Lionel Johnson who works on the board of MRCTI Mississippi rivers cities and town initiative will talk about the future and his own personal gut feeling towards whether consumerism will over power the desperate circumstances of the planet. Will we continue to live in a linear world where waste is ...
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February, 2018
January, 2018
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19 January
COP 23 DAY 12 Pitt Lands
This discussion has members from the UNFCCC and she talks about how to preserve Peatlands forest. Scientists have discovered the world’s largest tropical Peatlands in the remote Congo swamps, estimated to store the equivalent of three years’ worth of the world’s total fossil fuel emissions. The main issue is about ...
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19 January
COP 23 DAY 12 The Story of Carol González
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 ...
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19 January
Unpacking the topic of climate change
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 ...
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19 January
COP 23 DAY 12 Scalability in Climate Change
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 ...
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December, 2017
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28 December
COP 23 AL GORE
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 ...
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21 December
COP 23 LIVESTOCK, BIOSEQUESTRATION & FORESTS
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 ...
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21 December
COP 23 JERRY BROWN KEYNOTE
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 ...
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20 December
COP 23 Bonn Fiji Bainimarama & Schwarzenegger
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 ...
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