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Advanced Typing - Shortcuts (1943)
Advanced Typing: Shortcuts. 16 mm. Vol. MN-1512c. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJfCfqgsX0.
Correct typing posture: fingers curved<br /> arms sloping up<br /> light fast strokes<br /> steady rhythm
fast continuous motion of return lever<br /> using backing sheet (aka temping sheet ??)
Shortcuts:<br /> mise en place for office supplies (she doesn't use this phrasing though) - greater efficiency - cuts down on searching
tabulators can be helpful. There are two types:<br /> - automatic - handset
Use tabs for paragraphs, dating letters, columns of numbers, and letter closings.
To clear all tab stops, put carriage to left, hold tab clear key and move the carriage across. (Usually applies to Royal, Remington, Underwood, and Electromatic).
On LC Smith and Woodstock machines sometimes have a tab clear lever on the back.
Decimal tabulator keys help to align a variety of numbers around a decimal point.
Always have a few tabs set to prevent a flying carriage which can be hard on the machine.
When using carbon sheets which are slightly longer than the paper size, cut off a small triangle at the top left hand side. This makes it easier for one to separate the carbons from the copies by holding the top left with one hand and pulling the carbons out from the bottom of the stack.
To align multiple sheets of paper for carbon copies, use a folded sheet at the top to taco the pages into the machine. Remove the folded sheet once the carbon pack is rolled forward.
Paper bail rollers should be set to split the pages into thirds (for two rollers).
Remington noiseless machines have a pressure indicator on the front of the machine (usually above the keyboard) which can be used when using thick carbon packs that may cause the ribbon guide to stick or bind.
Only erase when the carriage is fully left or right to prevent eraser crumbs from falling into the machine.
Use a soft eraser on carbon copies. Use and insert slips of paper behind the carbons and allowing them to stick out the sides, erasing from back sheet to front so as not to allow the eraser to mark your carbon copies. For the front sheet, use a shield and ink eraser and erase with a horizontal motion. After erasing, easily pull out the inserted sheets.
When typing a correction, tap the key lightly two or three times rather than hard once.
When in a rush and it's necessary to add a word (on double spacing), underline the last letter of the prior word and type a slash (/). Then move the typing line up and type the insertion above the prior line. This creates an "arrow" of sorts for the inserted word.
Details for inserting extra letters in misspelled words using half-spacing machines. (Underwoods and Electromatics don't have this function.)
Light pencil marks at the bottom of the sheet can help to indicate the coming bottom of the sheet.
Putting up the card holders (fingers) on Underwoods and Royals. They help to hold the card and improve print quality and reduce noise.
Card holders can cause markings on carbon packs if they're not lowered.
Trick for quickly writing postcards in succession: Disengage the ratchet using the platen spring release (or variable platen switch) Type the address on the front of the card. When done give the platen a quick practiced spin. The postcard with "jump" up and stop at the paper table and be in position for rolling in the opposite direction to write the message on the back of the card! When done a faster spin of the platen will shoot the card over the back of the typewriter where it can land in a box to collect all the postcards which were written in such a manner. <br /> timestamp 23:22
Time saving methods for addressing envelopes:
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Front seat principle. Insert the envelope in the usual way and type out the address. When done, turn the envelope down through the machine with the right hand. With the left hand, place the next envelope between the top of the first envelope and the front of the platen. Feed the first envelope back through the machine (in reverse) and the second will be rolled in to place for typing. Continue in this fashion until finished. All the finished envelopes will stack up in the back at the paper table.
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Chain feeding. The first envelope is inserted and rolled partway into the machine. A second envelope is inserted between the platen and the second envelope (behind the platen). Turn the first envelope to the writing line and type the address. Take out the first envelope and insert the next the same way as before.
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Uses paper bail. Do the first envelope in the usual way. Spin it out of the machine up and behind the paper bail into a box behind the typewriter.
For quickly doing labels or small cards:<br /> Create a small zig-zag fold into a piece of paper to create a pocket slot which can be scotch taped on either side. This template paper can then be inserted so that the pocket is visible above the writing line, but the paper below it is still in the platen. The label or card can be placed into the pocket and the platen reversed to feed the label or card in backwards to the desired typing line. Using a v-groove or hole in the typing line can create a pencil line to serve as a guide for inserting many labels at the same place so that the typing lines up between labels.
Some offices had special platens for holding cards like this.
Pockets like this can also be used to hold the page to add additional lines at the bottom of pages. Deeper pockets may need to be used for doing this with carbon packs whose carbons are longer than the pages.
Alternately one can do something similar by creating a inverted u-shaped set of slits into an index card. to hold such labels.
When in the midst of a page and needing to do another piece urgently, roll back the letter until about 2 inches from the top, and then place in the new page and one between each of the carbons. Then roll forward to do the short message as necessary. Turn back to the insertion position to remove the copies and then continue with the first letter where you left off.
For drawing horizontal lines on typewriter paper, push the carriage to the extreme left and place the pencil or pen at the edge of the card guide and the scale. Then move the carriage to the right to effect the line. For vertical lines, put the carriage at the desired space and place the pencil at the card guide and scale and move the platen up/down as necessary.
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- Aug 2024
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www.truthdig.com www.truthdig.com
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“Building housing in existing communities is one of our best climate solutions, and paving over 17,000 acres of non-irrigated farmland is not,
for - sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - California Forever - intentional community - green debate
sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - Study by Preservation Green Lab in 2012 concluded that in most cases, reusing existing buildings is far lower carbon footprint than building new - Research study shows that we cannot expand human activity into intact nature any longer if we are to stay within planetary boundaries - Rockstrom - https://hyp.is/0dbJ4FQSEe-QxY8q4Y3yvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaboF3vAsZs
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- Jul 2024
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www.tagesschau.de www.tagesschau.de
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- KlimaKollekte
- Luftfahrt
- myclimate
- Klimaprozesse
- Germanwatch
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- Air France-KLM
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- Joachim Curtius
- Lufthansa
- Marte van der Graaf
- E-Fuels
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www.sciencedaily.com www.sciencedaily.com
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for - urban agriculture - 2024 study - 6x carbon footprint as conventional agriculture
summary - The results are not surprising. It is the infrastructure used to build the urban agriculture system that has the greatest carbon footprint - This can be lowered dramatically by - having longer lasting UA projects - having larger scale projects - reusing urban demolition waste materials to build UA systems
from - search - Google - 2024 percentage of carbon emissions from food system - https://www.google.com/search?q=2024+percentage+of+carbon+emissions+from+food+system&sca_esv=9d5b952a18faf0f8&sxsrf=ADLYWIIlye-Qwjiqr8aEdCoiJshs-88Yqw%3A1720874425938&ei=uXWSZvvuOMjXhbIP-YeX6Aw&ved=0ahUKEwi7r_HmhKSHAxXIa0EAHfnDBc0Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=2024+percentage+of+carbon+emissions+from+food+system&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiNDIwMjQgcGVyY2VudGFnZSBvZiBjYXJib24gZW1pc3Npb25zIGZyb20gZm9vZCBzeXN0ZW0yChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEdI3A5QmwhYpA1wAXgBkAEAmAGUA6AB6QiqAQUzLTIuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAaACBJgDAIgGAZAGCJIHATGgB6IR&sclient=gws-wiz-serp - search results returned of interest - Food from urban agriculture has carbon footprint 6 times - A new study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater . - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240122140408.htm
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
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Ein indigenes Volk hat vor dem kolumbianischen Verfassungsgericht einen Vertrag über Carbon Credits gestoppt, der angeblich in seinen Namen abgeschlossen worden war und der amerikanischen Fluggesellschaft Delta Airlines zum Greenwashing diente.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Die Crisis Advisory Group begründet in einer Studie zu Carbon Credits, dass diese nur für die Entfernung von CO2 aus der Atmosphäre vergeben werden sollten, nicht für die Vermeidung von Emissionen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/26/voluntary-carbon-market-offsetting-industry-reforms-cccg-climate-crisis-advisory-group-aoe
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- Verra
- David King
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in completely hijacking the the global car carbon cycle now you know the temperature 00:42:19 of the planet in in the future and the pH of the oceans and the oxygen levels in uh the oceans is no longer you know determined 00:42:32 by Earth system processes like it has been for all of Earth history it is um fundamentally rooted through human institutions
for - quote - carbon cycle - hijacked by political institutions and business
quote - carbon cycle - hijacked by political and business institutions - (see below) - In completely hijacking the global car carbon cycle now - the temperature of the planet - the pH of the oceans and - the oxygen levels in the oceans - are no longer determined by Earth system processes like it has been for all of Earth history - it is fundamentally rooted in human institutions - There really isn't any disentangling the the science from the the political
adjacency - between - carbon cycle - human processes - politics and business - adjacency relationship - The carbon cycle is no longer controlled by earth system processes, - as it has been for billions of years, - but rather by human processes of politics and business
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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they store up to 30 times more carbon than uh the rainforest
for - stats - carbon sequestration - salt marshes - 30x more sequestration than rainforests
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- Jun 2024
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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As the International Energy Agency recently reported, the top 10% of emitters accounted for nearly half of global CO₂ emissions from energy use in 2021, compared with 0.2% for the bottom 10%
Die 10% der Weltbevölkerung mit den höchsten pro-Kopf-Emissionen sind für etwa die Hälfte des Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen durch den Energieverbrauch verantwortlich. Die 10% mit den niedrigsten Emissionen verursachen nur 0,2% der gesamten energiebezogenen Emissionen. Kevin Anderson fasst eine der Aussagen eines Kommentars von IEA Mitarbeiter:innen zusammen.
