People gathered around cake at a children’s party
Parenting Applied to Diplomacy…
COP President must send everyone home with something
🇧🇷 Brazil #COP30 Strategy: Kids Party Model
* Prep furiously & build expectations
* Over-stimulate until guests are tired/emotional
* Send them home with an underwhelming goody bag of treats/trinkets
Harsh?
This was Alessandra Korap Munduruku this morning. She lives in the Brazilian state where COP is taking place this year! She was not given a pass into the Blue Zone.
These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!
For more, see the report I co-authored with @climatecouncil.bsky.social and @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social last year: www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/th...
#Adelaide to host #COP31 if Australia/Pacific bid successful
South Australia on track to achieve 💯% energy from renewables with 🔋 backup
This region also subject to rising seas, bushfires, coral bleaching, extreme weather
Showcasing both risks and solutions
#climate
www.afr.com/policy/energ...
The fossil fuel industry is fighting hard to protect their interests here in Busan #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty 220 lobbyists - more than any other negotiating session
Spotted in the metro station next to where the negotiations for a Global #PlasticsTreaty #INC5 are being held
84% of the public support limiting plastic production so as to tackle plastic pollution
People were polled in 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇰🇪🇨🇭🇪🇸 and host of #INC5: 🇰🇷
Will the #PlasticsTreaty deliver on public expectations?
www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2024/11/22/8...
On my way to #INC5 of the #PlasticsTreaty in Busan. I brought a little puzzle to keep me busy on the plane ❤️
This piece 👇 in the Lancet highlights this and points out that the benefits of single use plastic in medical settings are overplayed, need more critical study and calls for commercial interests not to exert influence over the course of the
negotiations: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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During the last round of negotiations, posters with the slogan ‘These plastics save lives’ cropped up around the venue where talks were being held. They bore no company logo. Who do you think was pushing this message?
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The medical plastics market is predicted to grow 10% each year and be worth over $40 billion by 2028. Most of this growth is in single-use items - many of which end up in landfill or burnt
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There are some who argue that medical uses should have an exemption from a production cap that the #PlasticsTreaty aims to impose. The @who.int is not one of them though – they actually oppose a blanket exemption
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Advanced tech and materials like these make an incredible contribution to our quality of life. But plastic production is set to triple by 2050 and in doing so use up a third of the global carbon budget.
So we need to do everything we can to stop this crazy expansion of plastic production.
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Man holds x-ray scan of his own chest showing device inserted in heart
Recently I had surgery to close a hole in my heart. An amazing device of titanium, nickel & polyester was inserted into a vein, fed into my heart & opened up like a tiny umbrella ☂️
How's it feel as someone who spends his days fighting #plastic production to have plastic forever in my heart? 🤔
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This piece 👇 in the Lancet highlights this and points out that the benefits of single use plastic in medical settings are overplayed, need more critical study and calls for commercial interests not to exert influence over the course of the #INC5 negotiations:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
During the last round of negotiations, posters with the slogan ‘These plastics save lives’ cropped up around the venue where talks were being held. They bore no company logo. Who do you think was pushing this message?
The medical plastics market is predicted to grow 10% each year and be worth over $40 billion by 2028. Most of this growth is in single-use items - many of which end up in landfill or burnt
There are some who argue that medical uses should have an exemption from a production cap that the #PlasticsTreaty aims to impose. The @who.int is not one of them though – they actually oppose a blanket exemption.
Advanced tech and materials like these make an incredible contribution to our quality of life.
But plastic production is set to triple by 2050 and in doing so use up a third of the global carbon budget. So we need to do everything we can to stop this crazy expansion of plastic production.
