This video is from the Cop22 in Marrakech in November 2016. Press conference ICAO International civil aviation organisation’s plan to reduce emissions to help reach the maximum1.5c target. The executive secretary along with the president of the international civil aviation organisation were in attendance to talk about lowering emissions and ...
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29 December
COP 22 IFAD INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
COP 22 IFAD INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Three quarters of the poorest people in the world live in the rural areas of developing countries. Most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change, a growing global population, and volatile food and energy prices have the potential to push ...
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29 December
GLOBAL FORESTRY ISSUES AND DEFORESTATION EMISSION REDUCTIONS
In this Mother Channel interview at COP 22, with Christopher Martius (Principal Scientist Climate Change, CIFOR) – We work globally on forests and forestry issues, particularly in the Tropics and also on Climate Change problems related to forests and deforestation. One of our research aspects is a comparative study on ...
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29 December
UK Pavilion Green zone – Side event on Climate readiness – Ocean based adaptation and mitigation
A panel discussion on the current and future potential role of the ocean in adaptation and mitigation of climate change and potential uncertainties. These include protection, expansion and location of marine carbon sinks (blue carbon), use of small scale algal farming to enhance local fishers’ adaptive capacity to ocean acidification, ...
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28 December
UK ~ Climate Change “Worries” and Solving the Problem!
In an exclusive interview with Mother Channel, Professor Peter Wadhams leading Arctic scientist and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics at Cambridge University talks on some of the ‘Worries’ particular to the UK and ‘Urgent Actions’ required, at COP 22, Marrakech. Responding to a question on ‘How UK will be ...
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28 December
“Catastrophic Outcomes” – Less: Ice, Food, Water, Resources – More: Population, Heat, Sea Rise!
In an exclusive interview with Mother Channel, Professor Peter Wadhams leading Arctic scientist and Prof. of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University, talks on catastrophic outcomes in terms of Retreating and Thinning Sea Ice, Methane in Oceans and on Land, Carbon Emissions, Food shortages, Resources and global Refugee crisis at COP ...
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23 December
Avoiding Irreversible Ocean and Polar Thresholds ~ Sea Rise and Ocean Solutions (Part 3)
In a panel discussion on Avoiding Irreversible Ocean and Polar Thresholds globally, Dr. Carol Turley introduces specialist speakers on the subjects of Oceans, Polar Ice, Sea Rise and Oceanic solutions at COP 22, Marrakech. There are over 400 million people living in 136 coastal cities with populations exceeding one billion ...
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23 December
Avoiding Irreversible Ocean and Polar Thresholds ~ Polar Ice (Part 2)
In a panel discussion on Avoiding Irreversible Ocean and Polar Thresholds globally, Dr. Carol Turley introduces specialist speakers on the subjects of Oceans, Polar Ice, Sea Rise and Oceanic solutions at COP 22, Marrakech. Cryosphere on Earth – these are the regions which are covered in ice and snow – ...
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23 December
Disrupted Culture: Global Warming affecting our Heritage
The National Trusts Organisation and the International Polar Foundation presented on Culture on the Move: Sea Level Rise, Cultural Heritage and Climate Mobility, at the UN COP 22, Marrakech – When communities are displaced by climate change, we discover the many ways in which cultural heritage intersects with climate mobility. ...
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22 December
Avoiding Irreversible Ocean and Polar Thresholds ~ Oceans (Part 1)
In a panel discussion on Avoiding Irreversible Ocean and Polar Thresholds globally, Dr Carol Turley introduces specialist speakers on the subjects of Oceans, Polar Ice, Sea Rise and Oceanic solutions at COP 22, Marrakech. Mr Philip Duffy (Physicist) and President and Executive Director at Woods Hole Research Centre gives and ...
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