From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Sep 1 00:02:00 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 01:02:00 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?Note_from_New_Orleans=3A_During_Hurricane_?= =?utf-8?q?Ida=2C_the_levees_worked_=E2=80=93_for_now?= Message-ID: <384DF418AAF54786BAA55CE53FA2426A@evol.sp.ru> Note from New Orleans: During Hurricane Ida, the levees worked ? for now As the sun rose over New Orleans on Monday, the winds and the rain had finally stopped, and all was quiet but for the scrabble of debris underfoot as neighbors came together in the streets to assess the damage. https://bellona.org/news/climate-change/2021-08-note-from-new-orleans-during-hurricane-ida-the-levees-worked-for-now From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Sep 1 15:32:08 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:32:08 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?The_end_of_leaded_fuel=2C_slashing_methane?= =?utf-8?q?_emissions=E2=80=A6and_more?= Message-ID: The end of leaded fuel, slashing methane emissions?and more August 2021 Your guide to the top environmental stories of the month In this month?s issue we celebrate the end of leaded fuel production, explore why methane matters for climate change, and take you behind the scenes of an effort to save Bhutan?s tigers. Pollution Inside the 20-year campaign to rid the world of leaded fuel Starting this month, no vehicle in the world will legally be able to run on a tank full of lead-infused petrol. UNEP led two decades of science, education and policy work to cease production of the toxic fuel that was crippling our lungs and healthcare systems. Read more Pollution Why curbing methane is key in the battle against climate change Molecule for molecule, the gas has 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide. On the eve of the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, we look at where methane comes from and what can be done about it. Read more Biodiversity In Bhutan, a push to bring tigers back from the brink The mountain kingdom is among the last refuges of the big cats, whose numbers have plunged 97 per cent since the start of the 20th century. Read more Climate change How tweaking your diet can help save the planet A growing body of evidence suggests the food we eat is contributing to climate change, propelling pollution and imperiling endangered species. Ahead of the landmark United Nations Food Systems Summit on 23 September, here are seven ways you can reduce the environmental toll of your diet. Read more Water Sierra Leone takes aim at water pollution The West African country of 7 million is among a host of developing states that are ratcheting up efforts to tame pollution in their lakes and rivers. Read more Ecosystems Why indigenous know-how is crucial to the planet?s future Some communities have lived in harmony with nature for millennia. That experience, say experts, could help put the world on a greener path. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Sep 2 01:35:06 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 02:35:06 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Afghanistan: Beyond the deadline Message-ID: <0C3EFC2E5E144EC2BB86D220BA197F42@lewpostnew> Dear friends, A young female journalist forced into hiding in Afghanistan had one request for those listening around the world.?Please pray for me?, she asked.Her life had been obliterated overnight -- she could no longer write under her own name, or say where she was. She didn't know if she?d see her family again, or whether she?d even survive.She?s not alone. Since the US announced they?re leaving and the Taliban swept across Afghanistan, thousands are living in fear and hiding underground. Some have clung onto airplanes in a desperate bid to escape, and devastating bomb attacks, followed by a US drone strike, killed more than a hundred people in Kabul.Our movement cannot look away.The ultimatum for foreign troops to leave the country expired just yesterday. Yet a group of organisations and activists are determined to keep delivering critical services even beyond this deadline, despite the risks to them and their colleagues. But they need our urgent support and they need it now.Millions of us are getting this email -- if only a few of us chipped in, we could help provide food and life-saving medical supplies to the most vulnerable, keep hospitals, maternity wards and safehouses open, and even help those most at risk reach safety.Chip in now -- 100% of the funds we raise will go to groups doing all they can to help protect Afghan lives: You might have thought about donating to our fundraiser to help protect Afghan lives, but didn't in the end. We rarely resend emails like this, but with the last of foreign evacuation flights leaving this week and an intensifying humanitarian crisis on the ground, every bit of support can make a difference. 100% of funds we raise will go to help brave groups doing the best they can to help those most at risk -- click below to chip in now: Dear friends, A young female journalist forced into hiding in Afghanistan had one request for those listening around the world. ?Please pray for me?, she asked. Her life had been obliterated overnight -- she could no longer write under her own name, or say where she was. She didn't know if she?d see her family again, or whether she?d even survive. She?s not alone. Since the US announced they?re leaving and the Taliban swept across Afghanistan, thousands are living in fear and hiding underground. Some have clung onto airplanes in a desperate bid to escape, and devastating bomb attacks, followed by a US drone strike, killed more than a hundred people in Kabul. Our movement cannot look away. The ultimatum for foreign troops to leave the country expired just yesterday. Yet a group of organisations and activists are determined to keep delivering critical services even beyond this deadline, despite the risks to them and their colleagues. But they need our urgent support and they need it now. Millions of us are getting this email -- if only a few of us chipped in, we could help provide food and life-saving medical supplies to the most vulnerable, keep hospitals, maternity wards and safehouses open, and even help those most at risk reach safety. Chip in now -- 100% of the funds we raise will go to groups doing all they can to help protect Afghan lives: I'LL DONATE $2 I'LL DONATE $3 I'LL DONATE $4 I'LL DONATE $5 I'LL DONATE $8 OTHER AMOUNT The people of Afghanistan have been through more than most of us could ever imagine. Whole generations have been trapped in senseless wars and foreign invasion, kids born into conflict, refugee camps, or under brutally repressive rule. But many have fought for their most basic of rights -- the right for girls to go to school, women to go to work, and for all to live free from abuse. And now, they?re terrified they've been abandoned, and fear a Taliban government could see them lose everything they've poured blood, sweat, and tears into trying to build. It's not just foreign troops pulling out. Big aid donors have also frozen funds. But humanitarian aid, already desperately needed before the insurgency, is now absolutely critical to support the most vulnerable inside the country, providing urgent shelter from the Taliban, and getting Afghans to safety. That?s where we come in. If enough of us chip in today, we can: a.. fund groups delivering food, water, shelter, and medical supplies to vulnerable communities and those displaced; b.. support local refugee responses in neighbouring countries and elsewhere welcoming thousands of refugees; c.. keep hospital units and maternity wards open offering medical assistance in sometimes hard to access areas; d.. support organisations offering legal assistance with asylum applications and other protection pathways; e.. help local women?s groups organising a wide escape route, and setting up safehouses for women and girls in danger. Let?s stand with all those Afghans fearful for their lives right now. They need solidarity from people all across the globe like never before. Let?s not let them down -- chip in now: I'LL DONATE $2 I'LL DONATE $3 I'LL DONATE $4 I'LL DONATE $5 I'LL DONATE $8 OTHER AMOUNT This community has come together in so many moments of crisis and supported those on the frontlines, at risk of losing their lives. Whether it?s getting urgent food and medical supplies to vulnerable and forgotten communities during Covid-19, providing life-saving support to those caught up in conflicts in Yemen, or standing with Maasai communities facing hunger, we?ve refused to look away. Let?s stand with Afghanistan today. With hope and gratitude, Sarah, Marigona, John, Mouhamad, Adela, Aloys, Will, Bert and the entire Avaaz team Note: The situation in Afghanistan is highly unstable, requiring groups to constantly reassess their operations and timelines. If we can't use the money we raise to help Afghans because of that, we'll be in touch with other options for repurposing those funds or to offer you a refund. More information: a.. ?Please pray for me?: female reporter being hunted by the Taliban tells her story (The Guardian) b.. Afghanistan: Taliban say August 31 deadline for troop withdrawals a 'red line' (Euronews) c.. How the Taliban stormed across Afghanistan in ten days (BBC) d.. Afghans cling to moving US Air Force jet in desperate bid to flee (AL-Jazeera) e.. U.S. on alert for more attacks, death toll rises from Kabul airport carnage (Reuters) Avaaz is a 65-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. 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Sign Now On the last weekend of August 2021, Hurricane Ida made landfall in the state of Louisiana with 150 mph winds, torrential rains, and devastating flooding. Hurricane Ida was a category 4 hurricane ? to put that in perspective, infamous Katrina was a category 3. The images and videos coming out of the area are heartbreakingly bleak ? entire neighborhoods flooded. Receding waters show partially or entirely demolished homes. The death toll being reported is sure to rise as utility outages continue and aid remains scarce. As of Tuesday, August 31, over one million people were without electricity while summer temperatures remain dangerously high. With scorching heat and limited emergency services, disabled people will have trouble keeping medical devices working and medicines stored safely. Disabled and non-disabled people alike will be in danger of heat stroke and may not have enough food or clean water. Clean water, working sewage systems, and other basic utilities were said not to be guaranteed in these areas. Meanwhile, those who were thankfully able to evacuate the area before the hurricane are now stranded, told not to return because it's not yet safe. But unless they have unlimited funds and family or friends elsewhere who can take them in, staying away is just as difficult a proposition. Victims and evacuees desperately need help, and fast. Sign the petition to demand the U.S. government allot more resources towards helping these evacuees and people suffering in the aftermath of this natural disaster! Thank you, Lauren The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Millions are without power, many are without basic necessities or proper sewage services, and others are stranded far from home with nowhere to go. 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Message-ID: <5650704F398140FF87279B778357A68C@lewpostnew> Dear friends, In 24h, President Macron will open the largest conservation gathering since Covid-19 hit us -- and today Avaaz placed this hard-hitting ad in the Financial Times calling on him to listen to science, to Indigenous wisdom and the youth, and push for a strong Motion 101 to conserve at least half of the planet's lands and seas by 2030 at this week's #IUCNCongress in Marseille, France.Our survival is at stake. The only leaders that can truly keep us safe, who will ensure the survival of our planet and our children are the ones who listen, listen to science, listen to Indigenous people, listen to women and marginalized communities, and listen to our youth.This is the moment for real ambition -- and France has a golden opportunity to rise to this challenge.So let's make this the most viral tweet of the day, with thousands of likes and RTs using the hashtag #IUCNCongress until it's impossible to ignore! Click here to retweet first, then consider writing your own tweet with a personal message:RetweetAvaaz's Tweet Dear friends, In 24h, President Macron will open the largest conservation gathering since Covid-19 hit us -- and today Avaaz placed this hard-hitting ad in the Financial Times calling on him to listen to science, to Indigenous wisdom and the youth, and push for a strong Motion 101 to conserve at least half of the planet's lands and seas by 2030 at this week's #IUCNCongress in Marseille, France. Our survival is at stake. The only leaders that can truly keep us safe, who will ensure the survival of our planet and our children are the ones who listen, listen to science, listen to Indigenous people, listen to women and marginalized communities, and listen to our youth. This is the moment for real ambition -- and France has a golden opportunity to rise to this challenge. So let's make this the most viral tweet of the day, with thousands of likes and RTs using the hashtag #IUCNCongress until it's impossible to ignore! Click here to retweet first, then consider writing your own tweet with a personal message: Retweet Avaaz's Tweet Here are some tips of what you can say for your own tweet: 1.. Earth is warming faster than we thought. We must conserve at least half of the planet by 2030 to stay below 1.5?C degrees temperature rise. President @EmmanuelMacron @barbarapompili @b_abba -- will you support #Motion101ForHalf at the #IUCNCongress? 2.. I urge you @EmmanuelMacron to vote #Motion101ForHalf to conserve at least half the planet at the #IUCNCongress - over one million species could go extinct in the next fifty years if we don't act urgently 3.. We can't waste time ignoring science President @EmmanuelMacron @barbarapompili @b_abba: #Motion101ForHalf must include protecting and conserving at least 50% of the planet! We can?t compromise with less than that. #IUCNCongress 4.. Enough of political compromises: @EmmanuelMacron @barbarapompili @b_abba will you back a science-based target during the #IUCNCongress and support #Motion101ForHalf or put the planet's survival in even greater risk? 5.. Passing Motion 101 to conserve at least half the planet can set a science-based ambition for the rest of the world - science must be the North star. #Motion101ForHalf @EmmanuelMacron @barbarapompili @b_abba 6.. Use your own words, and don't forget to use the Twitter handles for President Macron and his Minister of Ecological Transition: @EmmanuelMacron @barbarapompili @b_abba and hashtags #Motion101ForHalf #IUCNCongress Step 1 - Retweet Avaaz Step 2 - Write your own Tweet When Covid hit the world, we were stranded in a different reality, and the many crises of our time never felt so close to all of us. Our planet is crying for help. We can't allow our governments to go back to "normal". It's time to do all we can to ensure science guides us in these turbulent times, before we lose the planet, and all the incredible life in it. With hope and determination, Diego, Marta, Oscar and the entire team at Avaaz PS - here is a copy of the ad: More information: The hottest number in conservation is rooted more in politics than science https://www.vox.com/22369705/biden-conservation-biodiversity-collapse-30-by-30 Protecting half of the planet is the best way to fight climate change and biodiversity loss ? we?ve mapped the key places to do it https://theconversation.com/protecting-half-of-the-planet-is-the-best-way-to-fight-climate-change-and-biodiversity-loss-weve-mapped-the-key-places-to-do-it-144908 A ?Global Safety Net? to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth?s climate. Science advances, 6(36), eabb2824. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabb2824 Humans ?pushing Earth close to tipping point?, say most in G20 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/16/three-quarters-g20-earth-close-to-tipping-point-global-survey-climate-crisis "A million threatened species? Thirteen questions and answers" https://ipbes.net/news/million-threatened-species-thirteen-questions-answers Avaaz is a 65-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. You became a member of the Avaaz movement and started receiving these emails when you signed "Join Avaaz!" on 2013-08-06. 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Sign Now Ann Arbor, Michigan just made history by becoming the first city in the entire Midwestern United States to completely ban the sale of newly made fur products ? for which animals are confined, tortured, neglected, and ultimately slaughtered. The physical and behavioral issues inherent to animals on fur farms, such as mink or foxes, are haunting ? animals born into filthy, tight cages are crowded together. They are injured in accidents or fights, and their wounds, missing limbs, and infections go widely untreated. The stressful, unnatural setting of these farms leads to behaviors like self mutilation, cannibalism of fellow dead animals, and stress-related behaviors like pacing, circling, or depression creating a sort of comatose withdrawal from life itself. And that is just what the animals go through when they are alive. To harvest their skin and fur, people stoop to the lowest, most gruesome methods ? these poor babies are gassed, their necks broken, or they are electrocuted with devices inserted into their anuses or genitals. These unreliable methods often leave these animals alive but in immeasurable pain as they are skinned alive. Fur products are totally unnecessary when you consider how much misery goes into making them ? not to mention, these farms are hotbeds for COVID-19 outbreaks, a disease that originally began in animals before ravaging people. That's why we are calling on three more midwestern cities to follow Ann Arbor's lead. Sign the petition joining us in asking Chicago, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee to put a huge stopper in the demand for fur products and ban their sale! These three cities must take a page out of Ann Arbor's book, for the welfare of animals and people alike. Thank you, Lauren The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Fur products just aren't worth the cruelty. 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Next month, the dream of carbon air capture will take an important step toward reality as an industrial facility in Iceland becomes the latest of a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But ? as Yale Envrionment 360's Jon Gertner finds out ? major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed and play a key role in tackling climate change. In early September, at a facility located about 25 miles southeast of Reykjavik, Iceland, the Swiss company Climeworks will mark the opening of a new project named ?Orca?. At least in a conventional sense, Orca doesn?t actually make anything. It is comprised of eight elongated boxes that resemble wood-clad tanks. Each of these boxes ? known as ?collectors? ? is roughly the size of a tractor trailer, and each is festooned with 12 whirring fans that draw a stream of air inside. Within the collectors, a chemical agent known as a sorbent will capture CO2 contained in the air wafting through. Periodically, the surface of the sorbent will fill up. And at that point the CO2 trapped within it will need to be released. At Orca, this task is accomplished with a blast of heat, which is sourced from a nearby hydrothermal vent. The extracted CO2 will then be piped from the collector boxes to a nearby processing facility, where it will be mixed with water and diverted to a deep underground well. And there it will rest. Underground. Forever, presumably. The carbon dioxide captured from the Icelandic air will react with basalt rocks and begin a process of mineralisation that takes several years, but it will never function as a heat-trapping atmospheric gas again. Climeworks maintains that Orca, once it?s running around the clock, will remove up to 4,000 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. And there isn?t much reason to doubt the facility can achieve this feat. For one thing, the technology for the plant, known as direct air capture, or DAC, is a variation on ideas that have been utilised over the course of half a century in submarines and spacecraft: Employ chemical agents to ?scrub? the excess CO2 out of the air; dispose of it; then repeat. More to the point, perhaps, is the fact that Climeworks has already built smaller, less sophisticated plants in mainland Europe, which have in turn pulled hundreds of tons of CO2 per year from ambient air. What seems most significant about Orca, then, is how it represents the possibility that direct air capture has moved closer to something resembling a commercial business. Climeworks now has dozens of customers ? individual consumers who have purchased carbon removal services directly from the company, as well as corporations, like the insurance giant Swiss Re ? who will pay for the permanent carbon offsets that will be buried underneath Icelandic soil. What?s more, the Orca facility will be the largest functioning direct air capture plant in the world to date ? by the company?s estimation, it represents a ?scale-up? of its carbon removal efforts by about eighty-fold over the course of four years. And yet, Climeworks and Orca will likely soon be eclipsed. Plans for even larger DAC plants ? one in the US Southwest, slated for completion at the end of 2024; another in Scotland, to be finished about a year after the American project ? will be built by a competitor, Carbon Engineering, of British Columbia. Employing a somewhat different technology, Carbon Engineering?s facilities, as initially planned, will be powered by renewable energy and will eventually each remove, on net, about a million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere. ?In our view, this will decisively answer the question: Is direct air capture feasible at large scale and affordable cost,? Steve Oldham, the CEO of Carbon Engineering, told me recently. ?As I see it, we are out of academic research and feasibility and now into engineering reality.? Read the article -------------------------------------------------- Support SFB's mission Struggles From Below is very much a labour of love; one that we feel so privileged to be able to bring to you. But as with most labours, it comes at a cost to produce. If you value what we do and want to support the continuation and growth of the publication, we hope you'll consider becoming a sustaining patron. 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SumOfUs confronted HUGO BOSS about its involvement in these human rights violations in East Turkestan -- but the company refuses to take definitive measures to cut Uyghur forced labor from its supply chain. The fashion giant depends on its image as an expensive, luxury brand -- a scandal on forced labor would challenge this. Together we can publicly force HUGO BOSS to address the issues and to clean up its supply chain. HUGO BOSS are doing everything to keep the lid on this dirty secret, let?s make sure everyone knows the company is enabling repression. Tell HUGO BOSS to stop profiting from human rights abuses and cut forced labor out of its supply chain! East Turkestan is one of the largest cotton production and export regions and produces 20% of the world?s cotton. According to the Australian Policy Institute, BOSS and other global fashion brands, work with suppliers that employ Uyghur forced laborers. Our friends at the End Forced Uyghur Labour Coalition demand that HUGO BOSS signs the call to action and have identified immediate steps that HUGO BOSS must take to end labor exploitation in East Turkestan: 1.. Close collaboration with relevant organizations, to put an end to the human rights abuses in East Turkestan within a concrete timeframe 2.. Total transparency along the supply chain, inclusive of all sub-suppliers that are based in and outside of East Turkestan 3.. Taking appropriate action, such as the termination of trade relations to keep HUGO BOSS? supply chain free of forced labor Can you help them to meet their demands? SumOfUs members have successfully stood with Uyghurs in the past: last year, together, we forced Apple to take steps to uphold human rights and to protect the freedom of expression of its users in China. Today, you can get HUGO BOSS to protect the rights of Uyghurs. 