From enwl at enw.net.ru Wed May 3 14:02:30 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (ENWL) Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 15:02:30 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] NEW: Global Hydropower Tracker Message-ID: ??????? ??????? ???? ??? ???????????? ???? ??????? ??????????????????? ???????? (????? 75 ???). https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-hydropower-tracker ???? ?? ??? 4000 -??? ????? ?????? ??? ??? ???? ??? ? ?????????. ? ???????? ?? ???????? ??????? - ?? ??????????? ????? ??? ?????????? ???????. ??? ?????????????? ???????????? ?? ??????? ?? ????? ??????, ?? ??? ??? ?????????, ??????? ????? ?????????. ??????????? ? ?????????? ??????. ??? ??? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Joe Bernardi Date: Wed, May 3, 2023 at 10:14?AM Subject: NEW: Global Hydropower Tracker We?re pleased to announce that GEM has launched its Global Hydropower Tracker. View this email in your browser Launching GEM?s Hydropower Tracker Dear colleague, The Renewables and Other Power team at Global Energy Monitor is pleased to announce the launch of our Global Hydropower Tracker, a new resource for tracking the worldwide energy landscape. The dataset catalogs 2,212 GW of hydropower globally with nearly 4,000 projects of at least 75 megawatts (MW) or larger under construction, announced, operating, in pre-construction, or shelved. It includes various technology types such as conventional storage, run-of-river, and pumped storage facilities. Non-comprehensive data is also available for inactive plants: those which are mothballed, retired, or canceled. Check out the Global Hydropower Tracker on the GEM website and download the data here. Thank you so much for your support ? and thank you to our partners who helped us bring this project to fruition. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me directly. P.S. Read our new briefing titled, ?Led by China, Eastern Asia alone can meet key target for pumped storage,? which details how a massive planned buildout of pumped storage hydropower in Eastern Asia, driven by China, would allow this region to single-handedly meet the International Renewable Energy Agency?s target of 420 gigawatts (GW) of pumped storage worldwide by 2050. Joe Bernardi Project Manager for the Global Hydropower Tracker joe.bernardi at globalenergymonitor.org Visit the Global Hydropower Tracker Copyright (C) 2023 Global Energy Monitor. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Global Energy Monitor 440 N Barranca Ave #2878 Covina, CA 91723 Add us to your address book -- ?? ???????? ??? ?????????, ????????? ????????? ?? ?????? "???????????? ????????? ?? ?????? ???????? ??????????? ????". From: eugene simonov Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2023 8:16 AM Subject: Fwd: NEW: Global Hydropower Tracker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Wed May 3 21:23:28 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (ENWL) Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 22:23:28 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Tucker Carlson brought truly fringe ideas to a mass audience Message-ID: <747001C59DC14D5386BA6BBCDF132B1A@lewpostnew> With Carlson out, we must demand Fox News do better. Let???s Demand Fox News Use Tucker Carlson???s Departure as an Opportunity to Start Telling the Truth and Stop Dividing Our Country Sign Now With Tucker Carlson ousted at Fox News, this is an opportunity for the network to make some serious changes. While that may sound like a stretch for Fox, Carlson brought horrifically racist and fringe ideas to a masses of viewers, making what were once obscure and irrational theories now common talking points for conservatives. With Carlson out, we must demand Fox News do better. Sign the petition to demand Fox News use this time of transition to start undoing the damage they've done, and commit to a new era free from disinformation, conspiracy theories, and white supremacy! Carlson's prime-time news show was the most watched hour on cable news. While anyone left of center in American politics rightly thinks of Fox news as a Trump mouthpiece, it's still considered a legitimate journalistic organization by other media organizations. So unfortunately, it has power. Carlson weaponized that power to the fullest extent. Sign the petition to demand Fox News use this time of transition to undo the damage they've done! Thank you, Jess Care2 Petitions Team P.S. It's difficult to understate how Carlson brought truly fringe ideas to a mass audience. Demand change! Sign Now ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 https://www.care2.com From: Jess M., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2023 11:17 AM Subject: Tucker Carlson brought truly fringe ideas to a mass audience -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Thu May 4 15:39:24 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (ENWL) Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 16:39:24 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Call for an International Student Competition-8 JUNE 2023- Message-ID: Call for an International Student Competition-8 JUNE 2023- CALL FOR Bachelor's and Master?s Students competition At 5th International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART) 7-9 June, 2023, Paris, France. 5 min flash presentation / demo Session: International Competition for Bachelor's and Master's Students Competition date: 8th June 2023 at 4.30 pm. Mode: - On-site: ESME, ESME Paris, 34 rue de Fleurus, 75006 Or - Online We would like to extend an invitation to all Bachelor's and Master's students to participate in the International Competition for Bachelor's and Master's Students at the upcoming 5th International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART). This is a great opportunity for students to showcase their final graduation projects to a global audience. We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to the conference theme. To enter, students simply need to submit a title and a brief abstract of their intended project online or on-campus. Projects should relate to one of the conference topics : smart systems, computer vision, Artificial Intelligence, biosignals, Image processing, bio-instrumentation, bionics, biometrics, virtual and augmented reality etc. Important Information for students: - Submit a title and a brief abstract describing your intended project - Submission deadline: May 15th, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: May 25th, 2023 - Presentation date: June 8th, 2023 - Presentation start time: 4:30 pm (Paris time) - Presentation mode: online or on-site - Maximum presentation time: 3 minutes, followed by a 2-minute Q&A session - Website: https://www.biosmart-conference.org/competitions - Contact: contact at biosmart-conference.org Note: only one submission per student is allowed. 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URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Mon May 8 02:01:25 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (enwl) Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 03:01:25 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Cancel massive and provocative military excercises in Australia Message-ID: <5885593D548C47D4AA535FEAD5959CFE@evol.sp.ru> Dear all Pls sign this urgent petition below! take care - stay strong Ulla Kl?tzer - Women for Peace - Finland ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: RootsAction Team To: Ulla Kl?tzer Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 04:30:51 PM GMT+3 Subject: Cancel massive and provocative military excercises in Australia End Talisman Sabre and AUKUS ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Petitions work. Here's a list of successes. We encourage you to start your own petition here, let us help promote it, and you can do your part by signing petitions created by others. The following petition provides an example of what you might do yourself, and it deserves your consideration. To: Legislators in Australia, United States, United Kingdom and Talisman Sabre participating countries CANCEL TALISMAN SABRE AND AUKUS! We call for the massive 30,000-person military land exercises in Australia planned from July 22 through August 4, 2023 to be terminated, and the recently signed Australia, United Kingdom, and United States Alliance (AUKUS) be cancelled, as they are provocative war preparations against China. Please click to add your name! To challenge Talisman Sabre and AUKUS, several Pacific region organizations including Pacific Peace Network and Independent and Peaceful Australia will be having a "Call for Peace in the Pacific" conference on July 29 in Brisbane with speakers from across the Pacific, followed by educational events in Sydney, Canberra and Darwin. The conference will be preceded by two webinars in July with speakers on the militarization of the Pacific and Talisman Sabre and AUKUS for those unable to come to Australia for the conference. The aim of these events is to raise awareness within Australia and the Pacific region of the full impacts of allowing the U.S. to base its forces and materiel on the lands, by sharing the experiences of Pacific People including: 1.. Complicity in wars of aggression 2.. Becoming a target in the event of war 3.. Loss of sovereignty 4.. First people?s lands disregarded damaged and disrespected 5.. Environmental damage 6.. Economic drain 7.. Sidelining of national legal system 8.. Impacts on women and girls Volunteers will deliver this petition to legislators in their respective countries. We will also publicize the petition through articles and social media. Please sign here and share! After signing the petition, please use the tools on the next webpage to share it with your friends. This work is only possible with your financial support. Please chip in $5 now. Thank you! -- The RootsAction DIY team Background: >> How the NZ Cabinet Learned to Stop Worrying About the Bomb and Love NATO >> Open Letter on AUKUS to Prime Minister of New Zealand >> AUKUS: A U.S. Trojan Horse Undermining Australia?s Sovereignty >> Solidarity Webinar: Cancel Talisman Sabre ? No More War Games in the Pacific! >> Video: Alison Broinowski and David Swanson on AUKUS and USUKA DIY.RootsAction.org Donate From: Ulla Klotzer Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2023 4:07 PM Subject: Fw: Cancel massive and provocative military excercises in Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Mon May 8 02:06:28 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (enwl) Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 03:06:28 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] The science is clear: lobsters feel stress and pain Message-ID: And they're suffering in cages. Kroger: Ban Lobster Tanks in All of Your Grocery Stores! Sign Now The science is clear: lobsters can feel stress and pain. These amazing creatures are intelligent and can live for up to 100 years in the wild. So why are some Kroger grocery stores still keeping and selling live lobsters in tanks? Sign now to tell Kroger: pull lobster tanks from your stores! To make matters worse, research shows that even when "conditions are improved" in these tanks, the crustaceans still suffer. It turns out, keeping an animal locked in a tiny water tank for days or weeks on end is simply inhumane regardless of how much you attempt to "reform" the practice. It is time Kroger commit to removing all live lobster tanks from their stores for good! Sign the petition now if you agree! Thank you, Jess Care2 Petitions Team P.S. There is no limit on how long lobsters can be kept in these horrific conditions. Demand action! Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 https://www.care2.com From: Jess M., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2023 7:02 PM Subject: The science is clear: lobsters feel stress and pain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Mon May 8 19:57:56 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (enwl) Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 20:57:56 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Support to the UNECE Environmental Monitoring and Assessment programme Message-ID: <86F31F0B95F94903BF0111564DCB1E35@evol.sp.ru> ??? ???? ???????????? ??????? ??????????????? ??????? ?????????? ?????????? ?? ???????? ? ?????? ?????????? ????? (unece.org) -------- ???????????? ????????? -------- ?? ????: ECE-Wgemasec ????: ???????????, 8 ??? 2023, 14:03 +06:00 ????: RE: Support to the UNECE Environmental Monitoring and Assessment programme Dear members of the UNECE Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and the Joint Task Force on Environmental Statistics and Indicators and other contacts, At the request of the Working Group, we are sharing with you a message sent to the members of the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy in March calling for their support of environmental monitoring, assessment and reporting in the UNECE region. With kind regards Environment Division United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 3rd floor, Building H, Palais des Nations 8-14 avenue de la Paix CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland From: ECE-Efe Sent: 20 March 2023 10:14 To: ECE-Efe Cc: Nicholas Bonvoisin ; Christine Kitzler Subject: Support to the UNECE Environmental Monitoring and Assessment programme Dear members of the Committee on Environmental Policy, Following the successful launch of the 7th pan-European Environmental Assessment at last year?s Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference, we wish to tackle gaps in measuring and monitoring the environment in the pan-European region, as identified in the assessment. We would also like to ensure that the next pan-European assessment builds on more sound foundations in terms of data availability and the use of modern technologies, notably Earth observations. To do so, we need your support. How can you help? a.. Encourage your colleagues to (i) participate in and contribute to the activities and meetings of the Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and the Joint Task Force on Environmental Statistics and Indicators; and (ii) participate in the development and review of guidance materials such as the upcoming revised guidelines on environmental indicators. b.. Provide expertise in-kind, including national consultants, for example, to (i) update the 20-year-old guide on Environmental Monitoring and Reporting, for publication in 2024; and (ii) support ad-hoc expert groups to monitor emerging themes and follow up on recommendations from the pan-European environmental assessment. c.. Contribute financially to the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment trust fund to support (i) the implementation of activities aiming at the enhancement of environmental monitoring and information systems and reporting and assessment in the region; and (ii) the participation in meetings of experts from countries with economies in transition, access to such meetings online, the hiring of consultants and, in due course, initiation of an 8th pan-European Environmental Assessment. To discuss these options, please contact Christine Kitzler, who manages the UNECE Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Programme (christine.kitzler at un.org). The next session of the Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment will be held on 2 and 3 May 2023 in Geneva and online. We would welcome your participation. Please register here by 31 March 2023. Resources: a.. 7th pan-European Environmental Assessment b.. Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Programme Recent news: a.. UNECE and partners support Uzbekistan to strengthen cross-sectoral environmental policymaking, 1 February 2023 b.. UNECE issues biodiversity monitoring guidelines to help countries implement Kunming-Montreal framework, 26 January 2023 c.. UN urges Europe to boost environmental ambition to fight planetary crisis, 5 October 2022 With kind regards Nicholas Bonvoisin Chief of the Operational Activities & Review Section Environment Division United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Email: nicholas.bonvoisin at un.org Tel: +41 (0) 22 917 11 93 3rd floor, Building H, Palais des Nations 8-14 avenue de la Paix CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Oleg Pecheniuk From: '???? ???????' via ???????????? ????????? ?? ?????? ???????? ??????????? ???? 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Innocent Civilians Are Suffering and Dying Because of a Violent Struggle Between Power-Hungry Military Groups in Sudan Sign Now Violent conflict in Sudan is escalating as the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group fight over control over the nation. Experts are worried the country could end up in a blood soaked civil war. This tragic violence threatens the lives of millions of Sudanese civilians who simply want peace and safety. Thousands of helpless victims turned refugees are fleeing the country. People who stay are forced to shelter from the violence inside their homes, rarely leaving for food and other supplies because it's so risky. But many homes are being damaged and destroyed as violent fighting is breaking out in residential areas. The majority of Sudanese hospitals have stopped functioning. Morgues are filling up rapidly. There are food, fuel, and medicine shortages. People are suffering. One key way to keep civilians safe and curb the violence is preventing weapons transfers into Sudan. The conflict cannot continue if there are not tools with which these parties can enact their mass violence! The current embargo in Sudan is being reviewed this month, so swift action from activists like you is vital. Sign now to tell the UN Security Council: continue the arms embargo in Sudan until civilians are out of harm's way! Thank you, Lauren Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Sudan is engulfed in violence and death as military groups fight for power. Sign the petition to ask the UN to keep weapons out of Sudan. Sign Now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Care2.com, Inc. 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd. #40394 San Jose, CA 95117 https://www.care2.com From: Lauren W., Care2 Action Alerts Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 11:34 AM Subject: Sudan's military conflict is destroying innocent lives -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Thu May 11 00:22:57 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (enwl) Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 01:22:57 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Airbus Space Station Concept Is Like an Apartment Building in the Sky. Ben Munson. 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URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Fri May 12 20:00:43 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (ENWL) Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 21:00:43 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Decarbonization in Asia China, May 30, 2023 Message-ID: Decarbonization in Asia China, May 30, 2023 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oIqiCQbeC6Qmt8DyiFlkTg The world?s efforts to alleviate poverty and inequality and achieve sustainable development have been undermined by multiple crises of climate change, and biodiversity losses, coupled with the global economic downturn, the energy and food crises, geopolitical tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the IPCC report, the average global temperature may reach or even temporally exceed 1.5?C in the near term, due to the significant gaps in mitigation ambition and action. Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, and home to the most vibrant growth in population, industrialization and energy consumption in the next couple of decades. Nations in the region have made climate pledges in their Nationally Determined Contributions as part of the Paris Agreement, but challenges remain in terms of limited enabling policy environment or public financial resources leveraging private capital. China has gained experience in air pollution control, energy transition, green finance, biodiversity conservation, and green transition in energy-intensive industries. Therefore, dialogues between China and other Asian countries in climate policies, energy transition and financing mechanisms are critical since they could improve climate policies and actions in the area, contributing to regional green recovery and climate resilience. The workshop, therefore, invites representatives from intergovernmental organizations, multilateral development financial institutions, think tanks, academia, foundations and social organizations to discuss how to accelerate Asia?s energy transition and green, low-carbon and resilient economic recovery through multilateral and bilateral cooperation. ?????? Agenda(Draft) ????????????????? Session I: The Status and Outlook of the Energy Transition in Asia ???????????????????????????????????????: In Session I, experts from intergovernmental organizations, MDBs, international and national think tanks, and social organizations will share their insights on: ?????????? Experiences of China?s Green and Low Carbon Development CAREC???????? Powering Progress: Exploring Energy Transition in the CAREC Region through the Lens of China's Success Story ??????????????? Energy Transition in Mongolia: Drivers, Policy and Opportunities ???????????????? Synergy Between Air Pollution Control and Energy Transition in China ?????????????????????????????????? Session II: The Status, Challenges and Opportunities in Financing a Green, Low-carbon and Climate Resilient Recovery ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? In Session II, experts from intergovernmental organisations, MDBs, universities, think tanks and social organizations working on China, Central Asia and Southeast Asia development will share their insights on: ????????? Climate Risk and Impacts in Asia ??????????????????????????????? Ensuring green, resilient, and inclusive economic development: IWRM and Nexus approach ???????????????????? Financing Green and Climate-Resilient Recovery in Asia ??????????????????????????????? Status, Challenges and Opportunities of Overseas Green Investment in Asia, and the Green Investment Principle in Central Asia ???????????????????? Mobilizing Debt Relief for Low-Carbon, Nature-Positive Development in Asia ????????????????????????????????????5????????????????????????? Please kindly scan the QR code for registration. The event format is hybrid, with limited seats for onsite participants. We will confirm the registration via email within 5 working days, thanks for your understanding. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Ms. SHAO (climate at ghub.org ). Best regards, Bulat K. YESSEKIN From: Bulat Yessekin Sent: Friday, May 12, 2023 7:14 PM Subject: Decarbonization in Asia China, May 30, 2023 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Sat May 13 01:49:29 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (ENWL) Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 02:49:29 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Save Polar Bears from the Russian Wrangel Island! 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URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Sat May 13 16:45:43 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (ENWL) Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 17:45:43 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Call for Expression of Interest_10th World Water Forum Message-ID: <09B273B432CC4140BA9A1BC697825E0E@lewpostnew> Fwd: [ Call for Expression of Interest_10th World Water Forum ] FYI Best Artur CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST TOPIC COORDINATION GROUP 10th WORLD WATER FORUM THEMATIC PROCESS The World Water Forum represents one of the world?s largest water-related multi-stakeholders? gatherings co-organized every three years by the World Water Council and the host country. The Forum provides a unique platform where the water community and key decision-makers can collaborate and make long-term progress on global water challenges. The Forum brings together participants from all sectors and at all levels, including political institutions, multilateral organizations, academia, civil society, and the private sector. The 10th World Water Forum will take place in Bali from May 18th to 24th, 2024, and it will be structured around three pillars ? the Political, the Thematic, and the Regional Processes ? respectively. Preparations are underway, and at the first preparatory gathering ? the Kick-off/1st Stakeholders? Consultation Meeting ?, which took place in Jakarta from February 15th to 16th, a preliminary framework for the Thematic Process was discussed. In view of a strong involvement by all stakeholders in the 10th World Water Forum?s Thematic Process, the Forum co-hosts are pleased to announce the open call for expressions of interest to be involved in the Thematic Process as Topic Coordination Group members. All stakeholders interested in actively contributing may submit their application due by June 11(SUN), 2023. (CET time) You may find the relevant documentation as indicated below: a.. The Thematic Process Concept Note can be downloaded at the following link: TP_Concept b.. The Thematic Process Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Working Group can be downloaded at the following link: TP_ToR c.. The Thematic Process ?Expression of Interest Form? can be downloaded at the following link: TP_Form Please note the following regarding the application procedure: a.. Step 1: Check the Thematic Concept Note, Working Group TOR, and Expression of Interest Form b.. Step 2: Complete the ?Expression of Interest Form? c.. Step 3: Send the Expression of Interest Form no later than Sunday, June 11th, 2023 (CET time), to the 10th World Water Forum Thematic Team at the following address: thematic at worldwaterforum.org For further information on the thematic process, please contact 10th World Water Forum Thematic Team at: thematic at worldwaterforum.org. a.. National Secretariat: Mr. Airlangga Mardjono, Member of Program and Session Division, airlangga at pu.go.id b.. 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News of the world environment NEWSLETTER | MAY 12, 2023 The Wheel Keeps Turning Spring is bursting forth with life all around, but illness and death stalks my home these days. The human residents are fighting off THE VIRUS, which has finally, finally caught up with us after several false scares over the past three years. Meanwhile, our beloved nonhuman family member ? an adventurous, talkative Bengal cat named Bhima ? is rapidly wasting away from cancer. It has been a tough two weeks ? emotionally and physically ? trying to keep the out-of-school kids cared for and engaged, wrapping up our summer print issue, and offering love and comfort to Bhima as his breath begins to flow into the life of the Universe. ?Please don't make yourself super sick by, you know, ?powering through [at work],? my colleague, Brian, advised me yesterday. They know me well ? Brian and Zoe ? my teammates, my support system here at the Journal. 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DEEP ADAPTATION QUARTERLY Issue 13, May 2023 Welcome to a summary of recent opinion and activity in the field of deep adaptation. This independently-produced, free publication explores collapse risk, readiness, and response. We take a critical perspective on the culture and systems that led to our predicament, and celebrate the solidarity amongst people in response. To unsubscribe, use the link at the end of this email. If you prefer only to receive content from DAF, we recommend subscribing to their blog or events newsletter. IN THIS ISSUE Editorial Opinions Key Publications Courses and Events Arts and Culture News from Deep Adaptation Forum EDITORIAL ?This is a prophetic book,? remarked Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College, about my new book: Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse. Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Clare Farrell, said ?if you want to save some of the world, but hate being told what to do, this book is for you.? Charles Eisenstein reflected that the book is part of a ?healing movement? wider than the ecological. I was very encouraged to receive their advance endorsements, as the ebook went in at #1 on the Amazon bestseller list in the ?political freedom? category. You can read more about the book on my blog, and already order it here, if you use Kindle. Although the hardback is not cheap (being aimed at organisations), the paperback is out on June 18th, and from July 10th the book will be free as an epub from the Schumacher Institute. That date marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher. I have come to regard that classic text as offering a coherent analysis that the environmental profession increasingly ignored as it became more compromised and self-serving. That day I will participate in an online Q&A with participants from the Deep Adaptation Leadership group on LinkedIn. If interested in joining us, sign up here. I am focusing on my book in this editorial partly because it results from a hard two years of research. But also because I want to invite you to consider what a policy and politics agenda for collapse-anticipators could involve, if you haven?t done so already. You can get a summary of the ideas via a free audio of the introduction and of Chapter 1 on economic collapse. I recently spoke with GQ Magazine about the writing of this book. The research process was not fun for any of us involved, because we were analysing so many interconnecting problems and discovering the limitations of so many proposed solutions. However, the second half of the book offers a positive way of making sense of this situation and celebrates the people who are responding creatively and courageously. I hope it will help more people move into a ?post-doom? mindset and experiment with different ways of living as a result. Some early reviews of the book are indicating that kind of impact. I will launch the paperback and audiobook of Breaking Together in the UK in Glastonbury Town Hall on June 18th (with speakers including Rachel Donald and Gail Bradbrook), and will also discuss it at a movie premiere in Berlin on August 1st. If you are interested in joining others wanting to integrate these ideas into your own leadership, then I recommend the only academic course I am teaching this year, online in November with my University. To be updated on when the various book formats are out, and on my presentations over the next 12 months (in Italy, Belgium, and Indonesia), subscribe to my blog. In this edition of the DA Quarterly, we provide summaries of recent publications and opinions that indicate a potential politics of collapse is becoming visible. That indicate the field of collapse-readiness is developing beyond psychological support, local 'prepping', and self-analysis. In addition, we highlight instances of censorship by Bigtech, which suggests an apolitical stance on collapse-anticipation would mean accepting it will be marginalised in public discourse. We append news from the DA Forum, which has switched to an entirely volunteer-led initiative. As it was designed to not become dependent on funding to serve its function of connecting people around the theme of collapse-readiness and response, I hope it will continue to provide a meeting place for people who come to this awareness and could use support in exploring what to do next. To keep producing the DA Quarterly we need some funds. Therefore, if you would like to continue receiving these summaries of key information in the broad field of societal disruption and collapse, please consider contributing to the DA Quarterly crowdfund (information below). If the target is not reached, this issue will unfortunately be the final DA Quarterly. Warm regards, Jem Bendell, Publisher, DA Quarterly HELP US KEEP THIS INFO CIRCULATING! Our 2-week crowdfund ends May 30th. We are crowdfunding a target of 3500 GBP to cover the costs to produce and circulate four issues a year. Unless requesting anonymity, every donor of a one-time gift of 50 GBP or more will be listed as a patron of the DA Quarterly in the subsequent issue. Every regular donor of 25 GBP or more per month will be listed as a patron in each issue, with a link to their relevant activities. Any funds raised above 3500 GBP will go to educational activities for youth engagement in positive responses to an anticipation or experience of societal disruption and collapse (activities that will be reported on in future DA Quarterlies). Funds are managed by the Schumacher Institute, a UK-regulated charity. So please contribute, or encourage someone richer than you (by forwarding them this newsletter)! Extinction Rebellion's The Big One. By Jessica Groenendijk. As a window on the world of collapse, this newsletter reflects on ways to find meaning, and to support the work and healing of others. OPINIONS The debate continues on just how bad future changes in climate will be, whatever is done to curb emissions and draw down carbon. Sometimes an independent scholar can analyse the latest science in a field that's not their own to provide an insightful overview. That can happen when they seek salience amongst the noise from the volume of publications, as well as understanding wider contexts that might be ignored by specialists. This piece by Matt Colborn on catastrophic scenarios from climate science demonstrates the power of such external analysis. Sometimes someone takes the time to analyse why mainstream climatologists working with the IPCC failed to get the message out for decades, but now support fairytale technologies in order to make it seem like modern civilisation can tame future climate change. One such analysis came from Jackson Damian. The backlash from experts at top universities was predictable, including their ?shoot the messenger? approach. At some point, serious climate activists will drop their deference to scientists who seek to defend the status of the establishment that they are wedded to. Whenever someone allows the latest analysis of our environmental predicament to impact them, an existential crisis is never far away. For many people, reflecting on deeper questions