Alexandra Cronin (she/her)
@alexandracronin.bsky.social
Environmental Peacebuilding 🌿🕊️🧱 | Transboundary Freshwater Conflict and Cooperation ⛲️ | Maritime Affairs 🌊 | Energy Justice ⚖️
📚 MA The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
📚 BA Wellesley College
✨Views my own✨
📚 MA The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
📚 BA Wellesley College
✨Views my own✨
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Carbon removals: the uncomfortable truth. Lots of people are responding to Ketan's excellent thread here with "just plant trees". Unfortunately, while well-intentioned, this misunderstands the nature and scale of the problem and its possible solutions. 🧵
Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it
news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air
An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...
news.mit.edu
November 26, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Carbon removals: the uncomfortable truth. Lots of people are responding to Ketan's excellent thread here with "just plant trees". Unfortunately, while well-intentioned, this misunderstands the nature and scale of the problem and its possible solutions. 🧵
The spirit of joint work in action 🌿🕊️ Happy to have contributed (even in small part) to the launch of this site #climatepeacesecurity
New website of the #UN Climate Security Mechanism (CSM) online!
Have a look at how #UNEP #DPPA #DPO & #UNDP mainstream the issue in their work & foster cooperation on #climatesecurity throughout the UN family.
@catherinewong01.bsky.social
#climateaction #peaceoperations #peacebuilding
Have a look at how #UNEP #DPPA #DPO & #UNDP mainstream the issue in their work & foster cooperation on #climatesecurity throughout the UN family.
@catherinewong01.bsky.social
#climateaction #peaceoperations #peacebuilding
Climate, Peace and Security | Climate Security Mechanism
www.un.org
November 20, 2024 at 3:26 AM
The spirit of joint work in action 🌿🕊️ Happy to have contributed (even in small part) to the launch of this site #climatepeacesecurity
Reposted by Alexandra Cronin (she/her)
It was a pleasant surprise to see the Dutch 🇳🇱 Appellate Court cite Brazil’s Climate Fund decision 🌳⚖️ in its discussion of European case law on human rights and climate change in the recent Milieudefensie v Shell ruling. 🌍🔥 Here is what the court said:
November 19, 2024 at 9:07 PM
It was a pleasant surprise to see the Dutch 🇳🇱 Appellate Court cite Brazil’s Climate Fund decision 🌳⚖️ in its discussion of European case law on human rights and climate change in the recent Milieudefensie v Shell ruling. 🌍🔥 Here is what the court said: