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elise tempelhoff

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#EnvironmentalJournalist.🛑 #ecocide. #LivingWithLess #ClimateEmergency #EnvironmentalJustice #SocialJustice #LivingOnThe Edge of #history 🌍

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Why environmental journalism is such a hard sell🤦‍♀️

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Did you know? #Baku #Azerbaijan produces one Fifth of the oil used globally #COP29 #ClimateCrisis @ UNFCCC


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The new climate finance target is the big issue that will define #COP29 Government ministers are arriving to thrash out everything from the amount of money raised to who contributes towards it So as the second week begins, where are we with the climate finance negotiating text?

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HELP AND JOIN THE FIGHT TO PROTECT LIMPOPO'S WILD HEART South Africa plans to create a ‘Sacrifice Zone’ for coal and steel in Vhembe. Register as a stakeholder to help stop the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone from moving forward! livinglimpopo.org/resources/we-n…

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The plan to source 125 million cubic metres of water annually from the Limpopo River, its tributaries, and local groundwater jeopardises the entire river basin and its dependents. And it’s a climate resilience catastrophe. Wake up @environmentza @DWS_RSA! @LivingLimpopo @CALS_ZA

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Thirsty, energy-hungry steel ‘monster’ set to destroy thousands of Limpopo protected trees in industrial drive dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-1…


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Burning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power Burning household rubbish in giant incinerators to make electricity is now the dirtiest way the UK generates power, BBC analysis has found. @EsmeStallard @MattMcGrathBBC @PatrickClahane @Paul_SDU bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…


9.8cm sea level rise along the South African coast, since the early 1990's. 70% attributed to melting of glaciers around the world. #ClimateEmergency

NASA’s sea level rise data is available to help communities around the world. A new site, using data from NASA and its partners, includes information on projected sea level rise for coastlines out to the year 2150, as well as near-term flooding. Visit: earth.gov/sealevel

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“This is a story of avoidable injustice. The rich cause the problem, the poor pay the highest price. @Oxfam finds the richest billionaires emit more carbon in an hour and a half than the average person does in a lifetime,” said @UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres at #COP29.


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You know you're at a petrostate COP when Exxon gets to speak at a High Level Mitigation Ambition mtg held by the COP President. Exxon actually complains the world's not going fast enough on climate. Then they get a hug fm the World Bank President #COP29Baku #COP29Azerbaijan


👇"...for your planet- cooking child.." @COP29_AZ

Picked up some solid #COP29 swag for the kids. A @GazpromEN colouring book - complete with pictures of squirrels, seals, coal-tits and walking batteries. You'd almost forget it's a massive gas outfit...

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🔥👩‍⚖️ hot take on 🇳🇱Dutch Appeal Court ruling in #ClimateShellCase: Appeal Ruling Grants Shell Temporary Reprieve but Reaffirms Obligation for Fossil Fuel Companies to Limit Carbon Emissions #ClimateLitigation #klimaatzaak 🧵more in thread below -incl link to ruling in English ⬇️

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And ironically the right to water is a constitutional right!


"It is a national embarrassment that the inability of the City of Johannesburg to supply water to its residents, business, public sector offices, has now led to the shutdown of operations at the Constitutional Court, on Constitution Hill.." @Our_DA


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🚨Once again, we are sending out a Red Alert. 📈The #StateOfClimate Update confirms that 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record—hotter even than 2023, which smashed all previous records. 🎥Press Conference from #COP29: unfccc.int/event/wmo-stat…

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