#NationalizeFossilFuels: #forest #fires might be eroding the state’s #climategoals, with UCLA scientists describing the state’s efforts as “up in smoke.” #wildfireemissions should be a bigger part of California’s #climatepolicy… scaling back #fossilfuels has to be #California’s priority

#DeterioratingCarbonSinks #AcceleratingKeelingCurve

https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/09/california-wildfire-smoke-climate-change/

This must be that aimed change in #climatepolicy everyone is talking about.

#climatechange #Klimawende #FuckCars #fucksuv
🎥 https://youtu.be/iqiQAcAyXtk?si=vG0O4u4ezPBsg4qY

This must be that aimed change in #climatepolicy everyone is talking about.

#climatechange #Klimawende #FuckCars #fucksuv
🎥 https://youtu.be/iqiQAcAyXtk?si=vG0O4u4ezPBsg4qY

What is the EU doing to keep society on board with Climate policy, you may ask.

I’ll mention here the recently agreed Social Climate Fund of up to €65billion plus Member State resources for 2026-2032.

It will help vulnerable households, micro-enterprises and transport users)

(It’s more than €80 billion once MS money gets added but of course MS should do national policies too!)

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/fit-for-55-social-climate-fund/

#Climate #ClimatePolicy #SocialClimateFund

Big emphasis on anti-green backlash policies mentioned in this report on the AfD programme.

It will be very important to keep society on board as Climate and Energy Policy in Europe will intensify significantly this decade.

But good the DE press is at least pointing out AfD economic ideas are regressive!

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/afd-zehn-punkte-programm-umfrage-hoch-100.html#xtor=CS5-62

#Climate #ClimatePolicy #Germany #Deutschland #AfD #FarRight #Energy #Transport

Why a European Central Carbon Bank would help stabilise EU climate policy https://www.euractiv.com/section/emissions-trading-scheme/opinion/why-a-european-central-carbon-bank-would-help-stabilise-eu-climate-policy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #carbonemissions #climatepolicy #ETS #EUETS

#German goals to cut #greenhousegas #emissions by 65% by 2030 are likely to be missed, meaning longer-term #netzero by 2045 target is also in doubt, reports by government #climate advisers and the Federal Environment Agency (#UBA) show. Last year its #CO2 levels were already 40% below 1990 level, but new reports said that was not enough. UBA found Germany cannot become climate neutral by 2045 on basis of planned and existing #climatepolicy.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/germanys-climate-efforts-not-enough-hit-2030-targets-experts-say-2023-08-22/ #climatechange #climatecrisis

📚 New Blog Alert! Explore the complexities of linking New York's Cap & Invest program to the Western Climate Initiative & discover its potential environmental, economic, & political impacts. Read the analysis by @SabinCenter’s summer intern Grace Kaste: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2023/08/28/new-york-cap-and-invest-should-think-twice-before-linking-to-the-western-climate-initiative/ 🌍💼 #ClimatePolicy #CarbonMarkets

IMF report on fossil fuel subsidies:

- around $1.3trillion globally in explicit subsidies (underpricing supply costs)

- $7trillion globally if you include underpricing external costs (like CO2 and air pollution)

For policy nerds: Technically interesting, and difficult, work by the IMF in distinguishing these concepts and gathering the data!

#Climate #Energy #FossilFuels #ClimatePolicy #EnergyPolicy #IMF

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/08/22/IMF-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Data-2023-Update-537281

From the 4 to the 6th of October, more than 50 European and global scientific experts in the fields of #earthobservation, #geospatialdata, #climatepolicy, and #geospatialresearch, with experience in organizations such as World Resources Institute, European Space Agency - ESA, or Copernicus ECMWF, will share their work in several oral talks, workshops, and poster sessions👩‍💻👩🏼‍💻. To register for this workshop at EURAC, Bolzano, please visit: https://earthmonitor.org/gw2023/#program
#OpenEarthMonitor

Well done by the kids!👍🏾👏🏾

A small, temporary, victory, but a victory.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/montana-loses-fight-against-youth-climate-activists-in-landmark-ruling/

#Climate #Law #USPol #ClimatePolicy

This is so good. It's a crash course in why electric vehicles aren't going to solve the climate crisis. https://open.spotify.com/episode/287zvLTtxiqAY1JNIa1ORo?si=5dfd8c53156b4bbd

#ClimateCrisis #ClimatePolicy #ElectricVehicles #EV

A cautionary tale about attempting to sequester carbon in the biosphere.

"strong evidence that the wildfire component of California's forest carbon buffer pool has almost surely been depleted."

#CarbonOffsets #ClimatePolicy #WildFires #ClimateChange

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/08/02/climate-change-carbon-offset-oregon/

https://carbonplan.org/blog/buffer-update-two

#Nature groups prepared to ‘mobilise’ 20m members over #UK #ClimatePolicy

Organisations including #RSPB, #National Trust and #RSPCA urge #PrimeMinister to honour #GreenPromises
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/29/nature-groups-prepared-to-mobilise-members-over-uk-climate-policy #ClimateCrisis #GreenPolicy #Environment #Sustainability #PM

If the climate crisis is already here (which it seems to be), that means what we've already emitted is too much, so even cutting future emissions to zero won't be enough! Actively reducing (or offsetting) the atmosphere's greenhouse gas content will be necessary as well. 🤔

Painting is "Summer Rain" by Antonio Garcia Mencia.

#climate #climatechange #climatepolicy #globalwarming #climatecrisis #politics #society #technology #geoengineering #future #futurology #futurism

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/project-2025-dismantle-us-climate-policy-next-republican-president

Update on the #climatepolicy from the party of cartoon villains. Up next is their proposal for you to "just fucking die already".

Pyromaniac #Rish! torches #ClimatePolicy while #Europe burns

#PM sees short-term advantage in smothering #GreenPolicies while studiously ignoring signs of #ClimateCollapse
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/24/pyromaniac-rish-torches-climate-policy-while-europe-burns #ToryPoliciesInAction

As a newly tenured faculty member (yay!), I'm happy to help any other small liberal arts college folks doing #engagedscholarship work around #climatepolicy think about the #tenure process. #SLAC

To mitigate the corrupt or not fit for purpose, business people & politicians agenda's, more scientists will have to get involved in direct environmental activism (AKA speaking to people)

Whilst environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion #XR, or political groups such as the green party's, mean well, they're not doing so well in regards to communicating the evidence based knowledge that is required to develop an ecologically sustainable society.

#climate #ClimateAction #ClimatePolicy

@graphictruth

Once again, #Wales is leading the way on #ClimatePolicy

To quote the Welsh governments website " #Sustainability is mandatory within the new Curriculum for Wales and will form part of every learner's education throughout their learning journey" https://www.gov.wales/written-statement-sustainable-schools-challenge

And when these young learners become adult decision makers, voters & politicians...