of the nature and meaning of life are part of the process of trying to find a way out of despair. The organisation Media Lens published a blog on their co-editor?s journey with despair. Unfortunately, the learnings and outputs from the people engaged in Deep Adaptation were not cited - a sign of the continuing need for people to discover each other when grappling with their anticipation or experience of societal breakdown. The need to meet and process emotions around the environmental predicament remains, even if various vehicles to meet that need come and go. An article in The Guardian, Singing to trees and Indigenous wisdom: the UK festival aiming to prevent ecological collapse, highlighted how there are increasing numbers of cultural gatherings in the UK that show similarities with Deep Adaptation methodologies, such as authentic relating and ecopsychology. In her blog Hero Addiction, Anja Byg, volunteer editor with the Deep Adaptation Forum, explores ?the dark side of our hero fixation? and her own feelings of despair in the face of humanity?s ?logic of overcoming and subduing.? How can we move away from hero and anti-hero stereotypes and expectations, and instead value stories of community and collaboration, acceptance of failings and helplessness, and wisdom in the face of something ?too strong, too vast?? Anja doesn?t have the answers (she?s no hero, she writes). And that?s okay. The tactics of people involved in the last few years of climate activism have been evolving in myriad ways. This was well articulated by former finance lead of Extinction Rebellion, Andrew Medhurst, in an article for Resilience, Life after Extinction (Rebellion): From raising the alarm to starting a farm. He explained that although XR has stuck almost entirely to an emissions-cutting agenda, its founding members are choosing new paths that incorporate their anticipation of societal collapse. It leads some to talk of the potential for revolution as systems break down, others to focus on community resilience, others to concentrate on international solidarity, and others to do all of those and more. For years many climate activists have avoided being too specific about their politics. That has meant they have served as external pressure that venture capitalists then benefit from as they drive their ecomodern agendas through governments around the world. The backlash to the resultant policies is growing. For instance, the Post Carbon Institute has increased the volume on its criticism of the corporate hijack of environmentalism in How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex. With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. entering the US presidential race, some additional attention is being paid to a traditional environmentalist theme that has otherwise waned in recent years. It is the critique of the alignment, or even merger, of the interests of large corporations and institutions of government. RFK Jr. has been known for not only legally challenging corporate abuse of power regarding environmental concerns, but also for health concerns, which meant he was cast by corporate media as a radical and illegitimate voice during the pandemic. In May, the NGO he founded published a call for a return to a freedom-loving environmentalism, that recognises current corporatism is accelerating societal collapse. With that critique in mind, the big elephant in the room we need to talk about is capitalism. Or perhaps ?necrocapitalism.? The term was coined by Scholars' Warning signatory Professor Bobby Banerjee, in 2008, when describing contemporary forms of organisational accumulation that involve dispossession and subjugation. Now, a contemporary blogger on societal collapse, George Tsakraklides, mentions the term when exploring why humanity has been unable to avert collapse. A vibrant voice on collapse, George rightly points to the heart of the problem: capitalism. Sometimes he equates that with the whole of humanity, with statements like "Humanity has, rather unconsciously, decided to engage in a futile war with the entire planet." However, when not downplaying any distinction between peoples, cultures, and classes, Tsakraklides is a lively contributor to discussions in this field. One hub for content on the potential political agenda of the collapse-aware is Planet Critical. Hosted by Rachel Donald, guests cover topics such as the role of economic systems in societal collapse, why appropriation of the resources of the Global South means it can?t go green, why transitioning to renewables is not possible without economic transformation, and the importance of community-based approaches to the predicament we face. Unfortunately, the dark arts of public persuasion and neo-censorship are beginning to be applied against those of us who conclude that the future is going to be further disrupted by environmental change. It is now known that organisations working with, and/or funded by, the US government, are involved in editing what the world sees through platforms like YouTube, Google, Facebook, and Instagram, that are owned by US bigtech companies. This is done within the context of ?national security?, yet extends into areas of public discourse that have nothing to do with actual threats to national security. This explains why Facebook censored the aforementioned GQ article on climate doomism. Worse, there are now efforts by parts of this ?censorship industrial complex? to encourage media outlets to connect realistic outlooks on the future as leading to extremism and violence. Take, for instance, Generation Doomer: How Nihilism on Social Media is Creating a New Generation of Extremists. Linked to this approach is the argument that the youth mental health crisis in the US stems from the views of people with realistic expectations of the future, rather than the gaslighting and lack of compassionate and creative engagement around that situation. As elites increasingly seek to silence discussion of reality and blame, or even criminalize those who point to that reality, it will no longer be possible to remain apolitical if collapse-aware. Sharing content like this newsletter by emailing individuals, rather than relying on social media posts being seen, is one response. KEY PUBLICATIONS An academic article explored what anticipation of collapse might mean for imagination and therefore action. Deep Adaptation is about positive action without attachment to outcome. However, the way it might shape new motivating visions for the future has been little explored before now. ?The world as we have created it,? said Albert Einstein, ?is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.? What, if anything, can change our thinking? Jane Gray Morrison and Michael Charles Tobias wrote Terminal Philosophy Syndrome: A Wake-Up Call for All | Psychology Today to explore ?whether there might not be some alternative to humanity jumping off that cliff.? Their conclusion? ?Recognition that our species? capacity to venerate nature in all her quirks and ellipses, stochastic incalculables and steadfast patterns, her graces and unimagined diversity, is our only chance of at least partial survival into an unknown future.? Read this sobering, wise, and insightful book and see if you agree. A free online book, ?A Little Book of Insurgent Planning?, from the group Just Collapse, provides examples of what action we can take collectively at the local level. It?s about communities organising, planning, and taking action for their basic needs as systems crumble, and includes examples of what the authors describe as "insurgent planning" in cultures and communities around the world. The first edition (2017) of Meg Wheatley?s bestseller Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality | Claiming Leadership | Restoring Sanity is being republished, with 80 percent new material. Available now for delivery June 6th, and pre-order for a 38% pre-publication discount until May 26th. In his review of Breaking Together, Andrew Medhurst (formerly the finance lead in XR) writes that "For a long time I had assumed, like the author, collapse was a specific future event, but Bendell explains how the study of ancient and recent history indicates ?collapse of a society is typically a process, not an event?. The evidence for the ?uneven ending? of some of the most basic needs of people in industrial consumer societies (e.g., sustenance, shelter, health and security) is provided in the first half of the book. Each of the first six chapters considers a specific aspect of collapse ? economic, the biosphere, food and societal (culture), with the seventh chapter summarising how they combine to show the ?inevitable breakdown of modern societies.?? COURSES AND EVENTS ? On June 18th, in the UK, Gail Bradbrook and Rachel Donald will join Jem Bendell when he launches his book Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse. ? On July 2nd, the ?MEER Talk? series on climate change finally addresses both politics and societal collapse, with Jem Bendell their guest. ? Would you like to join others in discussing the main messages of Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse? Join author Jem Bendell and others online in celebrating the release of the book as a free epub on July 10th. Sign up here. ? On August 1st, in Berlin, there will be a special showing of the film We Are All Going To Die, with a pre-film talk by Jem Bendell. Find out more here. ? This September is the start of a unique four-month initiative to support and empower women activist-academics who recognize the urgent need for radical change within higher education in response to imminent societal collapse. Facilitated by Katie Carr, who helped to create the Deep Adaptation Forum. ? ?Leadership during societal disruption and breakdown? is an online course at Masters Level, from the University of Cumbria. The deadline to apply is in September. Find out more. ? Are you a scholar? Have you signed the Scholars? Warning on societal disruption and collapse? The fourth cohort of scholars will start their leadership and communications online course this November. It is free, due to donations from previous participants, and this one is suited to participants in the Americas, East Asia, and Australia. You can watch testimonials, find out more, or apply to join (if a signatory to the Scholars? Warning). For more events on Deep Adaptation, view the events calendar of the Deep Adaptation Forum. Complete our form to submit details of your own online event or course for consideration in our next DA Quarterly. Original artwork by Gudim. ARTS AND CULTURE Events like COP-27 signal the collective failure to imagine the next steps. Let's inspire with new ways of seeing, open windows to innovation, and reach through to people?s hearts. You heard it here first. The film We're all going to die will premiere this summer in Berlin, and become a smash hit later this year. It brings both the soul-searching and doomer humour of people in the collapse-aware space to the big screen for the first time. Film director Scott Z. Burns wrote The Contagion, which many of us watched again during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. He was also a producer of An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006 Academy Award-winning documentary that followed former Vice President Al Gore?s campaign to raise awareness about climate change. Burns' latest output is Extrapolations, a series starring Meryl Streep and Edward Norton about what life on Earth might be like if/when carbon emissions continue and more floods and fires ensue (it's on Apple TV+). British installation artist Mike Nelson ?works with the material evidence of capitalism.? A review of his immersive art collection, Extinction Beckons, at London?s Hayward Gallery, suggests that viewing it is not the crowd-pleasing experience you might reasonably expect. Jem wrapped up his 30+ series of Deep Adaptation Q&As with special guest Satish Kumar. A former Jain monk and peace activist, Satish founded the Schumacher Institute in the UK. He talked about the importance of unconditional love at this time of societal disruption and breakdown. A 16-year-old, collapse-aware documentary ?What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire? was recently highlighted on the very active Deep Adaptation Facebook group. ?A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.? One viewer?s comment: ?this way of living is done and we must finally accept that we must let go of it.? The worst thing by far would send you mad after a while. You?re in a race with it, worrying at its riddles bundled up in skins and darkness, its promise that nods like a dandelion clock rattled by a deadpan wind. This engine that draws you behind it like a plough, pausing at random to let you hear the moon; what does she sound like, the wide open mouth of night? Kill the engine. Listen. Kill the engine: put your good ear to the rough ground scattered with other people?s talk. Dig down beneath the smother of your thoughts of their thoughts. Open up to the tiny shudders of roots. Hold the seed you have saved in the mouth of your rage. Place it in the soil. Let your tears fall. Grow something beautiful and useful By Janet Lees NEWS FROM DEEP ADAPTATION FORUM The Deep Adaptation Forum is a community which began soon after the publication of Jem Bendell?s ground-breaking paper. It brings together all sorts of people, helping them embody and enable loving responses to our predicament, to help reduce suffering while building supportive communities to face the realities of eco-social collapse. The following text is provided to the Quarterly by the Forum. Towards leaner and more decentralised governance The DA Forum is currently engaged in a bold organisational experiment. While for the past four years this network and community has relied largely on a core team of paid part-time freelancers to coordinate most of its activities, this model has begun to show its limits in view of an evolving funding landscape. As a result, an ambitious community dialogue process has been initiated to fundamentally rework the Forum?s governance structures, on the basis of helpful proposals formulated democratically by various participants. Committed groups of volunteers have been meeting weekly since early February to examine these proposals, and consider ways to transform the Forum into a more decentralised and fully volunteer-led network, largely based on the principles of Sociocracy. This rich process of collective learning and visioning is set to usher in a whole new phase in the life of our community, which we hope will help make it all the more relevant in view of an increasingly troubling social, economic, political, and ecological context. News from Earth Listening Every week, online spaces are convened in the DA Forum for the practice of Earth Listening - a guided collective meditation centred around the purpose of listening to the Earth, and exploring one?s connection with the wider natural ecosystems of the planet. This April, two new groups had their first meeting in very different contexts: one is based in Lebanon, and the other for German speakers. A new website has also been created at earthlistening.net where basic information on the practice and active groups can be found. The Friday weekly Earth Listening Circle as well as the bi-weekly Australian Earth Listening Circle are well-established and meet regularly. Information on meeting times and how to connect can be found through the Forum?s events calendar. A Deep Adaptation 101 course is in the works Thanks to the efforts of a dozen volunteers, an introductory course on Deep Adaptation will soon be made available on the DA Forum?s e-learning platform. This course was originally designed, developed, and facilitated in German by two volunteers from Netzwerk Tiefe Anpassung, one of the Forum?s affiliated groups. It was then adapted by one of its co-creators into English, with the active collaboration of several other volunteers, who also gave it a ?test-drive.? Three of them are poised to step up as its facilitators. They foresee that this course may become an important source of inspiration and a useful entry point into the Forum for anyone new to Deep Adaptation. Helping to catalyse support efforts in the Ukraine Since the end of 2022, several Forum volunteers have been collaborating with Ukraine-based support efforts. One such initiative is the Green Road of Ecovillages project, which aims at rehousing internal refugees within ecovillages in Ukraine and beyond, in partnership with the Global Ecovillage Network. Another one provides practical, legal, and emotional support to women who have been sexually assaulted during the Ukrainian conflict, for instance, by supplying HIV testing equipment or documenting their stories in view of war crimes investigations. A third effort has the objective of organising unarmed civilian protection to protect the Zaporizhzhya nuclear reactor, which has been repeatedly in the crossfire of conflict. More information on these initiatives and how to contribute can be found on the DA Forum?s Community Space. Read also this testimony by one of the volunteers most deeply involved in these activities, on how doing so has been a source of rich personal and social learning, and on the importance of the relationships cultivated within the Forum. Support the Deep Adaptation Forum Help us continue to embody and enable loving responses to our predicament! Become a monthly donor on our OpenCollective page. 