Spokesperson for Meat Farming – Acting on climate change is not about preventing people doing things but getting them to do things more responsibly and intelligently.
COP 13 BALI. Interview with Andy Molitor on lack of urgency by the IPCC and Governments regarding global GHG emissions. The cost of doing something now to mitigate climate change, is less than if the world did nothing in the longer term.
COP 13 BALI. Speakers on global Peatlands CO2 emissions, resulting from logging of swamp forests, drainage of peatlands palm oil plantations and peatlands fires that produce 11% of global CO2 emissions annually.
Met Office Hadley centre Climate Change Institute UK sent Richard Betts to Bali in 2007 to COP 13 present to the world’s governments a report signed by over 900 climate scientists advising that the change to renewable energy away from fossil fuel must be very fast as the planet was experiencing climate conditions that were […]
COP16 Speaker exploring the role of religions and the spiritual dimension relative to environment degradation. Judeo-Christian religions justify human dominance. Does humanity outrank the universe in its achievements. The entrenched teachings that nature belongs to humankind and is therefore subservient to mans needs. Did God plan the world purely for mans purposes. 3% of the […]
COP 16 CANCUN – US Navy RAdm. David Titley, speaks on global warming, polar ice melts, oceans absorbing 85% of atmospheric heat generation and ocean acidification through CO2 absorption.
COP 17 DURBAN. Speaker on reducing the IPCC mitigation, adaptation and other inequalities between developed and developing nations. Global non-sustainability and inequality of the business as usual model. Green climate fund status to finance global mitigation measures.
COP 17 DURBAN. Speaker on the moral collapse of Governments who only represent the interests of corporations. Candy Mostert on the commoditisation of everything (air, water carbon offsets etc.) in the so called Green Economy.
Youth Panel Speaker on, Indigenous peoples are on the frontline of Climate Change impacts. Extractive operations such as mining, logging, oil production, live stock farming are causing additional negative impacts.
COP 20 Lima. John Nissen & Paul Beckwith speak on the global underestimation of the scale of Methane emissions & its contribution to Global Warming. The IPCC has not included Methane emissions in its current reports. Methane is a vastly more damaging than CO2 & even after decaying for 100 years its still 20 times […]
COP 20, Lima, 2010 – Kaisa Kosonen of Greenpeace discusses timelines for Climate Change. When applying precautionary principles and given what we have already seen happening globally with climate, we need to bring Carbon Emissions down by 2015.
Stewart Scott of the United Planet Faith and Science Initiative talks about a new level of realisation at COP 20 reflected in the recent NY Times article declaring that without an agreement the planet will soon become uninhabitable for humans. These negotiations are not between the Global North and the Global South but between those […]
Youth Climate Activists speak out at COP 20 on Youth participation and engagement in the IPCC COP conferences and Youth being part of the solution, with host John Foran, co-founder of the Climate Justice project, [www.climatejusticeproject.com] and International Institute of Climate Action and Theory [www.iicat.org], introducing speakers on the panel. Youth Climate activist, Ms Raquel […]