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Canada has plans to ban single-use plastic products, including straws, stir sticks, utensils, six-pack rings, food containers, and plastic bags, by the end of 2021. The decision plays a part in the country’s ultimate goal to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030. Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s Minister for the environment, said:...

the only adrenaline rush I get these days is when I tell the barista/waiter that I don’t want their plastic containers/cups/straws and to pack my food in my own tiffin/tupperware/cup

#my state is working towards becoming a zero plastic waste state #by 2030 #and rn theyre already charging for plastic bags and even those bags are the allegedly biodegradable ones #and most restaurants dont provide plastic straws anymore since the january ban #theres been a complete 100% ban on polystyrene or however u spell it #and tiffins and washable reusable cups are back in style #metal straws are swaggy and some malls/companies are even giving them away if you do xyz #all of the big local celebrities/influencers/royal families are also all advocating for the zero waste lifestyle #and theres been more and more bulk bring your own container grocery stores #gabbie hanna voice: im so proud of this community

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told Euronews, in an exclusive interview, that Brussels needs to be more flexible in EU membership

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told Euronews, in an exclusive interview, that Brussels needs to be more flexible in EU membership talks. In his first interview after the South Caucasus country hit pause on its EU accession talks, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told Euronews that the ball was in Brussels' court, and that the bloc needed to be more flexible in its approach to new members. Kobakhidze said Georgia was facing "some significant challenges with the European bureaucracy" but emphasised that he was still "very optimistic" that his country would obtain EU membership by 2030. "(We) will be consistent in following this goal and then hopeful that the approach to Georgia will be more fair in the next coming years," he told Euronews. In November, Kobakhidze announced that Georgia would pause discussions on its bid to join the EU until 2028 due to what the prime minister described then as "blackmail and manipulation" from some of the bloc’s politicians.

He also has a bridge in Brooklyn for sale if anyone's interested.

#georgia #georgian pol #pm kobakhidze #eu accession #by 2030 #pie in the sky

It is uncertain whether the Netherlands will have enough water to produce drinking water in 2030, the National Institute for Public Health a

It is uncertain whether the Netherlands will have enough water to produce drinking water in 2030, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said in a report commissioned by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, NRC reports. In the reference year 2020, the drinking water companies extracted 1.3 billion cubic meters of surface- or groundwater, depending on the province. By 2030, the RIVM estimates they’ll need to extract an extra 102 million cubic meters of water. But all ten water companies in the Netherlands are facing a multitude of problems and are already struggling to meet the current requirements. “For years, drinking water companies had the idea: we arranged it well. Now the system's limits have been reached,” RIVM researcher Robin van Leerdam said to NRC. “We see just enough drinking water capacity nationally, but there are already problems regionally.” Without immediate action by the national government, provinces, water boards, and consumers, drinking water companies won’t manage to extract the extra water needed by 2030, and there will be a shortage, the RIVM warned. According to the RIVM, there are multiple bottlenecks. A growing population and economy increase the demand for drinking water, while drought has caused water scarcity. The surface water extracted by drinking water companies is increasingly often salinized or polluted, meaning they need to make “increasing efforts” to purify it with “increasingly more advanced methods.” That is expensive and loses water in the process.

#netherlands #water security #drought #water shortages predicted #by 2030 #climate crisis #environment

Hey boss, read an article about "Space Ads" and im gonna need a day or two to struggle under the crushing weight of the current state of humanity

#apparently #by 2030 #the amount of space debris from hyper consumption of satellites will permantly obscure our view of the night sky #for at yhe VERY least #the next few decades #the stars that have watched over us for the entirety of human history will become obscured from our view #how do we cope with that?#humanity isnt made to LIVE this way #the day the earth takes our lives #we will have deserved it #we arent made for thia #we didnt ask for it #please #make it stop

We need to halve emissions by 2030. They rose again in 2019.

A bleak outlook: The world likely needs to halve greenhouse-gas emissions within the next decade to prevent dangerous levels of global warming. Instead, year after year, we’re still pumping out more climate pollution. Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels will rise for the third straight year in 2019, ticking up an estimated 0.6%, according to the annual report from the Global Carbon Project. And it’s likely to climb again in 2020.

The context: The report underscores the stakes as delegates from more than 200 nations meet in Madrid this week and next for the 25th UN Climate Change Conference. Unless they commit to and follow through on much more aggressive action, global temperatures will continue to rise.

The big players: Slight declines in the US and European Union were offset by projected increases in China, India, and other parts of the world, where economic growth is fueling rising energy demands. However, the carbon footprint of fully industrialized nations remains far higher. America’s per capita oil consumption, for instance, is 16 times greater than India’s. Read the full story.

#mit technology review #climate change #emissions #halve #by 2030 #COP25