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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) a head portrait of a juvenile peering curiously, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
"Climate Change is Injustice"
The message could not be clearer from a united intergenerational voice. #frontlineofclimatechange#hokphotographyPhoto Credit: Raimon Kataotao
ANACORTES, WASHINGTON-- On Saturday, May 14, 2016, Thousands of people marched to March Point in Anacortes, WA, as part of the Indigenous Day of Action during Break Free.
The peaceful march went along the shores of Fidalgo Bay in front of the Shell and Tesoro refineries. The people at the march were there to highlight the moral urgency of immediate action to combat climate change.
The three-mile procession march was led by indigenous community leaders from the area, and ended at the northeast tip of March Point. The people at the march then joined the “It’s in our Hands” indigenous gathering and ceremony.
Anacortes is home to two fossil fuel refineries owned by Shell and Tesoro. These refineries are the largest unaddressed source of carbon pollution in the Northwest and they refine 47% of all the gas and diesel used in the region.
Break Free Pacific Northwest events will continue throughout the weekend.
Photo by Emma Cassidy | Survival Media Agency
Warszawa, 14.12.2018 r.
Fot. Społeczne Gimnazjum Raszyńska / Bednarska SP - Terytorium Raszyńska
W piątek 14 grudnia młodzież z polskich szkół dołączyła do strajku zainspirowanego przez szwedzką nastolatkę Gretę Thunberg. W ten sposób przypominają, że od decyzji polityków i polityczek zależy ich przyszłość!
Na zdjęciu strajkująca młodzież ze Społecznego Gimnazjum Raszyńska / Bednarska SP - Terytorium Raszyńska
17th April 2016 …Fegino- Genoa -Italy…
At 7:30 p.m. approximately, a pipe of a pipeline owned bythe company
Iplom broke and 600,000 gallons of oil were poured into the streams of
the area, Pianego Stream, Fegino Stream, and Polcevera Stream to finally
head to the sea. A huge ecological and environmental disaster. The pipes
of this company are buried in the ground for km, from the Petroleum Port
of Genoa Multedo, to the refinery located in Busalla, and partly buried
inside the bed of these two streams, for over 50 years, without any
protection in the event of breakage. The Fegino Deposit is served by the
pipes buried in the river bed. For many years the citizens have
denounced the difficult cohabitation with the deposit located a few
meters away from houses and schools. The annoying miasmas exhaled during
handling operations of crude oil and its derivatives stored here have
been repeatedly reported to the authorities. They limit the lives of the
residents, but they are not considered to be harmful to health because
emission limits do not exceed the threshold of concern, even if the
quality of life of the citizens is significantly threatened. The
disaster is now under investigation, but what is certain is that it has
jeopardized environment and ecosystem of the streams and the lives of
people living here.
Fegino is part of a suburban area of Genoa, the Valpolcevera, which,
since the second half of the 19^th Century, has seen the birth of
several industries. Over time, oil, steel, mechanical industries have
established their headquarters here, fact that has altered environment
and landscape and threatened the health of residents of this valley. The
disposal of many industries could have been an opportunity for a revival
of this area, still battered by the logic of the great rail lines and
highways that, moreover, have no meaningful data to support them as far
as costs and benefits are concerned.
It is time to seek an environmentally friendly conversion of these oil
companies who are too often a source of concern and environmental
disasters and threats to the health of citizens because we should
finally think about the future of our planet.
This is way we strongly committed to join the "Breackfree" initiative,
meeting up on Saturday, May 14, 2016, together with other associations
and committees, when we will surround the Iplom Fegino Deposit with a
red ribbon in order to highlight the danger and to underline the need
for health, environment and safe and healthy workplace to go hand in hand.
Messages from youth on the frontlines are clear.#frontlineofclimatechange #hokphotographyPhoto Credit: Raimon Kataotao
Te Waa (The Canoe)Voyages on a traditional Kiribati canoe without an outrigger is fruitless. The outrigger balances, stabilizes, and allows it to travel in a straight path. Like the canoe, our society believes that others can work to stabilize our paths in this life. Nowadays, nowhere is that more apparent than our fight against climate change. We are not drowning, we are fighting. #frontlineofclimatechange #hokphotographyPhoto Credit: Raimon Kataotao
Heliostats, large reflective mirrors directing sunlight to the PS20 solar thermal tower, the only such working solar tower currently in the world. Its is part of the Solucar solar complex owned by Abengoa energy, in Sanlucar La Mayor, Andalucia, Spain. The site has solar tower, parabolic trough and photovoltaic solar technology on the complex, generating 183 MW in total, enough to power 94,000 households and eliminating 114,000 tons of C02 emissions annually.
