“Laptev Sea Methane Study - Science Talk with Jim Massa”
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“13 newer strains have overtaken the now gone 9 strains.”
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““Humanity 'Way Off Track': WMO Says Atmospheric Carbon at Level Unseen in 3 Million Years
The new report has "a stark, scientific message for climate change negotiators at COP 26," said the head of the World Meteorological Organization.”
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“"Parties must urgently redouble their climate efforts if they are to prevent global temperature increases (that) will lead to a destabilised world and endless suffering." -
@PEspinosaC
on the updated NDC Synthesis Report published today.”
Translation isn’t smooth but this makes some good practical points:
′′ So there has been progress, but not enough. Therefore, in order to maintain 1.5 c in this important year, the G20 countries, which are the largest emitting countries, need to promote a stronger commitment. Glasgow needs to start the year of increasingly ambitious ambitions. In COP26 we must unite for ourselves, our future generations, and our planet he stressed.
Espinosa has clarified that the contracting country can submit NDC at any time, including during the cop26 period, and update the already submitted ndc.
′′ I again request all contracting countries that have not yet done so to submit a new or updated NDC. However, the contracting country that has already been submitted has also a chance to revisiting ndc to increase the level of ambition Mr. S said.
Many NDCs in developing countries include more ambitious conditional commitments to reduce emissions. This can only be implemented by access to enhanced coffers and other support. The report suggests that with the full implementation of these components, world emissions could reach their peak by the year of.
′′This means that developing countries need support for financial, technical and capacity development to increase their levels of ambition, both in reducing emissions and building resilience to the effects of climate change I'm highlighting it. The pledge to mobilize US$ billion per year by is key to strengthening climate change measures by developing countries. I call developed countries to fully fulfil this pledge in cop26 said Mr. Espinosa.
The majority of the contracting countries provided information about their intentions to utilize voluntary cooperation under Article of the Paris Agreement. This is referring to market mechanisms and non-market approaches. Almost all of them indicated that they plan to use at least one type of cooperation mechanism or approach.
′′ This indicates the need to complete the rulebook of the Paris Agreement related to market approaches and non-market approaches. Spontaneous cooperation can significantly boost both actions and ambitions Mr. Sharma explained.
′′ Cop26 needs to solve the details about how these mechanisms work in a way to promote action and ensure the integrity of the environment he added.
COP26 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland on October, and will run for a week until November,
Read the update of the major survey results of the full NDC synthesis report here.
Read the full NDC synthesis report here.
About UNFCCC
The United Nations Climate Change Framework Convention (UNFCCC), which is a contracting country of, is an almost universal member country, and is a parent treaty of the Paris Climate Change Agreement in The main objective of the Paris agreement is to keep the average temperature rise in the world of the century to less than degrees Celsius, and to promote the initiative to limit the temperature rise to degrees Celsius than the level before the industrial revolution. Here it is. UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the Kyoto Protocol of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of The final objective of all agreements under UNFCCC is to prevent dangerous human interference in the climate system in a time frame that allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and sustainable development in the atmosphere at the level of preventing dangerous human interference in the climate system It is to stabilize the greenhouse gas concentration.
UNFCCC Press Office: press unfccc. Int
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Edward Doubell:
“Did you know:
• Humanity’s impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – has been declared.
• About 50% of the Earth’s animals have been lost in the last 50 years alone.
• The acceleration of Co² emissions, sea level rise, the global mass extinction of species and transformation of land by deforestation through animal agriculture marks the end of the current epoch - the Holocene.
• The Holecene - was 12,000 years of stable climate since the last ice age (during which all human civilisation developed)
• There is now so much plastic in our waterways and oceans that microplastic particles will leave identifiable fossil records for future generations to discover.
• We have doubled the nitrogen and phosphorous in our soils in the past century with fertiliser use. This is likely to be the largest impact on the nitrogen cycle in 2.5bn years.
• Humans have now left a permanent layer of airborne particulates in sediment and glacial ice such as black carbon from fossil fuel burning.
