THIS IS DEVASTATING !
WE ARE LIVING IN A CLIMATE CRISIS
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We can’t smell the smoke nor feel the heat of the burning forest now BUT it will get us if we don’t do our part.
How can we help?
It's unlikely you're one of the people who can actually help douse the blaze, but there are other ways you can aid in protecting the rainforest.
🔥Donate to Rainforest Action Network to protect an acre of the Amazonian rainforest.
🔥Donate to Rainforest Trust to help buy land in the rainforest. Since 1988, the organization has saved over 23 million acres.
🔥Reduce your paper and wood consumption. Double-check with Rainforest Alliance :what u're buying is considered rainforest-safe. U can also purchase rainforest-safe products fr the alliance's site.
🔥Reduce your processed beef intake. Beef found in processed products and fast-food burgers often comes fr the rainforest.
🔥The World Wildlife works to protect the species in the Amazon and around the world.
🔥Ecosia.org Ecosia is a search engine that plants a tree for every 45 searches u run.
🔥Explore Change.org petitions. A lawyer in Rio Branco has accumulated over 77,000 of his 150,000 signature goal to mobilize an investigation into the Amazonian fires.
🔥Donate to Amazon Watch ,an organization that protects the rainforest, defends Indigenous rights and works to address climate change.
🔥Donate to the Amazon Conservation Team which works to fight climate change, protect the Amazon and empower Indigenous peoples. Amazon Conservation accepts donations and lists exactly what your money goes toward. You can help plant trees, sponsor education, protect habitats, buy a solar panel, preserve Indigenous lands and more.
🔥Contact your elected officials and make your voice heard.
🔥Donate to One Tree Planted One Tree Planted which works to stop deforestation around the world and in the Amazon Rainforest. One Tree Planted will keep u updated and the impact your trees are having on the community.
🔥Sign Greenpeace's petition telling the Brazilian government to save the Amazon rainforest and protect the lands of the WORLD!
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indigenous action network 在 媽媽監督核電廠聯盟 Facebook 的最佳貼文
U.N. COP23專題報導 -- COP23場外 德反煤行動千人佔領森林、礦場!! (11/10/2017 TEIA環境資訊中心)
(綜合外電報導,姜唯編譯;蔡麗伶審校)今年聯合國氣候峰會COP23在德國波昂舉行,然而距離議場不到一個小時車程處,就是德國環境成績單上的一大汙點——萊茵集團(RWE)的露天煤礦。
這個礦場近漢巴赫森林,寬85公里、深400公尺,是歐陸地表最大洞,也是歐洲最大碳排來源。
環團決定在COP23前夕非法佔領,直接挑戰化石燃料業。
數千人在5日當天佔領礦場,包圍10層樓高的機具。另有幾十個人在鄰近的森林裡建立營地,阻止煤礦擴張。
根據「環境正義地圖」(Environmental Justice Map),這是全球70個「堵路運動」(Blockadia)運動之一 。其他運動還包括美國達科他輸油管、鹿特丹的煤炭運輸、肯亞的煤炭生產。氣候運動人士對於政府進度緩慢感到不耐,只好自己來。
195個國家簽署了2015年巴黎協定,旨在保持全球變暖不超過2°C。但是迄今為止政府的承諾遠遠沒有達到這個目標,這表示著接下來升溫可能達到更為危險的3°C。
許多國家加碼投資再生能源,但是淘汰化石燃料的進度緩慢,也有人呼籲將這些資源留在地下,但許多國家仍在繼續開發新的石油、煤炭和天然氣資源,包括常被譽為氣候領袖的COP23主辦國德國。
