Tag Archives: COP 20 Lima

The main reason for the press conference is the increasing problems in the Mekon River region. This is about millions of smallholder farmers and the threats to their livelihood, that are coming from climate change in that region. The Mekon river is one of the largest river basins in the ...

COP 20 Lima Panel Speaker Kimaren Ole Riamit from Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners, (ILEPA) based in Kenya on: The rights and interests of indigenous people to be recognized by COP negotiators & included in binding Climate action plans and agreements. Although indigenous people are of the land and have the ...

COP 20 LIMA Samantha Smith & Panel Speakers from WWF on: Current climate change mitigation & adaptation ambitions are set too low. Loss and damage costs of extreme weather impacts that have already occurred are not considered. Green Climate funding allocations are not adequate to finance mitigation and adaptation measures.

COP 20 LIMA Friends of the Earth Int. Dipti Bhatnagar, Godwin Ojo and Malika Peyraut presentation on: The need for Global transformation to clean Renewable Energy & ongoing FOE campaign efforts to stop Institutional investments into fossil fuel power generation.

COP 20 LIMA UNEP Panel Speaker Keith Alverson on: UNEP Climate Change Adaptation Gap Report on pledges made by the 2 major GHG emitters USA & China. The emissions gap the key challenge that needs to be addressed in order to limit global temperatures rising above 2 deg. Celsius by ...

COP 20 LIMA Panel Speakers Jake Schmidt & Amanda Maxwell from NRDC on: Diesel & black carbon emissions from transportation and their impacts on peoples health, climate change, global ice melts etc. in Latin America.

COP 20 LIMA:  Alix Mazounie from RAC-France, on Climate action, adaptation, mitigation and Green Fund finance.  Government subsidies for the Fossil Fuel industry and Japan using Green Climate Action Funds to develop Coal Fired Power Stations in developing countries.

At this COP 20 Presentation on Arctic Methane Emissions and the global warming effects on Earth, by Mr Stuart Scott of UPFSI (United Planet Faith & Science Iniative), he introduces the subject matter with reference to a New York Times article dated Nov. 30 2014, headlined : ‘Optimism faces grave ...