COP 16 Dr.Keith Paustian Nitrogen & Soil Carbon Mngmt.
COP 16 CANCUN Dr. Keith Paustian speaks on effective nitrogen and soil carbon management in agriculture.
COP 16 RADM.Titley – Global Warming, Polar Ice Melt, Rising Sea Levels, Ocean Acidification
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 16 USDA Conservation Agri & Forestry Mgmt & Organic Farming
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 – Christiana Figueres – UNFCCC – Ocean Warming
COP 20: Lima, Peru: December 2014: Christiana Figueres, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) speaks about Ocean Warming and the gap it is giving the human race by absorbing excess heat/CO2 and becoming acidified.
COP 20 – Critical Levels of Methane Emissions
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 – Iain Keith of Avaaz – Snr Campaign Director
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 […]
COP 20 – Kaisa Kosonen – Discussing Timelines for Climate Change
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.
COP 20 – Stewart Scott
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 […]
COP 20 Al Gore Flawed GDP System
Al Gore speaks about the flawed GDP system which only measures growth and the impact on finite resources, lack of investment in education, health & family services. A Sustainability measurement system needs to be implemented in business plans & included in government policies globally.
COP 20 FSC & Landscape.org interviews on FSC certification & Peru crop faming at higher elevations
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 […]
COP 20 Hi Carbon-Low Efficiency
COP 20 LIMA Speaker on the transition from the present non-sustainable high carbon, low efficiency cities and economies, to sustainable low carbon high efficiency cities, economies and environments.
COP 20 IFOAM Panel Speakers on Organic Smallholder farming
COP 20 Lima Panel Speakers from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) on: The inclusion of positive Small-holder Organic Farming climate change impacts in the IPCC climate action negotiation agenda. Agriculture is at the forefront of climate change impacts with, droughts, floods & extreme weather impacting on food security and loss of farming […]
COP 20 Lack Of Political Will
Saleem Huq speaks about the lack of political will by Governments to take action on Climate Change mitigation measures.
COP 20 Lima – Arctic Methane Emissions & Global Warming
At this COP 20 Presentation on Arctic Methane Emissions and the global warming effects on Earth, by Mr Stuart Scott of UPFSI (United Planet Faith & Science Iniative), he introduces the subject matter with reference to a New York Times article dated Nov. 30 2014, headlined : ‘Optimism faces grave realities at Climate talks’ by […]