The Guardian
Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life
9 min · · Scientists reveal stark decline in biodiversity in damning UN report on planetary health · Shared by 110, including Sébastien Bonset, Thongchai suttirut, Dominik Grolimund, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Rico Grimm, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Christopher Lauer™, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦
The Washington Post
The world has barely 10 years to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say
9 min · · “There is no documented historic precedent” for the sweeping changes required to hold the planet’s warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on… · Shared by 109, including Joe Lencioni, Andrzej Jóźwik, Stephen C Sanders, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Thomas Power, Claudia Sommer, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧
The Guardian
Amazonian rainforest near unrecoverable 'tipping point'
4 min · · Data confirms fears that Jair Bolsonaro’s policy encourages illegal logging in Brazil · Shared by 100, including Alex Barrera, Ray Monk, Stefano ₿Ξrnardi 🌲🏴, Claudia Sommer, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Dan Hill, Rico Grimm, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, David Terrar, CIFOR, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦
NASA
Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: Evidence
10 min · · The current warming trend is very likely mostly human-induced and proceeding at an unprecedented rate in the past 1,300 years. · Shared by 98, including Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Nicholas Gurewitch, Tristan Harris, Gavin Schmidt, Chris Hadfield, Carly, Dr Benjamin Janaway, Esther Schindler, hernannadal, André Staltz, Elinor Stutz, Martin Varsavsky, Nick Adkins, Marie-José Kolly, Cathy 🌻, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Eric Holthaus, John Schwartz, Natacha Quester-Séméon Salomon, Pippa Norris
The Guardian
When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low
3 min · · A territory that has 0.5% of the Earth’s population plans to use up nearly a thid of the planet’s remaining carbon budget · Shared by 92, including Katja Evertz, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Jochen Burkhard, Ray Monk, Christian Hernandez
Fast Company
3 ways companies can start embracing the circular economy
3 min · · Making and using food, clothes, cars, buildings, and other products causes 45% of our emissions. To solve climate change, we need to rethink how we make things. · Shared by 90, including Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Matthias Lampe, Tom Connor, Helen Yu
The Guardian
Scientific consensus on humans causing global warming passes 99%
3 min · · Extensive historical data on temperature changes shows ‘there is no doubt left’ · Shared by 90, including Liv 😷, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Hans Bickhofe, Christian Hernandez, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Mary Annaïse Heglar, 瑞拿頭, Nils Hitze, ❤️ Umair, Yvette Dubel, Fern, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Azeem Azhar, Guy Kawasaki
The Guardian
Climate change is our World War III. It needs a bold response
4 min · · Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake · Shared by 90, including Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Katja Evertz, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Dominik Grolimund, Claudia Sommer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Nils Hitze, Ines Bieler, Josep M. Ganyet, Thomas Pleil, luis antónio santos, Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Guardian
If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer
20+ min · · Intensively farmed meat and dairy are a blight, but so are fields of soya and maize. There is another way, says the farmer Isabella Tree · Shared by 88, including Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, mebmc, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Serge K. Keller ❦, Helmut Adam, Carl Morris, Chris Kresser, Niklaus Gerber, George Monbiot
The Guardian
Half a century of dither and denial
· Fossil fuel companies have been aware of their impact on the planet since at least the 1950s · Shared by 82, including pkashwan.bsky.social, Cristina “Mitty” Mittermeier, Jochen Burkhard, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Dr. Cara Augustenborg, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Mary Annaïse Heglar
The Guardian
‘Climate apartheid’: UN expert says human rights may not survive
4 min · · Right to life is likely to be undermined alongside the rule of law, special rapporteur says · Shared by 81, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, Yvette Dubel, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Eric Holthaus, CIFOR, Jochen Burkhard, Sébastien Bonset, Liv 😷, Katja Evertz
ProPublica
An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
20+ min · · The hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't — and won't — deliver the climate benefit they promise. · Shared by 79, including Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Duncan Geere has left 🔰, Hiroko Tabuchi, Yvette Dubel, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Dominik Grolimund, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Bethany Brookshire, Zach Gage, felix salmon, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦
Insider Business
Goldman Sachs released a 34-page analysis of the impact of climate change. And the results are terrifying.
3 min · · A Goldman Sachs report on the impact of climate change on cities across the world makes for grim reading. Rising temperatures would lead to changing... · Shared by 74, including Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Gabriele, Bill Johnston, Azeem Azhar, Thomas Power, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Liv 😷, Elrond Burrell (he/him), Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Liliane Ferrari ™, Amy Jo Kim
The Monthly
The terrible truth of climate change
6 min · · The latest science is alarming, even for climate scientists · Shared by 73, including ahg, Thomas Pleil, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Claudia Sommer, Katja Evertz, Per, Thomas Power, Draven, Liv 😷, Tom Connor
Scientific American
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
7 min · · A book titled Discerning Experts explains why—and what can be done about it · Shared by 70, including Katja Evertz, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Gregg Caruso, The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Matthias Lampe, Hiroko Tabuchi, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Rico Grimm, ExApologist, Thomas Power, Draven
Climate Home News
Denmark adopts climate law to cut emissions 70% by 2030
2 min · · New law binds Denmark to international climate process, including climate finance to developing countries · Shared by 69, including Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, David Stickelberger, Thomas Pleil, Katja Evertz, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Elrond Burrell (he/him), Thomas Power