Full day ahead 4 the @UNEnvironment @GRIDArendal @playmob official launch of the #PlayingForThePlanet Alliance @UN headquarters #UNGA today. How far we've come. A heartfelt thanks to the gifted individuals (seen and especially unseen) who made this impossible possible. #underdogs
I just get tired...Tired of hearing that 1.5°C is a "target" or "goal". IT IS NOT. It is a limit. The only real goal is 0°C. And not bad 1.5°C, when we LIKELY tip GIS, WAIS, Tropical Coral Reefs and Abrupt Boreal Permafrost, and get more floods, droughts, heat, disease, storms.
Deep humanitarian underresourcing in Somalia & Niger after a four year drought. Seasons rains have not come again & children are dying in masses. This is but a glimpse of a future warming planet, coupled with radical wealth inequality. We must be better than this & must do MORE.
If you need some perspective this AM, consider this podcast w real world hero Mary-Ellen McGroarty. The unrelenting brightness in this remarkable woman’s voice, considering the abject travesty of the regions & individuals shes served, is testament to the best of the human spirit.
For 20+ years, Mary-Ellen McGroarty has worked for the UN in some of the world's most dangerous places.
Currently, she's head of @WFP in Afghanistan.
Listen to her inspiring story in the latest episode of our Awake At Night podcast with @MelissaFleming: https://t.co/qrdtOL4xRp
We are sliding downhill…80 million facing starvation when WFP tent was set up in Davos 17 yrs ago by @MPB_WBCSD Peter Bakker et al, now 160 million face hunger, to rise >200 million due to climate change nature loss and Ukraine war https://t.co/KTJ4X2Em3o
Companies like @Microsoft are being proactive on their sustainability journeys, developing and enacting internal polices before government requirements. Great podcast on examples of how companies are pricing carbon emissions voluntarily. https://t.co/UiHhuhcR77
Last year, I walked out of a lush rainforest onto a sun-baked, degraded pasture & made a split decision to again give up beef. Haven't missed it a bit! Instead I get hits of joy when I remember! If you can't quit, at least be judicious & STUDY UP, folks. https://t.co/b57Jw6KB2o
Its unthinkable, and unbearable. Amazon rainforest reaching its tipping point towards Savanna: Study: https://t.co/R85qGexNUc https://t.co/dGd2nbdrx1 Solution: provenance, traceability, cutting beef demand & finance https://t.co/MoYtJL7479
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FAO annual report 2021:
2.37 billion people are food-insecure.
3 billion people (41.9% of those for whom we have data) cannot afford a healthy diet, for which one needs on average the purchasing power of $4 per day.
The heat is on.
"Less than one week before @COP26 in Glasgow, we are still on track for climate catastrophe.
The clock is ticking.
The #EmissionsGap is the result of a leadership gap."
@antonioguterres
I'm kinda blown away by this lineup for next week's Green Games Summit by @uk_ie & @P4PAlliance. Some of the biggest players including @Xbox, @PlayStation coming together to discuss how to transition our industry. Alongside truly impressive experts. Free & digital. Be there!
@hyperfashionist your posts always make me nostalgic for the good old days of in-person office spaces. At least thanks to you/twitter I can still live vicariously through my colleagues highly superior fashion sense!
In southern #Madagascar@WFPChief described people subsisting on mud & cactus flowers & hundreds of emaciated children with ripples of sagging skin on their limbs.
“It’s something you see in a horror movie,” he said.
https://t.co/uknUYgRJZM
Working on #environment and #SDGs & need a boost of creativity/interactivity to your day? Head over to the @P4PAlliance#GreenGameJam and browse all the entries reaching millions of gamers- 2 more days to register your vote for the players choice award! https://t.co/OQLoJdVgb8
In most sectors, Scope3 emissions avg 3-4x that of Scope1 & 2, & if included are oft under-reported by 80%. In closing the global emissions gap, companies who assume more leadership for Scope 3 will take much bigger strides than those who view it as a responsibility to b shirked.
Dear headscratchers: scroll down. "All net-zero references in this announcement apply to emissions from oil sands operations (defined as scope 1 & scope 2 emissions)." Scope 3 (up & downstream emissions) -ie in the use of the oil itself, are not included. #thedevilsinthedetails
Huge news: "Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus Energy, Imperial, MEG Energy and Suncor Energy formally announced today the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative." https://t.co/T0jRT5939L
In contrast, the UN @globalcompact SBTi @sciencetargets initiative requires NetZero commitments to at minimum set scope 3 reductions in line with the percentage reduction of absolute GHG emissions required at a global level over the target timeframe. https://t.co/YQuKevDaTF