On social security programmes in #SouthAsia and how #Pakistan 's can be modified to help not oonly poverty alleviation but also #ClimateAdaptation AND #ClimateMitigation
Brilliant insight by climate lawyer Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
Did not know India's and Bangladesh's programmes were so far ahead of the world
https://www.dawn.com/news/1897603/climate-smart-social-protection
India is launching world’s most expensive satellite: NISAR
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mfy2ipwgpxA
scanning the earth’s surface every 12 days watching for changes
They: Climate mitigation mustn't impair social justice.
Me: So you want climate justice?
They: No, that would impair capitalism. We want capitalism to keep impairing social justice.
Me: So you're just fearmongering to distract from your cruelties?
They: Of course. That's what we always do.
$7B plan could save Jersey Shore from flooding.
https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2025/02/7b-plan-could-save-jersey-shores-from-flooding-but-none-of-that-would-pay-people-to-leave.html
#SeaLevelRise #flooding #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ManagedRetreat #CZM #CoastalZoneManagement #NewJersey #ClimateMitigation
23-Jan-2025
In a landmark study, an NYBG scientist and colleagues find that #reforestation stands out among plant-based #climateMitigation strategies as most beneficial for #wildlife #biodiversity
Impact on biodiversity needs to be considered when choosing a large-scale strategy to combat climate change, scientists assert in new paper in '#Science'
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1071554
#ClimateCatastrophe
Prepare #ClimateMitigation measures, with a focus on water retention, and temperature management.
Consider carbon capture options, in particular reforesting.
Begin research on geoengineering
The full text of the book "3 Degrees More - The Impending Hot Season and How Nature Can Help Us Prevent It" (editor Klaus Wiegandt) is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-58144-1 (open access)
The 2nd chapter is the one the Morning Star newspaper article refers to: "Climate and Weather at 3 Degrees More - Earth as We Don’t (Want to) Know It" by @rahmstorf
Whether we call it #EnergyModernization or #EnergyTransition or #RenewableEnergy, with #ClimateChange becoming undeniable the fossilized parts of our energy industry are adapting tactics to keep us locked in the past-- and ruin our chances for #ClimateMitigation.
We collaborated with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw to adapt their comprehensive #debunking of #RenewableEnergyMyths for easier access. We're highlighting each of 33 articles, one per week.
4th Indo-German 1.5 Track Strategic Dialogue:
SWP and GIGA thank our esteemed partners from ICWA and RIS for joining us in Berlin. Intense exchange on #IndoPacific, #GlobalCooperation, #trade, #tech, #innovation, #ClimateMitigation. Amb. Ajit Gupte and Amb. Erik Kurzweil set the scene on Indo-German relations. Thank you also to @AuswaertigesAmt for supporting.
Find the full programme here: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/indo-german-1-5-track-dialogue
“We should be focused on real reductions in emissions, rather than engaging in a counting game”
Goodhart's law applies, the measure (or measuring) has become the target not reducing emissions.
#netzero #climatecrisis #climatechange #ecology #forestry #climatemitigation
Our colleague Dr. Christoph Jörges participated in the interdisciplinary Young Talent Academy hei_INSTRUMENTS & developed an exciting project idea with other young researchers. The program aims at collectively developing tools for #climatemitigation.
Over 3 days, early-career researchers from #Geography, #Medicine, #Psychology, and #Informatics gathered at the Villa Bosch in #Heidelberg to brainstorm inter- and transdisciplinary project ideas.
Due to upstream database lag the freshest edition of our weekly #ClimateResearch compendium includes 218 reports by 1,516 investigators.
What's the most important finding of this omnibus collection?
How about "Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades," Stechemesser et al.
If we pay attention and act on evidence, we'll more likely fix our problem.
#ClimateMitigation policy research: we know plenty. Learn and #vote.
This is a good resource: looking for good high quality sources of high level #climate training?
WCRP have an online academy with a course catalogue of programmes in #ClimateChange #ClimateMitigation + #ClimateAdaptation - all vetted and aimed at university level.
https://wcrp-academy.org/
Cool! Literally
"For activists in France, mega-basins have become a symbol of how the government is adapting to climate change in precisely the wrong way. In response to intensifying droughts, French authorities have carved giant water storage systems into the countryside for large farms to draw down in dry months. Critics say these mega-basins—which can hold up to 720 million liters, the equivalent of nearly 300 Olympic-sized swimming pools—are effectively hoarding water, reserving it for private landowners, leaving rivers parched and local groundwater systems depleted."
by Morgan Meaker at @WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/climate-activism-radical-new-face-lena-lazare/ @climate ⏚
Our newest weekly roundup of research on #ClimateChange, #ClimateMitigation, #ClimateAdaptation and the whole juggernaut of "just a trace gas" includes 163 papers involving 965 contributing investigators.
Preponderance in this edition: vanishing ice haunting the entire planet. From length of days to sea level to food chains, the delicate quasi-equilibrium we've pushed too fast and too hard has a vast footprint of truly planetary scale.
#ClimateResearch
#cryosphere
https://skepticalscience.com/new_research_2024_30.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-source=sks
We need the #BCgovernment to get the message from concerned communities across B.C. that we must work together and with urgency to #protect #OldGrowthForests and #reform #forestry practices. To do so, the next steps are crucial:
#StopLogging in the most at-risk #OldGrowth #forests, and other #ecosystems identified by First Nations, by providing promised funding for #LoggingDeferrals.
Provide full #FinancialSupport to #FirstNations for long-term #IndigenousLed #conservation solutions, including #compensation for lost revenues and employment.
Move away from the “all or nothing” approach common in forestry practices across B.C. and most evident in #ClearcutLogging. In its place, work with First Nations, local residents, industry and other stakeholders to implement forestry practices that prioritize important values like #biodiversity, #habitat, #WaterRetention, #Indigenous #CulturalUse, and #tourism.
#PleaseSignPetition & boost to help #SpreadTheWord ->
"The increasing severity of #wildfires and #drought highlights that reforming #ForestStewardship – taking better care of the forests, including safeguarding #OldGrowthForests – is one of our best hopes to protect communities across B.C.
Harmful #forestry practices like #clearcutting and #unsustainable #IndustrialLogging make extreme heat and wildfires worse. #Clearcuts are #tinderboxes, more prone to creating embers because dead trees and branches dry out in the hot sun and become more #flammable. Tree plantations and improperly tended young forests also increase wildfire risk: Younger trees have thinner bark and low-hanging branches that can act as ladder fuels, and the trees are often planted too close together, making it easy for fire to spread.
Fortunately, intact and properly managed #forests are more resilient to the worsening wildfires and heatwaves. For example, #OldGrowth #rainforests have dense canopies which provide cooling shade that resists fire. They are cooler and wetter than young forests, acting as giant sponges. Old-growth trees in the drier interior have thick bark, high branches and are widely spaced which all reduce #WildfireRisk.
@SiR_GameZaloT
I have been told by senior Indian businessmen/civil servants (1 of each, not a crowd!) that India sees talk about #ClimateMitigation as a ploy by "the West" to block India's achievements in growing the economy.
I am hoping that these record temperatures may be sufficient to add greater weight to the work of India's numerous #ClimateActivists and thus persuade people that India too is at risk.
Why common mitigation efforts are not solutions to the climate crisis #ClimateCrisis #ClimateMitigation #emissions #tippingpoints https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/05/15/why-common-climate-mitigation-efforts-are-not-solutions-to-the-climate-crisis/421897/
#NAFO 
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