Loss and Damage fund — The result from COP27 was disappointing. Many National Governments will be left behind in terms of their credibility and influence on the international climate change stage because of the lack of action. Fortunately, country’s national or federal governments are not the only actors, legislation enacted by state and local governments…

How to plant a tree. Including the Dryland Planting Technique used in southern Australia. — How to plant a tree. First a few don’ts…… Digging a large, deep hole and throwing a handful of fertilizer in the bottom is not the best way to plant a tree. This creates a sump of cultivated open pore space soil, compared to the surrounding more compact soil, that…

From Earth System Science Data — The following is a summary of two paragraphs within the article Global carbon Budget 2022, detailing emissions for 2021 and emission projections for 2022. Read the entire article Global Carbon Budget (Friedlingstein et al. 2022) at this link ESSD — Global Carbon Budget 2022 (copernicus.org) This summary was written by…

The provision of education for women and girls worldwide is one of the most effective measures we can take to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Education is an intrinsic right for boys and girls but often cultural barriers and lack of money result in girls not going to school…

Every bit of warming matters, every year matters, every choice matters. That is what IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee said in his opening statement during the 2018 Talanoa Dialogue. — The following is a summary of a journal article by: McQueen, N., Gomes, K. V., McCormick, C., Blumanthal, K., Pisciotta, M., & Wilcox, J. (2021). A review of direct air capture (DAC): scaling up commercial technologies and innovating for the future. Progress in Energy, 3(3), 032001. …

Salote Nasalo Climate Activist from the Pacific. COP27 Pacific Islands Underwater. This is a transcript of an interview with Salote Nasalo, a climate activist from the South Pacific Islands, on COP 27 COPTV (370) COP27 COPTV | Salote Nasalo — YouTube Main focus? Right now, my main focus is loss…

The follow is a summary of events leading to the formation of the IPCC and the UNFCCC and the subsequent COPs held each year. — Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said after COP 23 in 2017 “It’s time to wake up and correct our course.” This still applies today. We have long known of the heat retaining properties of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This was proposed in the early 1800s by the French scientist…

How many more weather extremes do we need to experience before sufficient climate change mitigation is put in place? — Climate change is measured by recording observations over a long term, so when temperature, droughts, and floods break records, it is even more reason to take climate change mitigation action. Australia had extensive floods in South-East Queensland and coastal New South Wales in February and March 2022.

Changes in cultural practices are often a sufficient control — Included here are some mild but labour-intensive disease and insect control measures. It is important to be aware of the potential impacts on ecosystems of using pesticides and fertilizers. We appear to be in an insect decline, and 2 of our 7 planetary boundaries have been exceeded, biochemical flows, that…