Climate Tipping Points and the Insurance SectorOpen Knowledge
Climate change won’t be a smooth transition to a warmer world, warns the Tipping Points Report by Allianz and WWF. Twelve regions around the world will be most affected by abrupt changes.
Understanding the climate change and sustainable developmentRuwanNishanthaGamage
Understanding climate change and its consequents are of enormous importance to society. It is important to understanding climate change and sustainable development for making a better place for living. I have been hosted a presentation for school teachers and children about the climate crisis, its impact, and solutions.
The impact of climate change on the achievement of the post-2015 Sustainable...CDKN
This year, governments will agree Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the period to 2030, and a new global climate agreement, to take effect from 2020. Together, these could set the course for environmental sustainability and human well-being this century. The agreements together offer a once-in-a generation opportunity to end extreme poverty, create climate resilience and avoid dangerous levels of climate change by committing to zero net carbon emissions.
This powerpoint shares the key messages from CDKN, Metroeconomica and HR Wallingford on the relationship between climate change and the sustainable development goals.
The Green Economy Report (Title page Acknowledgements, Forward, Contents)Green Economy Initiative
TThe final version of the Green Economy Report.
Released on 16th of November 2011. The Green Economy Report is compiled by UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide. Convincing evidence for policymakers and business leaders to invest in clean technologies, renewable energy and natural infrastructure.
Climate Tipping Points and the Insurance SectorOpen Knowledge
Climate change won’t be a smooth transition to a warmer world, warns the Tipping Points Report by Allianz and WWF. Twelve regions around the world will be most affected by abrupt changes.
Understanding the climate change and sustainable developmentRuwanNishanthaGamage
Understanding climate change and its consequents are of enormous importance to society. It is important to understanding climate change and sustainable development for making a better place for living. I have been hosted a presentation for school teachers and children about the climate crisis, its impact, and solutions.
The impact of climate change on the achievement of the post-2015 Sustainable...CDKN
This year, governments will agree Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the period to 2030, and a new global climate agreement, to take effect from 2020. Together, these could set the course for environmental sustainability and human well-being this century. The agreements together offer a once-in-a generation opportunity to end extreme poverty, create climate resilience and avoid dangerous levels of climate change by committing to zero net carbon emissions.
This powerpoint shares the key messages from CDKN, Metroeconomica and HR Wallingford on the relationship between climate change and the sustainable development goals.
The Green Economy Report (Title page Acknowledgements, Forward, Contents)Green Economy Initiative
TThe final version of the Green Economy Report.
Released on 16th of November 2011. The Green Economy Report is compiled by UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide. Convincing evidence for policymakers and business leaders to invest in clean technologies, renewable energy and natural infrastructure.
Introduction to Environment & SustainabilityIsha Chaudhary
1.GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES, INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
2.ARTICLES RELATED TO ENVIRONMENTS
3.GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS
4.GREEN BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES
5.FAMOUS ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Il World Energy Focus è il nuovo mensile online della WEC's community, una e-publication gratuita per essere sempre aggiornato sugli sviluppi del settore energetico. Il World Energy Focus contiene news, interviste esclusive e uno spazio dedicato agli eventi promossi dai singoli Comitati Nazionali.
Rapporto ‘Tackling the Climate Reality – Affrontare la realtà del clima’WWF ITALIA
COP 19, occorre affrontare la realtà del clima
Le organizzazioni ActionAid , CARE e il WWF hanno pubblicato da Varsavia il rapporto ‘Tackling the Climate Reality – Affrontare la realtà del clima’, in occasione della conferenza ONU sul clima COP19, che chiede la creazione di un meccanismo internazionale di ‘loss and damage’ ovvero ‘perdite e danni’, di cui le parti stanno discutendo proprio ora.http://bit.ly/178iTW6
Introduction
UNEP’s report, Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about greening the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy
http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/1.0_Introduction.pdf
From 26–28 May 2009, Nobel Laureates from across the disciplines were joined by world experts in climate change to discuss the connections between global warming and other urgent environmental, economic and development challenges facing our world. The Symposium was hosted at The Royal Society and St. James’s Palace under the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales.