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Thank you for taking the time to read through this edition of the Fossil Free Newsletter. We appreciate you. In solidarity, Christine In Case You Missed It Let's Say it From a Mountain Top #StopTheMoneyPipeline Put your hands up if you ever dreamed about organizing an action with a huge banner dropping from a mountain top. Well, we did it! We partnered with Protect Our Winters, ski mountaineer Zahan Billmoria and his son Aloysha, and professional skier, Kai Jones who dropped a 6x18 meter banner on the summit of Mount Teewinot, Wyoming. Our demands from the #FossilFreeFed campaign remains, we want President Biden to nominate a climate leader as Chair of the Federal Reserve. And for the Federal Reserve to account for climate risks to phase out fossil fuel finance across the economy. Sow Hope, Reap Solidarity The Asia Solidarity Lab successfully brought together leaders, activists and people-powered movements to connect in Asia. We came together to explore how we can genuinely stand in solidarity with each other?s fights, uplift local struggles and unite our calls towards regenerative movement-building for the good of all. We had over 20 partners producing with us a total of 32 learning and strategy sessions, 5 plenary panels, 6 cultural pieces and 1 closing action: the Asia Solidarity Lab manifesto! It was a wonderful and diverse event, with more than 500 participants from 50 countries. We are committed to continuing to build people power through intersectional organizing and movement-building, recognizing that our struggles and solutions are linked and campaigning for justice on all fronts. If you missed the Lab, no worries ? most of the panels were recorded and will be available here. Let?s Dance for Climate Change Let's dance! Our Indonesia team has created a fun, exciting approach to raise awareness about the climate crisis with a dance competition to show solidarity for the KPOP fans. We want all KPOPers in Indonesia to raise their voice on the impact of the fossil fuels industry. The demand is simple, #NineTenMustEnd and the South Korean government must stop funding the Java 9 and 20 coal plants. The stage is set and we must join the movement. BP is out of the Game! The big oil giant BP sponsored Channel 4 's primetime coverage of the Paralympics, but thanks to people speaking out and mobilising against their involvement, they got dropped. This fantastic news came after a campaign we did on this together with Culture Unstained. The broadcaster made the right decision and will be on the right side of history and said no to money from the climate-wrecking company BP. Use Your Power Transforming Eskom: Africa?s Biggest Polluter The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) is blocking the flow of energy into the South African democracy. It's about time that the citizens benefited from renewable energy that is affordable, creates jobs, is socially owned and above all...sustainable. Don?t miss out as 350 Africa call on the DMRE and demand a just energy future for South Africa. There is no future in dirty energy! Join the action or help us amplify it, and #UprootTheDMRE Climate Impacts The destructive wake of Hurricane Ida Hurricane Ida made landfall along the Louisiana coast on Sunday, 29 August, 2021 as a Category 4 storm. A dreadful climate emergency resulting in severe weather conditions leaving a trail of destruction in the communities. We can not go back to business as usual. This heartbreaking event is another reminder that we need to move away from fossil fuels immediately! Tropical storms in Haiti Haiti was hit by a deadly 7.2 magnitude earthquake just over 2 weeks ago, which followed heavy rains and powerful winds. Again, the impacts of climate change impact the most vulnerable harder. 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Any resources we spend on nuclear ? whether bailing out old reactors or subsidizing new ones ? is time, money, and jobs wasted. Tell the White House and Congress ? No Nuclear Power in the Infrastructure Plans! Congress and the White House are proposing investments in nuclear energy that would divert tens of billions from safer, cleaner, more emissions-reducing, and more job-producing energy sources. We can?t let the nuclear industry steal resources from actual climate solutions in order to subsidize dirty, unjust, uneconomical, and experimental energy systems that fail to enact the just transition we need and deserve. The infrastructure bills will do more for climate, jobs, and justice without a nuclear bailout and reactor subsidies, by simply investing in the transition to 100% renewable energy. Take Action for Our Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Future We can invest in the carbon-free, renewable energy future we need ? and we must. Wrangling greenhouse emissions and taking swift, effective action to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis is the most urgent task facing Congress and the White House. This week, we are asking you to send a message to your members of Congress, President Biden, and Vice-President Harris telling them to keep corrupt and unnecessary nuclear subsidies out of the American Jobs and Families Plan. Tell Congress and the White House NO to nuclear distractions and YES to the transition to 100% renewable energy! Take Action Now Bonus! Read the latest GreenWorld blog on how billions for nuclear R&D could cost us the climate. Read more... Thanks for all you do! The NIRS Team Diane D?Arrigo Denise Jakobsberg Tim Judson Ann McCann Hannah Smay Donate Connect with us: Facebook Twitter Instagram Support our work with a purchase of a t-shirt! Shop now. 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Leading a grassroots conservation project in the Global South ? Partnering with communities to inspire action ? Seeking to scale up science-led solutions ? Delivering impactful work for which funding and international recognition could be game-changing Applications are open until 31 October 2021! What is a Whitley Award? Whitley Awards are our flagship prizes. They support mid-career conservationists championing grassroots action that benefits people, wildlife and the climate. These coveted prizes are won competitively following assessment by an expert judging panel and are presented by our Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, at an annual ceremony, which we hope to hold in London in spring 2022. What do Whitley Award winners receive? ? ?40,000 project funding over one year ? Media spotlight ? Training and career development support ? Membership of a peer network with more than 200 alumni across 80 countries ? 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Secret studies were the reason the European Union re-licensed cancer-linked glyphosate for another five years back in 2017. And Monsanto fought tooth and nail to keep things that way. But this stops now. If enough members like you chip in, we can hire independent scientists to sift through the industry's bogus new research and prove once and for all: the EU should immediately ban glyphosate! But we need to be quick: with renewal coming up fast, we need to use it to get the EU to act now and ban glyphosate. Are you in? Can you chip in to expose Monsanto and Bayer and stop glyphosate for good? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $3 now Donate another amount It's really incredible: until the court decision, not even European parliament members had seen these studies. The European Food Safety Authority just refused to give anyone access -- saying that it "could harm the commercial interests of companies that presented the studies." You and I both know what this means: Monsanto didn't want anyone -- least of all credible scientists -- to take a closer look, because it would mean the end of its toxic, cancer-linked weedkiller in Europe, and then around the world. But the court ruling changed all this. And it left Bayer-Monsanto shaking in its boots. That?s why it had lobbyists fighting tooth and nail to stop the research ever seeing the light of day. And that?s why, in the first renewal decision since the ruling, we need to take advantage of this new reality. This is our chance to ban glyphosate for good. But we can only do it if we have enough funds for top scientists to go through the research, page by page. This could be the breakthrough we need to get Monsanto?s toxic pesticide banned here, there and everywhere. Are you in? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $3 now Donate another amount Thanks for all that you do, Eoin and the SumOfUs team -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: Corporate studies asserting herbicide safety show many flaws, new analysis finds. The Guardian. 2 July 2021. The Glyphosate Story So Far. CEO, HEAL, Global2000 and PAN Germany. 5 July 2021. SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Eoin Dubsky, SumOfUs Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2021 3:02 PM Subject: Monsanto's worst fear -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We encourage groups and individuals to organize events to advance this message on or about the International Day of Peace during Climate Week, September 21, 2021, as well as on or about the big day of action in Glasgow on November 4, 2021. Resources and ideas for events are here. Get your sky-blue scarf for International Day of Peace! WBW Podcast Episode 28: The Life of Activism with Jodie Evans: LISTEN HERE. Upcoming events list. New Activism Webpage: check it out! Get dressed for peace! Upcoming: Sept. 7: Syria Sept. 11: Wars of Terror Sept. 18: Code Red Planet All past webinar videos. Art by Leah Bolger. Enter Photo Contest! World BEYOND War Exposes War Mongering Corruption at Toronto Air Show. News from Around the World: What Ending a War Could Look Like $21 Trillion over 20 Years: Breaking New Report Analyzes the Full Cost of Militarization Since 9/11 How Successful Was the Global War on Terror? 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Sep 8 01:44:47 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 02:44:47 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Cadbury Message-ID: <0B54DD4349C547A693CB6D874A0926C4@evol.sp.ru> The ?orangutan capital of the world? is being torn to shreds for cheap palm oil, and the maker of Cadbury, Oreo and Ritz is buying it up to sell snacks. The ?orangutan capital of the world? is being torn to shreds for cheap palm oil, and the maker of Cadbury, Oreo and Ritz is buying it up to sell snacks. Tell snack giant Mondel?z to cut ties with the company bulldozing this precious forest: Sign the petition The only place on Earth where orangutans, elephants, rhinos, and tigers live together is being ripped to shreds to make way for palm oil. Indonesia?s Leuser ecosystem is the ?orangutan capital of the world?, and it?s slowly dying as greedy companies like Mondel?z place profits above all. By sourcing from Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) -- one of the world?s most notorious forest-destroyers -- the maker of Cadbury, Oreo and Ritz is knowingly buying up the palm oil that?s killing this precious ecosystem. We know that RGE can?t afford to lose a buyer as big as Mondel?z -- so that?s where you come in. We need to create a huge outcry to show Mondel?z that consumers in every corner of the globe can see what it?s doing -- and want it to cut ties with this dirty palm oil. Will you add your name to save the orangutan capital of the world from palm oil devastation? The Leuser Ecosystem is a spectacular expanse of rare, intact rainforest. Once it?s gone, we?ll never get it back. Its rainforests and peatlands are an essential corridor for a herd of over 200 elephants -- one of the many species that are dying for palm oil. Since 2014, our friends at Rainforest Action Network have been exposing Mondel?z?s ties to the destruction of the orangutan capital of the world. Despite its warm words to clean up its palm oil problem it?s still buying from Leuser-destroyer Royal Golden Eagle. But Mondel?z has a weak spot: its brands like Oreo, Philadelphia, Ritz and Cadbury are in every store around the world, and it has a reputation to keep up. A giant global outcry could set off alarms bells at Mondel?z HQ -- and we need you to make that happen: Add your name to stop Mondel?z destroying the orangutan capital of the world. You?ve got an incredible track record of winning against palm oil offenders. Since 2014 we?ve forced companies like McDonald?s, Dunkin? Donuts, and Starbucks to commit to no-deforestation palm oil policies. Together, we can clean up the palm oil industry and force Mondel?z to drop this dirty palm oil from its supply chains. But this fight is bigger than Mondel?z. It?s the world?s third biggest maker of chocolates. If we force this industry laggard to clean up its act, it?ll have a domino effect on competitors like Ferrero. That?s why your help is so important -- can we count on you? Sign the petition Thanks for all that you do, Anna, Fatah and the team at SumOfUs More information: Indonesian Forestry Titan Royal Golden Eagle Remains a Major Roadblock to Progress in Saving Leuser Ecosystem. Rainforest Action Network. 23 June 2021. Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand: Report. Eco-Business. 25 June 2021. Royal Golden Eagle Group Links Global Brands and Financiers to Deforestation In the Leuser Ecosystem. Rainforest Action Network. 21 September 2020. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. 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Sprayed on fruits and vegetables, these intentionally deadly chemicals harm immigrant workers who are forced to apply the pesticides, as well as children all over the U.S. who eat poison-slicked produce. Luckily, the EPA just took a huge step in the right direction by banning the use of an extremely potent pesticide called chlorpyrifos on our fruits and vegetables. Now, we want the EPA to keep this important momentum going. Chlorpyrifos works by attacking insects' nervous systems ? and scientists now have 10 years of research showing that it attacks human children's neurological systems too. But it isn't the only dangerous pesticide. Imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin are also commonplace toxins, used routinely on produce, grains, and more. They've been linked to the death of pollinators like bees and various endangered species. If we're really going to value the health and safety of children and wildlife, we need to ban all such toxic chemicals. Tell the EPA to prohibit the use of imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, and clothianidin to keep our kids, bees, and ecosystems healthy! Thank you for all that you do, Miranda The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Banning chlorpyrifos is a huge win for farm workers who organized to protect their families from this dangerous toxin. Now the EPA must ban imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, and clothianidin, too! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2021 11:18 AM Subject: Sprayed on fruits and grains, these pesticides are harming children and bees alike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dear Avaaz community, I?m writing to you as the leader of more than 500 Indigenous nations across the Amazon to ask for your support.Days ago, I left my home, my family, and my mother, the Amazon rainforest, to attend the world?s biggest conservation summit and deliver an urgent call to protect at least half the planet, including 80% of the Amazon.We MUST protect the forests, rivers, and oceans that sustain us all, from the Amazon to Africa and Indonesia. Our survival depends on it. But too many of our leaders are still blinded by short-term political compromises -- refusing to stop our forests from burning, our rivers from dying, and thousands and thousands of species going extinct.So we?re taking a stand. We?re only a handful of indigenous leaders here, but if millions across the world back us, we can wake them up!So join me now, and I will use my speech to governments to deliver our voices in the heart of the negotiations, urging them to protect our homelands and at least half the Earth -- before it's too late: I am writing to you personally as the leader of more than 500 Indigenous nations. I'm at the world's largest conservation summit, fighting for Indigenous rights and the goal of protecting half the planet, including 80% of the Amazon. But ambition is being throttled by politics, and we?re only a handful of indigenous leaders here, but if millions of citizens back our call, we can wake them up! I will personally deliver our voices to all Members of the IUCN, calling on them to protect our homelands and at least half the planet to ensure life on Earth thrives. Click to join and tell everyone! Click here Dear Avaaz community, I?m writing to you as the leader of more than 500 Indigenous nations across the Amazon to ask for your support. Days ago, I left my home, my family, and my mother, the Amazon rainforest, to attend the world?s biggest conservation summit and deliver an urgent call to protect at least half the planet, including 80% of the Amazon. We MUST protect the forests, rivers, and oceans that sustain us all, from the Amazon to Africa and Indonesia. Our survival depends on it. But too many of our leaders are still blinded by short-term political compromises -- refusing to stop our forests from burning, our rivers from dying, and thousands and thousands of species going extinct. So we?re taking a stand. We?re only a handful of indigenous leaders here, but if millions across the world back us, we can wake them up! So join me now, and I will use my speech to governments to deliver our voices in the heart of the negotiations, urging them to protect our homelands and at least half the Earth -- before it's too late: Click here to join and tell everyone My people have defended the Amazon for generations. But it's not just the Amazon -- Indigenous communities are responsible for protecting 80% of the world's biodiversity. Without our wisdom, our customary practices and our dedication to Mother nature, life on Earth is at greater risk -- day and night, we are risking our lives to defend what's left of nature. That's why I refuse to go back to my home with empty promises from our governments. This is a chance for us to create a beautiful, new relationship with nature, honouring the great web of life, on which we are all entirely dependent. Humanity is driving the next mass extinction, which means we can stop it -- if we all act together. This is the first time we, Indigenous people, have a voice and a vote at the IUCN Congress -- and I will fight tooth and nail to ensure our leaders hear the people and the planet speaking through them. Click to join, and help us reach 3 million people backing the call to save nature, while we still can: Click here to join and tell everyone We, the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, have a long history with Avaaz. This community has been instrumental in our fight to protect the world's biggest rainforest, home to more than 500 Indigenous nations. We are stronger together, hand in hand, and now we have a unique chance to deliver a joint message in the corridors of power. Join now. With hope and determination, Gregorio Mirabal, General Coordinator of the COICA (Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin), together with Avaaz More information: a.. Could we set aside half the Earth for nature? (The Guardian) b.. Nature needs half c.. UN Secretary-General calls for bold action to end biodiversity crisis (UN) d.. Nature crisis: Humans 'threaten 1m species with extinction' (BBC) Avaaz is a 65-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. You became a member of the Avaaz movement and started receiving these emails when you signed "Join Avaaz!" on 2012-05-15. To ensure that Avaaz messages reach your inbox, please add avaaz at avaaz.org to your address book. To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. 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We work with diplomats, politicians, lawyers, corporate leaders, NGOs, indigenous and faith groups (see below), influencers, academic experts, grassroots campaigns and individuals to this end. So much has happened since the launch of the legal definition of ecocide in June that we?ve decided to provide you with a concise ?round-up? of key moments over the last 3 months. We trust this will give a flavour of the political momentum gathering around ecocide law. TUES, JuN 15 Baroness (Natalie) Bennett of Manor Castle, former leader of the UK Green Party, submits an ecocide amendment to the UK Environment Bill. This is the first time a potential crime of ecocide has been been recorded in a UK government bill, Read More Sun, Jun 20 Bangladeshi parliamentary committee on the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change recommends adding a provision to the Code of Criminal Procedure or drafting a new legal framework to Read More Wed, Jun 23 Cross-party support has been gathered for a motion to the Scottish parliament submitted by MSP Monica Lennon welcoming the new definition of ecocide. Read More Sat, Jul 03 Antigua & Barbuda?s Ambassador to the US Sir Ronald Sanders and Sir Shridath Rampal, international lawyer and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, welcome the legal definition of ecocide. Read More Sat, Jul 03 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced his support for an international crime of ecocide. Read More Tue, Jul 06 A second amendment has been submitted by Baroness (Natalie) Bennett of Manor Castle to the UK Environment Bill, this one using the full definition elaborated by the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition . Read More Wed, Aug 18 Chilean parliamentarians launch bill consisting of an amendment to the Chilean penal code to introduce a new crime of ecocide which is directly based on the new definition. Read More Tue, Aug 24 France?s Climate & Resilience Act, passed this week, includes ecocide in not one, but two contexts. Read More Guardrail and guidance system Progressing this law is about more than politics. It serves to reflect, in the global legal system, a simple factual truth: when we damage the Earth, there are consequences. We see it as a legal guardrail, a health and safety law for the planet, if you will. And as the law approaches, whatever our age, work, or walk of life, we can treat it as a guidance system, supporting healthy innovation and adjustment in all sectors of industry, society and education. We already know that profound changes are needed to bring humanity back within a safe operating space. Ecocide law provides a clear parameter to help that happen. ACT NOW / DONATE / MORE INFO WATCH: Jojo Mehta on Ecocide. This piece was recorded by invitation for the Commonwealth Law Conference: Sustainable Justice held in Nassau, The Bahamas from 5th ? 9th September 2021. Faith for Ecocide Law: Launch Interfaith call for Ecocide Law. September 16th. ONLINE conference. Gathering voices from faith communities and spiritual traditions calling for Ecocide law: a practical and powerful step for a duty of care for the Earth. 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SIGN THE PETITION California, Southern France, Algeria, Greece, Siberia... Our forests are burning and bankers are fanning the flames by financing the soy industry?s relentless expansion in the Amazon. Last February, your mobilization forced France?s biggest bank to reduce its financing of deforestation -- but one bank?s timid efforts are far from enough in the face of the emergency. We need to get the Europe?s top banks to quit financing deforestation, to really give the Amazon and other forests a fighting chance. This week we have the perfect opportunity to directly address them: one of the two major biodiversity meetings before the COP26 on climate is happening right now and it brings together major financial actors and governments. Let?s show these banks that you refuse to let them reduce our planet to ashes: Demand Barclays, ING Group and BNP Paribas to stop financing climate chaos! It?s an emergency. We are reaching the point of no return. In Brazil alone, Amazon deforestation has increased by 57% this year and more than half of the Cerrado savanna forest has been torn down to make way for endless soy plantations. Soybean traders have no respect for these centuries-old trees or unique species, even less for Indigenous peoples, who have been persecuted and forced off their ancestral lands. Make no mistake, Vladimir, it is the banks' financial support that enables the soy companies to commit these appalling abuses. In just four years, these European banks alone have poured over ?755 million into the riskiest activities of the worst soybean traders*. Their complicity must end now! Tell Barclays, ING Group and BNP Paribas to stop financing the destruction of our precious forests for the sake of our planet. Between September and December, three important meetings on biodiversity and climate will take place: the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 and the UN climate COP26. Decision makers and financial actors from all over the world will be present and the saving of our planet will be at the heart of the debate. If enough of us raise our voices now, we can focus on these banks? responsibility and push them to change their policies by excluding destructive projects from their financing. You can push Barclays, ING Group, BNP Paribas and others to stop being deforestation accomplices, because you?ve done it before! You amongst other SumOfUs members have already forced giants like PepsiCo and McDonald's to take responsibility for deforestation. Will you again take a stand against those who want to destroy our planet for profit? Yes, I will add my name to demand that Barclays, ING Group and BNP Paribas stop financing the destruction of our precious forests. SIGN THE PETITION Thanks for all that you do, Leyla and the team at SumOfUs More information: *Forests&Finance, Data Deep Dive: soybean traders ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus between 2015 and 2019 Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits highest annual level in a decade The Guardian, 20 August 2021 (in French) Soja & deforestation: stop financial actors' complicity Report from Reclaim Finance, Canop?e, SumOfUs, Mighty Earth, October 2020 Feeding the European appetite for soy Rainforest Foundation Norway, November 2020 Banks urged to combat deforestation and halt biodiversity crisis The Independent, 12 January 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Leyla Larbi, SumOfUs Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2021 1:30 PM Subject: The ugly truth behind the fires -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Sep 9 15:01:10 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 16:01:10 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] World Circular Economy Forum 2021 Message-ID: <46289C74F21B4FB5A675122B641D0DA8@lewpostnew> World Circular Economy Forum 2021 WCEF2021 will focus on the system level changes, or ?game changers,? needed to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Hosted virtually from Canada on 13-15 September, WCEF2021 will offer three days packed with information, ideas and examples of the circular economy. ?????? ??????: https://leworld.org/tpost/op7hlhir61-world-circular-economy-forum-2021 From: Timur Idrisov Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2021 1:10 PM Subject: World Circular Economy Forum 2021 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have a unique chance to stop them. But time is running out. On Monday the European Parliament decides. This is our chance to stop fossil gas. SIGN THE PETITION We know that if we want a shot at saving our planet, we need to leave fossil fuels behind. And right now, we have a golden opportunity to do just that. The EU Commission has just said fossil gas should not be receiving billions in EU funding. [1] But for this to happen, we need four key Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to agree. The problem is, the gas industry has just played all the tricks in the book to impact their decision. [2] And time is running out. We only have until Monday before they will fix their position on funding fossil gas projects ? or not. The decision will shape our energy supply for decades to come. Our partners are setting up emergency meetings in Parliament to make the case for ending fossil gas funding. But their case would be so much stronger if they were backed by hundreds of thousands of people from across the continent. Only by coming together can we outbalance the gas industry that has been lobbying our EU leaders. Will you join us? SIGN TO KICK FOSSIL GAS OUT Right now, the EU is deciding the new rulebook for energy in Europe. If fossil gas is excluded in the new rules, fossil fuel giants won't get any more public money from the EU. This would be a huge blow to the industry and would stop many gas projects in their tracks! The economic logic that pushes for economic growth and corporate profit at the cost of people and the planet has to change. Fossil gas is a dangerous climate heating gas, a roadblock to real climate solutions. But the rich and powerful gas lobby claims the opposite. It has lobbied politicians to continue pumping money into their dirty projects. We now have a unique opportunity to push them back. We know that some members of the EU Parliament are already on our side. But we need to move four leaders in the Parliament to have a chance at stopping gas once and for all. SIGN TO KICK FOSSIL GAS OUT Together, the WeMove Europe community already helped to kick out gas and other polluting industries from the large EU COVID-19 recovery plan. [3] Now we can do it again. With hope, David (London), Annemarie (Berlin) and the entire WeMove Europe team P.S. Help us to push the gas lobby back. After you sign the petition, please write to the four powerful MEPs from your heart about why you want them to stop funding fossil gas and start protecting our planet instead. References: [1] The EU institutions are reviewing the energy infrastructure legislation (TEN-E) that defines so-called ?projects of common interests?. These are large cross country electricity and gas projects. If we don?t exclude fossil gas from the list, billions will flow into pipelines and also LNG terminals that import fracked gas from the United States. [2] The ?shadow rapporteurs? in the parliament are responsible for writing the report that will define the EU parliament's committee (ITRE) position. After the report is finished on Monday, there will be not much room for other parties or MEPs to impact the position. The rapporteurs that are still supporting gas are: Tom Berendsen (EPP) Netherlands, Erik Bergkvist (S&D) Sweden, Claudia Gamon (Renew) Austria, and Sandra Pereira (The Left/GUE) Portugal. A vote in parliament will happen later in September. [3] https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/recovery WeMove Europe is an independent and values-based organisation that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of our community, future generations and the planet. WeMove Europe is funded by donations from our community across Europe. 