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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for - post - LinkedIn - Success defined by the consumer story sustains the conveyor belt of escalating class carbon consumption
from - Carbon Consumption Patterns of Emerging Middle Classes <br /> - https://hyp.is/6E3LqCTCEe-J_59TeM1N5g/www.idos-research.de/uploads/media/DP_13.2020.pdf
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paper - title: Carbon Consumption Patterns of Emerging Middle Class - year: 2020 - authors: Never et al.
summary - This is an important paper that shows the pathological and powerful impact of the consumer story to produce a continuous stream of consumers demanding a high carbon lifestyle - By defining success in terms of having more stuff and more luxurious stuff, it sets the class transition up for higher carbon consumption - The story is socially conditioned into every class, ensuring a constant stream of high carbon emitters. - It provides the motivation to - escape poverty into the lower middle class - escape the lower middle class into the middle class - escape the middle class into the middle-upper class - escape the middle-upper class into the upper class - With each transition, average carbon emissions rise - Unless we change this fundamental story that measures success by higher and higher levels of material consumption, along with their respectively higher carbon footprint, we will not be able to stay within planetary boundaries in any adequate measure - The famous Oxfam graphs that show that - 10% of the wealthiest citizens are responsible for 50% of all emissions - 1% of the wealthiest citizens are responsible for 16% of all emissions, equivalent to the bottom 66% of emissions - but it does not point out that the consumer story will continue to create this stratification distribution
from - search - google - research which classes aspire to a high carbon lifestyle? - https://www.google.com/search?q=research+which+classes+aspire+to+a+high+carbon+lifestyle%3F&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgGECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyCQgCECMYJxjqAjIJCAMQIxgnGOoCMgkIBBAjGCcY6gIyCQgFECMYJxjqAjIJCAYQIxgnGOoCMgkIBxAjGCcY6gLSAQk4OTE5ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 - search results returned of salience - Carbon Consumption Patterns of Emerging Middle Classes- This discussion paper aims to help close this research gap by shedding light on the lifestyle choices of the emerging middle classes in three middle-income ... - https://www.idos-research.de/uploads/media/DP_13.2020.pdf
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www.derstandard.de www.derstandard.de
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Ein Report zum Stand der Dinge bei der Entfernung von CO2 aus der Atmosphäre (CO2 Removal) ist in der zweiten Version erschienen. Insgesamt ist die CO2-Menge, die mit anderen Mitteln als der Wiederaufforstung im Pflanzen von Bäumen aus der Atmosphäre entfernt wird, extrem gering. Der Bericht kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Pariser Klimaziele ohne CDR unerreichbar sein werden, dass aber CDR ohne deutlich mehr Investitionen und eine schnelle Verringerung von Treibhausgasemissionen wirkungslos bleiben wird. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000222642/treibhausgase-aus-der-atmosphaere-saugen-wo-wir-bei-der-co2-entnahme-stehen
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At present, much of the demand for CDR is coming from voluntary commitments by companies to buy carbon removal credits
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Currently just 2 billion tons of CO2 are being removed by CDR per year, mostly through conventional methods like tree planting.
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newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com
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In fact, capturing CO2 from ethanol production is so easy that ethanol production is the biggest source of purified CO2 in the US, and the second biggest source in Europe. This is where we source the CO2 that we use in fizzy drinks, food production, fire extinguishers, etc.
Interesting. I thought it was Steam Reformed Methane
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In fact, capturing CO2 from ethanol production is so easy that ethanol production is the biggest source of purified CO2 in the US, and the second biggest source in Europe. This is where we source the CO2 that we use in fizzy drinks, food production, fire extinguishers, etc.
Interesting. I thought it was Steam Reformed Methane
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www.csofutures.com www.csofutures.com
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He is referring to a mechanism SAP first tested in 2016 across 10 countries. This prices CO2 (from €40 to €400 per ton; depending on the flight and its distance) to release money for sustainability initiatives, as SAP ramps up not just its own internal decarbonisation programme (it aims to reach net zero by 2030) but continues to build out a suite of sustainability products for its expansive customer base.
SAP have been using internal carbon pricing, for nearly ten years, and they are sophisticated enough to have different prices even within aviation
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Der Markt für Karben Credits ist von 20 22 bis 20 23 von 1,9 Milliarden Dollar auf 723 Millionen Dollar geschrumpft Punkt Ursache sind vor allem die Veröffentlichungen über die wirkungslosigkeit der Credits.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/31/market-value-of-carbon-offsets-drops-61-aoe
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- May 2024
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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Well said. But then why are so many prominent voices, business interests, and documentaries about Regenerative Ag pitching wildly unrealistic levels of carbon removal as the primary benefit?
for post comment - LinkedIn - carbon sequestration - Jonathan Foley - Regenerative Agriculture
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Der Bezos Earth Fund wird bis zum Ende des Jahrzehnts 10 Milliarden Dollar für den Kampf gegen die Klima und die Biodiversitätskrise zur Verfügung stellen. Die Mittel des Fonds geben ihm enormen Einfluss. Viele in der NGOs Szene sehen die Politik des Fonds als Gefährdung für die Unabhängigkeit der von ihm geförderten Organisationen. Der Guardian berichtet anlässlich einer Preisverleihung kritisch vor allem über das Engagement des Fonds für CO2 Kompensationen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/jeff-bezos-earth-fund-carbon-offsets-climate-sector-uneasy-aoe
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- Bezos Earth fund
- Luiz Fernando do Amaral
- Climate Action Network International
- Auszeichnung des Bezos Earth Fund durch Conservation International
- Wanjira Mathai
- Go for Impact
- John Kerry
- Stephan Singer
- by: Patrick Greenfield
- Carbon Market Watch
- Holger Hoffmann-Riem
- Paul Bodnar
- Science Based Targets Initiative
- Sam Van den Plas
- Carbon offsets
- Andrew Steer
- Conservation International
- Iván Duque
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www.zeit.de www.zeit.de
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Erschienen: 2024-05-08 Genre: Studien-Report Die Autor:innen des neuen Global Electricity Reports des Thinktanks Ember gehen davon aus, dass 2023 der Höhepunkt der Treibhausgas-Emissionen durch die Stromerzeugunng erreicht wurde. Erstmals stammten 30% des weltweit erzeugten Stroms aus erneuerbaren Energien. Hinzu kommen fast 10% Strom aus Kernkraft. Die Kohlendioxidemissionen aus der Stromerzeugung erreichten allerdings ebenfalls einen Rekord, weil der Strombedarf stieg.<br /> https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2024-05/gruener-strom-klimapolitik-energiewende-klimaschutz
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www.nber.org www.nber.org
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Die wirtschaftlichen Schäden durch die globale Erhitzung sind sechsmal größer als bisher angenommen und vergleichbar mit denen eines andauernden Kriegs. Ein Prozent Temperaturanstieg verringert einem – noch nicht peer-reviewten – Arbeitspapier des amerikanischen National Bureau of Economic Research zufolge das weltweite Bruttosozialprodukt um 12%. Ein Temperaturanstieg bis 2100 um 3° wird Kapital und Verbrauch im Vergleich zu einer Welt ohne Erhitzung um 50% senken. Ohne die bisherige globale Erhitzung wäre die die weltweite Kaufkraft schon jetzt 37% höher. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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www.derstandard.at www.derstandard.at
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Seit dem Pariser Abkommen finanzierten die 60 größten Banken 425 fossile Großprojekte - sogenannte carbon bombs mit einem zu erwartenden CO2-Ausstoß von jeweils über einer Gigatonne - mit insgesamt 1,8 Billionen Dollar. Der Standard-Artikel geht auf ein Projekt zurück, bei dem Daten des Carbon Bombs-Projekts, des Global Energy Monitor und von Banking on Climate Chaos ausgewertet und visualisiert werden. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000193065/billionenkredite-fuer-fossile-grossprojekte-wie-banken-die-klimakrise-mitfinanzieren
Bericht/Visualisierung: https://www.carbonbombs.org/
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- JPMorgan
- OMV
- fracking
- Unicredit
- BP
- by: Alicia Prager
- USA
- Gazprom
- by: Philip Prayer
- Data for Good
- Net Zero Banking Alliance
- Deutsche Bank
- Permian basin
- Shell
- China
- Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies
- fossil expansion
- éclaircies
- stranded fossil fuel assets
- Bill Farren-Price
- ICBC
- El Sharara
- Libya
- ExxonMobil
- BNP Paribas
- Marcellus Shale
- Abdulaziz bin Salman
- TotalEnergies
- Eni
- fossil fuel finance
- Citi
- Repsol
- carbon bombs
- banks
- Equinor
- Saudi Arabia
- by: Anastasia Trenkler
- 2023-10-31
- Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
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Ein neuer Carbon Tracker-Bericht zeigt, dass die großen fossilen Unternehmen weiter in die Erschließung von Öl und Gasfeldern investieren, in klarem Widerspruch zu den Konsequenzen des Pariser Abkommens. Den Planungen der Firmen zufolge wird die Produktion 2030 13% höher sein als heute, statt 22% niedriger, wie es laut IEA erforderlich wäre.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Der Artikel im Guardian stellt eine neue Studie dar, aus der hervorgeht, wie viel von der bereits existierenden Infrastruktur zur Förderung fossiler Brennstoff stillgelegt werden muss, um das 1,5° Ziel zu erreichen. Dabei geht die Autoren davon aus, dass man CO2 nicht realistisch wieder aus der Atmosphäre entfernen kann, und dass das 1,5° Ziel also nur zu erreichen ist, wenn nicht zu viel emittiert wird. Diese Studie fordert das Gegenteil der Planungen der fossilen Industrien, über der über die der Guardian gerade berichtet hatte. Der Artikel ist auch bemerkenswert, weil er auf eine Reihe weiterer wichtiger Studien zu fossilen Lagerstätten verweist.
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- fossil fuels
- Climate emergency
- institution: Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance
- expert: Maeve O'Connor
- treaty: energy charter treaty
- fossil expansion
- variable: emissions of known reserves
- topic: carbon removal
- variable: emissions of developed reserves
- expert: Daniel Welsby
- expert: Greg Muttitt
- 2022-05-17
- expert: Kelly Trout
- institution: Carbon Tracker
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www.derstandard.de www.derstandard.de
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Eine neue Studie zeigt, đass geringe Erhöhungen der Temperatur deutlich größere Auswirkungen auf die biologische Aktivität in Permafrostböden haben als bisher angenommen. Sie geben bei der Atmung CO<sub> 2</sub> an die Atmosphäre ab und treiben die Erwärmung an. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000218737/schon-kleines-temperaturplus-laesst-viel-kohlenstoff-aus-tundra-entweichen
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Im nördlichen Amazonasgebiet versuchen Firmen, ein Geschäft aus der Wiederaufforstung zu machen und Carbon Credits für durch Bäume absorbiertes CO2 zu verkaufen. Vielfach wird erwartet, dass die Carbon Credits lukrativer sein werden als die Verwendung des Landes für die Viehzucht. Reportage der New York Times über die in vielen problematische Praxis, unter anderem auch über die Schwierigkeiten, die Wirkung der Bäume zu messen. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/climate/amazon-reforestation.html
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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In den Ländern, die sich in Paris 2015 einer Initiative gegen das Verbrennen von nicht genutztem Erdgas (flaring) angeschlossen hatten, wird das Verbrennen mit offener Flamme oft nur durch Verbrennung in geschlossenen Anlagen ersetzt, wie eine investigative journalistische Recherche ergab. Die Menge der Emissionen sinkt dadurch nicht wesentlich, aber diese Anlagen sind für Satelliten nicht äußerlich erkennbar. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/methane-emissions-gas-flaring-hidden-satellite-monitors-oil-gas
Ressourcen für die Recherche zu Methan-Emissionen: https://gijn.org/resource/new-tools-investigate-methane-emissions/
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- institution: Zero Routine Flaring 2030 initiative
- actor: Ineos
- actor: ArcelorMittal
- institution: World Bank
- 2024-05-02
- expert: Eric Kort
- data source: Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
- institution: Journalismfund Europe
- expert: Zubin Bamji
- topic: flaring
- NGO: Carbon Mapper
- process: methane reduction
- expert: Tim Doty
- institution: Carbon Mapper
- NGO: Arena Climate Network
- by: Christina Last
- event: Investigative Research about methane emissions April 2024
- actor: Fulcrum Energy Capital Funds
- by: Tim Brown
- NGO: Earthworks
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- Apr 2024
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Die Behauptung dea zweitgrößten US-Mineralölkonzerns Chevron, CO2-Neutralität anzustreben, ist nicht durch Tatsachen gedeckt. Eine neue Untersuchung belegt, dass der Konzern mit wertlosen Kompensationen und und Hinweisen auf noch nicht existierende Technologien für Carbon Capture and Storage argumentiert. Chevorn hat im vergangenen Jahr 35,5 Milliarden Dollar Gewinn gemeldet. Chevrons angeblicher Net-Zero-Plan betrifft nicht das CO2, dass durch die vom Konzern verkauften Produkte frei wird. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/chevron-carbon-offset-climate-crisis
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- institution: Center for International Environmental Law.
