The World Bank assembled this long list of supporting quotes to accompany the release of the Potsdam Institute climate report it commissioned.
Here's the full report and related materials:
http://climatechange.worldbank.org/content/climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-century
Here are related Dot Earth posts:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/climate/
Could we achieve goal 13 of the sdgs within the existing international econom...Md. Zahirul Islam
Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF -Environment, Local people, Future)
Could we achieve goal 13 of the sdgs within the existing international econom...Md. Zahirul Islam
Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF -Environment, Local people, Future)
Sustainable development brundtland report, ppp, equityMegha Majoe
A Brief idea on "Our Common Future" - Brundtland report - Sustainable development and different Principles adopted in the conference. i.e Precautionary Principle, polluter pays principle, Inter and intragenerational equity, Public Trust Doctrine etc.
Historical Background of Environmental Laws and Development Policies: Interna...Preeti Sikder
Learning Outcome: Students will
a) become familiar with the global timeline of growth, setbacks and goals in the sector of international environmental law and sustainable development.
b) learn about the interconnections between environmental law and development policies.
Presentation for lecture at Georgetown's Center for Security Studies analyzing the long range geopolitical, economic and business impacts resulting from climate change.
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
Sustainable development:- Need and ImportanceManvik Joshi
Sustainable Development is in need of the present scenario. We humans develop in such a way that our progress is not affected and at the same time needs of future generations are not affected. This ppt is only for educational purposes.
"The Lahore Project" is working under Lahore Conservation society for the conservation of our Humanity and our environment. The presentation describing the present world scenario in relation to the context of Lahore and some interesting facts about it, given by Kamil khan Mumtaz in its meeting on 10th of October 2012, at Dabistan e Iqbal, Lahore
The vaquita, the tiny dolphin of the northern Gulf of California, is speeding toward extinction, an international marine mammal specialist group has concluded. Prime threats are fishing, including a new illegal China-fueled trade in swim bladders from a large fish species, the totoaba. This is the report.
The countries with the most emissions of greenhouse gases are meeting twice more this year to explore partnerships and ways to smooth the road toward a new climate treaty. Should boosting solar research be one focal point? See Dot Earth blog for more: http://www.nytimes.com/dotearth
Sustainable development brundtland report, ppp, equityMegha Majoe
A Brief idea on "Our Common Future" - Brundtland report - Sustainable development and different Principles adopted in the conference. i.e Precautionary Principle, polluter pays principle, Inter and intragenerational equity, Public Trust Doctrine etc.
Historical Background of Environmental Laws and Development Policies: Interna...Preeti Sikder
Learning Outcome: Students will
a) become familiar with the global timeline of growth, setbacks and goals in the sector of international environmental law and sustainable development.
b) learn about the interconnections between environmental law and development policies.
Presentation for lecture at Georgetown's Center for Security Studies analyzing the long range geopolitical, economic and business impacts resulting from climate change.
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
Sustainable development:- Need and ImportanceManvik Joshi
Sustainable Development is in need of the present scenario. We humans develop in such a way that our progress is not affected and at the same time needs of future generations are not affected. This ppt is only for educational purposes.
"The Lahore Project" is working under Lahore Conservation society for the conservation of our Humanity and our environment. The presentation describing the present world scenario in relation to the context of Lahore and some interesting facts about it, given by Kamil khan Mumtaz in its meeting on 10th of October 2012, at Dabistan e Iqbal, Lahore
The vaquita, the tiny dolphin of the northern Gulf of California, is speeding toward extinction, an international marine mammal specialist group has concluded. Prime threats are fishing, including a new illegal China-fueled trade in swim bladders from a large fish species, the totoaba. This is the report.
The countries with the most emissions of greenhouse gases are meeting twice more this year to explore partnerships and ways to smooth the road toward a new climate treaty. Should boosting solar research be one focal point? See Dot Earth blog for more: http://www.nytimes.com/dotearth
This short essay (a final draft from a forthcoming conference summary) was written following the Pace University Summit on Resilience in January, 2012.
More: http://www.pace.edu/resilience
More on Dot Earth: http://j.mp/dotsandy
From Dot Earth post: Can Clearer Language Clear Up Climate Disputes? http://nyti.ms/njseJ3
Confusion and division over "global warming" often grows out of the meaninglessness of the phrase on its own. Each aspect of greenhouse-driven climate change, from the basic physics onward, has a different "shape." More CO2 = warming? Clearcut.
How much warming? Extent of sea-level rise by 2100? Durably uncertain.
Hurricane patterns? Less clear than 5 years ago.
Here's an imprecise gallery of the "shapes" of knowledge on some of the outcomes that are most important to society in deciding how to act, or not act, on this issue.
More: http://j.mp/dotBasic
A feature story on France's controversial nuclear legacy in French Polynesia from the testing program on Mururoa Atoll for the "Force de Frappe." By Andrew Revkin, May 1989, Discover Magazine
Jay Quade, a veteran geologist at the University of Arizona, gave a remarkable talk at the American Quaternary Association meeting in Santa Fe this year proposing that an Anthropocene Epoch is way too small a designation for what we're doing to the Earth Ssytem #AMQUA2016 This is posted with Dr. Quade's permission for Dot Earth.
His views are faetured in my article making sense of the #Anthropocene, in the new magazine of that name: http://j.mp/revkinanthropocene
Links:
Quade home page
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Quade
AMQUA 2016 meeting
http://amqua2016santafe.com
Anthropocene posts on the Dot Earth blog of Andrew Revkin:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=anthropocene+epoch
The world is running up huge ecological debts, just as it has run up huge financial debts. Neither is sustainable. Our leaders cannot successfully put capitalism back together again without at the same time fixing the greatest single consequence of unsustainability – climate change.
The impacts of climate change on the environment are already observable. Melting glaciers are resulting in accelerated sea level rise. We are experiencing longer and more intense heat waves and extreme weather conditions
"Climate Crunch" : Scenarios for the global economic environmentFERMA
"Climate Crunch" : Scenarios for the global economic environment.
The recently published Global Risks 2014 report of the World Economic Forum identifies environmental risks as highest in terms of impact and likelihood. Those risks include both natural disasters, such as earthquakes and geomagnetic storms, and man-made risks such as
collapsing ecosystems, freshwater shortages, nuclear accidents and failure to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Failure of climate change mitigation and
adaptation is the fifth top risk concern according to
multi-stakeholders communities (see figure beside).
Climate change is evidence proven and this paper doesn’t intend to explore the causes. However, one can state that climate change is a systemic problem – it is one that touches all the others. As such by its systemic nature, it can cause breakdowns of entire systems and not only a component part. (
How do population dynamics affect greenhouse gases and climate change? Will urbanization and an ageing population help or hinder efforts to adapt to a warming world? And could better reproductive health care and improved relations between women and men make a difference in the fight against climate change? Find the answers in the State of World Population 2009.
POWERING GROWTH FOR THE GLOBAL GREEN ECONOMY
As world leaders struggle to negotiate a new global climate deal, businesses across the globe are already addressing climate change together with many other urgent environmental issues, turning crises into opportunity through green leadership and innovation.
Companies are transforming the way they operate by developing new products and services to solve the world’s environmental challenges and reduce greenhouse emissions. Powering growth for a global green economy. But there’s still much to be done.
B4E, the Business for Environment Global Summit, is the leading international conference for dialogue and business-driven action for the environment. The 4th annual summit will be held in Seoul, South Korea, in April 2010. CEOs and senior executives from some of the world’s largest multinational corporations will join leaders from governments, international agencies and NGOs to discuss resource and energy efficiency, green growth strategies, clean tech innovations and partnerships.
Over three days of presentations, seminars and debate, B4E 2010 will galvanize the international business community into further action, highlighting the vital role that companies can play and inspiring them to become low carbon leaders.
Andrew Revkin's 1994 profile of the masterful luthier Linda Manzer. Blending spruce, sweat and sawdust, Linda Manzer builds guitars that
dazzle.
Photos by Peter Sibbald https://petersibbald.visura.co
Linda Manzer:
https://manzer.com
Andy Revkin:
http://j.mp/revkinlinks
In 1985, my editor, Scott DeGarmo, asked me to write a cover story on the future of the automobile - when the future was the Ford Taurus. It's now kind of a museum artifact and I hope you enjoy it and offer feedback.
This is the core of a webinar Andy Revkin conducted with folks at Columbia Climate School to explore how scientists, scholars and others seeking to craft a better human journey can make the most of Twitter even as Elon Musk's purchase disrupts things. We also talked about alternatives, none of which Revkin sees as remotely competing with the capacities Twitter offers for a long time. (It took a decade of relentless programming, regulatory and other work to build the Twitter we know.)
Subscribe to Revkin's Sustain What newsletter and webcasts to engage and drive the conversation further:
https://revkin.substack.com/subscribe #socialmedia #sustainability #climate
This is a fantastic case study and overview showing how businesses can prepare for the hazards around them to cut the scope of impacts - preventing a natural hazard from becoming an unnatural disaster.
It centers on the experience and work of Parsons Manufacturing, a company that suffered a direct hit from an EF-4 tornado in 2004 but avoided any deaths.
Learn more at the company website:
https://www.parsonscompany.com/about/
A #COP26 presentation by Zainab Usman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Katie Auth of Energy for Development, building on this paper: September 28, 2021
REFRAMING CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR DEVELOPMENT: SIX PRINCIPLES FOR SUPPORTING INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN LOW-EMITTING ENERGY-POOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES
By Mimi Alemayehou, Katie Auth, Murefu Barasa, Morgan Bazilian, Brad Handler, Uzo Iweala, Todd Moss, Rose Mutiso, Zainab Usman
Advancing inclusive and equitable energy transitions is one of this century’s most vital global challenges, and one in which development finance will play a crucial role. References to justice and equity are widespread in international climate policy, and are increasingly being used by development organizations to guide their own work, including support for energy transitions.
But prevailing definitions of climate justice rarely fully capture the priorities, challenges and perspectives of low-emitting energy-poor countries, the vast majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. When applied to development policy, this gap risks prioritizing near-term emissions reductions over broader support for economic development and energy transformation, with comparatively little climate benefit. This could severely hinder poverty alleviation, development, and climate resilience — the very opposite of justice. We need energy transitions that are truly ‘just and inclusive.’ What does this mean for development funders and financiers, and how should it drive their approach to supporting energy transitions in the lowest-income countries?
Rene Dubos was a masterful biologist, Pulitzer-winning essayist and humanist. Read the story behind this essay in Andy Revkin's homage to Dubos here: http://j.mp/despairingoptimist
This is a summary of the three-week international survey of the vaquita refuge in heavily fished waters of the northern Gulf of California of the coast of Mexico's Baja California state. It shows what can be accomplished with a fresh effort in the fall of 2021.
The expedition included scientists and conservationists from Mexico, the United States and Canada.
This chapter on climate change as news, by Andrew Revkin is from "Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren" - edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman
MIT Press 2007, updated edition, 2014
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=xsxkAlEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=xsxkAlEAAAAJ:edDO8Oi4QzsC
Alice Bell's new book on the history of climate change knowledge and inaction is fantastic. Some have missed what is NOT in the CIA's 1974 assessment of climate change and security risk. There's no mention of global warming from carbon dioxide. Here's a Guardian excerpt from Alice's book: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored
Here's the original CIA document without text recognition: https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=725433
A deep early look at how supercomputer security became a prime concern of the Reagan administration - with climate science in the mix.
More context in Andrew Revkin's prize-winning March 1985 Science Digest article on nuclear winter:
https://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/hard-facts-about-nuclear-winter-1985
And Revkin's investigative report on the vanishing of Vladimir Alexandrov, a high-profile Soviet atmospheric scientist who'd become a fan of American cars and cuisine while visiting NCAR, a mountainside supercomputer lab in Colorado:
http://j.mp/alexandrovmissing
Here are emails showing exchanges between Dr. Will Happer, a senior Trump Administration science and security adviser, and the Heartland Institute -- which has long sought to cast doubt on the enormous body of science pointing to rising dangers from human emissions of climate-warming gases.
The emails were released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Environmental Defense Fund: http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/files/2019/03/Climate-Review-FOIA-CEQ.pdf
Here's an Associated Press story:
https://www.apnews.com/4ec9affd55a345d582a4cc810686137e
EDF provided this copy to Andrew Revkin.
