In a system of increasing waste generation, we are faced with a frantic search for short-term solutions such as burying or incinerating waste (and waste-toenergy). This supposed use of waste for energy produces toxic waste, pollutes the air, and contributes to climate change. The costs of this are externalized on the environment and people. Incinerators …
REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION (REDD) – One of the many environmental functions of trees and bushes in their growth is to take in carbon. When a tree is cut down, this carbon is released in the form of CO2 emissions. Therefore, forest degradation and deforestation are a key contribution to climate change. …
Businesses and governments encourage carbon neutrality as it is considered to effect a radical change in their country’s economy and also eliminate fossil fuels and other gas emission sources like greenhouse gases ‘to any possible extent’. According to this presupposition, each tonne of fossil CO2 is equaled to a tonne absorbed by plants, oceans, soil, …
The carbon emission trading system allows the purchase of inexpensive exemptions on UN or governmental regulations regarding CO2. Furthermore, it sells and grants permits to anybody who claims their CO2 pollution has been ‘neutralised’. These exemptions and permits have been put forward by corporations and States which assume responsibility and run the ‘cleaning’ capabilities of …
The supremacist view of environmental management has established a narrative to understand and measure the impacts of human actions mainly on ecosystems by means of economic liberal theories such as environmental economics. These interventions claim to avoid, prevent, mitigate and compensate for environmental damage, following this exact order. An analogy would serve the purpose of …
GEOENGINEERING – Geoengineering is a false and dangerous response to the climate crisis encouraged by governments and corporations which advertise hypothetical schemes of largescale human intervention in oceans, soil and the atmosphere, with the objective of ‘reducing climate change’. Speculating and manipulating scientific knowledge, geoengineering promotes ‘solutions’ which will grow into profitable businesses. No evidence …
EMISSÕES NET ZERO – Cada vez mais, tomadores de decisão e autoridades governamentais, organizações multilaterais, instituições financeiras internacionais, ONGs e corporações transnacionais usam o conceito de “net zero” ou “emissões líquidas zero” como estratégia para limpar suas imagens, distraindo e confundindo a população para evitar enfrentar seriamente a crise climática. O conceito “net zero” esconde …
DECARBONISATION – Decarbonisation alludes to the actions whose objective is to develop economies with less CO2 emissions. Instead, it should contrive to eliminate the consumption of fossil fuels whose molecular structure is carbon-based and whose combustion releases pollutants–which affect people’s health and ecosystems–, such as GHG provoking warming near the Earth’s surface and impacting on …
BIOENERGY WITH CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE (BECCS) – BECCS is the process of eliminating the excess of atmospheric CO2 causing the greenhouse effect. BECCS consists of first producing energy by means of biomass combustion, and then, with the help of industrial machinery, absorbing CO2 to reinject it in carbon sinks such as soil and the …
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) was responsible for the introduction of this term in 2010 and Global Alliance for Climate-smart Agriculture (GACSA) was officially launched during COP24 in November 2014. CSI is an approach to help transform and redirect agri-systems with the purpose of supporting important agro-industries. Although CSI has …
