plan, starting now, for how we get to net-zero. To do anything else is to lie to our children."
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UK net-zero strategy "totally lacking in ambition" say architects
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Net-zero means eliminating carbon emissions or neutralising emissions by removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Various companies have pledged to reach net-zero sooner than 2050. Technology companies Microsoft and Apple have promised to get there by 2030, while furniture company Takt claims it will be net-zero within the next three years.
Dezeen has pledged to be a net-zero company by 2025.
The photograph is byMatthias Heyde.
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● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #greenwashing ☞ Satirical Video Detailing Global Deceit of #NetZero Pledges Shows 'How F**ked We Are' https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/09/satirical-video-detailing-global-deceit-net-zero-pledges-shows-how-fked-we-are
Cement and concrete industry publishes roadmap to reach net-zero emissions by 2050
Forty leading international cement and concrete manufacturers have published a plan to eliminate carbon emissions from one of the world's most polluting industries.
The commitment has been made by members of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA). Together, they represent nearly 80 per cent of the industry outside China.
Published ahead of next month's COP26 climate conference, the roadmap includes an intermediate pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 25 per cent by 2030. This could prevent an estimated five billion tonnes of CO2 emissions.
"We now need swift and decisive political action"
"We highly welcome the industry’s ambitious climate protection targets set forth in the GCCA’s 2050 roadmap," said HeidelbergCement CEO Dominik von Achten."Together, we are doing everything we can to achieve them."
Earlier this year, HeidelbergCement announced plans to eliminate carbon emissions from a plant in Sweden by upgrading the factory with technology that captures carbon emissions.
"We now need swift and decisive political action to create the right framework conditions, particularly in the area of CO2 infrastructure and market incentives for low-emission building materials," von Achten added.
UK Concrete director Chris Leese also called for government support.
"It’s now critical as we head towards COP26 that the UK industry sees a package of policy measures that will support decarbonisation over the coming decades," he said.
The roadmap is aligned with the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and follows a similar roadmap published by the UK cement industry showing how it could achieve net-zero by 2050.
The cement industry is responsible for seven per cent of the world's CO2 emissions. The roadmap sets out seven steps to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Roadmap includes reducing fossil fuel and clinker use
Substituting high-carbon clinker, which is the main ingredient in Portland cement, with lower-carbon materials will contribute to lowering the CO2 footprint of both cement and concrete, according to the roadmap.
A commitment to significantly reducing fossil fuel use in manufacturing and increasing the use of alternative fuels will also contribute to lowering the CO2 footprint.
The industry has committed to building 10 industrial-scale carbon capture plants by 2030, building on current pilots in North America, India, China and Europe.
New chemical substitutes for clinker and concrete mix play an important role in the roadmap, with the plan to build on approaches that are already in the research or development phase.
Investments in kiln technologies and more research will also be implemented. The GCCA will utilise its global research network, Innovandi, to advance the research.
Additionally, a global innovation challenge that matches startups with GCCA member companies will take place.
The GCCA will create a procurement framework that the industry can use during construction to improve efficiency in the design and use of concrete during construction.
This will involve using recycled materials, extending the lifetime of projects and more efficient use of resources.
Support from governments and policymakers needed
The roadmap requires policymakers, governments and multilateral organisations to play their part in supporting a circular economy and the development of new technologies.
GCCA members have committed to reaching this target without using offsets, and the organisation claims it can achieve net-zero emissions even if the global cement and concrete products market doubles as expected from $333 billion in 2020 to $645 billion in 2030.
Net-zero means that an entity such as a company, industry sector or country makes zero contribution to atmospheric CO2 across its entire value chain.
Cement is a huge source of carbon emissions, largely because it relies on clinker made from crushed and burned limestone. This process separates the calcium, which is a key ingredient in cement, from the carbon, which is released into the atmosphere. Emissions are also generated by heating the kilns to above 1,000 degrees Celsius to process the limestone.
Companies in the architecture and design sector that have committed to becoming net-zero include Swedish cosmetics brand Forgo and British car manufacturer Rolls Royce.
Dezeen has also pledged to become a net-zero business by 2025.
