Simon Mulcahy
@simonmulcahy
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A big change in Amsterdam's real estate game: I've noticed many more electric bikes cruising the streets in the last 2-3 years; they have become mainstream. What created something surprising: a dozen people around me started to buy/rent houses in the purple circle. Something
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We can’t just AC our way out of #Climate. 🌳 provide carbon negative cooling that will help save lives, money & GHGs. #TreeEquity brings cooling & other benefits of 🌳 where needed most, and 🇺🇸 is showing the 🌎 how to do it. My take in @TIME.
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Cooling cities is vital as the world heats up. Trees are a key tool.
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Making progress correcting #Forests4Climate narrative! 🙏 to @Newsweek for nuanced look at 2 new studies with insights on how to get reforestation right for #climate + #biodiversity, and giving me the chance to put these studies in correct context.
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New studies cast doubt on the usefulness of carbon-offset tree plantations and warn that some of those projects could reduce biodiversity.
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We owe @BillGates 🙏 for his leadership on #Climate. So it is with respect that I say Mr. Gates is eroding his legacy by ignoring a HUGE body of science showing how #reforestation can help. Like this from @forestservice: https://t.co/hsYAiKfqUA
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Several initiatives have been proposed to mitigate forest loss and climate change through tree planting as well as maintaining and restoring forest...
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Who is for the trees? Anyone? Even Bill Gates has turned on the trees. With only 3 trillion of 6 trillion trees remaining who will love the trees? Who will value the 200GT of CO2 that that every trillion trees sequesters? Who will conserve them? Who will protect them? Who
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We are not making progress. Face existential challenges. And need a transformative action plan. Following another - politically flat - SDG summit & NY Climate Week, here is a @TIME 100 Voices OpEd on implications of the Latest Health Check of the Planet
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Tree equity is so important, and something everyone can help impact. Thank you for your amazing leadership here @JadDaley, @forestservice and @AmericanForests!!
Hey 🇺🇸, I've got 🌳-mendous news! After the hottest summer ever, @ForestService is using $1B of IRA funds to bring natural cooling & clean air from 🌳 to the neighborhoods that need it most. Give a listen for more on this🌎-leading move. @AmericanForests #TreeEquity @POTUS @USDA
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This is amazing in so many levels. Go @Apple! https://t.co/PfOIxt2Aa5
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Finally out! 1st diagnosis of the entire Planet. All the 9 Planetary Boundaries quantified defining Our Safe Operating Space on Earth. Bad news: 6 of 9 PBs breached. Good news: Window still open, we know what to measure, we can return and we win if we do!
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Transgression of planetary boundaries by human activities have now brought humanity well beyond a “safe operating space.”
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Great new RMI research shows EV sales are projected to surge up to at least two thirds of total car sales this decade. By 2030, EVs are likely to be as cheap to buy - and cheaper to run - than petrol cars in every market. Read more:
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Exponential growth in electric vehicle (EV) sales is transforming the auto sector faster than currently predicted.
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Due to hundreds of uncontrolled wildfires across Canada, New York City looks like a post-apocalyptic hellscape. If you want a prelude of what the world is going to look like if we do not address man-made climate change — this is it. #ActOnClimate
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Welcome to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report https://t.co/ZEZxhMgq7Y
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A weekly column from Justin Worland about the intersection between business and climate.
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I’m very excited for the launch of the TIME CO2 Leadership Report by @JustinWorland. @co2. Sign up for Justin's weekly insights from the worlds where business and climate meet. https://t.co/V0iNBPS4bX
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The number of people displaced by conflict & drought in Somalia has reached a record high. Most of them are women & children. @UN teams in the country are working to address immediate & long-term needs. The international community must not forget this crisis.
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The differences between expectancy in the US are staggering. Inequality
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America is experiencing the greatest gap in life expectancy across regions in the last 40 years
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The #IPCC finds that between 3.3 billion and 3.6 billion people live in countries that are highly vulnerable to #climate impacts. More: https://t.co/OHL1WmQ2z1
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Exciting progress with @hydrogen_aero Universal Hydrogen’s first flight.
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