Andrea Rizzi

Countries cleaning up more climate pollution than they are producing?

That is the idea behind achieving net-negative emissions.

Though an ambition for the far future, its pursuit starts with deep emissions cuts over the next decade.

Explainer by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org for @carbonbrief.org 👇

Attacks on Cambodian environmental journalist continue to pile up BANGKOK — Ouk Mao, a Cambodian environmental journalist, was reporting on the continued logging of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary when he was attacked on March 24 by a group of men he identified, includ...

For @mongabay.com w. Nehru Pry: the case of Ouk Mao, an environmental journalist in #Cambodia whose reporting on forest crimes has seen him physically attacked, ignored by the police and sued by the government.

His family had to move out after an anonymous caller threatened to burn down his home.

The Right Builds Power. The Left Hosts Rallies. That's Why We Lose. Bernie Sanders is back on the road. He's touring the country on an "anti-oligarchy" crusade, warning that billionaires are running the show and that we,

This is a must-read article, by @corbintrent.bsky.social
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Map released by the IDF

Israel is planning to bomb near two schools in Beirut. Both in session. Students are being evacuated in terror right now.

Lycee des Arts and St Georges School.

This is what the Israelis mean by ‘ceasefire’

F- everyone who continues to support that barbaric, genocidal state

Plundering Africa - Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes - ROAPE Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s materi...

Plundering Africa – Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes

roape.net/2025/02/28/p...

The boss of a monopolist company who has workers in semi-slavery worldwide glorifies liberty and free market.

#Amazon

German public TV just published this poll of first-time voters. A massive lead for socialist Left party on 27%.

Left + SPD + Greens on 54% among first-time-voters. Those voters were also slightly less likely to vote AfD than national average.

So much for the “far-right youth”.

Statement zur Ausladung von Albanese: „Wo, wenn nicht an einer Universität?“ Die Freie Universität Berlin hat einen Vortrag der UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese abgesagt. Der Freitag dokumentiert einen Aufruf von Wissenschaftsorganisationen und NGOs zur Verteidig...

#Germany turning into an illiberal democracy.
Under a supposedly left-wing government.

Brazil will join OPEC+, group of oil-exporting nations, months before hosting UN climate summit | CBC News Brazil's government on Tuesday approved joining OPEC+, a group of major oil-exporting nations, signalling the country's evolution into a major oil state just nine months ahead of hosting the United Na...

Last week Lula urged for swifter drilling for oil in the Amazon, this week Brazil announces it will join OPEC+ and the energy minister boasts about how much oil it produces.

This is the quid pro quo petrostates accepted to host the last 3 COPs. Dealing our way to disaster www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, unc...

At least we don't have to read about this on a federal government website:

At 2°C of warming, the area on Earth that is too hot for humans will triple. This is fine. 🔥🧪

Con todo respeto por el homónimo periodista, reitero que no soy ese Andrea Rizzi.

Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis

Who is going to pay for climate inaction?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we expl...

The world is currently tracking the "Double Resources" scenario of the 1972 "Limits to Growth" report, in which collapse is driven by pollution rather than resource scarcity.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hasta acá llegué.

At least 5 newborns have frozen to death in Gaza in the past week alone. 30 day old Juma al-Batran died in his father’s arms due to lack of heating and his twin is in medical care.

These babies have never known any other existence. Their moms spent their entire pregnancies surviving a genocide.

¿Esto es una selva?: viaje por el arco amazónico controlado por “Calarcá” La Silla viajó a Caquetá, Meta y Guaviare donde el uso de la tierra son el centro de los diálogos de paz con las disidencias de las Farc.

Is this a forest?

#Colombia #Amazon

www.lasillavacia.com/silla-amazon...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

‘Powerful consiglieri’ run von der Leyen’s Commission, EU transparency chief says Emily O’Reilly says she was “never at ease” with members of the president’s cabinet who are “intelligent people” but “not elected.”

I didn't sign up for a plutocracy.

www.politico.eu/article/cons...

New Research Reveals Carbon ‘Time Bomb’ In Our Homes, Appliances While emissions from burning fossil fuels get a lot of attention, surprisingly little is known about the growing quantity of fossil carbon in our buildings and products.

📢There’s now more man-made mass in the world than all living things combined. New research finds we're adding more fossil carbon to that mass at an accelerating pace - mostly in the form of plastics.

World's largest reinsurer announces major new oil and gas policy - Insure Our Future Global Today, Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, has taken a major step away from oil and gas. Munich Re has committed that as of 1 April 2023 it will no longer invest in or insure contracts/projects ...

Or... global.insure-our-future.com/worlds-large...

Rafah.

Bar chart showing actual methane emission from the Permian oil field several times higher than industry reported emissions.

We have always relied on the oil and gas industry to self-report methane emissions. Now we have independent ways to of measuring those emissions and it turns out they were lying about the emissions. By a lot. The blue lines are actual measurements. The pink are industry numbers.

The archaeology of capital.

EU should ban space mirrors and other solar geoengineering, scientists say European Commission scientific advisers say technology to offset global heating could wreak havoc on weather

EU should ban space mirrors and other solar geoengineering, scientists say

- European Commission scientific advisers say technology to offset global heating could wreak havoc on weather

#ClimateCrisis
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Why Giorgia Meloni is seeking to bring Assad in from the cold As Brussels tries to tackle the migrant crisis, the Italian leader is pressing other nations to re-establish ties with Syria to deal with more than a million people displaced by the Israeli-Hezbollah ...

Italian PM Meloni has been pressing other countries to re-establish ties with Assad's regime...

www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian