Tag: climate negotiations
Let’s go shopping until the shit hits the fan!
What will be the outcome of our inactions on climate change by 2030? The following YouTube presentation is taken from the soon to be release book ‘Letters from 2030’ Leon Tolstoy once wrote – People were not inclined to take their situation with any degree of seriousness: on the contrary they became even more frivolous, [...]
Posted: October 22nd, 2011 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General.
Tags: activism, Climate Change, climate change costs, climate negotiations, global warming, Obama administration, World News
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The future is a Reality for all of us
The Reality is we are altering the future for those who will inherit it from us. The Reality is that we presently have within our grasp the opportunity to do something about it. The Reality is that this opportunity is fast slipping away. The Reality is that unless we collectively take responsibility to move away [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2011 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: 350ppm, activism, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, coal, global warming, Tipping Points, World News
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Arctic Ice in Death Spiral
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – This report foreshadows a very grim future for all. We have no further time to waste in de-carbonizing our global activities. We must gather together as a single voice and demand our political masters’ act now! UXBRIDGE, Sep 20 (IPS) – The carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Negotiations, World News.
Tags: activism, arctic, catastrophic climate change, climate negotiations, global warming, Ice free Arctic, science, Tipping Points, World News
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World Leaders agree on the official banner for Cancun Mexico Climate Change Conference.
On November 29th 2010 through to December 10th world leaders will once more meet to discuss the future of all of us. They will have the opportunity once more to make historic decisions for the reduction of emissions that are leading us down the road to runaway catastrophic climate change in the coming decades. Following [...]
Posted: September 13th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Cancun Mexico, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, greenhouse emissions, International negotiations, Obama administration, World News
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Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren’s future? I guess I am
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – I have long admired James Hansen as a person who cares for the future of all that we share our fragile planet with. The answers to all of the significant challenges we face in the imminent future is in OUR hands. We need to accept this moral responsibility. The following [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, coal, glacial melt, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, Oil Industry, Tipping Points, United States
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Warriors of the Rainbow
By Kumi Naidoo the executive director of Greenpeace International. Twenty-five years ago Saturday, two bombs planted by secret agents working for the French government sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor, New Zealand, killing Fernando Pereira, a photographer and father of two. This was a desperate move by France to stop the activists [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, General.
Tags: activism, activists, Climate Change, climate negotiations, global warming, stop climate change
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More Ambition Needed if Greenhouse Gases are to Peak in Time, Says New UNEP Report
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment – If we are to win this War on Terra, we need to act decisively now. Pledges Post Copenhagen Unlikely to Keep Temperatures Below 2 Degrees Celsius by Mid Century UNEP Year Book Also Launched Today Outlines Growing Governance Challenge from Climate to Chemicals Bali (Indonesia), 23 February 2010 - Countries will [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: 2 Degrees, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, United Nations, World News
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We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change – Al Gore
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations.
Tags: activist, Climate Change, climate negotiations, global warming, International negotiations, United Nations, United States
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Yvo de Boer’s resignation compounds sense of gathering climate crisis
Despite his steady hands at the helm of climate talks, de Boer was losing his touch and navigated into rancorous territory How can everything have gone so wrong so quickly? A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue, civil society [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations, World News.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, United Nations, World News
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World commits to 3.5 degrees
A majority of the world’s nations signed up to the Copenhagen Accord and filed plans for emissions reductions, scraping over the UN deadline of 31st January for doing so. But the pledged actions fall far short of action needed to prevent global temperatures rising by 2 degrees C – the target adopted in the text [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, CO2 Emissions, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, Tipping Points, World News
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