focus: climate change
Earth Day 2020 ~ Climate Action
4th International Conference on Climate Change
ICCC 2020 is a platform for eminent researchers, scientists, industry experts and all interested scholars to discuss and share current policies, implementations, data streams about climate change. The conference will feature speakers representing both academia and industry who are experts in Climatology. Thus, ICCC 2020 unites diverse researches and case studies from all over the world, in parallel sessions. It also offers many networking and publishing opportunities.
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After Paris: countries are not paying their fair share
A review of climate targets and commitments by each country has been released during the UN climate conference in Poland on 6th December 2018.
The independent review is supported by social movements, environmental and development NGOs, trade unions, faith and other civil society groups from the world over and measures the ‘fair share’ that each country should shoulder in terms of capacity and historical responsibility to reverse climate change. It also finds that the global distribution of wealth provides an excellent lens by which to understand national fair shares - the richest ten percent of the global population receives 52 percent of the global income, and so has the great preponderance of the global capacity. With the talks reaching consensus that the world is at a crossroads, this critical report After Paris: inequality, fair shares, and the climate emergency finds:
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CLIMATE CHANGE is merely a concept, some people argue. Propaganda, conspiracy, anti-development rhetoric; easy words to say from the comfort of an air-conditioned home. However, when the devastation is writ large – on big screen, in high definition – it is harder to ignore the truth.
Receding icebergs, death of small communities, air pollution, heat wave fallout and people dependent on the environment for survival. These were some of the stories projected on screen, and into eyeballs, straight to the brain, at the 12th edition of the International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival from 7th to 13th October 2019. Themed “Climate Change… Now!”, KLEFF 2019 explored stories of people and organisations committed to taking climate action to create maximum impact on sustainable development... READ MORE |