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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.
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:
  • The total of all current pledges doesn’t come close to a future consistent with a 1.5°C pathway.
  • Wealthier countries are falling far short of pledging their fair shares of the necessary global action.
  • While many poorer countries are pledging action on scale with their fair shares, without support, they will not be able to ramp up their ambition fast enough.
  • The Paris Agreement is not delivering the radically scaled-up action needed.
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The Climate Change Conversation
as appeared in Malaysian Naturalist, June 2019

Malaysia will continue to work together with civil society organisations to raise public awareness on climate change and create shared responsibility at all levels of society, the International Conference on Climate Change 2019 (ICCC2019) heard in February. Part of the outreach, said Yeo Bee Yin, Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change, was through environmental education, with exposure to crosscutting issues such as sustainable lifestyle, biodiversity conservation and disaster risk reduction.
     The effort was supported by the government bringing environmental education into everyday classroom activities, and universities offering postgraduate studies in areas related to climate change science, adaptation and mitigation, she said at ICCC2019, which was held in Kuala Lumpur.
     Yeo said the theme, “Adaptation and Mitigation in practice: Local and Global innovations”, addressed a range of critically important areas in relation to climate change, adding that Malaysia, despite not considered a developed country, had undergone rapid economic development over the past five decades and accordingly was committed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
     “Greater emphasis has been given to climate change considerations in the 10th and 11th Malaysian Development Plans with an intended capacity for national implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures as well as reporting to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,” she said. “For mitigation implementation, government agencies overseeing the key emission sectors continue to enhance their respective technical capacities and technological know-how in supporting mitigation actions and reporting of such.”
     ICC2019 was organised by The International Institute of Knowledge Management, with the Malaysian Nature Society as Strategic Partner. The Society also participated in the poster presentation, with MNS Vice-President Stephanie Bacon and Head of Conservation Balu Perumal discussing recommendations on the National REDD+ Strategy, as well as capacity building non-state actors in the REDD+ conversation. – By MNS Conservation Division
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