Global warming, batteries, electric transport and the Basel Convention

Ms Harry welcomed the first speaker, Álvaro Rodríguez, Spanish Coordinator for The Climate Reality Project (ESP) who spoke on the environment and batteries.

Mr Rodriguez showed a picture of the earth from the moon and remarked how the Earth is like a “big battery, a solar battery”. But then he lamented, “how we have decided that it’s a good idea to use this battery as an open landfill without limit. Every 24 hours we put in the atmosphere more than 165 million tonnes of waste in the form of gases and this big amount of gases is changing the composition of this big battery.” Consequently, he said, the temperature of the Earth is increasing one day after the other, one year after the other.