🌴🌳🌲When we plant the right trees in the right places, we support a cooler, greener and healthier future.
🌆 As populations grow in cities, urban trees provide many environmental and social benefits, including mitigating #ClimateChange and increasing #biodiversity.
Via @fao
Lead shots have contaminated wetlands (and not only) for over a century and it took forty years of campaigning to get them banned in EU wetlands!
Congrats to the EU! Now states must enforce!
@EU_ENV@RamsarConv@UNBiodiversity@unep_aewa@BonnConvention
https://t.co/b5NtUu4heE
Take a minute to think about our oceans...
🌊Oceans act as the largest carbon sink in the 🌍
🌊Oceans host 80% of life on the 🌍
🌊Oceans provide half of the 🌍’s oxygen
The health of our oceans affects us all.
#BlueTransformation#COP15
Via @FAO
To achieve its climate goals, the United States needs all hands on deck.
New @WorldResources research analyzes the building blocks of what's needed at the federal level for a net-zero, equitable future. Find out more: https://t.co/yvt29ItjZE
Climate Resilience Accelerator awardee @BharatRohan3 helps farmers grow their profits — while also supporting a sustainable food supply chain — through Hyperspectral Imaging, which shares plant health data collected via drones. 🌱
https://t.co/TFlmGVtOJg
Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast&Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land&People
my take: @JustinTrudeau@s_guilbeault please consider a strategic nationalization of the tar sands NOW - it’s the available tool we need to move the 🪡
https://t.co/AhGKMqW5lM #ClimateAction
via @AssaadRazzouk@Yara debuts world's first autonomous electric container ship. it will cut 1,000 tonnes of carbon emissions per year, equivalent to 40,000 diesel-powered journeys by road”.
https://t.co/xZEfVZiirX
cc @NPDeMember
@FredKrupp Cc @DollyParton who’s a science-focused person (her role as a funder of Moderna-related research at @VanderbiltU is a testament to that commitment IMO)
via @AssaadRazzouk a brillant summary of where we stand post #COP26.
We must and will do better because:
1- the collective 🌎will is here
2- "leaders" can be led by collective & coalesced interests
3- we owe it to ourselves&our children
4- #ClimateAction = future
EPRI report
Cutting 1/2 US emissions by 2030 requires dispatching existing technologies as wind & solar, electric vehicles & energy efficiency
Greatest gains to come from electrification of transportation, with 8-16% power demand by 2030
https://t.co/5c23r0gQwr