Tag Archives: Climate Change

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Dirk Notz of the Max Planck Institute discusses Arctic Sea Ice.  Since 1979 we have lost 50% of the area and 50% of the thickness which amounts to a loss of 3/4 of the Arctic Sea Ice in ...

An amazing short video on electric cars.

Introduction: Judy Sole interviews Cyril Hromnik, in pursuit of the truth with regards to the ANC’s claim that the Bantu people were allegedly indigenous to this country, and were here long before the whites. He starts off telling us that Africa, until the 1200’s was originally called Ethiopia. Africa, named ...

The Paris Agreement’s aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Additionally, the agreement ...

In this video Jim Brainerd talks about the loud minority of climate change deniers in the republican party and how they make a lot of noise however they are in actual fact a very small proportion of American politicians (although surprising that they even exist at all in 2018). In ...

The mayor of Carmel in Indiana in the USA will give insight into how policy changes are enacted much faster and how America’s problem in the USA can compare and even help out countries that are struggling like South Africa. The question is raised that asks if it is appropriate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moderator: Bianca Jagger Founder and President Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation Panellists: Sônia Guajajara National Coordinator Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of BrazilBenki Piyãko Spiritual and political leader Ashaninka community of the Amônia River, Brazil Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Co-Chair International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change Reverend Fletcher Harper Executive Director ...