Clarifying Article 9 of the Paris Agreement (developed country Parties shall provide financial resources to assist developing country Parties with respect to both mitigation and adaptation in continuation of their existing obligations under the Convention. Furthermore, as part of a global effort, developed country Parties should continue to take the lead in mobilizing climate finance from a wide variety of sources, instruments and channels.)
We already have a global carbon hyperledger energy channel https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/CASIG/Carbon+Accounting+and+Certification+Working+Group https://nori.com/
For the global carbon hyperledger transportation channel, a company named Sol has a method to measure carbon emissions of personal transportation. Sol introduced the method at the meeting for coders interested in developing the carbon hyperledger https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/climate-sig/viewevent?repeatid=31581&eventid=953650&calstart=2021-01-04
but has not yet answered my question, How do you tell whether the electric vehicle was charged using solar power or fossil fuel?
Carbon creditors should not pay carbon emitters to sell their credits. Only carbon creditors can sustainability regulate carbon currency and earn through carbon trading dashboards like https://mycarbonkarma.com/offset and NORI https://nori.com/ even if they have to buy their carbon credits from the creditors they assist.
The United States provide a wide variety of sources, instruments and channels. For example, a company in the United States is offering $20,000 grants at https://outrightinternational.org/outright-covid-19-global-lgbtiq-emergency-fund Please encourage LGBTQIA tech startups in developing countries to apply for a grant of up to $20,000 to code open source carbon ledger channels for Birthstrikers, the Dalai Lama, Oriental Orthodox and Catholic priests and nuns to sell personal emissions reduction carbon credits for $65,632,000 per year in developed countries and about half of that in developing countries.
We recommend four widely applicable high-impact (i.e. low emissions) actions with the potential to contribute to systemic change and substantially reduce annual personal emissions: having one fewer child (an average for developed countries of 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent (tCO2e) emission reductions per year), living car-free (2.4 tCO2e saved per year), avoiding airplane travel (1.6 tCO2e saved per roundtrip transatlantic flight) and eating a plant-based diet (0.8 tCO2e saved per year). For the action 'have one fewer child,' we relied on a study which quantified future emissions of descendants based on historical rates, based on heredity (Murtaugh and Schlax 2009). In this approach, half of a child's emissions are assigned to each parent, as well as one quarter of that child's offspring (the grandchildren) and so forth. This is consistent with our use of research employing the fullest possible life cycle approach in order to capture the magnitude of emissions decisions. The Climate Mitigation Gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 074024. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/meta
An estimate for an “ultimate cost of carbon” to humanity, published in the journal Climactic Change, came out closer to $100,000 per ton of carbon. Experts agree that by the year 2100, sea levels will rise at least a foot worldwide even if we stop emitting carbon now. But by a geologist’s standards, that is only a short-term scenario. “Ice sheets take a very, very long time to settle into equilibrium,” Archer said, “so the changes we’re seeing now won’t fully be realized for thousands of years, and it could ultimately rise 160 feet.” Without the discount rate to squelch the costs in the distant future, the cost of carbon that we burn today explodes, ranging from $10,000 to $750,000 per ton based on details of the geophysical and economic scenarios. The ultimate cost of carbon. Archer, Kite and Lusk, Climactic Change, July 15, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-020-02785-4 University of Chicago news.
The ultimate cost of childbirth to humanity is approaching $100,000 per ton of carbon at 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent emissions per year per child. A kilogram is 2,240 pounds. A ton is 2,000 pounds in Chicago. A tonne is 1,000 kilograms. In conclusion, having one child costs humanity $65,632,000 per year in developed countries. Is that forever, throughout adulthood, or for the 18 years of childhood?
A child provides services, comfort, society, and companionship to the parents at the expense of nature and humanity. Ky. Rev. Stat. § 411.135. Fla. Stat. § 768.21. 12 OK Stat § 12-1053(C) (2014). 1989 U. Ill. L. Rev. 761 https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/unilllr1989&div=33&id=&page=
Should birth-parents, custodial parents, foster parents, or guardians pay a carbon tax on those services or on the $65,632,000 per year in developed countries and half of that in other countries? Or. should we allocate an equal $65,632,000 per year to each womun who does not have any child?
Analysis of Choice #2: Let developing countries set the standard of living for all nations. Let China's one child per couple limit set the fertility standard for all nations. Such that each individual on Earth is born with carbon credits valued at one-half of $65,632,000 per year. Each of our parents either paid that much or owe that much. If they owe that much, then future generations are effectively paying us for maintaining the ecosystem for them.
An individual may pay that debt through, for example, her native forest restoration services which are reimbursible as carbon credits through selling to a client on a global carbon ledger forest channel.
Nuns, brahmacharya monks, and Oriental Orthodox and Catholic priests remain celibate and childfree as a service. Anyone who can, should do that. Matt 19:12 (God's Word, Names of God, and The Voice). We raise spiritual children to make wise decisions instead of bringing infants into the world. Those services are reimbursible as carbon credits through selling to a client on a global carbon ledger fertility channel. Thus, each of us may sell our fertility on the carbon market.
Should ministers of the carbon ledger permit a corporation to purchase carbon credits to sponsor womben who birthstrike to save humanity?