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Institute has supported the United Nations Secretary General and his executive office to deliver an action-oriented strategy to address these tremendous challenges. Together with partners, the Institute has provided inputs to the Secretary-General?s plan ? called Our Common Agenda ? released today at the General Assembly. The Agenda sets out the case for a comprehensive approach to tackling global challenges. It is forward-looking, emphasizing the need to build a sustainable world for future generations. It calls for networked multilateralism to protect our critical commons and global public goods. As part of this effort, the Institute is also releasing a report summarizing findings from a far-reaching global digital consultation held in 2021 designed to feed ideas into Our Common Agenda. The report ? Accelerating Inclusive Global Cooperation ? was developed with support from more than 30 civil society partners across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. It distills more than 520 proposals collected from over 1,750 representatives of civil society in over 140 countries. Inputs were received from leading NGOs, impact investors, philanthropists, parliamentarians, city leaders, academic institutions and under-represented groups such as minorities, migrants and conflict-affected communities. Among other things, civil society groups participating in digital consultation called for: a.. A global system that accounts for future generations and embraces inclusion; b.. The prioritization of climate change as a global priority with redoubled investment in climate action; c.. Much greater ambition from the UN through a reinvigorated multilateralism to avoid a global breakdown. The Institute is delighted to share the report ? Accelerating Inclusive Global Cooperation ? in multiple languages. It is a powerful expression of the expertise and experience of civil society to shape multilateral action. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sun Sep 12 20:01:04 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:01:04 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] [cenn] Act For Climate - Poster Competition for Graphic Designers Announced by CENN Within the Frame of the EU-supported Georgia Climate Program Message-ID: CENN, ???????????? ???????????? ??????????? ???????? ????????? ????????? ???????? ?????????? ???????? ????????-????????????????? ???????? ????????????! CENN, Within the Frame of the EU-supported Georgia Climate Program Announces a Poster Competition for Graphic Designers #Act4Climate CENN, ???????????? ???????????? ??????????? ???????? ????????? (GEO-CAP) ????????? ???????? ?????????? ???????? ????????-?????????????????! ????????? ???????????? ??????????? ???? ??????? ???????, ??????? ????????, ???????? ????????? ?????????, ???????????? ?? ??????? ???????? ?????; ?????????? ???????? ????????? ???????? ???????? ?? ??????? ????? ??????????????? ???????? ????????? ??????; ?????, ??????????? ???????????? ???????, ??????????? ?????????? ??????????? ???????? ?????? ???????? ????????? ????????? ????????? ???????????. ????????? ????????? ????????? ????????? ???????? ?????????? ????? ???????? ??????????. ??????????????, ??? ???????????? ????????????? ????????????? ???????????! ????????? ??????? ????? ??????? ??????, ??????? ?????????? ????????? ?? ?????????? ????????. ???????????? ????????? ???? ????: 7 ????????? 2021, 18:00 ?????. ????????? ????????? ??????? ??????????????? ???????? ?????? ?????: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M749auyoKJXOcg_A0O0n6xfIZdrNCZY6/view?usp=sharing ??????, ??????????? ???????????? ?????? ??-??????? Marie.kikvadze at cenn.org ???????? ??????????? ?????????. ??????????? ??? ???? ?????? ??????? ??????????: ??????, ?????, ????????? ?????? ?? ?????????? ??????. ????????? ??????? ???????????? 3 ????????????. I ?????? - 1,500 ????? ??????? ??????? II ?????? - 1,200 ????? ??????? ??????? III ?????? - 900 ????? ??????? ??????? ???????? ???????????? ????????????? ????????? ???????? ????????? ?????? ?????????: ? ????? ?????? ????????? ???????????????; ? ????????? ????????????; ? ??????????? ???????????; ? ???????????? ??????? ???????????; ? ??????????????????? ????????? / ?????????? ??????; ? ???? ??????? ?????????; ? ????????????? ?????????; ? ??????????? ?????? ???????????; ? ???? ?????????? ????, ???????? ?????, ??? ????????? ???????? ????????????, ????????? ?????????: ???????? ?????????, ???????????? ?? ???????? ???????? ?? ????. ???????? ??????????? ????????? ??????? ?????????????: ? ???????????? ????????????; ? ???????????????; ? ????????? ?????????. ????????? ????????? ??????? ???????????? ???????? 5 ??????????; ??????????? ?????????? ???? ???? ??????? ?????? ?? ?????. ????????? ???????????! ???????? ??????? ???????????? ????????? ??????????? ????????? ???????????? ???????? ?????????-?? ????????? ???????? ??????????? CENN, ??????? ????????? ??????????? ??????? (KRDF), ?????????? ????????? (ACU), ????-????????? ?? ????? ???????? ???????????? ??????????? ???????????? (RLS-ADA) ?? ?????????? ????????? ????????? (YPU) ??????????????. ???????? ??????? ?????????????????: ????????, ????????, ??????, ?????????, ???????, ???????, ????????, ????????, ??? ?? ??????????. ???????? ??????? ??????????? ?????????? ???????????? ?????????? ?? ????????? ?????????? ?? ???????????? ?????????????? ?????????? ?????? ?? ?????? ???????? ????????? ???????? ?????????????? ????????. CENN, within the frames of the EU-supported Georgia Climate Program (GEO-CAP) announces a poster competition for graphic designers! Those wishing to participate in the competition should submit a poster that shows the processes of climate change, challenges, and possible solutions. The poster should present the negative effects of climate change and reflect our attitudes towards climate change. It should also encourage the public to contribute to mitigating the negative effects of climate change through simple, daily actions. It is acceptable to submit any type of graphic design poster within the competition. Keep in mind that creative work is encouraged as much as possible! The competition aims to create a message that will visually fascinate and make the viewer think. The deadline for submission is: October 7, 2021, 18:00. For information about the terms of the competition, please see the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M749auyoKJXOcg_A0O0n6xfIZdrNCZY6/view?usp=sharing Please submit the works to the following e-mail: marie.kikvadze at cenn.org Entitled "Poster Competition" The works must contain the following information: name, surname, telephone number, and description of the work. 3 winners will be revealed as a result of the competition. I place - 1,500 GEL Zoomer voucher II place - 1,200 GEL Zoomer voucher III place - 900 GEL Zoomer voucher Climate change issues may include: ? Limited access to clean water; ? Natural disasters; ? Pollution of rivers; ? Sharp variability in temperature; ? Biodiversity reduction/species loss; ? Deforestation; ? Yield reduction; ? Atmospheric air pollution; ? Any other topics that you think are related to climate change, such as climate activism, youth and climate change, etc. Submitted works will be evaluated according with the following criteria: ? Compliance with the assignment; ? Creativity; ? Technical performance. Participants can submit a maximum of 5 posters; The name of the author must be indicated on the poster. WE WISH YOU GOOD LUCK! The competition is held under the European Union-supported Georgia Climate Action Program (GEO-CAP) that is implemented by CENN together with the Kakheti Regional Development Fund (KRDF), the Chiatura Union (ACU), the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Agrotourism Development Association (RLS-ADA), and the Young Pedagogue?s Union (YPU). The target municipalities of the project are Gurjaani, Sagarejo, Akhmeta, Zestaponi, Tkibuli, Chiatura, Lanchkhuti, Ozurgeti, Oni, and Ambrolauri. CENN is a member of the: This information was sent by info at cenn.org Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe | Editorial Policy | Privacy Policy. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of CENN, unless otherwise stated. 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But many people disagree, saying that making this official distinction may actually deter existing conservation efforts. Sign the petition if you want to keep pandas on China's list of endangered species until they are more stable! Pandas survival is still threatened by two other species: Chinese boars and rakins. Chinese boars like the eat young bamboo shoots, the food of choice for pregnant and lactating pandas. And it turns out pandas won't go into areas where boards are foraging for the shoots. Meanwhile, rakins disrupt panda mating rituals and both species carry potentially fatal diseases. In short, pandas are far from safe and although their numbers both in the wild and in captivity have grown, they are not stable enough to be removed from the endangered species list! Please sign the petition asking China to keep protecting panda bears! Thank you, Kelsey The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Pandas have been prematurely removed from the endangered species list. 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Sign the petition to tell Argentina to put a stop to this rampant fracking! Fracking necessarily creates toxic byproducts. Theoretically, the toxins are stored safely and never harm anyone or anything. Practically, that's far from the truth, especially in this region in Argentina. The evidence of harm is robust. Workers at the extraction sites have caught footage of improper storage, leaks and more. But instead of properly storing the toxins, the companies just banned workers from bringing smartphones to work for fear of being exposed for their lazy standards. Workers' footage isn't the only proof, there is also clear satellite images of both the expansion of extraction sites and the many spills. Another thing that is evident from satellite images is the drastic and constant loss of healthy vegetation in the area, proving that the fracking is quite literally killing the land and everything on it. Sign on to stand with the Mapuche people in demanding an end to fracking in Argentina! Thank you, Kelsey The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. The fracking industry is destroying the land and poisoning the people who rely on it. Sign the petition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Kelsey B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 11:19 AM Subject: Fracking is poisoning Indigenous people -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Sep 13 15:37:11 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:37:11 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Swimming to protect our oceans Message-ID: <34EA3F5E600F4D81A70A69620397CE45@evol.sp.ru> Hi, It was 7 am on a Saturday on a beach in Marseille just over a week ago. I was both excited and a little nervous. In about an hour, people would be diving into the sea to demand that we stop destructive fishing and ban bottom trawling in protected areas, but would people come? Would the EU Oceans Commissioner listen to this urgent demand from those diving and also from 150,000 of us from across Europe? [1] What a relief as the first people started arriving and getting ready to dive into the sea. The media started setting themselves up. It was happening! Photo: Th?o Giacometti /Our Fish After a year and a half of COVID restrictions, it was a joy to speak to WeMove Europe members. Laurent told me about his experience as a sailor, having to make his way around massive abandoned nets from trawlers that were so big that it was incredibly tricky not to get caught up in them. He had seen the damage first-hand and wanted action. Our Campaigns Director, Mika Leandro, speaking to WeMove Europe member, Laurent, who has had first-hand experience dealing with the destruction caused by bottom-trawling Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, the Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fishing stepped onto the beach in his suit. Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, speaking with our partners Vera Coelho and Maya Gabeira from Oceana, and Mike Walker from Our Fish He listened to Maya Gabeira, a world champion big wave surfer, who rides 20m high waves and knows the power of the ocean. Photo: Th?o Giacometti /Our Fish She talked about how much we need the oceans and all the life down there we can?t see. But bottom trawling in European waters impacts an area as big as one-third of Europe every year. It leaves nothing but wasteland where there once was a thriving ecosystem of corals, fish and underwater mammals. [2] Maya mentioned the latest science that shows bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel. [3] The Commissioner acknowledged that what Maya has said is all true, but that economics and livelihoods need to be taken into account. Yet he also said that it?s hard to ignore the crowd and the discussion on banning bottom trawling has to happen. He then gave a countdown and we ran into the sea. Watch the Facebook live video here We know he is under a lot of pressure from the industrial fishing lobby. So, that?s why we made sure he was receiving thousands of tweets and emails from all over Europe calling for the ban at the same time as we were on the beach. The story got some great press coverage in many languages and across the whole of Europe. [4] We know this helps put pressure on decision-makers. And we?re not going to stop anytime soon. With our partners Oceana, Seas At Risk and Our Fish we?re planning a big action in Brussels in December to ensure the Commission includes a ban on bottom trawling as part of the EU action plan for the ocean, expected next year. [5] Together, we already helped get the EU Parliament on board, now let?s work together to get the Commission to follow through. Thank you for being part of this WeMove Europe community and everything you do. Mika (Bordeaux), Giulio (Rome), Alex (Barcelona) and the whole WeMove Europe team References: [1] https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/bottom-trawling [2] https://europe.oceana.org/en/press-center/press-releases/oceana-urges-bold-action-ban-bottom-trawling-europes-protected-areas [3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/trawling-for-fish-releases-as-much-carbon-as-air-travel-report-finds-climate-crisis https://our.fish/publications/briefing-paper-ending-overfishing-is-climate-action/ [4] Media articles: In French https://www.bfmtv.com/marseille/bain-de-mer-a-marseille-pour-alerter-sur-l-impact-climatique-du-chalutage-de-fond_AD-202109040141.html https://www.rfi.fr/es/sociedad/20210904-campeona-brasile%C3%B1a-de-surf-se-ba%C3%B1a-con-ong-en-francia-contra-la-pesca-de-arrastre https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/nature-environnement/bain-de-mer-a-marseille-pour-alerter-sur-l-impact-climatique-du-chalutage-de-fond_157285 https://www.msn.com/fr-xl/actualite/technologie-et-sciences/bain-de-mer-%C3%A0-marseille-pour-alerter-sur-l-impact-climatique-du-chalutage-de-fond/ar-AAO5Feb?li=BBKNXVj https://www.ouest-france.fr/mer/salon-nautique-de-paris/peche-un-rapport-denonce-un-chalutage-intensif-dans-les-aires-marines-protegees-8e2f2990-0e37-11ec-8af2-d250ac520fa1 In Spanish https://es.noticias.yahoo.com/campeona-brasile%C3%B1a-surf-ba%C3%B1a-ong-095855471.html In Italian https://it.euronews.com/2021/09/04/tonno-salvo-squalo-no-la-nuova-lista-rossa-delle-specie-a-rischio In Portuguese https://pt.euronews.com/2021/09/04/quase-30-das-especies-do-planeta-ameacadas In Albanian https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n-76Ru9dXzM [5] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12953-Action-plan-to-conserve-fisheries-resources-and-protect-marine-ecosystems_en WeMove Europe is a community of people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home, no matter where we were born, where we live or who we love. In the name of a brighter future for people and the planet, we come together to sign petitions, send letters and protest on the streets to make our voices heard. Our power comes from each other. And it's thanks to small monthly donations, fivers and tenners, that we can keep going. please help keep WeMove Europe strong by chipping in. DONATE! WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy | From: Mika Leandro - WeMove Europe Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 3:04 PM Subject: Swimming to protect our oceans -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Sep 14 00:33:58 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:33:58 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] 96 elephants killed today Message-ID: In the Serengeti, a small, specially trained team of rescue dogs sniff out poachers and sound the alarm. Just 4 dogs have helped arrest hundreds of poachers, saving countless elephants being murdered for their ivory. Almost a quarter of the elephants in the park now live in the tiny area they protect -- but poaching is on the rise everywhere else and there are thousands more elephants that still need protection. That?s why the team behind this amazing project is asking for your help to train up double the number of these sniffer dogs -- and save double the number of elephants. With 96 of these gentle giants killed each day, every moment counts. Can you chip in to help? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $3 now Donate another amount If 4 dogs protect all those elephants, imagine what 8 or 10 or even 20 could do! And it?s not just the Serengeti -- poaching everywhere has skyrocketed in the past year, pushing endangered elephants and other animals even closer to the brink. An influx of support from people around the world could help get this anti-poaching game-changer the recognition it deserves, finally helping solve our poaching crisis. It could also help governments justify funding programs just like this in parks all across Africa. And our community can be right there, advocating for it at every turn. Together we could help spark the beginning of the end of an elephant poaching scourge that slaughters 30,000 beautiful ancient elephants every year. Can you help? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $3 now Donate another amount It?s just an accident that our community found the amazing people behind the Working Dogs for Conservation. But once one of our members let us know the program existed, no one could stop thinking about it. This is our chance to be at the beginning of a life-saving revolution. We can?t wait to get started. Thanks for all that you do, Danny and the SumOfUs team -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: Dogs put their noses to work saving wildlife. National Geographic. 6 January 2021. Working Dogs for Conservation is the world?s leading conservation detection dog organization. Working Dogs for Conservation. 1 January 2021. SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Danny Auron, SumOfUs Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 3:06 PM Subject: 96 elephants killed today -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Sep 14 00:49:33 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:49:33 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] These animals are threatened by extinction, but you can help! Message-ID: Tell the U.S. Congress: Biodiversity is for all of us! Sign Now African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and Care2 are partnering together to drive support for legislation that aims to conserve biodiversity. Will you join us? Conserving biodiversity is not a luxury ? it is a necessity. Human communities count on the social, economic, and ecological benefits of varied species every single day, in ways that are easy to perceive if you know what to look for. Wildlife directly creates economic value in industries like tourism and agriculture. They keep the ecosystems humans depend on for food and water security in balance. COVID-19 has shown us all the danger of zoonoses, or diseases transmitted from animals to humans, which increase in risk when unhealthy human-wildlife contact takes place. In communities around the world, development and economic growth are inevitable. Sustainability is not only compatible with economic growth ? it's required for optimized growth in the long run. By over-pressuring our natural resources, we risk destroying the most foundational asset that humanity needs to thrive. By conserving them, we ensure a bright future where we can flourish alongside biodiverse wildlife. There are three species conservation bills that AWF and Care2 are joining together to support: the Global Amphibian Protection Act of 2021, the Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Act of 2021, and the Captive Primate Safety Act. Will you sign the petition to urge your congressperson to back these essential bills? Thank you, Lauren The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Nature is a fundamental driver of all economic activity and human wellbeing. Sign the petition and join AWF and Care2 in conserving biodiversity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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CENN-?? ??????????? - ?????? ????????????? ?? ??????????? ???????? ????????????? ????????????? ?? ??????????? ????????? ???????? ?????? ????????? 2021 ???? 6-7 ?????????? ????? ?????, ???????????, ????????, ????????, ???????????, ????????? ?? ?????????????? ?????????????? ??????????????? ?????????????? ????????????? ???????? 2 ?????? ???????