COP 20 Lima, Mr Peter Bakker, President of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) speaks on the Integration of Green Sustainability into every aspect of cities and business worldwide and the key component for up-scaling of environmental solutions is Innovation. Business has finance and management skills, innovative power and also business solutions that can […]
Charlier Fraser of the Foundation for Common Good, discusses the corrupt Global Economic System based on inequity and wholesale fraud implicating both government and corporates inevitably. He suggests that all people needs to take responsibility for our own lives and discover ways to circumvent the current way of doing things.
World Bank Group’s Ms Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, speaks on Engineering a Green Energy Future through an integrated Landscape approach, at COP 20, Lima. Our goal and focus in terms of the landscape approach, in conjunction with the IPCC Report (Nov. 2014), is the decarbonization of our economy by […]
The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: We cannot reduce our carbon energy system in the next 5-10 years due to the infrastructure already in place and additional infrastructure being constructed now. We are installing 30-40 GW per year and can increase this to 100 GW in due course
Iain Keith, a Senior Campaign Director of Avaaz, a civic organisation that promotes global activism, speaks at COP 20, Lima, Peru on Energy -People Power pushing Positive Change. In a quoted statement: ‘2014 was a turning point year’, Iain Keith elaborates on some of the facts that support this statement, viz; People Power, Renewable Energy […]
The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Power Africa has partnered with African governments, to double access to clean energy using new technologies. Also partnered with the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Government of Sweden, the European Union, the African Union, the United Nation’s Sustainable Energy for All, 12 […]
In this interview with Mother Channel, Kaisa Kosonen of Greenpeace, Finland, speaks at COP 20, Lima, Peru, on changing energy sources and opens the interview by stating that there have been enormous breakthroughs in renewable energy in last 5 years, citing the reduction in prices of solar panels by 80% over this period and that […]
COP22 – Potential for Regional Power Interconnection and Networks ~ a Global Assessment. Electricity transmission is a key enabler of a clean energy system. Given the versatile and efficient nature of electricity for end‑user applications, electricity demand has been growing more rapidly than overall energy consumption. Decarbonisation is expected to strongly reinforce this trend: most […]
Helen Zille, Premier of Western Cape speaks about Africa having leapfrogged the industrial revolution and headed straight for sustainable technology. Innovations coming out of Africa are excellent for combating the problems that have arisen from the Industrial Revolution in the rest of the world.
Panel speaker Niclas Hallström, on African countries taking the initiative on leapfrogging into the Renewable Energy sector, with Investment guarantees as implemented by Germany, renewables can be rolled out on a massive scale. Global Scientific community, headed up by Professor Christopher Field, engaged in gathering data for COP 21 in Paris.
Mother Channel interviews Ms. Maddy Churchhouse, final year undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, and Hired Consultant at the Sustainable Low Carbon Transport Partnership with PPMC (Paris Process on Mobility and Climate) at COP 22, Marrakech. The PPMC joins Michelin Challenge Design in order to promote quick action in the transport centre with regard to […]
Cancun Climate Summit, Mexico, December 2010 – A Chinese Government representative discusses China’s achievements in Renewable Energy provision. They rank number one in the world in Windpower, Hydropower and Nuclear Power installations. Their capacity in Solar generation accounts for half of the installations worldwide at 800MW and their Nuclear Power plants contribute 30.97GW (both development […]
COP 21 PARIS RS WWF Panel speakers Samantha Smith, Liangchun Deng & Lou Leonard on: Climate change and renewable energy funding and investment commitment officially supported by US President Obama at the COP Conference in Paris. Chinese government has made the highest domestic investment levels into renewable energy & is also financing renewable projects in […]