👀 Considering buying an electric car? You might want to read this.

🚗 The number of electric cars on the world’s roads has tripled since 2018.

They are expected to play a key part in reducing carbon emissions - but some speed bumps lie ahead. Here's what you need to know. 🧵 💪 Electric vehicles (EVs) are critical when it comes to meeting climate goals.

🚗 Road transport accounts for about 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

But rolling out EVs is not all that easy...
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🍚 Skipping meals
💸 Borrowing from moneylenders
🔶 Even selling treasured gold jewellery

🌎 As extreme, climate-fuelled weather hurts Indian farmworkers, it's women being hit the hardest.

Here's why. 🧵
bit.ly/3SiCNHG ☔️ Heavy rains flooded the cotton farm where disabled mother-of-two Devanabai Dhaigude, worked.

She can only use one arm. Without any work, she has resorted to borrowing from a local moneylender.

💰 It's her only option, or else she can't afford to feed her children.

🚨❗SOS! Scientists are warning of a climate emergency as the planet heats up.

How do we know? An unfamiliar piece of punctuation is creeping into their work: the exclamation mark.

🧵 Here's why it matters.
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❗But researchers have been translating their concerns about the #ClimateCrisis in a way everyone can understand: with more "!"

🇬🇷 Headed to the Greek islands this summer?

🌊 We have good news: some are on a mission to keep their beaches pristine.

From shunning plastic bottles to composting cigarette ends, here’s how Tilos, Paros and others are racing to reach zero waste. 🧵
tmsnrt.rs/3KduHxg 🇬🇷 The island of Tilos has built a reputation as a testing ground for Greece's green ambitions.

⛔️ It was the first Greek island to ban hunting in 1993.

🔆 And in 2018, it became one of the first islands in the Mediterranean to run mainly on wind and solar power.

☀️ Could "dimming the sun" help turn down global heating?

🌡 It might sound like science fiction, but some are exploring solar geoengineering tech to stop temperatures rising.

⭕️ They say it's relatively cheap and simple - while others warn it could be catastrophic. Why? 🧵 📈 @WMO projects the planet could warm by 1.5C within the next 5 years - at least temporarily: a foretaste of what things would be like if global limits are breached.

To tackle this, a Climate Overshoot Commission of 16 experts was launched to look at new tech, like sun-dimming.

🐘 Is an elephant worth more dead... or alive?

The answer may seem obvious - but research shows while poaching one for ivory may get you $30,000, a living elephant is valued at $2 million.

Economists say putting a price on biodiversity is one way to protect it. Here’s how. 🧵 💸 The idea of assigning financial value to nature is called ‘natural capital’ - and it's gaining momentum.

🇺🇳 Last year, the @UN adopted an international standard for putting value on different ecosystems.

Nearly 100 countries are now using it. ⬇️

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🌡 Global warming could mean increasingly deadly heatwaves, scientists are warning.

☀️ What can newly sweltering nations learn from countries more used to scorching temperatures?

⭕️ From Europe to Asia and the United States, here are a few ideas for staying cool. 🧵 ⚪️ Paint it white

🌬 You know how wearing white keeps you cool on a hot day? Light-coloured roofs work the same way.

🧊 This is becoming more common in India and Bangladesh, especially where families can't afford air conditioning.
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🔥 Homes burnt to the ground
🚨 64 people dead
⚠️ 250+ injured

🇵🇹 The 2017 wildfires were the worst disaster in Portugal's modern history.

As climate change brings more heatwaves, how has the country learned to tackle forest blazes - and what lessons can it offer the world? 🧵 🌳 The scent of eucalyptus now brings terror and trauma for the residents of Pedrogao Grande town.

The tree is highly flammable, fuelling the devastating spread of the 2017 wildfires.

🚘 Many victims burned to death in their cars on what became known as the “road of death”.

⚡️ How can the world generate more clean energy? The answer could lie where you least expect it - down the toilet.

🇫🇮 Using sewage is one way Finland’s oldest city is planning to become carbon-neutral.

💩 Here's how the power of poo is helping Turku tackle the #ClimateCrisis🧵 🇫🇮 This is the Kakolanmaki wastewater plant, located in a cavern beneath Turku.

🔋 It uses industrial heat pumps to extract energy from waste flowing from the city's drains and sewers.

Sewage sludge is also used to produce biogas, a replacement for natural gas.

🚗 Electric vehicles are set to be the future of green transport - and women are driving the revolution in India.

⚡️ Its employment gender gap worsened across many sectors during the pandemic - except #EV manufacturing.

Meet the leaders & workers at the wheel of the industry 🧵 ♀️ This is Prabhjot Kaur, co-founder and CEO of Esmito Solutions.

🔋 The Indian start-up produces batteries as well as crucial battery-swapping stations for EVs.

As she's built her business, she's often had to patiently explain her job in meetings where she was the only woman.

🐐 Could fatter goats be a secret weapon in the fight against poaching?

🇿🇼 In Zimbabwe, farmers are breeding bigger animals to earn more money and feed their families, so they don’t need to hunt protected wildlife.

We won’t bleat around the bush. Here’s what you need to know.🧵 🇿🇼 More than 60% of Zimbabwe's population is involved in farming, according to @FAO.

