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Very proud of this team effort "A regional integrated assessment of the impacts of #climatechange and of the potential #adaptation avenues for #Quebec’s #forests" is now published
A (very long) thread. Buckle up!
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.113…
@cflscf @NRCan
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A (very long) thread. Buckle up!
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.113…
@cflscf @NRCan
1/n
First, I would like to acknowledge the work of all my colleagues including Jesus, Annie Claude, Yves, @mariehbrice, @DominicCyr, Louis, Daniel, @GauthierSylvie9 , Pierre, @Guillemette_L , Mathieu, Maryse, Tadeusz, Martin-Hugues, @ethiffault , @Tremblay_Jun and Stephen
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Quebec’s #forests goes from northern hardwood with sugar #maple, beech, hemlock in the south, to pure boreal black #spruce forests up north. Natural #disturbances, go from single-tree windthrow or mortality in the south, to large stand-replacing #fires in the north.
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Our new @NatureClimate paper just out! State-of-the-art estimates of economic impacts of climate change show that benefits of #ClimateAction outweigh the mitigation costs by a factor of 1.5 to 3.9 ➡️strong economic validation of #ParisAgreement 🔗 rdcu.be/c8jSK 1/7
We combined climate impacts of
🔴agriculture,
🟠sea-level rise,
🟡river floods,
🟢labour productivity,
🔵energy supply/demand,
🟣fishery,
🟤forestry and
⚫️road transportation
and transform this in financial costs. But not: ❌biodiversity loss❌health❌tipping points 2/7
🔴agriculture,
🟠sea-level rise,
🟡river floods,
🟢labour productivity,
🔵energy supply/demand,
🟣fishery,
🟤forestry and
⚫️road transportation
and transform this in financial costs. But not: ❌biodiversity loss❌health❌tipping points 2/7
For a 3°C scenario (RCP6.0, roughly current trend/baseline), economic impacts are 10-12% of GDP, with high regional differences. Even higher if sea-level rise adaptation is not optimal. 3/7
The #biodiversity of the #Danube #Delta is not affected by dredging works on the Bystroye Canal, and the water flow on the river Danube did not report any significant changes compared to statistics published in recent years, says Environment Minister @BarnaTanczos. (1/4)
The statement came after the 1st measurements conducted by RO on the branch of Chilia&RO sections of the Danube. He said Ukrainian authorities must provide a written consent before the 3 RO ships can finalize depth measurements across the entire section of the Chilia branch (2/4)
Annually, 3⃣ March commemorates #WangariMaathaiDay established by the African Union 🌍to pay tribute to her legacy fighting for #EnvironmentalJustice 🌱⚖️
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Prof. @WangariMaathai founded the @GreenBeltMovmnt aimed at addressing deforestation, environmental degradation, and its disproportionate impact on rural women. In 2004, Wangari was the 🥇 African woman to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize 🏆
In this video our East Africa Hub Director, Nyaguthii Chege @NyChege reflects on her legacy in protecting the #KaruraForest in Nairobi 🇰🇪
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(1/8) TVA wants to swap two of its retiring coal power plants for methane gas, a plan that is bad for our ecology, economy, climate, health and environmental justice. We also have better options! Here’s the first reason why TVA should #PassOnGas (Thread)
(2/8) #Biodiversity is already at risk in much of Tennessee
(3/8) Right now, the Tennessee Valley Authority is posing another threat to Tennessee's local ecology:
1/ An evening thread! Yesterday #Pollen next its beetles #Palaeoentomology - preserved in #peat fragments of bugs (wing cases, head capsules etc) are difficult to ID but provide key evidence of #Palaeoenvironments - #Prehistoric #woodland, #Biodiversity changes+extinctions!
2/Dr Eileen Reilly (photo 1, r) passed away too young. Her #Palaeoentomological work was groundbreaking. Demonstrated presence of beetles in #prehistory now extinct/rare in 🇮🇪 many associated with wood/trees (Saproxylic), 'Urwald relict' group (see table!)
3/E.g: photos 1+2 #Archaeological excavations, Lisheen Bog, Co.Tipp. Samples from Bronze Age oak wood plank trackway, contained remains of Prostomis mandibularis+other bugs. Primary #woodland present in this period despite clearance/farming.
1/Hi all! This afternoon we look (selectively) at what pollen records, tell us about long term changes, from the end of the last Glaciation. How has climate, humans+related processes shaped the 🇮🇪 vegetation over thousands of years? (Nick Miller, From Cogan's Shed, 2004)
2/Difficult to summarise 1000s yrs in tweets! Image by Gill Plunkett @QUBelfast does good jobNB. highly generalised, much spatial variation across country; Key points: development of woodland as climate warms start of #Holocene hazel dominant, oak, elm, later alder, how dense?
