October 2022
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What is E-waste and why should you care?
E-waste is electronic products (computers, televisions, smartphones, stereos and others) 📱 that are unwanted, not working, and nearing or at the end of their “useful life.”
Watch this and forthcoming #BeatPollution videos to unearth the waste side of various industries.
This #WorldFoodDay and every day: reduce food loss and waste!
Did you know ending food waste could reduce global carbon emissions by 8-10%?
The climate crisis 🚨 is here. Decision makers need to here from 👉 YOU!
Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere.
Methane makes up 30% of the net warming impact of all greenhouse gases and is the second largest contributor to #ClimateChange.
The good news is that cutting methane release caused by humans can dramatically reduce emissions for climate mitigation.
⚠️ #ClimateChange misinformation is a risk to everyone.
At a time when urgent action is needed to avoid the worst climate impacts, climate misinformation risks delaying responses to humanity’s biggest challenge.
With climate disasters impacting more and more people, it’s crucial that accurate information on #ClimateChange is available to everyone.
Misinformation on #ClimateChange is a major obstacle to efforts of addressing the triple planetary crisis.
Deceptive or misleading content:
🔴 distorts the perception of climate science and solutions
🔴 creates confusion, and
🔴 leads to delays in action or even harmful action.
Do your part to communicate effectively and to spread verified science.
Europe had its warmest October on record, with temperatures nearly 2°C above the 1991-2020 reference period. In western Europe, a warm spell brought record daily temperatures and it was a record-warm October for Austria, Switzerland and France, as well as for large parts of Italy and Spain.
Protests and strikes against environmental degradation continued across the globe in October, with demonstrators demanding decisive action to tackle climate change.
Activists and netizens kept on street protests and online campaigns. Events included Fridays for Future's weekly protests and anti-government demonstrations over failing climate policies.
On Friday, in room 43 of London's National Gallery, two young women opened cans of tomato soup and threw their contents onto Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting Sunflowers. The soup-throwers donned shirts displaying the logo of Just Stop Oil, an activist group that has been staging nonviolent demonstrations across the United Kingdom to protest the production of fossil fuels.
Two climate activists threw mashed potatoes on a glass-covered painting by the celebrated French Impressionist Claude Monet on Sunday inside a German museum, the latest art attack intended to draw attention to climate change.
