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046 #ClimateSolutions #Hedwigepolder
#Research

Strange story from my home country:
the deliberate flooding of a Dutch 'Polder' (famous Dutch land below sealevel)

"The Dutch polder dilemma"
by Flavia Cosoveanu for Next Blue

https://www.next.blue/the-dutch-polder-dilemma

Quotes:
"Depoldering of the Hedwige polder is a unique case. The Hedwige polder is in the south of The Netherlands at the border with Belgium. ..//.. Hedwige was depoldered or ‘given back to the sea’ in 2018 as a nature compensation measure because of the deepening of the Westerschelde channel for navigation and the expected accelerated sea level rise by 2100."

"For researchers like me, Hedwige raises a lot of questions on the implications of depoldering: How will depoldering affect the multi-functionality of the larger polder landscape in future? How will climate change affect this changed polder landscape?"

" #ZonEnWindZijnVanOns #SunAndWindAreOurs "

"Otherwise I'm of the opinion that #FossilSubsidies must stop"

#Cop28 #VanessaNakate

OK, I'm a true fanboy 😜

"Industry-Dominated COP28 'Unacceptable,' Says Vanessa Nakate"
by Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/vanessa-nakate

Quotes:
"As time runs out in Dubai, it feels as though the lifeboat of our shared humanity is sinking."
"It can be tiring to keep coming to these places and to be constantly disappointed by the decisions that are made," the campaigner said during a Tuesday press conference. "For this COP to be truly a success, it has to address fossil fuels." [and now, a day later, everybody says they did. JdeB]
"There are over 2,400 fossil fuel lobbyists that have a lot of control and power over this process," Nakate noted. "And we must call out that sabotage, we must call out the power. We must hold the fossil fuel companies accountable for the climate crisis."
"Many of our homelands are already being decimated by extreme weather. Huge changes are already with us and even more are inevitable—even if countries had agreed to a fossil fuel phaseout. So we must adapt."

#ZonEnWindZijnVanOns