Climate Crisis Advisory Group
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NEW:
Latest
@metoffice
data shows the record-breaking heatwave experienced across Europe will be considered an 'average' summer by 2035.
It finds that, according to current predictions, an avg. summer in central Europe by 2100 will be +4°C hotter than the pre-industrial era.
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The CCAG is clear: the current shift in global emissions is not sufficient to avoid global disaster, and there is no remaining carbon budget.
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🚨A reminder that the 1.5 C
#ParisAgreement
target is not optional – it is an extreme limit for humanity.
📈There is no evidence we can handle anything beyond this red line.
➡️“Where we are today [at 1.35 C] looks exceptionally dangerous” –
@Sir_David_King
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“The top 1% of global emitters have carbon footprints twice as high as the bottom 50% of the global population” –
@KevinClimate
.
Yet the world's poorest people are already bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.
It is vital that their voices are heard at every level.
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🗣️ "The world has never been faced with such a big crisis and yet we don't find leadership from heads of government. There is not one country that isn't impacted by this crisis"
🌏
@Sir_David_King
speaks on the lack of global leadership on climate change
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🔴 Red Alert For The World's Oceans 🌊
Sea surface temperatures have reached record highs. Join CCAG at our next public broadcast as we explore the causes and discuss next steps:
🗓️ Thu 31 Aug
🕒 12pm BST
🔗
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"If it was our children dying... we would respond differently."
Climate change is already killing people at 1.1C — so why isn't more urgent, wide-ranging action being taken?
@KevinClimate
argues this is because those dying are mostly, for now, from poorer countries.
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🚨NEW CCAG REPORT:
📈A momentous global effort is needed to address the near-inevitability of crossing the 1.5C threshold, bringing the planet back below this 'climate guardrail' as rapidly as possible.
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📢🚨Today we launch our new positioning paper to guide urgent global action on
#climatechange
:
📈🌎A critical pathway for a manageable future for our planet.
Click the link below to read the full report! 👇
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“We will see the collapse of the global economy” --
@Sir_David_King
The
#climatecrisis
will devastate some of the world’s largest and most prosperous cities, with far-reaching consequences.
This will begin to happen within 5-10 years, unless we act now.
Does your government have a plan to cope with global food shortages?
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We'll still fail on climate if we don't do this⬇️
Watch our
#ClimateConversation
with
@jrockstrom
,
@dobura
and
@mitzijonelle
in full here:
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Pictured: The rapid collapse of sea ice in NE Siberia forces tens of thousands of walrus to crowd on the coastline.
The walruses used to forage on the ice, but now must swim a long way in search of food. Their numbers are also being depleted due to deaths caused by crushing.
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"The leadership in the [UK] government does not understand the nature of the climate crisis."
CCAG's
@Sir_David_King
responds to the new UK PM's energy plan, which is "completely at odds" with climate targets.
Read more in
@Independent
⬇️
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The Climate Crisis Advisory Group is a group of experts from 10 nations and every continent. Learn more about each of our members below.
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"It's honestly off the scale"
🧊🌡️ Antarctica's sea ice is hitting record lows, with coverage 2.3 million sq km less than the 1981-2010 average. Let's explore why this matters. 🧵
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"The more we learn about how our planet functions, the higher is the reason for concern," says CCAG's
@jrockstrom
.
He co-authors a new report highlighting the possibility of human extinction due to climate change.
Read more on the study:
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The Thwaites (Doomsday) glacier is like a plug that holds the West Antarctic glaciers in place –
@jrockstrom
If it breaks apart, the glaciers behind it could do the same, causing rapid sea-level rise 🧊
Watch our latest talk to find out more 👉🌎
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Our Chair
@Sir_David_King
makes front page news in today's Guardian. Read why nowhere is safe from the devastating impact of climate change, and why urgent action is needed:
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We must strongly reject policy and rhetoric in favour of fossil fuels as a response to the Ukraine war.
Expanding fossil fuels will bring NO increase in usable fuel to address the crisis.
