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Each week we share news and social media updates related to our “The 10 Ways to Save Our Planet” list.
1. Act Now
🇺🇸 Join the March to End Fossil Fuels
SEPT 17TH – 1PM – NYC – 56th & Broadway
500+ endorsing organizations — click here to see the list
🇬🇧 Just Stop Oil [on twitter.com]:
Disruption may be inconvenient, but ordinary people know it’s essential in the face of societal breakdown.
Join us in civil resistance against our government issuing new oil and gas licences.
Just Stop Oil in the U.K. is working to organize individuals to help bring attention to the climate crisis. Just Stop Oil has three upcoming protest events, in the form of week long marches on the following dates:
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Week starting 29th October: East of England and Midlands
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Week starting 5th November: South West, South East, The North
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Week starting 12th November: London and Students
Just Stop Oil is part of the A22 Network, an international group with partner organizations in the U.S. and Europe.
🇪🇺 Upset at climate inaction, young people gird for European court battle
Dismayed at what they see as government7 inaction over climate change, especially after deadly wildfires hit their country in 2017, six young people from Portugal are taking 32 European countries to court.
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The case – filed in September 2020 against the 27 EU member states as well Britain, Switzerland, Norway, Russia and Turkey – seeks a legally binding decision that would force the governments to act against climate change.
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The hearing is scheduled for Sept. 27.
(reuters.com)
2. Build Political Will
🇺🇸🇨🇳 The US and China must unite to fight the climate crisis, not each other
An opinion piece by Bernie Sanders:
Let’s be clear: since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the US has put more carbon into the atmosphere, by far, than any other country. While the new technologies sustained by fossil fuels improved our standard of living, we laid the groundwork for the climate calamity the planet is now experiencing.
In recent years, the rapidly growing Chinese economy has eclipsed the US as the world’s major carbon emitter. Right now, China is building six times as many coal-fired power plants as the rest of the world combined – the equivalent of two new coal plants every week. Last year, they quadrupled the number of new coal plants approved compared with 2021. Current plans will see China add as much new coal to its grid as used in all of India, the second largest coal user, and five times more coal capacity as the US.
(theguardian.com)
3. Eliminate Fossil Fuels
💸 G20 poured more than $1tn into fossil fuel subsidies despite Cop26 pledges – report
(theguardian.com)
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) think-tank found that the amount of public money flowing into coal, oil and gas in 20 of the world’s biggest economies reached a record $1.4 trillion (£1.1 trillion) in 2022. This is double the level of subsidies in 2019 and is the equivalent of $3.1 billion (£2.5 billion) a day. The IISD report said that the G20 countries are “backsliding” on their commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. It called on governments to end all fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 and invest the money in clean energy instead.
4. Speed up renewable energy
☀️ Renewables shine bright: 25% of US electricity from green sources
Renewable energy sources contributed 25.11% of the US electrical generation during the first half of 2023.
That’s according to analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign based on newly released data by the US Energy Information Administration, which suggests this figure represents a slight increase from the 25.06% recorded during the same period in 2022.
(energylivenews.com)
5. Shift towards sustainable transportation
🔋 Battery-Electric Fishing Vessel Marks A Sea Change For Small Commercial Fishers
(cleantechnica.com)
A small commercial fishing boat in Alaska will be retrofitted with a hybrid battery-diesel system, making it one of the first low-emissions fishing vessels in the state. The boat, named I Gotta, will use its diesel engine for travel and switch to a battery-electric motor when fishing. This will reduce emissions and noise pollution, and improve the fishing experience for the crew.
Two stories from Electrek:
🚲 What China’s electric bike charging stations can teach us all
“There are a few designs but most are variations of a simple concept: a row of wall outlets connected to some type of payment portal.”
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🇺🇸 US-built electric mini-truck AYRO receives street-legal certification
“The street-legal variant of the Vanish is limited to 25 mph (40 km/h) top speeds as part of the LSV safety standards.”
6. Adopt planet-friendly agricultural practices
7. Eat a more climate friendly diet
8. Create sustainable cities and buildings
9. Protect and restore our environment
🇪🇨 Ecuador Rejects Amazon Oil Drilling in Binding Referendum
“As a result of the vote, state oil company Petroecuador will be required to dismantle its operations in the coming months.”
(theenergymix.com)
10. Ensure global warming stays below dangerous limits
Only 4% of national [U.S.] TV news segments about Hurricane Hilary mentioned climate change
(mediamatters.org)
Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years
(carbonbrief.org)
🇩🇪 Germany set to miss net zero by 2045 target as climate efforts falter
“German goals to cut greenhouse emissions by 65% by 2030 are likely to be missed, meaning a longer-term net zero by 2045 target is also in doubt, reports by government climate advisers and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) show.”
(climatechangenews.com)
From Social Media
Video of the Week
Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist, environmental activist, and author. Moby and Lindsay talk to Peter about the state of our climate reality, the science behind it, and what we can do to help our planet survive. In a fun way.
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