What do you have to bear in mind when considering supporting a #forestation project?
1. Don't support mono-cultures
This is very important. #MonoCultures are not helpful in regenerating the soil, attracting water, increasing biodiversity and they are not as effective ecosystems at sucking #CO2 out of the air as mixed forests.
2. Support long-term projects
If a project plants trees and then cuts them down after they have grown to full size that is not helping anything. Make sure the project commits to protecting and fostering the forest for a long time.
3. Make sure indigenous people are included.
Conservation areas protect nature from any human influence, which includes indigenous people. But practice has shown, that forestation projects are more efficient if indigenous people are included, their knowledge is used and they can use and care for the land. Also it's only just to support indigenous people. #NatureNeedsJustice.
4. Support respected projects.
Make sure the project you want to support is not all talk, but can also provide proof that they actually do what they say.
Check what certificates they have, if they won any sustainability awards and what newspaper articles write about them.
#reforestation #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #forest #trees #CarbonCapture
#Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees
Ecosia is a search engine that donates most of it's income to #reforestation projects all over the world.
It is not only #CO2 neutral, but actually climate positive. They run on 200% renewable energy and every search request removes 1kg of CO2 from the atmosphere.
According to the website as of today they planted 120,2 million trees.
But they aim much higher.
Ecosia supports the #GreatGreenWall and aims to plant 1 billion trees across the #Sahel region.
They have already restored 35,000 hectares in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali and Ethiopia.
Help the project by making Ecosia your default search engine across all devices. Tell your family and friends to do the same and help them if they need it.
3 Ways to support the #GreatGreenWall:
1. Make it famous.
Tell everybody you know about the GGW, post about it on social media, ask your local newspaper to do a report on it, ask your government to support it, if they don't already do.
2. Sign the pledge or donate on the website:
https://www.greatgreenwall.org/take-action#join-the-movement
3. Support initiatives that work with the great green wall.
#Ecosia is one such initiative. If you know of any others please post them below.
https://blog.ecosia.org/great-green-wall/
#forestation #reforestation #desertification #trees #donate #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis
The #GreatGreenWall aims to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded land, sequester 250 million tonnes of carbon and create 10 million jobs in rural areas. (by 2030)
👉 46% of African land is degraded, jeopardizing the livelihoods of nearly two-thirds of the Continent’s population.
👉 20 million people in the Horn of Africa in 2017 declared on the verge of starvation following severe drought and food crises.
👉 Millions are expected to migrate from degraded parts of Africa in the next two decades
👉 100 million population of the Sahel is expected to grow to 340 million by 2050
👉 200 million of the 375 million young people entering the job market over the next 15 years will be living in rural areas.
Results so far:
🌴 12 million drought resistant trees were planted in Senegal
🌵 15 million hectare of degraded land were restored in Ethiopia; 5 million in Nigeria
🌳 5 million hectares of land have been restored in Niger, delivering 500.000 tonnes of grain per year. enough to feed 2.5 million people
🌱 3 million hectares in Burkina Faso have been rehabilitated through local practice used by communities called Zaï
https://www.greatgreenwall.org/about-great-green-wall
#reforestation #ClimateMitigation #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
I've been very lousy with welcoming new users to #ClimateJustice.social and .global lately. Shame on me.
Better late than never, welcome:
@s4f_le
@fridaysforfuturenederland & @fffrecklinghausen
@klimastreik
as well as
@beecee @acidenby @vikingcson @egent07 @Indig1 @reverenddaeyunkimphd @aguycalledpaul @blou @sigaramiz @crienoloog @Justysezwhatup @vanessa @Nigenwhollie @treerings @LamuriasGarden @sorrel @miicaela @michjord0001 @tudiv
If you need some help getting started you can read my guide here: https://write.privacytools.io/bwbjyxibnx#HowStarted
and always ask questions.
@klimastreik ihr werdet vl den guide hier brauchen:
https://write.privacytools.io/paulakreuzer/the-fediverse-for-the-advanced#Moving
I'm just about to take part in a workshop about #inclusion #AntiAbleism & #ClimateJustice using #senfcall.
Hope it's as good as these hashtags suggest.
#Welcome to #ClimateJustice.social
@SusaBreu @dienlanhhkcom @plisch and @ray_KS.
Let me know if you ever need any help.
A good way to start is to write an #introduction post. If you're writing in German use the #NeuHier tag.
Also here is a list of interesting accounts:
https://write.privacytools.io/paulakreuzer/the-climate-justice-movement-on-the-fediverse
I can barely keep up with these welcome posts today...
#Welcome to the Fediverse and #ClimateJustice.social @VVN_BdA_Mainz @panda and @Goose.
If you ever need any help with mastodon let me know.
For starters how about you post an #Introduction post.
Welcome to the #fediverse and #ClimateJustice.social @radieschen @wiesel and @joanie.
If you ever need any help feel free to ask me.
Welcome to #ClimateJustice.social @Justus1919 @for_mixi and @benno.
If you need anything let me know.
Welcome to #ClimateJustice.social @mastodonnewbie @yogthulu and @ricky.
Let me know if you need any help finding your way around.
Welcome to #ClimateJustice.global @UnserAllerWald!
🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳
🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳
Welcome to #ClimateJustice.global @eg_hamburg!
Welcome to #ClimateJustice.social @martha & @faxe!
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Which #ClimateJustice activist group are you missing most in the fediverse?
Welche Aktivist*innen Gruppe der #KlimaGerechtigkeitsBewegung vermisst du am meisten im Fediverse?
Welcome to the Fediverse and to #ClimateJustice.global/.social @parents4future, @koalakollektiv and @davbed.
👪 🐨 🦆
#Welcome to #ClimateJustice.social @RaggedStaff23!
Hi,
I'm Paula, an #ace #trans #enby that moved here from @paulakreuzer and @PaulaForFuture and is active with @ViennaForFuture and @JugendrAT. I'm also the admin of this instance as well as ClimateJustice.global.
I post in #English and #Deutsch and mainly about:
#ClimateJustice
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateCrisis #biodiversity #extinction
#SocialJustice
#BlackLivesMatter #antifa #feminism #QueerRights #GenderEquality #socialism #anarchism
#DataJustice
#SurveillanceCapitalism #FreeSoftware #GAFAM #privacy
#sustainability
#CircularEconomy #veganism #RightToRepair #Fairphone
#personal stuff
#asexuality #love #depression #SocialAnxiety
In the future I'll use @PaulaForFuture for very personal stuff.
I'm also on Pixelfed: @paulakreuzer and on writefreely @paulakreuzer.
trans
enby
ace
vegan
anarcha-socialist
intersectional feminist
anti-fascist
pacifist
climate-justice activist
she/her BLM
disabilities:
F33.2 recurrent depressive disorder, current episode severe without psychotic symptoms
F40.1 social phobia
F60.6 Anxious (avoidant) personality disorder
F60.7 Dependent personality disorder
F81.3 mixed disorder of scholastic skills