Tag Archives: Mountains

Advocate Douglas Shaw has been taking the major banks in South Africa to the High Court for a sum of an estimated 62 billion rand. This is asking the court to order that the major banks repay the money to the thousands of bond holders who were repossessed without following ...

COP 20 Lima USAID Panel Speakers Dr. Daene McKinney and Dr. Jorge Recharte presentation on: Andes High Mountain Adaptation Partnership (Andes-HiMAP) project. Global science and local communities impacts on mountain watersheds. Water security risks, glacial lake formations that can cause sudden devastating flood threats to cities and rural communities. Community ...

COP 21 PARIS University of Reading UK speaker Dr. Peter Dorward & Walker Inst. Prof. Ros Cornforth on: Supporting African farming communities with climate data to enable improved decision-making criteria, food crop security and create sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. Dr Peter Dorward: Most climate services have tended to focus ...

Organic Farmer & Panel Speaker Theo de Jager, on,viable Organic Farming and the power of the End-consumers choice in the Value Chain to support global sustainable conservation farming. The most important people are the house wives and journalists. The housewife who stands in front of the stove, decides what the ...

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 ...

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. ...

COP 16 CANCUN Dr. Keith Paustian speaks on effective nitrogen and soil carbon management in agriculture. Take for example the issue of nitrogen management, whether you’re using fertiliser or manure, basically nitrous oxide emissions are resulting from the inefficient use of Nitrogen. The more nitrogen that doesn’t get into the plant, ...

COP 16 CANCUN – US Navy RAdm. David Titley: He asks 3 questions: Does the United States navy believe climate change is real? If we do, how does it affect the United States Navy, relative to our role in National Security? Finally, if both of those are yes, what’s the Navy ...

COP 16 CANCUN. Paul Steele Exec-Director of ATAG Air Transport Action Group speaks on global Aviation Industry CO2 emissions and outlines Industry measures being undertaken to mitigate global emissions.