📉 But many living in Binga village near the border with Zambia face frequent waves of drought.

When their crops fail due to erratic rains, their income drops and food supplies dwindle.

🏭 Kilns billowing smoke
🔥 Garbage piles on fire
🚧 Builders burning tar

🇮🇳 Welcome to Bhiwadi, the city with the world’s worst air pollution

Many people face ‘a slow poison’- but are more worried about putting food on the table. We go inside the Indian city to find out why.🧵 🇮🇳 Bhiwadi's air carries more than 20x @WHO’s recommended maximum level of tiny airborne particles.

🩺 Doctors say long-term exposure can lead to:

😷 Asthma
🫁 Lung cancer
🩸 Reduced blood oxygen levels that can cause irregular heartbeats
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🌊 It's hard to ignore climate change when it's knocking at your front door.

🇺🇸 But as rising seas and stronger storms threaten Virginia’s Tangier Island, some residents are skeptical about the #ClimateCrisis.

Their homes could be wiped out yet they're set on staying. Why?🧵 🇺🇸 Welcome to Chesapeake Bay, home to Tangier Island in the U.S.

📈 Researchers believe 60% of its habitable upland areas have disappeared since 1967 - and the rate is only accelerating.

⭕️ As the land shrinks, so is its population. Today just 400 or so people remain.

🇮🇳 India is betting big on solar parks to meet its ambitious climate targets.

🚨 But there could be a dark side to these green energy plans.

With more communities losing land and income, we go inside some of the world’s biggest solar farms to ask: are they worth it? 🧵 🟢 India is on a mission to move away from coal, which still produces 70% of the country’s electricity.

⚡️The Bhadla and Pavagada solar parks are key to the country’s renewable energy goals, generating a combined 4,350 megawatts.

⭕️ That's enough to power several million homes.

🚨 The world is losing the Amazon at an alarming rate.

🌎 But no one is protecting the Earth better than indigenous people.

🌳 Here’s how their wisdom and ideas are helping save our rainforests and fight the #ClimateCrisis - before it’s too late. 🧵

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🌱 Colombia’s indigenous people use age-old farming techniques

⭕️ Women farmers use a piece of cleared land for five to seven years and then move on to a nearby patch.

🌳 This allows the soil to regenerate and trees to regrow.

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🌎 As the Amazon rainforest continues to disappear, who can help save it?

🌳Meet the heroic indigenous communities forming new mini-governments to halt deforestation, protect their ancestral lands and fight climate change.

Here's what @AnastasiaBogota found for @TRF_Stories. 🧵 Welcome to the last frontier.🌴

🇨🇴This is a remote corner of Colombia’s Amazonas province, where pristine jungle still exists.

🔴 So far, it’s been mostly spared from ranching, gold mining and agriculture.

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🗓 It’s the year 2100.

🌊 We can't grow many crops partly because rising seas have damaged our lands
💥 Food shortages and high prices are causing riots worldwide
📈 Hunger and migration rates are surging

⭕️ Could this be our future? Here are 7 facts you need to know. 🧵 🤔 How does rising heat affect food production?

🌊 Harsher droughts, floods and storms brought by global warming can destroy crops

🛣 Heavy rain can damage roads, so farmers can’t get their produce to buyers

🚜 Extreme heat makes it very challenging for farmers to work outside

🤔 Why is it so important to 'keep 1.5C alive'?

🌏 Countries at #COP26 are racing to find ways to stop the global average temperature rise passing that.

🚨 But what happens if we fail? 🧵 🔥Deadly heat

☀️At 1.5C, 14% of the world will face severe heatwaves at least once every five years.

❗️At 2C, this rises to 37%.

🌊 Heat is already responsible for most climate change-related deaths and could also worsen droughts, wildfires and floods.
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🏙 As the world grapples with the #ClimateCrisis, cities are finding new ways to cut emissions and keep citizens safe.

🌏 Here are 5 places leading a green revolution. What can we learn from them?🧵 🇬🇧 London

Mayor @SadiqKhan wants to make the English capital a greener city by:

🟢Cleaning up toxic air
🟢Investing in low-carbon homes
🟢Introducing more electric vehicles

🤝 But he needs to work with local and national authorities for more progress.
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🚢 Where do ships go to die?

🇧🇩 Many end up in Bangladesh, where about 1 in every 5 are scrapped.

⚠️ But there are major concerns over environmental and working conditions.

♻️Here’s how shipyards in Bangladesh are planning to become greener and safer. 👇 ☣️ When ships are scrapped, toxic materials like asbestos and lead, as well as ozone-depleting emissions, are released.

⚠️ Workers also fear gas explosions, falling from a height or being hit by ship parts. Just in August and September, 8 workers died.

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🚇 What could the future of green transport look like?

At #COP26, #TransportDay is focusing on how the world can reduce emissions from cars, lorries, ships and planes.

💡 Here are 5 ideas and innovations helping tackle the #ClimateCrisis. 🚗 Electric vehicles

🔋#EVs have become cheaper and easier to buy in recent years - but charging infrastructure is still poor in many areas.

🇺🇸 In the U.S., California is leading the way with robust targets and funding to accelerate the transition 👇

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