Climate Change, Justice, and the Environment: Colette Pichon Battle explains what she wants to tell people about climate change and how we can help them

As the Re:WIRED GREEN event on addressing climate change drew to a close yesterday, the weather underlined the urgency in the most horrific way possible.

While climate activist and lawyer Colette Pichon Battle spoke from a stage in blue-skied San Francisco, Hurricane Ian continued its destructive path across southwest Florida, underscoring her already-urgent call to action. “I just want to make sure that you’re paying attention to what’s happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now,” Pichon Battle said. She urged the audience to take notice of climate related events around the world, from rain events in Houston to deadly floods in Pakistan and Cape Verde.

At the end of her talk, Pichon Battle asked the crowd to reject climate projects that reduce emissions but still exploit and extract marginalized communities. Instead, she says, people must embrace more radical and equitable approaches to climate change. Pichon Battle said that we must stop telling ourselves that we will survive if we switch to another form of oppression. In other words: Greenwashing is injustice. She told her friends to join them with their hearts and souls.

Mediums like TikTok are good for spreading information in a way that people can easily ingest, as well as for organizing volunteers. “Instead of the traditional forms of media, where it would be a scientist or a politician getting on the news and droning on about the newest scientific updates or policy papers,” Kianni said, “we now have young people who are able to get in front of a camera and say in five seconds what they think the major headline is.” That, she adds, is a big differentiator between the climate activists of Earle’s generation and hers.

She began “striking” at Swedish parliament four and a half years ago with a single sign. She was 15. She told the assembled diplomats and negotiators that they were not mature enough to tell it like it was, but that they had left the burden of children to us.

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“I’d like to know from you,” Earle said, “how to strengthen that bridge between the knowledge that is there and communicating it in a way that people listen.”

Kianni considers social media to be the bridge. She founded the Climate Cardinals to translate information about the environment into as many languages as possible. She did something with her family after she saw pollution in the home country of her parents. Kianni said that TikTok has enabled him to reach hundreds of thousands of people through organic, short-form video.

Few other American presidents can claim to have attended the United Nations climate talks, but that’s not the case for President Biden. He muscled through a landmark climate law that is pouring $370 billion into the effort to speed the American economy away from fossil fuels. He has seeded climate policy across the federal government. His administration plans to enact the strongest regulation to date to reduce methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Mr. Biden is also buoyed by a surprisingly strong showing of his party in Tuesday’s midterm elections, a performance that bucked historical trends and may allow the Democrats to retain control of Congress.

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Poor countries have avoided calls to compensate for climate disasters because wealthy nations have avoided them because they might open them to unlimited liability. It has been extremely difficult to define loss and damage, who should pay, and how much.

environmentalist and activist from Kenya, Wanjira Mathai, said that there is more than enough money in the economy. $17 trillion showed up when Covid happened and the economies need to be shored up. There is money. There is a crisis in the way that we think.

Paul Bledsoe, a climate adviser under President Bill Clinton who now lectures at American University, said there was no way Mr. Biden would embrace the idea of loss and damage payments.

He said that America is culturally incapable of meaningful support in the form of compensation. “Having not made them to Native Americans or African Americans, there is little to no chance they will be seriously considered regarding climate impacts to foreign nations. It is not an acceptable way to conduct domestic politics in our country.

John Kerry, Mr. Biden’s climate envoy, has proposed instead to let corporations invest in renewable-energy projects in developing countries that would allow them to claim the resulting cuts in greenhouse gases against their own climate goals. Those so-called carbon offset initiatives are viewed skeptically by many climate scientists and activists, who see them as simply allowing companies to continue polluting.

The case of a hunger-striking Egyptian dissident is in the forefront of the summit after Mr. Biden is scheduled to meet President Abdel Fattait el-Sisi of Egypt. Mr. Abd El Fattah had said he would stop drinking water last Sunday, at the start of the COP27 summit. If he dies,representatives of nongovernmental groups threatened to leave the conference.

Demonstrators, who are a mainstay at U.N. climate summits, have been muted all week at this gathering because of tight restrictions imposed by Mr. Sisi’s government. On Friday morning a group of 100 people from Fridays for Future made their presence known inside the area that is under the control of the United, as well as protesters and activists opposed to oil and gas drilling in Africa.

The 27th United Nations Conference of the Parties is taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The discussions have talked about the need to decarbonize industries, adaptation strategies for climate-resilient agriculture and loss and damage compensation.

Nature spoke to four climate scientists from the host country about their research, the challenges they encounter, and their hopes for the conference as the conference enters its second week.

At my research institute, we work on projects to mitigate the sea-level rise in the Nile Delta, and study its impact on farmers and people living in the surrounding area.

