There are still enthusiasts of alt/inter-langs, more modern than Esperanto, which only has european roots - I prefer those that also blend in words from Chinese, Hindi, Arabic etc.
See also this community .
However modern technology - such as instant translation built into phones (very useful for Ukrainian-French here last year) - changes the situation, maybe diminishes the motivation to learn such languages, although potentially facilitating their use.
EU needs to abandon unanimity in decision making - it's not even the veto of one "country", but of one party in one country. Same for UN. Pure consensus is not working.
Probably true, so maybe we need more tools (part of fediverse ?) to show this adding up, for individual motivation (a bit like those old chain-emails with feedback?).
On the other hand simple social-gratification tags like #flyless really bug me, because some of us have tried not-flying for decades.
It's only 5th December, seems unusually early for -58º. From Wikipedia - Yakutsk, maybe daily min should be about -37º now. I recall crossing Siberia by train in early December, rain in west, fresh snow in east, lakes still water, yet coming back in April you could still walk on Baikal. Seems odd, but they get extra problem of fires in winter, as fire hoses freeze, can't extinguish them. Anyway polar vortex went wobbly recently, so we get alternating cold and warm waves - always look for both sides of regional anomalies.
Well I was thinking of the central Sahara, and parts of Arabia etc., these areas really are vast. Sure it would change the landscape, but not so much life. It may be better to make cheap (the op is about low-tech) electricity there, than for example get to 1.5ºC pathways by BECCS (generate electricity with biofuel from plantations, then pump CO2 underground) which is much worse for biodiversity. Your examples - forest mountain, pasture - wouldn't be called desert - at least not in english (the interpretation may vary with language), it's a more extreme term than arid.
I couldn't find any related 40% in the report pdf. However there is a difference between fraction of capacity, and fraction of consumption - not all capacity is used, maybe that explains some of the gap?
Public services are important but only part of the story. Another part is the cost of housing - related to investment, economic policies, and demographics. Regarding the latter, european populations are not changing much (increase a little in west, decline a little in east), however households get smaller - especially there are more old people retaining large houses, which reduces space for the young. Unfortunately it's much easier to blame this on migration, regardless of reality, that won't fix anything but does help the far-right who first pushed that agenda.
We prefer the most efficient solar panels where space is limited, such as rooftops, however there are vast areas of the earth that are almost unused sunny desert, perhaps there low-tech could make more sense?
Good. But priority for EU is integrate the West Balkans (waiting too long), Ukraine + Moldova.
In parallel reform processes:
We need more debating each issue on each merits, rather than horse-trade mega-packages of transactional deals. In that respect, if Britain rejoins one component at a time, it’s better for everybody's understanding of benefits and challenges.
Actually, it was not a majority decision, it was the turn of the "Asia" UN region to choose the location of this COP. (The previous one - not far away- was theoretically "Africa", and the next one is meant to be eastern-bloc Europe). Of course they could, and should, change the UN traditions (or rebuild from scratch).
All a bit surreal, because it really isn't a physical threshold - just a diplomatic one, lower than 2ºC (too high to save some islands, deltas, food, ecosystems), and higher than 1ºC (already passed when they wanted a lower target). There was originally some paleoclimatic justification for 2ºC, but not with any precision, these round numbers depend on our definition of degrees as 1% of the range from freezing to boiling water.
Sure the physical climate system includes many tipping points, but their thresholds vary by region and sector and we don't know them with precision. So when you try to integrate risk across projected impacts (result of which depends strongly on value judgements) you get a curve, on which nobody has shown that 1.5 marks a special nonlinearity.
Diplomatic thresholds do matter for our social system, but we should acknowledge these for what they are.
Otherwise it tempts the reaction - ok we failed, world's going to end, let's go have another [conference of the] party.
Thanks for post, would be helpful to see more context, like how much did each change?