#fossil fuel non Proliferation treaty

[byeaf]

LETS KEEP GIVING A DAMN ABOUT LIFE ON EARTH!!!

If you aren't familiarized yet about FFT, it basically calls out the hushing about fossil fuels in existing environmental treaties worldwide. It calls out for the final stop on the fossil fuel industry, that has silenced science and stopped climate positive initiatives (public transit, electric sovereignty)

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fossilfueltreaty.org

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By Jon Queally

Common Dreams

Sept. 9, 2023

"Fossil fuels are killing us, and the G20's reckless failure to act will be measured in further lives and livelihoods lost," said one campaigner who noted the refusal by rich nations to pledge a phaseout of oil, coal, and gas.

Climate groups cried foul Saturday after an agreement generated at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India failed to see the world's wealthiest bloc of nations make anywhere near the kind of climate commitments—namely an agreement to phase out fossil fuels—required to address the planetary emergency fueled by greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenpeace described the lackluster pledge, which came in the form of a joint G20 communique, as an "incomprehensible failure" in the face of a runaway climate crisis that continues to wreak havoc, death, grave injustice, and economic disaster for working people across the globe.

"Despite record-shattering temperatures, raging wildfires, drought, floods and other climate disasters over recent months impacting tens of millions of people, G20 leaders have collectively failed to deliver anything meaningful on climate change this year," said Tracy Carty, a global climate politics expert for Greenpeace International.

"Fossil fuels are killing us, and the G20's reckless failure to act will be measured in further lives and livelihoods lost," Carty added. "Leaders failed to reach agreement on the phaseout of coal, oil and gas. They also made a timid commitment to triple renewables, but only through 'existing targets and policies.'"

Alex Rafalowicz, director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative, also expressed dismay with the lack of ambition shown by the G20 leaders.

"World leaders, particularly rich countries, need to rise to the occasion and fulfill their fair share of responsibilities in the fight against the climate crisis. Anything less would be an affront to both humanity and our planet."

"Continued dependence on fossil fuels remains a primary driver of climate change, carrying dire and irrevocable consequences for ecosystems, communities, and the global economy," Rafalowicz said in a statement on Saturday.

The failure by the richest nations in the world "to come up with anything substantial on fossil fuel phaseout is unacceptable," he said. "World leaders, particularly rich countries, need to rise to the occasion and fulfill their fair share of responsibilities in the fight against the climate crisis. Anything less would be an affront to both humanity and our planet."

The G20 summit in India comes ahead of one-day United Nations climate summit that kicks off in New York City next week and a meeting of the UN General Assembly. While a major protest march by hundreds of climate-focused groups is planned for Sept. 17, the global movement calling for a just energy transition has seen few signs of hope as increasingly severe extreme weather events and dire warnings from the scientific community continue in the face of rising emissions.

UN Secretary General António Guterres, who is hosting what he's dubbed the "Climate Ambition Summit" in New York, suggested his disappointment with the G20's limited statement.

"Half-measures will not prevent full climate breakdown," Guterres said Saturday afternoon. "Today I urged the G20 to demonstrate far more ambition on reducing emissions and supporting climate justice. We have one planet. Let's save it."

While some applauded the G20 for the vow to ramp up renewables by the end of the decade, critical experts said an increase in green energy is simply not enough if fossil fuel companies are allowed to continue to extract and burn oil, gas, and coal.

"The G20's commitment to triple renewable energy is a historic step—a glimmer of hope in our battle against climate chaos," said Andreas Sieber, associate director of global policy at 350.org, but added that it was still not time to celebrate.

"We must hold them accountable, demand they phase out fossil fuels, and lead with urgency," Sieber added. "In particular, rich nations who bear the most responsibility for climate change must provide the finance required to achieve a tripling of renewable energy capacity globally by 2030.”

Avinash Chanchal, campaign manager at Greenpeace India, said the lack of concrete financing commitments from the rich nations makes such lofty goals around renewables hard to stomach, especially as these top polluting countries remain responsible for 80% of global emissions.

