Itinerant Australian who falls in love with big ideas || Planet&Climate @Ashoka, founder @enkeMYM, Visiting Fellow @skollcentre, climate @WtgnCC || views my own
Wellington City, New Zealand
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Pip Wheaton retweeted
In good and climate-smart communities, infill housing should bring more life to the streets, and most streets should feel like linear parks.
But North American planning politics insists on putting lawns where homes should go, and cars where trees should go.
Kind of a problem.
Pip Wheaton retweeted
Whether it's ‘what about China?’ or the cost of living, climate action is as contested in language as any other way.
We’re keen to hear a wide range of people's responses to tricky climate arguments.
Pls visit our survey & RT 👇
🙏to the lovely people who've contributed so far!
Got any good ways to respond to tricky climate comments like these?
The @CAST_Centre will be publishing an online guide to creative and inspiring responses. We’d love to hear from you!
Contribute via our survey: t.ly/0g254
ALT People talking about climate change and questioning the value of taking action.
Pip Wheaton retweeted
just saw this in tiktok and it’s definitely the nicest and kindest argument for doing anything politically positive
Pip Wheaton retweeted
We found that, at the achieved rates, these countries would on average take more than 220 years to reduce their emissions by 95%, emitting 27 times their remaining 1.5C fair-shares in the process.
There is nothing "green" about this. It is a recipe for disaster.
Pip Wheaton retweeted
Climate change is the quintessential ‘everything crisis.’ It’s going to hit our heads using lots of different pathways. One model that’s helpful to get our heads round the links between climate and mind is allostatic load, stress regulation; remarkably similar to climate dynamics
Pip Wheaton retweeted
Don't have time to complete Politicsl Compass..
Here's your quick and easy voting guide for NZ
I’ll be talking climate change and what it looks like in this city we love with some awesome colleagues on July 31st. We’ll talk impacts and causes, along with te ao Māori and community-led action action. Come join us!
Join us for a Zoom webinar and let's have a conversation about how climate change is affecting the capital and what we can all do to make a difference.
Reserve your place and find out more about our panel at: eventbrite.co.nz/e/community…
📆 Monday 31 July
⏰ 7pm - 8.30pm
ALT Two people sitting in an artificial garden and laughing.
Good to see @jamespeshaw signing Aotearoa New Zealand up for this.
++BREAKING++
18 ministers from the "High Ambition Coalition" group of nations have issued a letter calling for "an urgent phase out from fossil fuels"...
"We must peak GHG
emissions by 2025 at the latest and reduce them by 43% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels"
#COP28
Brilliant work by @law4climateNZ
#BREAKING: The High Court has ordered James Shaw to reconsider ETS settings both for this year and the next four years, after Cabinet rejected the Climate Change Commission's advice in December.
Full story: newsroom.co.nz/sustainable-f…
Stop inviting fossil fuel companies to climate talks, but more than that, stop partnering with them assuming they’re acting in good faith.
The fossil fuel industry has repeatedly proven they have no intention of addressing the source of the climate crisis – oil, gas and coal.
It’s time to stop inviting them to climate talks. I wrote about it in this piece for @AJEnglish:
aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…
Pip Wheaton retweeted
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.” - T.S Eliot
Only 5% of TV news segments on the heatwave have mentioned climate change.
Silence is another form of denial. mediamatters.org/media-matte…
Pip Wheaton retweeted
Exclusive: The latest annual poll of Kiwi attitudes in climate change suggests we still don't understand what works to fight it.
Nearly half identified recycling, which has a negligible impact on emissions, as one of the three most effective actions.
newsroom.co.nz/pro/kiwis-sti…
Pip Wheaton retweeted
The 'hottest day on record' charts were missing something and I think this was it
ALT The chart showing the temperature record against all historical years and the following text July 4th was the world's hottest day on record Daily 2-meter Air Temperature degrees celsius 2m Temperature World (90°S-90°N, 0-360°E) ICEP CFSV2/CFSR | ClimateReanalyzer.org, Climate Change Institute, University of Ma Wael Sawan, CEO of Shell Dr Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Darren Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil Bernard Looney, CEO of British Petroleum Mike Wirth, CEO of Chevron
Pip Wheaton retweeted
Sobering mic drop from the @FT's outgoing US energy editor @derek_brower... ep.ft.com/permalink/emails/e…
Pip Wheaton retweeted
Time for lights out
Every business- entire sectors - that is not serving a human or societal need or actively helping scale climate solutions need to hit the off switch. Time to start transitioning those workers to the jobs of the future - if we’re gonna have one
