Global Warming and Cosmic Events

'It is 100% certain we will be hit by a devastating asteroid, but we are not 100% sure when,' the B612 Foundation reported in 2018. Asteroids are minor planets in the inner solar system. They vary widely in size and shape, from a meter-sized rock to a dwarf planet nearly 1,000 km across.
The sun is expected to grow so large that it will engulf the current orbits of Mercury and Venus, making the Earth uninhabitable in billions of years. Our star is currently fusing hydrogen into helium. When hydrogen fusion in its core has diminished to the point at which the sun is no longer in hydrostatic equilibrium, the density and temperature in the core will increase significantly while its outer layers expand, eventually transforming the star into a red giant.
What? A big asteroid will hit our planet at an indefinite time? A giant sun will evaporate all life on Earth in the future? You may argue that we must deal with climate change now and that we do not have time to worry about distant cosmic events.
Well, such events and global warming pose an existential threat to humanity. Perhaps they also have the same solution. How can we survive the arrival of a devastating asteroid or live without the Earth? We need great scientific discoveries and superior technologies. In other words, we need to equip people with brilliant minds. The smarter we become, the greater our chances of solving all natural and man-made crises, including global warming.
To improve our intellectual capacity in general, I propose to provide everyone with so many digital books that most people could enjoy art and science for a lifetime. All books should be free, while their copyrights must be protected.

Environment Ministers from 30 countries commit to combat plastic pollution.

OECD brought together the announcement of national-level visions, actions, or plans that was committed to be made at the 2022 OECD Council at the Ministerial Level (MCM).

Germany, Colombia, Korea, Brazil, and Peru ministers also describe their country's commitments on plastics through short videos!

GREAT NEWS: ‘Biggest step forward on climate ever’: US President signs Landmark Climate Bill worth $369 billion to fight climate change!

It is the beginning of the HOPE we have all hoped for.

Let us rejoice and be glad - because this 'landmark climate bill' benefits the entire world, creating that acceleration needed to mitigate against the frequenting GHG emission-induced intense disasters.

Let other Nations follow this beautiful example, why not?

Last week, the US congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the nation's biggest-ever climate bill.

▶️ Can this help accelerate emissions reduction?
▶️ What problems still stand in the way of realizing #NetZero?

"The sooner we acknowledge challenges that accompany net zero as a concept, the better we are placed to accelerate collective efforts to transform societies #ForPeopleForPlanet" - Jonathan Wilson, 10YFP Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme

Find out more on #GGKPInsights

Inaction and Inability

Inaction is an indisposition that can be cured by calls to action. Inability is a serious illness that will be fatal without proper treatment. Inaction is usually a symptom of inability, especially when the calls to action don’t work. Take inequality and injustice for example. These problems have existed for thousands of years all over the globe. Our inability to build an equal and just world is obvious. I'm afraid that the issue of climate change is much more difficult than the problems of inequality and injustice.
As an intelligent species, we either go intelligent or go extinct. I wonder if there is a better cure than intelligent revolutions for our inability to save humanity.
Dinosaurs had no capacity to change their evolution but we have.

Wisdom for us and for the ages from a personal Superhero - Chief Seattle (1786-1866)...

Growing up in a Suquamish village along the Puget Sound, Seattle witnessed the arrival of the first white settlers in the Northwest. By the time he became Chief of his tribe, the early forays of trappers had given way to a steady stream of settlers. And so it fell to Chief Seattle to devise a strategy for dealing with these invaders. Rejecting violence and outright war with the settlers, this great Chief put his efforts and trust in peaceful dialogue. But as the intentions of the new arrivals became clear, his goal focused exclusively and simply on the survival of his people....and the rest is history.

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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all....One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
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Sustainable Forestry and FAO's Global Forest Resource Assessment...

The Menominee Tribe has inhabited Northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula for generations, where ancestral tribal lands covered over 10 million acres. Following several treaties and land cessions, in 1854 the Menominee people were confined to their current Reservation lands, totaling 235,000 acres (note graphic).

The Menominee Forest has survived as an island of timber in an ocean of cleared land. It is representative of the Lake States boreal forest that existed prior to clearing for farming by settlers and timber barons (note aerial). The forest has been sustainably managed for more than 150 years and allows the Tribe to experience a traditional quality of life from an intact, diverse, productive, and healthy forest ecosystem on the reservation.

Responsible harvesting has been at the heart and the driving force for forest management on the Menominee Reservation. Currently, there is more standing saw timber volume (1.7 billion board feet) than there was in 1854 (estimated at 1.2 billion board feet). During this same period, over 2.25 billion board feet have been harvested from the same acreage (Menominee Tribal Enterprises, 2020).

FAO has been monitoring the world’s forests at 5 to 10 year intervals since 1946. The Global Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) are now produced every five years in an attempt to provide a consistent approach to describing the world’s forests and how they are changing. The Assessment is based on two primary sources of data: Country Reports prepared by National Correspondents and remote sensing that is conducted by FAO together with national focal points and regional partners. The scope of the FRA has changed regularly since the first assessment published in 1948 (FAO, 2022).

The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) Geospatial Platform is the enabling tool for the HiH Initiative unlocking over 2 million data layers for more targeted, evidence-based interventions. This Digital Public Good provides open-access geographic information, key food security indicators and agricultural statistics sourced from FAO and from external organizations such as NGOs, academia, the private sector, and space agencies (FAO, 2022).
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Hello! Our Working Groups at the DCED (https://www.enterprise-development.org/) are currently building a pool of individual consultants and firms with expertise in the overlap between women's economic empowerment (WEE), climate change mitigation and adaptation, and just transition, for a range of upcoming and future work in the intersection of these areas.

We are seeking profiles with experience and knowledge in the following areas:
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If you or your organisation are interested in being included, please contact us via email at [email protected], including your CV, a description of your expertise in women's economic empowerment and climate change (150-200 words) and an indication of your availability for assignments. The DCED is open to a range of profiles - even if you do not meet all of the above-mentioned areas, please feel free to get in touch.

Nature-based solutions can mitigate emissions while at the same time enhancing the resilience of communities to climate change

GOOD NEWS! The world is now beginning to seriously amplify the removal of already emitted greenhouse gases. This is key to avert frequenting GHG emission induced intense disasters ravaging the entire world.

"In April 2022 several major corporates, including the owners of Facebook and Google, announced a new venture called Frontier that would commit US$925m (AU$1,359) to projects that pull carbon dioxide CO2 from the air and then store it."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/stripe-alphabet-meta…

"In May 2022, the US government announced a US$3.5bn program to build four major hubs for direct air capture projects."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/02/australian-company-…

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https://www.thegreenforum.org/blog/accelerating-implementation-sdgs-ave… [26 January 2022 in Stockholm+50]
https://www.thegreenforum.org/blog/rapid-robust-response-anthropogenic-… [19 April 2022 in Stockholm+50]