100 global solutions to Global warming: Paul Hawken on Drawdown
Paul Hawken on the long term CO2 trend
Paul Hawken explained the long term CO2 trend and the need for carbon Drawdown at a presentation event at Coburg Town Hall organised by CERES, MEFL and Moreland Council.
Hawken’s book on Drawdown explains the top 100 solutions to global warming and ranks them for their capacity and importance.
Food related solutions were 8 of the top 20 solutions with the need for a plant rich diet ranked as No 4.
Energy solutions were 5 of the top 20 solutions with onshore wind listed at No 2.
The work also shows the importance of programs tackling gender-based education inequalities with Educating girls at No 6 and Family Planning at No 7.
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Inconvenient Sequel attendance reflects continuing concern for climate action
Andrea Bunting from Climate Action Moreland on the Panel discussing issues raised from An Inconvenient Sequel film screening
Climate Action Moreland and Moreland Energy Foundation (MEFL) co-organised a film screening of Al Gore’s latest film: ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ at Coburg Town Hall. It was a free event but with registration. 300 seats were booked, the capacity of the event. But on the night we still had some vacant seats with about 220 people attending.
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Promoting heat respite at Council offices and Chasing up Moreland’s Heatwave response from October 2014
Melbourne Hot days over 35C long term trend
Extreme heat days in Victoria are a rising trend. We need to cut emissions to affect this trend in the long term. But for the short and medium term we need to put in place adequate strategies to build community resilience and climate adaptation to heatwaves and rising temperatures.
Climate Action Moreland Convenor John Englart met with the Mayor and Deputy Mayor following up Moreland’s heatwave response and a past Council decision from October 2014, to ensure Council policies and decisions are being adhered to.
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Film Screening: ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ followed by discussion
Al Gore presenting at COP23 in Bonn
There is a Free screening of Al Gore’s latest movie ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ being hosted by Moreland Energy Foundation (MEFL) and Climate Action Moreland, as part of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2018, on Wednesday 21st February 2018.
Come along to watch the film, get an understanding of the climate science and solutions, and what needs to be done by government, business and all of us as individuals.
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Feeling the heat of climatechange? Extreme temperatures are raising our ire
Last night the temperature in Melbourne (Olympic Park) didn’t go below 27.8 degrees Celsius with the humidity hovering between 40-50 percent. It came after a maximum temperature of 37.7C. Of course temperatures in the northern and western suburbs were up to 1-2 degrees higher.
Sunday also saw a record power usage, as people used their air conditioners to cool down. Although grid demand was at a record high for a Sunday of about 9,440MW, rooftop solar was contributing about 330MW.
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Study: 50 degree extreme heat days possible in Melbourne
Climate Emergency
Yes, heatwaves and extreme heat events are going to get worse for many years, even if we do everything possible to reduce emissions. Week long heatwaves, and extreme heat events with temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius may be seen in a decade or so in Sydney and Melbourne.
That is the inertia in the climate system. In the meantime we need to rapidly increase renewables while making energy savings through energy efficiency, and cutting emissions particularly from the electricity generation sector.
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Time for a climate damages tax on oil, gas and coal production
On Thursday, the second last day of the UN Climate Change conference in Bonn, 25 Nations, provinces and cities took the extraordinary step of committing to coal phaseout in a declaration to phase out coal in the OECD by 2030 and globally by 2050.
Everyone at COP outside the negotiating rooms is talking about coal and fossil fuels. But it is a sad fact that fossil fuels are not even mentioned or referred to once in the Paris Agreement, hence does not come up in the formal negotiating discussions or texts.
Progess on finance for Loss and Damages was one of the big asks by Pacific nations and developing countries at this conference. But substantial progress was blocked by developed countries like US, Australia, Canada and European Union. At the end a forum was conceded to discuss financial options in May. Weak progress.
Before the conference Climate Action Moreland joined with other civil society groups in signing on to the Climate Damages Declaration.
Climate Analytics has recently highlighted, it has been a year of climate extremes: a case for Loss & Damage at COP23. They identified what should be done to progress the Loss and Damage agenda at Bonn. Sadly, it was largely a missed opportunity, thanks in part to Australia’s position.
