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Ben Margolis – Carbon and Poverty Reduction

Ben Margolis of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty group emphasises the urgency of COP 21 as poor people, in particular, are already dying due to climate change. The richest countries need to take historic emissions into account in their decisions. The impact of cutting out fossil fuels entirely, however attractive this might be, […]
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Chris Kasten – WWF SA Sustainable Seafood Initiative

Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 3 – Chris Kasten from World Wildlife Fund and the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative – Green List is fish that is produced in a sustainable and responsible manner, Orange List are fish sources that are cause for […]
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Gary Orr – Organised Crime

Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 11 – Nondumiso Mfenyane of Management Centre for Fishing at the Maritime Safety Authority SA introduces Gary Orr of Compliance Operations Manager of Primary Industries, New Zealand. We are dealing with highly organised crime and we need pro-active, […]
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COP 21 World Bio-energy Association – Renewable Energy

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
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Time is running out – The Arctic sea ice is going!

Interview with Professor Peter Wadhams, leading Arctic scientist and Prof. of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University, with Judy Sole of Mother Channel. In 40 years, since 1970, of sea ice research and pole oceanography, Prof. Wadhams has observed and measured changes in arctic and antarctic ice, which have and are still adversely affecting and accelerating […]
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COP 21 Ari Huhtala – Climate & Development Knowledge Network

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Ari Huhtala, an economist from Finland Deputy CEO of the Climate & Development Knowledge Network, which helps developing countries to face the challenges of climate change while still undertaking development and poverty alleviation.

Root Causes

The root causes of global warming are the increase in gases that warm the planet and the removal of the vegetation and other organisms which would reduce Green House gases . INCREASE OF – CO2 – by the burning of fossil fuel (oil and coal), and the diminishing of vegetation and phytoplankton that normally hold […]