Teens promise to fix "climate change" with great idea

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I only just noticed that climate change is in quotes in the title of this thread.

Here's a little fact: This past July was the hottest month ever recorded since records began 142 years ago. That should worry anyone that knows how little it would take to melt enough polar ice to cause serious flooding around the world.

 

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Came across a paper that explains how the shift away from GDP as the main indicator for economic growth was implemented by the EU in 2013:

REGULATION (EU) No 99/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 January 2013 on the European statistical programme 2013-17
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:039:0012:0029:EN:PDF

2. Accounting frameworks

The Commission Communication of 20 August 2009 entitled ‘GDP and beyond: Measuring progress in a changing world’, and the publication of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress have given new impetus to the key challenge for the ESS, namely how to achieve better statistics on cross-cutting issues and more integrated statistics to describe complex social, environmental and economic phenomena beyond the traditional measures of economic output. The European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA) offers an integrated and consistent framework for all economic statistics that should be complemented by other indicators in order to provide more comprehensive information for policy- and decision-making.

2.1. Economic and social performance

The economic crisis has reinforced the need to have a set of high-quality macroeconomic indicators to better understand and analyse economic fluctuations and their effects on society, and thereby facilitate the decision-making process. Increasingly globalised production makes it necessary to develop a consistent framework that facilitates the interpretation and integration of statistics from different domains.

And here are some paragraphs concerning environmental goals:

Objective 2 .2 .1

Provide environmental accounts and climate change-related statistics, taking into account international developments in this area.

The objective will be implemented by:

• — the development of a coherent system of environmental accounts as ‘satellite accounts’ to the main national accounts, providing information on atmospheric emissions, energy consumption, flows and reserves of material natural resources and water, trade in basic and in critical raw materials, environmental taxation and spending on environ mental protection, possibly including green growth/procurement;
  
  
• — the upgrading, development, production and dissemination of indicators that show secondary pressures, impacts of climate change, including on health, vulnerabilities and adaptation progress; and
  
  
• — the development of a headline indicator measuring global environmental pressure.

Objective 3.3.2
Provide environmental statistics to support the policy-making process of the Union.

The objective will be implemented by:

— A set of key environmental statistics on resources, such as on waste and recycling, water, raw materials deposits, ecosystems services and biodiversity at national and where possible regional level, and a set of key climate change- related statistics to support mitigation and adaptation actions and policies at all relevant levels from local to Union level.

Objective 3 .3 .3
Provide energy and transport statistics to support the policies of the Union.

The objective will be implemented by the production and dissemination of statistics on:
— renewable energy;
— energy savings/energy efficiency; and
— transport safety, passenger mobility, road traffic measurement and intermodal freight transport.

edit: The concept was developed by CMEPSP (Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress) who then came out with the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report, german Wikipedia has an entry that illustrates the goals. English wikipedia has not. So use google translate if necessary. Heres the link:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi-Kommission

 

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BTS new music video (premiered a week ago) is about saving humanity and nature in americas back yard.


Are you woke yet?

(You know BTS from Fallon, btw.
h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZh-w2nysuI (Oh, and the carpool guy h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4x7sDevVTY ) )

The propaganda is turned up again..



Anyone wanna work at the UN? Just follow the BTS..

(This time a PBS production. Better fit than NBC getting access to Grand Central Station to film a music video.. (link in the quoted posting, you have to expand it) )

UN are those guys - btw:
https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2019-05-28/remarks-r20-austrian-world-summit (repost)

Dont worry, It doesnt have to make sense. Its just happening. For no reason..


edit: Greta is now also more on general UN line - and interested in social egality - so good news, I guess..

 

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UN Pre Conference (UN youth for climate summit) to the next COP (preconference held in Milan):

Greta was holding a longer speech in front of a largely friendly audience:


I refrain from commenting. Watch without having your opinion moved one way or another, and decide, if its going well..

One of the points she is making that by 2030 the IPCC projects 16% higher CO2 emissions, worldwide (judging from todays levels I presume).

 

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Neat discussion on climate technologies:


Imho.