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The secret to talking about climate change? This is one of the best explainers I’ve ever seen. It nails the art of communicating in a way that helps people WANT to engage - and take ownership for action. Here are the principles it uses so well: 1️⃣ Ask permission - to discuss it AND to share your opinion. 2️⃣ Listen deeply AND show you’re listening. Be curious, go deeper than surface-level opinions 3️⃣ Wait for the right moment - an unpressured space for real conversation. 4️⃣ Treat it as an ongoing conversation rather than a one-off where you have to nail everything. 5️⃣ Make it more about hopes, fears and uncertainties than facts and data. 6️⃣ Make space for their feelings - allow whatever they share to be OK. Thanks to Renee Lertzman, PhD for sharing and Action for the Climate Emergency for creating it. If this resonates, do share far and wide. Christmas is a great time for unpressured conversations (just maybe don't bring it up while the turkey's on the table!)

Mars sucks. You know what doesn`t suck?   I have nothing to add to that beautiful clip. Please watch it with sound.   A great thanks to Activista and @GalaxyGarden for creating it, and to Philippe Birker for making me aware of it.   Have a great week everyone and keep up your effort and energy!   #Earth #Life #Act #forabetterclimate   .................   🙋♂️ My name is Tim Riedel, founder of planetgroups. Through our Climate Business Challenge and other tools we engage up to 90% of all employees in an organisation to make sustainability a driver of innovation and business success. I write about success stories and leverage points for the transformation towards a regenerative economy. Please follow me or reach out to learn more.

World Moving On Without USA As It Declines The United States had largely stepped back from global climate leadership, ceding ground to nations advancing in renewables and sustainable technologies. With this election it leaves the world to drive away from it in electric vehicles powered by wind and solar. The world will be fine as the USA diminishes. Full article, please read before commenting in haste: https://lnkd.in/gqFWGQuU Biden's climate policies aimed to balance emissions reduction with bringing opportunity and increased wages to the working and middle classes again. They were rejected in favor of policies which will only help the already rich and lean into the USA's role as the leading petrostate globally, just as peak fossil demand arrives and US oil extraction becomes more expensive. Meanwhile, historic petrostates like Saudi Arabia are actively investing in clean energy. Over decades, America outsourced manufacturing of clean technologies—solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, heat pumps, electric vehicles—to other countries, primarily China. Now, rising tariffs and isolationist policies drive up costs, limiting competitiveness and pushing global buyers toward less expensive, high-quality products from China. Trump’s return will further escalate tariffs, isolating U.S. markets and prioritizing protectionism over innovation and global trade strength. As Europe and China expand in renewables and electrification, the U.S. will be left behind. Europe’s carbon border adjustment mechanism continues to gain traction and will make American exports increasingly uncompetitive there. China’s rapid clean energy deployment, electrified infrastructure, and innovation ecosystem are reshaping global markets and influencing sustainable transportation worldwide. With rising inequality and protectionism, America’s economic mobility and climate initiatives will stall. The U.S. may see some decarbonization as domestic energy costs rise and middle-class resources shrink. America’s role in the global economy will shift as it turns inward, while Europe, China, and other regions move forward—leaving the U.S. isolated as it clings to outdated policies in a rapidly changing world. The already slowing global conveyor belt of talent through American universities and into American innovation will slow further, and from some countries stop entirely. The 50% of STEM graduates who are foreign students and the 50% of Fortune 500 companies founded by immigrants will dwindle further, as China's conveyor belt of talent and STEM graduates continues to speed up. Trump's isolationism and the incompetence of the loyalists he will install in key positions means that foreign military adventurism is more likely within America's borders than outside of them, the only silver lining for the world, if not the country. #elections #UnitedStates #climateaction #politics #economics