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Dear friends of the rainforests, Authorities in Uganda are cracking down on critics of the fossil fuel industry: Nine university students were arrested, thrown in jail for six nights, and are now hanging in legal limbo while their trial dates are repeatedly postponed. Their "crime": speaking out against the 1,445-km East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a massive project that has no place in the 21st century. The fossil fuel industry should be winding down, not covering Uganda ? including Murchison Falls National Park ? with hundreds of new oil wells. Please sign our petition and tell the Ugandan public prosecutor that the international community is watching ? and that we stand behind these courageous young people. TAKE ACTION Thanks for being involved, John Hayduska Rainforest Rescue (Rettet den Regenwald e.?V.) 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URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Fri May 19 01:38:22 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (ENWL) Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 02:38:22 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Media Advisory - Desertification and Drought Day 2023 - Her Land, Her Rights Message-ID: <2D453B7FA78B4D27B101490BA495063C@lewpostnew> Media Advisory - Desertification and Drought Day 2023 - Her Land, Her RightsMedia Advisory - Desertification and Drought Day 2023 - Her Land, Her Rights View this email in your browser Media Advisory Desertification and Drought Day 2023 - Her Land, Her Rights Bonn/New York, 18 May 2023 ? This year?s Desertification and Drought Day, marked on 17 June, will put the global spotlight on women?s land rights with events taking place in New York and around the world. The global observance event, titled ?Her Land. Her Rights: Advancing Gender Equality and Land Restoration Goals? will take place at the United Nations Headquarters? General Assembly Hall on Friday, 16 June 2023. The event will be opened by the President of the 78th General Assembly, and will convene high-level policymakers, women leaders, renowned scientists, land activists, and youth representatives from around the world to discuss policies and actions needed to advance women?s land rights and promote stronger female leadership and decision-making power in sustainable land management. UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw said: ?Of all the gender inequalities we experience in the world, the imbalance in women?s access to fertile land remains arguably the most shocking. In every corner of the world, filling this particular gender gap remains an unfinished business. That?s why on this year?s Desertification and Drought Day we are mobilizing the international community in support of women?s land rights.? Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland and UNCCD Land Ambassador, who is among women leaders attending the high-level event, said: ?Solving gender inequalities is not just the right thing to do. If we ensure that women are fully able to use their abilities, knowledge, talents, and leadership potential, our societies are simply better off.? Inna Modja, Malian singer and UNCCD Goodwill Ambassador, who will be performing at the high-level event, said: ?As a woman, artist, and climate and social justice activist, I believe it?s vital to empower women and youth and promote gender equality in the fight against desertification and land degradation. Together, we can create a brighter, sustainable future.? In addition to the global observance event in New York, events to mark Desertification and Drought Day 2023 will be taking place in all parts of the world, including Fiji, Hungary, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Serbia, Vietnam and Uzbekistan. Ahead of this year?s Desertification and Drought Day, UNCCD launched #HerLand, a public-awareness campaign to promote successful examples of women and girls? contributions to sustainable land management, and mobilize support to advance land rights for women and girls around the world. Women, who comprise nearly half of the world's agricultural workforce hold a vital stake in the health of the land and suffer most when land is degraded. Yet, discriminatory practices related to land tenure, credit access, equal pay, and decision-making often impede their active participation in sustaining land health. Today, less than one-in-five landholders worldwide are women. This represents a missed opportunity: when they are given equal access to land, women and girls can increase agricultural productivity, restore land and build resilience to drought. Women invest more in nutrition, health and education which benefits their families, and wider society. ### Confirmed details Event title Her Land. Her Rights. Advancing Gender Equality and Land Restoration Goals High-level event to mark Desertification and Drought Day 2023 Venue General Assembly Hall, United Nations Headquarters, New York Webcast Link: UN web tv Streaming through Twitter and Facebook: @unccd Dates and time Friday, 16 June 2023 10:00 hrs ?13:00 hrs (EDT) / 14:00 hrs- 17:00 hrs (GMT/UTC) / 15:00 hrs? 18:00 hrs BST/ 16:00 hrs ? 19:00 hrs (CEST) Speakers Organized jointly by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), UN Women, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Human Rights Office, the high-level event will focus on policies and actions needed to advance women?s land rights and role sustainable land management. Notable speakers are expected to be in attendance, including: a.. Csaba K?r?si, President of the General Assembly b.. Ant?nio Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations (via recorded video message) c.. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General d.. Tarja Halonen, Former President of Finland and UNCCD Land Ambassador e.. Sima Sami Bahous, Executive Director, UN Women f.. Alain-Richard Donwahi, UNCCD COP15 President g.. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President, Association des Femmes Peuples Autochtones du Tchad (AFPAT) h.. Rex Molapo, Co-founder, Conservation Music, Lesotho The programme of the high-level event will feature musical performances by UNCCD Goodwill Ambassadors, Malian singer, and artist Inna Modja who executive-produced the Great Green Wall documentary, and Senegalese musician Baaba Maal who composed music for the latest instalment of Marvel?s film Black Panther, as well as Ricky Kej, 3 times Grammy Award-winner, Indian Composer. It will also offer an immersive experience, including the launch of a metaverse game demo and a photo exhibition entitled Her Land. Notes to Editors For preview interviews and media related inquires please contact: UNCCD Press Office: press at unccd.int and Portland Communications: unccd at portland-communications.com Journalists wishing to cover the event who don?t hold valid press accreditation for the United Nations Headquarters in New York need to be registered, and should email: press at unccd.int and unccd at portland-communications.com. A copy of your valid press card and passport will be required to pick up your access badge. Video and multimedia assets Video and multimedia assets from the event will be made available immediately afterwards. Existing videos and assets from Her Land Campaign ? https://trello.com/b/AuQjCPfN/unccd-herland-campaign. Credit: UNCCD Human interest stories showcasing vital contribution of women to sustainable land management will be available nearer the time. Social Media Twitter: @UNCCD Instagram: @unccd Hashtags: #HerLand #UNited4Land Download social media assets, including banners, infographics, cartoons and postcards: https://trello.com/b/0gIgBV68/desertification-and-drought-day-2022 Learn more about the campaign: https://www.unccd.int/land-and-life/gender/herland For information about Desertification and Drought Day visit: https://www.unccd.int/events/desertification-drought-day/2023 For information about Desertification and Drought Day 2023 events in New York and around the world visit: https://www.unccd.int/events/desertification-drought-day/2023/events-around-world About the UNCCD The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the global vision and voice for land. We unite governments, scientists, policymakers, private sector and communities around a shared vision and global action to restore and manage the world?s land for the sustainability of humanity and the planet. Much more than an international treaty signed by 197 parties, UNCCD is a multilateral commitment to mitigating today?s impacts of land degradation and advancing tomorrow?s land stewardship in order to provide food, water, shelter and economic opportunity to all people in an equitable and inclusive manner. Copyright ? 2017* United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification*, All rights reserved. For preview interviews and media related inquires please contact: UNCCD Press Office: press at unccd.int From: UNCCD Secretariat Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 5:08 PM Subject: Media Advisory - Desertification and Drought Day 2023 - Her Land, Her Rights -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Fri May 19 01:47:55 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (ENWL) Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 02:47:55 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Your comment can make a difference: Submit your public comment to the EPA on heavy-duty vehicle standards. 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H?igh-Level Champion sets out ambitious COP 28 vision at 14th Petersberg Climate Dialogue Speaking at this month?s Petersberg Climate Dialogue, Her Excellency Razan Al Mubarak, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the COP 28 Presidency, called for collaboration between governmental and business stakeholders to halve emissions, reduce biodiversity loss, address resilience and advance equity. The meeting has been hosted annually by the German Government in collaboration with the incoming Presidency of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties and attended by representatives of more than 40 countries since 2009. It plays an integral role in laying the groundwork for the upcoming COP in Dubai this November. In her opening address, H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak outlined her ambitious vision shared by Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, fellow High-Level Champion for the COP 27 Presidency to accelerate non-Party stakeholder action and engagement ahead of COP 28. H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak said: ?To really mobilize change this year, three of the most powerful things we can do is to embrace nature positive action, mobilize finance at scale, and be truly inclusive - ensuring that women, youth and indigenous peoples are leading our discussions.? With six months until COP 28, H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak underlined that non-Party stakeholders are already driving significant cross-sector climate action - delivering tangible progress on decarbonisation as well as adaptation and financial flows. For example, the following milestones and actions, activated through the Marrakech Partnership, provide a framework to deliver our goals for this decade. ? Approximately 11,000 Race to Zero members are committed to collectively halve emissions by 2030. ? Commitments to date made through the Race to Resilience aim to make three billion people more resilient by 2030, from the goal of four billion people by the same time frame. ? The 2030 Breakthroughs are driving convergence and action in nearly 30 different sectors from human settlements to transport; from water to land use. ? The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda is accelerating adaptation across five systems: food and agriculture, water, oceans, human settlements and infrastructure. H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak also stressed the unique opportunity for the first Global Stocktake, which will be concluded at COP 28 ?...to put action and solutions at the heart of our discussions?, course-correct climate action towards 2030 and strengthen collaboration between non-State and country entities - towards a net zero, resilient, and just world. H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak?s speech can be watched here. ?Virtual meeting of High-Level Champions and Marrakech Partnership ? At the Marrakech Partnership meeting earlier this month, the High-Level Champions and over 90 partnership stakeholders held a fruitful discussion on the 2023 Work Programme, progress on adaptation, finance, and mitigation, as well as the upcoming SB 58 sessions in June in Bonn, Germany. The Champions conveyed the acknowledgement and interest of Parties from the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in the important work of non-Party stakeholders within the Marrakech Partnership. The group underscored the integral role of the Global Stocktake for accelerating progress towards a 1.5 ?C resilient world by 2050 and emphasised their readiness to openly share progress, gaps and challenges, as well as opportunities in order to activate the ambition loop and collaboration with Parties in the lead up to COP 28 and beyond. Against this background, the High-Level Champions highlighted the importance of referring to the relevant work existing in the Climate Action Pathways, Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda and 2030 Breakthrough to identify relevant solutions for the Global Stocktake conclusion phase at COP 28. Upcoming IMO Regulation Can Catalyse an Equitable Maritime Transition? The marine sector is seven weeks away from a crucial watershed, as the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) will consider its revised GHG strategy which must align shipping with a 1.5 ?C trajectory, at the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80, 3 - 7 July). It is hard to overstate the importance of the strategy for society?s response to climate change. The IMO intends to set out a regulatory framework and transitional path capable of decarbonizing the world?s sixth largest emitting industry, the shipping sector, responsible for three per cent of global GHG emissions and projected to increase without intervention. The transition promises to unlock major market opportunities. For example, a key lever introduced outside the IMO at COP 26 to decarbonise shipping is ?Green Corridors?, which are zero-emission maritime routes between ports, within which operators will be incentivized for meeting emissions standards. However, the opportunity for Small Island Developing States to adopt clean innovation at scale, to access green corridors, is less clear - as capital is typically scarce in regions such as the South Pacific. To drive progress, the High-Level Champions; plus Race to Zero members Bureau Veritas and Lloyd's Register; along with key climate delivery partners; Getting to Zero Coalition; UN Foundation; The Aspen Institute; and Maersk Mckinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping; recently held a Green Corridors event at Singapore Maritime Week. The event shared key learnings so far and discussed the gaps blocking implementation of durable, equitable and resilient Green Corridors. In this article, Asela Peneueta, from the Pacific Island country, Tuvalu, speaks frankly on the economic barriers that should be unblocked to realise the new business opportunities and socioeconomic benefits of Green Corridors. Outrage & Optimism ? H.E. Razan Al Mubarak on Climate & Nature: One & the Same H.E. Razan Al Mubarak, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the COP 28 Presidency joined the Outrage + Optimism podcast in the latest episode, ?Climate and Nature: One and the Same?. You can hear H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak discuss her journey to her current role and her passionate belief in the integral role of nature as a solution to the climate crisis with hosts Ms. Christiana Figueres, Mr. Tom Rivett-Carnac and Mr. Paul Dickinson. For a short video preview, click here. Banks Gather to Action Finance for Forests? At last week?s UN Forum on Forests (UNFF18) senior representatives of multilateral and regional funding institutions and banks gathered to share learnings on raising the necessary finance to achieve the Global Forest Goals - to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2030. For example, a representative from the African Development Bank (AfDB) shared how they are supporting forest restoration policy interventions to build a green economy. Through the Africa Union?s Great Green Wall initiative, the AfDB seeks to plant trees across 11 African countries in the Sahel and Sahara Regions, while also leading efforts to mobilize $33 billion to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land; create 10 million jobs and sequester 250 tons