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1/9.📜NEW PAPER: "Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for #ClimateDamages" from Marco Grasso and @rickheede gives clear guidance on the billions of $$$'s #FossilFuel companies should pay into the #LossAndDamage Fund each year.
🔗cell.com/one-earth/full…
🔗cell.com/one-earth/full…
2/9. Our key take always include:
The report finds that the #FossilFuelIndustry will be responsible for $23.2 trillion (USD) of economic #LossAndDamage (to GDP) between 2025–2050 under a 3°C warming scenario.
The report finds that the #FossilFuelIndustry will be responsible for $23.2 trillion (USD) of economic #LossAndDamage (to GDP) between 2025–2050 under a 3°C warming scenario.
3/9. This is important because the report demonstrates that it’s possible to attribute #LossAndDamage costs, and the responsibility for redress, to specific #CarbonMajors .
Možná jste také sledovali havárii vlaku s velmi nebezpečnými chemikáliemi, která se stala na začátku února v Ohiu.
Konečně máme pocit, že je k dispozici dostatek informací k tomu, abychom k ní dokázali něco říct.
🧵 VLÁKNO 🧵
#OhioTrainDisaster
Konečně máme pocit, že je k dispozici dostatek informací k tomu, abychom k ní dokázali něco říct.
🧵 VLÁKNO 🧵
#OhioTrainDisaster
První zprávy mluvily o tom, že při havárii unikl hlavně vinylchlorid. Nyní se ale ukazuje, že toho bylo víc. Aktuálně se ví o vinylchloridu, fosgenu, chlorovodíku, fridexu, ethylhexyl-akrylátu a izobutylenu. Co to je za látky?
abcnews.go.com/US/toxic-chemi…
abcnews.go.com/US/toxic-chemi…
Vinylchlorid se používá pro výrobu PVC a podobných materiálů. Je to rakovinotvorná látka a skutečně může představovat největší problém. V tekuté formě je značně těkavý a na vzduchu podléhá rozpadu během několika dnů, přičemž mohou vznikat další škodliviny
arnika.org/toxicke-latky/…
arnika.org/toxicke-latky/…
The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change @SRclimatechange has just dropped an *amaze-balls* report to the UN General Assembly, starting later this month. Governments will have to respond.
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We are being confronted with an enormous climate change crisis of catastrophic proportions. It is happening now.
The result of a catastrophically inadequate response from historical emitters / developed countries.
The result of a catastrophically inadequate response from historical emitters / developed countries.
The members of the Group of 20 account for 78% of emissions over the past decade. Noting: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Korea and USA are falling short
By contrast, the 55 most vulnerable economies have lost over half their economic growth potential owing to the #climatecrisis.
By contrast, the 55 most vulnerable economies have lost over half their economic growth potential owing to the #climatecrisis.
#EllasLaw | Second reading of @GreenJennyJones's #CleanAirHRBill in @UKHouseofLords from 10am Friday 8 July HT @EllaRobertaFdn. It's about the #HumanRight to #CleanAir and meeting new @WHO guidelines asap. Follow this thread for live updates. Details here: cleanair.london/ellaslaw/
#EllasLaw | Ella Roberta Adoo Kissi-Debrah died tragically - aged nine - on 15 February 2013. #AirPollution was listed as one of the medical causes of death after a long campaign by her mother @EllaRobertaFdn won a second inquest cleanair.london/hot-topics/ell…
#EllasLaw | Coroner's 'Report to Prevent Future Deaths' said:
"@WHO guidelines should be seen as minimum requirements. Legally binding targets based on @WHO guidelines would reduce the number of deaths from air pollution in the UK"
@GreenJennyJones' #CleanAirHRBill does it!
"@WHO guidelines should be seen as minimum requirements. Legally binding targets based on @WHO guidelines would reduce the number of deaths from air pollution in the UK"
@GreenJennyJones' #CleanAirHRBill does it!
Everyone should brace for a lot more of this whether a leaseholder, shared owner or social housing tenant
Many building owners & operators have been in a holding pattern until #FireSafetyAct + #BuildingSafetyAct became law
Some will await secondary legislation & guidance 1/
Many building owners & operators have been in a holding pattern until #FireSafetyAct + #BuildingSafetyAct became law
Some will await secondary legislation & guidance 1/
Some will postpone until the 11th hour - however demand is outstripping supply of labour, goods & services
As a result of #brexit + #covid labour & material costs are more expensive now than 5yrs previous when #Grenfell exposed a #buildingsafetycrisis /2
As a result of #brexit + #covid labour & material costs are more expensive now than 5yrs previous when #Grenfell exposed a #buildingsafetycrisis /2
Additional stressors disrupting global markets increases costs from #suezcanalcrisis to #UkraineRussianWar have sent fuel & material costs sky rocketing, all with oncost, profit & vat at every level.
Literally the shop has sailed & any remediation will cost infinitely more /3
Literally the shop has sailed & any remediation will cost infinitely more /3
@team_greenhalgh has just entered the Lords, so we should be starting on the #BuildingSafetyBill any minute.
Follow the conversation here:
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/df…
#BuildingSafetyCrisis #PolluterPaysAmendment
#nbdbuk
Follow the conversation here:
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/df…
#BuildingSafetyCrisis #PolluterPaysAmendment
#nbdbuk
@teamgreenhalgh takes a moment to reflect on Grenfell, and to state that this tragedy must not happen again. That’s why the government appointed @DameJudithH to review building safety regulations.
@team_greenhalgh states that we will create meaningful change. The #buildingnsafetybill will deliver improvements across the entire building stock.
"We are the #Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. #ResistanceIsFutile."
theverge.com/2021/3/12/2232…
theverge.com/2021/3/12/2232…
So if one-fifth of @Facebook's employees work on #AR/#VR, have all of them done a stint as a content #moderator? And given its toxic business model why doesn't #Facebook have at least as many *employees* (not contractors) working on #ContentModeration as it does AR?
Also, whether you believe #data '#TheNewOil' or that a better analogy is #ToxicWaste, for #BigTech / the #platforms the result's the same.
Using ML/DL/AI/AR/VR to extract value involves energy-intensive processing and doesn't factor in other externalities like cultural damage...
Using ML/DL/AI/AR/VR to extract value involves energy-intensive processing and doesn't factor in other externalities like cultural damage...
