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According to the IPCC, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere is directly linked to the average global temperature on Earth, and the concentration has been rising steadily. The most abundant greenhouse gas, accounting for about two-thirds of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, is largely the product of burning fossil fuels.
There is alarming evidence that important tipping points, leading to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and the planetary climate system, may already have been reached or passed. One of the most urgent challenges facing countries across the world today is how to achieve economic prosperity and development while also combating climate change.
The Paris climate change agreement commits nations to limit global temperature rise to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with countries pledging to cut or curb their greenhouse gas emissions – through a combination of mitigation and adaptation measures – by 2030.
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Our Future Water has collaborated with Denmark’s State of Green to publish the new white paper ‘Urban Water Management: Creating Climate-Resilient Cities’.
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California is moving full steam ahead to phasing out all sales of new fossil fuel cars in the state by 2035.
The new rule will “ensure that consumers can successfully replace their traditional combustion vehicles with new or used [zero-emission vehicles] and plug-in hybrids that meet their transportation needs"
Urban water security: The role of demand management
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World Water Week 2022 begins today!
And our latest #GGKPInsights from Our Future Water's Robert Brears and SDG Monitor's Victoria Madsén highlights why Europe needs to transition to a circular water economy — for the benefit of people, planet, and business.
What does circular water management look like? ? Reduce water consumption ? Reuse water ? Recycle water ? Recover materials from wastewater ? Regenerate natural capital
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Global Warming and Cosmic Events
'It is 100% certain we will be hit by a devastating asteroid, but we are not 100% sure when,' the B612 Foundation reported in 2018. Asteroids are minor planets in the inner solar system. They vary widely in size and shape, from a meter-sized rock to a dwarf planet nearly 1,000 km across. The sun is expected to grow so large that it will engulf the current orbits of Mercury and Venus, making the Earth uninhabitable in billions of years. Our star is currently fusing hydrogen into helium. When hydrogen fusion in its core has diminished to the point at which the sun is no longer in hydrostatic equilibrium, the density and temperature in the core will increase significantly while its outer layers expand, eventually transforming the star into a red giant. What? A big asteroid will hit our planet at an indefinite time? A giant sun will evaporate all life on Earth in the future? You may argue that we must deal with climate change now and that we do not have time to worry about distant cosmic events. Well, such events and global warming pose an existential threat to humanity. Perhaps they also have the same solution. How can we survive the arrival of a devastating asteroid or live without the Earth? We need great scientific discoveries and superior technologies. In other words, we need to equip people with brilliant minds. The smarter we become, the greater our chances of solving all natural and man-made crises, including global warming. To improve our intellectual capacity in general, I propose to provide everyone with so many digital books that most people could enjoy art and science for a lifetime. All books should be free, while their copyrights must be protected.
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Environment Ministers from 30 countries commit to combat plastic pollution.
OECD brought together the announcement of national-level visions, actions, or plans that was committed to be made at the 2022 OECD Council at the Ministerial Level (MCM).
Germany, Colombia, Korea, Brazil, and Peru ministers also describe their country's commitments on plastics through short videos!
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GREAT NEWS: ‘Biggest step forward on climate ever’: US President signs Landmark Climate Bill worth $369 billion to fight climate change!
It is the beginning of the HOPE we have all hoped for.
Let us rejoice and be glad - because this 'landmark climate bill' benefits the entire world, creating that acceleration needed to mitigate against the frequenting GHG emission-induced intense disasters.
Let other Nations follow this beautiful example, why not?
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Last week, the US congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the nation's biggest-ever climate bill.
▶️ Can this help accelerate emissions reduction? ▶️ What problems still stand in the way of realizing #NetZero?
"The sooner we acknowledge challenges that accompany net zero as a concept, the better we are placed to accelerate collective efforts to transform societies #ForPeopleForPlanet" - Jonathan Wilson, 10YFP Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme
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Inaction and Inability
Inaction is an indisposition that can be cured by calls to action. Inability is a serious illness that will be fatal without proper treatment. Inaction is usually a symptom of inability, especially when the calls to action don’t work. Take inequality and injustice for example. These problems have existed for thousands of years all over the globe. Our inability to build an equal and just world is obvious. I'm afraid that the issue of climate change is much more difficult than the problems of inequality and injustice. As an intelligent species, we either go intelligent or go extinct. I wonder if there is a better cure than intelligent revolutions for our inability to save humanity. Dinosaurs had no capacity to change their evolution but we have.