Some of Switzerland's carbon dioxide emissions are to be offset through projects in Ghana, the Swiss government announced, after concluding a similar deal last month with Peru.
tag > ClimateChange
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Swiss strike carbon offset deal with Ghanaian govt
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Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up (scientificamerican)
Thawing permafrost is releasing microorganisms, with consequences that are still largely unknown.
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The Secret Club for Billionaires Who Care About Climate Change (Bloomberg, alt)
Creo Syndicate helps the world’s richest families invest in businesses fighting global warming.
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Single bitcoin transaction resource need/emissions (via)
- 360 kg CO2
- 750 kWh electricity
- 100 grams electronic waste
Clearest example of that digital and sustainability transformation have to be co-designed.
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Global warming: agriculture and water conflicts in Central Asia (versionverte mag)
Central Asia is one of the major agricultural producers in the world. Agriculture in this region is based on crops with high water demand such as cotton, despite its predominantly arid climate and the global warming to which it is particularly exposed.
The limited role of industrial ecology in mitigating climate change (versionverte mag)
Despite progress, industrial ecology still plays a somewhat limited role in the problem of climate change by acting at the level of decision-making in terms of climate change mitigation via quantitative indicators of environmental performance.
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Exxon to Slash 14,000 Jobs Worldwide as Oil Demand Drops
Exxon number of employees: 74,900 (2019). How long until bankruptcy?
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Zoom Is Now Worth More Than ExxonMobil (forbes)
#Comment: The end of the oil age is finally here. Once this rally picks up speed, anything and everything deeply invested in the old fossil fuels economy will be trending towards zero. (and no, Zoom is not magically becoming more valuable - its over hyped commodity software)
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The cheapest climate solution? Return half of the planet to nature, this scientist says
In September, the United Nations released a report indicting world leaders for failing to halt biodiversity collapse. Despite setting ambitious targets in 2010 to protect endangered ecosystems, we’ve lost a gut-wrenching 68% of species since 1970.
The solution is protecting habitat: specifically, 50.4% of the earth’s land, according to the team of scientists led by Eric Dinerstein, wildlife scientist and director of the research organization RESOLVE. That’s a major increase from the 15.1 percent of land area currently protected.
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Great Barrier Reef: Scientists find reef taller than Empire State Building
An enormous coral reef has been found at the northern tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the first such discovery in 120 years, scientists say. At 500m (1,640ft) high, the reef is taller than New York's Empire State Building and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
#Comment: It's telling that humans reference human made structures to visualise the scale of a coral reef. Not that long ago, we would have used mountains or such as analogy.
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Three Rockefellers Say Banks Must Stop Financing Fossil Fuels (nytimes)
"Since 2016, 35 banks have funneled $2.7 trillion into fossil fuel companies and projects, a trajectory that will guarantee a world with runaway climate disruption. Of these banks, JPMorgan Chase has led the way by providing 36 percent more financing than the next largest fossil fuel financier, Wells Fargo."
#Comment: Hilarious to see the same families who over 100+ years were primary drivers and profiteers of the industrial-scale exploitation and destruction of nature (incl. humanity), are now starting to say "end fossil fuels". What we'll likely never hear them say is "we take responsibility for the mess we created and will pay for it adequately now" or "we were and are highly incompetent and thus make room for others". On the contrary, they are tirelessly strategising how to dominate the emerging renewable age by any means. A dark bullshit comedy.
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Researchers unveil roadmap for a carbon neutral China by 2060
Three weeks after China told the world it is aiming for carbon neutrality, an important study outlines a roadmap to that goal, and challenges along the way.
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Artificial Intelligence Reveals Hundreds of Millions of Trees in the Sahara
If you think that the Sahara is covered only by golden dunes and scorched rocks, you aren’t alone. Perhaps it’s time to shelve that notion.
Satellites could soon map every tree on Earth
An analysis of satellite images has pinpointed individual tree canopies over a large area of West Africa. The data suggest that it will soon be possible, with certain limitations, to map the location and size of every tree worldwide.
How Egypt is growing forests in middle of the desert
Amid the success of the Serapium Forest, a massive plantation in Egypt, the country is now looking to plant more desert lands with trees as part of plans to fight climate change.
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#fuckcars: GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago
#Comment: How is anyone surprised by the fact that some knew already decades ago that industrialisation rapidly destroys Nature, but kept it "secret"? Henry Ford - a prominent supporter of the German Nazi party and eugenics - and many of his corporate elite friends which dominated the 20st century, today would be classified as Mafioso with serious mental health conditions (Hitler and Ford each kept a framed picture of the other on his desk). But as the late George Carlin once correctly state: "This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders."
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The early signs of incoming economic system changes
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It's That Easy! - A Decade-by-Decade Guide to Saving Civilization
