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Fa False Solutions to Climate Change Just Transition Alliance www.JTAlliance.org Follow us on: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & Vimeo @JTAlliance Geoengineering Three proposed methods Solar Radiation Management Intended to


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Fa False Solutions to Climate Change

Just Transition Alliance

www.JTAlliance.org Follow us on: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & Vimeo @JTAlliance

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Geoengineering

  • Three proposed methods
  • Solar Radiation Management
  • Intended to reflect the sunlight back to space to reduce climate change
  • Carbon Dioxide Removal
  • Aims to suck carbon out of the atmosphere
  • Earth Radiation Management
  • Meant to offset the effects of climate change by allowing heat to escape into space
  • Why it is a false solution
  • Environmental Justice (EJ) communities are left out of the talk
  • Favored by former climate change deniers, specifically in the Global North
  • Disproportionate negative impact on the Global South and EJ communities
  • Involves manipulating nature
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Carbon Markets/Cap and Trade/Cap and Invest

  • Intent of mass reduction of GHG emissions
  • Why it is a false solution
  • These programs increase air contamination in EJ communities
  • Majority of emission sources are in EJ communities
  • Continues our reliance on fossil fuels
  • Those models have not worked in EJ communities
  • The carbon caps are sometimes not in EJ communities
  • Money derived from the capping carbon does not offset the impact from

higher amounts of carbon releases in EJ communities.

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Industrial Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)

  • Captures, transfers, stores carbon dioxide
  • Why it is a false solution
  • Ignores the root cause of climate change
  • Delays transition to renewables
  • More expensive than renewables
  • Promotes increased extraction of pollution of fossil fuels
  • Benefits the fossil fuel industry
  • Keeps us reliant on dirty energy
  • Carbon Storage and Transfer sites are most likely in EJ/ Low Income and

Indigenous communities

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Nuclear Energy

  • Moving from carbon based energy to nuclear
  • Why it is a false solution
  • Radioactivity and nuclear waste
  • More expensive than renewables
  • Indigenous communities and their lands are targeted for mining and nuclear

waste sites

  • Radioactive traces in all fish species in the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima

explosion

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Climate Smart Agriculture

  • Planting “carbon absorbing plants”
  • Supposed to curb harmful air emissions
  • Why it is a false solution
  • Band-Aid approach
  • Heavy corporate influence
  • Does no reduce pollution at the source
  • Ignores non-corporate farmer and community voices
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Forest Management / REDD and REDD+

  • Indigenous peoples primarily in the Global South are

asked to replant forests, keep count of trees and in some cases there are evicted from their ancestral and traditional territories.

  • Why it is a false solution
  • The Global North and other industrialized countries

continue to pollute the air at the same pace or actually could increase the pace of air pollution

  • Puts burden on EJ/Low income and Indigenous

communities around the planet

  • Heavy corporate and governmental interests
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Incineration

  • Combustion: burns waste at high temperatures, generating electric

energy and heat

  • Plasma Arc Recycling: melts and vaporizes waste
  • Two products
  • Sygna: mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen
  • Used for energy
  • Aggregate: glass-like material
  • Used for construction
  • Why it is a false solution
  • Ineffective at eliminating plastic pollution
  • Dangerous for human health and marine life
  • Emits toxic air pollution, toxic flue ash, other hazardous waste
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Biofuels

  • Made from recently living plant material, goes contrary to more

biodiversity

  • Used to replace other transportation fuels like
  • Petroleum and gasoline
  • Made from foods such as
  • Corn, sugar cane, and soybeans
  • Why it is a false solution?
  • Maintains reliance on dirty energy
  • Speed up deforestation
  • Causes food cost to increase, especially in developing countries
  • Create competition for resources such as water, land, food
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Final Thoughts

  • The Dirty 8 false solutions:
  • Violate the principles of EJ
  • Maintain reliance on dirty energy
  • Disproportionately affect the Global South and Indigenous EJ/Low Income

communities

  • Does not address the root cause of climate change which is the consumption from

the industrialized nations in the Global North

  • Elected officials need to confront the problem of overconsumption of

resources and the reliance on fossil fuels

  • Best solution is a global switch to renewables immediately
  • The burden should not be on Indigenous, EJ/ Low Income communities, but

Indigenous, EJ/ Low Income communities should be at the forefront of the planning of solutions.

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Questions & Answers

You can find the infographic

  • nline on our website at:

www.JTAlliance.org/materials/

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Thank You

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