It concluded with a Memorandum that was signed by Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka and Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai, as well as by Laureates in Chemistry, Physics and Economics
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change Adaptation into Local De...practicalanswerssl
This presentation is on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in to local development planning process and it provides a tool for development practitioners.
presentation tries to look into causes and pattern of disaster in the built environment and suggest options how architectural education can be leveraged to minimise such disasters
Presentation realized at the Indian Council of World Affairs regarding the relation of effective climate change approach and competitiveness, in particular, for vulnerable countries.
Introduction to Environment & SustainabilityIsha Chaudhary
1.GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES, INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
2.ARTICLES RELATED TO ENVIRONMENTS
3.GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS
4.GREEN BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES
5.FAMOUS ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Il World Energy Focus è il nuovo mensile online della WEC's community, una e-publication gratuita per essere sempre aggiornato sugli sviluppi del settore energetico. Il World Energy Focus contiene news, interviste esclusive e uno spazio dedicato agli eventi promossi dai singoli Comitati Nazionali.
Rapporto ‘Tackling the Climate Reality – Affrontare la realtà del clima’WWF ITALIA
COP 19, occorre affrontare la realtà del clima
Le organizzazioni ActionAid , CARE e il WWF hanno pubblicato da Varsavia il rapporto ‘Tackling the Climate Reality – Affrontare la realtà del clima’, in occasione della conferenza ONU sul clima COP19, che chiede la creazione di un meccanismo internazionale di ‘loss and damage’ ovvero ‘perdite e danni’, di cui le parti stanno discutendo proprio ora.http://bit.ly/178iTW6
Introduction
UNEP’s report, Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about greening the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy
http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/1.0_Introduction.pdf
From 26–28 May 2009, Nobel Laureates from across the disciplines were joined by world experts in climate change to discuss the connections between global warming and other urgent environmental, economic and development challenges facing our world. The Symposium was hosted at The Royal Society and St. James’s Palace under the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales.
It concluded with a Memorandum that was signed by Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka and Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai, as well as by Laureates in Chemistry, Physics and Economics
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change Adaptation into Local De...practicalanswerssl
This presentation is on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in to local development planning process and it provides a tool for development practitioners.
presentation tries to look into causes and pattern of disaster in the built environment and suggest options how architectural education can be leveraged to minimise such disasters
Presentation realized at the Indian Council of World Affairs regarding the relation of effective climate change approach and competitiveness, in particular, for vulnerable countries.
A talk at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, Universty of Cambridge by Camilla Toulmin, Director of IIED on the effects of Climate Change in Africa
A talk by Camilla Toulmin at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights in Cambridge, director of IIED (International Institute on Environment and Development) on Climate Change in Africa.
What are the challenges for the Paris agreement in meeting the needs of Afric...rac_marion
The next international climate negotiations (COP21) will be held from 30 November to 11 December 2015 in Paris, France. The Paris summit will be decisive as it has to come up with an international climate agreement that keeps alive the hopes of limiting global warming to less than 2°C by 2100. The Climate & Development Network considers that this summit needs to address the dual challenge of combating both climate change and poverty in the worst affected countries. The RC&D is calling for an agreement which:
- Protects and enhances human rights and gender equality
- Finances the fight against climate change in the poorest and most vulnerable countries
- Invests massively in access to sustainable energy services for all
- Enables the most vulnerable people to cope with the impacts of climate change
- Preserves food security and the climate by investing massively in family and agro-ecological farming.
This Presentation is regarding the Global warming, the causes and cure. This was made by Shakeel Ahmed to be presented at Mehran University Institute of Science and Technology Development Jamshoro Sindh Pakistan.
