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Climate Action, Climate Change, methane

What Everyone Ought to Know about DiCaprio, Kerry and the Global Methane Pledge

Washington (ONGC) Analysis | October 4, 2022 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Our New Green Culture; Image Credit: Leonardo DiCaprio

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is more than 80 times as strong as carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), methane accounts for nearly 30 percent of the rise in the average global temperature since the industrial age began in 1760. 

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Albedo, Biodiversity, Climate Action, Climate Change, Climate Disasters, climate justice

What Is Your Community’s Climate Action Plan?

Washington (ONGC) Analysis | June 27, 2022 by Noreen Wise, Founder & CEO of Our New Green Culture, and author; Image Credit: AdobeStock

The following is the requested feedback to Fairfax County’s draft Resilient Fairfax Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan, put forth for public comment from May 16, 2022 through June 15, 2022.

With so many lives at stake, as well as the survivability of the human species, it’s vitally important for every single one of us to voice our positions, and our objections when something seems amiss with our local community/county’s climate action plans, including its timeline. Everything we do and don’t do in 2022-2024 will be hyper-analyzed in the future. The IPCC, the UN, many global leaders and thousands of scientists have repeatedly warned about the urgency to act immediately. Yet so few local governments are following through.

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