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(På svenska, se nedan / In English, see below)
Tervetuloa kapinoimaan elämän puolesta!
Elokapina tekee kaikkensa tänä syksynä, jotta Suomen hallituskin ryhtyisi tekemään kaikkensa ekosysteemien ja yhteiskuntajärjestyksen romahtamisen estämiseksi. Palaamme kaduille vaatimaan, että hallitus julistaa ilmastohätätilan ja ryhtyy systemaattisiin toimiin, joilla ilmastokriisiä ja luontokatoa voidaan hidastaa.
Pääset mukaan Elokapinaan osallistumalla perehdytykseen tai kansalaistottelemattomuuskoulutukseen! Lisätietoa näistä löytyy Facebook-tapahtumista.
Merkitse kalenteriisi 29.9., ota päivä tai viikko vapaata ja liity kapinaan monimuotoisen luonnon ja sosiaalisen oikeudenmukaisuuden puolesta!
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Välkommen med till upproret för livet!
Elokapina kommer att göra sitt yttersta denna höst för att regeringen också gör sitt yttersta för att förhindra kollapsen av ekosystem och social ordning. Vi återvänder till gatorna för att kräva att regeringen utlyser ett klimatnödläge och vidtar systematiska åtgärder för att bromsa klimatkrisen och förlusten av biologisk mångfald.
Du kan gå med i Elokapina genom att delta i ett intromöte eller civil olydnadsträning. Närmare information kan hittas på Elokapinas facebook-sida.
Markera den 29. september i din kalender, ta en dag eller en vecka ledig och kom med i upproret för mångfaldig natur och social rättvisa!
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Rebel for life!
Elokapina - Extinction Rebellion Finland will do everything in its power this autumn, so that the Finnish government would do everything in its power to prevent ecological and social collapse. We will return to the streets to demand the government to declare a climate emergency and to implement systemic action to decelerate the effects of the climate crisis and on-going mass extinction.
You can join Elokapina by taking part in our on-boarding or civil disobedience training sessions. You can find more information on these on the Elokapina Facebook page.
Jot down September 29th in your calendar, take off the day or week and join the rebellion for biodiversity and social justice!
#Syyskapina #Ilmastohätätila #Elokapina #ExtinctionRebellionFinland #ExtinctionRebellion #TellTheTruth #NetZero #ActNow #Rebel4Life #NonViolent #CivilDisobedience #Väkivallaton #Kansalaistottelemattomuus #klimatnödläge #berättasanningen #AgeraNu #ickevåld #höstrebellion #ExtinctionIsForever #Massasukupuutto #SystemChange not #ClimateChange
"If we act together now, we change the world"
Architects can prevent the worst effects of climate change by deciding to design and build to net-zero carbon standards, argues Edward Mazria, architect and founder of non-profit organisation Architecture 2030.
Architecture 2030 is calling on all architects, planners, engineers and those responsible for designing and constructing the built environment worldwide to design all new buildings, renovations, landscapes, cityscapes and infrastructure to be zero carbon beginning right now.
If we act together today, we prevent the worst effects of climate change. Our calling is, and has always been, to make the world a better place. Now we get the chance to do it on a global scale and help protect life on the planet. If we act together now, we change the world.
Almost 15 years ago, in 2007, I was sitting next to doctor James Hansen at the Architecture 2030 Global Emergency Teach-in and asked him: "When will we begin to see the actual effects of global warming?"
He leaned over and whispered: "At about one degree Celsius warming". Today, I checked NASA’s "Vital Signs of the Planet" website and sure enough, the planet is currently at 1.02 degrees Celsius warming above pre-industrial levels.
The time for half measures and outdated timelines is over
As I write this, the IPCC just released an alarming report on the state of the climate crisis, and brutal heat waves, droughts, deadly flooding and fires are shattering records all over the planet and currently ravaging Europe, North America, China and India – the regions currently responsible for 58 per cent of all global CO2 emissions.
These events have driven home two essential facts: we’re all in this together and must all act quickly and boldly. The time for half measures and outdated timelines is over if we are to prevent irreparable destruction of our cities, towns, and natural environments.
