Carbon Reduction – Al Gore
COP 20: Al Gore was optimistic about the agreements being reached. He spoke about the inadequacies of GDP at measuring the most important economic realities that we face, for example depletion of natural resources, the production of pollution and other negative externalities. In addition, positive externalities such as social inequality, healthcare, communication and networking are […]
COP 21 – Joachim Pilz – Spiritual Consciousness – Raising for Climate Change
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Joachim Pilz, Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University – Spiritual Consciousness-Raising to Reverse Climate Change
Prof Jan Glazewski – UCT
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 9 – Prof Jan Glazewski – Environmental and Maritime Law – UCT SA – 31 countries and 200 participants at the symposium – very important step towards dealing with fish crime.
Solutions
It is already too late for any gradual transition – especially since action to save the world still depends on the whim of individual countries, organisations and industry. YET Minimum Immediate Actions to Curtail and Reduce Green House Gases: • Stop production of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel sources. • Stop methane produced from […]
COP 21 Francois Heindricks on refrigerent GHG gas emissions
COP 21 PARIS. Francois Heindricks, French Association Refrigerant Management AFCE speaks on CFC and HFC refrigerant emissions, which are 1300 times more powerful than CO2 and their impacts on Global Warming.
COP 22 IUCN Making adaptation effective through ecosystems based approaches
This side event will provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) offers. The panelists will deliberate on the role of ecosystems as ‘natural’ adaptation infrastructure and assess the effectiveness of investing into EbA for enhancing the resilience of communities & ecosystems.
Helen Zille – Sustainable Development
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.
We need an Energy Revolution
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: Energy Revolution to Solve Climate Change
Mining – Gunter Pauli
Gunter Pauli discusses Mineral Wealth and the need to rethink minerals as an engine for development
Law Enforcement – Panel and Discussion
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 18 – Small Scale Arrests should be followed up, Regulations and Skills are essential, SA and USA have a strong law enforcement culture but other African countries do not.
COP 22 Germanwatch on CCP Index – ‘Real Action’ Climate goals
By invitation from Germanwatch as a guest speaker, Ms Taonga Mbale (Dir. Environmental Affairs Dept. and National Focus Point for Climate Change, Malawi) comments on her countries climate change index to date, with Sönke Kreft (Team Leader: Intl. Climate Policy) and Christoph Bals (Political Dir: Policy) who elaborated on Germanwatch’s CCPI (Climate Change Performance Index) […]
The “Soul of Morocco” speaks on Climate Change to the World!
This is short film on Morocco, where the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) was held in Marrakesh in November of 2016. Morocco is a North African country that has a coastline on both the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It has borders with Western Sahara to the south, Algeria to the […]
COP 21 – Storms of my Grandchildren, Prof James Hansen, Leading Climate Change Scientist
COP 21 Paris. Prof. James Hansen speaks on Atmospheric Composition targets and the Earth’s imbalance due to increased CO2 in our atmosphere and oceans, and global efforts required to stabilize the climate and restore the energy balance of the earth. Climate (In) Justices resulting from long term and ongoing use of fossil fuels : * […]