• One of the major markers for this epoch will be the bones of the domestic chicken, now ubiquitous all across the globe.
• A vegan lifestyle is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet.”
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Eward Doubell
Below is a link where anyone can download the PDF of a study funded & published by the World Bank.
This study clearly indicates that 91% of Amazon rainforest destruction is due to animal agriculture (cattle ranching) of which the majority is exported to developed western countries like the US so you people like you can have steak”
“Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon”
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Eward Doubell:
“Here's a link to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, which determined that plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change and preventing habitat destruction + wildlife extinction.
The study analysed almost 40,000 farms in 119 countries and covered 40 food products that represent 90% of all that is eaten. It assessed the full impact of these foods, from farm to fork, on land use, climate change emissions, freshwater use and water pollution (eutrophication) and air pollution (acidification).
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use” said Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the research. “It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car” he said, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.
"𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵-𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘷𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘧𝘶𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵-𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯. A 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘧𝘴𝘰𝘺𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘴𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘧𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘮.”
From the study;
'Moving from current diets to a diet that excludes animal products has transformative potential, reducing food’s land use by 3.1 billion hectares (a 76% reduction), including a 19% reduction in arable land food’s GHG emissions by 6.6 (5.5-7.4) billion metric tons of CO2eq (a 49% reduction); acidification by 50% (45-54%); eutrophication by 49% (37-56%); and scarcity-weighted freshwater withdrawals by 19% (−5 to 32%) for a 2010 reference year. The ranges are based on producing new vegetable proteins with impacts between the 10th- and 90th-percentile impacts of existing production. For the United States, where per capita meat consumption is three times the global average, dietary change has the potential for a far greater effect on food’s different emissions, reducing them by 61-73%'.
The research found that multiple environmental issues could be vastly improved by cutting meat and dairy consumption. Land use, for instance, could be reduced by more than 75% – an area equivalent to the U.S, European Union, China, and Australia – by removing these industries, whilst still feeding the entire world’s population.
The researchers discovered that even the lowest impact meat and dairy products still harm the planet more than the least sustainable vegetable and cereal foods.”
Below is a link to the study:
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“The World’s Soy: is it used for Food, Fuel, or Animal Feed?”
Eward Doubell:
Robert Farquard, you mentioned soy in one of your replies to Ed. I'll take this opportunity to do some education regarding soy farming for those who might think plant-based diets are equally damaging to the environment, and use soy farming as the basis of their argument.
Soy has earned itself a bad reputation. It's links to deforestation means that, alongside palm oil, soy has become a product to avoid if you consider yourself an environmentalist.
Although the research suggests that by far the largest driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the expansion of pasture land for beef production, soy is likely to have played at least some role in the loss of forest.
But here's the thing, more than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Only 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as plant-based meat alternatives, tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh. The idea that foods often promoted as substitutes for meat and dairy are driving deforestation is a common misconception.
When someone mentions soy we often think about foods such as tofu, soy milk, tempeh or edamame beans. This feeds into the argument that meat and dairy substitutes – such as switching from meat to high-protein tofu, or from dairy to soy milk – is in fact worse for the environment. But, only a small percentage of global soy is used for these products.
In the chart below we see the breakdown of what the world’s soy was used for in 2018. On the left we have total global soy production; in the middle, the three categories of uses (direct human food, animal feed, and industrial processes); and on the right we have the end use products. This data is sourced from an analysis published by the University of Oxford’s Food Climate Research Network (FCRN), which relies on the USDA’s PSD database. Over one-third (37%) of global soy is fed to chickens and other poultry; one-fifth to pigs; and 6% for aquaculture.
Soy can also be used for industrial purposes. Around 4% is used for biofuels, lubricants and other industrial processes. Biodiesel alone accounts for 2.8%.
Typical soy products such as tofu, soy milk, tempeh and edamame beans account for just 7% of global demand. That's miniscule in comparison to the animal agriculture industry.
We might therefore conclude that the increased demand for soy has been driven by a growing appetite for meat and dairy.
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