Here's an excerpt from a 2017 interview Revkin did with Happer for ProPublica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpL5dziylo
A Physicist and Possible Adviser to Trump Describes His Love of Science, and CO2
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-physicist-and-possible-adviser-to-trump-describes-his-love-of-science-co2
More on Happer in National Geographic:
Does the U.S. need a ‘presidential climate security committee’?
A Trump adviser who sees rising CO2 as a good thing wants a panel to review government findings that climate change is a security threat.... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/trump-presidential-climate-security-committee/
This was the document leaked to the press this week ahead of a White House meeting assessing whether President Trump should create a committee to assess conclusions about links between global warming and national security.
Some Globo coverage in 1990 from the trial of the Alves family members and associates charged with the assassination of Chico Mendes in December 1988, including an interview with Andrew Revkin, who'd just published The Burning Season, a book chronicling Mendes's life, death and legacy. More: http://bit.ly/revkinmendes
An Island Magazine feature by Andy Revkin provided an intimate look at changes in a Polynesian family and village as modern life intruded in the 1980s.
This cover story on climate change by Andrew Revkin was published in Discover Magazine in October, 1988. For more on the article visit this Dot Earth post: 1988-2008: Climate Then and Now http://nyti.ms/WIvLbH via @dotearth
Make sure to click to the last page, which was the back-cover advertisement that month - for cigarettes.
Shows things can change, sometimes slowly.
And read Andy's reflection on lessons learned in 30 years of climate coverage:
http://j.mp/revkin30yearsclimate
Enhancing LPG Use During Pregnancya collaboration between KEM Health Research Center, Sri Ramachanda University, and University of California, Berkeley
An explanatory presentation provided to ProPublica.org
Lewis Reznik, who spent his adult life as a dentist in Westchester County, New York, had a very different adolescence - on the run between Nazis and Russian troops in Poland as the Holocaust unfolded. This is is remarkable memoir. Lew died in 2013.
I edited the manuscript and helped Lew publish the book.
Please purchase a copy at j.mp/boysholocaust
Share and discuss the book on Facebook: j.mp/boysholocaustFB
Context:
"Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria: Where Do Responsibilities End?" Journal of Business Ethics, 2015
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-014-2142-7
Shell's plans for Nigeria (SPDC subsidiary), 2013: http://www.shell.com/media/news-and-media-releases/2013/spdc-sets-out-its-future-intent-for-nigeria.html
Business & Human Rights Resource Center on two landmark lawsuits:
https://business-humanrights.org/en/shell-lawsuit-re-nigeria-kiobel-wiwa
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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Reactions to World Bank Warming Warning
1. Quotes (approved for attribution) from global leaders on the World Bank “Turn Down The Heat”
report and the climate challenge
“This new report from the World Bank reminds us that climate change is happening - now. The evidence
is clear. No country is immune. If we mobilize today, we can make a difference for tomorrow. World
leaders have agreed to forge a legally binding agreement by 2015, and we must hold them to that
commitment. We also need all actors to turn challenge into opportunity. We have the technology and
the resources. Let us apply the will to create a sustainable future.”
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
“While the global community targets a maximum 2˚C rise in global temperatures, this timely World Bank
report highlights the possibility of a 4˚C rise this century and shows how we, the international
community, continue to fail our children’s children. Do we really wish to leave future generations with a
world of deadly droughts, flooded coastal cities, and the loss of priceless biodiversity including coral
reefs? I thoroughly commend this landmark report to anybody with an interest in climate change,
arguably the 21st century’s biggest issue. We, the world, still have time to implement new policies,
adapt our course, and prevent the more dangerous effects of climate change.”
Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
“In our capacity as host of the Green Climate Fund, we are pleased to see the World Bank’s commitment
to climate solutions. Never has it been more important to find financial solutions to the green growth
challenges we face for a future we all share and invest in.”
Jae Hwan Bahk, Minister of Strategy and Finance of the Republic of Korea
“The recently released Climate Vulnerability Monitors revealed how failure to act decisively on climate
change has already caused unprecedented damage to the world economy and threatens human life
across the globe. I welcome the World Bank's timely call for a global response equal to the scale of the
climate crisis.”
Laura Chinchilla, President of the Republic of Costa Rica
2. “Without immediate action to solve the climate crisis, catastrophic warming will fundamentally change
our planet and disrupt the climate balance in which human civilization has flourished.