It can only destroy any hope of a safe future for humanity.
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NEW:
@ClimateCrisisAG
brings together leading experts on climate science, economics and policy.
We are calling for urgent, large-scale action to curb the effects of climate change.
Join our first, live-streamed monthly briefing on Thu 24/6 @ 12pm BST.
#ReduceRemoveRepair
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OUT NOW
CCAG's latest report: The Final Warning Bell
#NetZero
is no longer enough.
To avoid an unmanageable future, global leaders must urgently focus on
#NetNegative
strategies.
Read the report:
Join the livestream @ 12pm:
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Opting out of
#climatebreakdown
isn't an option, says
@sir_david_king
.
It is imperative for governments to actively engage and commit to comprehensive strategies that address the crisis. The future depends on it.
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CCAG responds to UK plans to expand Bristol airport:
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The brilliant and inspiring
@SaleemulHuq
.
"We have not lost hope. We have gained hope!"
@SaleemulHuq
speaks movingly of the power of collective action to tackle climate change.
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The data, commissoned by
@ClimateCrisisAG
, is an urgent reminder of the need for countries to go well beyond their nationally determined contributions so far pledged under the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to under 1.5°C.
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On
#EarthDay22
, please watch and share this crucial conversation between
@mitzijonelle
,
@GeorgeMonbiot
and
@jrockstrom
on why we can no longer postpone climate action.
“Even the least, minor delay will close the window for our future.”
Full episode:
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“I think that we will look back at Covid and see it as a minor crisis compared with the health crisis of climate change”🦠
@ProfMarkMaslin
shares his insight on the leading factors that can cause catastrophic results to our health.
(1/3)
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🔴 A must-listen:
"It is high time that governments of the world recognised that this is the most severe crisis we've ever had to face."
@Sir_David_King
speaks to
@TimesRadio
about the causes of
#heatwaves
– and the desperate need for global leadership.
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We're already feeling the effects of
#climatebreakdown
, and they're set to intensify.
@lwhitmarsh
sets out a clear roadmap:
🚫 End
#FossilFuel
investment
🏙️ Remodel cities to favour active travel & public transport over cars
💡Invest in
#CleanTech
🔄 Reduce consumption
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We're delighted
@GeorgeMonbiot
will be joining
@DavidRVetter
,
@tolmeia
and
@Ngendo87
at
@ClimateCrisisAG
's public meeting tomorrow.
Watch here on Twitter and YouTube tomorrow from 12pm GMT:
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The most recent
@IPCC_CH
report gave the strongest warning yet: it's now or never if the world is to avoid climate disaster.
So why isn't the climate crisis front-page news?
@GeorgeMonbiot
likens our situation to the film
#DontLookUp
.
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"We’re not going to manage [climate change] unless we get a step forward from willing nations to take concrete action -- to actually treat this as the crisis it is" -
@Sir_David_King
#IPCC
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#ReduceReuseRepair
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"We have not lost hope. We have gained hope!"
@SaleemulHuq
speaks movingly of the power of collective action to tackle climate change.
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This Sunday marks 50 days until
#COP26
.
We're calling for urgent recognition of the need to
#ReduceRemoveRepair
to ensure a manageable future for humanity.
Only this, combined with global political and financial action, can hope to solve the
#climatecrisis
.
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Just months away from
#COP26
, it’s more evident than ever that not enough is being done to limit global heating.
Governments must act now to avoid the severe consequences caused by climate change.
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This week, over 230 medical journals stressed the catastrophic impact on human health should the planet surpass 1.5C warming.
This is why we're urgently calling for recognition of the need to
#ReduceRemoveRepair
in the lead up to
#COP26
.
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How can we have climate justice if the people who are suffering the worst impacts are not being listened to?
@vanessa_vash
discusses why we need more than commitments and pledges to put an end to the global suffering caused by the climate crisis.
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CCAG Meeting: 24th June 2021
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🔴🌎A new study shows Earth is well outside the 'safe operating space for humanity':
🚨6/9 'planetary boundaries' have been broken due to human actions.