of carbon. Over $8.5 billion were mobilized through the African Development Fund in the 2023-2025 financing cycle, including a $429 million ?Climate Action Window? package. ?Africa?s forest will play an essential role in the Continent?s and the planet?s survival,? commented Ms. Vanessa Ushie, Acting Director of the African Natural Resources Management and Investment Centre at the African Development Bank. Elsewhere, the potential for rural communities to lead sustainable land management is growing through Race to Resilience partner, Global EverGreening Alliance?s Restore Africa programme. The Kenya-based programme, which turns one year old this month, is the world?s largest privately-funded, farmer-led land restoration initiative programme. It has committed to restore 1.9 million hectares of land, equating to supporting 1.5 million African smallholder farming families. Restore Africa is also a major contributor to the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), which aims to bring at least 100 million hectares of degraded land under restoration by 2030. For further information, Ms. Juliette Biao, UNFF Forum Director and UNEP?s former Director and Regional Representative for Africa, shares her views on sustainable forest management here. Race to Zero latest developments: Built Environment Players Assemble for Sector Transition In April alone, six new companies within the Built Environment sector joined the Race to Zero, including Kerry Properties Limited, a Hong Kong-based real estate company; and Daito Trust Construction Co. Ltd., a Japanese real estate company. These major companies promise to contribute significantly to the sector?s efforts to achieve net zero emissions. Despite the positive signals of change, currently, the Built Environment sector is not on track to achieve decarbonization by 2050. UNEP?s 2022 Buildings Global Status Report shows that while decarbonization efforts have increased since 2015, the gap between the climate performance of the sector and the decarbonization pathway is widening. Our Built Environment team?s tracking of the progress of ?major? businesses in the Race to Zero campaign has found varying representation across sectoral stakeholder groups, which is likely to act as a barrier for the sector. Across the four sectoral groups, including architects and engineers, construction companies, real estate investment companies, and asset managers, nearly half (49%) of major architects and engineers by revenue have joined the campaign, while only 16% of major construction companies, by revenue, have joined. To address this shortfall, we need radical collaboration across the value chain. The upcoming ?Buildings Breakthrough,? due for launch ahead of COP 28, will provide a forum to drive international government collaboration to unlock climate action on buildings. Who?s In The Race to Zero? ? To date, an alliance of 12,000+ Race to Zero members have committed to net zero by 2050, comprising: ? 9,500+ companies (out of which 5,821 are SMEs) ? 49 states and regions ? 1,100+ cities ? 600+ financial institutions ? 1,100+ educational institutions ? 70+ healthcare institutions ? 60+ other organizations All members of the Race to Zero are committed to the same overarching goal: to reduce emissions, across all scopes, swiftly and fairly in line with the Paris Agreement, with transparent action plans and robust near-term targets. Together they form the largest, growing, alliance of non-State actors committed to taking rigorous and immediate action to halve global emissions by 2030, and to deliver a healthier, fairer zero carbon world by 2050. Have you explored who?s in the Race to Zero from your sector, country, or region? Check out our refreshed 'Who's in?' section. Upgrading Hotels for Net Zero Travel Race to Zero member, Staze is a hotel booking platform dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of the hotel industry, by empowering individuals to choose hotels around the world with lower carbon footprints - for free. Businesses that use Staze have reduced their carbon footprint from hotel stays by up to 70%. As a member of the Tech Zero coalition of companies, Staze has pledged to achieve net zero, in line with the Science Based Targets Initiative Net Zero Standard, by 2028. The company uses its profits to offset the carbon footprint of hotels booked through its site, using verified projects that align with the Oxford Principles for Aligned Net Zero Carbon Offsetting. Race to Resilience latest developments: This year we formally welcomed two new partners to the Race: 1. Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), a global partnership to achieve universal access to clean water and adequate sanitation. 2. The Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR), an alliance between member states, philanthropy, financial institutions and United Nations agencies, who are collaborating to establish a new paradigm for ocean conservation. Through blended finance, they are mobilizing action and resources to protect and restore coral reef ecosystems worldwide. Today the Race to Resilience (RtR) campaign has a total of 36 partners working with more than 2,000 members to build the resilience of those most vulnerable to the climate crisis. Our ultimate goal is to mobilize cities, regions, businesses and investors and civil society to build the resilience of four billion people. Join the race. News from the RtR Methodological Advisory Group (MAG) The campaign is currently in the process of selecting new members to the Methodological Advisory Group (MAG) after an Open Call for Nominations. The MAG advises the development and refinement of the RtR Metrics Framework and the methodological processes associated with its application, aiming to ensure the credibility, transparency, and robustness of the RtR campaign. Stay tuned for the announcement of the new members. Roof Over our Heads A flagship campaign of Race to Resilience with the goal to deliver resilient, affordable, low carbon homes for two billion people by 2050, will be hosting its first Roundtable in the LAC Region, to explore new partnerships for locally driven action. The Roundtable will take place on the 31 May online with the special participation of TECHO. Don?t miss the following events led by RtR Partners: Resilience Finance Days Latin America and the Caribbean 25-26 May. More info. Insurance Development Forum Summit 2023 1- 2 June More info. In Case You Missed It ? The COP 28 Presidency has published a draft thematic program for COP 28, outlining the potential theme days that would be run in both the Blue and Green Zones. The draft program is open for comments from all stakeholders before being finalized in early June. ? The call for Expressions of Interest to host a COP 28 UAE Blue Zone pavilion is now open. All Parties to the UNFCCC and more than 3,000 accredited observer organizations are invited to apply before 15 June 2023. ? The Information Note outlining the arrangements of the third and final meeting of the technical dialogue (TD1.3) of the global stocktake to take place at the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 58) in June in Bonn, Germany, has been published. In addition, the co-facilitators of the technical dialogue invite Parties to the Paris Agreement and non-Party stakeholders to submit a one-page poster before 22 May, summarizing their inputs to TD1.3, to be displayed at the SB 58 session. ? The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced the Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP) is expected to bring in approximately $3 billion, unlocking up to $15 billion of new ADB climate projects and could significantly ramp up support for the region in the battle against climate change through a leveraged guarantee mechanism. ? To enhance the transparency of all ongoing work at UN Climate Change, Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has committed to publish quarterly reports. The first report covers the period from 1 January to 31 March and provides an overview of the progress made by Parties and in the process as the UN Climate Change advances its mission to mobilize climate action and support countries in their transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. ? During the Sustainable Investment Forum on 9 May 2023, the UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell shared remarks on why climate finance matters in his speech. The remarks emphasized that climate finance is about people, not just numbers on a balance sheet, it?s about protecting communities from the devastating impacts of climate change, and it's about building a more equitable economy. ? Following C40-Mayors Migration Council mayors? calls to invest in urban resilience and inclusion, USAID announced a new US$1 million investment across the Latin America and Caribbean region to help build cities? resilience to the impacts of climate change, with a focus on addressing the unique needs of migrant communities. ? The ASEAN Renewable Energy Regional Approach report released by the ASEAN Centre for Energy and UNESCAP identifies the status and potential of different renewable energy technologies in each of the ASEAN Member States, evaluates the impact of renewable energy uptake on the socio-economic development, and provides recommendations that tackle the bottlenecks in achieving energy security, affordability and accessibility in Southeast Asia. Keeping up with the Champions ? H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak addresses 14th Petersberg Climate Dialogue H.E. Razan Al Mubarak gave an opening address to government Ministers and representatives at the 14th Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin. H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak underlined the significant work that non-Party stakeholders are doing to accelerate progress towards a net zero and resilient world by 2050. ? Mohieldin chairs the GFANZ Africa network advisory board meeting Recently, Mohieldin, co-chaired the first 2023 meeting of the ?GFANZ Africa? network advisory board. Promising financing opportunities are expected to arise this year from the African Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) and the upcoming second round of the Africa Regional Forum, in partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Africa. ? H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak appears on the Outrage & Optimism podcast H.E. Razan Al Mubarak appears as the guest for the latest episode of the podcast Outrage + Optimism: ?Climate and Nature: One and the Same?. ? Mohieldin and Major General Al-Haggan, Governor of Qalyubia, Egypt discuss ?National Smart Green Projects Initiative? Dr. Mohieldin and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, met with Major General Abdel Hamid Al-Haggan, Governor of Qalyubia, Egypt, to discuss the region?s involvement in the ?National Initiative for Smart Green Projects.? The initiative, which launched prior to COP 27, has been designed to increase competitiveness among clean technology development projects, and to drive investment in Egyptian cities and governorates. ? Al Mubarak addresses Nature4Climate Coalition Meeting H.E. Razan Al Mubarak addressed more than 20 partners of the nature-based multi-stakeholder coalition Nature4Climate (N4C). Al Mubarak raised the importance of nature within the climate agenda, in the context of the Global Stocktake. H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak also highlighted the role for the coalition to support the COP 28 Presidency?s aim to integrate nature into all workstreams, from energy and industry; cities, transport and waste; land, oceans, water and food; societies, to people and livelihoods. ? Mohieldin received the honorary doctorate degree from Ain Shams University, Cairo During the 11th conference of Ain Shams University, Cairo, which was held under the auspices and presence of Dr. Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, Mohieldin received the honorary doctorate degree for his remarkable local and international contributions in the field of economics. ? Al Mubarak attends Ajman University, UAE?s ?Make It Sustainable? Forum H.E. Razan Al Mubarak attended the ?Make it Sustainable? Forum, organized by the UAE?s Ajman University, in partnership with the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment. The event focused on the role of Higher Education institutions in promoting sustainability and climate action. In this context, H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak called for bold solutions to be created by the UAE youth community - for the UAE community. H.E. Ms. Al Mubarak also highlighted the role of the COP 28 Youth Climate Champion, H.E. Shamma Al Mazrui, whose role is to ensure that youth have a say in decisions made that will impact their future. ? Mohieldin chaired the Second Consultation Meeting for the Green Climate Fund Mohieldin facilitated a two-day virtual meeting with over 100 current and prospective contributors to the Green Climate Fund (GCF); the world?s largest climate fund mandated to support low emission, climate-resilient development pathways. The meeting discussed the process for the second replenishment of the Fund for developing countries, specifically to fund implementation between 2024 ? 2027. At the meeting, Mohieldin reminded participants of the urgency of the climate crisis and of the importance of supporting the GCF to keep climate action alive. ? In Rabat, Mohieldin raises the next generation of climate finance with the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) On the Road to COP 28 and the IMF-WB Fall Meetings, the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) hosted a High-Level Policy Roundtable on climate finance to achieve sustainable development. In the meeting, Mohieldin emphasised that developing countries do not have the luxury of excluding any means of financing climate action. This underlines the importance of activating carbon trade, while ensuring that trading actually mitigates emissions, rather than just transferring emissions from seller to buyer. ? Mohieldin speaks at the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Annual Meetings 2023 At the IsDB Annual Meetings, Mahmoud Mohieldin spoke on the theme of ?Key Achievements of the G20 Indonesian Presidency (2022): The Case of Energy Transition and Climate.? In the meeting, Mohieldin highlighted a range of promising partnership models between the public and private sectors in Egypt, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. He also stressed that ?fair and adequate financing, technological solutions, knowledge exchange and behavioural change? are indispensable for the success of the development and climate agenda. The High-Level Champion commended the support of the G20 for the decisions of the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Change Conference, especially with regards to the launch of the Loss and Damage Fund and the launch of the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, which includes five main areas of action: food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, human settlements, and infrastructure Mark Your Calendar ? UNFCCC Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP)?s ?Advancing meaningful participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the UNFCCC? training workshop and informal briefing (Session I and Session II): 16-17 May ? Positive Impact ISO 20121 Webinar: 17 May ? G7 Hiroshima Summit 2023: 19-21 May ? International Day for Biological Diversity 2023: 22 May ? IUCN C109 Council Meeting: 23-25 May ? Innovation Zero, The International CleanTech Congress: 24 - 25 May ? 2023 International Transport Forum (ITF) Summit: 24-26 May ? Business in the Community (BITC) Masterclass on Building Skills for a Just Transition: 25 May ? Road to COP 28: Driving Collective Climate Action in the UAE: 29 May ? Climate and Clean Air Conference 2023: 29 May ? 2 June ? SDG 16 Conference 2023: 30 May ? 1 June ? Eighth meeting of the Katowice Committee on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures: 1-2 June ? Africa CEO Forum, 2023 Annual Summit: 5-6 June ? Second UN-Habitat Assembly: 5-9 June ? Bonn Climate Change Conference: 5-15 June ? World Food Safety Day 2023: 7 June ? World Oceans Day 2023: 8 June ? Climate Group Asia Action Summit: 8 June ? World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2023: 17 June ? 25th Africa Energy Forum: 20-23 June ? Summit for a New Financing Pact: 22-23 June ? London Climate Action Week: 24 June - 2 July ? Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Trust Fund Committee Meetings: 25-30 June ? Africa Climate Week (ACW 2023): Nairobi, 4-8 September ? New York Climate Week: 18-22 September ? Climate Action Summit: United Nations, 18-22 September ? Middle East and North Africa Climate Week (MENACW 2023): Riyadh, 9-12 October ? Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW 2023): Panama City, 23-27 October ? Net Zero Festival: 31 October - 1 November ? COP 28: 30 November - 12 December 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: Monday, May 22, 2023 6:33 PM Subject: Vladimir, here is the latest news from the High-Level Champions! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Tue May 23 17:58:36 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (enwl) Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 18:58:36 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] CAN EECCA Newsletter: War makes heat wave deadlier, Problem of Karaganda coal basin, COP28 Presidency Message-ID: <227CDB8014154AF2B1FC4BD14D582EC8@evol.sp.ru> Climate Action Network Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Digest of news on climate change, energy issues www.caneecca.org -------------------------------------------------- Someone forwarded this digest to you? You can subscribe using this link -------------------------------------------------- Climate chronicle of the war Russia?s War in Ukraine Is Making the Heat Wave in Asia Even Deadlier A study by Energymonitor.ai last year found Asia has invested at least $490 billion in new gas infrastructure, led by Vietnam and China. The continent is the largest exporter and importer of LNG. Because of its relatively lower emissions compared to coal or oil, the gas is considered a ?bridge fuel,? lowering the dependence on traditional fossil fuels like coal and oil. But the Russia-Ukraine conflict has upended the LNG market. Europe was in desperate need of energy as winter approached but struggled to secure a necessary alternative even as it cut off piped gas from Russia. Despite lacking sufficient infrastructure, Europe started to dip into the LNG supply that would have gone to Asia, raising the demand and causing prices to jump nearly 10 times the average. Ukraine Is Planning Its Green Reconstruction Even as War Rages On Ukrainian activists, scientists and architects are pushing for a postwar recovery unlike any in history, with a focus on climate resilience and clean energy. Thinking about rebuilding in the middle of a war, with a new offensive against Russia in the works, might seem far-fetched. But for Ukraine, green reconstruction is not just good for the planet. It?s essential to the country?s economic recovery and national security. Russian attacks caused damages worth $8.1 billion in Ukraine?s energy sector during the first year of war, the Kyiv School of Economics estimates. The average Ukrainian household endured 35 days without power last winter. Russia?s War in Ukraine: Green Policies in a New Energy Geopolitics Russia?s brutal aggression has wreaked devastation in Ukraine for more than a year. It has also forced a fundamental rethink of geopolitics. Central to that new thinking is the role of energy security and how to manage the insecurities created by the lopsided dependencies exposed by the conflict. For decades, energy security was perceived as a matter of physical, temporal, and geographic realities. It was about not only where fossil fuel resources were located but also how oil and gas coursed through pipelines, or was shipped on tankers, across borders and into markets. G7 agrees to short-term gas investments amidst Russia-Ukraine war The G7 leaders on Saturday agreed to stronger language on short-term gas investments in the context of Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine and the resulting energy crisis. "We stress the important role that increased deliveries of LNG can play, and acknowledge that investment in the sector can be appropriate in response to the current crisis and to address potential gas market shortfalls provoked by the crisis," reads the text. The text makes clear these investments must be limited to "the exceptional circumstance" given the Russian-driven energy shock and "as a temporary response." Ukrainians will be able to monitor the radiation background of the Zaporizhia NPP online Ukrainians will be able to monitor the radiation background level at the Zaporizhzhia NPP in Energodar online on the Saveecobot platform. Measurements of the radiation background are carried out every day directly on the industrial site of the station, reports the public organization SaveDnipro on Facebook. So, as of May 17 at 3:30 p.m., the radiation background level was 90 nSv/h with a permissible value of 300 nSv/h. The Saveecobot map is available at the link. Ukraine found an unlikely tool to resist Russia: Solar panels Russian airstrikes on Ukraine?s power grid plunged many parts of the country into darkness last fall, but one water company was able to keep its pumps going. Its field of solar panels, installed as an environmentally friendly measure before the war, turned into a tool to resist the Kremlin?s attacks. Now a growing number of Ukrainian hospitals, schools, police stations and other critical buildings are racing to install solar power ahead of what many expect will be another hard winter later this year. -------------------------------------------------- Regional and world news Karaganda coal basin is swallowing Kazakhstan?s climate The Karaganda coal basin, located in Kazakhstan, is one of the world?s largest coal basins, with coal reserves ranking third in the EECCA region. Unfortunately, the coal mining operations in the region have led to devastating environmental and social impacts, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and land degradation. These issues have caused health problems and displacement of local communities. To raise awareness about the situation, CAN EECCA has released a new short film titled ?Karaganda Coal Basin is Swallowing Kazakhstan?s Climate? as part of our #WorldWeWant campaign. The film features interviews with residents and activists who speak out against the harmful effects of coal mining and advocate for a transition to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. Trick the Climate. Where will Kazakhstan?s new low-carbon strategy lead? CAN EECCA and Ecostan News share their reaction to the adopted strategy and updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of Kazakhstan. We also present some remarks voiced by Kazakhstani eco-activists that were not taken into account by the developers. On February 2, 2023, President Tokayev approved the country?s low-carbon development strategy. Its official title is ?Strategy for Achieving Carbon Neutrality of the Republic of Kazakhstan by 2060.? The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources initially developed the strategy, followed by the Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan. The draft strategy went through several rounds of public discussion; however, the public?s comments were not significantly considered. Greenpeace International has been declared undesirable in Russia Greenpeace International has been declared undesirable in Russia, a decision that makes us wonder what is really undesirable. Protecting nature or harming it and human health through pollution, deforestation and ignoring the climate crisis? "We believe that Greenpeace International's declaration as an undesirable organization is due to the fact that through our work we have tried, in stopping environmentally destructive plans. Every time we have spoken out against such plans, we have had to overcome fierce opposition from those who want to turn nature into a source of income, who do not want to think about the future of our country, and who accuse us of acting against Russia's interests," Greenpeace said in its statement. Managing disaster risks and water under climate change in Central Asia and Caucasus Climate change is expected to have profound impacts on water resources and natural hazards in Central Asia and South Caucasus. This has serious implications for the management of water resources and natural hazards in both regions. This publication is the result of a joint learning journey involving three thematic networks of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) ? Climate Change and Environment, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Water ? and interested SDC offices and partners. The basic idea was to create the opportunity for participants to address common challenges in a collaborative manner while focusing on a specific region or context. Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time Our overheating world is likely to break a key temperature limit for the first time over the next few years, scientists predict. Researchers say there's now a 66% chance we will pass the 1.5C global warming threshold between now and 2027. The chances are rising due to emissions from human activities and a likely El Ni?o weather pattern later this year. If the world passes the limit, scientists stress the breach, while worrying, will likely be temporary. Hitting the threshold would mean the world is 1.5C warmer than it was during the second half of the 19th Century, before fossil fuel emissions from industrialisation really began to ramp up. World?s largest lakes are shrinking: Scientists say global warming and overuse of water are to blame Satellites were used to track how lakes around the world, from the Caspian Sea to the Great Salt Lake, have changed over the last three decades. More than half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs are drying up, a new study has found. Climate change's hotter temperatures and society's diversion of water have been shrinking the world's lakes by trillions of litres of water a year since the early 1990s. A close examination of nearly 2,000 of the world's largest lakes found they are losing about 21.5 trillion litres a year. Fossil fuel boss picked as President of the COP28 In January, the UAE confirmed that Sultan Al Jaber had been appointed as the president of COP28. Jaber is the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). the biggest oil producer in the country and the 12th biggest in the world. His appointment hasn?t come without controversy. Climate leaders and campaigners have voiced a number of concerns calling it a ?blatant conflict of interest?. ?You wouldn?t invite arms dealers to lead peace talks. So why let oil executives lead climate talks?? Alice Harrison, fossil fuel campaign leader at Global Witness, said at the time. 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(???), ? ?????? ??????? ?????? ???????? ?? ????????????????? ? ???????????? ??????, ?????? ????????? ????????? ????? ? ?????????????? ???????. ? ??? ???????? ????? ??? ??????, ????? ??????? ??????, ??????????? ??? ??????????? ????? ?????? ? ????? ? ???????? ????? ?????? ?? ???????? ???? ????? ????????????. ?????????? ????????????? ??????????? ??????????? ????? ????? ???????? ???????? ??? ????, ????? ???????? ?????, ??????????? ???????, ??? ???????? ????????????? ????????? ? ???. ???? ????? ????????????? ???????? ?????????? ???????????? ??? ??????? ? ??????, ? ??? ????? ?????????? ??????, ????? ????????? ??? ? ??????????. ?????? ?? ????? ?????? ????????? ? ????????? ????????? ???? ???????????. ??: Liesbeth Van den Bossche Date: ??, 23 ??? 2023??. ? 17:52 Subject: #RestoreNature - We need your help to achieve a Nature Restoration Law! Dear NGO colleague, I hope this email finds you well. I am emailing you on behalf of the #RestoreNature coalition. I am contacting you as we have been campaigning for a greener planet in the past and felt that your organisation might be interested in collaborating again for an important nature cause. As you might know, the European People's Party (EPP) - which consists of politicians from centre-right and right-wing parties - has decided to completely reject the Nature Restoration Law. We have only two months left to win over the votes we need to make this law a reality ? the adoption of this law is not a given. Sharing the email tool is crucial to show decision-makers that citizens really care. This law really is a unique opportunity for nature in Europe, and we need to join forces to make it a reality. Together, we can make a change and let citizens be heard. Here is how you can help: a.. Install the widget on your own website (it is available in all EU languages) (Concept note of how the email tool works + Request your widget). We noticed that you have not requested or activated the tool on your website: we encourage you to do so! b.. Alternatively: Promote our general website https://www.restorenature.eu/en/take-action and urge citizens to contact their decision-makers through the tool. c.. Share any materials you can (adapt as you see fit) to counteract the anti-voices ? we need you! We have plenty of communications material available on our shared drive and you can probably find it already translated by other NGOs in your country that are participating in the action. d.. Most importantly, we are asking you to send out send out 2 targeted emails (= only on 1 topic) to your supporters between now and mid-June. This is super important as it is the most effective way to promote the tool. We have created three template emails, ready for you in this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1zmEBL_dvVnkoC6fZZD63CcLIIvcdSvl8. 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Instead of being dug up and sold, 90% of the world's remaining coal and 60% of its oil and gas will need to stay underground by 2050, according to a study published in 2021. But with so much money on the line, the fossil fuel industry is digging in for a long fight. You're reading the Imagine newsletter ? a weekly synthesis of academic insight on solutions to climate change, brought to you by The Conversation. I'm Jack Marley, energy and environment editor. This week we're looking at how legal compensation for investors in coal, oil and gas is blocking climate action. "US$20 billion: That?s how much American investors think Canadian taxpayers should fork over to compensate them for their failed bid to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Qu?bec," says Kyla Tienhaara, Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment at Queen's University, Ontario. "That?s almost a fifth of the province?s total budget for this year." The Qu?bec government had rejected plans to build a port in which large ships load and unload LNG, a fossil fuel, on the basis that it would increase emissions of the greenhouse gases driving climate change, Tienhaara explains. "Canada faces a no-win situation ? a catch-22. If the government does not rapidly phase out fossil fuels, it will fail to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement to address the climate crisis," she says. "But when it takes steps to do so, foreign investors invoke international trade and investment agreements like NAFTA and threaten to drain public coffers." 'Lost future profits' Canada's dilemma will be familiar to countries around the world. For example, the International Monetary Fund offered Pakistan a loan of US$6 billion in 2019 on the condition that then-prime minister, Imran Khan, implemented austerity. Nationwide strikes followed, and less than two weeks later, a World Bank tribunal ordered the south Asian country to pay a mining company US$5.8 billion dollars, which would all but eclipse the (ultimately ruinous) loan. The bills issued to Qu?bec and Pakistan are both the result of investor-state dispute settlements, or ISDS. These are legal cases arbitrated by the World Bank Group between foreign companies and states. ISDS hearings are conducted in private but they allow corporations to challenge government measures designed to protect public health or the environment. How do they do this? By arguing that states owe them damages for cancelling or curtailing projects they have invested in ? even if those projects, like a coal mine or a gas terminal, threaten to blow the country's remaining carbon budget for staying within a habitable climate. "One might argue that a fair outcome, if the government was solely to blame, would be for the award to cover these sunk costs," Tienhaara says. "Instead [in Pakistan's case] it was more than 25 times that amount. That is because the tribunal chose to award the company 'lost future profits' from the project." Of course, companies cannot say with certainty how profitable the commodities they are being denied will remain during the decades they had expected to produce them. But that doesn't matter, Tienhaara says. "When it comes to the calculation of damages, there are very few constraints on arbitrators. As noted in one award, a tribunal generally has the freedom to 'arrive at a figure with which it is comfortable in all the circumstances of the case'." Paying the polluters The energy charter treaty (ECT) effectively enshrines the right of private companies to seek damages from governments taking action against climate change in 53 Asian and European countries. Since coming into force in 1998, the treaty has proved to be a boon for investors says Le?la Choukroune, a professor of international law at the University of Portsmouth: "The ECT has allowed energy and fossil fuel investors to receive vast sums of compensation. In 2021, Russia was ordered to pay US$20.5 million (?17.4 million) in compensation to Yukos Capital, an oil company, for expropriation ... Spain has been subject to 45 disputes under the ECT and has paid more than ?800 million (?673 million) in claims." "While investment protection agreements allow investors to sue sovereign states, the reverse is not possible," Choukroune adds. The strength of fossil fuel companies and their investors in these disputes