🌻 October 04th: Nature Day
This October 04th, the Nature Day, a date created with the aim of raising awareness among the population about the importance of preserving the environment.
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🚯 Better waste management can reduce sector emissions by 84%, according to report
Better waste management can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 84% in this sector, highlights the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (Gaia) platform in a report released this Tuesday (4).
The sector represents 3,3% of greenhouse gas emissions in the world and a fifth of methane emissions, a gas that can cause the same heating than CO2, although its life is shorter.
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“The introduction of better waste management policies, such as selection, recycling or composting, can reduce the sector's total emissions by 84%”, indicate the authors. It's as if the entire car fleet in the United States were parked every year, they compare.
Emissions can be reduced in several ways: avoiding landfills that produce methane, using compost in soils to improve CO2 capture, and reducing emissions linked to the manufacture and transportation of manufactured products, the use of which could be limited and recycled.
Gaia proposes measures to avoid food waste or ban single-use plastics, introduce the collection and treatment of organic waste or invest in waste recycling and composting systems.
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“Better waste management is an obvious solution to climate change,” commented Neil Tangri, co-author of the report. “It doesn’t require new, expensive or flashy technology, just that we be more careful about what we produce and consume and what we do with those products when we no longer need them.”
Gaia hopes that these issues can be discussed at the next UN climate conference (COP27), which starts in Egypt in a month.
🌱 United Nations leader says it's time for commitments to climate action
On the eve of the 27th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27), scheduled for November 6 in Egypt, UN Secretary-General António Guterres spoke to journalists about the natural disasters seen in recent weeks, such as the hurricane Ian, in Florida.
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Record temperatures
Guterres highlighted that ministers from participating countries are meeting this week in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to debate the direction of COP27.
For the secretary general, the meeting is “crucial”, especially with the most recent catastrophes around the world, from flooding to record temperatures.
António Guterres once again said that the G20 nations must take the lead in leading the debate and investments.
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For him, in addition to developed countries, multilateral banks must also act to raise funds for mitigation, adaptation and resilience.
Setbacks
The UN chief highlighted that “while climate chaos gallops, climate action stagnates”.
He added that “there is a life and death struggle for our own safety today and our survival tomorrow.” For Guterres, this is not the time to “accusse, point fingers”, but rather to seek compromise between developed and emerging economies.
In the UN leader's assessment, the war in Ukraine has delayed the climate agenda and even in the private sector it is possible to observe setbacks.
He states that on all climate fronts, the only solution is solidarity and decisive action and calls on leaders to fully participate in COP27 and clarify the climate actions that will be implemented at national and global levels.
🌱 Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of COP27 is condemned by activists
A sponsorship agreement between this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) and Coca-Cola has generated much controversy.
COP27, to be held in Sharm el-Sheikh from 6 to 18 November, is the world's leading forum for governments, businesses and environmental organizations to discuss solutions to the climate emergency. At the end of last month, the partnership was announced through social media.
The announcement caused outrage among environmentalists and campaigners, who described the partnership as disconcerting.
Um report (🇬🇧) – released annually by the global coalition Break Free From Plastic – named Coca-Cola as the worst plastic polluter in the world for the fourth consecutive year in 2021.
“Our analysis found that the top plastic polluting companies of 2021 are: Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Unilever, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Mondelez International, Philip Morris International, Danone, Mars, Inc., and Colgate-Palmolive,” highlights the document.
Em newspaper interview The Guardian (*), Emma Priestland, coordinator of Break Free From Plastic, said: “Coca-Cola sponsoring Cop27 is pure 'greenwashing'. Over four years, we've discovered that Cola-Cola is the world's biggest plastic polluter in our annual brand audits. It is surprising that a company so closely linked to the fossil fuel industry would be allowed to sponsor such a vital climate meeting.”
One of the petition (🇬🇧), created by a COP26 delegate in Glasgow, calls for the removal of Coca-Cola as a sponsor of COP27 and already has thousands of signatures.
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