As architects and design professionals, we have a unique and critically important role to play. Buildings alone account for about 40 per cent of total annual global CO2 emissions and with building interiors, sitework, landscapes, cityscapes and infrastructure, that percentage is much, much greater.
Our community must provide the leadership necessary
If the world is to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius carbon budget set out in the Paris Agreement, our community must provide the leadership necessary and reduce CO2 emissions in the entire built environment by 65 per cent by 2030 and to zero by 2040.
We directly shape and influence the built environment worldwide and are the one industry across all political and geographic boundaries with the design and planning freedom to affect global emissions immediately. In other words, we can decide to design and build to zero-carbon today.
How difficult is it to design to zero carbon? Not difficult at all.
Zero carbon in three steps:
1. Design to the latest code standards
Design all new buildings, major renovations and developments to the most current energy code standards – ASHRAE 90.1 2019 and IECC 2021, their equivalent, or better. In other words, design energy-efficient buildings that use little energy to operate.
Local building energy codes only set minimum energy efficiency requirements and do not prevent architects, engineers and building sector professionals from designing to the most current code standards or producing energy-efficient buildings.
Designing to current standards has several advantages – they are evaluated to be cost-effective, reduce occupant energy burdens, and include ready-to-use energy modeling compliance tools, checklists and trade-off options such as COMcheck and REScheck. In the developing world, free EDGE software can be used to design energy-efficient commercial or residential buildings in over 160 countries. EDGE will pinpoint least-cost options, calculate utility savings, payback periods and a building’s carbon footprint.
2. Design all-electric and renewables
Design all new buildings, major renovations and developments to use no on-site fossil fuels – no gas, oil or propane – and to be 100 per cent powered by on-site and/or new off-site renewable energy.
Burning fossil fuels directly in buildings accounts for about 5.4 per cent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and burning gas, oil and propane in buildings accounts for 35 per cent of all US building sector CO2 emissions. To meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius carbon budget, buildings must be designed all-electric, with the electricity supplied by on-site and/or new off-site renewable energy (see the Zero Code and 2021 IECC Zero Code Appendix).
The health, economic and environmental benefits of all-electric buildings are well documented. This will also further lay the groundwork for new renewables to decarbonize the power sector and, in turn, the existing building sector.
3. Zero out embodied carbon
While steps number one and two will produce zero-carbon building operations, it is also critical that we confront the embodied carbon of construction and building materials if we hope to phase out CO2 emissions by the year 2040.
Architects, planners and designers can minimize the embodied carbon emissions from all new buildings, major renovations, infrastructure and construction by adopting the following:
**a. Reuse
**Repurpose and upgrade urban areas and renovate existing buildings instead of constructing new buildings whenever possible; use local and recycled materials when available; design buildings so that they can be deconstructed and their materials reused at the end of life.
**b. Reduce
**Infill and densify urban areas to utilize existing infrastructure; reduce material use by optimizing structural designs; specify low- to zero-carbon materials using comparative tools such as the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator
(EC3), among many others.
**c. Sequester
**Use mass timber and glue or cross-laminated wood from existing sustainably managed forests; use bamboo structural members and panels where available; specify materials that sequester CO2 in their manufacture or application; plan and design carbon-sequestering sites, parks and urban landscapes.
Twenty years ago, when I founded Architecture 2030 and issued the 2030 Challenge, achieving zero carbon buildings seemed a far-off aspiration. Today, thanks to many years of creativity and ingenuity on the part of the global design and building community, we have the knowledge, standards, tools and technologies readily available to achieve zero carbon buildings in all climates.
The global architecture, planning, engineering and building community has an extraordinary opportunity to lead efforts to solve the climate crisis. This is the ultimate design project; this is our legacy.
Edward Mazria is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Architecture 2030 and is an internationally recognized architect, author, researcher and educator. Over the past four decades, his research into the sustainability, resilience, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of the built environment has helped redefine the role of architecture, planning, design and building in reshaping our world. He was awarded the 2021 AIA Gold Medal for his "unwavering voice and leadership" in the fight against climate change.
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