Edgar Hernan Cruz M

Climate solutions - climate finance - systems transition - sustainability/walk the talk - leadership - geopolitics. Personal opinions

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Toxic chemicals contaminate air, food, and water. With half of the world's untreated wastewater entering rivers, lakes, and seas, it's time for cities and governments to step up efforts to improve chemical management and #BeatChemicalPollution.

https://t.co/2KbLJyU9NO

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Humanity continues to do more harm than good to nature, pushing ecosystems at the brink of collapse.

The #BiodiversityPlan is the world’s blueprint to halt & reverse nature loss.

Here’s how: https://t.co/5FrmsUs9LQ

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Turning back time isn’t an option, but:

🐝 Letting gardens go wild is
🌳 Planting trees is
🌱 Greening our cities is
🌊 Reclaiming clean rivers and beaches is
🌍 Being the #GenerationRestoration is.

[World Bank Group Climate and Environment @WBG_ClimateEnv]

"If people were driven purely by science and economics, the climate crisis would be half-way to solved by now. But, as the latest IPCC report lays out so unequivocally, it’s not." - Juergen Voegele on the political economy of climate action: https://t.co/NcMOShNXst #WithinReach

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

Together with @FightInequality we are keeping a close eye on the billionaires and governments attending the WEF meeting at #Davos.

The world demands real change to address inequality.

#TimeForChange #AlternativeFutures

[United Nations @UN]

“The Sustainable Development Agenda is our shared roadmap towards the world we want: human rights for everyone, everywhere.”

— @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk stresses that the #GlobalGoals are a list of concrete actions necessary to protect our future. https://t.co/Ofbj9N6nMO

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

The planet is choking on plastic. Every minute the equivalent of 1 garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean.

To #BeatPlasticPollution, we must reduce the production of plastic & pursue systematic change.

https://t.co/EPpqA2WQcThe planet is choking on plastic. Every minute the equivalent of 1 garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean.

To #BeatPlasticPollution, we must reduce the production of plastic & pursue systematic change.

https://t.co/EPpqA2WQcThe planet is choking on plastic. Every minute the equivalent of 1 garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean.

To #BeatPlasticPollution, we must reduce the production of plastic & pursue systematic change.

https://t.co/EPpqA2WQcThe planet is choking on plastic. Every minute the equivalent of 1 garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean.

To #BeatPlasticPollution, we must reduce the production of plastic & pursue systematic change.

https://t.co/EPpqA2WQcThe planet is choking on plastic. Every minute the equivalent of 1 garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean.

To #BeatPlasticPollution, we must reduce the production of plastic & pursue systematic change.

https://t.co/EPpqA2WQcY

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Renewable energy cut over $1 trillion from the fuel bill of the electricity sector worldwide in less than 3 years - by displacing expensive, dirty coal and gas

We're just getting started

https://t.co/1gAW92w8GC #climate

[United Nations @UN]

“When global norms collapse, so does trust.

I am personally shocked by the systematic undermining of principles & standards we used to take for granted.”

– @antonioguterres says rebuilding trust is essential for a safer, more stable world. https://t.co/85y0BFBDSA

[IRENA @IRENA]

🌐 @IRENA SolarCity Simulator

A web-based application developed to help households, businesses & municipal authorities evaluate their prospects for generating electricity using rooftop-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

Access the simulator🔗 https://t.co/KIyj96f3xl

[UN Humanitarian @UNOCHA]

The level of suffering, desperation and deprivation in the Gaza Strip is:

🔴 unbearable.
🔴 unconscionable.
🔴 unacceptable.

The world needs to know what the people of #Gaza are enduring, and political leaders must bring this war to an end. ➡️ https://t.co/AUoCryHczT

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

IPCC climate model projections of warming vs. the observations, updated to include 2023, via @ClimateOfGavin/#RealClimate:
https://t.co/8HZeoEcipS

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

And there is no convincing plan on how to transition away from fossil-fuels. National voluntary action alone will not do it. Collective, global action, on finance, carbon pricing, and technology exchange are also needed, at a scale vastly exceeding what is now on the table (4/4).

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

Yet, the text on transition away from fossil-fuel remains too vague, with no accountability for 2030, 2040 & 2050. No recognition that scaling CO2 removal technology needs to occur in addition to fossil-fuel phase out, to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C (3/4)

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

Science called for a mitigation COP, and we got a mitigation COP, focused on fossil-fuels. The world must now act accordingly, i.e. rapidly transition away from oil, coal and gas, aiming at >40% reductions by 2030 and reaching net-zero by 2050, as recognized in the text (2/4).

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

No, COP28 will not enable us to hold the 1.5°C limit, but yes, the result is a pivotal land-mark. It makes clear to finance, business and societies that we are now finally - 8 years behind Paris schedule - at the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel driven world economy (1/4).

[Simon Stiell @simonstiell]

#COP28 needed to signal a hard stop to fossil fuels and their planet-burning pollution.

We didn’t turn the page on the #fossilfuel era, but this is clearly the beginning of the end.

We must get on with the job of putting the Paris Agreement fully to work.

[Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @LossandDamage]

1/11.⚡️BREAKING NEWS⚡️: The fifth meeting (#TC5) of the Transitional Committee (TC) of the #LossAndDamage Fund has agreed on recommendations to send to #COP28. However, the US 🇺🇸 says “it is not a consensus document” because they were not in the room when it was adopted.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I am horrified by the reported attack in Gaza on an ambulance convoy outside Al Shifa hospital.

Now, for nearly one month, civilians in Gaza, including children & women, have been besieged, denied aid, killed & bombed out of their homes.

This must stop.

[GGGI Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office @GGGI_LAC]

¿Qué son las APP #ResilientesAlClima y qué experiencia tenemos en América Latina?

🔴 Regístrate a la próxima sesión del prog. de Desarrollo de capacidades en #FinanzasSostenibles con #KOICA, @IICAnews y @BCIE_Org

🗓️ 29/08
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