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29/11/2018

World Simply ‘Not on Track’ to Slow Climate Change this Year – World Meteorological Organization

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The world is heading in the wrong direction to slow climate change after another year of near-record temperatures, the head of the UN’s weather agency said on Thursday [29 November 2018].

NASA | The Earth, an image created from photographs taken by the Suomi NPP satellite. | Image from UN News.

“We are not on track to meet climate change targets and rein in temperature increases,” said Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

“Greenhouse gas concentrations are once again at record levels and if the current trend continues we may see temperature increases 3-5 degrees centigrade by the end of the century. If we exploit all known fossil fuel resources, the temperature rise will be considerably higher,” he said.

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29/11/2018

The ‘New’ Climate Politics of Extinction Rebellion?

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By Joost de Moor, Brian Doherty, and Graeme Hayes*

Creating a movement that can have the impact XR aims for will require confronting the political as well as the moral challenges posed by climate change.

XR twitter. November 17, 2018. Fair use.

27 November 2018 (openDemocracy)* — During October and November 2018, a new environmental campaign called Extinction Rebellion (XR) has attracted widespread mainstream media attention in the UK, with its call to ‘Fight for Life’ in the face of an ‘unprecedented global emergency’.

Currently, it is trying to set up chapters in many other parts of Europe and the US as well.

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29/11/2018

Solidarity Economics: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

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By Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service*

As is generally true in the cases of intractable social problems–drugs, militarism, global warming, etc.–also in the case of low wages and precarious employment, in order to solve the problem, it is necessary to redefine the problem.

Especially when we are dealing with socially created realities–as we are when we try to solve the problems of low wages and precarious employment–we should bear in mind that the ways people think about the problems create them. If people are going to solve the problems, they need to think differently.

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29/11/2018

The Most Polluted Capital in Europe, You Didn’t Even Know About

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28 November 2018 (UN Environment)* — “Mama, why do I have to wear this again? It hurts my mouth,” says Norik, 5, to his mother, Igballe, before she puts a small, child-size air pollution mask over his face.

Skopje in December 2017. Photo by Reuters | Photo from UN Environment.

Igballe Ferati, a finance specialist, makes the usual walk to a local kindergarten every weekday with Norik along the streets of central Skopje, a city which often experiences dangerous levels of air pollution.

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29/11/2018

This Is What a UN Climate Conference Looks Like. And Why We Need YOUR Voice Heard!

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By Juliet Perry*

29 November 2018 (Greenpeace International)* — If you didn’t know, there’s a UN climate change conference about to begin in Poland – and it’s a big one.

Members of the Greenteams demonstrate for more climate protection under the motto “Kids for Earth” at the COP23 in Bonn. The approximately 400 children marched through the city to present their demands to the world’s politicians to do their best to achieve the climate target agreed on in Paris in 2015. © Bernd Lauter / Greenpeace

COP24, as it’s known, kicks off this weekend. For the next two weeks, a number of very smart experts and politicians will be locked in meeting rooms in a conference centre in Katowice trying (we hope) to move the Paris Agreement forward and ramp up climate commitments.And it’s in moments like this that our voices really need to be heard. So here’s your chance!

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29/11/2018

#BlueFashion: From Lake to the Runway

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Leather made from fish skin is helping create a sustainable blue economy in Kenya.

Fish skin is gaining recognition as an interesting source of leather. ©FAO/Luis Tato

29 November 2018 (FAO)* — Tucked away in Kenya’s northernmost region along the border with Ethiopia sits Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake. Poverty is widespread in this area. Infrastructure is almost non-existent; only sandy, unpaved roads breach these limits, but even for trucks, it is a challenging feat.

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29/11/2018

Emissions Gap Report 2018

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27 November 2018 (UN Environment)* — The goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change, as agreed at the Conference of the Parties in 2015, is to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. It also calls for efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The annual UN Environment Emissions Gap Report presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement.

What’s new in this year’s report?

Update on global emissions

This year, the Emissions Gap Report includes an assessment of the emissions associated with the Nationally Determined Contributions and current policies of each of the G20 members, including the European Union.

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29/11/2018

Nations Must Triple Efforts to Reach 2°C Target, Concludes Annual Review of Global Emissions, Climate Action

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It is still possible to keep global warming below 2°C, but the technical feasibility of bridging the 1.5°C gap is dwindling.
Global CO₂emissions increased in 2017, after a three-year period of stabilization.
If the emissions gap is not closed by 2030, it is extremely unlikely that the 2°C temperature goal can still be reached.

Photo from UN Environment.

Paris, 27 November 2018 (UN Environment)* – Global emissions are on the rise as national commitments to combat climate change come up short. But surging momentum from the private sector and untapped potential from innovation and green-financing offer pathways to bridge the emissions gap.

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29/11/2018

‘Global Trust’ Declining, ‘Our World Needs Stepped-Up Global Leadership’

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28 November 2018 — On the eve of the G20 international forum in Argentina, and ahead of next week’s COP24 climate conference in Katowice, Poland, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for global leadership to be stepped up, “at a time of declining global trust.”

Press Encounter with the Secretary-General António Guterres, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on 28 November 2018.

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas | Press Encounter with the Secretary-General António Guterres, at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on 28 November 2018.

In a press briefing on Wednesday [28 November 2018], Guterres said that the meetings, both of which he is attending, come at a crucial moment: “Our world is obviously facing a crisis of confidence. Those left behind by globalization are losing trust in governments and institutions,” he told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York.

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29/11/2018

The Crunch ‘COP 24’ UN Climate Change Conference: What’s at Stake and What You Need to Know

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28 November 2018 — As global temperatures continue to rise, climate action is lagging and the window of opportunity is closing. On Sunday [2 December 2018], the United Nations will kick off critical negotiations on how to address the problem collectively and urgently, during a two-week climate change conference in Katowice, Poland, known as “COP 24”.

A boy watches the shore from a boat near Sirajganj, a community affected by severe erosion that has left many displaced. Sirajganj, Bangladesh. October 2016

IOM/Amanda Nero | A boy watches the shore from a boat near Sirajganj, a community affected by severe erosion that has left many displaced. Sirajganj, Bangladesh. October 2016

Thousands of world leaders, experts, activists, creative thinkers, and private sector and local community representatives will gather to work on a collective action plan to realize critical commitments made by all the countries of the world in Paris, three years ago.

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World Simply ‘Not on Track’ to Slow Climate Change this Year – World Meteorological Organization

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The ‘New’ Climate Politics of Extinction Rebellion?

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By Joost de Moor, Brian Doherty, and Graeme Hayes*

Solidarity Economics: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

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By Prof. Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service*

The Most Polluted Capital in Europe, You Didn’t Even Know About

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This Is What a UN Climate Conference Looks Like. And Why We Need YOUR Voice Heard!

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By Juliet Perry*

#BlueFashion: From Lake to the Runway

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Emissions Gap Report 2018

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What’s new in this year’s report?

Nations Must Triple Efforts to Reach 2°C Target, Concludes Annual Review of Global Emissions, Climate Action

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‘Global Trust’ Declining, ‘Our World Needs Stepped-Up Global Leadership’

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The Crunch ‘COP 24’ UN Climate Change Conference: What’s at Stake and What You Need to Know

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