Should a law require corporations to prioritize the placement of unbonded nonreproductive women for self-chosen work?
A tax on carbon emissions would mobilize climate finance from a wide variety of sources. Should a carbon tax create environmental equality in the form of paying decolonized womyn for forced justice work? May each of us modern day slaves please get forty acres and a mule?
The United States has already assisted in developing the critical mass necessary for a population saturation economy. In Africa, population growth rates already exceed food production growth rates in most sub-Saharan countries, pushing them into food crises whenever bad weather, civil unrest, or war strikes. As the continent will continue to have the most rapidly growing population of any region, this will put strains on its ability to provide food for its people. ... Over the past 40 years United States development assistance efforts have played a major role in making it possible for developing countries to achieve this record. Robert W. Herdt, Assisting developing countries toward food self-reliance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Mar 3; 95(5): 1989–1992.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC33829/
More people equals more food insecurity, soil degradation, plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. High population densities make pandemics more likely. They also drive overcrowding, unemployment, housing shortages and deteriorating infrastructure, and can spark conflicts leading to insurrections, terrorism, and war. Fundamental change is required to avoid this ghastly future. Specifically, we and many others suggest: revealing the true cost of products and activities by forcing those who damage the environment to pay for its restoration, and educating and empowering women across the globe, including giving them control over family planning. Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles, and Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University, The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/worried-about-earths-future-well-the-outlook-is-worse-than-even-scientists-can-grasp-153091
At the Davos Agenda on 1/26/2021, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said that COVID-19 adversely affected mostly individuals in crowded living situations, and that mayors need to work together and change policies allowing dangerous situations.
Investing in scientific research instead of failed humanitarian aid methods would mobilize climate finance from a wide variety of instruments.
Should financial resources be in the form of carbon currency or research grants to Birthstrikers, the Dalai Lama, brahmacharya monks, Oriental Orthodox and Catholic priests, and nuns? Can you name any other celibate childfree spiritual leaders?
What if the law restricted government welfare to net-zero carbon, scientific research with education, health care, and free-food components? In that way, developed country Parties may provide financial resources to Birthstrikers, the Dalai Lama, brahmacharya monks, Oriental Orthodox and Catholic priests, and nuns in developing countries to study the ongoing obstinate eugenics experiments and to pay subjects to participate in scientific studies on the effects of environmental factors that change epigenetic markers of interpersonal perception, personal autonomy, integrity, initiative, and self-reliance. That would at least provide humanity with the knowledge needed for wise decision-making. It might also increase personal autonomy, integrity, initiative, and self-reliance. It might reduce bias in interpersonal perception. It would mitigate climate change by rewarding those who lead by example.
Clarifying "We need to rethink the question of which countries are rich and which are poor."
Countries that spend their resources on critical mass development are rich in human capital.
Developed countries become rich in human capital by immigrating low-carbon emitters. However, immigration converts low-carbon emitters into high-carbon emitters through lifestyle changes.
In 2021, the average woman has 4 to 7 children in central Africa but 1 to 2 children in the US, Canada, China, Russia, and other places. https://infogalactic.com/info/Total_fertility_rate
In the decade starting 2025, Niger is projected to have (6-6.5 live births/woman) more than 4 times the fertility (<1.5) of Canada, Spain, and Italy. https://population.un.org/wpp/Maps/2_Total%20Fertility%20Rate/TFR-HighRes-2025.png
In the decade starting 2025, the U.N. projects that Central Africans will have the highest carbon footprint caused by fertility. https://population.un.org/wpp/Maps/1_Population%20Growth%20Rate/population-growth-rate-HighRes-2025.png
Consider the environmental and humanitarian wealth of countries ruled by womyn.
Where does male influence in planning fit into The Global Risks Report 2021, 16th Edition, published by the World Economic Forum? https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2021 Do male dominance disputes drive all global risks? What percent of male dominance disputes against women cause global risks through overpopulation? Testosterone has been associated with social dominance and success in competition, and may restrain interpersonal trust to ensure social scrutiny for status and economic concerns. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jun 1; 107(22): 9991–9995.
Men need outside help to stop their dominance disputes from destroying humanity. www.shechangesclimate.org
Electing men damages women and the environment. http://www.Green247.org/vote What if the Great Reset meant women rule for a few hundred years and then allow men equal rights?
May you choose healthy influence.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Elisabeth Green, past Green Party of Hawai'i delegate to the national convention, past member of Platform Committee and co-facilitator of Green Issues Working Group for Green Party of California, past co-facilitator of Westside Greens
PLease encourage Green Parties to sign The Women’s Empowerment Principles https://www.weps.org/about especially parties with staff or employees.
PLease allow Green Party members to join GenerationRestoration DecadeOnRestoration and take the survey by April 15 on behalf of Green Parties. Under the Bonn Challenge, more than 60 countries have committed to bringing 350 million hectares of forest landscapes back to life. Indigenous peoples have acted as defenders of their ecosystems for generations. The UN Decade will celebrate leadership and encourage others to step up. https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/strategy
May Green Party members on behalf of the Green Party join the Climate Chain Coalition www.climatechaincoalition.io and make recommendations?