Climate Change

Spokesperson for Meat Farming – Acting on climate change is not about preventing people doing things but getting them to do things more responsibly and intelligently.

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, ...

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.

Rachel Kyte, the Vice President of the World Bank speaks about the journey that multinational banks are undertaking as regards the rights and expectations of third world people for sustainable development being undermined by Climate Change. A 2% rise in global temperatures will result in a 4-5% drop in growth ...

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: Cop 21 Paris 2015: European Policy Makers – Introduction of Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, Dr Christian Friis Bach, Dr Hans Bruvninckx, Dr Patrick Rampal discussing various European Policies for Air Pollution, Disease, Allergies, Circular Economies, Low Carbon Economies, Youth participation, Health and Environment Education

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Segolene Neuville – Active Mobilities, Dr Zsusanna Jakab – The Adverse Impact of Climate Change on Human Health, Heat Wave deaths in Europe

Indigenous Environmental Network is a NPO working on behalf of indigenous communities located in areas where Tar Sands are being mined for oil. They are suffering from increasing levels of illness and cancers.

Spiritual Dimension – Dr. Saleem Huq, IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the international body for assessing the science related to climate change. Climate Change is a moral issue, rich people cause the pollution and poor people in both poor and rich countries are the ones who suffer.

Spiritual Dimension – Martin Kopp, Justice Advocacy Officer of the Lutheran World Federation, France – Mobilise their constituency, Interfaith One-Day Conference

Spiritual Dimension – Dr Chi-Ming Peng, Tzu Chi Foundation, Taiwan, Unite people and society with a common goal; our suffering from global warming will be carried by all of us; all stakeholders including individuals need to be more active.