There's a lot of debate in Finland around who is responsible for nature loss, the short answer is everyone. The share of this responsibility is not equal though. It should be clear the responsibility correlates with how much nature has been destroyed. #luontokato
To make this simple: If a government has cut down millions of hectares, they should be responsible for a large share of biodiversity loss, which means they must now pay to restore this. It costs a lot to restore a large amount of nature loss, that's just the simple truth.
Alternatively, if you are a private forest owner, that also makes you responsible for nature and nature loss.
What about the cost? Well, like everything, the cost of nature restoration should be sustainable. It is your government's responsibility to come up with a nature restoration plan that doesn't compromise on the goal and doesn't contort the definition of sustainability.
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I am protesting outside the European Summit in Brussels to let people know that forests are not renewable and that we must go beyond burning. We cannot replace the burning of fossil fuels with the burning of another carbon energy source, we need true renewables. 1/
One guy stopped on the street to ask me about the situation, I told him that burning wood is worse than coal for our climate, to which he replied that we will then have to burn coal. It isn't one or the other, it's not fossil fuels or forests. 2/
Wind, solar and geothermal are the energy sources that our world leaders need to be investing in, not false solutions such as biomass. Right now, the EU has energy directives in place that are not in line with their climate and biodiversity commitments, this needs to change. 3/
Big news! Two Finnish nature organisations @luonnonsuojelu and @GreenpeaceSuomi are taking the Finnish government to court because of insufficient climate measures. This will be Finland's first climate trial. 1/7
The organisations are seeking legal protection from the Supreme Administrative Court because Finland's carbon neutrality goal for 2035 is threatened to be unfulfilled, and the Government has not taken sufficient measures to fix the situation. 2/
It was announced earlier this year that Finland's land use sector has changed from a carbon sink to a carbon source. The reason is estimated to be excessive felling and the slowing down of forest growth. 3/
A new report released today at #COP27 reveals that the world faces a 50% risk of breaching a 1.5C temperature rise threshold in only nine years. For perspective, a recent UN report showed that global emissions need to fall by 45% by 2030 to keep temperatures below 1.5C. 1/3
Just today, a new analysis has found that carbon emissions from fossil fuels will hit record levels in 2022. Keep in mind that in order to restrict global heating to 1.5C. 2/3
The Paris Agreement was made 7 years ago and now world leaders are at COP27 with nothing to show. What are they waiting for! Why are they not acting? It's not dramatic to say that the climate crisis is life or death for many in this world, it's time they start taking action. 3/3
Mindblowing facts: the 10 richest men own more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people on Earth, and if the top 10 billionaires spent a million dollars each day, it would take them 414 years to spend their combined wealth.
This feels even more incomprehensible: if the 10 richest men lost 99.999% of their combined wealth, they would still be richer than 99% of the world.
252 men have more wealth than all 1 billion women and girls in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean combined. Only 11% of billionaires are women, and only 13 out of 2,755 billionaires are Black. There are more billionaires called Jeff than there are Black billionaires...
Between 1990 and 2015, the richest 1% (63 million people) alone were responsible for 15% of cumulative emissions, the richest 10% (630 million people) were responsible for 52% of emissions, while the poorest 50% (3.1 billion people) were responsible for just 7% of emissions. 1/
The 40% of people in the global middle class (c.2.5 billion people) accounted for 41% of the cumulative emissions.
This is emissions inequality spelled out in its simplest form. 2/
Why are the rich responsible? Well, reducing the per capita footprint of the richest 10% to be in line with a 1.5C-consistent level by 2030 would cut annual carbon emissions by over a third! 3/
Words cannot express how disappointed and fed up I am with Finland. In one breath, the Prime Minister of Finland says that Finland is committed to stopping nature loss and in the next, she is trying to oppose restoration law. This is greenwashing, don't let Finland fool you.
If Finland was as serious about stopping nature loss as they say they are, then they should be jumping at the chance to restore nature, in fact, they should be pushing the Nature Restoration Law to be even better! Instead, they are trying to destroy it.
They are trying to destroy it because they would like to cut down more forests instead of restoring them. They also argue that it costs too much to restore nature, despite the fact that Sanna Marin literally said two days ago at #COP27 "the longer we wait the more it will cost".