- compensations
- expert: Katt Ramos
- expert: Andrés Gómez Orozco
- 2023-05-24
- expert: Rachel Rose Jackson
- NGO: Corporate Accountability
- carbon offset schemes
- NGO: Censat
- actor: Chevron
- carbon dioxide removal
- region: Caribbean
- country: Colombia
- actor: Verra
- expert: Steven Feit
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www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
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Am 17. November lag die Oberflächentemperatur der Erde zum ersten Mal 2° über dem vorindustriellen Durchschnitt. Der Philosoph Patrice Maniglier schlägt vor, schon 2023 oder das Jahr, an dem die 2°-Grenze dauerhaft überschritten werden wird, zum Beginn einer neuen Ära zu erklären, nämlich der des „großen Bankrotts“. https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/sommes-nous-en-2024-ou-en-lan-i-du-rechauffement-climatique-20240104_NPIEAITYHVE6RAODCQ6UEDZV3Y/
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www.kleinezeitung.at www.kleinezeitung.at
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Rangelands are also importantpools of soil organic carbon stored in soil and vegetation(figure A-4). On a global basis, 9.1 billion ac (3.7 billion ha)of rangeland stores about 20–25percentof the total global terrestrial carbon (306–330 Petagramsof organic carbon and 470–550 Petagramsof inorganic carbon) (A petagram (Pg) is a unit of mass equal to 1015grams) (Batjes 1996; Kimble et al. 2001). On rangelands, carbon sequestration dynamics are quite complex, and estimation of rates and amounts are systematically more difficult than cultivated croplands (Schuman et al. 2002). This is because rangelands havemore heterogeneous soilcharacteristics, wide daily temperature fluctuations, intermittent precipitation, and diverse vegetation life and growth forms(productivity,root-shoot ratios, herbivore use, and imposed disturbance and management practices).(ii) Globally, forests (1.2–1.4 Pg Carbonyr-1) and cropland (0.4–1.2 Pg Carbonyr-1) have the largest potentials for sequestering carbon,although grazinglands (range and pasturelands) can contribute up to 10percentof the overall terrestrial sink capacity. On a global perspective, rangelands occupy about half of the world’s land area, 10percentof the terrestrial biomass, and 10–30percentof the soil organic carbon (Schlesinger 1997). An average estimate of globallysequestered soil carbon on rangelands is 0.5 Pg Carbonyr-1(Schlesinger 1997; Scurlock and Hall 1998). Table A-3shows global and U.S. potential carbon storage for varied terrestrial biomes.
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The poorest 50% of the global population contribute just 10% of emissions, while the richest 10% emit more than 50% total carbon emissions
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Summary - This short article contains some key insights that point to the right climate communication strategy to target and win over the working class - Currently, climate communications speak to elitist values and is having the opposite effect - The working class farmer protests spreading across the EU is a symptom of this miscommunication strategy - as is the increasing support and ascendency of right wing political parties - Researcher and author Chris Yates is in a unique position with one foot in each world - He articulates his insightful ideas and points is in the right direction to communicate in a way that reaches the working class
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Die vom deutschen Bundeswirtschaftsminister Habeck verkündete Carbon-Management-Strategie erlaubt CCS auch bei Gaskraftwerken, bei denen es aber nicht gefördert werden soll. Vorgesehen ist ein Pipeline-System zur Speicherung von CO<sub>2</sub> im Boden des deutschen Teils der Nordsee. Der BUND-Vorsitzende Olaf Brandt sprach davon, dass Habeck damit eine Büchse der Pandora öffne. Durch die Strategie wird eine kommerzielle CCS-Infrastruktur möglich, von der die Gasindustrie profitiert. https://taz.de/Habecks-CO2-Speicherplaene/!5991971/
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Eine neue Studie der Universität für Bodenkultur beziffert erstmals, wieviel Kohlenstoff zwischen 1900 und 2015 langfristig oder kurzfristig in menschlichen Artefakten wie Gebäuden gespeichert wurde. Die Menge des dauerhaft gespeicherten Kohlenstoffs hat sich seit 1900 versechzehnfacht. Sie reicht aber bei weitem nicht aus, um die globale Erhitzung wirksam zu beeinflussen. Die Möglichkeiten, Boot in Gebäuden zu nutzen, um der Atmosphäre CO2 zu entziehen, werden bisher nicht genutzt. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000208522/co2-entnahme-durch-holzbau-ist-bisher-nicht-relevant-fuer-den-klimaschutz
Studie: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad236b
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Die deutsche Regierung hat Anfang der Woche ihre Strategie zum Ausbau von Gaskraftwerken zur Netzstabilisierung vorgelegt. Es sollen Kraftwerke für insgesamt 20 GB ausgeschrieben werden, die voraussichtlich in den 30er Jahren auf Wasserstoff umgestellt werden. Die Strategie sieht nicht zwingend vor, dass dieser Wasserstoff grün ist. NGOs kritisieren dies ebenso wie die zu große Offenheit für Carbon Capture and Storage. Bis Sommer 2024 soll ein neues Strommarkt-Design vorliegen. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/kraftwerksstrategie-wie-die-ampel-die-energiewende-umsetzen-will-01/100012844.html
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stats - carbon footprint - stone, steel , concrete - ( see below)
- The Inventory of Embodied Carbon and Energy 2019 says carbon footprint of the following building materials are:
- ‘General stone’ - 0.079kg carbon per kg .
- Concrete - 0.15kg carbon per kg and
- Steel - 2.8kg carbon per kg.
- The Inventory of Embodied Carbon and Energy 2019 says carbon footprint of the following building materials are:
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Der CO<sub>2</sub>-Gehalt der Atmosphäre wird 2024 weiter steigen, so dass die vom IPCC erarbeiteten Pfade, um das 1,5°-Ziel einzuhalten, nicht mehr eingehalten werden können. Das ergibt sich aus einer Studie des britischen Met Office, die sich auf die Daten des Mauna Loa-Observatoriums in Hawai stützt. (Die obere Grenze der Unsicherheitsbereiche dieser Pfade ist erreicht, selbst wenn der El-Niño-Einfluss abgezogen wird. Ein Einhalten der Pfade würde ein sofortiges Absinken des CO<sub>2</sub>-Gehalts erfordern.) https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat-les-concentrations-de-co2-cette-annee-menacent-la-limite-de-15c-daugmentation-globale-des-temperatures-20240119_6JIALPQDBNADFGNHS4MVDXR5QA/?redirected=1
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Eine Empfehlung des Zusammenschlusses nationaler Akademien der Wissenschaften und eine zusammenfassende Studie zum globalen Plastiksystem empfehlen die Reduktion des Verbrauchs um 50% und eine Reihe weiterer Schritte wie das fast vollständige Recycling von Plastik und die Produktion aus Biomaterialien. Anlass sind die Verhandlungen zum internationalen Plastikabkommen. Plastikproduktion und Verbrauch führen schon jetzt – abgesehen von zahlreichen anderen negativen Folgen – zu Emissionen von ca einer Gigatonne CO2 im Jahr. Ohne drastische Änderungen wird sich diese Menge vervielfachen. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000205422/wissenschaft-fordert-radikale-abkehr-von-herkoemmlicher-plastikproduktion
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“If we can afford to fly around just for the sake of collecting countries and leaving a massive carbon footprint, then we are rich enough to afford to pay back somehow,”
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comment - Exactly how is this justified with 5 years on the climate clock left?
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Die Firma Blue Carbon, die im Besitz eines Mitglieds des Herrscherhauses von Dubai ist, will in mehreren afrikanischen Ländern CO<sub>2</sub>-Zertifikate zum (behaupteten) Ausgleich der Emissionen von Öl und Gas kaufen. Damit erwirbt die Firma – ohne Information der Bewohner:innen – die Kontrolle über große Waldgebiete. NGOs kampagnisieren intensiv gegen diese Deals. https://taz.de/Umstrittener-Klimaschutzdeal-in-Liberia/!5975181/
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Ein neuer Standard für Caroen Credits verzichtet auf das Konzept einer angeblichen CO2-Neutralität durch sogenannte Carbon Offsets. Stattdessen werden nur Beiträge zu einer tatsächlicher Reduktion der CO2 Emissionen akzeptiert. Dass viele Unternehmen sich an diesem Standard orientieren wollen, hängt auch damit zusammen, das Gerichtsverfahren gegen wahrheitswidrige Behauptungen von CO2 Neutralität begonnen wurden.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/10/carbon-offsetting-environmental-claims-aoe
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ARD-Journalist:innen decken ein krasses Beispiel für Greenwashing durch sogenannte CO<sub>2</sub>-Kompensationen auf. Die Zertifikate für die Kompensationen wurden generiert, weil Bauern in Peru auf Entwaldungsmaßnahmen verzichten. Diese Maßnahmen sind fiktiv. Die Zertifizierung erfolgte duch die Firma Verra. Vermittlerin war die Firma ClimatePartner. https://web.archive.org/web/20240110082323/https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/fakt/greenwashing-co2-zertifikate-100.html
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Der Chef des größten Zertifizierers sogenannter Carbon Offsets ist zurückgetreten. Erst vor kurzem hatte eine Analyse des Guardia, der ZEIT und weiterer Publikationen ergeben, dass die Kompensationen für das Emittieren von Treibhausgasen, die von Verra zertifiziert wurden und werden, weitgehend nicht mit realen Emissionsminderungen verbunden sind. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/23/ceo-of-worlds-biggest-carbon-credit-provider-says-he-is-resigning
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Das neueste Update zum Global Carbon Budget ergibt, dass die CO2-Emissionen sich auf einem Rekordhoch Bewegungen. Der Anstieg hat sich leicht verlangsamt. 2023 lagen die Emissionen aus fossilen Quellen bei 36,8 Gt CO2 und damit etwa 1,1% über denen des Vorjahres. Mit 50% Wahrscheinlichkeit wird die 1,5°-Grenze in etwa 7 Jahren dauerhaft überschritten. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000198140/co2-emissionen-erreichen-neuen-hoechststand
Global Carbon Budget 2023: https://globalcarbonbudget.org/carbonbudget2023/
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It doesn’t matter if *you* believe in climate change or not… Because Insurance companies believe in climate change. And so you're *already* paying for the costs of climate breakdown
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Oxfam legt die bisher umfangreichste Studie zur weltweiten Klima-Ungleichheit vor. Sie wurde gemeinsam mit dem Guardian und dem Stockholm Institut erstellt. Sie ergibt unter anderem, dass das reichste Prozent der Weltbevölkerung für mehr Emissionen verantwortlich ist als die unteren 66%. Analysiert wird auch die Verbindung von wirtschaftlicher und politischer Macht der globalen Eliten und die Möglichkeit, eine just transition durch Besteuerung der Superreichen zu finanzieren https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says
Report: https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/climate-equality-a-planet-for-the-99-621551/
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There is now as big a disparity in carbon emissions within countries as there is between them
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- The wealth and carbon inequality both between and within countries can be better articulated using terminology developed by Stop Reset Go
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- The wealth and carbon inequality both between and within countries can be better articulated using terminology developed by Stop Reset Go
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Almost by definition this would significantly alleviate poverty, as society’s resources will need to move from furnishing the relative luxuries of people like me (along with Elon Musk and Bill Gates) and be mobilised to decarbonise every facet of society. And all this in two decades tops
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- This is really a major change in the way resource flows
- The high consuming countries and individuals need to drop their consumption drastically and give those to the decarbonization effort and to the disenfranchised who need to be uplifted to a state of wellbeing
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This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate societal aspirations and the narratives around climate change. These extend from well-funded advertising to pseudo-technical solutions, from the financialisation of carbon emissions (and increasingly, nature) to labelling extreme any meaningful narrative that questions inequality and power.
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- This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate
- societal aspirations and
- the narratives around climate change.
- These extend from
- well-funded advertising to
- pseudo-technical solutions,
- and financialisation of carbon emissions (and increasingly, nature) to
- labelling extreme any meaningful narrative that questions inequality and power.
- This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate
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- key insight - societal aspirations
- it is the societal aspiration of the logic of capitalism and the free market that continues to create the next generation of the 1%
- How can the luxury industry NOT BE high carbon intensity? It's an oxymoron. High carbon is baked into the definition of luxury, and it is luxury goods and services which accelerate climate breakdown.
- The elites have a strong feeling of entitlement. They feel they DESERVE to reward themselves with a luxury lifestyle. That aspiration and reward structure multiplied by 80 million (1% of 8 billion) is a major variable driving the climate crisis
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the wealthiest 1% of people on the planet are responsible for double the greenhouse gas emissions of the poorest half
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- while COP28 fights over which nations bear what responsibility, from this perspective, there is an entirely different class of people that must be held responsible, not at the nation state level, but at the individual level. Why isn't there a COP where the elites are held responsible?
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- Are we making a grave category error in holding the wrong class of people responsible? Should questions of carbon equity concern both high polluting nations AND individuals?
- At the very least, should we formally recognize a parallel set of responsibilities and elevate that recognition to the level of COP conventions to deal with the problem?
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title: A Habitable Earth Can No Longer Afford The Rich – And That Could Mean Me And You
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- This article was pulled by "The Conversation" for being too controversial
- It addresses the double-bind / wicked problems that we find ourselves in.
- It's not just that the elites that are the highest per capita polluters, but
- it is an indictment of the entire philosophy and worldview of capitalism and the market economy which produces winners and losers and
- the winners reap enormous resource benefits, including being able to afford luxury items as rewards which constitute the largest ecological footprint of all
- while at any one time, there is always a minority of the 1%, who hold the most outsized ecological footprint of all, the logic that produced that 1% also serves as the incentives for the majority of the 99%, who because of the inherent precarity created by capitalism, will fight and struggle to become part of that 1%
- So while one generation of the 1% die off, a new generation is born and created by the incentive structure of scarcity and precarity.
- In this sense, capitalism has its own self-reinforcing, positive feedback loop that keeps the masses of the disenfranchised aspiring to the same high resource and ecological footprint, luxury lifestyle
- Look at the culture industry of sports, entertainment, movies, music, TV, etc. and of business in general. The leaders of these and ALL fields are celebrated as heros and they all reward themselves with an ultra-high carbon intensity, luxury lifestyle.
- Unless we do more than simply demonize the current set of elites, and recognize the root cause and change the incentive structure itself, we will only ever deal with the symptom and not the problem, and continue to generate the next generation of elites
- The luxury lifestyle industry is a important role-player in the self-reinforcing feedback loop
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we need to build this this again this bridge and it's obviously not going to be written in the 00:50:41 same style or standard as your kind of deep academic papers if you think this is uh U unnecessary or irrelevant then you end up with is a scientific 00:50:56 Community which talks only to itself in language that nobody else understands and you live the general Republic uh uh prey to a lot of very 00:51:09 unscientific conspiracy theories and mythologies and theories about the world
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- Elites are necessary in every society
- Historically, people who strongly believe that the current elites aren't necessary or are harmful often become the revolutionaries who become the new elites
- elites need to speak in their own specialist language to each other but there are two kinds of elites
- those who serve society
- those who serve themselves
- often, we have fox in sheep's clothing - elites who serve themselves but disguise themselves in the language of elites who serve others in order to gain access to power ,
- we normally think of wealthy people as elites, but Harari classifies scientists as also a kind of elite
- elites may be necessary but
- We are caught in a double bind, a wicked problem as elites are also the world's greatest per capita energy consumers and their outsized ecological, consumption and energy footprint is now a existential threat to the survival of our species
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- Kevin Anderson: A Habitable Earth Can No Longer Afford The Rich – And That Could Mean Me And You
- The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions
- Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions
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title: A Message to White Environmentalists: Demanding a Fossil Fuel Phase Out is Not Enough
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almost all wealthy countries now is dominated 00:13:37 by the car it's not about moving people it's about moving lumps of metal around with one person in them You' have to move away from that
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for some large corporations, the carbon footprint from their investments and cash in banks can be their largest source of emissions; for PayPal, for example, its carbon footprint from banking in 2021 was 55 times larger than all of its other emissions combined.
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title: Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change
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- first-of-its-kind climate justice analysis that measures the contribution of colonial contributions of carbon emissions
- total emissions to date since 1850: 2,558bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2).
- planetary global warming since 1850: 1.15C above pre-industrial temperatures.
- 1850 was chosen as start year for humanity's measurable carbon budget due to available records and most emissions happening after this point"
- carbon budget used from 1850 to 2023:92%
- remaining carbon budget: 8%
- chances of staying under 1.5 Deg C if we do not exceed our budget: 50/50
- burn rate of remaining 8%: 1% / month
- time remaining to stay within budget: 8.4 years:
- emissions corrected by colonial emissions accounting"
- Portugal emissions: > 3x more
- Netherlands emissions: 3x more
- UK emissions: 2x more
- UK ranks 4th when colonial emissions are counted
- France emissions: 1.5x more
- EU+UK emissions:19% more
- As a group, EU+UK ranks only 2nd behind US
- India emissions: 15% less
- Indonesia: 34% less
- Africa: 24% less
- On a per capita basis, China, Africa and India are far behind developed nations' emissions contributions.
- Many former colonial powers are now net CO2 importers. This raises their emissions contributions even further if accounted for
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Für den Zuwachs sind vor allem China und Indien verantwortlich. In Europa haben die Emissionen um 7,4, in den USA um 3% abgenommen. Eine große Rolle spielten die um fast 12% gestiegenen Emissionen der Luftfahrt https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/05/global-carbon-emissions-fossil-fuels-record
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In contrast, media ecologists focus on understanding media as environments and how those environments affect society.
The World Wide Web takes on an ecological identity in that it is defined by the ecology of relationships exercised within, determining the "environmental" aspects of the online world. What of media ecology and its impact on earth's ecology? There are climate change ramifications simply in the use of social media itself, yet alone the influences or behaviors associated with it: here is a carbon emissions calculator for seemingly "innocent" internet use:
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- If oil and natural gas consumption were to evolve as projected under today’s policy settings, this would require an inconceivable 32 billion tonnes of carbon captured for utilisation or storage by 2050,
- including 23 billion tonnes via direct air capture to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 °C.
- The necessary carbon capture technologies would require 26 000 terawatt hours of electricity generation to operate in 2050,
- which is more than global electricity demand in 2022.
- And it would require over USD 3.5 trillion in annual investments all the way from today through to mid-century, which is an amount equal to the entire industry’s annual average revenue in recent years.
- If oil and natural gas consumption were to evolve as projected under today’s policy settings, this would require an inconceivable 32 billion tonnes of carbon captured for utilisation or storage by 2050,
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- competing oil producers will have to reach an agreement on who has the right to produce the remaining carbon budget
- 24 million barrels a day are still produced in a 1.5 Deg C scenario but are largely uncombusted
- 75 % of that will be used in petrochemical and other industry
- 920 billion cubic meters of natural gas
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By chance I was reading Robert Goodin's 30 year old book on Green Political Theory yesterday - yes, how I get my kicks. A statement near the end of the book jumped out at me - and, I think, pertinent to the Netherlands now and the heat and noise in my home town, Oxford re. transport policy."...greens will have to impose tougher restraints on the rich than on the poor; they will have to let the poor continue to damage the environment in ways that they are prepared to prevent the rich from doing."
