Political Report Cards

Perspective - Climate Change

Evidence & Facts

HISTORICAL CONTEXT - CLIMATE CHANGE

Repetitive orchestrated confusion raised by few dissident scientists funded by corporations…

BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES

Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI ) compares where countries actually are…

CCPI - GLOBAL RANKINGS OF 4 INDICATOR CATEGORIES

CCPI - compares all countries and EU in 4 indicators categories…

ENGAGE TO CHANGE “OUR STATUS QUO”

Demand Fossil Fuel Divestment and Funding ...

CCPI - GLOBAL RANKINGS OF CLIMATE POLICY

CCPI - Climate Policy indicators assess all countries National Emission Targets...

Climate Change Impacts

EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE - OCEAN HEAT CONTENT CHANGES

NASA Vital Signs of the Planet states...

EACH COUNTRY'S SHARE OF CO2

Developed countries and major emerging ...

EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE - ICE SHEETS & SEA LEVEL

Antarctica is losing ice mass at an average rate of about 150 billion tons per year...

OIL & GAS LOBBYISTS IMPEDING SCIENCE

Five Largest companies have invested over $1Billion following the Paris Agreement...

GLOBAL - TEMPERATURES & CO2 CONCENTRATION TRENDS

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) unequivocally concludes that human activities are affecting global warming …

Perspective - Pesticides

HISTORICAL CONTEXT - PESTICIDES

"We have become unwitting guinea pigs in our own vast experiment with synthetic chemicals...”

BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) has been …

BANNED PESTICIDES GLYPHOSATES- U.S. VS EU

In U.S. use of pesticides continues unabated…

EU’s EXPORTED BANNED PESTICIDES - TO OTHER COUNTRIES

EU allows agrochemical manufacturers to sell substances deemed dangerous for Europeans…

EU’s EXPORTED BANNED PESTICIDES - CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS

Syngenta's best selling pesticide Paraquat, is so dangerous that just one sip can be lethal…

Pesticides Impacts

U.S.TOTAL PESTICIDE USE

In U.S. each year, an estimated 1.1 billion pounds of pesticides are applied to U.S. farms, forests, lawns and golf courses...

U.S. CITIZENS - PESTICIDES IN BODY

CDC tested for 212 chemicals, including 44 pesticides and found most of them in over 85 percent of Americans tested...

U.S. LAWN PESTICIDE USE

Of 30 commonly used lawn pesticides 13 are linked with birth defects...

INSECTICIDES, HERBICIDES & FUMIGANTS

Main Groups of Insecticides, Pesticides and Fumigants...

PESTICIDES & ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION

All chemically-mediated message systems, are now known to be vulnerable to endocrine disruptors...

Perspective - Species Extinctions

HISTORICAL CONTEXT - SPECIES EXTINCTIONS

Numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel..

BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES

The IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas is the 1st global standard…

IUCN ENDANGERED SPECIES RED LIST

Currently there are more than 96,951 species on The International Union for Conservation of...

TOP 10 U.S. ENDANGERED SPECIES - ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA

Atlantic bluefin tuna has declined by more than 80 percent since 1970 due to over harvesting...

TOP 10 U.S. ENDANGERED SPECIES - POLAR BEARS

Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050...

Species Extinctions Globally

TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS - ELEPHANTS

Elephants will be extinct in the wild in less than 10 years...

TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS - ORANGUTANS

Bornean and Sumatran Orangutans have experienced sharp population declines...

TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS - JAVAN RHINOCEROS

Javan rhinos are currently critically endangered making it one of the most threatened large...

TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS - LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLES

Extensive egg collection and bycatch in fishing gear are the primary causes of these declines...

BIODIVERSITY IN ECOSYSTEMS

“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved…” - Jane Goodall …