3/Closed canopy? But NB1 Concept of 'Climax' woodland largely discredited; : 'openess' is under-represented in #pollen records! NB2; #ClimateChange driving some changes; other processes inc. soil development. When does human activity impact? Now that's a good qu!
Hello Tweeple! Super chuffed to have this #paper just out in @naturesustainab ! It took 2 years, 15 institutions and 18 authors to put this together. Here's a summary 👇🧵 (0/9)
(2/9) Let's take this one (#biogeographic) zone at a time...
Agreed. The singular advantage of money as a near-universally acceptable, reliable medium of exchange is that it breaks the need to know and trust counterparts all along the chain of trade & production. 1/x
This not only expands -and hence enriches- the network of exchange (think Adam Smith or “I, Pencil”) but removes node-occupying middlemen and toll-exactors. Efficiency increases, but transparency and fairness, too. 2/x
Once we have #CBDC-s -coupled to #Agenda2030 #IoT tracking of ‘#carbon’, meat protein, ‘circular economy’, low food miles, etc, we will have subjected ourselves to an intrusive, permanent rationing where a tax collector, a camp guard, and a Levitican Inquisitor...
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@euro writes (vital thread) to warn us that
1/ EU regulations are not perfect but are not ‘red tape’ either. They improve the quality of our everyday lives by protecting our rights as #workers and #consumers, our #environment and #wildlife and the quality of the #food we eat.
1/ EU regulations are not perfect but are not ‘red tape’ either. They improve the quality of our everyday lives by protecting our rights as #workers and #consumers, our #environment and #wildlife and the quality of the #food we eat.
Please, read on 2/ to get more detail on the #REUL Bill (Retained EU Law)
I personally experienced that EU decisions were all scrutinised by UK Parliamentary Committees before they became law! kentbylines.co.uk/balance-of-com…
I personally experienced that EU decisions were all scrutinised by UK Parliamentary Committees before they became law! kentbylines.co.uk/balance-of-com…
2/ These EU laws were created with the support of the governments of all the political parties when the UK was in the EU.
EU laws – that the Government now wants to dismantle – protect us in the workplace. They guarantee our paid holidays, reduce the gender pay gap and protect
EU laws – that the Government now wants to dismantle – protect us in the workplace. They guarantee our paid holidays, reduce the gender pay gap and protect
The #Amazon has absolutely crucial functions for the Earth's #biodiversity #climate #hydrology #carbon but is now rapidly changing! We humans are doing so at a rate that far outpaces natural processes: A thread of our Review in @ScienceMagazine
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (1/9)
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (1/9)
The #Amazon still covers vast areas of tropical rainforest, producing huge amounts of biomass, and concentrates at least 10% of all known plants and vertebrates on Earth. But intact ecosystems are now rapidly being reduced....(2/9)
We show that the rate of #deforestation and #degradation is much more rapid than previously throught, especially in southern Amazon. Main drivers are land-use changes, water-use changes (e.g. damming), and #climate change. These now combined are making a dangerous cocktail. (3/9)
🚨🌊Are you ready for the Thursday thread 🧵of job #opportunities for early-career #scientists in marine and #ocean #Science?
🌊🦤🦭🐋🐳🐬🦈🐟🐡🐠🦠👩🔬🧑🔬🌊
Look down there!👇
#ECR #PhDchat #PhDjobs #ScienceJobs #PostDoc #Academictwitter #Internships #Researcher
🌊🦤🦭🐋🐳🐬🦈🐟🐡🐠🦠👩🔬🧑🔬🌊
Look down there!👇
#ECR #PhDchat #PhDjobs #ScienceJobs #PostDoc #Academictwitter #Internships #Researcher
🚨🌊@giulia_ghedini lab at @IGCiencia in Lisbon is recruiting a postdoc (euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/53594) and offering a research fellowship (master required) (euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/53587) to work on metabolic adaptation in phytoplankton communities
🚨Deadline: 31st Jan
🚨Deadline: 31st Jan
🚨PhD opportunity!
5-year teaching & research studentship at
@PlymUni with @DrSimonIngram and @ClareEmbling studying #cetacean #abundance, #distribution and exposure to #shippingnoise joint with @CefasNoise
plymouth.ac.uk/schools/school…
📢Deadline: 26th Jan
5-year teaching & research studentship at
@PlymUni with @DrSimonIngram and @ClareEmbling studying #cetacean #abundance, #distribution and exposure to #shippingnoise joint with @CefasNoise
plymouth.ac.uk/schools/school…
📢Deadline: 26th Jan
NEWS: Protected areas in Britain are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the past 30 years, according to a new study led by @UK_CEH 🕷️🐞🪰
Read more: ceh.ac.uk/press/more-eff…
#BiodiversityLoss 🧵 1/5
Read more: ceh.ac.uk/press/more-eff…
#BiodiversityLoss 🧵 1/5
Almost 1 million records of 1,238 invertebrate species were included🐝. @RobertSCCooke & colleagues found that protected areas were richer in species than unprotected areas of the country but both suffered similar rates of decline in native insects and spiders between 1990-2018.
The results suggest that while protected areas are helping to conserve valuable habitats and the species within them, they need more help to tackle wider threats posed by climate change, pollution and invasive species that are causing #biodiversity loss
ceh.ac.uk/press/more-eff…
ceh.ac.uk/press/more-eff…
There have been a steady stream of articles that say: 1) the plant-based meat sector is flagging; therefore 2) plant-based meat is a failed endeavor. These stories miss two critical points, a thread, 1/n:
tl/dr: 1) the theory of change has not been tried; this is like abandoning solar in 1986 or electric vehicles in 2003; 2) there is not an option that has a higher likelihood of success. If we abandon alt proteins, we will not meet climate targets (w/all that entails) + more. 2/n
FIRST: The alt proteins theory of change is that when the products compete on taste & price, they should be able to take a huge chunk of the market. But they don’t yet compete on taste and price - the current state is not future state. 3/n
3 confessions from #ClimateActivists & #ClimateEconomists seeking to tackle the #ClimateCrisis
We were wrong
-2 promise apple pie & motherhood sans costs
-2 repeat solar PV cheapest form of power sans caveats
-2 dismiss any trade-off between climate & development
#Thread
We were wrong
-2 promise apple pie & motherhood sans costs
-2 repeat solar PV cheapest form of power sans caveats
-2 dismiss any trade-off between climate & development
#Thread
Back in the day those, including me, who worked on many different versions of the #greendeal all focused on the win-win scenarios ... #greenjobs #greengrowth #justtransition etc. and tho the context has changed completely this win-win farming remains even in the year 2023
Had we mobilised on a war-footing back then, invested at scale, imposed #carbontaxes, innovated like mad & massively increased financial & technological support 4 developing economies to shun coal & adopt #renewables, the #greendeal may have worked, albeit not without real costs
Ok time to talk about getting those #renewables BUILT. 💪
Slow planning and permitting is stopping us from getting on track for net-zero. My colleagues @ETC_energy have set out what the problems are, and how we can try to address them. A 🧵
Slow planning and permitting is stopping us from getting on track for net-zero. My colleagues @ETC_energy have set out what the problems are, and how we can try to address them. A 🧵
1. What's the size of the problem? Both solar and wind need to grow much faster to get on-track for net-zero by 2050. Current projections would lead to a power system that emits 2.2 GtCO2 more each year by 2030!
Need to close that gap!
Need to close that gap!
As an aside, the only country that's crushing VRE deployment? China, obviously - and also Spain (nice one!).
How can water sensitivity transform our cities into sustainable urban spaces? 🧵
What is the challenge for water-sensitive #urban design on a #city scale?
Turning an area spread across 1250 square km, divided into 3 major valleys & a tank system into a water-sustainable space.
Turning an area spread across 1250 square km, divided into 3 major valleys & a tank system into a water-sustainable space.
But increasing urbanisation in the last few decades has been diminishing the city’s #water bodies.
A new paper shows that mature trees and woodlands are crucial in locking away carbon. Cutting edge laser scanning suggests previous estimates of carbon storage in woodlands could be significantly underestimated. (1/4) #CarbonCapture #Forests
Photo: unsplash.com/@danielsessler
Photo: unsplash.com/@danielsessler
Forests with older, larger trees appear to be especially effective at storing carbon. Scientists warn that "The value you have in large mature trees is almost incalculable, and so you should avoid losing that at any cost." (2/4) #ClimateChange #Trees
Politicians support the 'One Trillion Trees' campaign and advocate large scale planting programmes. However, new planting initiatives are of limited use in comparison to protecting existing forests. Monoculture planting can negatively impact biodiversity. (3/4) #SustainableForest
🧵 Investigate Europe in 2022: 5 investigations, 20+ media partners, over 100 stories:
✈️ The EU military complex
⚗️ Pesticides and a #biodiversity crisis
🚢 EU ships & Russian oil
🛢️ Inside Europe's little-known #oil giant
🏠 Real estate tax privileges
investigate-europe.eu/en/
✈️ The EU military complex
⚗️ Pesticides and a #biodiversity crisis
🚢 EU ships & Russian oil
🛢️ Inside Europe's little-known #oil giant
🏠 Real estate tax privileges
investigate-europe.eu/en/
Europe is on the way to become a military power, but so far mostly to the benefit of arms producers and with little democratic control.
Our first investigation of 2022 explored the 🇪🇺 #military complex, and included revelations of arms sales to #Russia: investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/milita…
Our first investigation of 2022 explored the 🇪🇺 #military complex, and included revelations of arms sales to #Russia: investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/milita…
Europe is stuck in a toxic relationship.
