By recognizing the importance of multilateralism in tackling the Earth’s triple planetary crisis – climate, nature, and pollution – the Stockholm+50 event aims to act as a springboard accelerate the implementation of the UN Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs). This high-level meeting will follow months of consultations and discussions with individuals, communities, organizations and governments around the world.

Will the Stockholm+50 event meet our expectations?

Hi there. Here is our proposals for Stockholm+50: "Another world is possible but we need more ambitious actions from governments. First stop: Stockholm+50":

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“Human activities are at the root of our descent toward chaos. But that means human action can help solve it. Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. It must be the top, top priority for everyone, everywhere.” - António Guterres, UN Secretary-General

What actions could you take to scale up the change towards a healthy planet? ?

Here are some examples:
1. Preserve and restore local biodiversity, for example farmlands, lakes/wetlands and rivers, ocean and coasts, mountains and urban areas
2. Transform lifestyle towards sustainable consumption, adopting a more plant-based diet or cycling to work
3. Quantify business risk exposure to environmental impacts and scale of business actions to protect and enhance nature
4. Apply financial resources to restoration projects that benefit your local area or the places you impact through your work
5. Conduct capacity-building programmes to increase awareness on the importance of ecosystem preservation and restoration and climate change

Participate in the public discourse through the comments section on this post! ?

Big Oil and Climate Change Revisited...

This is my third and last post in the series following the PBS FRONTLINE program “The Power of Big Oil.”

Within this series, FRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change, tracing decades of missed opportunities and ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account. This recent FRONTLINE series investigates the decades-long failure to confront the threat of climate change and the role of the fossil fuel industry.

Part One charts the fossil fuel industry’s early research on climate change and investigates industry efforts to sow seeds of doubt about the science. Part Two explores the industry’s efforts to stall climate policy, even as evidence about climate change grew more certain in the new millennium. And as leading climate scientists issue new warnings about climate change, Part Three examines how the fossil fuel industry worked to delay the transition to renewable energy sources — including by promoting natural gas as a cleaner alternative (PBS, 2022).

This series comes shortly after the recent report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stating that rapid action is needed in order to reduce planet-warming emissions of greenhouse gases and limit climate disaster, and outlining possible ways in which the world can take action to cut such emissions in half by 2030. “We are at a crossroads,” IPCC chair Hoesung Lee said in an announcement about the report. “The decisions we make now can secure a livable future.”

In related matters, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) (1989–2001) was an international lobbyist group of businesses that opposed action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and publicly challenged the science behind global warming. The GCC was the largest industry group active in climate policy and the most prominent industry advocate in international climate negotiations. The GCC was involved in opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, and played a role in blocking ratification by the United States. The coalition knew it could not deny the scientific consensus, but sought to sow doubt over the scientific consensus on climate change (New York Times, 2009).

Weblinks are provided to sort fact from fiction and to separate truth and what we know as reality from fear, doubt, myth, and misinformation.
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-power-of-big-oil/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/resources/press/press-release/
https://www.ipcc.ch/working-group/wg1/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/
https://www.climate.gov/
https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Climate_Coalition
https://www.desmog.com/global-climate-coalition/
https://climateinvestigations.org/global-climate-coalition-industry-cli…
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/science/earth/24deny.html
https://www.energyandpolicy.org/global-climate-coalition-utilities/
https://www.pbs.org/show/climate-change-facts/
https://www.noaa.gov/climate
https://climate.nasa.gov/
https://www.wri.org/climate
https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/climate#:~:text=WMO%20supports%20….
https://unfccc.int/
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6-HphcS89…
https://climate.esa.int/en/esa-climate/esa-cci/climate-change-initiativ…
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/space-daily/climate.asp
https://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gcom_c/
https://glad.umd.edu/
https://acespace.org/
https://www.fao.org/climate-change/our-work/what-we-do/en/

Big Oil and Climate Change: Doubt (Part 2), Aired April 26, 2022...

This is my second post in the series following the PBS FRONTLINE program “The Power of Big Oil.”

In The Power of Big Oil, a new three-part documentary series, FRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change, tracing decades of missed opportunities and ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account.

The documentary series comes on the heels of a new report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) saying that rapid action is needed in order to reduce planet-warming emissions of greenhouse gases and limit climate disaster, and outlining possible ways in which the world can take action to cut such emissions in half by 2030.

“We are at a crossroads,” IPCC chair Hoesung Lee said in an announcement about the report. “The decisions we make now can secure a livable future. We have the tools and know-how required to limit warming.” FRONTLINE has been covering climate change and other environmental threats for years and across platforms. With the premiere of The Power of Big Oil, revisit more than a decade’s worth of reporting. By Patrice Taddonio, April 12, 2022, (PBS, 2022).

Part One: Denial, premiered April 19 and charts the fossil fuel industry’s early research on climate change, investigating industry efforts to sow seeds of doubt about the science. Part Two: Doubt aired April 26, and Part Three: Delay premieres May 3 (PBS, 2022).

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The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) (1989–2001) was an international lobbyist group of businesses that opposed action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and publicly challenged the science behind global warming. The GCC was the largest industry group active in climate policy and the most prominent industry advocate in international climate negotiations. The GCC was involved in opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, and played a role in blocking ratification by the United States. The coalition knew it could not deny the scientific consensus, but sought to sow doubt over the scientific consensus on climate change (New York Times, 2009).

Weblinks are provided to sort fact from fiction and to separate truth and what we know as reality from fear, doubt, and misinformation.
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-power-of-big-oil/#video-2
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-power-of-big-oil/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/resources/press/press-release/
https://www.ipcc.ch/working-group/wg1/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/
https://www.climate.gov/
https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Climate_Coalition
https://www.desmog.com/global-climate-coalition/
https://climateinvestigations.org/global-climate-coalition-industry-cli…
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/science/earth/24deny.html
https://www.energyandpolicy.org/global-climate-coalition-utilities/
https://www.pbs.org/show/climate-change-facts/
https://www.noaa.gov/climate
https://climate.nasa.gov/
https://www.wri.org/climate
https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/climate#:~:text=WMO%20supports%20….
https://unfccc.int/
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6-HphcS89…
https://climate.esa.int/en/esa-climate/esa-cci/climate-change-initiativ…
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/space-daily/climate.asp
https://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gcom_c/
https://glad.umd.edu/
https://acespace.org/
https://www.fao.org/climate-change/our-work/what-we-do/en/

In a series of articles leading up to Stockholm+50, the youth movement ReGeneration 2030 cover youth activists with clear demands on world leaders to solve the ecological crisis. Jonas Kittelsen, described by Aftenposten as Norway’s most controversial activist, is first out. For Jonas, activism is needed to put the necessary pressure on meetings like Stockholm+50 so that decision-makers understand what is really at stake.

Hi there from Project Globalymbe in Chelmsford, England. Very much looking forward to discussing this conference, having attended the New York prep meeting online in February. Best wishes, tally ho! Andrew.

La humanidad necesita replantear sus formas de vida ante la relación causal existente entre crecimiento económico y calentamiento global. En consecuencia, los países desarrollados tienen que transformar sus formas de producir y consumir. Sin embargo, ante la ineludible perspectiva de desacelerar o detener el crecimiento, se hace necesario un mejor reparto de la riqueza, tanto intranacional, como internacionalmente.