-????? ???????. ????????? ?????? ??????????? ??????????????? ?????? ???????????? ?? ??????????? ????????????? ??????? ??????????? ?? ???????? ??????????? ???????? ???. ??????????? ??????????? ??????? ?????? ????????????: o ???? ???????? ????? ???????????; o ???? ????????? ????? ???????????; o ???? ???????????????; o ???????????. ????????? ??????????? ????????? ?????? ????????? ?????????????, ?????? ???????????, ??? ?????????????? ?????????. ??????????, ?????? ????????? ??????????? ???????????? ?????? ??????????? ???? ???????????? ?????????, ?????????: ???????????? ??????? ????????????; ???????????? ??????? ??????? ???????????? ?????????????????; ?????? ???????????? ??????????????? ????????? ?????????????; ??????????? ?? ????????? ?????; ????????? ?? ????????? ??????? ?????????????; ????????? ????????????; ????? ??????????????? ???????????????? ????????? ???? ?? ??????? ????????? ?? ????. ???????? ??????????? ???????? ????????? ?? ????? ??????????? ??????????????? ?????????, ??????????? ???????????, ??????? ?? ?????? ???????? ???????????????? ??????. ????????? ????????? ??????? ??????? ?????? ???????? ?? ??????????? ???????? ????????????? ?????????? ?????? ??????? 8 ??????????????? ??????????? ?????????? ?? ????????? ????????????? ???????????? ????. ??????? ??????????? ???????????? (EU) ?? ?????? ???????????? ????????? (UNDP) ??????????? ??????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ???????????? ??????? ????????? ????????? (ENPARD) ?????????. Implementation of a Promotional Campaign for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Areas On September 6-7, 2021, CENN, within the frames of a new initiative - Promotional Campaign for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Areas conducted a 2-day training course on energy-efficient technologies for Keda Khulo, Akhalkalaki, Borjomi, Kazbegi, Tetritskaro, Lagodekhi, and Dedoplistskaro interested population. The main purpose of the training was to provide a comprehensive and detailed information to the local population on energy efficiency and renewable technologies. The participants of the meetings got acquainted with the following technologies: ? Industrial Solarwater heater; ? Simple Solar Water Heater; ? Simple Solar Air Heater; ? Thermal insulation. The expert introduced the participants in detail to both the economic and environmental benefits of these technologies. In addition, the participants had the opportunity to get acquainted with such important issues as energy reality in Georgia; Energy balance for the thermal engineering of the building; Methodologies for calculating common energy characteristics; Thermal insulation and protection from moisture; Categorization of buildings, and climatic zones; Hybrid technologies; Automated hot water supply systems in new and existing buildings and more. The meeting was held in an interactive format and was attended by stakeholders, representatives of the local population, the City Hall, and the business sector. The project aims to introduce large-scale, rural energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies, which will mainly benefit the introduction of innovative technologies in 8 target municipalities and the regions of Georgia in general. 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Now please write the head of Hawaii's Dept of Health and say NO to the upcoming permit decision for the US Navy to continue use of the leaking 76 year old jet fuel tanks that are only 100 feet above Honolulu's water supply for 763,000 residents of Honolulu. Write: DR. LIBBY CHAR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH webmail at doh.hawaii.gov of use Mailing address: 1 P.O. Box 3378 Honolulu, HI 96801 ?The storage of over 180 million gallons of petroleum fuel products 100 feet above Oahu?s sole source aquifer is inherently dangerous,? the hearing officer's recommendation said. ?The risk of potential pollution of the Red Hill potable water aquifer is real," but recommended that the Navy get its state permit to operate underground fuel tanks at Red Hill, saying the obvious that it should come with inspection and repair requirements after determining the tanks are a pollution risk to a major source of Oahu?s drinking water. You can read more about the hearing officer's recommendation here: https://printreplica.staradvertiser.com?selDate=20210912&goTo=B01&artid=2 We say NO Permit and ask that you join us in telling the Hawaii Dept of Health to reject the permit request. Thanks for your support! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ann W? started this petition on RootsAction. If there's an issue close to your heart that you'd like to campaign on, you can start your campaign here. You are receiving this message because you signed the petition "Protect Oahu's Drinking Water-Shut Down 20 Massive 75 Yr. Old Jet Fuel Tanks at Red Hill". From: Ann W. via RootsAction Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 8:01 PM Subject: Pls Write Hawaii's Dept of Health -NO to Permit for US Navy to Continue Use of Leaking 76 year old jet fuel tanks 100 feet above Honolulu's water supply -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Sep 14 15:49:19 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:49:19 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Anxiety Message-ID: <0292F45BF22A4F18B7347A998B6ADBFD@evol.sp.ru> Groundbreaking new research funded by our movement shows that young people feel serious distress about climate change -- 75% say the future is frightening! And this crisis of despair is linked to government inaction. The research will be launched today and key decision makers will be watching, days before crucial climate talks start. Send a message to leaders, letting them know that it?s not just young people worried about climate change -- #WeFeelThisToo and demand real climate action NOW: Dear friends, Groundbreaking new research funded by our movement has revealed something utterly shocking: all over the world, young people feel serious distress about climate change. A stunning 75% of the youth said their future is ?frightening?, more than half believed humanity is doomed! And the research shows something else -- this crisis of despair is linked to the failure of governments to take sufficient climate action.In hours, the mental health experts behind this study will present their findings to the world. Important media and decision makers will be watching -- click on the link below to flood the event?s live discussion with messages -- let's tell our leaders that when it comes to climate anxiety, #WeFeelThisToo: Groundbreaking new research funded by our movement shows that young people feel serious distress about climate change -- 75% say the future is frightening! And this crisis of despair is linked to government inaction. The research will be launched today and key decision makers will be watching, days before crucial climate talks start. Send a message to leaders, letting them know that it?s not just young people worried about climate change -- #WeFeelThisToo and demand real climate action NOW: SEND A MESSAGE Dear friends, Groundbreaking new research funded by our movement has revealed something utterly shocking: all over the world, young people feel serious distress about climate change. A stunning 75% of the youth said their future is ?frightening?, more than half believed humanity is doomed! And the research shows something else -- this crisis of despair is linked to the failure of governments to take sufficient climate action. In hours, the mental health experts behind this study will present their findings to the world. Important media and decision makers will be watching -- click on the link below to flood the event?s live discussion with messages -- let's tell our leaders that when it comes to climate anxiety, #WeFeelThisToo: Click here to join the launch and leave a message of solidarity Climate anxiety is turning into a global health crisis. Leaders must acknowledge our children?s distress and massively scale up their climate ambition. Important UN climate talks will happen right after the launch, and Avaaz will be in the room to deliver our voices. Read the tips and then click on the link below to leave a message: a.. Does the climate crisis and government inaction make you feel sad, angry, hopeless or betrayed? Share your story with the hashtag #WeFeelThisToo. b.. Let our children know they are not alone -- they?re waiting for all of us to say #WeFeelThisToo. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Sep 14 21:19:08 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:19:08 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Peace Boat to Receive Award as Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher of 2021 Message-ID: <95B4959567774C8C9B81EBFC02CF8DD1@evol.sp.ru> -------------------------------------------------------- Peace Boat to Receive Award as Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher of 2021 https://worldbeyondwar.org/warabolisher2021a Today, September 13, 2021, World BEYOND War announces as the recipient of the Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher of 2021 award: Peace Boat. An online presentation and acceptance event, with remarks from representatives of Peace Boat will take place on October 6, 2021, at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, 8 a.m. Eastern Time, 2 p.m. Central European Time, and 9 p.m. Japan Standard Time. The event is open to the public and will include presentations of three awards, a musical performance, and three breakout rooms in which participants can meet and talk with the award recipients. Participation is free. Register here for Zoom link. World BEYOND War is a global nonviolent movement, founded in 2014, to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace. (See: https://worldbeyondwar.org ) In 2021 World BEYOND War is announcing its first-ever annual War Abolisher awards. The Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher of 2021 is being announced today, September 13. The David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War Abolisher of 2021 (named for a co-founder of World BEYOND War) will be announced on September 20. The War Abolisher of 2021 will be announced on September 27. The recipients of all three awards will take part in the presentations event on October 6. Accepting the award on behalf of Peace Boat on October 6 will be Peace Boat Founder and Director Yoshioka Tatsuya. Several other people from the organization will attend, some of whom you can meet during the breakout room session. The purpose of the awards is to honor and encourage support for those working to abolish the institution of war itself. With the Nobel Peace Prize and other nominally peace-focused institutions so frequently honoring other good causes or, in fact, wagers of war, World BEYOND War intends its award to go to educators or activists intentionally and effectively advancing the cause of war abolition, accomplishing reductions in war-making, war preparations, or war culture. Between June 1 and July 31, World BEYOND War received hundreds of impressive nominations. The World BEYOND War Board, with assistance from its Advisory Board, made the selections. The awardees are honored for their body of work directly supporting one or more of the three segments of World BEYOND War?s strategy for reducing and eliminating war as outlined in the book ?A Global Security System, An Alternative to War.? They are: Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflict Without Violence, and Building a Culture of Peace. Peace Boat (see https://peaceboat.org/english ) is a Japan-based international NGO working to promote peace, human rights, and sustainability. Guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Peace Boat?s global voyages offer a unique program of activities centered on experiential learning and intercultural communication. Peace Boat?s first voyage was organized in 1983 by a group of Japanese university students as a creative response to government censorship regarding Japan?s past military aggression in the Asia-Pacific. They chartered a ship to visit neighboring countries with the aim of learning first-hand about the war from those who had experienced it and initiating people-to-people exchange. Peace Boat made its first around-the-world voyage in 1990. It has organized more than 100 voyages, visiting more than 270 ports in 70 countries. Over the years, it has done tremendous work to build a global culture of peace and to advance nonviolent conflict resolution and demilitarization in various parts of the world. Peace Boat also builds connections between peace and related causes of human rights and environmental sustainability ? including through the development of an eco-friendly cruise ship. Peace Boat is a mobile classroom at sea. Participants see the world while learning, both onboard and at various destinations, about peacebuilding, through lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities. Peace Boat collaborates with academic institutions and civil society organizations, including T?bingen University in Germany, Tehran Peace Museum in Iran, and as part of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). In one program, students from T?bingen University study how both Germany and Japan deal with understanding past war crimes. Peace Boat is one of the 11 organizations forming the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, the prize that in recent decades, according to Nobel Peace Prize Watch, most faithfully lived up to the intentions of Alfred Nobel?s will through which the prize was established. Peace Boat has educated and advocated for a nuclear-free world for many years. Through the Peace Boat Hibakusha project, the organization works closely with atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, sharing their testimonies of the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons with people around the world during global voyages and recently through online testimony sessions. Peace Boat also coordinates the Global Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War which builds global support for Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution ? for maintaining and abiding by it, and as a model for peace constitutions around the world. Article 9, using words nearly identical to the Kellogg-Briand Pact, states that ?the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes,? and also stipulates that ?land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.? Peace Boat engages in disaster relief following disasters including earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as education and activities for disaster risk reduction. It is also active in landmine removal programs. Peace Boat holds Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Peace Boat has around 100 staff members who represent diverse ages, education histories, backgrounds, and nationalities. Nearly all staff members joined the Peace Boat team after participating in a voyage as a volunteer, participant, or guest educator. Peace Boat?s Founder and Director Yoshioka Tatsuya was a student in 1983 when he and fellow students started Peace Boat. Since that time, he has authored books and articles, addressed the United Nations, been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, led the Article 9 Campaign to Abolish War, and been a founding member of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. Peace Boat?s voyages have been grounded by the COVID Pandemic, but Peace Boat has found other creative ways to advance its cause, and has plans for voyages as soon as they can be responsibly launched. If war is ever to be abolished, it will be in great measure due to the work of organizations like Peace Boat educating and mobilizing thinkers and activists, developing alternatives to violence, and turning the world away from the idea that war can ever be justified or accepted. World BEYOND War is honored to present our very first award to Peace Boat. -------------------------------------------------------- World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of the institution of war. Donate to support our people-powered movement for peace. Opt-in to mobile updates. Manage email preferences. Privacy policy. Should giant war-profiteering corporations decide what emails you don't want to read? We don't think so either. 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View in a browser BKS Oil, Gas and Renewables Group Webinar Oil and Gas Activity in Kazakhstan and the Adjacent Caspian Tuesday 21st September 2021, 12:00 - 13:00 (London Time) REGISTRATION The British-Kazakh Society is hosting a webinar on the Oil and Gas sphere activity in Kazakhstan and the Adjacent Caspian Countries. The webinar will discuss the oil and gas activity in the Caspian region covering the background and news in this sphere. The webinar will be of interest to the individuals and companies operating and cooperating with Kazakhstan's, Azerbaijan's, Turkmenistan's, and Iran's oil and gas sector. Panel discussion will be followed by a live Q&A session where you will have an opportunity to communicate directly with the speakers. There will also be available a simultaneous language interpretation to the Russian language. Host: David Skeels - BKS, Director Moderator: Nick Coleman - S&P Global Platts, London Keynote Speakers: Dena Sholk - IHS Markit, Nur-Sultan - Regional Background and News Kama Mustafaeva - Energy Analyst, Baku - Recent News in Azerbaijan Peter Holding - TotalEnergies, Paris, Vice-President Country Delegate Total in Azerbaijan, Netherlands, and Tadjikistan - Total in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan Mehdi Norouzy - Irano-British Chamber of Commerce, Tehran, Deputy Manager of the Oil and Gas Committee - Iranian Sector Activity John Roberts - Methinks, Jedburgh - Turkmenistan News and an Update on Regional Gas Pipelines Your sincerely, BKS Secretariat secretariat at bksoc.org.uk check our website ? -- ?? ???????? ??? ?????????, ????????? ????????? ?? ?????? 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This movement is strong, but it can, and needs to be even stronger. It?s made up by millions of people across the world - all with our own unique skills, experience and knowledge. Through connecting with each other and sharing this knowledge, we can make this movement even more powerful by ensuring we focus our efforts where they?ll have the biggest impact. will you take a few minutes minutes to fill in this survey? By filling it in, you can make your voice heard, help strengthen this movement, and take a crucial step in the fight to end climate breakdown by helping us target our efforts on what?s most important. Because one thing?s for sure: it?s only by working with each other that we can build a movement powerful enough to take on the fossil fuel industry and deliver a just recovery for all. We?re all in this together. In solidarity, Funda and the Supporter Services team of 350.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 350.org is building a global climate movement. You can connect with us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing. From: Funda Gorur - 350.org Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:23 PM Subject: Take a few minutes right now to help strengthen the climate movement -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Sep 17 02:15:49 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 03:15:49 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Hundreds of stabbed dolphins splashed in their own blood as they slowly died Message-ID: <072B5B27D8EB414FAC25523AD6A759FD@lewpostnew> The largest mass slaughter of dolphins in recorded history just turned the sea red. Demand this hunt be banned! Sign Now The waters off the coast of the Faroe Islands literally ran red on the night of September 12, filled with the blood of almost 1,500 dolphins that were mercilessly chased, cornered, and then brutally stabbed to death. That Sunday evening, boats surrounded the terrified, fleeing, thrashing pod of dolphins. They chased them into shallow enough water so that their terrible task could be performed, then they took out their knives and began. Dolphins were stabbed, shivering and left to bleed out; some of their spines were severed so they were paralyzed but fully conscious as they slowly died. By the end, 1,428 dolphins were dead. The Faroe Islands make up an autonomous region in the Kingdom of Denmark, and these hunts, known as "the grind" or Grindadrap in Faroese, began in the 9th century when our oceans had not yet been pillaged of nearly all their resources and whaling still happened on a small, sustainable scale to support small communities of people. But in recent history, these hunts have been criticized by animal rights activists as needless, cruel, and totally unsustainable. And this record high death toll has given even some supporters of the hunt pause. That's how vast the cruel slaughter was ? even the chairman of the Faroese Whalers Association said, "It was a big mistake." Obviously, this event is no longer necessary, appropriate, or able to be regulated in a way where animals don't suffer. Sign the petition and demand that the European Union outlaw this bloody, unsustainable, cruel tradition ? ban the Grindadrap! Thank you, Lauren The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. This traditional Faroese dolphin hunt has always been cruel, but this most recent one went above and beyond. Sign the petition to ban it once and for all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Lauren W., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:03 PM Subject: Hundreds of stabbed dolphins splashed in their own blood as they slowly died " -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Sep 18 02:52:54 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 03:52:54 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Reminder: here is the latest news from the High-level Climate Champions! Message-ID: <304C848A4ADD40A2AEAE72D7EF1BF39D@lewpostnew> UN Climate Change ?Global Climate Action 15 September 2021 High Level Climate Champions Newsletter The Race to Glasgow Only seven weeks left to go before national governments, cities, regions, businesses, investors and citizens meet at COP26 for our last big chance to unite as a global, multilateral community forging a healthier, fairer and more resilient future of net zero emissions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?s latest findings made clear that we are running out of time to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To do it, we need to halve greenhouse gas emissions between 2020-2030 - equivalent to a 7.6 per cent cut every year of the 2020s. At the same time, we need to regenerate nature and build resilience to the floods, droughts, extreme temperatures and other impacts we cannot mitigate. The number of promising commitments to net zero in or before the 2040s has reached a tipping point, yet examples of those already cutting annual emissions by 7.6% are scarce. So it?s time to act, even in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the action needs to be global. That is why we welcomed COP26 President Alok Sharma?s announcement last week that the UK will fund the quarantine for party delegates, observers, non-party stakeholders, and media members arriving from red list area from red-list countries and support full inclusion at the summit, especially from those on the frontlines of the climate crisis. The Climate Vulnerable Forum of 45 at-risk countries also called for an in-person COP26, with robust Covid-19 measures and special support for vulnerable developing countries and infrastructure to include those who can only join virtually. ?This is the most important meeting for the future of the planet and it cannot wait,? the forum said. Of course, the work starts now - before Glasgow. The G7?s Build Back Better World initiative can start mobilizing private capital in developing countries towards climate action, health, digital technology and gender equity and equality. This week?s UN General Assembly can strengthen the drive for universal Covid-19 vaccinations, while the UN Food Systems Summit on 23 September can launch public-private initiatives to transform the food sector. G20 leaders, finally, can reaffirm their commitments to reaching zero emissions by mid-century and taking the steps needed to get there. If we do this, by COP26 we will have set the building blocks for a whole-of-society Marshall Plan for climate action that embeds the IPCC?s science across the economy and drives ambition from businesses, investors, cities and regions up to national governments. The Race to Zero Wastewater One way to mitigate climate change, build resilience and reverse biodiversity loss at the same time is to put an end to wastewater pollution and stem the rise of freshwater withdrawals within this decade, in line with the Marrakech Partnership?s Climate Action Pathway for the water sector. Some 80 per cent of wastewater is discharged into the environment without any treatment, contributing to the risk of disease for 1.8 billion people who are drinking contaminated water. Wastewater also harms freshwater biodiversity and emits greenhouse gas emissions, including around 6 per cent of potent methane. More than 2 billion people now live in countries experiencing high water stress. This problem is likely to grow as the population grows, climate impacts intensify and industries depend on good-quality water for operations like power generation, textiles and apparel manufacturing, food and beverage production, chemicals production and mining. But industries can help turn the water crisis into a solution to mitigating climate change and building resilience - first off, by committing to phasing out wastewater pollution within this decade. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is working with CDP and UN-Habitat to mobilize businesses to do just that ahead of COP26, through the Wastewater Zero Commitment initiative launched this year and last month?s World Water Week events. The Wastewater Zero Commitment challenges businesses to eliminate wastewater pollution and increase the proportion of reused and recycled water and low-carbon treatment processes across their operations and supply chains by 2030. Climate Week NYC: Every Fraction Counts The High-Level Champions for Climate Action, Gonzalo Mu?oz and Nigel Topping, are kicking off Climate Week New York with an opening session on 20 September on the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience: Delivering on the Promise of Paris: every fraction counts. Joining the high-level champions, the event features COP26 President Alok Sharma, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa, UN High Level Climate Action Champions Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Mu?oz, Google CFO Ruth Porat, Global Ambassador to Race to Zero and Race to Resilience Dr Susan Chomba, PwC Chairman Bob Moritz and other leaders to call for a gear-shift from ambition to implementation. 