🔀Key global systems are at risk.
📉
@jrockstrom
warns of 'rising signs of dwindling planetary resilience'.
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A MUST-WATCH:
"The world's leaders must follow the 1.5C North Star... and declare a just and equitable fossil fuel phase-out."
An Incredibly powerful plea from
@vanessa_vash
as we enter the final days of
#COP28
.
This is a critical moment for humanity.
#LaterIsTooLate
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1/ Is climate change causing extreme weather events to become more frequent and intense?
The data is clear.
Read on for a short summary. ⬇️
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❌⛏️The decision to approve a new coal mine in Cumbria destroys UK leadership on
#climatechange
and is an incomprehensible act of self-harm –
@Sir_David_King
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The situation with climate change is clear: the crisis is not being managed in the way that it needs to be managed.
This is why
@Sir_David_King
has created
@ClimateCrisisAG
, bringing together world-leading experts to guide our response.
Please watch and share.
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The benefits of retrofitting existing buildings include:
🌡️Improving insulation
💡Reducing energy
💲Reducing bills
🏡Improving comfort of homes
👂Reducing noise
🏭Reducing pollution
@TofMcGlade
shares why governments need to step in to make retrofits more widespread⬇️
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Latest data from the NOAA shows unprecedented ocean temperature rises.
@ProfMarkMaslin
"It is difficult to see how anyone can deny climate change is happening and having devastating effects around the world.” Mark is spot on, the evidence is crystal clear
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🔴NEW REPORT
🏭Cities are on the frontline of the
#climatecrisis
:
👥Home to 4.4bn
🔋Occupy <2% of the 🌎 but account for ~70% of emissions
🌧️The human spaces most exposed to climate risk
We must act NOW to make them climate resilient.
📗➡️ Read more:
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Climate commitments are meaningless or
#blahblahblah
if they are not kept, says
@Sir_David_King
, quoting
@GretaThunberg
.
“Let’s hold politicians’ feet to the fire. We're in a climate crisis. The future looks very bleak unless we can persuade our politicians to deliver.”
#COP26
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.
@ClimateCrisisAG
calls for action in three areas:
🟢Reduce emissions urgently, while ensuring an orderly, just transition
🟢Remove GHGs from the atmosphere in vast quantities, to reduce the total to <350ppm
🟢Repair broken parts of the climate system, starting with the Arctic
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Emerging Tipping Points in Antarctica
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➡️ A must-watch:
Ahead of
#COP26
, CCAG member
@jrockstrom
sets out the scale of the challenge.
It is greater than anything experienced during our entire existence on planet earth.
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.
@Sir_David_King
:
"The time for ambitious, urgent action is now.
"It is only through the mitigative measures of Reduce, Remove and Repair that we can hope to move away from the path to disaster we’re currently set on and achieve a manageable future for humanity."
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CCAG Meeting: 29th July 2021
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"Young people will face the worst climate impacts and are frustrated about the lack of adequate action. Leaders have the social mandate to act and make the world safer for future generations."
@lwhitmarsh
discusses the growing issue of climate anxiety.
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🚨We are in a global state of emergency.
🌎Join
@ClimateCrisisAG
's livestream with
@DavidRVetter
,
@Ngendo87
and
@tolmeia
as we discuss what must be achieved to protect biodiversity and ecosystem functions for the next generation.
📆Thu 27 Jan 12pm GMT
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Vast, unprecedented global action will be required to stabilise climatic conditions for future generations.
This Thursday at 12pm BST, join the Climate Crisis Advisory Group for our first public meeting, live-streamed here on Twitter and on YouTube:
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🌾🐓🐖🐄🏭🌽:
Our latest report highlights the inextricable link between the world's food systems and accelerating climate change.
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Some advances were made but there was no real understanding of the extreme nature of the crisis -
@Sir_David_King
in
@guardian
responds to the
#COP26
agreement
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A climate analogy.
We are in a car going too fast down a mountain road.
There is a sharp curve ahead.