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CalFire planes have been flying low, but I see no local smoke. Staying indoors during heat of the day.
Elders, Adults, and Children UnitedWe are not drowning, we are fighting. The call of the Pacific in the fight against climate change. To lose this fight would mean to lose our history, our lands, our identity, and ultimately our people. We are at the center of the world, we are the first to see the new day, week, month, year, and millennium. Please don't make us be the first to say goodbye to everything we know. #frontlineofclimatechange#hokphotographyPhoto Credit: Raimon Kataotao
Connect4Climate attended COP25 from Dec 2-13, hosted in Madrid under a Chilean presidency, to amplify youth voices, create a dynamic "Live at COP25" digital media zone at the Italian Pavilion, and help build momentum for #ClimateAction as we head into 2020, the year of ambition.
Photo Credits: Kaia Rose, Connect4Climate
With COP27 underway in Egypt (6 to 18 November), Southend-on-Sea City Council reflects on the past 12 month since appointing its first ever head of climate change.
Climate change tops the bill as the number one 2010 election issue for Australians online according to new research from Experian Hitwise
More than 220 students from over 45 countries, representing 50 disciplines, take part in Europe’s largest climate change education programme – Climate-KIC summer school The Journey 2016.
Over 8 weeks in the summer of 2016, students take part in either a five-week or three-week course offering a unique combination of academic study and real-world business experience with the aim of creating the climate change leaders of tomorrow.
Residents being rescued during the January 2005 devastating floods on Warwick Road in Carlisle, after the river Eden burst its banks, Cumbria, UK.
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E.ON's biofuel power station in Lockerbie, Scotland, with timber supplies.The power station is fuelled 100% by wood sourced from local woodlands and generates enough electricity to supply 70 000 houses. The plant is carbon neutral.
Temperature: Temperatures have risen in the region in the last fifty years, and every country in the region has experienced warming with this trend accelerating in the most recent decades (UNFCCC National Communications). Summer is the season which has warmed the most (Kostopoulou and Jones, 2005). One important effect of this trend is that the frequency and severity of temperature extremes has also increased across the region. In Albania, for example, the increase in the number of days over 40°C has been one of the clearest observed changes in recent decades. Heatwaves across the region are increasing in frequency and severity. Precipitation: Thee observed changes in precipitation in the last fifty years are not as pervasive or clear as the observed warming. Generalizing about the observed climatic trends is difficult due to the complex topography of the mountains, especially as the Western Balkans has two climatic areas – the Mediterranean and the alpine/continental. However, overall the region has received a decreasing amount of precipitation, with Albania, Croatia and FYR Macedonia displaying the clearest downward trend. The mountain region of Gorski kotar in Croatia had the greatest decrease. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia experienced mixed or unchanging precipitation patterns. Droughts have become significantly more common in Serbia, FYR Macedonia and Kosovo. Within the region, the Dinaric Alps generally receive the most precipitation (Lelieveld et al., 2012). The mountains in the Western Balkans are therefore central to the flow of fresh water (Schneider et al., 2013), as decreasing precipitation and increasing evapotranspiration are combining to make the region, and soils in general, drier.
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The mountain areas of Western Balkan countries are predominantly covered by forests very rich in biodiversity, both in terms of flora and fauna of either global or European conservation importance. There are vast areas of still preserved, natural and semi-natural ecosystems providing benefits to both nature and people through the ecosystem services on which the majority of local communities still very much depend. Scattered relics of virgin forest still exist in remote areas, mountainous areas and wetlands, being the last refuge of these forests in Europe (Parviainen, 2005). Overall, forests in the region are experiencing a number of positive and negative trends. Both deliberate and natural afforestation on abandoned agricultural land have increased forest cover in some areas. The area classified as high conservation value forests (HCVFs) is increasing and improving the sustainable management of forests and their resources, including from the perspective of maintaining the flow of ecosystem services, prevention of soil erosion, and conserving threatened or endemic species. The conservation of forests for cultural, historical, or religious reasons is also advocated through HCVFs (Ioras et al., 2009), which also provide a buffer against illegal activities. In addition, declining rural populations and rural to urban migration, particularly from mountain areas, is resulting in fewer young people being involved in forestry and is placing less pressure on logging for household fuelwood. However, there is still concern in the region over the quality of the forests due to a history of coppicing and sub- standard management of both state-owned and privately-owned forests in some areas (Markus- Johansson et al., 2010), while factors such as illegal logging and corruption at various points in the value chain are thought to be hindering the forestry sector reaching its full potential.
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