According to Chanchal, "G20 developed countries have utterly failed to take concrete steps to increase international financial support for climate action. Existing promises such as providing USD100BN per year until 2025 in climate finance remain unfulfilled, and merely reiterating these promises in the G20 declaration is useless and will not lead to tangible change."

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[llewelynpritch]

#MuskratFallsCivilRights PARTS I - II: 1 - 9 Human-centric, holistic, rights-based advocating regenerative culture, just transition to a regenerative society, educational approach about the root causes of our climate crisis, fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, fossil lies, stop ecocide, climate justice. Rapidly end fossil fuel finance by implementing climate justice valuation strategies rooted in human indigenous rights with moral compass as educational opportunities to better protect our life-sustaining systems in the cost of living climate crisis on planet Earth.

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Ocean surface temperature so far this year...

This is terrifying by the way

I don't know what to do

Hit the streets. Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Citizen Climate Assemblies. Litigation. We must take responsibility for our actions as a species.

But no matter what we do, this El Nino cycle is going to kill millions of people. Maybe if we take action, we can keep it below 10 million.

[man-and-atom]

The Bulletin finally acknowledges two key points :

The decision to use nuclear weapons, like the decision to build nuclear weapons, is a political decision. Neither of them is an automatic process, triggered by some deterministic course of events — there are numerous countries with far greater scientific, technical, and industrial capabilities than North Korea, which have not chosen to build nuclear weapons. And the people who make those political decisions (especially those who choose to start wars) are not machines whose behavior is determined by simple sets of rules with consequences that can easily be modeled.

The concentration on nuclear war as the ultimate catastrophe, and on nuclear disarmament and non–proliferation, has led to a neglect of the danger of war as such, and with it, of conventional disarmament and conciliation. Meanwhile, the Russian invasion of Crimea, in defiance of solemn pledges to respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine’s renunciation of nuclear weapons, and the near total–lack of action by the other powers to enforce those pledges and uphold their own, has led directly to the current conflict. At this point, all commitments made by the nuclear weapons states in the name of non–proliferation must seem extremely suspect. That is over and above the way that the USA, in particular, has for decades been in open breach of its obligations under the Non–Proliferation Treaty to assist the Non–Weapons States in the peaceful uses of atomic energy.

What the Bulletin does not say, is that the response of the world must be two–fold. Firstly, measures military and otherwise to support Ukraine against Russian aggression must be greatly increased. Europe is still sending more money to Russia in payment for fossil fuels every month, than to Ukraine as military and economic assistance. And secondly, the commitment to the peaceful uses of atomic energy must be renewed and redoubled. Only atomic hope is powerful enough to help us escape atomic fear.

Thanks to @mgrgfan for the link.

[sparksinthenight]

Are you Dutch? Sign this petition to ask your government to peruse a global fossil fuels non proliferation treaty.

[jackoshadows]

Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom

Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative

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A novel campaign to stop the spread of oil, gas, and coal gets some attention

[byeaf]

Hey so

We can rest at ease knowing it's not our fault for not recycling or keeping our lights on

The real swines responsible for creating an unlivable environment are here! 🤗

Drag their asses by signing AND SHARING Fossil fuel non Proliferation Treaty: https://fossilfueltreaty.org/

And participating in local activities such as community gardening, composting and... strikes!: https://fridaysforfuture.org/action-map/

Next one is September 15th, anywhere in the world to declare a climate emergency, hope you can find one in your town/country!

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By Arno Kopecky

The Globe and Mail (Canada)

July 18, 2023

Arno Kopecky is an environmental journalist and author. His latest book is The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis.

In 2019, Greta Thunberg headlined a global climate march that brought millions of people into city streets around the world. Thanks to the pandemic, there hasn’t been another one since. That’s finally about to change: The March to End Fossil Fuels has just been announced for Sept. 17.