Let’s get something straight about fossil fuel phase-out: renewables needn’t replace all the coal, oil and gas we use today bc most of it is just used to produce and move those fossil fuels around!We only need to replace the useful energy, that’s 37% of what we currently produce. In other words, 63% of the oil, gas, and coal we extract goes to waste in the production, refinement, and transportation process Moving fossil fuels around is responsible for 45% of shipping traffic globally. That’s $42 billion per year on moving fossil fuels around. Transporting fossil fuels is actually one of the smallest contributors to inefficiency in upstream fossil fuel production. The real area of inefficiency is in fuel processing and power generation. Internal Combustion Engines are some of the biggest energy wasters. They are at most 25% efficient, meaning that approx. 75 to 84% of the gasoline's original energy is lost. That is the equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil a day in the U.S. wasted because the oil industry has pummelled us with fear of scarcity, price and change through billions in advertising and relentless lobbying When it comes to efficiency, EVs have gas powered cars beat. Not only do EV’s eliminate the reliance on gasoline for transportation, they would draw less from the electrical grid overall to charge because of their efficiency. The waste is actually astounding. Realizing that this inefficiency is BY DESIGN is an eye-opener. We have spent the last 50 years basing our energy model on adding volume rather than value. It doesn’t have to be this way. Renewables outcompete fossil fuels for efficiency and without the billions Big Oil receives in subsidies, this would become evident. Too often I hear people object to renewables and electrification due to mining impacts. There is no question governments need to do everything possible to reduce impacts on human rights, water, land and biodiversity and we cannot forget that a fossil fuel economy requires 535x more mining than a clean energy economy. Yes, solar panels, batteries, etc. will require minerals but the relevant comparison isn’t zero mining, it’s the mining requirements of our current fossil fuel system. One way to compare is by assessing the amount of waste rock electricity sources would produce. Reliance on fossil fuels is foolish. We waste approx. $4.6 trillion/ year because of fossil fuel inefficiencies. That’s 40% of total global energy spending, or 5% of global GDP. Fossil fuel production will always be wasteful, inefficient, destructive and a distraction from life-saving alternatives. The science is clear, oil, gas and coal are the primary cause of floods, fires, lethal humidity, and air pollution that threatens everything we love. We can transition to a cleaner and safer energy system. It is within our reach. We need to implement the Paris Agreement and build a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative to ensure the just transition is fast, fair and financed.

There are simple and endearing ways that motivate people to continue their relationship with a brand. Here's one. I completed a survey after a recent purchase on Back Market. I was happy with the service and I feel strongly that I should support businesses like it, so I filled out their survey to let them know. This was the amusing submission page notification after I awarded them "10/10 would recommend to a close friend". What's better than saying you'd recommend? Actually recommending! 👍 So, if you've finally gotten to the point where your mobile phone, laptop or other device 💻 📱 is giving up the ghost and you've squeezed all available use out of it, don't replace it with a new same-y same-y version that gives you nothing more than shininess and an additional cost to the planet. Why not replace it with a refurbished device? 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮, 𝓷𝓸 𝓪𝓭𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓬𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓽.🌍 (You can have that tag-line, if you want it) 😉 #EveryLittleThingCounts #ReduceReuse #ClimateLeadership

📍Planning the end of fossil fuels at the original headquarters of Standard Oil. We are acting both domestically and internationally to tackle our reliance on fossil fuels. Following the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund divested from fossil fuel companies and holds a list of companies in which it will not invest. Ireland has also ended the issuing of new exploration licences for fossil fuels and will manage existing authorisations towards a natural conclusion, through expiration, relinquishment, or production. International collaboration is key to achieving the widespread, transformative change needed to tackle climate change. At COP26, Ireland joined the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) because of our determination to shift the global relationship with nature from a place of extraction to rehabilitation. This commitment was demonstrated further at COP27 when Ireland joined the Global Offshore Wind Alliance to create a global driving force for the uptake of offshore wind through political mobilisation and the creation of a global community of practice. At COP28, Ireland continued to advocate for the move away from fossil fuels. I participated in a number of BOGA events and attended a High-Level Dialogue on International Cooperation for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Financing the transition away from fossil fuel consumption, north and south, is my focus at this week's meetings in New York--a stepping stone to COP29.

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“Carbon Capture and Storage has captured... FUCK all” Why it’s here to save big oil. NOT the climate: It’s not often I laugh by myself. But it happened 3-4 times during this video The “fuck all” got me! TWICE. Treat yourself with a good laugh before the weekend. Otherwise, here are the highlights: → Big Oil lobbying for subsidies to cover CCS costs. → Projected capacity (year 2000) was 4900Mt CO2/year → In 2020 the capacity was 10Mt CO2/year → Look up ‘Enhanced oil recovery’. CCS to extract hard-to-get oil. Talk about being fooled. I feel I’ll be covering CCS in the coming weeks. Stay tuned. 👋 I share info about sustainability beyond doing 'no harm'. I hope you would like to follow and hit the 🔔 Or read my newsletter with cases and strategies for going beyond less harm: https://lnkd.in/eVZakxQk (source: The Juice Media)