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- an obvious and logical strategy because
- the elites are few in number, but hold much wealth
- the disenfranchised are many in number but hold little wealth
- but the disenfranchised exist in larger numbers
- so when it comes to voting, they are a strategic cohort to win over
- this is in effect the same logic as the Paris Agreement and climate justice
- climate justice requires us to protect the poor and give them the remaining carbon budget whilst those who already have enough must cut back
- an obvious and logical strategy because
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In den USA wurde in Anwesenheit des Energieministers, die erste große kommerzielle Fabrik zur Direct Air Capture also der direkten Entnahmevon CO2 aus der Atmosphäre, eröffnet. Die Biden-Administration fördert diese Technologie mit enorm hohen Beträgen. Die Kosten für den Entzug einer Tonne CO2 aus der Atmosphäre in der neuen Anlage werden auf 600 bis 1000 Dollar geschätzt https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/climate/direct-air-capture-carbon.html
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Eine Gruppe von Forscher:innen um James Hansen hat eine Studie veröffentlicht, der zufolge sich die globale Erhitzung beschleunigt und die 1,5°-Grenze schon bald überschritten werden wird. Die These, dass der IPCC die Empfindlichkeit der Erde für Veränderungen in der Einstrahlung (Climate Sensitivity) bisher unterschätzt, ist nicht wissenschaftlicher Konsens, wird aber sehr ernst genommen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/02/heating-faster-climate-change-greenhouse-james-hansen
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Einer neuen Studie zufolge liegt das CO2 Budget, mit dem sich das 1,5 Grad Ziel mit wenigstens 50% Wahrscheinlichkeit noch erreichen ließe, bei 250 Milliarden Tonnen. Es ist damit nur halb so hoch, wie bisher angenommen. Bei der von den UN vorangetriebenen Halbierung der Emissionen bis 2030 liege die Chance bei maximal 40%. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/30/climate-crisis-carbon-emissions-budget
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Die Schere zwischen den nötigen Maßnahmen zur Anpassung an die globale Erhitzung und den dafür zur Verfügung gestellten Mitteln geht weiter auf. Der neue Adaptation Gap Report der Vereinten Nationen stellt fest, dass die Kosten für die Anpassung dramatisch steigen. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000193529/anpassung-an-klimakrise-hat-sich-verlangsamt-statt-an-fahrt-aufzunehmen
Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/adaptation-gap-report-2023
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www.datacenterdynamics.com www.datacenterdynamics.com
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The key benefit and primary motivation for installing hydrogen fuel cells within a data center is to reduce carbon emissions. As stated, some fuel cells, such as SOFCs, can use natural gas. While it is less damaging to the environment than diesel, it still results in significant carbon emissions.
Is this some of the missing context for the CCS next to datacentre patents from M$?
If you can capture the CO2, and use the waste heat to separate the CO2 from the absorbing material, then it might improve the economics of the SOFC fuel cells, AND deal with the CO2 emissions problem.
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Die Erde befindet sich bereits in einem "uncharted territory". 20 von 35 Indikatoren, mit denen sich das Funktionieren des Klimasystems beurteilen lässt, zeigen inzwischen extreme Werte. Die aktualisierte Version einer von den renommiertesten Erdsystemwissenschaftler:innen erstellten (und von 2000 Wissenschaftlern unterzeichneten Studie) von 2019 kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Warnungen aus der Wissenschaft, den Planeten nicht überzubelasten, nicht rechtzeitig ernst genommen wurden und das Erdsystem seinen stabilen Zustand verlassen hat. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/earth-vital-signs-human-history-scientists-sustainable-future
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Let’s just pause to emphasise this point: no amount of R&D, innovation or technology will allow us to remove CO2 from the atmosphere without spending at least 191 kWh per tonne of CO2.
Even if we acheive perfect efficiency we tax the global economy 10% to remove annual emissions
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Table 5.10a. Solar REC prices during the period March 2020 – March 2021 (US$/MWh)
This are nearly 100x the cost of Hydro RECs in come cases
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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Carbon calculators are very misleading.Here’s why:
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Carbon capture is a phishing scheme introduced by the Koch brothers at MIT in 2004, the same year that Charles and David Koch provided the funds for Americans for Prosperity.
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Die EU hat offiziell mit der Einführung des sog. Klimazolls“ begonnen, also einer Abgabe für Produkte aus Ländern, in denen mit mehr Emissionen produziert wird als in der EU. Dabei geht es um Zement, Eisen und Stahl, Aluminium, Dünger, Strom und Wasserstoff. In einer zweijährigen Übergangsphase werden zunächst nur die nötigen Informationen gesammelt. https://taz.de/Einfuhr-von-Stahl-Duenger-und-Co/!5963230/
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this is AVS the very first Foundation model for animal communication
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Die Biden-Administration hat alle amerikanischen Bundesbehörden angewiesen, bei allen Projekten die Kosten, die durch die globale Erhitzung verursacht werden, mit zu budgetieren. Damit wird eine bisher schon von der Umweltbehörde EPA verwendete Metrik der "social costs of carbon" auf die gesamte Regierungstätigkeit ausgeweitet.Mit einem Budget von ungefähr 600 Milliarden Dollar im Jahr ist die amerikanische Bundesregierung der größte Verbraucher von Gütern und Dienstleistungenn in der Welt. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/climate/biden-climate-change-economic-cost.html
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the pathways must have the equity dimension of who really needs to do the heavy lifting here, which is the the rich minority.
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better health, better security, better economy, secure job, better... Simply a more modern, attractive life.
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- Does Johan Rockstrom advocate for a green economy or degrowth?
- He would seem to be arguing for green growth as degrowth, if not done extremely carefully, can result in a drop in wellbeing.
- How does he see this taking place when the elites perceive that they have the most (at least materially) to give up? Is there a contradiction here?
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people generally don't recognize is that forest across the planet has responded in a tremendously helpful way 00:16:29 by absorbing roughly 25% of carbon dioxide from our fossil fuel burning. And we generally talk about this as a positive. "Isn't that fantastic!" But, in reality, it's a stress response.
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- oceans are absorbing 50% of carbon dioxide emissions
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these are not represented in the models, they're not in the global carbon budget estimates, they're not in the IPCC.
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- the 1.5 Deg C target does not account for cascading tipping points. In fact the cascading tipping point research is not accounted for in any of:
- current climate models
- global carbon estimates
- IPCC
- the implications are that the carbon budget is even smaller than the current number.
- the implications are that 1.5 Deg C is not the threshold we should be aiming for, but even less. We are now at 1.2 so it has to be 1.3 or 1.4.
- the 1.5 Deg C target does not account for cascading tipping points. In fact the cascading tipping point research is not accounted for in any of:
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there are so many uncertain factors on soil carbon, ocean carbon, ocean heat, ice melt, biodiversity loss, biome tipping points.
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- the precautionary principle dictates that the uncertainties in:
- soil carbon
- ocean carbon
- ocean heat
- ice melt
- biodiversity loss
- biome tipping points
- implies that the any one of these can easily bring our remaining carbon budget down to zero.
- the precautionary principle dictates that the uncertainties in:
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- stats - ocean carbon sink
- IPCC - underestimate
- 1.5 Deg C target - underestimated
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- stats - forest carbon sink
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Auf einer neuen Tracking-Website von Greenpeace können die Flüge österreichischer Privatjets in Echtzeit verfolgt werden. Die Zahl der Flüge von Privatjets hat sich gegenüber 2019 verdoppelt. Allein im Monat August wurden dabei 10.000 Tonnen CO2 ausgestoßen..
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Bei dem afrikanischen klimagipfel in Nairobi zeichnen sich Konflikte über einen Ausstieg aus fossilen Energien ab. Einige Länder, darunter Nigeria und Senegal, wollen die vorhandenen und zum Teil gerade entdeckten Ressourcen ausbeuten.
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- expert: Hardi Yakubu
- NGO: Africans Rising
- institution: Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI)
- event: African Climate Summit 2033
- expert: Mohamed Adow
- country: Senegal
- region: Africa
- country: Gabon
- project: East African crude oil pipeline
- institution: Global Wind Energy Council
- NGO: Power Shift Africa
- topic: climate finance
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In Nairobi findet in dieser Woche der erste afrikanische klimagipfel statt. Ein zentrales Thema sind Funanzierungsleistungen des globalen Nordens. Viele Initiativen besonders der kenianischen Präsidentschaft sind umstritten. NGOs befürchten, dass sie die Länder, die die Klima-Katastrophe verursachen, entlasten und nicht zur Minderung der Emissionen beitragen.
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- Title: The Velomobile as a Vehicle for more Sustainable Transportation
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- 12% OF AMERICANS EAT HALF OF ALL BEEF CONSUMED IN A DAY
- date: Aug. 30, 2023
- source: https://www.futurity.org/beef-food-climate-change-2967702-2/
- cited paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795
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The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability
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- title: The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability
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- Diana ivanova
- Richard Wood
- date: July 6, 2020
- source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/unequal-distribution-of-household-carbon-footprints-in-europe-and-its-link-to-sustainability/F1ED4F705AF1C6C1FCAD477398353DC2#article
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- for: inequality, Anthropocene, climate justice
- title: Why this viral photo of the world’s largest cruise ship is polarizing opinion
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contacting your city council members running for office yourself donating to projects like black space and getting involved in zoning board meetings that could help change the density and makeup of the 00:20:08 communities where you live
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if you're very poor then you're living in some kind of Wilderness Area you're going to destroy the environment in order to survive let me take for 00:08:05 example Gumby Street National Park in 1960 it was part of the Great Forest built by the late 1980s was a tiny Islander forest and all the hills around were bare more people living there in 00:08:19 the land could support two poor to buy food elsewhere struggling to survive cutting down the trees to make money from charcoal or Timber or to make more land grow more food and that's when it 00:08:33 hit me if we don't help these people these local communities find ways of living without destroying the environment we can't save chimpanzees forests or anything else so we need to 00:08:46 alleviate poverty
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- if you're very poor and you're living in some kind of Wilderness Area
- you're going to destroy the environment in order to survive
- example: Gumby Street National Park
- in 1960 it was part of the Great Forest
- but by the late 1980s was a tiny Islander forest and all the hills around were bare
- more people living there than the land could support
- too poor to buy food elsewhere
- struggling to survive
- cutting down the trees to make money from charcoal or Timber
- or to make more land grow more food and
- that's when it hit me
- if we don't help these people these local communities find ways of living without destroying the environment
- we can't save chimpanzees forests or anything else so we need to alleviate poverty
- if you're very poor and you're living in some kind of Wilderness Area
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- This is why the inequality crisis is entangled with the climate crisis
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why does it in a sense if we think of money as a voting tool why is it that a billionaire has a 00:32:31 billion times more power to decide what society should be like than i do
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- if we think of money as a voting tool
- why does a billionaire have a billion times more power to decide what society should be like than i do?
- if we think of money as a voting tool
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And where the artists take part in a fantasy of overconsumptionThe place where artists play a distinctive role, exactly like high-level sports athletes, is in the propagation of a certain fantasy.
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- key insight
- the elites are often the main popularizers, influencers and propagandists of the fantasy of overconsumption
- culture of overconsumption
- such elites have a close tie to the luxury industry via large advertising contracts
- Media posts critical of the carbon air travel emissions of famous DJ named DJ Snake offers a prime example of a common attitude of privilege and self-righteousness found amongst a number of elites
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The Shift Project has estimated that if only 3% of festival-goers attending the Vieilles Charrues Festival come by plane, they account for more than 60% of carbon emissions linked to public transport!
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- The Shift Project has estimated that
- if only 3% of festival-goers attending the Vieilles Charrues Festival come by plane, they account for more than 60% of carbon emissions linked to public transport!
- Tomorrowland concert - close to 25,000 festival-goers fly in via "party flights"
- North America Burning Man - 20% of festival goers fly in
- In general, the largest footprint for famous cultural events is air travel
- The Shift Project has estimated that
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- top tier entertainers are conditioned to a high carbon lifestyle. This is a challenge to overcome.
- example given
- DJ who flew to perform in four different EU cities in the same evening!
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Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them (producers, broadcasters, booking agents, distributors, internet platforms…) are today dependent on hyper-intensive energy-consuming models.
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- Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them
- producers,
- broadcasters,
- booking agents,
- distributors, internet platforms
- studios
- equipment and service providers
- are today dependent on hyper-intensive energy-consuming models.
- Music or showbusiness artists, for example, depend more and more on touring and festivals.
- Namely because with a remuneration of 0,0034 dollars per listened music track,
- only 1% of music artists receive a minimum wage through streaming and
- because, in the meantime, sales in the physical media market (CD, vinyl) have collapsed,
- and streaming has not made up for loss of value.
- Unsurprisingly, the artists who are most successful at making a living receive the quasi-totality of their revenue from the tours they do via concerts or festivals
- (which incur high travel carbon footprint)
- And those have a tendency to increase at an unchecked rate.
- To attract the largest crowd possible, these artists demand
- more and more top billings
- with equally
- increasing fees and
- technical requirements.
- example
- Coldplay travels with no less than 2 kits of 32 articulated lorries on the road (for their “ecological” tour),
- Rammstein accounts for
- almost 100 articulated lorries
- 7 cargo planes for their tours and
- burns no less than 1000 litres of heating oil for their pyrotechnical effects at each concert (something the group proudly displays on social media).
- Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them
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- due to loss of product sales, touring and concerts is the only way musicians can make money, and that comes at high carbon emission cost
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Culture, a hyper-consumerist sector
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- culture and leisure are the third reason for travel after work and shopping
- watching movies at movie theatre alone is responsible for nearly one million tons of CO2 emissions
- culture takes up 60% of all downloads on the internet, 80% if porn is included
- tens of thousands of buildings such as auditoriums are depending on fossil fuels to operate
- cultural events drive high carbon tourist industry:
- account for 60% of revenue of hotels and restaurants at the Avignon Festival
- Louvre's carbon footprint of 3.4 million tons of CO2 emissions are in large part due to air travel of tourists from around the globe
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- well written article on the carbon emissions challenges of the cultural sector
- this is related to the carbon emissions of the luxury industry as well
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- same question as asked about luxury, since there is overlap with culture industry and luxury
- Given that the 1% have the same carbon emissions as the bottom half of humanity, does the sustainability impacts of the decarbonization efforts of the luxury aspects of the culture industry measure up to stay under earth system boundaries in time?
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- carbon emissions - air travel
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- emissions reduction
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- culture of overconsumption
- stats - air travel - concert
- bend the curve - cultural sector
- carbon footprint - music industry
- carbon footprint - touring
- cap elites
- TPF
- carbon emissions - DJ
- carbon emissions - cultural sector
- DJ Snake
- carbon emissions - culture
- carbon emissions - music industry
- carbon footprint - concerts
- luxury advertising
- emissions reduction - cultural sector
- carbon emissions - 1%
- carbon inequality
- carbon footprint - culture
- high carbon lifestyle
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there's 00:08:43 nothing there that could be secured and here's the important point I think we experienced that we experience it as a sense of lack 00:08:58 that is to say the sense that something is wrong with me something is missing something isn't quite right I'm not good enough and the reality is I think all of us to 00:09:14 some degree have some sense of that some sense of lack even though we might ignore it or cover it up there's there's some sense of that but because it's mostly sort of unconscious in the sense that we don't 00:09:29 really know where it comes from
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- sense of self is equivalent to
- sense of lack
- duality
- disconnection
- alienation
- separation
- solidification - the opposite of emptiness
- sense of self is equivalent to
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- this sense of lack that is intrinsically associated with the sense of self is perhaps the deepest root of our unhappiness
- this is a key insight for sharing for both those who have too much (the 1%) as well as those who are so materially impoverished and deprived that they are forced to adopt survivalist strategies to stay alive, and if successful, take on a hard edge to survivalism, over-appreciating materialism
- the same mistake is committed on both end of the disparity spectrum, both groups are still under the illusion that that sense of lack can be filled
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Our findings suggest that the share of US$2020-millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions of 286 Gt CO2. This is equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget, and significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5 °C.
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- Our findings suggest that the share of US$2020-millionaires in the world population will grow
- from 0.7% today
- to 3.3% in 2050,
- and cause accumulated emissions of
- 286 Gt CO2
- equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget,
- and significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5 °C.
- Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely,
- as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest
- is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize.
- To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient.
- Our findings suggest that the share of US$2020-millionaires in the world population will grow
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According to a new study by tourism professor Stefan Gössling, the millionaires will, within just a few decades, be responsible for almost three quarters of carbon dioxide emissions.
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- According to a new study by tourism professor Stefan Gössling,
- the millionaires will, within just a few decades, be responsible for almost three quarters of carbon dioxide emissions.
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In addition to their high GHG emissions from consumption, high-SES people have disproportionate climate influence through at least four non-consumer roles: as investors, as role models within their social networks and for others who observe their choices, as participants in organizations and as citizens seeking to influence public policies or corporate behaviour
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- five high carbon emission areas of high-SES, HNWI, VHNWI
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We focus on individuals and households with high socioeconomic status (SES; henceforth, high-SES people) because they have generated many of the problems of fossil fuel dependence that affect the rest of humanity.
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- high socioeconomic status
- equivalent to high net worth individual (HNWI) or
- very high net worth individual (VHNWI)
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- The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions
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- Kristian S. Nielsen
- Kimberly A. Nicholas
- Felix Creutzig
- Thomas Dietz
- Paul C. Stern
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- Sept 30, 2021 -source
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00900-y
- abstract
- People with high socioeconomic status disproportionally affect energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions directly
- through their consumption and
- indirectly through their financial and social resources.
- However, few climate change mitigation initiatives have targeted this population segment,
- and the potential of such initiatives remains insufficiently researched.
- In this Perspective, we analyse key characteristics of high-socioeconomic-status people and explore five roles through which they have a disproportionate impact on energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions and potentially on climate change mitigation, namely as:
- consumers,
- investors,
- role models,
- organizational participants and
- citizens.
- We examine what is known about their disproportionate impact via consumption and
- explore their potential influence on greenhouse gas emissions through all five roles.
- We suggest that future research should focus on strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by high-socioeconomic-status people and to align their
- investments,
- organizational choices and
- actions as social and political change agents
- with climate change mitigation goals.
- People with high socioeconomic status disproportionally affect energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions directly
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- He’s a millionaire with a private jet. But now he’s selling it for the sake of the environment
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- July 13, 2023
- Stephen Prince, vice-chair of the Patriotic Millionaires – a group of wealthy Americans pushing for higher taxes which also contributed to the report – is giving up his Cessna 650 Citation III.
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- survival of the richest
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- Jan 16, 2023
- executive summary
- Since 2020, the richest 1% have captured almost two-thirds of all new wealth
- nearly twice as much money as the bottom 99% of the world’s population.
- Billionaire fortunes are increasing by $2.7bn a day,
- even as inflation outpaces the wages of at least 1.7 billion workers, more than the population of India.7
- Food and energy companies more than doubled their profits in 2022,
- paying out $257bn to wealthy shareholders,
- while over 800 million people went to bed hungry
- Only 4 cents in every dollar of tax revenue comes from wealth taxes and
- half the world’s billionaires live in countries with no inheritance tax on money they give to their children.
- A tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion a year,
- enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty, and fund a global plan to end hunger.
- Since 2020, the richest 1% have captured almost two-thirds of all new wealth
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- Richest 1% Took 2/3rds of Global Wealth Since 2020
- Richest 1% increased wealth in 2020 and 2021 twice as much as 99% of Population Earned
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"The top 1% use basically a similar amount to the bottom 50% of humanity.
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- it would be useful to have the accounting process used to calculate how the top1% emit carbon equivalent to bottom 50% to help us identify areas where interventions can be developed
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Wenn die reichsten Menschen in Europa ihren Energieverbrauch auf 170 Gigajoule pro Jahr reduzieren würden, ließen sich allein damit 10% der EU-Emissionen reduzieren - wobei 170 Gigajoule mehr sind, als 80% der europäischen Bevölkerung verbrauchen. Eine neue Studie zeigt das Potenzial von Reduktionen auf der Nachfrageseite vor allem bei Wohlhabenden. Eine bessere Befriedigung grundlegender Energiebedürfnisse von Armen hat dagegen nur geringe Auswirkungen auf die Emissionen. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000179254/energiesparen-bei-reichen-kann-erhoehten-verbrauch-bei-armen-kompensieren
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Guided meditation: The carbon cycle
- Guided meditation
- consciousness thinking about its own atomic constituent
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Carbon cycle meditation
- to help achieve awareness of our physical connection to the world
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- This is a limited practice as it still depends on conceptual models.
- An atom is not an object we can directly experience phenomenologically.
- Rather, it is a conceptual model and through social norm of using it as if it were phenomenologically a directly experienced object, we confuse ideas of phenomena with the phenomena itself
- One way to determine if it is a fundamental human quality or if it is simply one narrative, is to determine if there are people such an exercise would NOT resonate with?
- For instance, it would likely not resonate strongly with
- climate deniers,
- uneducated people
- religious fundamentalists
- For instance, it would likely not resonate strongly with
- to develop a method to reach ALL people, we need to look at even more fundamental commonalities - namely, how we use language to mediate reality
- Perhaps a BEing journey can consist of two lievels
- 1st level: conceptual
- do the BEing journey as described using conventional concepts
- 2nd level: meta-level
- observe how you construct the narrative using language
- 1st level: conceptual
- it could be good to animate this with AI drawing program
- Guided meditation
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guided meditation to help achieve this awareness of our physical connection to the world around us.
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- these guided meditations are interesting because they are one level of our superorganism (consciousness)
- thinking about a lower level of the same human superorganism
- carbon molecule that was part of us
- genetic material that was part of our ancestors going back billions of years
- thinking about a lower level of the same human superorganism
- these guided meditations are interesting because they are one level of our superorganism (consciousness)
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we are left with questions of how to split the burden of collectively staying within the PBs. To know if e.g. a person or a company is absolute environmentally sustainable, we need to know that person’s or the company’s assigned SoSOS. How to determine a person’s or a company’s assigned SoSOS is not only normative, but essentially a question of distributive justice.
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- how to we split the burden of collectively staying within the PBs?
- To know if e.g. a person or a company is absolute environmentally sustainable,
- we need to know that person’s or the company’s assigned SoSOS.
- How to determine a person’s or a company’s assigned SoSOS is not only normative,
- but essentially a question of distributive justice.
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One option is to cap the top 20% of energy users while allowing those people who use little energy and have poverty-level incomes to be able to increase their consumption levels and improve their quality of life.
- One energy demand reduction strategy
- Cap the top 20% of energy users
- while allowing those people
- who use little energy and
- have poverty-level incomes
- to be able to
- increase their consumption levels and
- improve their quality of life.
- One energy demand reduction strategy
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Cap top 20% of energy users to reduce carbon emissions
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Summary -Consumers in the richer, developed nations will have to accept restrictions on their energy use
- if international climate change targets are to be met, warn researchers.
- The big challenge is to identify the fairest and most equitable way
- that governments can curtail energy use,
- a process known as energy demand reduction. -The research team analyzed several scenarios to identify a potential solution.
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protest and disrupt the “exclusive vacations of wealthy fossil fuel investors and polluters driving the climate crisis
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- Disney is an ardent wealth and climate reformer and was protesting the 1%'s use of carbon intensive jet planes.
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- She is the heiress to the Walt Disney empire but is a climate activist.
- She performed this action to bring attention to the carbon intensive activity of the 1%
- She stated the carbon inequality fact that the wealthiest 1% are responsible for carbon emissions equal to the bottom 50% of humanity.
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Tonne-for-tonne offsetting has historically relied upon the cheapest possible carbon credits that do little to benefit the climate and represent no real pollution cost for companies. Polluters should move to money-for-tonne contributions instead, based on an internal carbon price (WWF recommends $50-250), which would encourage the purchase of higher quality carbon credits with co-benefits. The internal carbon price in turn could be proportional to companies’ revenues or profits.
Buying carbon credits with co-benefits, not offsets
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illuminem.com illuminem.com
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This article introduces the concept of Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) as a way to validate if carbon tunnel vision is real
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For now, we haven’t included emissions relating to loans and investments in our Scope 3 carbon footprint breakdown as these are worked out separately with the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). We were the first UK digital bank to join PCAF, which asks members to calculate emissions from loans and investments by following industry best practice
so this something like induced carbon emissions from the activity enabled by the investment?
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covell.ca covell.ca
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Typewriters, Stencils, and Carbon Copies by Tim Covell
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- Title: What a 1.5C lifestyle actually looks like
- Summary
- Many people want to participate in the transition
- to a regenerative, low carbon future
- but the existing high carbon infrastructure
- makes it very challenging to do so
- This article features interviews with activists who are trying to live a lifestyle
- that is consistent with a 1.5C world
- WITHIN infrastructure that is not yet consistent with a 1.5C world.
- It is challenging, to say the least!
- and demonstrates the lock-in feedbacks,
- a chicken-and-egg situation
- that creates the challenge holding the masses back
- From a Stop Reset Go (SRG) perspective
- this illustrates the entangled relationship between
- the individual and
- the collective
- and how each has an important role to play
- to influence the other.
- As an organization working on helping accelerate a bottom-up movement, this brings up the question:
- what are the leverage points for citizens to accelerate top down actors such as
- government to establish new policies and
- manufacturers to create affordable regenerative products aligned with a 1.5C world?
- what are the leverage points for citizens to accelerate top down actors such as
- this illustrates the entangled relationship between
- Interviewee:
- Carys mainprize
- Rosalind Readhead
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Siehe auch: World's 5% 'Polluter Elite' Responsible for 37% of Global Emissions Growth, Study Concludes - EcoWatch, das Buch Carbon Inequality: The Role of the Richest in Climate Change - 1st Edi, den Bericht über die IPCC-Beratungen zur Studie des Konzeptwerks Neue Ökonomie Maßnahmen gegen die Klimakrise: Ein Flug alle drei Jahre - taz.de
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We allocate national consumption emissions to individuals within each country based on a functional relationship between income and emissions, drawing on new income distribution dataset
HeinzWittenbrink 26 Dec 2020 in COS-OER
inequalityOxfam and SEI's approach to estimating how global carbon emissions can be attributed to individuals based on their consumption builds on Oxfam's 2015 report 'Extreme Carbon Inequality,'23 which gave a snapshot of the global distribution of emissions in a single year, and that of Chancel and Piketty24 among others. It is explained in detail in the accompanying research report.25
HeinzWittenbrink 26 Dec 2020 in COS-OER
nequal growth has another cost: it means that the global carbon budget is being rapidly depleted, not for the purpose of lifting all of humanity to a decent standard of living, but to a large extent to expand the consumption of a minority of the world's very richest people
HeinzWittenbrink 26 Dec 2020 in COS-OER
The World Bank recently concluded that continued unequal growth will barely make a dent in the number of people living on less than $1.90 per day by 2030; only a reduction in income inequality will help
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S. Kartha, E. Kempt-Benedict, E. Ghosh, A. Nazareth and T. Gore. (2020). The Carbon Inequality Era: An assessment of the global distribution of consumption emissions among individuals from 1990 to 2015 and beyond. Oxfam and SEI. https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/handle/10546/621049The dataset is available at https://www.sei.org/projects-and-tools/tools/emissions-inequality-dashboard
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The poorest 50% barely increased their consumption emissions at all.
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t is striking that the shares of emissions across income groups have remained essentially unchanged across the period
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the total emissions added to the atmosphere since the mid-1800s approximately doubled.2Global GDP doubled in this period too, a
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juncture – prioritizing yet more grossly unequal, carbon intensive economic growth to the benefit of the rich minority
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in the service of increasing the consumption of the already affluent, rather than lifting people out of poverty.
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It took about 140 years to use 750Gt of the global carbon budget, and just 25 years from 1990 to 2015 to use about the same again
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Oxfamand SEI's research estimates how global carbon emissions are attributed to individuals who are the end consumers of goods and services for which the emissions were generated. See Box 2.
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while the total growth in emissions of the richest 1% was three times that of the poorest 50%
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The richest 1% (c.63 million people) alone were responsible for15% of cumulative emissions, and 9% of the carbon budget –twice as much as the poorest half of the world’s population
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he richest 10% of the world’s population (c.630 million people) were responsible for 52% of the cumulative carbon emissions – depleting the global carbon budget by nearly a third (31%) in those 25 years alone
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From 1990 to 2015, a
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This briefing describes new research that shows how extreme carbon inequality in recent decades has brought the world to the climate brink.
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The question now is, will we high-consuming few make (voluntarily or by force) the fundamental changes needed for decarbonisation in a timely and organised manner? Or will we fight to maintain our privileges and let the rapidly changing climate do it, chaotically and brutally, for us
Question - Those is the big question!
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Most IAM models ignore and often even exacerbate the obscene inequality in energy use and emissions, both within nations and between individuals.
In Other Words - These recommendations, if we followed continue the existing inequality, Indeed can exasperate it. - Wealthy countries and individuals cannot be allowed to continue emitting high levels of carbon if we are to honour the principle of climate justice andequity written into the climate agreements
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Title: How Alive Is 1.5? Part One – A Small Budget, Shrinking Fast
Author: - Kevin Anderson - Dan Calverley
Key Messages - For a 50:50 chance of staying below 1.5°C, we’re using up the remaining carbon budget at around 1% every month. - Following current national emissions pledges (NDCs) to 2030 puts the temperature commitments within the Paris Agreement beyond reach. - Claims that 1.5°C is now inevitable also assign “well below 2°C” to the scrapheap. - An ‘outside chance’ of not exceeding 1.5°C remains viable, but ongoing fossil fuel use is rapidly undermining it. - The few credible pathways for an outside chance of 1.5°C are not being discussed. This is an active choice by policymakers and experts, who have largely dismissed equity-based social change.
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While policies limiting the high emitters are thus unavoidable, such as progressive taxes on emissions, they are hampered by three consecutive barriers.
Three obstacles to policies limiting elite carbon emissions - First is the realization of connection between wealth and carbon emissions - Second is polarized politics making it difficult to pass or implement policies to limit dangerous consumption - Third is focused policy on the oversized contributions of elites
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Our findings raise the issue of global policy choices, with this research confirming that targeting the high emitters will be key. Staying within temperature limits of 1.5 °C or 2.0 °C is difficult without addressing the consequences of wealth growth.
key finding - staying within 1.5 or even 2 deg C will be difficult without addressing wealth growth - a significant share of the remaining carbon budget risks being depleted by a very small group of human beings
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command-and-control policies are required to ban energy-intense premium class and private flights.
// - if millionaire consumptive behavior - threatens the survival of civilization, - then laws can be created to ban the dangerous consumptive behavior - if they cannot self-regulate
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In this estimate, US$2020 millionaires will deplete 72% of the 1.5 °C carbon budget (400 Gt CO2, 67% chance of staying within temperature range), or 25% of the 2 °C budget (1150 Gt CO2, 67% chance) over the next 30 years.
key finding - Elite consumption has the potential to make 1.5 Deg C target unreachable - US$2020 millionaires will deplete 72% of the 1.5 °C carbon budget (400 Gt CO2, 67% chance of staying within temperature range), - or 25% of the 2 °C budget (1150 Gt CO2, 67% chance) - over the next 30 years.
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1% of the world's population is responsible for an estimated 50% of emissions from commercial air transport, most of this associated with premium class air travel of affluent frequent fliers
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5245 superyachts with lengths of 30–180 m in 2021, a five-fold increase from 1090 yachts in 1990
yacht stats - 2021: 5245 superyachts of lengths 30-180m - 1990: 1090 superyachts of lengths 30-180m - stats - yachts - quote - yachts
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the top 1% now being responsible for 17% of total emissions, the top 10% for 48%, and the bottom half of the world population for only 12% (in 2019).
Quotable carbon inequality stats: - the top 1% responsible for 17% of total emissions, - the top 10% for 48%, - the bottom 50% for12% - stats carbon inequality - quote carbon inequality - 2019
// A key question is also this: - what are individuals using those carbon emissions for? - is it being used just for luxury consumption - or is it being used to develop and actionize scalable low carbon strategies? - if it is the later, it could be seen as a de-carbon investment
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They also highlighted that high emitters live in all countries, but were concentrated in the USA (3.16 million), causing an average 318 t CO2-e per person, Luxemburg (10,000 individuals emitting 287 t CO2-e/year each), Singapore (50,000, 251 t CO2-e/year), Saudi Arabia (290,000, 247 t CO2-e/year), and Canada (350,000, 204 t CO2-e/year)
Noteworthy countries with the most high carbon net worth individuals (HCNW): - USA - 3.16 million individuals emitting an average 318 t CO2-e/year/person, - Luxemburg: 10,000 individuals emitting an average 287 t CO2-e/year/person, - Singapore: 50,000 individuals emitting 251 t CO2-e/year/person, - Saudi Arabia: 290,000 individuals emitting 247 t CO2-e/year/person, - Canada: 350,000 individuals emitting 204 t CO2-e/year/person
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Key drivers of individual emissions include energy-intense transportation, especially private aircraft and yachts, and multiple real estate ownership, often in different continents
Biggest source of emissions of the elite: - yachts - private air transportation - multiple homes in different countries
// - luxury industries of: - private jets - luxury home real estate - yachts - are unsustainable - this irresponsible, unsustainable consumption is imperiling civilization itself
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close to two thirds of the overall carbon footprint of those billionaires owning yachts is caused by yacht-ownership. This implies a contribution to climate change that is up to 6500 times greater for these individuals than the global average of 4.5 t CO2 per capita and year, or up to 300,000 times greater than the contribution of the poorest, at 0.1 t CO2 per person and year
Yacht stats: - close to two thirds of the overall carbon footprint of those billionaires owning yachts is caused by yacht-ownership. - Carbon footprint is - 6500 times greater than the global average of 4.5 t CO2 per person per year, - 300,000 times greater than the poorest, at 0.1 t CO2 per person and year - stats - carbon inequality - quote - carbon inequality
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the top 0.01% emitting in excess of 2300 t CO2-e per capita in 2019, compared to 6 t CO2-e on global average.
