Emilie Sandbye

This week, Poland's largest coal region Katowice joins the global push for coal phase-out, Powering Past Coal Alliance. Katowice hopes to show that gradual departure from heavy industry ≠ high social costs -- the unemployment rate today is 1%, one of the lowest in 🇵🇱

16.01.2025 07:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tweet by Keith Wasserman: “Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.”

I keep thinking about this (of course). The post poses a question - not the one asked explicitly, but: at what point might climate change make those with power care enough to do something about it?

08.01.2025 22:28 — 👍 346    🔁 62    💬 51    📌 18

Canada sets new 45–50% emissions reduction goal for 2035 Canada will aim to cut emissions by 45–50% below 2005 levels by 2035, the environment ministry announced on Thursday, setting a new transitory target before the Paris Agreement's 2050 goal of net-zero emissions.

Canada published its 2035 climate target with an underwhelming 45-50% GHG reduction compared to 2005 (~23-30% compared to 1990)

This is a missed opportunity to put Canada on the modernisation and innovation path that could transform the economy away from #FossilFuels
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

13.12.2024 09:44 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Danish government strikes major green deal - The Copenhagen Post The political agreement is the legislative consequence of the agreement on a green tripartite, which the government entered in June with several organizations, including Denmark’s Nature Conservation ...

The gov't of Denmark has reached a landmark agreement among parties that will dramatically reduce the use of nitrogen in fertilizer, take a bunch of land out of agricultural production, & plant 250K hectares of new forest. Transformational.
cphpost.dk/2024-11-18/n...

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It's also not only about carbon. 2/3s of land in Denmark are cultivated use for farming. Transforming (some of) this for trees decreases nitrogen use and oxygen depletion, strengthens biodiversity, etc.

20.11.2024 08:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lots of things to watch closely to ensure effective implementation and continuing ambition levels post 2030 of course. In the meantime, this concludes my first bluesky post on climate stuff 🍀

18.11.2024 16:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Asmus og hans 500 køer overlever den grønne trepart: 'Vi er omstillingsparate' Regeringen og en række af Folketingets partier har præsenteret en aftale, der stiller større krav til landbruget.

Today's political agreement is endorsed by the farmers' organisation and the nature preservation society. No angry farmers burning down the streets, while a majority of Danes support the tax. Watch this farmer: "I don't think it will kill us because I know we can deliver" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

18.11.2024 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But, the sector hasn't really reduced its emission since 2010. With status quo policies, agriculture would represent 40% of total emissions in 2030. Without new measures, Denmark wouldn't fulfil its binding climate law target to reach 70% in 2030.

18.11.2024 15:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Share of cereals allocated to animal feed The share of domestic cereal supply – after correcting for trade – which is allocated to animal feed, as opposed to being used for direct human consumption or industrial uses (such as biofuel producti...

Denmark is a traditional farmers' country: Two thirds of DK is cultivated land for farming. App. 91% of domestic cereal supply is produced for animals, not for human consumption (largest % in the world!). ourworldindata.org/grapher/shar...

18.11.2024 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Denmark approves the world's first emissions tax on agriculture: Seven political parties have reached an agreement that allocates app. 43 billion DKK to carry out a comprehensive restructuring of Denmark's land use. DK on track to reach the 2030 target of 70% reduction. Why this is significant:

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