Climate notes for December 17th 2023

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• Transformative carbon sink. We’ve heard this a lot, but this could change everything.
• The oil industry won COP
• Imagine if we made oil-reliant companies responsible
• Eamon Ryan welcomes COP agreement
• Tom Rafferty on COP
• COP on verge of complete disaster
• Millions of birds lose precious energy due to fireworks on New Year’s Eve, research reveals
• Let’s turn our cities into gardens. Yes! How is this not deep in our legislation already? Even things like grass along urban rail lines (in Dublin that would be DART or LUAS) helps a lot; even with sound dampening.
• Air pollution concerns raised at COP
• Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages
• Powered by wind and water: The Canary Island proving it is possible to run on renewables
• Al Gore says it’s ‘ridiculous’ that UAE hosted climate conference
• Man Announces He Will Quit Drinking by 2050
• Looking for a greener way to fly