2021 Africa Climate Week Registration is now open for Africa Climate Week 2021, hosted by the Government of Uganda from 26-29 September. The virtual climate week will look at climate action solutions and ways to incorporate them into the Covid-19 recovery, as one of UN Climate Change?s regional meetings ahead of COP26. It will focus on three thematic sessions: national actions and economy-wide approaches; integrated approaches for climate-resilient development; and seizing transformation opportunities. The High-Level Champions? line-up of events includes their Implementation Lab on 29 September, 2-4pm GMT+3, and looking at a net-zero, resilient transport future for Africa, as described in Marrakech Partnership?s Climate Action Pathway for the transport sector. In Case You Missed It a.. The Climate Vulnerable Forum of countries is calling on the COP26 to deliver a Climate Emergency Pact that rebuilds confidence in international climate cooperation, accelerates adaptation and keeps the 1.5C limit within reach. a.. The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion have for the first time jointly warned of the urgency of climate change and biodiversity loss, warning about their impact on poverty. Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby called on people to pray for leaders at COP26, asked people to make ?meaningful sacrifices for the sake of the planet?, and asked those with ?far-reaching responsibilities? ?to choose people-centred profits?. a.. Looking for real-world examples of progress on climate action? The new Climate Progress Snapshots open-access database pulls together the biggest, most interesting and most insightful stories of progress on climate action and the impacts we?re already seeing. Hosted by the Camda analytical community, Snapshots is a resource for communicators, journalists, experts and social leaders looking for stories and trends that help tell a wider story of change. Bookmark it and browse! a.. Of the 124 countries with air quality standards, only 57 continuously monitor the air, while 104 countries don?t have monitoring infrastructure in place, according to a UN Environment Programme released on International Day of Clean Air for blue skies. It also launched an interactive dashboard showing the state of pollution, major sources, the impact on human health and national efforts to tackle it. a.. Development funders around the world are spending 21 per cent more aid money on projects prolonging the use of fossil fuels than on projects to improve air quality, according to the Clean Air Fund?s State of Global Air Quality Funding 2021 report, released on Clean Air Day. Air pollution-related deaths in aid-recipient countries are at an all-time high. a.. In an eight-part podcast series, Laying Down Tracks, the UN Food Systems Summit and Sourcing Matters delve into issues and put forward solutions related to world hunger, malnutrition, climate change and more. a.. ?The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5C and to restore nature,? according to an editorial published in 233 health journals on Clean Air Day. Mark Your Calendars a.. 2021 World Hydropower Congress: 7-24 September b.. UN General Assembly: 14-30 September c.. Great Big Green Week: 18-26 September d.. WEF Sustainable Development Impact Summit: 20-23 September e.. Climate Week New York: 20-26 September f.. Delivering on the Promise of Paris: Every Fraction Counts: 20 September g.. RouteZero: COP26 and the race to zero emission vehicles: 21 September h.. UN Food Systems Summit: 23 September i.. Global Climate Strike: 24 September j.. High-Level Dialogue on Energy: 24 September k.. Africa Climate Week: 26-29 September l.. Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition (Pre-COP26 event): 28-30 September m.. International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste: 29 September n.. Pre-COP26: 30 September-2 October Sign up for our Newsletter UN Climate Change | Global Climate Action | Race to Zero | GlobalClimateAction at unfccc.int | unfccc.int STAY CONNECTED ? ? ? ? ? UNFCCC | Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, Bonn, 53113 Germany Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by globalclimateaction at unfccc.int From: Global Climate Action Sent: Friday, September 17, 2021 11:00 AM Subject: Reminder: Vladimir, here is the latest news from the High-level Climate Champions! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Sep 18 03:04:14 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 04:04:14 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] [cenn] CENN Held a Video Course on Climate Change and Land / Pasture Degradation Message-ID: <0F5021C67D5C44248D021795ED6EB613@lewpostnew> ????? ????? ?????? ???????? ???????? ?? ????? / ?????????? ?????????? Video Course on Climate Change and Land / Pasture Degradation CENN-?? ???????? "????? ??????????? ?????????? ???????? (LDN-??) ???????? ???????? ??????? ????????????? ?????????? ???????? ?? ??????? ??????? ????" ?????????, ???????? ????? ????? ?????? ????????? ???????? ?? ?????/?????????? ??????????". ????? ?????? ??????? ?????? ?????????? ?????? ???????, ?????????? ?????????????? ????????? ??????????? ???????? ???????? ?????????, ???? ???????? ????????, ??????/?????????? ??????????? ?? ??????? ??????? ??????????. ??????? "????? ??????????? ?????????? ???????? (LDN-??) ???????? ???????? ??????? ????????????? ?????????? ????????? ?? ??????? ??????? ????" ???????????? ??????????? ??????? ??????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ??????????? ???? ?? ?????????????? ????????? ?????????????? ?????? (GEF) ????. ?????? ?????????, ?????? ?????? ???????? ?????. ??????? ??????????? ?????? ????????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ??????????? (FAO). ????????????? ???????????? ????????? ???????? ?????????????? ?????? (REC Caucasus). ???????? ?????????? CENN. CENN, within the format of the project ?Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality Targets of Georgia through Restoration and Sustainable Management of Degraded Pasturelands?, developed a video course on the topic "Climate Change and Land / Pasture Degradation". The aim of the video course is to raise awareness of the stakeholders in agriculture sector on climate change and its negative impact, land/pasture degradation, sustainable pasture management and best practices. The Project ?Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality Targets of Georgia through Restoration and Sustainable Management of Degraded Pasturelands? is initiated by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia and is financed by Global Environment Facility (GEF). In order to see a video course, please visit the link. The project is implemented by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). An executive organization is the Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (REC Caucasus). Project partner CENN. CENN is a member of the: This information was sent by info at cenn.org Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe | Editorial Policy | Privacy Policy. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of CENN, unless otherwise stated. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sun Sep 19 00:36:10 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 01:36:10 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] This special snake species is being protected - by an airport! Message-ID: <72596F5D2C134602842C9D5D97E0C682@evol.sp.ru> This airport kindly donated acres of its land for a threatened species, but that could change if it's not written into policy Sign Now Garter snakes are some of the most beautiful on the planet, with bright colorful ribbons of blue, red, and black lining their little bodies. They've also become one of the most threatened species due to rapid urbanization, habitat destruction, and climate change, including in the San Francisco Bay Area. Luckily, the San Francisco airport (SFO) has risen to the snake's defense. Across from its huge transit hub, SFO has reserved 180 acres for approximately 1,300 of these gorgeous, vulnerable snakes to survive and thrive. We need to keep this momentum going! The area, called "Bayshore," is reserved exclusively for wildlife, with the public banned from entering. Staff have cultivated the area to meet the snakes' needs, providing ponds, long grasses, and also protections for their favorite food, the red-legged frog (also an endangered species). This type of unofficial refuge is hugely important for threatened species, and SFO officials have stated that they are committed to providing a safe home for these snakes and frogs over time. But so far, that's just based on the goodness of their hearts. Let's thank the San Francisco airport for doing its part to protect threatened species like colorful garter snakes and red-legged frogs ? and also tell it to legally enshrine this commitment for posterity! Thank you for all that you do, Miranda The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. All over the world, climate destruction and human construction are decimating these snakes' homes. Urge SFO to legally keep its snake area wild forever! Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Miranda B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2021 11:18 AM Subject: This special snake species is being protected - by an airport! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sun Sep 19 00:41:38 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 01:41:38 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] A world of waste Message-ID: A world of waste https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/state-of-the-planet/world-waste-facts/story -- VP ~ We act in peace, with ferocious love of these lands in our hearts. We act on behalf of life. ~ Extinction Rebellion From: Victor Postnikov Date: Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 13:14 Subject: A world of waste -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sun Sep 19 22:02:24 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:02:24 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Fw: [wildlife-climate] Fwd: Beauty of mangrove forests: your weekly round-up Message-ID: <86C48E4726D24919A54D7B1FC8369C30@evol.sp.ru> ?????????? ???????, ? ?? ??????. ???? ??: WWF International Date: ??, 19 ????. 2021 ?. ? 13:52 Subject: Beauty of mangrove forests: your weekly round-up ? Stories this week highlight the urgency for climate action and show what can happen when we come together for our planet. OUR AMBITION | OUR WORK | GET INVOLVED Weekly roundup 19th September Dear Sviatoslav, We made it through another week ? and we?re glad to have you with us as we roll into the next! This week, we?ve put together some stories that highlight the urgency for climate action, and others which show what can happen when we do come together for our planet. It?s essential that leaders make positive changes to our environment, but research shows they are falling behind. Read on to learn more. And our second feature shows exactly what?s at stake if they don?t step up for our planet. When we do take action, we see results: one species has bounced back from the brink of extinction thanks to 30 years of conservation work, and underwater forests are on the way to recovery under the watchful eye of scientists. Nature is so important to our survival, and the last story gives a glimpse into one example. Leaders must step up for nature In 2015, leaders from across the world pledged in the UN Paris Agreement to make positive strides for our planet, including limiting global warming to well below 2?C. But none of the world?s major economies have met their obligations ? and it?s urgent they make a change: Learn more Human rights and the environment To safeguard our rights and the rights of people we share this planet with, we need to see human rights and the environment as two sides of the same coin. We must act on the climate and nature loss crises as if our lives depend on it ? because they do: Read more Bandicoot bounces back from extinction Following 30 years of conservation efforts, a small Australian marsupial has gone from ?extinct in the wild? to ?endangered?. In that time, the number of bandicoots has jumped from just 150 to around 1,500: Learn more Efforts to save kelp Underwater forests rich with kelp are under threat, which paints bad news for our oceans ? but the reintroduction of sea stars in California could make a difference to these natural systems: Read more The beauty of mangrove forests Mangrove forests are crucial to the survival of coastal communities and wildlife, and this year's Mangrove Photography Awards highlights their essential role in the environment. Take a look at the beautiful winning images below: See more WWF believes in people and nature thriving together | Visit panda.org today WWF International Rue Mauverney 28 Gland Switzerland You received this email because you are subscribed to eNews from WWF International. Update your email preferences or unsubscribe. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "???????? ????? ??????? ???? ???????????? ???????!" group. 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Online Series of workshops by CENN and Impact Hub Vienna Future of Collaborative and Coworking Spaces continues ??????? 22 ??????????, 11:00-14:00 ???????? ?????? ??????????: ????? ?????????? ?? ?????? - ????? ??????????? ??????????; ?????? ??????? ????? ??????? ?????????; ??????? ???????????? ?? ??????????. ???????? ?????????? ???????? ????? ?? ????????????? ?????? ?????????? ???????? ?????? ?? ?????? ??????. ?????????? ???????????, ??????, ?????????? ??????? ?????: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88614323448?pwd=cDFGY0hkSmdEZlpHdW1xaTFJYUZqUT09 Meeting ID: 886 1432 3448 Passcode: 246100 ?????????? ??????? ???????????? ???????????, ???????? ?EU4Youth: ????????? ??????????? ??????????? ??????????? (SEED) ?????? ????????? ??????????? ??????????? ?????????, ???????? ???????????? CENN, Green Lane ?? KRDF. ???????? ??????? ????????????? ?????????? ??????????? ??????????? ?? ????????? ???????????? ?? ?????? ??????????? ???????????? ??????????. Join us on September 22, 11:00 - 14:00 at the workshop: COMMUNITY BUILDING AND MANAGEMENT - BASIC PRINCIPLES, Basics of community building; Coworking and community management aspects; Introduction to membership sales. The workshop will be held in English. Georgian and Armenian interpretation will be available. In order to join the meeting, please, follow the link below: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88614323448?pwd=cDFGY0hkSmdEZlpHdW1xaTFJYUZqUT09 Meeting ID: 886 1432 3448 Passcode: 246100 The event is being organized with the support of the EU, under the scope the project ?EU4Youth: Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development (SEED) for Green Growth in Borderline Communities?, which is being implemented by Green Lane (Armenia), CENN (Georgia) and KRDF (Georgia). CENN is a member of the: This information was sent by info at cenn.org Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe | Editorial Policy | Privacy Policy. 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Now, France is thanking 12,000 of them by granting them citizenship and lowering the residency requirements from 5 years to 2 years. They showed up for their country and in turn, their country rewarded them for their work and the huge risks it entailed. The United State and the United Kingdom should also create special programs to grant front line immigrant workers citizenship! Sign the petition if you agree! The beneficiaries of the French program for citizenship had a range of jobs, from doctors and nurses, to garbage disposal workers and cashiers. The thing they had in common? They risked their lives to do their jobs and keep the country going amidst a deadly pandemic, saving countless lives. Many immigrant workers in the United States and United Kingdom did the same thing. Isolated, disoriented, and treated as criminals, these children endure lasting scars. Medical experts in Florida and the U.S. agree that this practice is harmful to children, and is in no way necessary or beneficial. Yet Florida authorities don't seem to care much. The least we can do is say thanks, and to tell them that they belong in the countries they sacrificed so much to help! Sign the petition to tell the United States and the United Kingdom to follow France's lead! Thank you for all that you do, Kelsey The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. We need to give immigrants who are fighting COVID-19 an accelerated chance at citizenship. Sign the petition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Kelsey B., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 11:18 AM Subject: France granted 12,000 frontline COVID-19 workers citizenship -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 01:50:15 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:50:15 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Vladimir, help us get 10 more people to free Asha! Message-ID: <133E516FC56D4FE6AA170B1409364B59@lewpostnew> Vladimir, Thank you for signing the petition to free Ahsa. This poor elephant has spent over 30 years alone, forced to give rides to zoo visitors. She spends her winters in a cold, damp barn with concrete floors. Who knows how much longer she can survive in these deplorable conditions. She deserves to live out the rest of her life in peace at a sanctuary. So will you help spread the word today? Just forward the email below, and click here to share on Facebook ===Copy the text below and paste it as a new email=== Hi, Have you heard about Asha the elephant? This poor elephant has spent over 30 years alone, forced to give rides to zoo visitors. She spends her winters in a cold, damp barn with concrete floors. Who knows how much longer she can survive in these deplorable conditions. I just signed a Care2 petition to demand that the Natural Bridge Zoo release Asha to an elephant sanctuary. Will you join me? Click here to learn more and sign your name too! Thanks! ***** The link to this petition is: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/588/676/917/natural-bridge-zoo-its-time-to-send-lonely-abused-asha-to-sanctuary/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 http://www.care2.com From: Care2 Petitions Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 2:37 AM Subject: Vladimir, help us get 10 more people to free Asha! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 02:56:17 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 03:56:17 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] What did the HEAD of the UN just say?? Message-ID: <9A1740B28FCC46AD9F364797B82B7E7A@lewpostnew> Our message has power!! The head of the UN just *challenged* the world's top politicians to act forcefully on the Climate Emergency, citing a study that Avaaz helped launch days ago! Let's make his words a clarion call for action: Dear friends, Yesterday we stood with children facing climate anxiety, and helped spread their message to the world. And it worked!!TODAY, our words echoed through the halls of power -- with the head of the UN himself taking the podium in front of the world's most powerful politicians, and telling them future voters feel betrayed by them.We can't stop now. The world's eyes are on these politicians as they meet for the UN General Assembly. Let's make sure the call for climate action becomes one of the most watched messages of the week.We're running out of time. Watch and retweet now:Retweet Our message has power!! The head of the UN just *challenged* the world's top politicians to act forcefully on the Climate Emergency, citing a study that Avaaz helped launch days ago! Let's make his words a clarion call for action: Watch and Retweet Dear friends, Yesterday we stood with children facing climate anxiety, and helped spread their message to the world. And it worked!! TODAY, our words echoed through the halls of power -- with the head of the UN himself taking the podium in front of the world's most powerful politicians, and telling them future voters feel betrayed by them. We can't stop now. The world's eyes are on these politicians as they meet for the UN General Assembly. Let's make sure the call for climate action becomes one of the most watched messages of the week. We're running out of time. Watch and retweet now: Retweet Let's be clear -- we still have a massive gulf to bridge between what climate science says we must do (no new coal, oil or gas), and what politicians captured by fossil fuel interests are prepared to do. With only a few weeks to go before the mega climate summit of the decade - in Glasgow - this week's gathering of the world's politicians is a crucial moment to hold them accountable. Unless we do, it'll be more of business as usual. Now the head of the UN himself has told them to their face loud and clear, that they must step up, or face the judgment of history. We've seen what happens when we act together. Our numbers cannot be rivalled. If we act with our full power, we can make the demands for climate action irresistible -- click below to watch and retweet. Retweet It was funds from the Avaaz community that made this historic study on climate anxiety possible, and now it has been shared with those in the halls of power. But it could be a passing reference, or it could become a dominant force changing the politics of climate. Our movement has the power to make it big, as we have done time and time again to fight for a livable future. Let?s do it again now, when it's needed more than ever. With hope and determination, Risalat, Patricia, Pascal, Martyna, Nell, and the entire team at Avaaz MORE INFORMATION: a.. Video of the UN Secretary General, sharing about the study to the world's politicians at the General Assembly (Twitter) b.. How climate inaction is driving a mental health crisis in children - Reuters c.. Climate change: Young people very worried - survey - BBC d.. Nearly half of young people worldwide say climate change anxiety is affecting their daily life - CNBC e.. Launch with expert researchers, hosted by Avaaz Avaaz is a 65-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. You became a member of the Avaaz movement and started receiving these emails when you signed "Join Avaaz!" on 2013-08-06. To ensure that Avaaz messages reach your inbox, please add avaaz at avaaz.org to your address book. To change your email address, language settings, or other personal information, contact us, or simply go here to unsubscribe. To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact . 27 Union Square West Suite 500 New York, NY 10003 From: Risalat Khan - Avaaz Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 10:52 PM Subject: What did the HEAD of the UN just say?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Sep 23 02:26:43 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:26:43 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?One_Big_Thing=3A=C2=A0Should_Big_Tech_bend?= =?utf-8?q?_to_authoritarians=E2=80=99_demands_to_subvert_democracy?= =?utf-8?q?=3F?= Message-ID: <718FAD325D6D445594BB78B7248BAAF4@lewpostnew> One Big Thing: Should Big Tech bend to authoritarians? demands to subvert democracy? Share your thoughts on We Hold These Truths. View this email in the Hub One Big Thing: Should Big Tech bend to authoritarians? demands to subvert democracy? Take the Poll What is it? a.. Last weekend, Russians went to the polls to vote for their representation in Russia?s lower house of Parliament, known as the Duma. b.. Leading up to the election, the Russian government shut down opposition politician Alexei Navalny?s smart-voting system/application, thus restricting the Russian people?s right to vote. c.. Big Tech companies including Apple and Google have removed Navalny?s voting app from their platforms, bowing to pressure from the Moscow?s censorship office. d.. Navalny and his team created an app to fight electoral corruption by giving Russian citizens a platform to vote in opposition to Putin in a way that would avoid splitting ballots between members of the opposition. Why is it important? a.. By limiting the options to vote for Russians, the Kremlin has shown that they aren?t interested in providing free and fair elections, and would rather limit the voting options of the public for their own gain b.. This is another example of the choices many tech companies must consider when operating in foreign countries. In this case, Apple and Google chose bent to the Russian government when they removed the app from their stores, effectively turning their back on the Russian people and democratic norms. What can you do? a.. Raising awareness of this issue on social media would help show the Russian public that they are not alone, as well as showing the government that their actions have not gone unnoticed -------------------------------------------------- Authored by Andriy Nix Join us at We Hold These Truths is a nonpartisan effort of the McCain Institute. It does not support or oppose any political party or candidate. From: Paul Fagan Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 7:35 PM Subject: One Big Thing: Should Big Tech bend to authoritarians? demands to subvert democracy? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Sep 23 02:29:09 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:29:09 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Killing *twice* as many bees Message-ID: <2415AEC92282448A8972F8F74DB06E03@lewpostnew> But in a few days we could stop this bee die-off ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bees are dying off at record rates -- and a new study just revealed farmers are being sold pesticides that are killing twice as many bees as previously thought. That's why we've joined beekeepers across Europe to collect one million signatures for a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), which could force the EU to take urgent action to ban Bayer's toxic pesticides and save the bees. But there's a problem -- thanks to COVID it?s been difficult to collect signatures in person, and the deadline is coming up at the end of this month. We're so close... just 245,000 signatures to go -- will you take one minute and chip in $2 to fund a final digital ads push to put us over the top and save the bees? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $3 now Donate another amount Out of the 100 crops that provide 90% of the world's food, 70 are pollinated by bees. So if we don't act fast to protect them from the pesticides causing their collapse, we're at risk too. That's why this ECI is so important -- if we succeed, we'll set in motion new ironclad protections for bees across Europe, setting the stage for further action around the globe. The ECI process was always going to be an uphill climb -- we need to gather one million signatures from more than seven European countries. The process for collecting them is burdensome, and it?s followed by a rigorous analysis to make sure every single signature is valid. But it?s worth it. With the help of an ECI, the European Commission has promised to end caged farming in Europe! And if we can show European politicians that there is a massive movement fighting to save the bees, they will finally be forced to act. We've got fewer than 2 weeks to get the final signatures we need -- but you can fund this final push to save the bees. Will you chip in today? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $3 now Donate another amount Thanks for all that you do, Christian and the SumOfUs team -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: Farm pesticides killing twice as many bees than first thought, study finds, The Independent, 6 August 2021. Pesticides can amplify each other. Bees have become the victims, Vox, 17 August 2021. A month from deadline, petition to save bees still short of needed signatures, The Brussels Times, 2 September 2021. Quarter of all known bees ?not seen since 1990?, The Independent, 25 January 2021. SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Sep 24 03:08:57 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 04:08:57 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] "I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom" Message-ID: <77B0EB3F3D254AEAB897EBD828929145@lewpostnew> BRIEFING: What is climate anxiety? "I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom"- Mitzi Tan, 23, the Philippines That's the heartbreaking story one young person told us about how the climate crisis scares her. And she?s not alone. Avaaz members just funded the biggest-ever survey on climate anxiety in children and young people -- surveying 10,000 people in 10 countries around the world. In every country, it shows that anxiety about the planetary crisis is very high, and it's not just because we're witnessing devastating climate disasters, it's also linked to governments consistently failing to take decisive, meaningful action to stop the crisis. We can still stop runaway climate change. We know what's needed, and what governments must do. But it will require bold political will and determination -- and that's been woefully missing. Yet things are moving, there is new momentum, and there's still tons of space for radical, grounded hope. Here's what the study found: 45%Nearly half of global youth surveyed (45%) say climate anxiety is affecting their daily lives: how they play, eat, study, and sleep. 75%More than seven in ten (75%) believe "the future is frightening" -- jumping to 81% of youth surveyed in Portugal and 92% in the Philippines. 58%58% said governments were "betraying me and/or future generations," while 64% said their governments are not doing enough to avoid a climate catastrophe. 39%Almost four in ten youngsters (39%) said they are now hesitant about having children. These results are scary, but psychologists say it's not just affecting children. Climate anxiety is being felt by people of all ages, everywhere. This email is to help us all understand what climate anxiety is, how we can live with it, and how those feelings can inspire radical hope as we fight to protect our planet. We're also opening a space for Avaaz members to share their experiences on this issue, as community can be helpful (see button below). This study's findings could also play a key role in youth-led climate litigation, such as the landmark climate lawsuit against 33 governments, which Avaaz members are helping to fund. That's not all: in the run-up to this year's UN climate summit, we're going all out to make sure this study lands on every decision-maker's desk, influencing critical negotiations and government policy. The report is already making massive media waves, with huge coverage in some of the most influential news outlets, and the UN Secretary General even mentioned the findings in his big speech to world leaders -- amazing! Share this briefing: What is Climate Anxiety?Climate anxiety is the worry, frustration, grief, and even anger linked to the reality of the climate crisis and our governments' ongoing failure to respond with the urgency it requires. People are feeling betrayed by leaders and scared of the future. These are uncomfortable and difficult feelings -- but they're a perfectly normal, healthy response to the destruction of the natural world coupled with political inaction. It's not a matter of 'fixing' or 'solving' our anxiety, but learning to live with it. For each of us, it's about acknowledging those feelings, and respecting them, so that we can engage in the crisis and hold our leaders accountable, without falling into despair or denial. Our feelings of anxiety often come from a deep, genuine love for nature and the planet. How could we not be feeling anxious? Our feelings aren't the problem; the reality of the crisis, combined with political failure are. Share your experience What can we do about Climate Anxiety?If climate anxiety is a healthy, natural response, then how do we live with it? Here are some tips and ideas from the Climate Psychology Alliance that may help you and your loved ones: BRIEFING: What is climate anxiety? ------------------------------------------------ "I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom" - Mitzi Tan, 23, the Philippines That's the heartbreaking story one young person told us about how the climate crisis scares her. And she?s not alone. Avaaz members just funded the biggest-ever survey on climate anxiety in children and young people -- surveying 10,000 people in 10 countries around the world. In every country, it shows that anxiety about the planetary crisis is very high, and it's not just because we're witnessing devastating climate disasters, it's also linked to governments consistently failing to take decisive, meaningful action to stop the crisis. We can still stop runaway climate change. We know what's needed, and what governments must do. But it will require bold political will and determination -- and that's been woefully missing. Yet things are moving, there is new momentum, and there's still tons of space for radical, grounded hope. Here's what the study found: 45%Nearly half of global youth surveyed (45%) say climate anxiety is affecting their daily lives: how they play, eat, study, and sleep. 75%More than seven in ten (75%) believe "the future is frightening" -- jumping to 81% of youth surveyed in Portugal and 92% in the Philippines. 58%58% said governments were "betraying me and/or future generations," while 64% said their governments are not doing enough to avoid a climate catastrophe. 39%Almost four in ten youngsters (39%) said they are now hesitant about having children. These results are scary, but psychologists say it's not just affecting children. Climate anxiety is being felt by people of all ages, everywhere. This email is to help us all understand what climate anxiety is, how we can live with it, and how those feelings can inspire radical hope as we fight to protect our planet. We're also opening a space for Avaaz members to share their experiences on this issue, as community can be helpful (see button below). This study's findings could also play a key role in youth-led climate litigation, such as the landmark climate lawsuit against 33 governments, which Avaaz members are helping to fund. That's not all: in the run-up to this year's UN climate summit, we're going all out to make sure this study lands on every decision-maker's desk, influencing critical negotiations and government policy. The report is already making massive media waves, with huge coverage in some of the most influential news outlets, and the UN Secretary General even mentioned the findings in his big speech to world leaders -- amazing! ------------------------------------------------ Share this briefing: ------------------------------------------------ What is Climate Anxiety? Climate anxiety is the worry, frustration, grief, and even anger linked to the reality of the climate crisis and our governments' ongoing failure to respond with the urgency it requires. People are feeling betrayed by leaders and scared of the future. These are uncomfortable and difficult feelings -- but they're a perfectly normal, healthy response to the destruction of the natural world coupled with political inaction. It's not a matter of 'fixing' or 'solving' our anxiety, but learning to live with it. For each of us, it's about acknowledging those feelings, and respecting them, so that we can engage in the crisis and hold our leaders accountable, without falling into despair or denial. Our feelings of anxiety often come from a deep, genuine love for nature and the planet. How could we not be feeling anxious? Our feelings aren't the problem; the reality of the crisis, combined with political failure are. Share your experience What can we do about Climate Anxiety? If climate anxiety is a healthy, natural response, then how do we live with it? Here are some tips and ideas from the Climate Psychology Alliance that may help you and your loved ones: a.. Remember that you are not alone. There are lots of other people who may be as anxious as you are -- it could just be that they aren't talking about it. b.. Create space to talk about climate change, but specifically for the feelings it brings up for yourself and others. Listen to how young people feel and take their feelings seriously. Explain to them that their feelings make sense and are a sign that they are a caring person. It's normal to feel sad and frustrated with things as they are right now. c.. Know that it's not all on you. There's only so much one person can do, and while individual action DOES have an impact, this is a collective responsibility. Support young people to take action, however small the impact may feel to you. Avaaz is proof that when enough of us get together we can make a big difference! d.. Do your best to take care of yourself physically and emotionally. It sounds obvious, but taking care of the basics can help to boost our resilience and keep ourselves grounded. e.. Spending time in nature can help. Connect with nature and allow yourself to enjoy its beauty. Our love for nature can inspire our fight to protect the planet. Share your experience Feeling some degree of climate anxiety is a natural response, and talking about it is helpful. So we're creating a space where we can all share our own experiences of how we're living with climate anxiety, maybe even as it inspires us to action. Click to read what others are saying, and share your own thoughts and ideas. Share your experience What a time to be alive. We are witnessing one of the biggest threats to our planet in the history of civilization -- and we're also possibly the last generation that can save it. We can still pull our precious earth back from the brink, allowing nature to flourish. And while feeling the fear and pain of this moment, crises can also reveal the best in ourselves: sparking creativity, inspiration, and empathy for ourselves and others. This is the home of radical hope, a hope that's grounded in reality, and yet determined, tenacious, and compassionate. It's exactly what the world needs right now. With fierce hope and endless determination, Patricia, Anneke, Pascal, Martyna, Huiting, Camille, Bert, and the whole team at Avaaz Share this briefing: ------------------------------------------------ More information: a.. Climate change: Young people very worried - survey (BBC) b.. How climate inaction is driving a mental health crisis in children (Reuters) c.. United Nations: Countries? pledges to cut emissions are far too meager to halt climate change (The Washington Post) d.. Read the full Survey: Young people?s voices on climate anxiety, government betrayal and moral injury: a global phenomenon Avaaz is a 65-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. 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Send a tweet Billion-dollar social media corporations have inflicted so much harm, from spreading false claims about bogus Covid cures to promoting eating disorders -- a company memo leaked this week shows Instagram actually hid research showing just how bad it is for teen mental health. We can?t let these companies shape our laws. If we show Europe?s politicians that we -- the people -- are watching their every move, we can push them into acting for the interests of the public, not Big Tech profits. Will you help by sending a Tweet to MEPs who will vote on this crucial legislation? If we fill up their feeds on the same day there is a major action on the streets of Brussels, we can really turn up the heat: Send a tweet Thanks for all that you do, Olivia, Flora and the team at SumOfUs More information: Instagram internal research: ?We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls? 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Message-ID: <931D2FB316804474B6E697D042852216@evol.sp.ru> Hello, We hope you and your loved ones are staying safe. As you read this edition of the Fossil Free Newsletter, climate strikers from all around the world are getting ready for a new wave of mobilizations! Most of the actions are taking place on September 24th under the slogan #UprootTheSystem. As they very well say, "the climate crisis does not exist in a vacuum. Other socio-economic crises such as racism, sexism, ableism, class inequality, and more amplify the climate crisis and vice versa". Bangladesh, in fact, kicked off the climate strikes in Satkhira in the run-up to September 24th. Keep tuned in on Fridays for Future and 350.org's social media channels to follow the actions, and help amplify this call for intersectional justice! Thank you for taking the time to read through this edition of the Fossil Free Newsletter, we appreciate you. In solidarity, Christine IN CASE YOU MISSED IT China Declares an End to Financing Fossil Fuels This is HUGE news. President Xi Jinping of China, on 21 September 2021, announced the country would cease funding of coal-fired power plants abroad. China is one of the leading funders of coal-fired power projects in the Global South. During the United Nations General Assembly held on the 21st of September, Xi Jinping announced the country would cease funding coal-fired power plant projects abroad and scale up climate financing for developing countries through investments in green and low carbon technology. During the UNGA, US President Joe Biden also announced plans to double financing towards renewable energy and climate mitigation in developing countries. This will see financial aid commitments raised to $11.4 billion by 2024. While further details and a more concrete timeline is pending, this announcement is nevertheless a significant moment of celebration for the global climate movement, who have been pressuring governments to take meaningful action on the climate crisis by ending finance for fossil fuel projects for years. We hope this sets a strong precedent for other countries to follow suit and level up their ambitions on climate action. COP26 and vaccine inequity Another news from this last week intrinsically connected with the intersectionality of climate justice is the request from many environmental organizations to postpone COP26, scheduled to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, later this year. COPs are usually not the most equitable spaces in terms of access and voice, but this next one is set up to be even more inequitable due to the failure to support Covid19 vaccine access to millions of people in developing countries, the rising costs of travel and accommodation, including for quarantine in and outside the UK, and the uncertainty in the course of the Covid19 pandemic. The call to postpone COP26 is not a call to postpone urgent climate action, though, and it's not a boycott of the climate talks either. COP26 being postponed or not, we will keep pushing leaders to phase out fossil fuels and fossil fuels finance and holding them accountable to addressing the climate crisis and its impacts with the level of ambition that it requires. The Art of the Movement Art is also a powerful tool for putting pressure! In the lead up for COP26, 350 Aotearoa calls on artists to join a mural competition with the theme "we demand a safe climate and equitable future". This colourful and creative opportunity will allow artists to create innovative artworks that will inspire climate action, and paint the ideal picture of a just, prosperous, and equitable world built with the power of ordinary people. How cool is that! The World?s Wealthiest University has Divested Have you heard that Harvard will divest itself from fossil fuels? Yes, that's right! The wealthiest university in the world will stop any future investments in coal, oil and gas. Students have been putting pressure on the institution's leadership for over a decade, in an inspiring, powerful and resilient movement. This is definitely a big win! Karpowership - the Sailing Controversial Deal In South Africa, the streams are also flowing to move investments away from fossil fuels. Climate activists handed over a petition to the Development Bank of Southern Africa and other financial institutions calling for them to not invest in Karpowership's ?floating power plants?. The company builds and rents out floating gas-fired power plants proposed to produce electricity and is the preferred majority bidder to provide electricity to Eskom (South Africa?s public utility) for the next 20-years for no less than R218 billion (approx. US$14 billion). Financially, investing in renewable energy projects which would bring sustainable development and jobs would make more sense, especially since such green projects would not potentially destroy marine life and the livelihoods of small-scale fishermen! USE YOUR POWER Big Oil, Gas and Mines: #DivestTatmadaw Now! The people of Burma (Myanmar) have been in a humanitarian crisis since the military coup on February 1. The Tatmadaw military regime has killed more than 1000 protesters, including more than 80 children. As the regime continues to brutalize and terrorize protesters, international oil companies, which are the largest source of revenue to the government, continue to fuel their operations. This is a war against humanity and the environment. A collective act of international solidarity is crucial; add your voice and call on companies and governments to divest their investments and cut other financial and corporate linkages with the Tatmadaw?s Myanmar Economic Holding Limited (MEHL), Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC) and Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) front corporations. NAB: Bank On Our Future National Australia Bank (NAB) has a gas problem they need to attend to it. 350 Australia team put together this cool travelling billboard calling on the bank to stop funding fossil fuel projects. The billboard is intended to travel to NAB branches to send the strong message that there is no future for oil and gas. With enough public pressure, NAB can stop funding oil and gas to protect our climate for good. You can take action and keep the pressure up to ban dirty gas! 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Sep 25 23:48:59 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:48:59 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Bayer Message-ID: <9B47AE151EB94AE18B74955E3C4EF815@evol.sp.ru> Bayer, Cargill, and Syngenta are about to get unprecedented power to shape United Nations policies on food production. Will you join the global movement to stop the UN from partnering with the world?s most dangerous pesticide corporations? Sign the petition There are an estimated 385 million cases of acute pesticide poisonings each year. That means about 44% of farmers and agricultural workers around the world are poisoned annually. And those numbers could rise if we don?t stop Bayer?s latest power grab. Right now, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is trying to create a formal partnership with CropLife International -- the mega lobbying group that represents Bayer, Cargill, Syngenta and over 300 other pesticide companies. Allies tell us that an announcement of the deal can come as early as this month unless we stop this #ToxicAlliance. Sign the petition demanding that FAO stop the #ToxicAlliance with CropLife. CropLife?s sole purpose is to advocate for the use of its members? products ? which are hazardous pesticides and genetically modified seeds. For decades, these products have locked farmers into ever-escalating pesticide use, and systematically undermined the rights and welfare of the majority of the world?s food producers. Vladimir, unless we stop this #ToxicAlliance, the companies that are poisoning farmers worldwide will get unprecedented access to power at the United Nations. Join the global movement to save our food systems from Bayer, Cargill, Syngenta, and the other CropLife companies. SumOfUs members have worked for years to rid fields and gardens of pesticides -- from pushing for bans on neonics to getting glyphosate off store shelves. We can?t let the manufacturers of these harmful poisons lobby their way to greater power. Instead of partnering with CropLife, FAO should support people-led, sustainable farming that mitigates climate change and reduces world hunger. Sign the petition Thanks for all that you do, Lacey and the team at SumOfUs More information: Pesticide giants make billions from bee-harming and carcinogenic chemicals, Public Eye, 20 February 2020 The global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning: estimations based on a systematic review, BMC Public Health, 7 December 2020 Letter of Intent between FAO of the UN and CropLife International, Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2 October 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Lacey Kohlmoos, SumOfUs Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 2:06 PM Subject: Bayer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Sep 25 23:51:54 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:51:54 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?SFB_Weekly=3A=C2=A0The_promise_of_carbon-n?= =?utf-8?q?eutral_steel?