is aided by the fact that independent experts called upon to arbitrate are often anything but, Choukroune argues. "Few of the arbitrators who sit in ECT hearings are public international law experts ... Investors have in some cases appointed arbitrators who have acted as legal advisers for them previously. This raises the question of whether arbitrators can separate these roles and act impartially." The treaty was devised to prevent former Soviet states from taking energy firms or their infrastructure into public ownership, but it will continue to obstruct governments well into the future because of a clause which binds former members for 20 years after they leave. Some countries are still considering an early exit, while others, including the UK, place their trust in reforms to "modernise" the treaty by exempting fossil fuels from legal protection, Choukroune says. But given the in-built advantages for corporations in the ECT and other investor-state disputes, more than 100 academics wrote to the UK government in March arguing that continued membership puts climate targets in peril. Chamu Kuppuswamy, a senior lecturer in law at the University of Hertfordshire, describes a possible course of action: "One way to address this problem is for parties contracted to the energy charter treaty to withdraw from it en masse, and so escape the sunset clause which holds them liable two decades after leaving. These countries could also enter into a separate agreement to exclude investor-state dispute cases against each other. "Sustained public pressure ... could encourage enough governments to act decisively, fatally weakening the treaty and its grip on international climate action." - Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor Was this email forwarded to you? Join the 20,000 people who get one email every week about the most important issue of our time. Subscribe to Imagine. Catch-22: Canada?s attempts to phase out fossil fuel might result in it paying the polluters To address the climate crisis, governments need to limit new fossil fuel developments. But foreign investors are often protected under trade and investment agreements. Read more Climate change: ditch 90% of world?s coal and 60% of oil and gas to limit warming to 1.5?C ? experts Our new study reveals how tight the world's remaining carbon budget is. Read more World Bank ruling against Pakistan shows global economic governance is broken Abolishing the secretive World Bank Tribunal known as the ISDS won't solve all of the problems of global economic governance. But it seems a very good place to start. Read more The Energy Charter Treaty lets fossil fuel firms sue governments ? but its future is now in question The Energy Charter Treaty allows fossil fuel investors to sue governments over climate action ? prompting EU countries to withdraw. Read more Energy charter treaty makes climate action nearly illegal in 52 countries ? so how can we leave it? A case brought to the European Court of Human Rights could pressure countries to leave. 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Republican legislators in the Lone Star state have introduced a number of bills to the Texas legislature to make it more difficult to produce wind and solar energy. Wind and solar energy are a vital part of saving our planet from a climate catastrophe. But these Republicans want to protect oil and gas production, polluting industries that are conveniently controlled by conservative billionaires. Climate change is already threatening thousands of species with extinction, forcing millions of humans to migrate into cooler climates, and increasing fires, floods, droughts, and storms that threaten families across the globe. We must be supporting clean, green energy, not letting Republicans block it. Sign the petition now if you agree! Thank you, Lauren Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Republicans in Texas are waging war on clean energy, endangering our lives while deepening the pockets of oil and gas billionaires. Sign the petition. 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This kind of pollution is a major threat to public health, and trucks and buses account for one-third of transportation climate pollution. We need you to speak up and demand the strongest possible standards to slash heavy-duty vehicle pollution now! Click here to submit a public comment! We?re moving quickly towards more zero-pollution trucks. In fact, truck manufacturers are committing to making their trucks cleaner over the next decade. But change doesn't happen by itself; if we want to speed up these necessary technological changes, we must speak up and use every tool at our disposal. Now, we need EPA standards to match that momentum and support those commitments. It's why we need you to step up now. The deadline to submit comments is just weeks away! Together, let's make a difference and demand stronger action to protect the health of our communities and the climate. 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With the help of Artificial Intelligence, the Electronic Babylonian Library at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich reconstructs many examples of unknown Babylonian literature, including the whole story of Gilgamesh. Analytical practitioners, those working in the shadows of law enforcement agencies, witness too many of the horrors human beings are capable of. Yet, their well-being and mental health are not always considered by policy makers. New research shows that we need to take care of people in such key roles. Have you ever felt that an ache that you had been able to cope with during the day got worse after going to bed? You're not alone. It may, at least in part, come down to a gate in the spinal cord that manages the passage of painful stimuli to the brain. We've previously talked about how activists are trying to change current urban planning and push for the creation of more child-friendly cities. But this is not a new concern. Decades ago, Amsterdam built 700 playgrounds for children. Today though, only about 17 of those playgrounds remain. Why? And Wimbledon is welcoming Russian players again. This is good news for the UK tennis sports industry ? the fines it had been facing after they were banned last year kept increasing ? but also for all the players involved. If you've been interrupted by the reception of this email while working, we're sorry. However, if you're reading us during a pause you've previously scheduled in the middle of your tasks, keep going. Not only not all interruptions are bad ? there are some that are even beneficial to our creativity. - Claudia Lorenzo, Culture Editor for The Conversation Spain AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature Generations of readers have experienced the frustration of reading fragments when trying to access classics of ancient Mesopotamian literature. Was this email forwarded to you? 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Curated by the executive editors. Give it a go b.. Imagine, deep dives in possible climate actions. Give it a go The Conversation is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public. You are receiving this email because you have signed up to a weekly newsletter about Europe from The Conversation. From: The Conversation Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2023 2:07 PM Subject: Deciphering the Epic of Gilgamesh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Sat May 27 13:53:33 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (enwl) Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 14:53:33 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] [China-Global-Info] China prioritising Turkmenistan over Russia in next big pipeline project Message-ID: <1723BFE525E94646AB96692F717E0B35@evol.sp.ru> ???????? ???????... China prioritising Turkmenistan over Russia in next big pipeline project Reuters 24 May 2023 -- China is accelerating the building of a long-delayed Central Asian pipeline to source gas from Turkmenistan even as Russia pushes its own new Siberian connection, as Beijing juggles its energy security needs with diplomatic priorities. Beijing is keen to bolster Central Asia ties under its Belt & Road Initiative, but nearly a decade after construction began, the "Line D" project has been hobbled by complex price talks and the technical hurdles of laying a pipeline crossing another three central Asian nations, Chinese state oil officials said. But Moscow's recent push to land its second Siberia pipeline connection with China, the Power of Siberia 2, to make up for shrunken sales in Europe due to the Ukraine crisis, provides Beijing a lever to advance the central Asian project, according to Chinese oil officials and industry consultants. "Central Asian pipelines are considered a cornerstone investment in China's energy and geopolitical space. It's a supply channel with strategic value that supersedes commercial concerns," a state-oil official familiar with China National Petroleum Corp's (CNPC) global strategy told Reuters. China may eventually seal both deals to feed its massive long-term gas needs, but is prioritising Turkmenistan, industry officials said, as Beijing has long seen Central Asia as a frontier to expand trade, secure energy and maintain stability in its once-restive western Xinjiang region. Combined, multi-year contracts worth tens of billions of dollars to bring gas via both pipelines would meet 20% of China's current demand. The pipelines are key to Beijing's goal of using gas as a bridge fuel towards its carbon neutrality targets and also helping to shield it from the volatile tanker-carried liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. Estimated in 2014 to cost $6.7 billion, Line D would carry 30 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Speaking last week at the first in-person summit of central Asian leaders in the ancient Silk Road city of Xian, President Xi Jinping urged parties to accelerate laying Line D, which would be China's fourth gas pipeline to the region, almost a decade after the start of construction in Tajikistan. In 2022, China imported 35 bcm gas or worth $10.3 billion via three pipelines from Turkmenistan, compared with 16 bcm via a single pipeline from Russia at about $4 billion. 'LINE D GETTING READY' Reflecting renewed urgency, CNPC last week launched the feasibility study for a 200-kilometer connection from Xinjiang's border with Kyrgyzstan to the Chinese town of Wuqia as the first receiving point, said a senior source involved in appraising the project. "This means D Line is getting ready," the person told Reuters, adding that construction on the domestic trunkline in Xinjiang could begin next year. Separately, a CNPC official told Reuters last week that the company's commercial teams are "standing by" awaiting a mandate to advance the project, without elaborating. Without a final gas supply contract, CNPC has only built part of the first tunnel in the mountainous Tajikistan capital Dushanbe where Line D begins, the official said. China's state planner the National Development and Reform Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A CNPC spokesperson declined to comment. Consultancy SIA Energy and Rystad Energy predicted new Turkmenistan gas via Line D could start flowing around 2028 while a new Russian line, designed at 50 bcm a year that sources gas from West Siberia, could start operating in the early 2030s. IMPORT LOSSES China is paying some 30% more for Turkmen gas, delivered via three existing pipelines since 2009, than from Russia, which began pumping the fuel from East Siberia in late 2019, Chinese customs data showed. Facing years of import losses as it is unable to pass on the cost to a regulated domestic market, CNPC has failed to negotiate a lower price for Turkmen fuel in rounds of price reviews, a second industry source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Ashgabat wanted to be paid "in line with global pricing practices", a Turkmenistan official familiar with the talks said. Sources and officials declined to be named as they are not authorised to speak with media. RUSSIA OVERTURES Still, the price negotiations are likely to be complex as China has multiple supply options that also include domestic production and new long-term LNG contracts with Qatar and the United States, said Jason Feer, Houston-based head of business intelligence at consultancy Poten & Partners. "The prices need to be high enough to justify the expense of building an expensive pipeline but low enough to be competitive," said Feer. Moscow's recent overtures to fast-track the shorter Power of Siberia 2 connection, via Mongolia, and a more recent proposal by Almaty to supply China via Khazakhstan offered CNPC leverage in finalising the Turkmen link, said the CNPC official and the second industry source. "CNPC could use the Russian proposals to bargain for a better price for Line D while taking its time to discuss new Russian supplies," said the second source. Factbox: China's main import gas pipelines China, the world's third-largest gas buyer, imports the fuel in gaseous form via long-distance pipelines from three sources - central Asia, predominantly Turkmenistan, as well as Russia and Myanmar. Its pipeline gas volumes totalled 45.8 million tonnes in 2022, meeting 17% of China's gas demand. China separately imported 63.4 million tonnes of tanker shipped liquefied natural gas (LNG) last year, with total LNG imports meeting 41% of Chinese demand. The remainder of China's gas was sourced domestically. CENTRAL ASIA China has since 2008 laid three trunklines at an estimated combined cost of more than $14 billion, connecting gas fields in Turkmenistan to the border with China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Lines A and B start at the border of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, crossing Kazakhstan before entering China at border town Khorgos. Each spans 1,833-kilometers (1138.97 miles) and together they are able to transport 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas a year. Line C, parallel to A and B, started pumping gas to China in 2014 with designed annual capacity of 25 bcm, though the line has been operating under capacity as domestic pipeline infrastructure lags. A senior CNPC executive told Chinese media in 2017 that China should have recouped the investment of the three lines within 7.5 years if operating at full throttle. LINE D The newest, Line D, starts at Turkmenistan's giant Galkynysh field, one of the largest gas fields in the world with reserves exceeding 21 trillion cubic meters. The line, which would be the first to also cross Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, would be 966 km long with annual carrying capacity of 30 bcm. Countries signed preliminary agreements with China in 2013/14. In September 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a ceremony in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, marking the start of construction of the D line, state media People's Daily reported then. The project, however, has been slow in coming due to the complex price negotiations between China and Turkmenistan, technical challenges developing Galkynysh field and difficulties laying the pipelines through the mountainous terrains. POWER OF SIBERIA 1 Russian gas giant Gazprom began delivering gas to China in late 2019 via the 3,000-km Power of Siberia project linking Siberian fields with northeast China. Supplies reached 16 bcm last year with plans to ramp up to reach 38 bcm by 2025. The pipeline is part of a 30-year, $400 billion deal signed in 2014, a landmark agreement that marked Moscow's diversifying exports away from its top client Europe. FAR EAST SAKHALIN PROJECT In February of 2022 during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit in Beijing, China agreed to import gas from Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin, via a new pipeline across the Japan Sea to northeast China, with deliveries reaching up to 10 bcm a year around 2026. POWER OF SIBERIA 2 To compensate for the now-defunct Nord Stream 1 pipeline linking Russia with Germany, Putin began last September to revive Power of Siberia 2, which was first proposed years ago. The proposed 2,600-km pipeline would bring 50 bcm gas from the huge Yamal peninsula reserves in west Siberia. Gazprom began a feasibility study on the project in 2020 and Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in late March Moscow was aiming for agreeing contracts this year. MYANMAR-YUNNAN PROJECT The 793-km Myanmar-China Gas Pipeline, linking Ramree Island on the western coast of Myanmar with Chinese border city Ruili of southwestern Yunnan Province, began operating in 2013. It's designed to carry 12 bcm a year. About 20% of the gas supplies are reserved for local Myanmar market. But due to low productions from offshore Myanmar gas fields, the pipeline has for years been running under capacity, with 2022 deliveries to China at 3.8 bcm according to Chinese customs. ?? ???????? ??? ?????????, ????????? ????????? ?? ?????? "seu-international". 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Sign now and I will personally deliver your voices to the Brazilian Congress and President Lula himself. SIGN NOW Dear friends, I am writing to you as one of the only Indigenous members of Congress in Brazil. This email could mean major political trouble for me, but our forests are being attacked in Congress right now?and this is worth the risk. This week, the Brazilian Congress began voting for a new law that will allow miners and tree cutters back into our forests and sacred lands, and it will remove protections for Indigenous people like me. The key vote is in days!!! This is an Amazon emergency and an Indigenous emergency. I need your help. Our country is so divided that we need a truly global outcry from countries like yours that financially support Brazil to stop this law. The Brazilian Congress must feel the full weight of a global spotlight right now! And this is about your life too. Without the Amazon, and without the protection that Indigenous peoples' lands offer to our forests, rivers and precious species, there is no way we'll avoid global ecological apocalypse. This forest is the lungs for all of us. Please sign this urgent call to stop the rainforest attack. I will deliver your voices inside the Brazilian congress and to President Lula myself. Will you stand with me and ensure my voice has even more power? STOP THE RAINFOREST ATTACK We, Indigenous peoples, protect 80% of the earth's biodiversity, despite being only 5% of the global population. Brazil holds the largest population of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon, and the largest area of the Amazon ecosystems. Indigenous territories across our country have kept the forests and biomes alive, despite constant attacks. But if the mining, agribusiness and oil lobby is successful in this new legislative battle, all these protections could be gone. This could literally define the future of our planet. Without the Amazon, and the Indigenous territories across Brazil, the world cannot keep global warming under control. So even if many of you don't live in Brazil, we will all be affected by what happens here in the coming days! The key vote is just days away -- please help me gather enough voices from around the world to shield Indigenous communities from this onslaught. Indigenous people in Brazil are doing all they can to fight back -- but without a global pressure campaign it won't be enough. Sign the petition now and share with everyone you know -- every voice counts now: STOP THE RAINFOREST ATTACK Avaaz has been fighting hand in hand with Indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon and all ecosystems in Brazil, and everywhere. But we're up against tremendous pressure -- and the most recent attack caught all of us by surprise. If we lose this battle now, so much of what we fought for together is at stake. Let?s not let that happen! With hope and determination, Congresswoman C?lia Xakriab?, on behalf of the Indigenous defense front in Congress, and together with the Avaaz team. a.. Outcry as Brazil congress moves to gut environment and Indigenous Ministries (The Guardian) b.. Why Is the Amazon So Important for Climate Change? (Scientific American) c.. Brazilian Amazon indigenous territories under deforestation pressure (Scientific Reports) d.. Climate protection in Brazil: Can Lula save the rainforest? (Deutsche Welle) e.. In the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists try new approach against deforestation and poverty (AP) Avaaz is a 70-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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If Erdogan serves the full five-year term, he will have held power for 26 years. So, how did he win the election and what is likely to happen in the country in the foreseeable future? Click here for Mehmet?s early analysis. At a recent event held to mark excellence in academic journalism at City, University of London, I had a brief but fascinating discussion with Anna Matveeva, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King?s College London. Anna outlined her fears for people in Ukraine and Russia, and said she felt that a military solution may not be possible. And so, while highly critical of the Kremlin?s war, she asked what might the region look like when the fighting finally stops? I listened intently, and I was keen to hear more. So I was delighted to note that my colleague Jonathan Este had commissioned Anna. You can read her thoughts below. Jonathan (better known to us all as Jonty) writes a round-up of events in the region every two weeks, which highlights the broad range of analysis from across The Conversation network. A number of people at the London event said they were now using it as their main guide to the conflict. I'm not surprised. Ukraine Recap truly is vital reading, and I strongly recommend that you check it out. As with all our newsletters, it won?t cost you any money to subscribe. Just click here. Stephen Khan Global Executive Editor Ali Unal/AP How Erdogan held onto power in Turkey, and what this means for the country?s future Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University Turkey desperately needed a change in government and a breath of fresh air. Now the social, political and economic suffocation is likely to get worse. Like anyone else, Russians still go to the pub, even if the TV is state controlled. 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India Must Ban This Dangerous Blood Sport Now! Sign Now Animal lovers in India are outraged that the nation's highest court is allowing the cruel bull-taming sport of jallikattu to continue. The court had originally banned this sport back in 2014. But this month, it reversed its previous decision, claiming that the preservation of "cultural heritage" was more important than animals' welfare. The government in India must listen to its residents who oppose this practice! Lawmakers must ban this cruel sport now! Jallikattu is a blood sport that involves holding a bull captive until it is overwhelmed by anxiety, anger, and confusion, and then releasing it into a bullfighting area where many humans all attempt to jump on the panicked animal and hold on. Cornering an animal in this way has, predictably, led to many deaths, injuries, and maimings. In the past six years, upwards of 33 bulls and 104 children and adults have died. Even hundreds of spectators have been injured in the process. 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As this article in Harvard Medicine explains, such anxiety can therefore be difficult to treat. And it?s showing up increasingly in the younger generations. Greta Thunberg, whom Earth Island Journal interviewed in 2019, exemplifies this kind of anxiety for young people, even as she acts to counter it. One of Thunberg?s deepest fears is that we will reach a ?tipping point, and then there?s no going back. Then it doesn?t matter what we do.? How, in the face of all these fears, can we find a way for things we do to matter? As smoke season approaches, perhaps we should recognize that sometimes the fight is not external ? though there are plenty of battles to be won in this world. Sometimes the fight is internal, a fight against dread, against disillusionment, against despair. If these (powerful, legitimate) fears win the day, they prevent us from imagining a better future, and without that imagination, the work becomes harder. I would encourage you to take this season as an opportunity to look inward, to face your fears, to imagine a better future ? no matter how hard it is to do so. The future needs you. And it needs you today. Brian Calvert Associate Editor, Earth Island Journal PS: We're going to be experimenting with this newsletter going forward. Our aim is to bring you more thoughts, updates, and information about environmental issues around the world ? each week! We'd love to hear from you on what you love, so please send us a note at editor at earthisland.org. Photo by Lois Elling TOP STORIES Slow Your Roll A new program encourages cargo ships off the California coast to slow down in an effort to reduce both whale strikes and greenhouse gas emissions. READ MORE As a nonprofit, Earth Island Journal is driven by purpose, not profit. We have no billionaire benefactors. We rely on the support of people like you. Can we count on you to donate to the Green Journalism Fund? 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Read more Marko Palokangas: Fog of war in Europe "The distinctions between state, state-sponsored and non-state actors have become blurred. The diversity of security threats has also increased, as the flood of information, misunderstandings and incorrect presuppositions, unpredictability and countless other factors cause situations that are difficult to manage." Read more Petri Toivonen: The concept for Comprehensive Security "There is an identified need for deeper cross-governmental and whole-of-society cooperation on preparedness. We have faced COVID-19, Russian attack to Ukraine, migration and refugee crisis in Europe, Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions at the Baltic Sea and Europe?s energy crisis. Simultaneously the climate change and various hybrid threats are challenging us." 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URL: From enwl at enw.net.ru Wed May 31 19:41:18 2023 From: enwl at enw.net.ru (enwl) Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 20:41:18 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] How plastic heats the planet Message-ID: <4CCD3CC889354851B74885B49EC8863F@evol.sp.ru> + why recycling won't fix it ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?No images? Click here Plastic waste, when it appears on the surface of the sea or at the side of a road, is a problem that's easy to recognise. Much more plastic is made each year than can be safely absorbed by the systems built to recycle it, and the result is mounting pollution. Talks are under way in Paris this week to agree the terms of an international treaty which could do something about this issue. What is often overlooked, however, is the plastic industry's role in fuelling climate change. A study published in 2019 found that making, using and disposing of plastic accounts for 3.8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. "That?s almost double the emissions of the aviation sector," says Laurie Wright, a senior lecturer in sustainability at Solent University. "If it were a country, the 'Plastic Kingdom' would be the fifth-highest emitter in the world." You're reading the Imagine newsletter ? a weekly synthesis of academic insight on solutions to climate change, brought to you by The Conversation. I'm Jack Marley, energy and environment editor. This week we're discussing what plastic pollution and climate change have in common. Every stage of a plastic product's lifecycle can be a potential source of climate-damaging emissions, Wright explains. More than 99% of plastic starts life as petroleum or natural gas, and is refined by the petrochemical industry using a process which releases carbon dioxide and methane to form basic plastic building blocks such as ethylene. Transporting this resin consumes fuel, and so also generates emissions. These steps account for 61% of the total emissions originating from plastic. A further 30% is emitted while making the plastic bags, bottles and other items we use each day. The remainder is released when plastic is thrown away. It can take centuries for plastic to decompose and slowly return its stored carbon (and other harmful chemicals) to the atmosphere. But when this waste is incinerated, as a lot of landfill waste is, the process is dramatically sped up. Petrochemical firms at the plastic treaty negotiations favour an agreement that would aim to recycle all of that waste. But researchers like Cressida Bowyer, who studies plastic pollution at the University of Portsmouth, are sceptical. "Only 6-9% of all plastic ever produced has been sent for recycling," she says, writing with fellow Portsmouth academics Keiron Roberts and Stephanie Northen. "Although plastic and other waste is collected for recycling in most countries, the amount of material that is remade into the same or similar products (what is called closed-loop recycling) is extremely low. "Only 2% of plastic waste is recycled in a closed loop and not turned into something of lower quality, which is called downcycling. Recycling cannot fully replace virgin material as it can only be recycled twice before losing necessary properties, and so most recycling results in a downgraded material that cannot be used for the same purpose." Not only would ramping up recycling fail to curb the greenhouse gas emissions from making all that plastic, attempting to recycle it could create other kinds of pollution, the team point out. A recent study highlighted how recycling facilities can release hundreds of tonnes of microplastics each year. Another report showed how attempting to recycle plastics containing toxic additives can contaminate subsequent batches. Pascal Scherrer, a senior lecturer in environmental science at Southern Cross University in Australia, argues that there are more reasons to be wary of recycling as a supposed solution to the plastic problem. "I explore opportunities to reduce plastic waste in sectors such as tourism, hospitality and meat production," he says. "I know how quickly we could make big changes. But I?ve also seen how quick-fix solutions can create complex future problems. So we must proceed with caution." One example is swapping wood for recycled plastic. Trading a material which would otherwise be a living tree keeping carbon out of the atmosphere for something made from an abundant waste product sounds ideal. No wonder benches, tables and bollards are increasingly made from recycled plastic. But, Scherrer cautions, wood is at least biodegradable. Plastic, even when it has been recycled, breaks down into smaller and smaller fragments which now contaminate virtually every environment on Earth ? including the human blood stream. Bowyer, Roberts and Northen suggest that the simplest solution to all this pollution is also the best: stop making so much plastic in the first place. Extending the lifespan of the average plastic item by reusing it can also help reduce demand for more plastic. "Manufacturers must stop making so much unnecessary plastic to reduce the amount entering the economy," they say. "There is no case for making plastics that are impossible to collect, reuse or recycle, or are toxic. Yet they are abundant: think multilayered sachets, thin films and wrappers. These should be phased out as a priority." As with the fossil fuel industry and climate change, petrochemical companies are unlikely to willingly make and sell less of their product to reduce pollution. And the parallels between the two problems don't end there, according to Deirdre McKay, a reader in geography and environmental politics at Keele University. "The environment appears to be drowning in plastic for the same reason that global temperatures continue to rise ? fossil fuels have remained cheap and abundant," she says. The advent of hydraulic fracturing (better known as fracking) to acquire fossil fuels such as shale gas during the first decade of the 21st century made the raw materials for plastic manufacturing significantly cheaper, McKay explains. The result has been a glut of plastic packaging on supermarket shelves that is difficult to recycle and overwhelmingly ends up in landfill, incinerators ? or the environment. As oil demand wanes with the rise of electric vehicles, McKay warns that fossil fuel companies will pivot to producing plastic instead ? with all the greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution such a move entails. "Concern about plastic pollution isn?t distracting people from a more serious problem ? plastic is the problem. If we see plastics as 'solid climate change', they become central to the climate crisis." - Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor Was this email forwarded to you? Join the 20,000 people who get one email every week about the most important issue of our time. Subscribe to Imagine. Plastic recycling is failing ? here?s how the world must respond Making less plastic and reusing what exists should be the priority. Read more 3 little-known reasons why plastic recycling could actually make things worse Here's what we ? both individually and globally ? should be doing more of, and what to avoid. Read more Plastic warms the planet twice as much as aviation ? here?s how to make it climate-friendly As well as polluting our seas, plastics are heating the atmosphere too. Urgent changes are needed to eliminate plastic's contribution to climate breakdown. Read more Fossil fuel industry sees the future in hard-to-recycle plastic The fossil fuel industry plans to compensate for declining demand for gasoline by flooding the world with more plastic. Read more Oil companies are ploughing money into fossil-fuelled plastics production at a record rate ? new research We discovered that the 12 largest petrochemical companies announced 88 new projects between 2012 and 2019: new and expanded facilities that will likely operate for decades, ramping up carbon emissions. 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