Quotable carbon inequality stats: - top 0.01% emit more than 2300 t CO2-e per capita in 2019, - global average is 6 t CO2-e - therefore, the top 0.01% emit 2300/6 = 383x more than the global average. - quote - carbon inequality - stats - carbon inequality
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Title: Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions Authors: - Stefan Gossling - Andreas Humpe
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- Growing evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionally to climate change.
- This study considers the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions,
- and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (about 400 Gt CO2).
- The study presents a model that extrapolates observed growth in millionaire numbers (1990–2020)
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- The share of US$2020-millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050,
- and cause accumulated emissions of 286 Gt CO2.
- This is equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget,
- and significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5 °C.
- Continued growth in emissions at the top
- makes a low-carbon transition less likely,
- as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest
- is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize.
- To this end, we question whether policy designs
- such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters
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- The share of US$2020-millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050,
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Millionaires will burn through two-thirds of the world’s carbon budget by 2050, scientists warn
Taxing? No, they have enough wealth to just keep going. - if we people don't act on their own, legal regulation is required - unless they can transform themselves and the global luxury industry also undergoes a huge transformation
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Ads, Andrew and James discuss where the the climate movement is right now, how deep time plays into the effects we are having on the planet, when good people do bad things because of poor systems and what happens next if 1.5C fails.
- 21:52 Carbon credits, carbon markets
- it's a scam designed to perpetuate fossil fuel use, in a phoney war against the climate crisis
- Offsets were designed to allow polluters to pay others to create schemes that would compensate or "offset" that pollution. The classic example WAS afforestation, the planting of trees that can sequester that carbon.
- Carbon neutrality comes from this idea that you can keep polluting if you offset it and become "carbon neutral"
- A company may decarbonize a lot of their supply chain but may struggle to get rid of airflights around the world. In that case, they use offsets. When companies analyze the very difficult choices, they take the easy way out and use carbon offsets
- However, there is so much offsets for afforestation now that there isn't enough land on earth
- Carbon markets are a recipe for grifting and fraud or zero impacts
- This is the current state of offsets
31:00 Shell oil carbon offset greenwashing scam - the sky zero proposal - Shell claims they can offset all the O+G emissions out of the ground - it is preposterous - there's not enough land on earth when you tally up all the carbon offset afforestation schemes
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32:30 Neo-colonialism
- rich white man can offset his emissions by buying land from a developing nation. Now the indigenous people cannot use that land for any reason.
- also, will require huge amount of water to grow those trees
- we don't have enough land and we don't have 100 years, only 5 years.
- nature-based solutions are an industrial, myopic approach
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37:00 Deferred Emission Reduction
- a lot of carbon credits are called deferred emission reduction credits.
- this is avoided emissions - ie. trees in a forest with 100 ton of sequestering potential
- this is promise to not destroy the biosphere any further so it's not removing any existing carbon
- maybe multiple people might own the same forest, or someone might come along and burn it down
- Trees are vulnerable to climate impacts - ie. Microsoft bought a large forest in California that later burned down in a climate change intensified wildfire
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40:00 can we do anything within the extractive capitalist system?
- some people claim that as long as extractivist capitalism still persists, we cannot have system change
- also a neocolonialist element - global north exploited the global south to create most of the emissions in the atmospheric commons
- a number of people are beginning to see that an extractivist capitalist system is not in line with effectively addressing the climate crisis
- wind, solar, etc has displaced electricity generation in a number of countries like in the UK. However, these are only a few countries.Renewables are helping increase overall energy production
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44:22: Stop burning fossil fuels
- t doesn't matter if investments in renewables triple. It won't make a difference if we don't significantly stop burning fossil fuels at the same time.
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47:00 economic growth prevents real change
- Insisting on 1, 2 or 3% growth, will limit the response to the climate threat to render it irrelevant
- Climate change is still mostly an optimization problem. They are more concerned with economic damage.
- Economists believe that anything that threatens economic growth cannot be accepted
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51:00 Degrowth making headway
- Degrowth scholars are getting more attention on the need to decouple economic grwoth from climate policies
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52:10 Is there a positive future scenario - The role of solidarity
- Solidarity is the greatest strength we can harness.
- The success of Doughnut Economics gives me hope
- The richest 1% must reign in their impacts and redistribute to allow the impoverished to live humane lives
- We can all have good lives and we don't have to manufacture that wonder
- This is what it is to be human
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Just transformations challenge power politics, which are often based on vested interests, cost-effectiveness and cost-recovery principles. Addressing deforestation through forest policy may not be adequate to counter agricultural policies that promote land use change to ensure more production and higher gross domestic product (GDP). Carbon markets may be captured by entrepreneurs seeking profit and may not be equitable or effective and can allow pollution to continue. In ‘allocating policy responsibilities’, it is important to not only understand and challenge dominant discourses on increasing GDP at all costs, but also ensure that solutions do not reproduce, redistribute or increase injustices.
-Summary - Justice arguments transcend the normative status quo arguments that are usually based purely on GDP alone. - Carbon markets / Carbon offsets also need to be challenged as they can often be unjust and wealth concentrating through capitalist entrepreneurship that merely increases injustice.
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The black line in Fig. 5 shows that redistribution is not enough; if everyone’s emissions are equalized at escape from poverty levels, then we would still overshoot the climate boundaries
- First stage of characterizing the Safe and Just Corridor
- The black line in Fig. 5 shows that
- redistribution is not enough
- if everyone’s emissions are equalized at escape from poverty levels, then
- we would STILL overshoot the climate boundaries (annotator's emphasis)
- hypothetical pressure from 62% of humanity that is lacking humane access to resources is equal to the pressure exerted by 4% of the elits of humanity
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Klarna which levies money on a per-tonne basis on its own emissions, and uses the funds to finance mitigation projects.
oh wow, Klarna is doing this now?
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At COP27, governments agreed to create a “contribution unit” as part of the establishment of new carbon markets under the Paris Agreement - a clear sign of support for this evolution in claims
This is the first time I have come aceoss a "contribution unit"
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Yet as of last year renewable offsets remain widespread, despite deep doubts about their efficacy. In the broadest investigation yet of how companies have been relying on junk offsets, Bloomberg Green analyzed 190 million tons of carbon offsets purchased in more than 50,000 transactions in 2021. Close to 40% came from renewable-energy projects. According to Ecosystem Marketplace estimates, the total carbon offsets market was worth $2 billion in 2021.
This is so mich smaller than I thought!
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The source of this seed funding was provided from Microsoft’s internal carbon tax. Companies that implement carbon taxes should implement mechanisms that recirculate those funds back into individual business group accountabilities in a way that empowers employees to take effective action.
This research was paid for by the internal carbon tax - this is news to me
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Most future climate scenarios envisage large-scale deployment of so-called “negative emissions,” where we suck CO2 out of the atmosphere in order to keep warming below 2°C. One proposed method for achieving that is “enhanced weathering”—accelerated silicate weathering done by grinding up silicate rock and spreading it on agricultural fields to react with CO2 from the air and fertilize plants at the same time. Brantley’s work shows that for such efforts to be successful, those fields would need a good supply of water and—crucially—would probably need to be plowed regularly to expose fresh minerals to the air. “If you're not going to be turning it over, you'll start to precipitate secondary minerals, and… most of the surface area could be occluded from reaction,” said Brantley.
So basically enhanced weathering is much less likely to help us, as it would largely scab over, rather than expose the rest of the minerals
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Over geological time, those landscape proportions have changed in response to shifting tectonic plates. This has changed how efficient silicate weathering has been at removing the CO2 emitted by volcanoes, thereby allowing high CO2 levels and warm climates at times, like in the Cretaceous, or lower CO2 levels and a cool climate when plate tectonics was building lots of “kinetic-limited” mountainous landscapes, like over the last few million years.
Wow, so when there are more mountains, more CO2 is drawn down as there's more terrain to expose the rock for weathering
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grocery products are clearly labelled with their respective carbon footprints
- Clear climate impact communication
- applied to grocery products
- clearly labelled with their respective = carbon footprints
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= creative carbon footprint labeling gamifies Paris Agreement - grocery story that did an experiment - opened a test popup grocery store in the retail district of Stockholm - where all grocery items were labeled with its carbon footprint - customers were issues CO2e currency - using IPCC guideline that - weekly grocery shop carbon footprint < 18.9 kg CO2e to be aligned with Paris Agreement - customers must stay under 18.9 kg CO2e
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tackling global poverty will not overshoot global carbon budgets, as is often claimed. Failure to address the power and privilege of the polluter elite will. These are related because reducing carbon consumption at the top can free up carbon space to lift people out of poverty.
- report shows that tackling global poverty will not overshoot global carbon budgets, as is often claimed.
- Failure to address the power and privilege of the polluter elite will.
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These are related because
- reducing carbon consumption at the top
- can free up carbon space to lift people out of poverty.
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people on low incomes within developed countries are contributing less to the climate crisis, while rich people in developing countries have much bigger carbon footprints than was previously acknowledged.
= comment - It has been a research claim for SRG for years that this is the case, - and is also rather obvious that - carbon inequality exists wherever there is wealth inequality - our more interesting analysis is the historical connection between colonialism and capitalism - As the explicit form of colonialism began to disappear for to progressive action, globalised, industrial capitalism began to emerge - the North/South divide created by colonialism began to plant the seed of the extractive logic of democratically into opportunist minds of every creed - in effect, the traditional colonialist perpetrator club, swung their doors wide open, inclusive now of non-white exploiters - there is now a North /South divide within each country
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The difference between the carbon emissions of the rich and the poor within a country is now greater than the differences in emissions between countries
- The difference between the carbon emissions of the rich and the poor
- within a country
- is now greater than the differences in emissions
- between countries
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Understanding human perception by human-made illusions
!- Title : Understanding human perception by human-made illusions !- Author : Claus-Christian Carbon !- year. : 2014
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