COP 20 Lima Peru Presentation – Para-AGUA – Speaker Dr. Sergio D. Claure on: Mountain and glacier ice melt and Andes watershed impacts, this is a really important presentation as it shows the impacts that climate change is having on the Andes. He also covers the impacts that such dramatic alterations are having on the lives of millions of […]
COP 22 – In this presentation, the Health Panel discuss the importance of Health as a transformational argument on Climate Change and the need for compassion, engagement and organisation in addressing Health Risks and Climate Change, thereby gaining the Health co-benefits of low carbon development practice – speakers ; Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum – Health & […]
Dr Hugh Montgomery – Institute for Human Health and Performance, What Can We Do, Working together to achieve Climate Change Goals with Government, Corporates and Neighbours/Friends
COP 16 CANCUN. US Dept. of Agriculture speaker on conservation, agriculture and forest management and organic farming measures to mitigate global GHG emissions both in the US and internationally.
COP 20 LIMA Interview with FSC spokesperson on: Protection of forest bio-diversity, soil, waterways are checked controlled by certified organisations. Non compliance will result in the loss of FSC certification. Interview with spokesperson from Landscapes.org on impacts of growing potato crops at higher than normal elevations in Peru, due to the spread of insect and […]
In this 2017 UCT Summer School Series, Day 4 ~ Prof. Mark New, Director and Pro Vice-Chancellor at African Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI), UCT (BSc. (Hons.), MPhil, PhD) presents on Water Security: the Global Hydrological cycle, Effects on water resource catchment areas, Water Security, Supply scarcity and climate change in South Africa, specifically Cape […]
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 13 – Bernard Liedemann, DAFF – The need for a Multi-national body to be established to deal with crime on the high seas.
BREDASDORP AGRI-SHOW, Western Cape, South Africa. Interview with Leonie from the Agricultural Research Council on: Research for the sterilisation of male fruit flies to combat fruit, wine & food crop losses, implementation of remedial honeybush tea farming on a broader scale.
In a panel discussion on Avoiding Irreversible Ocean and Polar Thresholds globally, Dr. Carol Turley introduces specialist speakers on the subjects of Oceans, Polar Ice, Sea Rise and Oceanic solutions at COP 22, Marrakech. Cryosphere on Earth – these are the regions which are covered in ice and snow – either seasonally or all year-round, […]
Roger Godwin, Project and Environmental Research, discussing Bees and the pollination services for the fruit industry. South Africa as a microcosm of what is happening globally. The American Foulbrood disease is just one disease being found in hives. There are not enough hives and bees left to manage pollination needed. The fruit industry in South […]
COP 20 Lima USAID Panel Speakers Dr. Daene McKinney and Dr. Jorge Recharte presentation on: Andes High Mountain Adaptation Partnership (Andes-HiMAP) project. Global science and local communities impacts on mountain watersheds. Water security risks, glacial lake formations that can cause sudden devastating flood threats to cities and rural communities. Community driven, science based watershed adaptation […]