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... 💡🧵 Chinese coal fired power stations
First up, make sure your per capita emissions are lower than theirs - looking at you, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and many others. Canadian tar sands
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. chart of historic global CO2 emissions from Our World In Dat
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". line three pipeline
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? factory farmed chicken in the USA
Does your country import loads of crap no-one needs from China by fossil-fuelled ships and planes? Yes? Why not stop? dolls' heads in a Chinese toy factory
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?

edition.cnn.com/2021/09/15/wor…
P.S. Some of the most populous parts of China are set to be decimated by climate breakdown. #NoOneIsSafe. #NowhereIsSafe.

news.mit.edu/2018/china-cou…
Solidarity with those brave Chinese people engaging in activism for a liveable planet. 💚✊💚

theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…

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At least 500 dead in British Columbia alone in wildfires. Whole towns wiped off the map.

But @JustinTrudeau is surprised that the environment is a defining issue in the Canadian election. 🤯
Since Trudeau came to power, carbon emissions have risen every year. 😡

“He said all the right things. However, the government didn’t follow through” - Grand Chief Stewart Phillip.

(This approach may sound familiar to citizens of the US, UK, Germany and many other countries.)
5% of Canada’s GDP is from oil and gas. Trudeau’s Liberals claim they want to use those revenues to invest in the transition away from fossil fuels.

“That’s like buying a tobacco company and saying we’re going to use the money made to pay for throat cancer” - @charlene_amy
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You may have heard that just one country - Gambia 🇬🇲 which hardly has any emissions anyway - is currently on course to deliver climate action that is in alignment with limiting global heating to 1.5°C.

Actually it's worse than that.

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So how are those "critically insufficient" countries coping with climate breakdown so far?

Parts of Iran 🇮🇷 are already turning into dustbowl.

nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…
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Burning coal is about the best way of destroying the climate.

But the strange, disturbing thing is this: the remaining champions of coal are amongst the countries which will be worst affected by climate breakdown. 🧵

China 🇨🇳⬛️🔥

news.mit.edu/2018/china-cou…
India 🇮🇳⬛️🔥

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We need to connect the dots of the crazy, unprecedented, record-shattering weather events happening right now across the world.

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In the Pacific North West, temperature records are being obliterated.

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In XR's first global financial action, brave rebels around the world decided to show their banks that we have all had enough of their environmental destruction ⚠️

We are raising the alarm about the billions banks pour into fossil fuel projects, endangering all life on earth 🌎
From rebels in XR Hungary...
To rebels in Sweden...
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“School children who go out to protest are not protesting, they are begging for their lives. 400,000 deaths annually due to climate change. We are in biological annihilation: 1 million species at the risk of extinction, 70% of world’s plants endangered. ...
How are we to live in these times with the possibility of all life on earth dying? How are we to talk about business opportunities and business as usual? It’s not.
We have to be honest with each other, we have to tell each other the truth. ...
We have to allow that feeling of grief in. Because when you feel grief you feel love, and when you feel love you feel courage. ...
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