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* [https://about.bnef.com/new-energy-outlook/New Energy Outlook 2019] - an annual report from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.#New_Energy_Finance Bloomberg New Energy Finance] (BNEF)
 
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= Wiki Maintenance & Editing =
 
= Wiki Maintenance & Editing =

Revision as of 03:04, 13 February 2021

In early 2020, the 350 Santa Fe Chapter embarked on a project to capture their volunteers' notes on a wide variety of subjects aimed at understanding the full nature of the climate crisis (aka Global Warming), possible solutions, and the resources that volunteers and activists might need to call on to make a difference. This compilation provides a common reference work on which to base or to support our programs and plans. Meanwhile, our Editors are continually adding material, improving content and growing the project.

Ways to use this Wiki

Visitors are welcome to browse this content and follow the extensive links to other materials. The power of the wiki for many is in using the Search box above to find material of interest. Use quotes when looking up specific phrases. At the bottom of each page, you will find one or more Categories listed. Each leads to a listing of all the pages in that Category.

Sometimes, Subject will indicate that a page has yet to be created for a topic or subject. If you are interested in helping complete these topics please email us at 350santafe.info@gmail.com. If you have copyediting skills and would like to help us improve our presentation, sentence structure, spelling errors, etc. please also contact us at the same email address.

You can also get more information on our 350 Santa Fe Chapter Projects if you're interested in working with us locally!

Some Recent Additions

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The Climate Crisis and 350.org

The Crisis

The world’s scientists confirmed in the 2018 IPCC report that at the current rate, the world could cross 1.5˚C hotter as soon as 2030. That’s only a decade from now, well within the lifespan of most people alive today. 1.5˚C might not sound like a big increase in temperature, but it’s the difference between life and death for thousands of people. Earth has always had natural cycles of warming and cooling, but not like we’re seeing now. The top five hottest years on record are 2016, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2014. And rising temperatures doesn’t only mean it’s getting hotter. The Earth’s climate is complex — even a small increase in average global temperature means big changes, with lots of dangerous side effects. Src: http://www.350.org.

From greenhouse gas emissions, to the effects on the planet and our quality of life, The Problem is urgent, broad and deep.

Why is it 350?

Climate scientists in 2008 with NASA Goddard Institute suggest that global policies should have an initial target for atmospheric CO2 of 350 ppm. They note that the optimum CO2 level for maintaining a planet similar to that on which civilization developed is likely to be less than 350 ppm, but a 350 ppm target already reveals that dramatic policy changes are needed urgently. 350 ppm CO2 has long since been passed.

CO2 levels are monitored by NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, where you can see current trends and the impact COVID-19 has had. As of June 2020, the answer so far is none.

World Climate Crisis Solutions

Proposed solutions come in various forms ranging from technology, social awareness, and societal change all the way to accepting the consequence of climate change and adapting. Below you can explore the various categories of solutions:

Solutions

  • Technical Solutions - Technical solutions consist of engineering and industry processes such as renewable energy technology, energy storage technology, carbon-friendly manufacturing, and carbon sequestration. By replacing GHG polluting industrial processes with carbon neutral or carbon negative industries, we can reduce the amount of GHG released into our atmosphere. Public and private research into promising lines of new and existing technologies are expected to contribute to longer terms solutions.
  • Land Based Solutions - Biology and land management solutions, including land use and agriculture practices.
  • Political Solutions - Political will plays a big part in making changes to legislation, rules snd regulations at the federal, state and local levels. Big influences like the fossil fuel industry have resisted such changes.
  • Activists Solutions - Effecting social change, training, and volunteering efforts have and will continue to be factors in changing minds.
  • Public Education Solutions - Seminars, webinars, letters to the editors and such will also continue to be factors in changing minds and developing political will.
  • Messaging Solutions - There's some excellent influential materials from online newsletters, government agencies (e.g. NASA) discussing the effects of global warming and possible solutions. Skilled messaging and media management will be important.
  • Project Drawdown - a systematic study of solutions, their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, costs and savings. Combined results if pursued stop greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from rising.
  • Individual Actions - Individually, there are many options. Collectively, they might make a difference.