Our June investigation laid bare Europe's deep-rooted problem with #pesticides and how it is leading to a growing #biodiversity crisis across the continent:
investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/pestic…
Our June investigation laid bare Europe's deep-rooted problem with #pesticides and how it is leading to a growing #biodiversity crisis across the continent:
investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/pestic…
Dear Ministers, on behalf of 1.1 million Europeans that have signed our ECI's demand for legally binding
pesticide reduction targets, we urge you to defend the SUR in the Energy Council on Monday! @lgewessler
@KhattabiZakia @davorfilipovic2 @ClaudeTurmes
global2000.at/sites/global/f…
pesticide reduction targets, we urge you to defend the SUR in the Energy Council on Monday! @lgewessler
@KhattabiZakia @davorfilipovic2 @ClaudeTurmes
global2000.at/sites/global/f…
"The heavy use of pesticides in agriculture is strongly linked to declines in #biodiversity and detrimental impacts on global public #health", more than 700 scientists say. @CostasKadis @MinisterKenE @Teresaribera @LeaWermelin @EamonRyan @MariaOhisalo
zenodo.org/record/7446449…
zenodo.org/record/7446449…
Despite these facts, Climate-, Envi-and Energy Ministers, of all people, might softly kill the key part of the #Farm2Fork and Biodiversity Strategy aimed to reduce harm from #pesticides on Monday in the @EUCouncil
@AgnesRunacher @KostasSkrekas
euobserver.com/opinion/156552
@AgnesRunacher @KostasSkrekas
euobserver.com/opinion/156552
Michael Sheren, #UNDP Senior Advisor, G20 Chair:
"... because the #Southern part of the world has value far greater than large elements of the Northern []. And we start thinking about & putting prices on water, on trees, on #biodiversity, we find, where does that sit?"
#COP15
"... because the #Southern part of the world has value far greater than large elements of the Northern []. And we start thinking about & putting prices on water, on trees, on #biodiversity, we find, where does that sit?"
#COP15
/2: "I'm doing a lot of work out of #Asia and I say that my next door neighbor Indonesia is the left lung of the world, and obviously #Brazil is the right. And #Africa - absolutely critical."
#NewDeal4Nature = #NewDeal4Colonialism
#NewDeal4Nature = #NewDeal4Colonialism
/3: "And #Africa - absolutely critical - and we need their natural capital as a system-based world more than we need that 66 billion we've got sitting in the basement of the Bank of England."
Someone asked me yesterday if the discovery nuclear fusion will mean we won't need degrowth anymore.
On the contrary, I think it underlines why degrowth is so important.
These 4 graphs show why.
On the contrary, I think it underlines why degrowth is so important.
These 4 graphs show why.
The short of it is, even if we invent a source of unlimited free energy, we are already crossing the boundaries of countless life support systems other than the carbon cycle.
In 2015, we had already crossed 3 planetary boundaries, including biodiversity.
In 2015, we had already crossed 3 planetary boundaries, including biodiversity.
Free energy won't solve that, we'll still need to transform and radically reduce our global material and energy use and destruction of ecosystems. In fact, it might speed it up.
#degrowth
#biodiversity
#nuclearfusion
#degrowth
#biodiversity
#nuclearfusion
BREAKING. We are in a position to confirm that @EmmanuelMacron sent a letter to Ursula @vonderleyen saying that the creation of a new fund for #biodiversity was a “redline”. #COP15 - see thread 👇🏼
Over and over, in private conversations with delegates, from the Global South and the Global North (even including the EU), we hear that @Elysee was blocking compromises, and single-handedly preventing the #EuropeanUnion from building bridges with developing countries.
This morning, we published an ad in Le Figaro and Libération, because we thought that it was a shocking failure of leadership that @EmmanuelMacron would go watch football instead of being here.
Biodiversity is one of our planet’s most precious resources.
In fact, without biodiversity life as we know it wouldn’t exist.
Here are 9⃣ more things you may not know about #biodiversity 👇🧵
#COP15
In fact, without biodiversity life as we know it wouldn’t exist.
Here are 9⃣ more things you may not know about #biodiversity 👇🧵
#COP15
1⃣ Mountains host most of the world’s species of amphibians, birds & mammals.
Plants, animals, insects, microbes & their environment...
Biodiversity is vital to global food production & essential for human well-being.
#COP15
Plants, animals, insects, microbes & their environment...
Biodiversity is vital to global food production & essential for human well-being.
#COP15
2⃣ Most crops depend, at least in part, on pollination.
Our world is made of an invisible web, & loss of species weakens this web as well as whole ecosystems.
Take pollinators for example. Without them, most of our food wouldn't exist.
#COP15
Our world is made of an invisible web, & loss of species weakens this web as well as whole ecosystems.
Take pollinators for example. Without them, most of our food wouldn't exist.
#COP15
