The Finnish Parliament just approved a new Climate Change Act. The targets to be carbon neutral by 2035 and carbon negative by 2040 are now legally binding. They are based on analysis by the Climate Change Panel on Finland’s fair share of the global carbon budget for 1.5 degrees.
Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970's via @fietsprofessor. The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.
WATCH: @AGEllison explains why he's fighting in court to hold ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute accountable for their climate "spin and deception." #ExxonKnew
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Fossil fuel subsidies dropped to a record low of US $181 billion in 2020—a 42% decline from 2019 levels—likely because of reduced energy use and prices. These government subsidies need to drop to zero because of the climate emergency. https://t.co/eChe4krCKK
If the planet warms by 4°C (as it is on course to do), an extreme heat event that would have occurred once in 50 years is 39.2 times more likely
If it warms by 1.5°C, then the same event is 8.6 times more likely
You know what to do
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What climate crisis? EU and 19 of world’s largest national economies poured $3.3 trillion of direct support to coal, oil and gas over past 4 years, enough to deploy solar power 3.5 times the size of the U.S. grid
The hypocrisy of the G20 is breathtaking
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CO2 concentration, 3 April: 421.22 ppm
2019 average: 409.8
25 years ago: 360 ppm
250 years ago: 250 ppm
Years until we all fry at 450 ppm: 9
Humans haven’t seen the concentration of atmospheric CO2 at 421ppm, ever
Fasten your seatbelt, wherever you are on Earth
#climate
A New York pensioner used the Freedom of Information Act to see what Blackrock--world's largest investment house--had to say about fossil fuel divestment. Bottom line: you make more money staying away from the stuff that kills the planet
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Solar power has become the cheapest source of new electricity in history ...
.. and the U.S. DOE is now joining the effort to cut its costs by at least another 60% by 2030
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