= Message-ID: <148DA5C62B0346E3AEC4B8933B20C99C@evol.sp.ru> SFB Weekly: The promise of carbon-neutral steelView this email in your browser A solutions-oriented weekly digest from Struggles From Below 24/09/21 N.B. If someone forwarded you this email, subscribe for free here. -------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: LAST CALL FOR PATRONS! Dear reader, We've come to an inflection point here at SFB headquarters: plough on in the face of economic uncertainty or call it quits and move on to pastures new. In advance of such a tricky choice, we've decided to make one last call for patronage in a final bid for the publication to stand on its own feet financially. So if you get any value out of the service we provide, we hope you will consider becoming one of our sustaining patrons ? whether its enough for a monthly takeaway, a sandwich or even just a coffee, any little you can afford to spare would be so gratefully appreciated. In exchange, we pledge that if we cross the ?500/month-mark, we'll publish a new longread or photo essay every week along with the newsletter. And if we hit ?1000/month, we'll launch a new solutions-focused podcast. Of course, we'll keep you informed of our decision in the coming weeks. But whatever happens, we wish you a heartfelt thanks for your all your time and support so far! Ollie Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Struggles From Below Become an SFB Patron -------------------------------------------------- In our top read this week, The New Yorker's Matthew Hutson examines a new manufacturing technique that could drastically reduce the footprint of one of our dirtiest materials. Steel production accounts for around 7% of humanity?s greenhouse-gas emissions. There are two reasons for this startling fact. First, steel is made using metallurgic methods that our Iron Age forebears would find familiar; second, it is part of seemingly everything, including buildings, bridges, fridges, planes, trains, and automobiles. According to some estimates, global demand for steel will nearly double by 2050. Green steel, therefore, is urgently needed if we?re to confront climate change. Sometime around 2000 BCE, it was discovered, possibly by accident, that iron-heavy rock, or ore, became malleable when it was heated over charcoal fires. Today, we can explain why this happens: at high enough temperatures, iron atoms loosen their grip on oxygen atoms. The oxygen binds to the carbon in the charcoal, forming CO2, which flies off into the air. What?s left behind is purified, or ?reduced?, iron. The process of reduction allowed the Iron Age to begin. It?s hard to say exactly when steel was first made. From time to time, it would be created when carbon diffused from the charcoal into the iron, strengthening it. But steel production was hard to control until a few hundred years ago, when the blast furnace was invented. Using bellows, steelworkers increased the temperatures of their coal fires to nearly 3,000 degrees ? hot enough to melt iron in large quantities. Today, blast furnaces are still the main method used to reduce steel. Current models are about a hundred feet tall, and can produce ten thousand tons of iron in a day. Instead of charcoal, they use coke, a processed form of coal. Coke and ore go in the top of the furnace, and molten iron comes out the bottom, infused with carbon; this iron can be easily processed into steel. The steel industry produces around two billion tons of it each year, in a $2.5-trillion market, while emitting more than three billion tons of CO2 annually, most of it from blast furnaces. Fortunately, we?ve since learned that there?s more than one way to purify iron. Instead of using carbon to remove the oxygen from ore, creating CO2, we can use hydrogen, creating H2O ? that is, water. Many companies are working on this approach; this summer, a Swedish venture used it to make steel at a pilot plant. If the technique were widely employed, it could cut the steel industry?s emissions by 9%, and our global emissions by nearly 6%. That?s a big step toward saving the world. Read the article -------------------------------------------------- What we're reading: How fish can still be part of a more sustainable food future New research indicates that a fish-based diet could be good for the environment and people?s health. THE CONVERSATION How India's air pollution is being turned into floor tiles Smog is a leading cause of ill health around the world, but one Indian inventor is hoping to make it easier to breathe by scrubbing soot from the air and recycling it. BBC FUTURE ?Ecofeminism is about respect?: the activist working to revolutionise west African farming Mariama Sonko is an unstoppable force who continued her work even when she was ostracised by her community in Senegal. THE GUARDIAN LA?s new reflective streets bounce heat back into space The air in these neighbourhoods is getting cooler ? with huge implications for sweltering cities worldwide. REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Social entrepreneurs fight to make gig work fairer, greener Using ethical tech, Fairtrade products and equitable contracts, can social enterprises create a "good" gig economy? THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION -------------------------------------------------- One to ponder: The food wars Vitamins or whole foods; high-fat or low-fat; sugar or sweetener. Will we ever get a clear idea about what we should eat? AEON -------------------------------------------------- Quote of the week: "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." ? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -------------------------------------------------- Song of the week: Knucks - Los Pollos Hermanos -------------------------------------------------- That's it for today, folks. If you're enjoying this newsletter, please do forward it on to any friends who might be into it. All the best, Ollie Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Struggles From Below Copyright ? 2019 Struggles From Below, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Struggles From Below, 48b Waller Road, London, SE14 5LA Struggles From Below ? 48b ? Waller Road ? London, SE14 5LA ? United Kingdom From: Struggles From Below Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 10:05 AM Subject: SFB Weekly: The promise of carbon-neutral steel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sun Sep 26 20:09:06 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 21:09:06 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Bees -- days left Message-ID: <199C7894F5C44F6BBE7D7AEA066980DF@evol.sp.ru> Billions of bees, butterflies, and beetles... are dying off, threatening ecological collapse. Toxic agricultural pesticides are among the key culprits, but we now have a unique chance to phase them out in Europe. If we help win there, the rest of the world could follow. But to make it happen we have to drown out the voices of the industry lobby. Sign now to create a massive buzz for the bees, and share widely: Dear friends, Silently, the insect apocalypse keeps unfolding -- billions of bees, butterflies, and other extraordinary tiny creatures are dying off, and the consequences may soon be catastrophic for our crops and fragile ecosystems worldwide.Agricultural pesticides are among the key culprits. But now the European Union is considering a proposal to cut pesticide use by 2030 that could pave the way for a total phase-out across Europe in 15 years. As a trading superpower, the EU has enormous influence on setting global standards -- and a win here could have ripple effects globally.But first we must prevent the powerful chemical lobby from wrecking the plan. This is why we are joining an incredible coalition of environmental groups, farmers, beekeepers, and scientists to bring one million citizen voices and ensure EU institutions address our demands.Your signature will also empower supportive parliamentarians with a massive boost of public support, so they can resist the army of lobbyists, and help save our bees and butterflies from deadly pesticides. Billions of bees, butterflies, and beetles... are dying off, threatening ecological collapse. Toxic agricultural pesticides are among the key culprits, but we now have a unique chance to phase them out in Europe. If we help win there, the rest of the world could follow. But to make it happen we have to drown out the voices of the industry lobby. Sign now to create a massive buzz for the bees, and share widely: SIGN NOW! Dear friends, Silently, the insect apocalypse keeps unfolding -- billions of bees, butterflies, and other extraordinary tiny creatures are dying off, and the consequences may soon be catastrophic for our crops and fragile ecosystems worldwide. Agricultural pesticides are among the key culprits. But now the European Union is considering a proposal to cut pesticide use by 2030 that could pave the way for a total phase-out across Europe in 15 years. As a trading superpower, the EU has enormous influence on setting global standards -- and a win here could have ripple effects globally. But first we must prevent the powerful chemical lobby from wrecking the plan. This is why we are joining an incredible coalition of environmental groups, farmers, beekeepers, and scientists to bring one million citizen voices and ensure EU institutions address our demands. Your signature will also empower supportive parliamentarians with a massive boost of public support, so they can resist the army of lobbyists, and help save our bees and butterflies from deadly pesticides. Click now to help protect our bees from deadly chemicals Recent studies suggest that more than 40% of insect species are declining, a third are endangered -- and overall have an extinction rate eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles! These include the bumblebees, butterflies, beetles and other beautiful pollinators that sustain much of our food supply and delicate ecosystems. Protecting wildlife habitats remains a crucial part of the fight to stop the collapse of our insect populations, but it is equally important to tackle the flood of pesticides going into our fields, parks, and playgrounds -- 2.5 million tons every year! There is mounting evidence that agricultural chemicals not only cause water and soil pollution, they?re also deadly to bees and other pollinators. But now we have a massive opportunity in Europe to push a new, pesticide-free agricultural model that allows nature and farmers to thrive in harmony. Key EU lawmakers are ready to fight for the most ambitious deal ever to transform our food and farming systems, but they need all our support. Momentum is building to address the issue not only in Europe -- the UN just published a plan to drastically reduce pesticide use ahead of international negotiations later in the year. If we help win in Europe, more countries will follow, bringing us a step closer to saving our bees and pollinators from extinction, and help small, sustainable farmers to flourish. Join now, and share with everyone -- Avaaz and our partners will make sure our voices are heard in every important meeting ahead. Click now to help protect our bees from deadly chemicals Many Avaazers care deeply about bees and biodiversity. Over 2 million of us are calling on world leaders to protect half our planet and stop the extinction crisis, and with over 5 million signatures, our call to save the bees is one of the biggest in Avaaz history. But we won?t ultimately win these campaigns unless we transform the way we produce food. This is our chance to make sure the EU leads and other countries follow. Let?s make it happen. With hope and determination, Anneke, Antonia, Aloys, Adela, Luis and the whole team at Avaaz More information: The insect apocalypse: ?Our world will grind to a halt without them? (The Guardian) UN sets out Paris-Style plan to cut extinction rate by a factor of 10 (The Guardian) Study: Farm pesticide killing more bees (Dhaka Tribune) Bee Kind: Imperial scientists? efforts to protect pollinators (Imperial College London) Avaaz is a 65-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. You became a member of the Avaaz movement and started receiving these emails when you signed "Join Avaaz!" on 2013-08-06 To ensure that Avaaz messages reach your inbox, please add avaaz at avaaz.org to your address book. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Sep 27 15:05:49 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:05:49 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] 2021 Green Schools Tree Planting Project Message-ID: <65631C41E2714FACAA149FD271EC2B82@evol.sp.ru> Dear Sir or Madam, Greetings from The Green Schools Project Uganda. The "Green Schools Project" this year 2021, will be running for the consecutive 8th year. The 2ND Season rains are in full force, September to December, our 1,000,000 Trees planting campaign kicks off on 15th of October 2021. This comes as a response to Climate Change to address the increasing heat waves, trees will be able to provide the most needed shade for the communities identified above. Similarly, planted trees will help carbon sequestering by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transforming it into biomass through photosynthesis. To achieve the set goal of planting 1,000,000 trees we need volunteers to help in the raising of seedlings, watering of seedlings in our nurseries, weeding, pruning, seed beds sowing and management, sorting of seedlings, loading and offloading seedlings at planting sites, planting of tree seedlings, project activity documenting, help in our fundraising activities e.g. for more ideas visit us at https://greeninguganda.org/Donations IMPORTANCE OF TREES IN URBAN SETTINGS: Trees help regulate the local climate, produce oxygen, improve soil quality, attract wild life, and absorb CO2! In this article we are focus on their Carbon Capture capabilities, and how much CO2 they actually absorb. Did you know, one mature tree is capable of absorbing 22kg of Carbon per year, and that means 1 million absorb 22 million Kilograms of Carbon from the air. TREE SEEDLINGS NURSERY BEDS MANAGEMENT: As we kick off for the 2ND season Green Schools Tree Planting project activities, we need volunteers in day today activities of managing seedlings, sorting, packaging, loading, offloading, distribution, and planting, documentation etc, for more details on our nursery beds, kindly visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=50milliontrees&set=a.678816325498316 FUNDRAISING: Our budget for this years Green Schools Tree Planting Project is US$ 95,000, covering activities of planting tools, materials, transportation/all logistics, seedlings, volunteers and staff welfare, project activity documentation, community media education and awareness, in this regard we need your help and partnership in raising these funds, through online secure donation US$ 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 OR more, kindly visit us on www.greeninguganda.org Help us raise a minimum of US$ 95,000, only 25 days remaining to kick off the project. To view our previous Green Schools Project activity photographs, kindly visit us at https://www.facebook.com/pg/50milliontrees/photos/?tab=album&album_id=415490135164271 As a volunteer, you can create your personal fundraising account at https://www.givengain.com/ and under this account your can raise funds for your specific number of trees you want to plant, at the same time under this account you can raise funds for airfare, accommodation while here in Uganda, and insurance. Greening Uganda, can facilitate you with all the documentation you need introducing you to projected donors. Greening Uganda as a Forestry Organisation, we as well work with communities to promote tree planting, conservation and environmental education, you can visit our activity photo gallery at https://web.facebook.com/pg/50milliontrees/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2020030544710214 Under this project, we have volunteer opportunities as above e.g. seed beds sowing, management, pricking and transplanting of seedlings, construction of tree nursery beds, watering, weeding, pruning, community sensitization and outreaches, field assessments, seedlings distribution, pest control and management, daily nursery beds record keeping etc, BUDONGO FOREST RESTORATION: Every year in collaboration with National Forestry Authority, we identify degraded natural forest lands, we carry out tree species analysis, and we plant the identified areas, this year 2021, we target to plant 100,000 trees in various degraded or encroached forest lands, for more details on on our past activities, kindly visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=50milliontrees&set=a.2541090142604249 Under this project, we have volunteer opportunities as above e.g. seed beds sowing, management, pricking and transplanting of seedlings, construction of tree nursery beds, watering, weeding, pruning, community sensitization and outreaches, field assessments, seedlings distribution, pest control and management, daily nursery beds record keeping etc, TREE FOR TOURISM: Every year in collaboration with National Forestry Authority, Ministry of Tourism, Uganda Tourism Board & Tourism sector stakeholders, we identify tourism sites that require tree replenishment, we carry out tree species analysis, and we plant the identified areas, this year 2021, we target to plant 100,000 trees in identified tourism sites e.g. in Urban & Rural tourism sites to promote conservation of indigenous tree species, and conservation of existing tourism sites, for more information, kindly visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=50milliontrees&set=a.2529081817138415 Under this project, we have volunteer opportunities as above e.g. seed beds sowing, management, pricking and transplanting of seedlings, construction of tree nursery beds, watering, weeding, pruning, community sensitization and outreaches, field assessments, seedlings distribution, pest control and management, daily nursery beds record keeping etc, CONSERVATION PLANTING To prevent animal and human settlement conflicts, and promote urban settlement nature conservation in urban areas, each year we identify urban community managed forests where we plant specific trees that will benefit wild animals and the community e.g. fruit and medicinal trees, for more details, please visit us at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=50milliontrees&set=a.1307854489261160 GREENING CARAVAN: All the above mentioned tree planting projects, require transportation services to deliver seedlings to different beneficiary sites, under this department, we have volunteer opportunities such as seedlings sorting, seedlings packaging, seedlings loading and offloading and setting of onsite mini nursery beds for distribution planning and planting planning, for more details visit us at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=50milliontrees&set=a.998009233579022 Kindly circulate widely, we need to raise US$ 95,000 for this project 2021 activities. Your US$ 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 or more will help us meet our target of planting 30,000 trees in public schools in Uganda during, Donate now, its highly safe and secure https://greeninguganda.org/Donations. COVID19 RESTRICTIONS: Up until now, Uganda has had 122,405 cumulative confirmed COVID19 Cases, 3,130 confirmed deaths, & 15,147 cumulative recoveries. The Country has been through lock-downs, sector restrictions, and currently under-going partial lock-down to prevent and control further spread of the virus. As a Country, a total of 1,777,685 Ugandans have received the 1st dose of vaccination and the process is on-going, as preventive measures, we had restrictions for some Countries. Every Tree Counts, Albert KUNIHIRA Resource Mobilisation Oficcer/Project Coordinator Green Schools Project/Greening Uganda P.O. Box 20029, Kampala-Uganda Off Airport Highway, Nakawuka Entebbe T: 256-776-200002/752-200003 Whatsapp: 0793-200002 F: www.facebook.com/50milliontrees or E: greening.uganda at gmail.com OR greenschools at greeninguganda.org Skype: greening.uganda Twitter: https://twitter.com/treesforschools Every Tree Counts! From: Greening Uganda Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 5:43 PM Subject: 2021 Green Schools Tree Planting Project -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Sep 27 15:09:00 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:09:00 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Game-changer Message-ID: Hi, The fossil fuel industry hopes you won?t get excited about what just happened. We believe you should ? because it?s a significant win that shows what people power can do. Chinese President Xi Jinping stood before the United Nations with a surprise declaration: ?China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy, and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.? This is big. China is the largest funder of coal projects in developing countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh, and the world?s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. A hasty estimate showed it may halt up to 47 coal plants1 ? resulting in a reduction of up to 200 million tonnes a year in greenhouse gases. Honestly, we were caught a little by surprise about this decision. And that leaves lots of details to discern: What does this mean to current projects? How much is ?green? vs ?low-carbon? energy, which may include oil and gas? When will China halt coal production domestically? We congratulate China on its wise decision to stop external coal investment ? it?s one of the dirtiest energy sources. Now, let?s take this moment to chart this as a movement victory ? because if the climate movement doesn?t declare our role in this success, nobody else ever will. ?THE MOVEMENT MADE THIS MOMENT? A win of this scale happens only because of many, many, many, many people. A New York Times article2 noted one source: ?Chinese coal projects have faced considerable resistance in countries like Bangladesh, Kenya and Vietnam, mainly by civil society groups.? We know and have supported some of these civil society groups. Like Save Lamu in Kenya, who fought against the country?s first mainland coal-fired power plant, it was a tiring, multi-year fight to stop a Chinese-funded coal plant. It took a deluge of protests, letters, anxious nights, and connecting neighbour-by-neighbour. The campaign was successful in forcing the plans for the coal plant to be scrapped. 350?s Africa Field Organizer Rukiya Kamis made it clear that local organizing work has been replicated country after country: We thank you for being part of the movement, and all of our friends and colleagues who wrote a letter, called a legislator, marched, spent time protecting their homes. Each act is a seed planted in the ground. At moments like this, we can see the harvest. And there have been so many seeds. We?ve been launching finance campaigns around the globe for this reason. We believe a weakness to the fossil fuel industry is the financing by banks and government-owned financial institutions. Some of those leading groups have been focused on China, like the Go Clean ICBC global coalition. China made an important step. We hope a virtuous cycle grows. Other wealthy countries should step up and get their financial institutions to do better. That?s why we are now pressuring the US Federal Reserve, the European Investment Bank and others. And we hope that sparks even bigger steps. Get involved in campaigns near you And that?s where everyone has a role. Every mind changed, every win obtained, every person acting for a better planet ? it all adds up. For now, take a breath and celebrate. Because our next step remains the same: keep the pressure up. If we?re going to believe in more than a grim future, then we have to believe in change ? so when it happens, we need to hold on and let people know. Tell your friends you played a small role in a big win. Show people that the globe has a choice to make ? and movements can change the course of the times. The fossil fuel companies hope you won?t do any of this. It hopes you won?t feel the power of this moment or see the web of connections that binds us in this win. So take the moment to savor. And then gear up for the next fight. Onwards, Mahir and the 350.org team PS. Tell your friends about this big news and make ripples of inspiring actions ? share this video on Facebook or Twitter. References: 1. China, US unveil separate big steps to fight climate change 2. China Pledges to Stop Building Coal-Burning Power Plants Abroad -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 350.org is building a global climate movement. You can connect with us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing. From: Mahir Ilgaz, 350.org Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 2:50 PM Subject: Game-changer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Sep 27 22:56:45 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 23:56:45 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] The bees need you now Message-ID: <51E0D4ABABB54175A2DD87F14D900387@evol.sp.ru> We all care about bees because we know our fate is linked to theirs. But they are dying as companies like Bayer-Monsanto make sure farmers can?t survive without their bee-killing pesticides. This could change if we reach one million signatures by Thursday. We are so close, sign now! Hi, Bees are dying out. Big pesticide producers like Bayer-Monsanto will do anything to increase their sales and bottom-line, and they are forcing the hands of farmers. The only way for farmers to succeed in this intensive, industrial agriculture system is to use pesticides that kill the bees. We need bees because they pollinate one-third of the food we eat. Pollination is essential to our lives because our fruits, vegetables, and the crops that feed livestock require pollination to be fertilised. Without bees, there would literally be no food! [1] And we have little time to prevent bee populations from disappearing. That?s why we?re supporting a European Citizens? Initiative (ECI) to radically change our agriculture for the better, restore our ecosystems, and protect our farmers and bees. We?re asking for all pesticides to be phased out. It?s a big ask, but if more than ONE MILLION of us sign, the EU Commission and our MEPs will be legally obligated to meet us and address our demands -- and we're nearly there. Sign now to save the bees! Intensive agriculture (made possible by synthetic pesticides) has destroyed the diversity of the Earth?s nature. That diversity is essential for sustainable agriculture and protecting our climate. Thankfully, nature recovers quickly when we take decisive action to bring back wildlife and abandon the use of synthetic pesticides. But we have to act now, before it?s too late. For decades, billions of euros worth of public and private funds have been poured into the pockets of pesticide producers. All while those producers have convinced our politicians to ignore the negative effects pesticides cause on bees, the environment and on our health. But finally, our leaders are starting to wake up to our calls because of people?s mobilisations. Following calls from millions of Europeans in 2018, the EU agreed to a near-total ban on neonicotinoids, a specific kind of pesticide that harms the central nervous systems of bees. [2] And all of this on the back of a new law that the EU approved in 2019, increasing transparency throughout the pesticide approval process! [3] But we can?t just keep banning individual types of pesticides! Our public resources ought to fund research to allow agriculture to prosper and bees to thrive, while also rebuilding our dying ecosystems. And to do that, we need to phase out synthetic pesticides altogether. Sign now to rebuild our ecosystems! Our WeMove Europe community has been at the forefront of the struggle for sustainable agriculture in Europe. Now, with this ECI we have a real chance to push for a truly different and sustainable agricultural model for Europe and the world. Will you join us? David (London), Virginia (Madrid), Alex (Marseille), and the entire team at WeMove Europe P.S. Because this campaign is a European Citizens? Initiative, you?ll have to enter your details in a two-step process. The ECI is like an official EU petition, so it requires more information than we?d normally ask from you to sign a petition. Please fully complete the ECI form in order to have your signature counted and verified by your national government. References: [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/bee-decline-dying-out-honeybees-uk-food-production-extinction-a6939266.html [2] In 2017, our community launched an ECI to ban glyphosate with a large coalition of partners across Europe. While we didn?t get an EU-wide ban on glyphosate, we won major changes to the EU transparency of the pesticide approval procedure which were passed into law earlier this year. For more information about ECIs, see the EU website here: https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome [3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43910536 WeMove Europe is an independent and values-based organisation that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of our community, future generations and the planet. WeMove Europe is funded by donations from our community across Europe. Can you chip in with a few euros a month and help make sure we can move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us? Donate Follow on Twitter | Like on Facebook | Subscribe on Youtube WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 2:47 PM Subject: The bees need you now -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Sep 27 23:15:07 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:15:07 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Total greenwash Message-ID: <989516829F03443DA2322FA8BDEBD35C@evol.sp.ru> One of the world?s largest oil and gas companies is trying to use 'green' financing to fund its disastrous plans to drill the Arctic. We can?t let them get away with it. Add your name to this urgent message to investors: don?t buy Total?s toxic 'sustainability' bonds. Sign the petition Vladimir, This week French oil and gas giant Total is getting set to sell a cunning plan to investors: to use 'sustainable' financing to fund its efforts to drill the Arctic. It?s greenwashing on an epic scale. But we have a chance to disrupt Total?s plans. Total is unveiling its full corporate strategy to investors like AXA and BNP Paribas starting today. Investors will then decide whether to buy into Total's 'sustainability bonds' over the coming weeks. It?s just enough time to raise the alarm. You can spook investors by showing them that tens of thousands of people across the world oppose this attempt to use ?green? finance to fund fossil expansion. Tell BNP Paribas, AXA and BlackRock don?t buy Total?s toxic sustainability bonds! Investors increasingly are demanding action on climate. But by 2030, 80% of Total's investments will still be be directed to fossil fuels. Which is why Total came up with this cunning plan: call the investments ?sustainable? - but use them to fund oil and gas expansion. It's greenwash. But it also sets a dangerous precedent: if Total can use sustainable finance to build massive oil pipelines through East Africa and drill the Arctic wilderness, then so too can any other company. Total says that its ?sustainability linked bonds? will support its climate plans. But one look at those plans shows how hollow this claim is. What?s more, Total is not obligated to spend any of the money it raises through its sustainability bonds for green projects: it can pump it straight into new oil and gas projects. Sign now: investors use green finance to create climate solutions not fund climate destruction. Across the world SumOfUs members have taken on some of the largest fossil fuel companies and won! People power has helped push insurers like AIG and Liberty Mutual to abandon the Adani Carmichael mine and force Canadian banks to finally set climate goals. The finance world is moving on climate - but only when we push it. Which is why if we move fast we can expose Total?s greenwashing for what it is. Sign the petition Thanks for all that you do, Nick and the team at SumOfUs More information: Protect the climate but finance Total?, Reclaim Finance, 24 February 2021 Sustainability-linked bonds in 'rapid growth' as more firms tap ESG debt market, S&P Global Market Intelligence, 23 June 2021 Arctic Oil, Gas Production Is Booming Despite Climate Fears, Bloomberg, 23 September 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Nick Haines, SumOfUs Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 4:26 PM Subject: Total greenwash -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Sep 27 23:41:03 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:41:03 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] War Abolisher of 2021 Award Announcement Message-ID: <2B666D3205A645E583315205DFE5CADF@evol.sp.ru> Today, September 27, 2021, World BEYOND War announces as the recipient of the War Abolisher of 2021 Award: Civic Initiative Save Sinjajevina. As already announced, the Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher Award of 2021 will be presented to Peace Boat, and the David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War Abolisher Award of 2021 will be presented to Mel Duncan. An online presentation and acceptance event, with remarks from representatives of all three 2021 award recipients will take place on October 6, 2021, at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, 8 a.m. Eastern Time, 2 p.m. Central European Time, and 9 p.m. Japan Standard Time. The event is open to the public and will include presentations of three awards, a musical performance by Ron Korb, and three breakout rooms in which participants can meet and talk with the award recipients. Participation is free. Register here for Zoom link. World BEYOND War is a global nonviolent movement, founded in 2014, to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace. (See: https://worldbeyondwar.org ) In 2021 World BEYOND War is announcing its first-ever annual War Abolisher Awards. The purpose of the awards is to honor and encourage support for those working to abolish the institution of war itself. With the Nobel Peace Prize and other nominally peace-focused institutions so frequently honoring other good causes or, in fact, wagers of war, World BEYOND War intends its award to go to educators or activists intentionally and effectively advancing the cause of war abolition, accomplishing reductions in war-making, war preparations, or war culture. Between June 1 and July 31, World BEYOND War received hundreds of impressive nominations. The World BEYOND War Board, with assistance from its Advisory Board, made the selections. The awardees are honored for their body of work directly supporting one or more of the three segments of World BEYOND War?s strategy for reducing and eliminating war as outlined in the book ?A Global Security System, An Alternative to War.? They are: Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflict Without Violence, and Building a Culture of Peace. Civic Initiative Save Sinjajevina (Gra?anska inicijativa Sa?uvajmo Sinjajevinu in Serbian) is a popular movement in Montenegro that has prevented the implementation of a planned NATO military training ground, blocking military expansion while protecting a natural environment, a culture, and a way of life. Save Sinjajevina remains vigilant to the danger of ongoing efforts to impose a base on their treasured land. (See https://sinjajevina.org) Montenegro joined NATO in 2017 and the rumors began in 2018 of plans to impose a military (including artillery) training ground on the grasslands of Sinjajevina Mountain, the biggest mountain pasture in the Balkans and the second largest in Europe, a unique landscape of immense natural and cultural value, part of the Tara River Canyon Biosphere Reserve and surrounded by two UNESCO World Heritage sites. It is used by more than 250 families of farmers and nearly 2,000 people, while many of its pastures are used and managed communally by eight different Montenegrin tribes. Public demonstrations against the militarization of Sinjajevina gradually arose from 2018 onwards. In September 2019, ignoring over 6,000 signatures of Montenegrin citizens that should have compelled a debate in the Montenegrin Parliament, the parliament announced the creation of a military training ground without any environmental, socio-economic, or health-impact assessments, and NATO forces arrived to train. In November 2019, an international scientific research team presented its works to UNESCO, the European Parliament, and the European Commission, explaining the bio-cultural value of Sinjajevina. In December 2019 the Save Sinjajevina association was officially launched. On October 6, 2020, Save Sinjajevina launched a petition to stop the creation of the military training ground. On October 9, 2020, farmers demonstrated at the doors of Parliament when they knew that the EU Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement was at that moment in the country?s capital. Beginning October 19th, rumors started to appear about a new military training on Sinjajevina. On October 10th, 2020, news broke and the rumors of a new military training being planned were confirmed by the Minister of the Defence. About 150 farmers and their allies set up a protest camp in the highland pastures to block soldiers? access to the area. They formed a human chain in the grasslands and used their bodies as shields against the live ammunition of the planned military exercise. For months they stood in the way of the military moving from one side of the plateau to another, in order to prevent the military from firing and executing their drill. Whenever the military moved, so did the resisters. When Covid hit and national restrictions on gatherings were implemented, they took turns in four-person groups set in strategic spots to stop the guns from firing. When the high mountains turned cold in November, they bundled up and held their ground. They resisted for more than 50 days in freezing conditions until the new Montenegrin Minister of Defense, who was appointed on the 2nd of December, announced that the training would be cancelled. The Save Sinjajevina movement ? including farmers, NGOs, scientists, politicians, and ordinary citizens ? has continued to develop local democratic control over the future of the mountains threatened by NATO, has continued to engage in public education and lobbying of elected officials, and has offered its insights through numerous fora to those working in other parts of the world to prevent the construction of, or to close existing, military bases. Opposing military bases is very difficult, but absolutely crucial to abolishing war. Bases destroy indigenous people?s and local communities? ways of life and healthier ways to make a living. Stopping the harm done by bases is central to the work of World BEYOND War. The Civic Initiative Save Sinjajevina is doing the educational and nonviolent activist work that is most needed, and with stunning success and influence. Save Sinjajevina is also making necessary connections between peace, environmental protection, and local community promotion, and between peace and democratic self-governance. If war is ever fully ended, it will be because of work like that being done by the Civic Initiative Save Sinjajevina. We should all offer them our support and solidarity. The movement has launched a new global petition at https://bit.ly/sinjajevina ADD YOUR NAME. Taking part in the online event on October 6, 2021, will be these representatives of the Save Sinjajevina Movement: Milan Sekulovic, a Montenegrin journalist and civic-environmental activist, and the founder of the Save Sinjajevina movement; Pablo Dominguez, an eco-anthropologist who specialized on pastoral mountain commons and how they work bio-ecologically and socio-culturally. Petar Glomazic, an aeronautical engineer and aviation consultant, documentary film maker, translator, alpinist, ecological and civic rights activist, and a Steering Committee Member of Save Sinjajevina. Persida Jovanovi? is currently pursuing a Master?s degree in political science and international relations, and she spent most of her life in Sinjajevina. She is now working together with local communities and the Save Sinjajevina association to preserve the traditional way of life and ecosystem of the mountain. ## Sent via Action Network, a free online toolset anyone can use to organize. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Sep 30 02:11:32 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:11:32 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?Nestl=C3=A9?= Message-ID: <3F4E9C3717AF4887954E2BF9D586C36C@lewpostnew> Bullying a small farmer with legal action ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Didier Thouvenin is a farmer in Vittel, France -- home to one of Nestl?'s massive water-guzzling projects. Together with other whistleblowers, he exposed that Nestl? was illegally dumping huge amounts of plastic and chemical waste, forcing it to admit to creating NINE massive dumping sites. But instead of cleaning up the mess and apologizing to local residents, Nestl? filed a legal complaint against Didier for trespassing! We know it won?t stop there -- there were 11 other activists with Didier that day and Nestl? is famous for doing everything they can to silence opposition to protect its profits. Didier just told us he URGENTLY needs to secure a lawyer to fight back. If enough of us chip in, we can create a legal defense fund for Didier and other brave activists standing up to Nestl?... can you help? If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $3 now Donate another amount Here?s what happened: in 2014, Didier and other local activists entered a field owned by Nestl? through an open fence, then dug a hole to find waste that was illegally and secretly buried underground. They filmed the whole operation, filled the hole, and left without causing any damage. As a result of their bravery, even more dumping sites were revealed -- putting Nestl? on the defensive. But now instead of taking responsibility -- Nestl? is coming after Didier! It?s not just illegal dumping that?s the problem. Nestl? pumps 800 million litres a year of precious groundwater out of Vittel, to bottle and sell for a huge markup. It?s stolen so much water that the local community now faces a water shortage, all while Nestl? continues to pump them dry! But with your help, Didier can stop Nestl? from operating with impunity. Winning will expose the devastation and help to finally bring accountability for the injustices it?s caused -- and any extra funds we raise will power our global fights against water theft. But Didier is a farmer, in a small, rural part of the country where Nestl? rules almighty. Without support from our community he?ll be bullied and bankrupted -- and Nestl? will get away with stopping at nothing to protect its profits once again. If you?ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $3 now Donate another amount Our community has been working closely with local activists in Vittel to fight back against Nestl? since 2019. First, we collected funds when no one else was to empower them to organize. And last year, when Nestl? tried to force the local community to build a pipeline to bring more water to the area, SumOfUs joined forces with local groups and killed the project. This is the next stage in our fight to protect our water from corporate grabs -- let?s win again! Thanks for all that you do, Allison, Fatah, Danny and the SumOfUs team -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: (In French) Vittel : neuf d?charges sauvages sur les terrains de Nestl? Waters, des analyses sont en cours. France 3. 26 May 2021. French Town Becomes a Focal Point in War over Water. Der Spiegel. 13 March 2019. French town of Vittel suffering water shortages. Mediapart. 27 April 2018. SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Allison Johnson, SumOfUs Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:21 PM Subject: Nestl? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Sep 30 13:21:55 2021 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:21:55 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] here is the latest news from the High-level Climate Champions! Message-ID: <347D1297352E4F96800D5D29744D9B01@lewpostnew> UN Climate Change ?Global Climate Action 30 September 2021 High Level Climate Champions Newsletter We Are Witnessing A Breakthrough With less than five weeks left to go before COP26 in Glasgow, the momentum of action from cities, regions, businesses and investors to both cut emissions and build resilience is building - sending a powerful signal to governments that the economy is already racing to a healthier, more resilient and more liveable future. In the private sector, at least one-fifth of major companies by revenue across 15 of the economy?s biggest sectors are now committed to cutting emissions this decade in line with reaching net zero before 2050. That means those companies have set targets equal to their fair share of halving global greenhouse emissions between 2020 and 2030, such as boosting renewable energy to 60 per cent of the mix and zero-emissions shipping fuel to 5 per cent. The UN-backed Race to Zero?s 2030 Breakthroughs challenge, released in January, set out the tipping points needed across about 30 big sectors to get them on a science-based course for net zero before mid-century. In the clean power sector, for example, 21 per cent of major utilities are now in the Race to Zero, including Engie, Enel and Kenya Electricity Generating Company. This is crucial, because the power sector accounts for a quarter of global emissions (mostly from coal, but also oil and gas) and can help to decarbonize sectors such as transport and buildings through electrification. Renewable energy is already the cheapest option for new power generation in most countries, with an 80 per cent fall in the cost of solar and 55 per cent for wind. In the pharmaceuticals and medtech sector, major companies aim to secure the Green Lab Certification for 95 per cent of their labs by 2030, meaning they will meet the global standard for sustainability best practices. AstraZeneca has already adopted it in over 65 labs worldwide. In other initiatives, Philips intends to source over three-quarters of its energy from renewable sources by 2025 after achieving carbon neutrality across its operations last year, GSK is working to reach net zero emissions across its biopharma value chain by 2030, and Dr Reddy is cutting Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. In transport, nearly 40 per cent of major heavy goods vehicle manufacturers have joined the Race to Zero and committed to zero-emission sales by 2040, including Ford, Volvo, BMW and Nissan. Around a quarter of major bus makers have joined with a commitment to zero-emission sales by 2030. And in nature-based solutions and land use, 28 per cent of major food suppliers have committed to create deforestation-free supply chains and to fully adopt regenerative agriculture and land restoration work by 2030. They include Brazil?s JBS and Ambev, Thailand?s NR Instant Produce, Japan?s Ajinomoto, France?s Danone and Switzerland?s Nestl?. The Race to Zero now boasts 6,200 members, covering over 11 per cent of the population and almost 15 per cent of the economy. The campaign has almost doubled since this time last year, despite the global challenges presented by the pandemic. Now you can search who?s in the Race to Zero too, by sector, region and type of actor, using our new dashboard! Transforming Resilience A zero-emission economy must be a resilient economy too, to ensure that we can thrive in spite of climate change impacts such as unbearable temperatures, super-storms, floods and droughts. The UN-backed Race to Resilience has welcomed four new partners, bringing the total to 24 partners representing more than 2,500 organizations who are taking action in over 100 countries. The campaign plans to announce at COP26 the verified number of people these actions will impact, placing the first progress marker on the campaign's goal to make 4 billion people from vulnerable communities resilient to climate change by 2030. New partner Climate Heritage Network is made up of arts, culture and heritage groups such as indigenous peoples? governments, universities, design firms and artists from across Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. It is working to strengthen resilience and scale up arts, culture, heritage and traditional knowledge-based climate action. The International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure brings together engineers who make resilience and sustainability a cornerstone of every decision taken on infrastructure. Resilience First is a cross-sector business network to bridge gaps in infrastructure systems and address resilience holistically, to create a safe, resilient and sustainable future for all. And the Urban Sustainability Directors Network is made up of local governments in the US and Canada helping to educate residents and coordinate the distribution of resources and services before, during and after climate hazards. To further support its members, the Race to Resilience last week launched its Transformation programme for local governments, businesses and investors working to increase the quantity and quality of finance and investment, capacity building, governance systems, infrastructure and technological innovations - and sharing best practices for it. The campaign will announce the Transformation programme?s first partners at COP26, and hold events at the first dedicated physical and virtual space for resilience at a COP - the Resilience Hub. Call For Input On the First Global Stocktake The Paris Agreement created a process known as the Global Stocktake, during which the world takes stock of its progress in meeting the Paris goals and help countries enhance their climate action. This will happen every five years, starting between 2021 and 2023. In preparation, the chairs of the UNFCCC?s Subsidiary Bodies have opened a call for input, and noted in a paper that cities, regions, the private sector and civil society have a significant role to play. They noted the importance of working with the High-Level Champions and the Marrakech Partnership in the stocktake, and of using UN Climate Change?s Yearbook of Global Climate Action as a key synthesis document. Supporting the stocktake is expected to be among the High-Level Champions? main activities going forward, as part of an improved Marrakech Partnership. We therefore encourage all stakeholders to submit their inputs by February 2022. Further inputs on how to do so can be found here. In Case You Missed It a.. Global greenhouse gas emissions would rise by about 16 per cent by 2030, compared to 2010, under the available Nationally Determined Contributions from 191 parties to the Paris Agreement, according to the UNFCCC?s NDC Synthesis Report. That would lead to 2.7?C of warming by 2100. a.. Twelve investment consultants responsible for advising on over US$10 trillion in assets have launched the Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative, aiming to align their operations and advisory services with a 1.5?C limit. The consultants? support adds strength to the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance and Net Zero Asset Manager Initiative. a.. The governments of Sri Lanka, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Montenegro and the UK announced a ?No New Coal Power Compact? last week, encouraging all other countries to commit to halting the construction of new plants. a.. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced last week that China will stop new coal-fired power plants overseas, while US President Joe Biden said the US will double its climate finance by 2024 to US$11.4 billion per year. a.. The list of coal power project proposals worldwide has shrunk by 76 per cent since 2015, bringing the end of new coal construction in sight, according to E3G. Action and support for six countries could remove 82 per cent of the remaining pipeline. Forty countries do not have pre-construction projects and could join 44 others in committing to stop building new coal by 2021. a.. The EU and US have jointly committed to cutting global methane emissions by 30 per cent by 2030 and launch a Global Methane Pledge at COP26. a.. Greening Africa?s cities could generate hundreds of billions of US dollars in economic dividends over the next three decades, according to research by the Coalition for Urban Transitions, based on analysis of cities in Ethiopia, South Africa and Kenya. Urban growth would be based on compact neighbourhood development, connected infrastructure, clean technologies and climate-resilient planning. a.. The private sector can put health at the centre of its action to stem climate change and regenerate nature, by focusing on six areas including air pollution, water security and forest protection, according to a new report by pharma major GSK. a.. For evidence of the transformation already underway in the economy, check out the Climate Progress News Barrel, a database that tracks news stories on climate action and impacts in fields such as energy, cities, transport, finance and resilience. This live and open-access tool is maintained by Camda. Mark Your Calendars a.. Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition: 28-30 September b.. Pre-COP26, hosted by Italy: 30 September-2 October c.. World Expo 2020 Dubai: 1 October 2021-31 March 2022 d.. Race for our Planet, hosted by Italy and Climate Champions: 1 October e.. World Habitat Day: 4 October f.. Adaptation Futures Conference, hosted by India: 5-8 October g.. UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15, Part 1), hosted by China: 11-15 October h.. World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting: 11-17 October i.. Local Conference of Youth on Climate Change in Kenya: 12-16 October j.. UN Global Sustainable Transport Conference 2021: 14-16 October k.. World Food Day: 16 October l.. Third Asia-Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting: 25-29 October m.. G20 Leaders? Summit, hosted by Italy: 30-31 October n.. COP26, hosted by the UK: 31 October-12 November Sign up for our Newsletter UN Climate Change | Global Climate Action | Race to Zero | GlobalClimateAction at unfccc.int | unfccc.int STAY CONNECTED ? ? ? ? ? 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