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Forceful warnings of severe climate dangers are focus of new environmental publication review series. Catastrophic warming by 2030 is imminent, immediate change needed, warn scientific studies considered historic guideposts for change. Inglewood-based environmental education service—focused on reviving communities through media and equitable development opportunities, renewable-energy technology, and protection of the Earth—reviews climate crisis reports. What: Publication reviews of recent reports considered historic forceful warnings that human behavior must change by 2030: Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). UN officials called AR6 “A Code Red for Humanity,” when released shortly before the Glasgow, Scotland COP26. Scientists warn: “…Each of the last four decades has been successively warmer than any decade that preceded it since 1850. …” (posted November 2021). The Heat is On: A World of Climate Promises Not Yet Delivered (Emissions Gap Report 2021), UN Environment Programme’s latest of 12 editions of UNEP’s emissions gap series, warns: We have less than a decade to get things in order, they say. The next eight years are the focus, the guide for the next eighty years and beyond (posted May 2022). Production Gap: 2021 Report, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) reports: “Government Plans For Fossil Fuel Production Are Still Far More In Line With Worsening Climate Disasters Than They Are With Internationally Agreed Temperature Limits” (posted May 2022). When/Where: Posted May 23, 2022. baobabdiasporavisions.org Publisher Publications - Issuu Why: While UN conventions and frameworks are significant for all nations, peoples, and cultures to embrace, they are critical for less-wealthy Global South states and Global North communities of color. These nations and communities, which have the smallest CO2 footprints worldwide (the world's 20 richest countries are responsible for three-fourths of global emissions.), are inordinately impacted by weather extremes (including disproportionately living on the frontline of highly polluting life-threatening industrial production facilities), and the least protected and last targeted for mitigating adaptation and resiliency policies and financing. Scientific findings are crucial; wealthy states, corporations and financial institutions are obligated to respond. To survive the climate crisis, those of color must be involved. “Significant equitable development and job creation should be linked to sustainability, and protection of the Earth—this can assist in reviving economically struggling communities—especially in the Global South [and communities of color in the North].” —Mission statement: Baobab Diaspora Visions Project and earthAfrica media & news service How: Storytelling platform for sharing global narratives of environmental crisis and mitigation success, to help ensure just and unbiased sustainable-development adaptation and resiliency activities and opportunities in protection of the Earth. Baobab Diaspora Visions Project and earthAfrica media & news service distribute through online and print articles, and policy review, and on the ground reporting on direct action; and music and dance/movement activities featuring scientific and economic data; and give support and power to poignant, often ignored, and silenced, community and cultural voices. In development: video and audio documentaries, podcasts, oral narratives. Who: earthAfrica media was founded to develop the environmental storytelling of Global South states and communities of color in the Global North, to reach and inspire citizens worldwide, mainly young adults, especially those of African descent, to advocate on behalf of their communities and nations facing environmental threats. The project and news service were created as “a call to action,” and founded to train in the “utilization of traditional media and new-media platforms for environmental storytelling, featuring the voices of those disproportionately impacted by weather extremes.” Content: Frank Dexter Brown, journalist/researcher/founder Baobab Diaspora Visions Project and earthAfrica media Extending roots and branches” — a tree of life venture A project of EarthAfrica Media News Service™ and Education Consultants & Culture Collective Media P.O. Box 9235 Inglewood, California 90305 | +1 424.227.6097 (o); +1 202.554.3392 (c) | info@baobabdiasporavisions.org; www.baobabdiasporavisions.or