根據石油改革國際(Oil Change International)8日發布的報告,儘管梅克爾素有氣候大臣(Klimakanzlerin)的美名,但德國排放量自2009年以來一直沒有下降。
這是因為風力和太陽能的使用大多填補了核電廠留下的缺口,而當地開採的褐煤仍然是萊茵河沿岸工業腹地的主要能源之一。每年,漢巴赫和鄰近的煤礦都會生產3000萬噸比黑煤更髒的褐煤。
這份研究發現,除非德國在十年內淘汰褐煤,否則巴黎協定目標將無法實現。但德國不但未能為其他國家樹立典範,根據報告,該國投資海外化石燃料勘探的金額比再生能源多50%。
報告的作者之一麥金農(Hannah McKinnon)表示,德國在世界舞台上扮演著領導者的角色,但卻沒有兌現其國內外政策的承諾。這樣的失敗是公民社會動員的主要理由。
5日的抗議活動是最近德國一系列「到此為止」(Ende Gelände)活動之一,旨在和平阻撓主要礦場的挖掘作業。
第一次抗議活動發生在2015年,1500人進入RWE的Garzweiler礦場。去年,3000多名行動人士(其中許多身穿白色紙衣,帶著一袋袋的吸管來抵擋警棍)佔領了另一個礦坑和Welzow-Süd發電廠。
除了這些通常持續不到一天的抗議活動之外,更有數十名氣候行動人士在附近的漢巴赫森林中住了好幾年,努力拖延礦場擴張時的伐林活動。
大部分人在樹上蓋樹屋住在裡面。他們堵住道路、挖壕溝,把手銬在樹幹上、躲在隧道裡,就為了保護棲息著珍稀物種,卻不斷因為褐煤礦擴張而被砍伐的森林。
近五年來,外界對這個團體的支持穩步成長。在波昂,來自其他國家的行動人士也聲援德國反煤團體的活動。
原住民環境網(Indigenous Environmental Network,IEN)執行董事高德斯(Tom Goldtooth)表示,RWE煤礦象徵了賺錢的公司可以破壞環境,地方居民和公民社會反抗卻得被逮捕的全球系統。
在議場邊,高德斯和其行動人士設立了一個國際自然權利仲裁機構,審議危害環境的罪行。
※本文與台達電子文教基金會低碳生活部落格合作刊登
參考資料:
英國衛報(2017年11月8日),Germany's dirty coalmines become the focus for a new wave of direct action
https://www.theguardian.com/…/germanys-dirty-coalmines-beco…
文章內容資料原始來源:
http://e-info.org.tw/node/208370
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indigenous action network 在 環境資訊中心 Facebook 的最佳解答
在COP21大會正式登場前的周末,環境資訊中心夥伴─國際原住民事務工作者潘紀揚先生已先行抵達現場,見證了國際NGO 國際氣候聯盟(Climate Action Network)的人鏈行動。
這場人鏈行動是恐攻導致法國當局禁止所有抗議活動後,民間團體採取的權宜行動,有一萬多人參與,有平和,也有警民激烈衝突,導致400多人被捕。
【COP21倒數計時】專題:http://e-info.org.tw/taxonomy/term/43380
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以下是潘紀揚先生的英文紀錄,讀者也可同步搭配 ENS報導 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=86792
The following photographs will be pictures taken at yesterday Sunday's "Human Chain" protest event in center of Paris - organized by Climate Action Network, French climate activists, and international NGOs
- I was there with the Asian and worldwide indigenous peoples groups to join in with the over 10,000 crowd -
- at our end near one of the big churches (but not the Notre Dame) it was peaceful, no problem
- but at another end - there was violence and clash with riot police
- the event was organized as a peaceful demonstration to urge country leaders from all nations and the negotiators]\\ at UNFCCC to take serious action on Climate Change, to save the Earth and all Humanity
- It was organized, to replace a big protest rally, as French government banned all large assemblies during COP 21
- French media reported - violent clash broke out between demonstrators at yesterday's Human Chain event (took place at around Sunday noontime), with 10,000 people turn-out.
- over 400 persons were arrested, and French PM - Francois Hollande condemned the fighing, and said there were many saboteurs intending to create violence, in trying to disrupt the COP 21 meeting
So anyway, I was part of the event with a group of worldwide NGO and civic society delegates - to join in for showing solidarity with the protesters.