A SHAME FOR 🇷🇺 RUSSIA!
A country contributing to 💥 of our 🌍
WWF International statement on “undesirable” characterisation in Russia
https://perma.cc/K526-VWQB
Greenpeace: Environmental protection is ‘undesirable’ in Russia https://perma.cc/2LAU-7QK2
Perhaps more than any other Arctic country, Russia has much to gain from climate trends in the Arctic https://perma.cc/97ZY-4ZUC
Russia is a very poor performer (“F”) under the VACI, on par with Brazil and Iran. The country has a high animal slaughter rate, large consumption of animal products and inadequate legislative protection of farmed animals https://perma.cc/44UC-DWQ9
Roughly 20,000 reindeer have been poached in Russia since August 2016 https://perma.cc/23CG-N5ZV
30 Greenpeace activists charged with piracy in Russia https://perma.cc/8Y6N-BGRT
Arctic 30 jailed in Russia argue their case in European Court https://perma.cc/U2CD-C4W9
Us vs Them: Sadism and Animal Abuse in Russian Army https://perma.cc/4DUV-85CK
Russia’s forest sector has become deeply criminalized. https://perma.cc/27MJ-4RRR https://perma.cc/7CJT-CCYR
The Government of Russia is urged to formally recognise animals as sentient in legislation, given the scientific evidence which has proven that all vertebrates, cephalopods and decapod crustaceans are sentient. Furthermore, the Government of Russia is strongly encouraged to expand the scope of application of Federal Law No. 498-ФЗ to all animals. The Government of Russia is urged to ban the confinement of farm animals – for instance, in sow stalls and farrowing crates for pigs, and in cages for egg-laying hens – and the Government is urged to mandate the humane slaughter of all farm animals, with stunning prior to slaughter. The Government of Russia is furthermore urged to ban fur farming, which is inherently cruel, causing pain and distress to animals. The Government of Russia is urged to outlaw forms of entertainment which cause animal suffering, such as the use of captive marine mammals in shows for the public. https://perma.cc/S49G-
A country contributing to 💥 of our 🌍
WWF International statement on “undesirable” characterisation in Russia
https://perma.cc/K526-VWQB
Greenpeace: Environmental protection is ‘undesirable’ in Russia https://perma.cc/2LAU-7QK2
Perhaps more than any other Arctic country, Russia has much to gain from climate trends in the Arctic https://perma.cc/97ZY-4ZUC
Russia is a very poor performer (“F”) under the VACI, on par with Brazil and Iran. The country has a high animal slaughter rate, large consumption of animal products and inadequate legislative protection of farmed animals https://perma.cc/44UC-DWQ9
Roughly 20,000 reindeer have been poached in Russia since August 2016 https://perma.cc/23CG-N5ZV
30 Greenpeace activists charged with piracy in Russia https://perma.cc/8Y6N-BGRT
Arctic 30 jailed in Russia argue their case in European Court https://perma.cc/U2CD-C4W9
Us vs Them: Sadism and Animal Abuse in Russian Army https://perma.cc/4DUV-85CK
Russia’s forest sector has become deeply criminalized. https://perma.cc/27MJ-4RRR https://perma.cc/7CJT-CCYR
The Government of Russia is urged to formally recognise animals as sentient in legislation, given the scientific evidence which has proven that all vertebrates, cephalopods and decapod crustaceans are sentient. Furthermore, the Government of Russia is strongly encouraged to expand the scope of application of Federal Law No. 498-ФЗ to all animals. The Government of Russia is urged to ban the confinement of farm animals – for instance, in sow stalls and farrowing crates for pigs, and in cages for egg-laying hens – and the Government is urged to mandate the humane slaughter of all farm animals, with stunning prior to slaughter. The Government of Russia is furthermore urged to ban fur farming, which is inherently cruel, causing pain and distress to animals. The Government of Russia is urged to outlaw forms of entertainment which cause animal suffering, such as the use of captive marine mammals in shows for the public. https://perma.cc/S49G-
Figure 3 shows the CO2 emissions of the 17 countries and their CAGR for the period 1990 and 2016. The countries that accounted for the highest growth in CO2 emissions between 1990 and 2016 are China with 6.17%, India with 5.5%, Saudi Arabia with 5%, Iran with 4.8%, Brazil with 4%, and Turkey with 3.7%. The countries that have managed to rein in their emissions growth are UK with −1.16%, Italy with −1.1%, France with −0.88%, the USA with 0.33%, Japan with 0.41%, and Canada with 0.9%.
Delaying carbon dioxide removal in the European Union puts climate targets at risk. Under an indicative target of −50 Gt of net CO2 by 2100, delayed CDR would cost an extra of 0.12−0.19 trillion EUR per year of inaction. Moreover, postponing CDR beyond mid-century would substantially reduce the removal potential to almost half (−35.60 Gt CO2) due to the underused biomass and land resources and the maximum technology diffusion speed.
For example, reaching carbon neutrality by 2100 by deploying BECCS and DACCS from 2020 would cost 22.8 trillion EUR2015 (in the range 18.6–26.6, uncertainty analysis in the Supplementary Tables 43–50), and 24.1 when starting in 2075 (18.2–29.5), while it would become infeasible when starting after 2080.
Delaying carbon dioxide removal in the European Union puts climate targets at risk. Under an indicative target of −50 Gt of net CO2 by 2100, delayed CDR would cost an extra of 0.12−0.19 trillion EUR per year of inaction. Moreover, postponing CDR beyond mid-century would substantially reduce the removal potential to almost half (−35.60 Gt CO2) due to the underused biomass and land resources and the maximum technology diffusion speed.
For example, reaching carbon neutrality by 2100 by deploying BECCS and DACCS from 2020 would cost 22.8 trillion EUR2015 (in the range 18.6–26.6, uncertainty analysis in the Supplementary Tables 43–50), and 24.1 when starting in 2075 (18.2–29.5), while it would become infeasible when starting after 2080.
WWF calls for a global ban on ‘harmful and unnecessary’ single-use plastic items, such as vapes, cutlery and cosmetic microplastics, ahead of key UN plastic pollution treaty talks https://perma.cc/5GWN-AEMZ
While plastic is cheap and versatile, with countless uses across many industries, almost half of all plastic is used to create short-lived or single-use products that can spend hundreds of years degrading – and most of which are consumed in high and upper-middle income countries. Research shows that by 2015, 60% of all plastics ever produced had already reached their end of life and been discarded. Globally, less than 10% of plastic products are recycled https://perma.cc/GSZ5-U4B4
While plastic is cheap and versatile, with countless uses across many industries, almost half of all plastic is used to create short-lived or single-use products that can spend hundreds of years degrading – and most of which are consumed in high and upper-middle income countries. Research shows that by 2015, 60% of all plastics ever produced had already reached their end of life and been discarded. Globally, less than 10% of plastic products are recycled https://perma.cc/GSZ5-U4B4