China's annual emissions are huge and their plans for coal-fired power stations are incompatible with a habitable planet.
Are you a leader of a Global North country, wondering how you can persuade them to do better?
IDEAS... 💡🧵
First up, make sure your per capita emissions are lower than theirs - looking at you, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and many others.
Also remember the Global North's historic emissions are off the scale, and almost all that carbon you burnt in the last 200 years is still in the atmosphere.
Not much you can do about that now except decarbonise as quickly as possible to atone for past sins.
So next, make sure you're not doing anything you might want to ask China to refrain from.
You're not drilling for oil or building pipelines or coal mines or expanding airports or building roads or new killing machines are you?
Otherwise it's "Do as I say, not as I do".
Won't it be a disaster if China develops an appetite for meat like the USA's?
Yes, but it will also be a disaster if Global North countries continue with high carbon diets, so what are you doing to make the shift?
Does your country import loads of crap no-one needs from China by fossil-fuelled ships and planes? Yes? Why not stop?
Does your country have a plan to slash emissions in line with limiting global heating to 1.5°C?
Unless you are @barrowpresident of the Gambia, the answer is no, so why not get your own house in order?
#ColineFay faces LIFE in prison for attending a peaceful demonstration in Senegal.
The foreign affairs minister @MinColonna is still not replying.
The government is changing, but there is #NoChangeForColine
Please RT
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@MinColonna Coline had been working in Senegal as a physiotherapist for the past year. On November 17th, Coline was arrested at a peaceful demonstration calling for the opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, to be able to stand in the general elections in Senegal.
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#ColineFay was charged with crimes associated with terrorism and espionage, which could mean a life sentence. She was only exercising her right of freedom of speech.
Climate disasters are becoming so common, so widespread, so all pervasive, that they are scarcely reported outside the regions they occur in anymore.
Here's what's happened in the last couple of weeks in Australia, UK and Europe:
In Queensland Australia a storm that killed 7 has created $2Bn in damage.
"So many trees splintered or uprooted it created 75,000 truckloads of debris.
...the greenwaste across the city as a result of storms would fill up to 90 football fields, 2M high." abc.net.au/news/2024-01-0…
In the UK #StormHenk has caused flooding in London, Nottinghamshire, Gloucester, and 230 areas have received floods warnings from the @EnvAgency, with hundreds of homes evacuated. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-678889…
"This public order bill is the most repressive legislation ever experienced in the UK in the modern era, and potentially the most repressive in any OECD member in recent times. If you have protested in the previous 5 years, you can be forced to wear an electronic tag... 1/4
...and to have your home fitted with monitoring equipment, you can be forced to report to the police as and when they choose, you can be forced to stay at home, forced not to go to certain places, you are no longer to associate with friends of yours... 2/4
...you're no longer allowed to attend any protest, or indeed talk about attending a protest, or encourage anyone else to attend a protest. ... 3/4
You should have let us drill more say @Shell_Australia.
"The interruptions you see both in both Australia, and around the world, is that we're under investing in energy...It started because we've been under investing in multiple projects around the world." abc.net.au/news/programs/…
India is now expecting a far smaller wheat harvest following its catastrophic heatwave. This is multiplying failures in other bread baskets. 🧵 nationalobserver.com/2022/04/29/new…