In this talk, Kelly Matheson talks about her work at WITNESS and the rights to a sustainable living environment focusing on atmospheric trust litigation (ATL). Through personal stories and videos she explains how climate change has an impact on the young lives of people all over the world. Published on Aug 2, 2012

Keynote Conversation with CDP's Nigel Topping: Beyond Carbon and Water with Joel Makower of GreenBiz at their GreenBiz Forum, 2014.  The role of carbon and water as risk for investment purposes given climate change and how it is impacting the investment community.

CDP is an international, not-for-profit organization providing the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information.

Published on Mar 20, 2014

Eco Eye Series 12 - Episode 3:Hosted by Duncan Stewart of Eco-Eye.

Record breaking freezing temperatures, heatwaves, the worst flooding in 800 years, a fodder crisis, 50,000 homes without flood insurance and counting, all this in the last 4 years in Ireland alone. This episode of Eco-Eye looks at the weather and asks whether our climate is changing and what impacts this will have both home and abroad. Published on Jan 21, 2014

Published on Mar 31, 2014

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report - Working Group II - Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.

The World Meteorological Organization
Headquarters in Geneva. IPCC Secretariat
is hosted by WMO

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. In the same year, the UN General Assembly endorsed the action by WMO and UNEP in jointly establishing the IPCC.
 

 

 

Stéphane Le Goaster, an engineer for the French forest administration explains how climate change is taken into account in forest managment in France. Uploaded on Jan 20, 2010

The Center for the Blue Economy is a program of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. The National Ocean Economics Program The National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP) is now the main research arm of the Center for the Blue Economy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. NOEP provides a full range of the most current economic and socioeconomic information available on changes and trends along the U.S. coast and in coastal waters. Emphasis is on education and research.

Marine Biologist, Dr. Stephen Palumbi, discusses the oceans and global warming which is transforming our environment. The temperature, acidity and water level of the ocean is rising. These changes are increasing in speed and magnitude and their effects will last for centuries. Corals are among those organisms hit hardest by global warming. The rate our climate changes will determine whether coral can survive or not. Uploaded on Nov 5, 2008

Features Amed Jkoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. He defines biodiversity. The loss or degradation of biodiversity, now occurring at an unprecedented pace at local and global levels is a threat to our environment, economies, cultures and societies. It is changing our conception of ourselves and our place in the world. Human impact on biodiversity, ecosystems and climate continues to grow and the complexity and diversity of the range of services that flow from biodiversity are often unknown and undervalued.

People from all over the world express their concern over climate change and the future of our cities.

Published on Oct 24, 2012 by the A GoodPlanet Foundation project, based on an initiative, 7Billion Others, by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and supported by BNP Paribas.