COP 20 Lima IPCC Working Groups 2 & 3 Members Dr. Chris Field & Dr. Youba Sokona presentation on: Overview of the COP 20 conference and IPCC Risk Assessment Report AR5 addressing key issues on Climate Change in the context of Global Change. Dr. Chris Field: Climate change is rooted ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »South Suriname Conservation Corridor ENG
Conservation International is an environmental organization that has worked in Suriname for the last 25 years, and 30 years internationally in 40 countries to protect nature for the benefit of people. Suriname is a small country on the north-eastern coast of South America. It’s defined by vast swaths of tropical rainforest, Dutch ...
Read More »COP 21- Alex Malawi, Global Water Partnership, Sweden
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Alex Malawi, Global Water Partnership, Sweden, Country Water Stores and Water Security The Global Water Partnership is an Intergovernmental Organisation, that supports countries to water security. They are a partnership organisation composed of different other partners, that come from ...
Read More »COP 13 Global Peatland Fires & CO2 Emissions
COP 13 BALI. Speakers on global Peatlands CO2 emissions, resulting from logging of swamp forests, drainage of peatlands palm oil plantations and peatlands fires that produce 11% of global CO2 emissions annually. Everyone knows about forests and deforestation for climate change and everyone is talking about it at this conference. ...
Read More »ENN WITH JAY-20 JUNE 2016
This edition of ENN looks at Rhino poaching, the effects of increasing temperatures on trees and the extinction of the Bramble Cay Melomys.
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