Resilience

  • Adaptation to Climate Change - Given the enormous challenges involved in reversing global warming, experts and scholars are thinking about the best ways to cope with some of the worst effects. Resilience is like the energies we put into surviving plane crashes. Yes we need emergency exits, escape chutes and emergency responders on the ground. But it is better to avoid a crash in the first place and that is where we spend most of our resources on airline safety.

What's Happening in New Mexico?

Methane Emissions Challenges in New Mexico

Impacts on Indigenous Communities in NM

Seven environmental science students of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) at the University of California, Los Angeles prepared a report for the WildEarth Guardians on the impact of oil and gas drilling on indigenous communities in NM. In their studies they found that oil and gas regulatory violations could be further harming Indigenous communities in the Greater Chaco Landscape of New Mexico.

Impacts of Oil and Gas Drilling on Indigenous Communities - September 2020

Along with charts and graphics, the report includes chapters on:

  • The Landscape
  • The Greater Chaco Region
  • What is Fracking?
  • Impacts of Oil and Gas on Indigenous Communities
  • Regulating Oil and Gas
  • Potentially Unlawful Drilling in Chaco
  • Solutions
  • COVID-19 and the Navajo Nation

NM State Legislature

Key Interim Committees

Notes on Working groups, Bills, Memoranda and Resolutions

NM State Agencies

NM Constitution

  • The NM PRC Amendment was on the ballot in New Mexico as a constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020. A "yes" vote was obtained and now supports changing the Public Regulation Commission (PRC) from an elected five-member commission to an appointed three-member commission.
  • The Green Amendment for New Mexico - as part of a nationwide effort constitutional amendments are being considered state by state.

NM Counties

  • Santa Fe County Resolution 2019-111 "...endorsing the declaration of the climate emergency... and requesting regional collaboration on an immediate just transition and emergency mobilization effort to restore a safe climate." Item #3 calls for a county wide Just Transition Plan.

NM Industry

NM Initiatives

NM Resources

What's Happening in the US?

US House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Solving The Climate Crisis - The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America - June 2020.

At 538 pages, the report covers the case for action and the plan. Attention is given to national goals, infrastructure, innovation, transformations, barriers to change, workers, exposed communities, public health, agriculture, resilience, public spaces, national security, American leadership, and much more.

US Senate Democrats Special Committee on the Climate Crisis

The Case For Climate Action: Building a Clean Economy for the American People - August 2020.

The Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis’ report provides a framework for Congress to finally do what is necessary to build the clean energy future we all deserve. 260 pages.

US Climate Alliance

U.S. Climate Alliance state members are committed to taking real, on the ground action that urgently addresses the climate challenge. In becoming an Alliance member, states commit to:

  • Implement policies that advance the goals of the Paris Agreement, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025
  • Track and report progress to the global community in appropriate settings, including when the world convenes to take stock of the Paris Agreement, and
  • Accelerate new and existing policies to reduce carbon pollution and promote clean energy deployment at the state and federal level.

The U.S. Climate Alliance is a bipartisan coalition of 25 governors (including Michelle Lujan Grisham, NM) committed to upholding the goals of the Paris Agreement. Alliance governors have committed to collectively reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

US National Legislation

Residential solar installations can receive a 26% federal tax credit in 2020 and 22% in 2021; falling to 0% in 2022. For details, see:

Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) - Solar Energies Industry Association

Carbon Pricing

H.R.763 - Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 - Citizens' Climate Lobby expects a new version will be introduced in 2021

US Agencies and Institutions

  • Natonal Center for Atmospheric Research - NCAR was established by the National Science Foundation in 1960 to provide the university community with world-class facilities and services that were beyond the reach of any individual institution.
  • "Climate" - NOAA - From supercomputers and state-of-the-art models to observations and outlooks, we provide data, tools, and information to help people understand and prepare for climate variability and change.
  • Climate.gov - NOAA - Science and information for a climate smart nation.

US Leading Climate Crisis Organizations

The following climate crisis organizations lead the cause in the US and internationally. The included purpose extracts are taken from the respective websites.

