The Climate Crisis Post 3

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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

Hanna Arendt

Climate news

The World Bank signals that fossil fuel subsidies must end https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/13/new-world-bank-president-signals-that-time-is-up-on-billion-euro-subsidies-for-fossil-fuel

We must rethink multinationalism in order to manage cooperation at COP28. https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/opinion/the-pope-is-right-we-must-reconfigure-multinationalism-to-deliver-on-climate/

Carbon credit company, South Pole, gives trophy hunters access to “protected” areas to shoot wild animals. https://www.ftm.eu/articles/south-pole-kariba-big-game-hunting

Corruption hunter Joly wants to introduce the French model to gain more control over financial interests among Norwegian politicians and the opportunity to investigate and catch corruption better https://e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/ve2bJ5/korrupsjonsjeger-og-mdg-foreslaar-kartlegging-av-politikere-aapenhet-er-avgjoerende-for-tillit

Greta Thunberg arrested in demonstration against oil money’s political influence in London https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/greta-thunberg-london-climate-protest-b2431030.html

Planting forests in Africa to counteract climate change can unfortunately lead to more forest fires and thus have a negative effect. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016953472300246X

Climate scientist and human rights expert warns of the enormous consequences of not respecting the earth’s tolerance limits. “We must stop gambling with the planet - and our welfare - now” https://www.context.news/net-zero/opinion/we-need-to-stop-gambling-with-our-planet

Research news

A financial valuation of nature’s intrinsic value can ensure that conservation works better https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06406-9

Cell-based protein production has the lowest carbon and land footprint https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721008317

Videos worth watching

Climate Uncensored interviews climate scientist Johan Rockström about the planet’s tolerance limits and how bad it is. Very important interview https://youtu.be/lLq8e73-FAw

Good news

Green cooperation between the US, the EU and China creates a win-win situation that is in everyone’s best interest https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/18/europe-and-the-us-should-work-with-china-joint-climate-action-could-be-a-win-win

Solutions

Finnish Solar Foods can make proteins from bacteria, air and energy (6.5 TWh/year for Finnish consumption) https://solarfoods.com/

Can regenerative finance help us out of the crisis? It’s called ReFi and can be a better way to create financing for good regenerative ideas and easy allocation of risk capital. Judge for yourself. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/regenerative-finance-web3-climate-change/

Solicitations

Send an email to the ministers to support the phasing out of fossil energy at COP28 https://naturvernforbundet.no/si-fra-til-store-og-barth-eide-stott-utfasing-av-fossilt-i-dubai/

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