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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1238609)	6/11/2020 5:06:51 PM
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Greta Thunberg pushes Canada, Norway on climate before UN Security Council vote Canada is going up against Norway and Ireland for 2 seats available in next week's election Mia Rabson - The Canadian Press Posted: June 10, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets Swedish climate change teen activist Greta Thunberg before a climate strike march in Montreal on Sept. 27, 2019. (Andrej Ivanov/Reuters) Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is urging developing island countries to use the upcoming United Nations Security Council election as leverage to push Canada and Norway to step up their games on climate change. The 17-year-old from Sweden has become one of the most recognized climate activists in the world with her climate strike movement growing into a global phenomenon last year. She is the headline signatory on a letter to UN ambassadors of small island developing states, which says that Canada and Norway both give lip service to climate action but remain steadfast in their commitment to expand fossil fuel production and subsidizing oil companies. "For the young generation who will inherit the consequences of these decisions, it is critical that those who claim to be leading on climate action are held to account for decisions they are making back at home," the letter reads. Three other youth climate activists and 22 global climate scientists also signed the letter, including Eddy Carmack, a recently retired Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientist who was awarded the Order of Canada this year for his work on climate change. 'Unite behind the science'The letter asks the ambassadors to raise the issue with Canada and Norway "and demand that they unite behind the science" of climate change, commit to no new oil and gas exploration or production and phase out their existing production. Canada is going up against Norway and Ireland for the two seats available in next week's election to the UN body. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has devoted a lot of political capital to trying to win the spot. With most European countries expected to side with their continental neighbours, Canada has put its effort into wooing countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, including most of the more than three-dozen island countries targeted by Wednesday's letter. Trudeau has spoken or met directly with the leaders of nearly one-third of those countries since February. Norway and Canada both have economies heavily based on oil and gas. Ireland has very little fossil fuel production and last year committed to ending oil and gas exploration altogether. Thunberg urges Canada to cancel pipeline project. Thunberg first expressed her discontent with Canada's climate policies directly to Trudeau last September, when the two met in Montreal on the same day hundreds of thousands of Canadians took to the streets as part of a global climate strike. In their letter, Thunberg and the others say that Canada is nowhere close to hitting its Paris climate agreement targets. They also say Canada is the second-biggest supplier of fossil fuel subsidies among the world's wealthiest 20 countries and has opened up billions of dollars in loans to fossil fuel companies as part of its COVID-19 economic aid. Oil companies have been particularly hard hit from a combination of plummeting demand for oil products, and a production war between Saudi Arabia and Russia that flooded the world with more oil at a time it was already using less. Greta Thunberg meets Trudeau, tells him he's not doing enough to fight climate change For major oil companies, and other big corporations, to qualify for the loans, Canada does require them to show a climate plan and how their business is helping Canada meet its emissions targets. The letter writers said if Canada was serious about implementing the Paris agreement it would make permanent its temporary ban on extracting oil and gas in the Arctic, cancel both the Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipeline projects and end all subsidies to the oil and gas industry. They give Canada credit for promising to make climate change a regular part of the Security Council's discussions, and push for it to create a new special representative for climate security. The letter writers are also critical of Norway for continuing to increase oil and gas exports, saying Norway now exports 10 times as many emissions as it produces domestically. They point out there is a vote on June 12 in the Norwegian parliament that could increase tax benefits for oil companies as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter says Norway should eliminate, rather than expand, those tax benefits.

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Houston on ‘Precipice of Disaster’ as Virus Cases SpreadBy
Joe Carroll

June 11, 2020, 3:34 PM CDT Updated on June 11, 2020, 4:04 PM CDT

Stay-home order may be revived, county and city leaders say

Threat-level sits at second-highest level on four-tier scale

Houston-area officials said they are “getting close” to reimposing a stay-at-home order and prepared to reopen a Covid-19 hospital established but never used at a football stadium as virus cases expand in the fourth-largest U.S. city.

The announcement by Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Thursday came a day after the Lone Star state recorded its highest one-day tally of new cases since the pandemic emerged.

Harris County, which encompasses Houston and adjacent suburbs, also instituted what it called a public health threat level assessment that will alert residents if conditions worsen or improve. The level remains at the second-highest on the four-tier scale.

The ad hoc medical facility opened at NRG Stadium on the city’s south side will be reestablished if pressure on the local hospital system becomes “severe,” Hidalgo said in a meeting with reporters.

bloomberg.com