AHS Green Leaders

AHS Green Leaders, Making a change one step at a time 🌎♻️

[AHS Green Leaders @AHSGreenLeaders]

Today the Mayor of York and Councillor Widdowson kindly visited Archbishop Holgates School to answer our environmental questions!

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 Austria suing EU for labelling gas green
2 Finland installs battery storing green energy months
3 Brazil court 1st to call Paris Agreement a human rights treaty
4 California enacts law requiring plastic cut
5 Renewables 49% of German power in 1H2022

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 EU approves climate laws, petrol car ban
2 Germany legislates zero-carbon grid
3 NATO goes net zero
4 Shell climate ad ruled misleading
5 US sued for oil & gas lease sales
6 Rhode Island goes 100% renewables
7 Swedish green steel firm permitted

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 China to install 156GW of wind+solar in 2022
2 EU to restore nature to 20% of land
3 EU tightens ESG disclosures
4 Japan ends funding coal overseas
5 Singapore begins carbon intensity cut by importing renewables
6 Energy Charter Treaty lawsuit filed

[AHS Green Leaders @AHSGreenLeaders]

#newgreenleaders !!!

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 EU Parliament votes to ban sale of new petrol cars
2 CNPC to peak emissions by 2025
3 US in 2-year pause on new solar tariffs
4 Climate lawyers dispute EU dash for gas
5 UK sued in 1st net zero legal test
6 Taiwan's banks face mandatory climate tests

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 China to add 108GW of solar in 2022
2 Australia’s top polluter forced to speed climate action
3 New York initiates 2.5GW solar bonanza
4 Tesla unveils 100-year battery
5 India to cut power from 81 coal plants
6 South Africa $8.7b coal plant to close

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 Australia pro-climate parties win big
2 LA bans gas in new builds
3 Greece passes 1st climate law
4 #2 cement co goes 50% by 2030
5 Rhode Island to try 21 oil companies
6 US's best-selling truck is now electric
7 Exxon to face trial for climate lies

[UK Health Alliance on Climate Change @UKHealthClimate]

Excellent to see this report on strategies for achieving net zero surgery. There is so much that can be achieved to ensure safe surgery does not inadvertently harm our planet by switching to more sustainable practice.
https://t.co/IrqBPODkth

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 Australia votes to become renewables superpower
2 EU unveils €210b top-up to green plan
3 New Zealand to end reliance on fossils
4 Farmer sues VW to to zero petrol cars
5 Netherlands to ban fossil heating
6 Saint-Gobain delivers carbon-neutral glass

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 EU in $205b climate plan to quit Russian fuels
2 California to build 18GW of offshore wind
3 Shandong Province to add enough solar by 2025 to power New Zealand
4 Nippon Steel to deliver green steel from 2024
5 Slovakia to close 266MW coal plant

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 California runs on 100% renewables - briefly for now - for 1st time
2 Tasmania goes carbon-negative
3 Filipino inquiry finds carbon majors liable on climate
4 Doerr donates $1.1b for climate school
5 EU electrolyser industry to boost capacity 10X

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Top 10 Countries By Share of Solar and Wind Power in Electricity Production

1 🇩🇰 Denmark 51.9%
2 🇺🇾 Uruguay 46.7%
3 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 43.4%
4 🇱🇹 Lithuania 36.9%
5 🇪🇸 Spain 32.9%
6 🇮🇪 Ireland 32.9%
7 🇵🇹 Portugal 31.5%
8 🇩🇪 Germany 28.8%
9 🇬🇷 Greece 28.7%
10 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 25.2%

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Good climate news this week
1 French election keeps climate action on track
2 112 European cities go net-zero by 2030
3 New York to ditch 10 gas plants
4 DR Congo suspends 12 illegal forestry projects
5 Connecticut goes 2040 carbon-free electricity
6 US shrinks drilling in Arctic

[AHS Green Leaders @AHSGreenLeaders]

NASA climate change specialists are now taken matters into their own hands to warn us about climate change. Think about what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint. https://t.co/wga3cHy1Y2

[✨sarah is into stelljun✨ @SarahnghaeSB19]

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#LetTheEarthBreathe

[AHS Green Leaders @AHSGreenLeaders]

Today the green leaders joined with @AHSArtsAward to up cycle old shirts into garments!! @AHSYork

[AHS Green Leaders @AHSGreenLeaders]

Chloe and Emma making the website for the eco award and green leaders team!! @AHSArtsAward @AHSSixth_Form

[AHS Green Leaders @AHSGreenLeaders]

We have received the pledges filled in by the year 12s!

[AHS Chaplaincy @AHSChaplaincy]

Wonderful Q & A session with @LordMayorYork and @CityofYork Cllr Widdowson. Lots of probing questions from @AHSYork Green Leaders, Allotment Club and Eco Club about the environment and climate change. @CofE_Education @CofEEnvironment @YCCNetwork @DioceseOfYork @ABYyouthtrust

[AHS Chaplaincy @AHSChaplaincy]

Excited to welcome @LordMayorYork and @CityofYork Cllr Widdowson to discuss all things environmental with a cross section of passionate @AHSYork pupils and visit the school allotment. #BeTheChange @DioceseOfYork @ABYyouthtrust