  • 350.org - we are standing up to the fossil fuel industry to stop all new coal, oil and gas projects and build a clean energy future for all.
  • Citizens' Climate Lobby - a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change with a focus on carbon pricing.
  • Climate Crisis Policy Digest - a compendium of policy ideas to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution and build a sustainably-sourced, community-centered and nature-protecting economy.
  • Climate Reality Project - our mission is to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society.
  • ClimateXchange - our mission is to provide research, education, and advocacy to move us towards a low-carbon economy through market-based mechanisms.
  • Environmental Defense Fund - we take on climate change and other grave threats by identifying what’s most urgent and where we can make the most difference.
  • League of Conservation Voters - we influence policy, hold politicians accountable, and win elections as we fight to build a world with clean air, clean water, public lands, and a safe climate that are protected by a just and equitable democracy.
  • Sierra Club - a grassroots environmental organization in the United States that amplifies the power of our 3.8 million members and supporters to defend everyone’s right to a healthy world.

US Industry Associations

  • Zero Emission Transportation Association - a non-partisan group coordinates public education efforts and federal policy development to promote EV adoption with the goal of creating American electric vehicle manufacturing jobs, better serving consumers, improving air quality and public health, and significantly reducing carbon pollution.

What's Happening Around the World?

UN SDG Knowledge Hub

The SDG Knowledge Hub is an online resource center for news and commentary regarding the implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UN Global Adaptation Network

The Global Adaptation Network (GAN) is helping the world to build resilience towards climate change by spreading adaptation knowledge.

The Paris Accord between member states produced a “Global Goal on Adaptation” (GGA) with the aim of “enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate adaptation response in the context of the global temperature goal” (cited in Singh, Harmeling and Rai, 2016). Countries are committed to developing National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and report on their creation to the UN.

UN Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change.

Young people around the world are taking action on climate change.

Agencies and Institutions

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.

Environmental Movements/Philosophies

  • Ecomodernism (aka Ecopragmatism, Earth Optimism, Enlightenment Environmentalism, Humanist Environmentalism) is an environmental philosophy which argues that humans can protect nature by using technology to "decouple" anthropogenic impacts from the natural world. Ecomodernism is a school of thought from many environmental and design scholars, critics, philosophers, and activists. (Wikipedia)
  • Ecopolitics (aka green politics, green ideology) is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy. It began taking shape in the western world in the 1970s; since then Green parties have developed and established themselves in many countries around the globe and have achieved some electoral success.(Wikipedia)
  • Ecotheology is a form of constructive theology that focuses on the interrelationships of religion and nature, particularly in the light of environmental concerns. Ecotheology generally starts from the premise that a relationship exists between human religious/spiritual world views and the degradation or restoration and preservation of nature. It explores the interaction between ecological values, such as sustainability, and the human domination of nature. (Wikipedia)
  • Environmental Movement is an international movement, represented by a range of organizations, from the large to grassroots and varies from country to country. Due to its large membership, varying and strong beliefs, and occasionally speculative nature, the environmental movement is not always united in its goals. (Wikipedia)

Resources

Publications, Lists, Directories and Catalogs

  • Online Resources - list of online tools, websites, applications and information resources related to climate change, energy and related technologies.
  • Video Archive - list of films, documentaries, TV Series and other video media.
  • Print Media in NM - list of newspapers published in New Mexico, with contact information and guidelines for submissions.
  • Podcasts - from Living on Earth and America Adapts

NM Government Resources

  • NM Legislature - searchable for bills, memorials, representatives, senators, committees, meetingss, etc.
  • NM Agencies Directory - covering agencies, cities, counties, events, museums, parks, recreation, sports, etc.

Statistics and Analysis Resources

World Population Statistics

Economic and Cost Analyses

Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Wiki Maintenance & Editing

Guides

Editors

  • Editor is a 'group' of privileges that allows article creation and editing. Changes are kept in a page's history from which older versions can be restored. Email 350santafe.info@gmail.com if you are interested in becoming an Editor.

Credits

Our thanks go to everyone who has contributed ideas and content to this project:

  • Teresa Bradford
  • Dylan Connelly
  • Robert Cordingley
  • Jean Darling
  • Jim Eagle
  • Isabelle Jenniches
  • Gary Payton
  • Nancy Singham
  • Tom Solomon
  • Greg Sonnenfeld