Tiger Worm Toilets (Oxfam Public Health Engineering webinar) Oxfam GB
Ever scratched your head trying to find safe excreta disposal solutions for pour flush latrines in congested urban slums, remote locations, high water tables, rocky ground and no-network areas? Well, this webinar could have the answers you've been looking for.
The worm based sanitation project in Monrovia was designed by Oxfam and inspired by the Biofil (from Ghana) and Tiger Toilet systems. This novel system aims to tackle the challenges of excreta disposal where de-sludging is not possible and was designed for pour flush latrines (where waste is disposed of directly into an above ground concrete chamber). The worms live in a bedding material (coconut fibre which has been soaked for 24 hours in water) and eat the waste flushed into the chamber. Excreta are deposited on this bedding material whilst the liquid is filtered through a media of gravel, charcoal and sand. The effluent produced is collected in an external sump, which is then emptied by the householder.
After 3 years there is virtually no waste to remove from the chamber as the worms eat and excrete nominal amounts. This approach of course requires community engagement, understanding and pro-activeness before, during and after the installation of the system.
For both the presentation and the audio, visit our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/j04tGVNP6Xg
Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance, and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to create a policy environment that protects and enhances their interests further. The most prolific lobbying activities in the US are on budget and tax issues; public resources that should be directed to benefit the whole population, rather than reflect the interests of powerful lobbyists.
This briefing explains Oxfam’s methodology and data sources and updates key inequality statistics, such as Oxfam’s frequently cited fact in 2014: ‘85 billionaires have the same wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population’.
Steps towards a living wage in global supply chainsOxfam GB
In Dec 2014 Oxfam released an issue briefing on the living wage. You can read more about it here: www.oxfam.org.uk/livingwage
We've made this presentation available for anyone who would like to share the ideas from our living wage paper. It is fully editable, includes key graphics, and can be incorporated into other corporate presentations.
1. Climate Change
Lecture given by Duncan Green
Head of Research at Oxfam GB
Notre Dame University, September 2009
Part of a series of From Poverty to Power lectures.
2. Main messages
Climate change is fundamentally a development crisis:
the central poverty issue of our time
The scientific battle has been won – the debate now is
over what to do about it
A global framework for responding has now been
agreed, but time is short to agree specifics
The elements of this framework are Mitigation;
Adaptation; Finance and Technology
Key decisions are who acts, who pays and when
Copenhagen meeting in December is make or break
Plan Bs look pretty unattractive!
3. Suffering the Science:
The human costs of climate change
Climate change is affecting every
issue linked to poverty and
development today, from access to
food and water to health and
security.
Without immediate action 50 years
of development gains in poor
countries will be permanently lost
4. Hunger, agricultural
productivity and water availability
Rice and maize face significant drops
in yields
Maize yields forecast to drop by 15%
or more by 2020 in most of sub-
Saharan Africa and India
South African government scientists
predicting 50% drop in all cereal yields
by 2080
Water supplies running out
Several major cities (Kathmandu, La
Paz) which depend on glaciers may
soon be unable to function
The Ganges basin alone is home to
500 million people
5. Disasters and displacement
Climate-related disasters – storms,
floods, droughts and wildfires –
increasing in frequency
375 million people at risk
each year by 2015 – a 50%
increase which could
overwhelm humanitarian
systems
26 million people
already displaced
1 million more people
displaced every year by
weather-related events
6. Health, labour productivity and trade
Diseases like malaria and
dengue fever are creeping into
new areas
Heat stress a massive risk to
farmers and outdoor workers
Uneven impacts on agriculture
US agricultural profits to rise by
$1.3bn per year
Sub-Saharan Africa to lose $2bn
per year as viability of just one
crop - maize - declines
7. The Science
Atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases
and global average temperatures
8. The Urgency
Greenhouse gas
emissions are
rising faster than
even worst case
scenarios
9. So what do we do?
Adaptation: helping people to build their resilience
to climate change
– Adaptation is good development
– Best way is to build human security
– Who pays? How much?
