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Climate change
Climate change from the United Nations
Antonio Guterres and the UN’s 5 points to intensify political action:
- limit temperature rises
- help nations meet climate goals
- transition to sustainable energy
- mobilize action for climate action plans
- build partnerships to combat climate change
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The Climate Action Tracker follows climate action since 2009. It uses results and anlyses to track progress in holding warming well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
The BBC’s Richard Black chronicles the principle milestones, discoveries, innovations and political action to give meaning and context to the idea of “climate change”
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Coronavirus and Climate Change
Deep Background discusses with Bill McKibben, author of “The End of Nature” warning of climate change in 1990, how the Covid-19 pandemic could further activists of the climate crisis. Listen to the podcast here.
Greenhouse gases from food
Reducing emissions from food production will be one of our greatest challenges in the coming decades. It is clear that a number of solutions: different
diets; waste reduction; greater efficient in agricultural; and technologies for low-carbon food which is scalable and affordable.
Greta Thunberg – school striking for action against climate change
The call to action, by Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old climate activist. “The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change” says Thunberg.
Afforestation
Desertification threatens a third of world’s land. Read how afforestation is a solution to it …
The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond
Half a degree makes a very big difference when judging how different parts of the world will feel the effects of climate change.