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29.12.2023 | Petitions for the environment and climate change.

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Actions.eko.com: Nestlé and P&G: Stop setting Indonesia’s rainforests on fire

Indonesia’s forests are burning – a thick toxic haze suffocates half of the country, keeping children out of school and forcing people and animals to relocate. But it didn’t happen by accident and we know who the arsonists are. Together, we will hold them accountable. Nestlé and Procter & Gamble are doing business with rogue palm oil and paper producers who recklessly burn precious rainforests to the ground to expand their monocultures, steal Indigenous lands, and drive orangutans, rhinos, and elephants closer to the brink of extinction. (keep reading)

Rainforest Action Network - RAN: This one is for donating, they need 100,00$ by December 31!

We urgently need your help to fight for the world's last rainforests in 2024 by making any size donation today. Those who believe they can change the world are the ones that do. Donate now.

Help us challenge mega-corporations like Liberty Mutual, Bank of America, Procter & Gamble, Nestlé and Mondelēz. Their thirst for endless profits contributes to the widespread destruction of irreplaceable rainforests like the Leuser Ecosystem of North Sumatra and the Amazon rainforest and fuels the expansion of dangerous fossil fuel projects that choke the life out of the planet. For a small organization, RAN's significant impact is only possible because of dedicated supporters like YOU. Your generous donation today makes a world of difference.

Rainforest Rescue: DRC: Do not sacrifice Congo's rainforests to the oil industry!

The DRC government in Kinshasa is nearing a point of no return: President Tshisekedi wants to sacrifice vast areas of Congo rainforest and peatland for oil. This would be an unmitigated disaster for the climate, biodiversity and local people. Together with our African partner organizations, we can put a stop to these plans. The rainforests of the Congo Basin are home to millions of people and countless animal and plant species, including chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas. They are a treasure trove of biodiversity and crucial to the fight against climate change. Despite this, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began auctioning 27 oil and 3 gas blocks in late July. The blocks cover some of the last remaining intact forests on Earth. Three of the blocks overlap the Cuvette Centrale peatlands, which are estimated to store 30 billion tons of carbon, the equivalent to one years’ worth of global emissions. The peatlands are so vast and remote that little is known about the biodiversity at stake there. Nine oil blocks overlap protected areas. More than half of the Congo Basin's peatlands and 60 percent of its rainforest are in the DRC, the country plays a key role in the fight against the climate crisis. The science is clear: the governments of the world must cut carbon emissions in half within the next eight years. In his speech at the UN's COP26 conference in Glasgow, President Tshisekedi promoted the vital role of the Congo Basin forests in regulating the global climate and his intention to enhance DRC’s energy mix by "combining several types of energy: biomass, hydro, solar." The cost of not doing so, he said, would be a climate crisis. The world cannot afford any further expansion of oil and gas. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), an immediate end to new investment in fossil fuel supply projects is the first step to keep global warming below 1.5°C and achieve global net zero emissions by 2050. In an alliance of environmentalists from Africa and around the world, we want to keep the oil in the ground and the fossil fuel industry out of the Congo Basin. Please sign our joint petition!

DR Congo: Stop the destruction by miners and loggers in Tshopo!

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is home to the second largest area of rainforest on Earth. Defending it is crucial to the fight against climate change and the extinction crisis. Yet miners are polluting rivers and loggers clearing forests in Tshopo province. In the small town of Basoko, local people are fighting back. The people of the small town of Basoko fear for their health and livelihoods: the Aruwimi River, a tributary of the Congo, has been polluted ever since the Chinese mining company Xiang Jiang Mining began dredging for gold there. Some species of fish have disappeared completely. Skin diseases are on the rise. "We say NO to mining in Aruwimi, which is destroying our ecosystem in an anarchic way," states a memorandum to the county government read during a demonstration. On March 11, 2022, residents of the region protested on land and with boats against the trashing of their environment. Mining is not the only threat to nature in Tshopo province: companies such as FODECO, Congo Futur and SOFORMA are reportedly logging at a breakneck pace near Basoko. "They are systematically plundering the forests without any benefit to local people," says Jean-François Mombia Atuku, chairman of the environmental protection organization RIAO-RDC. "Anyone who demands accountability is silenced," he said, adding that workers are "kept like slaves" in the forest. "Human rights are not relevant for these companies." The grievances regarding mining have been heard in the capital Kinshasa: In January 2022, Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba called on Xiang Jiang Mining to cease operations by February 25, 2022. However, nothing has changed since then – the company is still operating, apparently unimpressed. "What we need now is international pressure," says Jean-François Mombia Atuku. It must be brought to bear on President Tshisekedi, who positioned his country as a heavyweight in the fight against the climate crisis during the COP26 climate conference. It’s time to apply that international pressure – please sign our petition.

