The hastily appointed tree planting holiday got off to a flying start. Here in the capital Nairobi. Photo: AP
Today, November 13, has been declared National Tree Planting Day in Kenya.
The goal is to plant 15 billion trees until 2032, writes the British The Guardian.
Tree Planting Day only became public a week ago when Home Affairs Minister Kithure Kindiki made the announcement via social media.
– The government has declared a special holiday, during which the population across the country is expected to plant trees as a patriotic contribution to the national efforts to save our country from the devastating effects of climate change, he wrote.
Today, seven percent of the country is covered by forest, but the government has earmarked the equivalent of approximately SEK 865,570,277 to increase the coverage to ten percent.
Trees store carbon dioxide, which is one of the causes of global warming.
The climate crisis has caused severe drought in the Horn of Africa, including Kenya, which has experienced drought for five consecutive seasons.
The idea is that each resident should plant two saplings each. The country has approximately 47 million inhabitants.
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Genre image: Today’s absorption of coal, oil and gas will not meet the Paris Agreement. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
The production of oil, coal and gas will continue to be more than twice as large as it should be in order for us to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree target. It shows one report from the UN environmental agency UNEP and researchers from the Stockholm Environment Institute.
– Nations and oil producers must take responsibility in reducing the extraction of oil, coal and natural gas in a way that corresponds to the requirements and promises of reduced emissions to achieve the Paris Agreement. Today, these are not in line with each other, says Martin Hedberg, meteorologist and natural disaster specialist at Länsförsäkringar, to TT.
The USA, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are the largest producers of fossil fuels and all expect to increase their production in the coming years. Several other countries also continue to search for oil and gas, for example Norway and Great Britain.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea shake hands on One Foot Island after the Pacific Islands Forum. Australia decided today that the country is welcoming the residents of the sinking island nation due to rising sea levels and recurring strong storms. Photo: AP
Citizens of the island of Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean have been granted “special rights” to live and work in Australia, writes TT.
Tuvalu, with a population of 11,000 people, is among the world’s most vulnerable nations to rising sea levels.
“We believe that the people of Tuvalu deserve the choice to live, study and work elsewhere as the effects of climate change worsen,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Tuvaluan counterpart, Kausea Natano, said in a joint statement after the historic agreement.
Two of the island nation’s nine atolls have largely already sunk beneath the sea. Climate scientists fear that the island nation will be completely uninhabitable within the next 80 years.
Agneta Elmegård
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Art installation in Copenhagen ahead of the Obel Awards 2022 Photo: Obel Awards
It will become more difficult for producers to make claims that mislead consumers into believing that a product is “greener” and “kinder” than they are (so-called Greenwashing). It is the EU Parliament and the Council of the European Union that have agreed on new legislative proposals that will counter green painting.
Claiming climate compensation for greenhouse gas emissions must be prohibited. This means that products will not be able to be called “carbon dioxide neutral” or “climate positive” in marketing. Producers must also plan for what happens to a product at the end of its life cycle. Indirectly, this means that products and packaging should be easier to recycle and become circular.
In short, the new bill against greenwashing looks like this:
✓ It should become clearer what information about a product the manufacturer Show more
Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT
It may soon become more expensive to fly from Denmark.
As of 2025, the Danish government wants to introduce a new flight tax.
According to the proposal, the money withdrawn is to be used, among other things, for a green conversion of Danish domestic aviation.
How much more expensive the ticket will be depends on the length of the journey, but for longer flights it is several hundred Swedish kroner.
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I wonder if you can provide some facts about the water level rise. I doubt that is correct as it will take several hundred years before it is really felt. It is not erosion or that sand has been mined in the area. I’m not a climate change skeptic, because the climate has always changed, but good if we can get some facts. The country rises most in Sweden, and we know that, so we are on the safe side.
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Hello! According to the geologists I spoke to, there is no longer any land uplift in the southern and central regions of Sweden. The Authority for Community Protection and Preparedness has made technical calculations for what the rise in sea levels could mean for coastal cities in the future. You can find it here.
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We have to back off and live more in the countryside and get the opportunity to do that too. Industry, politics, power, money ?? Which person is worth more than 1 million kroner in salary?
Today they are grabbing billions, sick world.
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The Skåne coast is identified as a national risk area for flooding and erosion – Löderup’s beach is particularly vulnerable.
– Climate change means that we have to abandon the view of what the coasts look like today, says Per Danielsson at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
Kristianstad is Sweden’s lowest situated city.
New and higher dikes are now being built.
– We are doing this to protect the city against high tides and future sea level rises, says Karl Erik Svensson, project manager for the dike construction.