This prospect amounts to a general threat to world political and economic stability. It marks the point at
which considerations of political convenience must give way to considerations of human welfare on a
global scale, involving not just developing countries but countries such as our own.
This is a common challenge to political leadership, and it represents an inescapable standard against
which that leadership will be judged not just in the distant future, but in the time of those now living
and soon to be born. The World Bank, under the leadership of Dr. Jim Kim, will play an absolutely crucial
role in achieving a sustainable future and averting disaster for humankind.”
Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States of America
“We are clearly running against time and this report underscores need for stepping up global efforts to
curb emissions while securing sustainable energy access for all. A renewable energy revolution is
needed. Only then can we achieve a climate resilient future.”
Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås, Minister of International Development of the Kingdom of Norway
“At the very moment that Africa is poised to make its mark on the global economy, this report shows us
that the continent will be one of the worst affected by climate change. We need strong commitments
and urgent action to mitigate the impact, and to assist countries to survive and develop in a context of
climate change and extreme weather patterns.”
Tina Joemat-Pettersson, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of the Republic of South Africa
“This new World Bank Report is very alarming, not just for Samoa and the Pacific region, but for the
whole world. It validates compellingly the scientific presentation made to SIDS leaders during their
recent Summit on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly. The impacts of climate change
are already being felt, and that is why SIDS are calling for a cap of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Going beyond 2
degrees towards a 4 degree world would be cataclysmic. The dire consequences now predicted in the
World Bank report will unavoidably be given greater focus in the 3rd international conference on SIDS
that Samoa will host in 2014. I have always maintained that climate change knows no boundaries and as
a global problem we must all work together and act now.”
Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoloai Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa
“A 4 degree world would be devastating for developing countries and the poor would be hit hardest.
Gabon is committed to building climate smart development.”
Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Gabonese Republic
3. “The world needs a new narrative of climate justice that places people at its center, that’s informed by
human rights, that strives for equity, and that protects the most vulnerable. I hope the World Bank's
increased focus on climate action and solutions will also lead to a more inclusive global dialogue on this
critical issue.”
Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and Former United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights
“This report shows that a rise in global temperature of four degrees would create huge risks that would
affect the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people across the world. An emissions pathway
which gives us about a 50-50 chance of avoiding a rise of 2 degrees would carry a small chance of global
warming of three degrees, and a very small chance of four degrees, but if we aim for a less demanding
target, those probabilities would grow. While this report makes clear the benefits of avoiding these
risks by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it is important to recognise the other advantages and
opportunities from making the transition to low-carbon economic growth and development, including
an energy and industrial revolution with all the creativity, innovation of past transformations, such as
the introduction of the railways or electricity.”
Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at
the London School of Economics and Political Science
“Brazil welcomes relevant international organizations such as the World Bank Group´s increasing
engagement in providing support to the international endeavours to find solutions to the climate
challenge. Such support should positively influence international negotiations to move ahead towards
fulfilling the agreements reached in Durban within UNFCCC and to agree on a legally binding agreement
under the Convention and applicable to all Parties, by 2015. In Brazil, we remain fully engaged in our
efforts to reduce deforestation and land use change emissions. Brazil is ready to actively collaborate in
building inclusive and equitable answers to this collective challenge and encourages others to join
hands.”
Izabella Teixeira, Minister of the Environment of the Federative Republic of Brazil
“For small island developing states, a four degree world is unthinkable. Already at 0.8 degrees above
pre-industrial levels, islands and the rest of the world are experiencing devastating impacts of climate
change; some seven years ago, Hurricane Ivan caused damages worth 200% of Grenada’s GDP and to
rebuild from the hurricane dramatically increased the island’s financial indebtedness. There is a growing
consensus that the deadly and costly Hurricane Sandy is climate related. Islands like Grenada have been
calling on the international community to limit warming to well below 2.0 degrees Celsius, and believe
that below 1.5 degrees is preferable. Averting climate disasters must be a top priority for the
international community. We therefore commend the World Bank on this report.”
Tillman J. Thomas, Prime Minister of Grenada, co-Chair of the Global Islands Alliance and former chair
of the Alliance of Small Islands States