1/8 Everything you didn’t know about plastics and the fossil fuel industry. An #EarthMonth special. 🌏😮

Learn more. 👇 2/8 This year, @EarthDay's theme is “Planet vs. Plastics.”

Whilst there are many sources of plastic doing harm to the environment, water sources, and the land...the world’s top 7 plastic producing companies by volume are all fossil fuel companies.

As we ramp up the pressure to end the fossil fuel era and #PowerUp renewable energy solutions, the fossil fuel industry and the institutions that prop it up will double down on dangerous distractions that allow them to continue with business as usual. One of these distractions is selling and buying ‘carbon credits’ on the ‘carbon market’. Basically, instead of actually lowering their emissions, companies are able to hit their net-zero targets because the carbon they have emitted has been 'offset' by something else.

@Fridays4future and @FFFMAPA are currently holding a rally outside #Cop26 in Glasgow. Read the powerful words they are sharing with the world's media below 👇

https://twitter.com/VickerstaffT/status/1455184822301831169

The International Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Outlook 2021 (WEO2021) report is out today. Kudos to IEA for making it available free of charge this year (We hope they also do this for their energy data as well). Read on for some key takeaways! 👇#WEO2021 IEA’s report states that current “pledges cover less than 20% of the gap in emissions reductions that need to be closed by 2030 to keep a 1.5 °C path within reach.”  #WEO2021

Today, October 12, is an important day. Actually, what is submitted today could determine our collective future. Read on if you want to know more… 👇 The world’s most important climate change meeting is happening in November: the Conference of the Parties (COP26). Every year, since 1995, almost 200 countries meet to essentially decide what level of action is taken on climate change around the world. It’s a big deal!

So, you might have noticed that the #IPCC just released a new #ClimateReport on the science of the climate crisis. It’s not pretty, but there’s some hope. Here’s a 🧵 to break it down for you, starting with the bad, then the ugly, then the good. 1. A few data points to start:
📈 CO2 concentration is the highest in TWO MILLION YEARS
🌡️The last decade was hotter than any period in 125,000 YEARS
🌊 Sea level rise is the fastest in 3000 YEARS
🧊Arctic ice level is the lowest level in 1000 YEARS

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1/ This July, the people who control the budgets of the world’s 20 richest countries will decide how they spend trillions in public $$. They need to spend our money on a #JustRecovery. Find out what you can do: fal.cn/38MxF 2/The interrelated crises of wealth inequality, racism, and the climate crisis, were in place long before COVID-19, and now are being intensified. 350.org/pacific-faces-… #G20

We must all take time to understand the Central American refugee crisis as a climate issue connected to US military and economic policy.

350 Justice & Equity Manager @natycar74 spells out those links. 350.org/us-responsibil… #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #FamiliesBelongTogether Many of the recent migrants detained at the U.S. southern border are from the "Dry Corridor" - a drought-prone region where climate change is creating massive food insecurity. #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch

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