This week Jason Sole and Mother Channel cover the emergence of the electric vehicle, the impacts of it on the local market, the technologies it utilises and the storage systems behind it. The links for the story are here below: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/13/electric-car-sales-set-to-pass-2m-landmark-globally-by-end-of-2016 http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/10/germanys-bundesrat-votes-to-ban-the-internal-combustion-engine-by-2030/ http://insideevs.com/by-2020-electrified-vehicles-will-take-7-of-the-global-automotive-market/ Specifically covered with this release is the ...

COP 20 Lima Panel Speakers from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) on: The inclusion of positive Small-holder Organic Farming climate change impacts in the IPCC climate action negotiation agenda. Agriculture is at the forefront of climate change impacts with, droughts, floods & extreme weather impacting on food ...

COP 20 Lima WMO Dep. Sec. General Lengoasa on World Meteorological Conference provisional statement on the state of the Climate in 2014. The year 2014 is on track to be the warmest year on record. Near-surface ocean temperatures have been particularly high. The Arctic sea ice extent was again below its ...

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 ...

Jason Sole covers the weeks news wrap up of some reports issued regarding the transatlantic conveyor. The conveyor or overturning current is what is responsible for moving warmth from the South to the North, the full article is available here: http://phys.org/news/2016-10-atlantic-ocean-slowdown-tied-southern.html . We also cover the new study done on the effects ...

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.