Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year
“We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because
there is a tomorrow,” she says, tugging on the sleeve of her blue
sweatshirt. “That is all we are saying.”
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I thought countries would engage in meaningful conversations around
carbon markets (Article 6 is a key issue this topic) and finance for the
loss and damage due to the climate crisis being experienced
predominantly by climate vulnerable countries.
carbon markets (Article 6 is a key issue this topic) and finance for the
loss and damage due to the climate crisis being experienced
predominantly by climate vulnerable countries.
Instead, the
negotiations – at best – have been slow. Though Canada has been an
important champion on ensuring that human rights and Indigenous rights
stay in key parts of the text – especially with relation to carbon
markets – we’ve been complicit in shrugging off the responsibility of
developed countries for the loss and damage that are being experienced
by countries vulnerable to climate impacts – whether those be from
increasingly severe droughts, floods, storms or rising sea levels which
threaten the very existence of these nations.
‘Canadian eyes only’ intelligence reports say Canadian leaders attacked in cyber campaigns
“A small number of nation states” are involved in cyber campaigns
against Western democracy, but the national security assessment warns
the threat and range of actors involved are growing.
against Western democracy, but the national security assessment warns
the threat and range of actors involved are growing.
And the
tactics used by Canada’s adversaries include “human intelligence
operations,” online and cyber influence campaigns and the use of
“state-sponsored or influenced media.”
Humans Already Slowed The Climate Crisis Once, New Research Shows
I hear people saying there is nothing we can do that will change anything. However, we did stop emissions of ozone-destroying class of greenhouse gas called chlorofluorocarbons and we shrunk the ozone hole.
Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia,
have evaluated various climate scenarios using simulations combined
with a global climate model to judge what our planet might look like if
the 1989 Montreal Protocol had never taken place.
Their initial
goal was to see how a drop in ozone-depleting chemicals affected
atmospheric circulation around the Antarctic. They imagined a world
where CFCs continued to build at around 3 percent each year – a rate
that’s rather conservative given increasing demands of the material
towards the late 20th century.
It’s a world we can be grateful we no longer live in.
Future of Water | Retro Report
In the newest installment in our What Happens Next series, we travel to Windhoek, Namibia, a city near the world’s oldest desert, where they’ve tapped a radical, and unlikely, source of water to set their community up for a more sustainable future.
I’ve seen other talks about breakthroughs in the desalinization of ocean water for drinking. An article in 2009 by Scientific American talked about potential problems with it too.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-impacts-of-relying-on-desalination/