I’m an independent journalist who has long held activism at arms-length, but the climate crisis has grown so urgent that straight-up reporting now feels like a passive response that verges on complicity. This time, I’m marching with the protesters.

Even for those who saw it coming, recent developments have been shocking to behold. Annual carbon emissions have steadily increased over the past four years, with Canada leading the charge – production in the world’s fourth-largest oil producer has doubled since 2010. The result has finally untethered itself from the abstract hypotheticals ofscientific literature and leapt into the daily lives of several billion people.

Virtually all of North America is coping with some combination of record heat, drought, flood, wildfire and smoke. A heat dome stretching across North Africa and Southern Europe to the Persian Gulf has pushed highs past 40 C in Spain and Iran. China just set a new national record with the town of Sanbao experiencing 52.2 C. Extreme flooding has raged through England, Turkey, India and Japan. Some water in the Florida Keys is now the temperature of human blood.

I’ve never been big on slogans. I distrust the righteous certainty that so often accompanies activism. I tend toward doubt, which is fine for journalism but wreaks havoc on conviction – a vital prerequisite for blocking traffic at a protest. But this summer, after 20 years of writing about climate change and seven years of being a father, the magnitude of events finally caught up to me.

I felt myself succumbing to a strange type of manic depression. The urgency and the despair took on the quality of a terrible dream, like I’d been handcuffed and forced to watch as villains suffocated my daughter. This can’t be how it ends, I thought. There has to be something more I can do. I surprised myself by starting to reach out to my contacts to see if I could organize a march myself before I learned that the March to End Fossil Fuels was already in motion.

If you’re also wondering what on Earth you can do about all this, Sept. 17 is for you. “The time is ripe for a big climate march,” says Tzeporah Berman, chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and a veteran activist who is among the organizers of the climate march. “Everyone is starting to realize that as long as we don’t shift our energy systems, there is nowhere that’s safe.”

As in 2019, the global strike’s epicentre will be New York City, where the UN is hosting both a Climate Ambition Summit and a General Assembly the following week. With organizing just now getting under way, thousands of groups are expected to assemble crowds in cities across the planet.

Caroline Brouillette, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, agreed that this could be a historic march. “We’re having a summer where different climate impacts are coming at us here and now and are often overlapping,” Ms. Brouillette told me from her home in Montreal. Two days before we spoke, she had to take refuge from both a heat wave and a tornado.

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https://lnkd.in/ej6DEgJ4 The European Parliament calls on nation-states to develop a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty 20 October 2022

[mi6014mez]

narrowing down

these are some of the briefs that I'm considering

Coca Cola

I could make some cool responses with this brief, I believe that there is room to explore 3D with this brief, in regards of creating the bottles in 3D and playing around with ways to make Coca-Cola look as appealing as possible. Although it may be hard to find something that relates to all of Gen Z because that covers such a large time period and it would be really hard to focus in on one thing that everyone would enjoy watching.

2. Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Last semester I slightly touched upon some issues similar to this where I explored the environmental impacts of technology waste. This brief definitely has some opportunities for some really nice 3D work to create the symbols, and I have worked with 3D and live action together before so the physical space should also not be an issue. The only concern would be that it could be a bit too similar to the types of stuff that I've made in the past for previous projects

3. Sky

I really like what this brief has to offer, it gives you huge range to think about but at the same time it lets you pick the area that you want to specifically focus on. The focus is on the future, but it's 2030 which isn't too far into the future, meaning that I won't need to go crazy inventing new technology as it's closer than you might think.

4. Universal Music UK

This brief seems very interesting to try and approach, the guide on the brief really puts a major focus on energy and excitement, which is something that should then be portrayed in your entry. It also gives you the option to come with a new name for the event which will really help when it comes to personalising your entry and designs

[female-malice]

1) Make ecocide an international crime

2) Enact the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

3) End Slapp lawsuits and other legal retaliation

4) Protect the Amazon headwaters

5) Binding climate reparations