The biggest ever opinion poll on climate change has found two-thirds of people think it is a “global emergency”. The survey shows people across the world support climate action and gives politicians a clear mandate to take the major action needed, according to the UN organisation that carried out the poll. The UN Development Programme... Continue Reading →
COP26: All nations must declare a ‘climate emergency’
The UN Secretary General has called on all countries to declare a climate emergency to halt climate change. Source
The leader of the United Nations warned Monday of “existential threats” to the global climate and biodiversity. Speaking to the World Economic Forum, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that today’s world suffers from “fragility,” invoking issues such as the coronavirus pandemic and resulting job losses. “We also see fragility in the climate and biodiversity crisis. Both... Continue Reading →
UN chief warns of ‘existential threats’ to climate, biodiversity…
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2021 New Year’s Video Message – United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres
The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC was originally scheduled to take place from 9-19 November 2020, in Glasgow, UK. On 28 May 2020, the COP Bureau decided that it would take place from 1-12 November 2021, in Glasgow, UK. The change in dates had been anticipated following a... Continue Reading →
COP26 News and Update (2) Links
Preamble This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting... Continue Reading →
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Landmark United in Science report informs Climate Action Summit - Science highlights key facts and figures about growing gap between targets and reality. WMO Press release "Global Climate in 2015-2019: Climate change accelerates": https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press... WMO Press release "Landmark United in Science report informs Climate Action Summit": https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press... UN Climate Action Summit 2019: https://public.wmo.int/en/un-climate-... World Meteorological... Continue Reading →
World Meteorological Organization September 2019 Report
Paris Agreement: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
(sharing this now as it never gets old...) Donald Trump plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement on climate change. That's bad news for anyone who happens to live on this planet. Continued at source...
Scores of world leaders gathered in New York on Monday for the U.N. Climate Action Summit, but the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters announced few new measures to address the climate crisis. President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence briefly attended the summit but left after just 14 minutes. At the beginning of the summit,... Continue Reading →
Youth & Indigenous Activists Take Center Stage at United Nations Climate Action Summit
Speaking at the beginning of the UN’s Climate Action Summit on Monday, the 16-year-old acclaimed climate activist Greta Thunberg, was unsparing in her criticism of world leaders, telling them that they are still “not mature enough to tell it like it is”. Full Article - UN News Full Speech - SoundCloud
you are failing us…
UN Secretary-General warned leaders not to come to his landmark Climate Action Summit with beautiful speeches, but to present concrete plans for cutting harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and strategies for carbon neutrality by 2050. So what, exactly, was promised at Monday’s all-day event at UN Headquarters in New York? Full Article - UN News
empowerment & inner transformation... 