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28.01.2019 - Weatherwatch: walls cannot keep out climate change History is littered with examples of rulers building walls to keep out undesirables, invaders and immigrants. The Great Wall of China and Hadrian’s Wall in Britain are among the best-known examples, and there is a 2,000-mile (3,200km) fence between India and Bangladesh. |
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25.01.2019 - Climate Change Is Biggest Threat to Global Economy Speaking to leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that climate change was the most important global systemic threat in relation to the global economy that required a unified response in the form of inclusive multilateralism involving all parts of society. |
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17.01.2019 - Climate Impacts Top WEF’s 2019 List of Risks
In the latest edition of its Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum ranks environmental threats at the top of the list for the third year in a row - both in terms of impact and likelihood. |
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16.01.2019 - Greening Financial Flows Requires Harmonised Standards
One of the Paris Agreement’s key aims is to achieve climate neutrality in the second half of this century. The recent IPCC report noted that the pathways limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land use and infrastructure requiring unprecedented financial flows. |
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10.01.2019 - Constructing a Safer Climate – Patricia Espinosa at Bauhaus University In her first address since the conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference COP24 in Katowice last December, the UN’s top climate official Patricia Espinosa warned that whilst the meeting was a success, the world remained off course with regard to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and that all parts of society need to get far more engaged to prevent the worst climate impacts. |
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13.12.2018 - No climate for young generation
This Friday, December 14th, during the Climate Change Conference COP24 in Katowice, young Polish delegates will take part in a discussion panel entitled “No climate for young generation…”, organized by UNICEF Poland and The UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre. |
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