It’s very likely we will hit the guardrail.
If we slow down enough, we may only rip the fender off.
If we don’t – the crash could be fatal.
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A sustainable future – or fossil fuel mega profits? 🛢️🌎 The costs of the global energy transition are modest in comparison to oil sector earnings.
#fossilfuels
#justtransition
#fossilfreefuture
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Read CCAG Chair
@Sir_David_King
's full response to the
@IPCC_CH
Working Group II report below⬇️
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50 days until
#COP26
.
This Sunday marks 50 days until
#COP26
.
We're calling for urgent recognition of the need to
#ReduceRemoveRepair
to ensure a manageable future for humanity.
Only this, combined with global political and financial action, can hope to solve the
#climatecrisis
.
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#LaterIsTooLate
. COP28 must be the moment we collectively decide to course correct the delivery of the Paris Agreement.
@ClimateCrisisAG
is proud to join 200+ businesses, 670+ scientists, ~100 cities and 46,000,000+ health professionals who stand united in delivering a just and
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🏭🚗Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set by the
#ParisAgreement
.
⏰😬What we do in the next five to ten years will determine the future of humanity for the next millennium.
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“We are not seeing the leadership we need. This is the biggest challenge civilization has ever faced and yet we can’t get the response we need. I can’t tell you how I feel about them just not showing up."
@Sir_David_King
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“The final bell is ringing in this boxing match around climate change. This is it.”
@Sir_David_King
spoke to
@theipaper
about solutions to combat the climate crisis.
Read the full article below⬇️
#ReduceRemoveRepair
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Why The Climate Crisis Is Also A Health Crisis
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We’re back - welcome to our first public meeting of 2022.
Watch now as we discuss the global climate crisis, and what action is required in 2022.
Joined by special guests
@GeorgeMonbiot
,
@DavidRVetter
,
@Ngendo87
,
@tolmeia
and Kim Stanley Robinson.
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There are no downsides
The switch to renewables:
💰Could save up to $12tn by 2050 according to
@oxmartinschool
🌳 Ensures a safer, more equitable future for humanity
🌍 Decreases inter-country dependance for energy
There are only upsides:
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Speaking to
@AP
,
@Sir_David_King
says "we don't actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn"❌
Read below for his thoughts on the
@IPCC_CH
's calculations⬇️
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(1/5)🧵
🔈For
#InternationalYouthDay
, CCAG has a message for governments and leaders
🌏
@Sir_David_King
shares his thoughts...
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NEW:
Preeminent economist
@MazzucatoM
joins
@ClimateCrisisAG
's international experts.
@Sir_David_King
: “Mariana is leading the conversation on how governments and businesses can redirect markets towards the green transition and avoid climate breakdown."
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"Fear doesn't motivate."
Taking action to address the climate crisis will have positive benefits across society, such as improved health and reduced inequality.
– CCAG's
@lwhitmarsh
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@Sir_David_King
If we continue emitting CO2 and methane into the atmosphere and oceans, then we're cooked.
We have to cut off our use of fossil fuels and stop deforestation as the primary concern. But that isn't enough - we must learn to remove greenhouse gases.
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Countdown to
#COP26
:
Three weeks from today, the world’s leaders will meet in Glasgow.
CCAG will be working to assess their words -- and the actions that follow.
Actions that must, for the sake of the planet, be direct, vast and unprecedented.
Nothing less will do.
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CCAG's
@jrockstrom
spells out what is at stake:
At 1.5°C, we already risk pushing four to five big tipping point systems across their thresholds – with devastating consequences.
To land safely in a sustainable future, we must act rapidly to decarbonise the world's economy.
Prof
@jrockstrom
from
@PIK_Climate
also discussed this
#TippingPoints
research & said there was a need for rapid action for a
#sustainable
future. 3/15 🧵
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We've teamed up with
@WeDontHaveTime
to mark
#WorldEarthDay
with a podcast exploring the current state of the climate and where we go from here ⏰
🌍Tune in on April 22 23:30 BST for the discussion with
@mitzijonelle
,
@Sir_David_King
and renowned writer Kim Stanley Robinson
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Human-caused climate change is destroying one of the world's greatest natural wonders.
@ClimateNerilie
, CCAG member and Prof of Climate Science at
@OurANU
, shares her thoughts on the devastating mass bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
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🔥Rapid Arctic warming is a key driver of heatwaves and other extreme weather events.
In response, we must re-double our commitment to international political and financial action to mitigate climate change.
Watch
@jrockstrom
's explainer:
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"This has set young people on fire."
On the 2-year anniversary of the Global
#ClimateStrike
, we have much to thank
@GretaThunberg
and the
@Fridays4future
movement for.
The world's young people are pushing climate change to the top of the agenda.
Now we need action.
#COP26
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#COP28
:
We've got to get serious if we want to keep 1.5 alive:
🚫🛢️Full fossil fuel phase-out
🌿💰Massive investment in nature
🐖🐄🐑Transformation of the global food system
☁️Carbon removal on a massive scale
@jrockstrom
's urgent call to negotiators:
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OUT NOW: Read our launch report, The Global Climate Crisis and the Action Needed
(PDF)
#ReduceRemoveRepair
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.
@Sir_David_King
outlines CCAG's
#4RPlanet
Strategy in the
@Independent
:
🔴Rapid emissions cuts
🔴Removal of greenhouse gases
🔴Repair of damaged climate systems
🔴And Resilience - adapting to the degree of change that is now inevitable.
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“I don’t think I’ve ever felt as sad or as angry about the lost decades that we spent bickering about whether climate change was real or not...it is clearly here now.”
- New Zealand's Climate Change Minister
@jamespeshaw
on Cyclone Gabrielle. 🌏
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🌍Join our livestream tomorrow at 12pm BST, where we'll be discussing what progress has actually been made since COP26.
📺
@AdeAdepitan
hosts, alongside guests
@unatalie
,
@adebotes
, and
@davidrvetter
.
⬇️You won't want to miss it - tune in on YouTube:
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By the end of 2020, 90% of the world’s population had breathed dangerous air.
Prioritising inclusive mass transport and active travel will have many positive benefits, including reduced air pollution and better health.
Read
@MumsForLungs
campaigner
@ruthroxanne
's story⤵️
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"We're cooked without drastic emissions cuts" – CCAG Chair
@Sir_David_King
responds to the latest
@IPCC_CH
report.
Time's up. We must act now if if we are to curb irreversible impacts of the climate crisis.
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CCAG Meeting: 26th August 2021
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NEW:
@ClimateCrisisAG
announces the
#4RPlanet
Strategy, a comprehensive plan to deliver a safe, manageable future for humanity:
☁️Removal of GHGs at scale
🛠️Repair of climate systems
📉Reduction of emissions
🌱Committed action to build Resilience
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If we act nimbly and quickly, we can bring climate risks to a manageable level, says
@Sir_David_King
— but we must act now.
The next five years is critical to the future of our planet.
#ReduceRemoveRepair
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The most important and effective govt responses are to:
⚡️Save energy
⚡️Make rapid efficiency improvements
⚡️Accelerate renewable energy schemes
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The
#climatecrisis
doesn't care about politics.
Humans have overloaded the carbon cycle with more emissions than the planet can handle.
Now we need to do all we can to fix it, says
@martyodlin
.
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“Today’s IPCC report serves as a stark warning that humanity’s chances of outrunning the devastating impacts of climate change are uncomfortably low."
CCAG Chair
@Sir_David_King
featured in
@Independent
.
Catch all the latest updates below⬇️
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Figures from
@climateactiontr
show the world is heading for a catastrophic 2.4C of warming.
If we are serious about 1.5C, now is the time for immediate and meaningful action.
#ClimateActionNow
#COP26
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CCAG welcomes
@Google
's commitment to no longer allow advertisers, publishers and
@YouTube
creators to monetize content that denies the existence of climate change, but they and other platforms must go further.
@ProfMarkMaslin
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