“The curious incident of the (missing) Vacuum Cleaner”  

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Jul 29, 2024
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Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Sherlock Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Sherlock Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”A. Conan Doyle, “Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, ‘Silver Blaze’”, 1892.In climate change policies and reporting, there is another strange, unreported fact that no-one is talking about. The weird inclusion of “negative emissions” which are absurdly unrealistic.

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“Australians need to stop breathing” 

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Jul 29, 2024
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I lived in Germany before the ban on smoking in public places was introduced. As I entered a restaurant, the waiter asked me if I wanted a smoking or non-smoking table. I asked for non-smoking, and he took me to a table in the middle of the room, and took away the ashtray.That was it.In this article, some surprising truths emerge when you look at the details of the CUTx Index. Some nations are filling that atmosphere with GHG far more than others. And 1.5°C is just a few short breaths away.

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“The Missing x”  

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Jul 29, 2024
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“A man asks a waiter for a coffee without cream. The waiter apologises and informs the man that they don’t have any cream, only milk. Could he bring the man some coffee without milk?”This is a little joke Slavoj Zizek uses about negation, that coffee without cream is somehow different from coffee without milk. But it can point us at what is (absurdly) missing in all our thinking and reporting about climate change, a reliable, comparable index for emissions.

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GUEST FEATURE: My experience as a young negotiator for Nigeria

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Dec 1, 2023
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by Chinwe Oluwatoyin Adindu This is a guest feature by Chinwe Oluwatoyin Adindu, a young negotiator from the Climate Youth Negotiators Programme under the Youth Negotiators Academy. Chinwe (left) with colleagues at the SB58 Plenary session in Bonn, 2023 Introduction How do you explain trying to catch up defending environmental injustice in a world where...

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Food@COP: A youth-led food and climate campaign nearly 4 years young

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Oct 16, 2023
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As we wrote for ClimaTalk back in 2021, Food@COP is a collection of youth from across the globe who believe that climate-friendly negotiations must take place over climate-friendly meals. We call upon the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) host country organizers to serve affordable, nutritious, predominantly plant-based, and culturally inclusive foods that reflect the urgency of the climate crisis. Here’s an update on the group’s activities in 2023 and details of a few grassroots projects led by active campaigners.

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EU Youth Are Calling For A Post-Growth Society

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Sep 19, 2023
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Our new Guest Feature discusses growing support from youth for moving beyond a growth-based economy. Zooming in on the recently published youth-led “Manifesto for an Intergenerationally Just Post-growth Economy”, the article explores youth’s policy proposals for a new socio-economic paradigm. It argues that post-growth, which is already receiving growing attention from policymakers, must now take a permanent place on the EU policy agenda.

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Precision Fermentation And The Role It Could Play in Reducing Carbon Emissions

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Sep 11, 2023
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Precision fermentation combines molecular biology with the brewing industry to produce essential ingredients such as proteins, fats and medicines. It offers the chance to make ingredients with substantially less environmental footprint, even upcycling waste materials. Scaling precision fermentation processes is notoriously difficult and hampered by high infrastructure costs.

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