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Tell australias biggest corporate cocksucking polluter lobbyists to fuck off and die!

#australia #petition #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #ecology #ClimateChange

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Coral goes white before it dies

With Diana Kristin Bechmann in Glasgow for Cop26, acrylics and pencil on paper, November 2021

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It all began with Högertrafikomläggningen, Swedish for “the right-hand traffic reorganisation”.

On 3 September 1967, Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right. The change mainly took place at night, but in Stockholm and Malmö all traffic stopped for most of the weekend while intersections were reconfigured.

So sweet was the resulting city air that weekend that environmental enthusiasm went sky high. It was a moment that would change the world.

Three months later Sweden, citing air and other pollution, asked the UN to hold the first-ever international environmental conference, initiating a process that would lead to a groundbreaking gathering in its capital in 5 June 1972, the 50th anniversary of which will be marked next week. This was the beginning of a long and slow struggle to find and agree global solutions to these newly understood global environment problem. Twenty years later, the Rio conference would follow in the same month, kicking off UN climate summits, the most recent of which was held in Glasgow last autumn.

And yet critical mistakes were made at this early juncture. Progress, as we know, has been glacial in the years since. Now, looking back at the first steps on that journey, it’s hard not to see that, although in there were so many issues the conference got right, there were also some crucial issues it got wrong.

The Stockholm conference – held in the city’s Folkets Hus the site of both a former prison and a theatre specialising in farces – gave green issues international import. In the 1960s, environmental issues had seemed local, not global. In Britain, for example, the last of the great London smogs killed 750 people in 1962, while tragedy struck four years later in Aberfan, Wales, with the collapse of a colliery spoil tip. In Japan, people wore masks against air pollution. There was drought in the Sahel. And in 1969 a passing train ignited oil in Ohio’s Cuyahoga River, setting it ablaze.

But this was also a decade in which there were early stirrings of revolt against the environmental destruction. The World Wildlife Fund launched in 1961 with a special issue of the Daily Mirror carrying the front-page headline “DOOMED”. Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring savaged pesticides the next year, and in 1969 an undergraduate Prince Charles first entered the fray, lobbying the then British prime minister, Harold Wilson, about Atlantic salmon at an event at the Finnish embassy.

But these were isolated voices, denounced and dismissed by the powerful. Carson said the US chemical industry wanted to return to “the dark ages” where “insects and vermin would once again inherit the Earth”. The then US agriculture secretary wrote to former US President Dwight Eisenhower, saying that since Carson was unmarried, despite being “attractive”, she was “probably a communist”.

The plan for an international conference in Stockholm initially had so little support that it was dismissively called “the Swedish matter” at the UN. It took two years of lobbying, against UK and French opposition, before the general assembly backed the proposal. As it happened, this (January 1970) was when I was told by a far-sighted editor at the Yorkshire Post that we needed to be covering this stuff and my long stint on the environment beat – the longest in the world as far as I am aware – began.

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AI-generated climate crisis paintings by famous artists from history

Ken Bromley Art Supplies has partnered with Lacuna 5 to raise awareness of the climate crisis - our generation's greatest threat - through the power of art.

 A series of AI-generated images imagine how famous artists from history would depict some of the most pressing issues threatening our environment, from deforestation to plastic pollution to factory farming.

Coupled with the names of famous artists such as Van Gogh, Yayoi Kusama or Claude Monet, AI technology has created totally unique activist artworks, including a portrait of Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg in Andy Warhol's signature pop art aesthetic.

In early November, political leaders from around the world gathered at the COP26 summit to accelerate global action to prevent climate change. Incidents have also increased recently in which climate activists have vandalized famous works of art to protest “Protecting life is more important than protecting art.”

Using AI, the project imagines how iconic artists from history could depict the climate crisis if they were alive today. In Salvador Dali's surrealistic Dreamscape style, the program envisions an exhausting landscape devastated by deforestation, while another composition features a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo, with the defeated artist surrounded by a sea of ​​plastic waste. In another scene, the program mimics Claude Monet's impressionist brushstrokes, with calm pastels of purples and blues depicting a toxic power plant emitting a large cloud of smoke over an idyllic natural landscape.

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By Scott Scheffer 

Though every criminal U.S. energy corporation today claims to be “green,” it’s never been more clear that the fight against climate change must be severed from their grasp to turn the situation around. The needed momentum won’t come from any occupant of the White House – Democrat or Republican. The only real power capable of saving our planet is in the independent mobilization of the people.

