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 +==== Climate action ====
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 +In April 2021, [[Canada|Canadian]] Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]] pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45% below 2005 levels by the year 2030, an acceleration of previously announced goals.((Bolongaro, K. (2021, April 22). //Trudeau Vows to Speed Up Emissions Cuts for Canada, a G7 Laggard.// Bloomberg. https://web.archive.org/web/20211216072753/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/trudeau-vows-to-speed-up-emissions-cuts-for-canada-a-g7-laggard#xj4y7vzkg)) As the Trudeau government put further pressure on the [[agriculture]] industry in July 2022 to rapidly reduce their fertilizer use by 30%, farmers sounded the alarm, warning of worsening food shortages and huge economic losses (estimated at $10.4 billion CAD over the course of the decade).((Skerritt, J. (2022, July 27). //Trudeau Spars With Farmers on Climate Plan Risking Grain Output.// Bloomberg. https://archive.ph/K77Ia))
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 +The Government of [[the Netherlands]] announced near-identical cuts in [[nitrogen]] emissions through reduction of fertilizer, radical reductions of livestock, as well as a reduction in intensive farming and the conversion to sustainable "green farms."((Holligan, A. (2022, July 29). //Why Dutch farmers are protesting over emissions cuts.// BBC News. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729031715/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62335287urope-62335287)) In the government's own proposal, they acknowledge an estimated 11,200 farms would be forced to close and another 17,600 farmers would have to cull a significant amount of their livestock.((Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit Ministerie van Landbouw. (2022, June 10). //Onontkoombare transitie naar een vitaal landelijk gebied.// Rijksoverheid. https://archive.ph/zWLqr)) As a result, protests erupted outside Dutch parliament in [[The Hague]], with reports of fire, manure and blockades contributing to unrest.
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 +===== Link dump =====
  
 {{ :21252030_agenda_for_sustainable_development_web.pdf |}} {{ :21252030_agenda_for_sustainable_development_web.pdf |}}
   * https://sdgs.un.org/publications/transforming-our-world-2030-agenda-sustainable-development-17981   * https://sdgs.un.org/publications/transforming-our-world-2030-agenda-sustainable-development-17981
   * https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda   * https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda
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