🌍 Happy Earth Day 2024! Today, as we celebrate our beautiful planet, let’s focus on a pressing environmental challenge — the battle of Planet vs. Plastics 🔍 Earth Day 2024 is a great opportunity to stop the hamster wheel and assess where we are. The overwhelming use of fossil fuel-based plastics has led to significant… Continue reading Earth Day 2024: Planet vs. Plastics
Category: Politics and Lobbying
COP28 Report: Where Climate Policy Meets the Circus – Juggling Acts and High Wires
COP28: Fossil Fuel’s Climate Conference The recently concluded 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates marked a significant milestone, with 198 signatory countries of the Paris Agreement in attendance. Global Stocktake Agreement The core outcome of COP28, known as the “UAE Consensus” or Global Stocktake Agreement, underscores the… Continue reading COP28 Report: Where Climate Policy Meets the Circus – Juggling Acts and High Wires
Catholic Church and Climate Crisis: Why the Ban on Contraception Needs to End @Pontifex
Contraception has multiple benefits The Catholic Church has a long-standing ban on contraception. This ban is based on the belief that all sex should be open to the possibility of procreation. However, in the face of the climate crisis, the Catholic Church needs to reconsider its ban on contraception. If you agree with us, please… Continue reading Catholic Church and Climate Crisis: Why the Ban on Contraception Needs to End @Pontifex
Unveiling the Hemp Conspiracy: How Oil, Plastic and Forestry Industries Suppressed the Climate Saviour
Fighting Back Against Suppression: Hemp’s Resurgence and the Battle for a Sustainable Future In a true hemp conspiracy, the fossil fuel, forestry, and plastics industries have purposefully marginalised the potential of hemp, preventing it from assuming its rightful central role in solving the climate crisis. Hemp, with its extraordinary environmental benefits and versatile applications, poses… Continue reading Unveiling the Hemp Conspiracy: How Oil, Plastic and Forestry Industries Suppressed the Climate Saviour
Tao Climate Calls on UN to Globally Legalise Industrial Hemp to Stop Climate Change @antonioguterres
Whole-plant hemp legalisation is a critical step towards a circular economy and carbon neutrality. Humans have a symbiotic relationship with hemp, so we launch our Hemp Manifesto, a new ideology for humankind Tao Climate, a European greentech startup, is calling on the United Nations and national governments worldwide to legalise industrial hemp – the whole… Continue reading Tao Climate Calls on UN to Globally Legalise Industrial Hemp to Stop Climate Change @antonioguterres
The Hemp Manifesto
The Hemp Manifesto: 10 Principles for a Sustainable and Just World The planet and all her people need a new ideology. Today, we launch Hempism. Hempism aims to give everyone something real to believe in, and to deliver a mechanism that will make the world better for all people, while removing the existential threat of… Continue reading The Hemp Manifesto
How and why industrial hemp was criminalised in the USA in 1937
Industrial hemp was criminalised in the USA in 1937, under the guise of ‘reefer madness’ and at the encouragement of plastics, oil and forestry industrialists In 1937, the United States government passed the Marihuana Tax Act, effectively criminalizing the cultivation, distribution, and possession of cannabis. The act was introduced under the guise of “Reefer Madness”… Continue reading How and why industrial hemp was criminalised in the USA in 1937
Measuring impacts on the UN SDGs
What’s the purpose of the UN Sustainable Development Goals? The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 global goals adopted by the UN in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity by 2030. The SDGs cover a range of social… Continue reading Measuring impacts on the UN SDGs
Greenwashing FAQ
Greenwashing FAQ to help you understand the practice better Greenwashing is the practice of making false or misleading claims about the environmental benefits of a product or service. This can take many forms, such as exaggerating the recyclability of a product, or claiming that a product is “green” when in reality it is not. The… Continue reading Greenwashing FAQ
UN Hemp Report Review
The UNCTAD Report: Commodities at a Glance – Special Issue on Industrial Hemp (11/’22) The United Nations has published a very significant and exciting new research study on industrial hemp. Compiled by a team of experts for UNCTAD, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, this timely research study should be warmly welcomed by industrial… Continue reading UN Hemp Report Review