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Hippies counterculture code in “ greta generation ” today.  Shot at Extinction Rebellion space in Milan during PreCop26 for climate change summit. || pietro menditto

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Do you know what COP is? Here's what it means and why it is essential? Total 197 countries have signed the treaty and come together every year to take actions together to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions and avoid dangerous climate change. We need to protect, what protects us - NATURE The more nature is at risk, more vulnerable we are.This is why we need to aim high at COP to reduce climatic change, save nature and planet for future generations.

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Xiye Bastida, the co-founder of the Re-Earth initiative, spoke with the Nature+ Newsroom at COP27 on November 9 about the importance of not allowing corporations to dictate what activists can and cannot talk about.

Bastida said a supporting foundation of the Children and Youth Pavilion told attendees not to allow anyone to brand their organizations. She mentioned that one of COP26’s issues was that it looked like an ad campaign, thanks to the corporate sponsors, and that COP27, which is sponsored by Coca-Cola, is exactly the same.

‘We cannot let ourselves, we, be bought and put a logo on them, because then there are certain narratives and discourses that are perpetuated, and we have to break out of that,’ Bastida said.

This video was created in collaboration with Nature's Newsroom.

#NaturePositive #ForNature #NatureZone #Earth #Environment #ClimateCrisis #NowThis

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GlasNow! To all kings of the north, emperors of the south, politicians and decision makers in Glasgow! Show some courage! #cop26 #climatechange #climateaction #cop26glasgow #glasnow #legophotography #BrickCentral #lego #legostagram #legominifgures #toyartistry #lego_hub #legoworld #brickpichub #stuckinplastic #toyartistry_lego #brickshift #legobuilder #toystagram #afol #instalego #legophoto #legomania #minifigure #bricknetwork #legoart #Toyart #TopToyPhotos #ToyPhotography #Toycrewbuddies (bij The North Pole) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVxnM8BKZ0r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Necmi Çelik yazdı: "İklim değişikliği pamuk ipliğine mi bağlı?"

Necmi Çelik yazdı: “İklim değişikliği pamuk ipliğine mi bağlı?”

İklim değişikliğine karşı mücadele pamuk ipliğine mi bağlı? sorusu aklıma gelince, Paris Anlaşmasını, BM İklim Değişikliği Konferansını (COP 26) ve AB Yeşil Mutabakatını düşünerek uluslararası işbirliğinin, pamuk ipliğinden çok daha güçlü olduğuna ikna oldum her zaman. BM Genel Sekreteri Antonio Guterres, İskoçya’nın Glasgow kentinde Kasım 2021 tarihinde gerçekleştirilen 26. BM İklim Değişikliği…

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Favorite Hairstyles of the Duchess of Cambridge in No Particular Order (68/?)

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has announced it will auction oil and gas permits in critically endangered gorilla habitat and the world’s largest tropical peatlands next week. The sale raises concerns about the credibility of a forest protection deal signed with the country by Boris Johnson at Cop26.

On Monday, hydrocarbons minister Didier Budimbu said the DRC was expanding an auction of oil exploration blocks to include two sites that overlap with Virunga national park, a Unesco world heritage site home to Earth’s last remaining mountain gorillas.

The planned sale already included permits in the Cuvette Centrale tropical peatlands in the north-west of the country, which store the equivalent to three years’ global emissions from fossil fuels.

The Congo basin is the only major rainforest that sucks in more carbon than it emits and experts have described it as the worst place in the world to explore for fossil fuels.

Environmental groups have urged the leading fossil fuel companies to sit out the auction and said president Felix Tshisekedi, who signed a $500m (£417.6m) deal to protect the forest with Boris Johnson on the first day of Cop26 last year, should cancel the sale. The Congo basin rainforest spans six countries and regulates rainfall as far away as Egypt.

Speaking to the Guardian, Budimbu acknowledged environmental concerns but defended his country’s right to exploits its natural resources. He said revenue from the oil and gas projects was needed to protect the Congo basin forest and to economically develop the country.

“We have a primary responsibility towards Congolese taxpayers who, for the most part, live in conditions of extreme precariousness and poverty, and aspire to a socio-economic wellbeing that oil exploitation is likely to provide for them,” he said.

Earlier this week, Budimbu told the Financial Times that Hollywood actors Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio had got “on their high horse” and helped halt oil and gas exploration in Virunga after a 2014 Netflix documentary, but said this time the DRC would not be stopped.

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Wiracocha protege la pobla. . . . . #doodle #murales #muralpainting #art #painting #cartoon #comics #windows #vsco #artechileno #artista #cerronavia #inca #tiwanaku #chile #bolivia #peru #cop26 #mingaindigena (en Cerro Navia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqtmk2hInLdaNTcPJOOiqXschOQXpnEDAG5RY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#Météo Folle : A la limite entre la #France touchée par les #inondations et la France frappée par le #froid une voiture est coincée dans l'eau par l'arrière et dans la #neige par l'avant

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