benjhm

I read that you can graft apple-family fruits onto hawthorn too, has anybody here tried that?

Important topic. If more effort had been put earlier into lie-defence, maybe they'd need less air-defence.
But I'm confused by this part - seems contradictory, can anybody clarify - does he have roles for people to fill, or not ?

Nonetheless, Ukraine needs a new training and certification scheme, Potiy said, ambitiously aiming at fostering a new generation of cyber security specialists, “tens of thousands if not more,” with solid jobs within Ukraine. It is one of his core ambitions for his first year in charge of the agency. “We have educational institutions that turn out cybersecurity specialists who could provide services,” Potiy continued. “But there’s no job market.”

I'd like to have no phone at all, I don't like small screens, nor being interrupted. Problem is that phone apps are now almost obligatory for IDs, transport tickets, passes, banking, etc. So I'd just like a phone-receiver (modem) with a sim card on a USB stick that can enable phone-app-stuff via my laptop or tablet. (Yes some tablets have data sim cards, but we still need sms and occasional phone functions for 'verification' etc.). Any suggestions?

No. first line in the article - "emissions in the world's second-largest economy rose slightly as coal remained dominant". It's bad news. Also, article is about 2024 and your plots stop in 2019/20.
However your question is reasonable - when they made such "intensity" (emit-per-gdp) based targets, it seemed like a way to avoid constraining the economy and disguise emissions growth - but they didn't anticipate the covid slump and such rapid demographic peaking, so maybe they'll change the methodology for next ndc target.

This sounds positive, albeit unlikely it’s enough.
As I don't follow the biodiversity COPs like the climate COPs, I'll ask - was this like a COP16bis, and deal with or without US ?
I still recall UNFCCC-COP6bis which was a success despite Bush govt pulling out, inspired the rest of the world to unite.
And are people optimistic about COP17 in Armenia? Hope inspired to do better than Azerbaijan with climate. I suppose all Caucasus has much unique mountain biodiversity, maybe this can help overcome political divisions.

I'm more interested in distribution of users and local-focus of communities than country-based instances, nevertheless the map does illustrate that Lemmy has huge gaps - no country instance in all of Africa, hardly any in Asia... What can we do to make it a more global conversation ?

Too true, and good analogy with building a house extension...

" countries in the Anglosphere experience the highest costs for building transit due to overbuilding and overdesigning".

Too true ... Look at HS2, they didn't need to aim for 400km/h, now they can't afford to finish it.
So - hope Canada can do better.
Maybe Sweden is a better example to study in this case ?

I recall Putin himself expressed that, at a big climate conference they hosted in Moscow in 2003. But of course, there were also plenty of intelligent russian scientists who understand that melting permafrost, burning forests, flooded cities, and grey rain replacing white snow, is not such a great idea.

They say the other side (favour US over Ukraine) is only 20% - so 48:20 is a big difference ( in such surveys, there are always plenty who don't know or hedge bets - and many people just don't think beyond their local world) .

The asymmetry is interesting. It suggests that while Canada has reason to fear what this US administration might do next, the latter's aggressive approach to neighbours and former friends is far from having majority popular support. To change that they may create situations, step by step.
Note that regarding the new Trump-Putin axis, if you look at a globe Greenland is geographically halfway (between central US and central Russia excluding Siberia). For such connection across the arctic, Canada is in the way, but maybe if the most conservative and fossil-dependent provinces could be split from the others, they'd have a clear path for such axis ...
Could this issue help Liberals, NDP and Québécois to cooperate in face of such new threat ?
We also need a Canada-Europe alliance.

It seems the problem is the regional governments , which are prioritising regional coal mining, to prioritise regional jobs. In China there is plenty of renewable energy capacity but the sun and wind are mainly in the W and S, while the old coal mines are in the E and N. China has plenty of climate scientists and diplomats pushing central government policy, but these have less influence on 'local government'. As many 'local governments' in China govern populations larger than European countries, this is something like Poland trying to keep it’s coal mines alive, in contradiction to European climate policy. Eventually there will be surplus energy, some coal contracts are going to break, question is who wins and loses then. Western observers tend to think of China as a big centrally controlled monolith - it isn't, the 'local' chiefs have a lot of power. Similar central / 'local' governance problem with housing bubble and debt.