There is a lot of uncertainty in the field because of the diversity of climate models., and this makes it difficult to transform our research into feasible projects that can be put into immediate action. Using the computers we have access to, it can take three months to run one model, whereas high-performance computers can do it in one hour. The lack of supporting technologies causes delays in producing our research.

My colleagues are attending COP27 and delivering a presentation on the Water Day, 14 November. We cannot change policies because we are doing research. We wish to hear about an agreement to reduce emissions by the end of COP27, and to see actions not just words. There have been many promises made at the previous COP meetings.

Climate change adaptation, loss and damage: a research challenge for a country with poor access to scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa

There is a huge gap in climate research in the Middle East and North Africa. The majority of studies focus on Europe or the Mediterranean region. You wouldn’t find research specifically on Egypt, for example; the work that exists is like a by-product of research on the Mediterranean region or the African continent.

My research focuses on finding strategies to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and sea-level rise in the Nile Valley. I collaborate with plant-breeding scientists at the University of Florida to find plant genotypes that can tolerate droughts and a high level of salinity.

Despite our research, I don’t feel it is my job to translate the results from studies into effective adaptation projects. So, I hope that with COP27, we can see immediate action to initiate the implementation of such projects before it’s too late.

I gave a talk about my start-up in another session during a session on climate- change adaptation, loss and damage at the COP 27 youth and future generations day held on 10 November.

A company I co-founded collects plastic waste from the streets and recycles it into a mulch film to protect the soil and reduce the amount of water needed for irrigation.

In my academic research, I focused on how the decision-making process in the public and private sectors affects the implementation of sustainability and development goals and tackling climate change in Egypt.

Lack of data or poor access to data has been my greatest challenge. It is an issue when a researcher in a developing country pays for access to multiple international journals to read their research papers.

Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, and Politics: Educating Students, Students, and the Power of Government Secrecy

Fossil fuel industry created a network to challenge the science of climate change in order to make the political decision not to act on it. The industry’s efforts, which are ongoing, have included at least 4,556 individuals with ties to 164 different organizations. The companies were given a half-century to continue to extract fossil fuels and delay transition to clean energy because of the investment in climate change denial.

For instance, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA)—bankrolled by BP, Shell, Chevron, and other fossil fuel corporations—has challenged climate change’s existence and blamed termites and volcanoes for climate change. Now, as the science has become more difficult to challenge, it creates doubt about policies. In response to student movements to encourage universities to eliminate fossil fuels from their endowments, theIPAA bought a website named “divestmentfacts.com” in 2015, which funded professors and consultants to write reports about why it won’t work.

Students of agnotology will also explore the pros and cons of government secrecy, such as the US Atomic Energy Act of 1946 that designates all knowledge about nuclear fission as classified (still in effect). They will examine the history of the Evangelical church’s objection to evolution being taught in schools. They’ll look at examples of current misinformation, including the claim that smoking can prevent Covid-19, the meat and dairy industry downplays the contributions of cows to climate change, and the new Dairy Farmers of America advertisement featuring a man in a white lab coat.

As knowledge remains our best hope to save the planet and ourselves, in 2023 a deeper understanding of ignorance will help us learn what the powerful do not want us to know.

By January she had become the face of the global climate movement and it was time for her to leave. She led weekly marches across the globe that drew millions of people through 2019 and helped force the world’s most powerful people to at least pay lip service to what they now called a climate crisis.

Why did Kalmus and Abramoff protest? What happened at the AGU meeting, and why did she get arrested? A spokesperson said the society’s ethics policy and meetings code of conduct

The AGU, which has 60,000 members who include Earth and space scientists, declined to answer Nature’s questions because of the ongoing investigations. But a spokesperson said that the society’s ethics policy and meetings code of conduct require “attendees to treat everyone with respect, and this includes respecting presenters’ time to speak and audiences’ time to listen”.

Because the climate crisis is so dire, Abramoff says, she is willing to be arrested or fired to fight it — but she wasn’t expecting that to happen as a result of the AGU meeting. I was surprised. And I was sad, because I really enjoyed working at the laboratory.”

The society gives opportunities for people to reserve space for public engagement all year around, and is proactive in addressing the seriousness of climate change.

The first time that Kalmus and Abramoff protested, was on climate change. Both had been arrested for disobedience. For instance, they were detained last November after chaining themselves to the fence of Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina to protest against emissions from private jets, as part of global demonstrations organized by the activist group Scientist Rebellion.

According to a 10 January opinion piece that Abramoff wrote for The New York Times, Oak Ridge fired her because, it said, she had misused government resources by engaging in a personal activity on a work trip, and she hadn’t adhered to its code of business ethics and conduct.