Mitigation: cutting global emissions
– Who cuts? How fast?
11. Mitigation:
If they lived like us…
…and we lived like them
Wouldn’t we expect them to cut their emissions faster?
12. Bali Action Plan
SHARED VISION
Global emissions reduction pathway and key
principles of future action to confront climate change
Mitigation Adaptation Finance Technology
Binding emission Globally increased Search for new Increased co-operation
reduction targets efforts to adapt the financial for the uptake and wide
world to climate resources to help diffusion of clean
for rich (Annex I) change, esp. in developing technologies
countries developing countries both to
countries mitigate and to
Actions by adapt
developing (Non-
Annex I) countries
supported by rich
countries
13. The crunch moment: Copenhagen
COP-15: 15th meeting of the 192 countries that signed the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
UNFCCC (drawn up at 1992 Rio Earth Summit):
– Aims to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations at
levels that prevent dangerous climate change; effort to
be shared based on principle of “common but
differentiated responsibilities”
– Rich countries (Annex I) shall reduce their emissions
first and fastest, and support developing countries in
both mitigation and adaptation, by providing financial
support and technology transfer
– Developing countries‟ (Non-Annex I) actions to address
emissions contingent upon support from rich countries
14. Climate Change: make or break issues
Financing offer from rich countries for mitigation and
adaptation in developing countries
2020 mitigation targets for rich (Annex I) countries
15. What do we need at Copenhagen?
A SAFE and FAIR deal
SAFE:
To reduce emissions sufficiently to avoid
catastrophic climate change
FAIR:
So that rich countries finally take responsibility
for the crisis they have created, committing to:
- cut emissions first, furthest and fastest
- financing for mitigation and adaptation in
developing countries
16. SAFE: Keep global warming well below 2ºC
<2ºC target long-since
accepted by EU; G8 and
MEF agree in L‟Aquila,
July 2009
450ppm-eq gives 50/50
chance of 2.0-2.4ºC rise
Emissions must peak
within next 5-10 years and
decline steeply thereafter
to stay below 2ºC
18. A fair share of the global mitigation effort
Oxfam say:
Based on responsibility for historic emissions and
capability to pay, Annex I must:
– Reduce emissions by at least 40% by 2020
AND
– Provide financing for the additional costs of limiting
emissions growth in developing countries
19. How much cash are we talking about?
Additional costs of mitigation in developing
countries:
$100 billion (c.€70 billion) per year by 2020
Additional costs of adaptation:
$50 billion (c.€40 billion) per year from today
cf. global aid budget of about $100bn
(or one AIG per year)
20. How do we get emissions down?
Standards (e.g. emissions standards)
Subsidies
Taxes
Examples of „market mechanisms‟
Cap and Trade
(e.g. European Emissions Trading Scheme)
– Issues: government will; free auctions; carve-
outs; price volatility
Offsetting
– Issues: credibility; monitoring; leakage
21. A FAIR and SAFE deal
Annex I countries have a DOUBLE DUTY:
- Reduce emissions by at least 40% by 2020
- Provide at least $150 billion (€110 billion) in
climate finance to developing countries to:
- Limit the emissions growth in
developing countries to the equivalent of
Annex I reductions by 2020
- Adapt to the impacts of climate change
22. Are there any Plan Bs?
Maybe 1500+ scientists are all wrong
Carbon apartheid and a New Dark Age
Geo-engineering
24. Further Reading from the Blog
CC and Flooding in Bangladesh,
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=676
Organic farming and CC,
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=395
What has CC done to the seasons?,
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=387
CC and natural disasters,
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=232
Building a low carbon economy,
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=187
25. Further Reading and Links
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
http://www.ipcc.ch
„What is the Economics of Climate Change?‟ Stern
Review, 2006
Oxfam America climate change campaign,
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/issues/climate-
change