COP 23

Who will stop ‘this madness’ of climate change, ‘if not us, then who, if not now, then when?’Yeb Sano From our territories in the Amazon, Mesoamerica, Asia and Africa we fight to protect tropical forests threatened by illegal logging and mining, oil extraction, land invasion, drug traffic, monoculture, construction of ...

This video talk initially about what we really need to make climate change awareness more noticeable and how we can achieve it. Key words to be discussed are: up scaling, sustainable, changing climate and homogeneity. There are so many different facets to climate change and ensuring a whole understanding of ...

In this video Naomi Ages from Greenpeace and who is also a USA Attorney talks about stopping attacks against environmental defenders. There have been horrific incidents of physical abuse to people who go out of their way to protect the climate. Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) which is a ...

Al Gore presents the answer to whether and why we have to change at the COP23 conference in Bonn.  We have to win this in time to stop the damage which will take away the future of children and ourselves Temperatures in large parts of the world are getting too ...

Brighter Green & The Johns Hopkins Center:  Livestock, Biosequestration and Forests: Closing the ‘Reality Gap’ in Climate and Land Use Policy and Finance  Moderator:  Simone Lovera Global Forest Coalition, Paraguay   Panellists:  Doreen Stabinsky  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), USA Tesfaye Gonfa  REDD+ regional manager, Federal Democratic Republic of ...

Jerry Brown the American politician is talking about how far we have progressed with regards to climate change. He talks about how friendship, belief and other important human needs will speed up climate change. Jerry brown talks about how the world has changed in recent years for example oil and ...

Master of Ceremony: Cathy Oke Councilor, Melbourne, Australia, ICLEI Global Executive Committee MemberSpeakers: Frank Bainimarama Prime Minister, Republic of Fiji, COP23 President Arnold Schwarzenegger R20 Founding Chair Bonn Fiji Commitment Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji and COP23 President, underscored subnational power: “We can draw from the power and enthusiasm ...

Master of Ceremony: Cathy Oke Councilor, Melbourne, Australia, ICLEI Global Executive Committee MemberSpeakers: Ashok Sridharan Lord Mayor, Bonn, Germany ICLEI First Vice President Armin Laschet Minister-President, State of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany “Welcome to the power and potential of local and regional governments from all continents,” said Mayor Sridharan at ...

Master of Ceremony: Cathy Oke Councilor, Melbourne, Australia, ICLEI Global Executive Committee MemberLorna  Eden Ministry of Local Government, Urban Development, Housing and Environment Fiji Mauricio Rodas Mayor of Quito Ecuador Mayors and leaders of islands at the front-line of climate change, from the President of Palau to Mayor of Cozumel, ...

Master of Ceremony: Cathy Oke Councilor, Melbourne, Australia, ICLEI Global Executive Committee Member Tania Roediger-Vorwerk Director General Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Germany Tania Roediger-Vorwerk, the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) introduces the  initiative “Green people´s energy for Africa”. In the next five years, the ...