Business lobby: Finland must stick to climate target to ensure economic growth

#carbonneutral #finland
https://yle.fi/a/74-20155637

Five minute video with interesting facts that I did not know about #Edmonton's massive near-downtown building project, #Blatchford, which is the largest planned #carbonneutral community in North America!

https://youtu.be/3xsdx7V7rwc?si=K7sBEWNW3wVvwSki

January 2025 was brutal cold here. We used 3.6MWh in just that one month!

The kWh bank is down to ~700kWh, but spring is near and we're starting to produce more than we consume once again.

https://www.europesays.com/1690294/ Environment groups call for more citizen involvement in green initiatives #CarbonNeutral #ClimateChange #coal #Energy #Environment #fossil #green #lng #NetZero #NewsArticle #Taiwan

Hvis hver dansker gav 1.000 kr til genskovning om året så kunne vi reducere vores CO2 fodaftryk med 78 millioner tons og effektivt gøre hele Danmarks befolkning CO2-neutral.

Kan du undvære 85 kr om måneden?

What happens to the world if #forests stop absorbing #carbon? Ask #Finland

#NaturalSinks of forests and #peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be #CarbonNeutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more #GreenhouseGases than it stores

"The number of dying trees also increased in recent years as forests are stressed by #drought and high temperatures. In south-east Finland, the number of dying trees has risen rapidly, increasing 788% in just six years between 2017 and 2023, and the amount of standing deadwood – decaying trees – is up by about 900%."

by Patrick Greenfield, Inari, Finland

"Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around #Inari, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange when they should be a deep green. The moss on the forest floor, usually swollen with water, has withered.

"'I have spoken with many old #ReindeerHerders who have never experienced the heat that we’ve had this summer. The sun keeps shining and it never rains,' says Sanila-Aikio, former president of the #FinnishSami parliament.

"The #BorealForests here in the #Sami homeland take so long to grow that even small, stunted trees are often hundreds of years old. It is part of the #Taiga – meaning “land of the little sticks” in Russian – that stretches around the far northern hemisphere through #Siberia, #Scandinavia, #Alaska and #Canada.

"It is these forests that helped underpin the credibility of the most ambitious carbon-neutrality target in the developed world: Finland’s commitment to be #CarbonNeutral by 2035.

"The law, which came into force two years ago, means the country is aiming to reach the target 15 years earlier than many of its EU counterparts.

"In a country of 5.6 million people with nearly 70% covered by forests and peatlands, many assumed the plan would not be a problem.

"For decades, the country’s forests and peatlands had reliably removed more carbon from the atmosphere than they released. But from about 2010, the amount the land absorbed started to decline, slowly at first, then rapidly. By 2018, Finland’s land sink – the phrase scientists use to describe something that absorbs more carbon than it releases – had vanished."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe?CMP=GTUK_email

I just saw someone on Facebook claiming that #CarbonNeutral means getting rid of all the CO² in the atmosphere which he said would be bad because life on Earth would die. I pointed out how wrong he was and he just use the laughter reaction.

"How meat and milk companies are racing to ease your climate guilt."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/22/meat-climate-impact-tyson-hopdoddys/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzA1ODk5NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA3MjgxOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDU4OTk2MDAsImp0aSI6ImRlNGNjNjNlLTJjOWYtNDg0OC04OWEzLTFkYzM0MGM1NDE0MSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjQvMDEvMjIvbWVhdC1jbGltYXRlLWltcGFjdC10eXNvbi1ob3Bkb2RkeXMvIn0.wFGmMWYI80_RG13Ir1UzTK7fsNIpm7kbSwtUvtFqBKs

WaPo finally posted a modest critique of meat industry greenwashing.

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Under another new California law, companies also must disclose the emissions created throughout their supply chains, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is working on a similar requirement.

It all has big food companies rushing to show progress in cutting emissions, particularly after so many of them promised to zero out their net release of greenhouse gases — known as going “carbon neutral” — by 2050 or earlier, in alignment with the Paris agreement on global warming. In the backdrop is a contentious debate over how those companies should calculate their carbon footprints.

The fight has shifted to an obscure independent organization called the GHG Protocol, a group made up of corporations, scientists and environmental groups that writes accounting rules for greenhouse gas emissions that will guide what climate claims companies can make under new state laws.

Among the companies involved in determining when and how farming and harvesting methods can be used to erase the emissions impact of products like hamburgers and dairy are McDonald’s, Nestlé and the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, to which meat giants Tyson Foods and Cargill belong.

The deliberations of the GHG Protocol, which is managed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, are kept confidential. But discord spilled into public in the fall, following its publication of draft guidelines for farm and forestry emissions. Dozens of environmental groups and academics say the rules as proposed would allow companies to declare climate-unfriendly products such as lumber, paper, beef and milk carbon neutral — or even carbon negative — by making modest land use adjustments that don’t truly mitigate the emissions of those products.
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There's certainly going to be more and more tension due to these corporations trying to find better greenwashing, better methods of faking data, more sophisticated bullshit.

It's going to get a lot worse before they lose.

#CarbonOffset is a myth!

Over 1 year ago, #Grab launched a feature on their ride-sharing platform allowing you to opt-in to carbon offsets for your rides. People like myself have been duped.

https://www.grab.com/sg/grab-for-good-singapore/

Their primary partner for the #GrabForGood project is the “Katingan Mentaya Project” which has been proven to be nothing more than a giant #GreenWashing campaign

- https://web.archive.org/web/20230725125311/https://www.wrm.org.uy/15-years-of-redd-the-Katingan-REDD-Project-in-Indonesia
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230331114535/https://www.platform-investico.nl/artikel/shell-klimaatbos-zucht-onder-branden-en-boeren-geannoteerd-verhaal/#annotation-29828-12

Tell the people you know to opt out of this & stop allowing companies to greenwash their claim #CarbonNeutral claims.

My sources come from this video:

https://youtu.be/Jrao3wBit0A

It goes into great detail the degree of lies these companies sell you.

Read an interesting article in Bike Magazine about efuels, and adding that to a chat I had with someone from Mobil1
via KTM, it seems like the switch to non-fossil hydrocarbons could be accelerated by taxing C12 isotopic content. Or perhaps the lack of C14/C13.

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• I work for a #cleantech #energy company, trying to make us more efficient and #carbonneutral through electrification ️
• I do #statistics (#datascience) , #dataenginnering, and #softwareenginnering with #python
• Besides that, I like travel (especially on #trains), #food , #wine and #whisky (no ‘e’) with friends, learning Latin, and trying to catch up on ~5 years poor sleep now that my kids are getting older