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Call to declare a #climateemergency
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined May 2019
New from @jendlouhyhc: the Biden Admin is restarting conversations about declaring a Climate Emergency. The pressure is working. Let's keep it up.
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Everything that this civilisation has ever achieved is built on ecological fraud. It is built on stolen habitats, consumed resources, assassinated species. We paid for it all through a series of heists which bankrupted this planet. The Ponzi scheme is collapsing though. The
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We warned you about this #ClimateCrisis. Now itās here "The planet is desperate for visionary leadership. The planet is desperate for policy that creates an equitable transition away from fossil fuels, and intoĀ #ClimateEmergency modeĀ as a society."
theguardian.com
Biden had the last opportunity of any president to keep the world under 1.5C of heating. Instead he is squandering time we do not have
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šØ Report now available! š'Scorecards Successes: What factors enable local climate action?' Our research partner @anthesis_group looked into the trends in the #CouncilClimateScorecards results and identified characteristics impacting council scores. š https://t.co/lqezugwJOu
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"Effective climate leadership and governance have the biggest impact on enabling further climate action" Findings from our #ScorecardsSuccesses report recently appeared alongside recent polling from @LGAcomms in a @NewStatesman article: https://t.co/VM35CNaoP1
newstatesman.com
New polling also reveals that more than half of English councils wonāt bid for net zero funding because itās too expensive.
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āThe Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, acknowledged the federal government has recognised the climate emergency, and I think that should be celebrated,ā Councillor Trent McCarthy told City of Darebin Council at its meeting on 26 Feb https://t.co/T6ZsgoA3mI
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We are in a global fight against the climate emergency. We cannot allow fossil fuel companies to stop democratically elected governments from taking climate action. Labour has long argued that the ECT is not fit for purpose. It is right we leave. https://t.co/sylFjWaMcS
theguardian.com
Britain joins France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in withdrawing from charter it says āpenalisesā shift to net zero
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February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records "the heating spike has become so pronounced that #climate charts are entering new territory" #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
theguardian.com
Rapid ocean warming and unusually hot winter days recorded as human-made global heating combines with El NiƱo
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We warned you about this #ClimateCrisis. Now itās here "The planet is desperate for visionary leadership." The planet is desperate for policy that creates an equitable transition away from fossil fuels, and intoĀ #ClimateEmergency modeĀ as a society."
theguardian.com
Biden had the last opportunity of any president to keep the world under 1.5C of heating. Instead he is squandering time we do not have
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World ānot preparedā for #climate disasters after warmest ever January "Effect of #ElNiƱo phenomenon combined with human-driven global heating is causing increasing alarm among scientists" #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
https://t.co/SocbREUxqd
theguardian.com
Effect of El NiƱo phenomenon combined with human-driven global heating is causing increasing alarm among scientists
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Global temperatures just breached 2 degrees. This is not some symbolic line. This is millions of harrowing deaths. Heat strokes. Drownings. Deaths of despair. We do disruptive direct action to stop this. You call us too extreme. And yet what choice do we have? What choice?
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This past Monday, 21 young people were arrested at Bidenās campaign HQ as they sat in to demand that he declare a climate emergency and stop funding the genocide of Palestinians.
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Faster than forecast, #climate impacts trigger tipping points in the Earth system "Research has confirmed that tipping points & cascades are already occurring, not at 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius of warming, but right now" #ClimateCrisis
https://t.co/VP04lzQKSI
thebulletin.org
Recent research has shown that tipping points and cascades are already occurring, not at 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius of warming, but right now.
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BBC News - Sheffield City Council emissions only cut by 3% since 2019 A council has only reduced emissions by 3% since declaring a "climate emergency" over four years ago, a report has revealed. ICYMI This is not the level of #ClimateAction we need https://t.co/5x4ZJKukIH
bbc.co.uk
Sheffield City Council admits more work is needed to reach net zero.
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In 2016, when we started the Climate Emergency Declaration campaign in Australia, it was the graph from Berkeley Earth that got us outraged. Since then, it has only gone up. And look what is happening now: #ClimateEmergency #AustraliaDeclares
https://t.co/V2X0Xlde7F
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Did you know? Due to increased greenhouse gas emissions, extended periods of extreme warming in seas and oceans have increased in frequency by 50% in the past 10 years and are becoming more severe. #Climatechange is reaching its extreme! #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
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"86-year-old pontiffās grasp of scientific nuance & understanding of detail around #ClimateEmergency would put many a newspaper editor, political correspondent or senior broadcaster to shame" https://t.co/uiF8vwoVI6
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Spot on @Pontifex - rich countries are most responsible for #climateemergency & should bear greatest responsibility for tackling it. Spiritual leaders across the world can play hugely important role by joining calls - with head, heart & hands #LaudateDeum
https://t.co/gkfCBLQg7j
theguardian.com
Francis also defends climate protesters and calls on governments to make Cop28 in Dubai a turning point
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All of these climate events happened this week. The world is in a crisis, a #ClimateCrisis, we know what the solution is & that itās essential, but itās not being done, why? We donāt have a choice, we need to protest & support protesters #ClimateEmergency
https://t.co/kgvOD3aOiP
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