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The Big Ask: Climate change, "ACT NOW!"
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We need strong leadership on climate change. Too many politicians are happy to speak about the issue, but their promises have often turned out to be just a load more hot air. One exception is the United Kingdom, where a climate law has just been adopted, which will force the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions every year.
We need your help to ensure that other governments follow this example.
On 10th August, more than 6,000 people took part in the recording of The Big Ask-video clip at Ostende on the Belgian coast. This was the largest event against climate change ever organised in Belgium. The film clip was made possible due to the engagement of volunteers from Friends of the Earth, and many film industry professionals including award winning director Nic Balthazar, film crews, production houses, actors, ... Music has been supplied by Hooverphonic.
The video clip has been launched, and now is the time to send it round the world, and to share it with everyone you know!
You can view the clip at www.thebigask.be After you've watched the clip, do something, ACT NOW! Send the clip to politicians in your own country, and send the clip to friends, family, and colleagues.
Friends of the Earth groups are running The Big Ask climate campaign in 17 European countries, so if you are in one of these countries, you can sign an online petition after you have watched the film.
Raise your voice, shout it on the train or in the middle of the street, stand on your desk at work: ACT THE F*CK NOW!!!
The time for talking is over, it's time for action!
Watch the film clip online at: www.thebigask.be
More info about the European Big Ask campaign at: www.thebigask.eu |
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Global Climate Summit: Climate Leaders Dialogue
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A discussion among governors, premiers and other world leaders about how climate goals can be turned into action. Actions will include future collaboration by summit participants to build successful green economies and how these actions can advance a global agreement in Copenhagen in 2009. Series: Governors Global Climate Summit [Show ID: 15713] |
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Global Climate Summit:Cutting Greenhouse Gases
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International panel discusses the importance of both targeted actions to reduce emissions and partnership opportunities between developed and developing state and provincial governments. Such targeted actions can take the form of technology transfer, best practices sharing, and market-based approaches to reducing emissions or other actions that provide mutually beneficial outcomes. Series: Governors Global Climate Summit [Science] [Show ID: 15708] |
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Bangladesh please for action on climate change - 06 Oct 2008
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In 1995, scientists issued the first Global warming alert, but today, experts say that at least one fifth of Bangladesh will be swallowed up by rising sea levels within 50 years.
Al Jazeera travels to Bangladesh to see the impact of environmental policy where the remainder of the country is expected to follow by the end of the century. |
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The Business Case for Protecting the Climate
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Google Tech Talks
August 20, 2008
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This presentation is drawn from Hunter's recent lead chapter in the U.S. Presidential Climate Action Project's report to the President-elect. It describes the business case for moving aggressively to solve such challenges as global warming, peak oil, the vulnerability of our energy infrastructure and others. Hunter discusses how climate protection, energy efficiency, renewable energy and other sustainable approaches will give us a stronger economy, and a higher quality of life. Hunter discusses how to unleash the new energy economy as the antidote to life in a carbon constrained world. The global climate crisis threatens many aspects of life on earth, including access to water. Energy is a relatively easy challenge to solve. But providing access to water, both at home and in water-short regions around the globe will not be trivial. Fortunately, in water, as in energy, there are solutions that cost less, work better and can deliver a higher quality of life. Hunter will describe how communities and companies are implementing these and many other strategies to cut their costs and drive their innovation.
Speaker: Hunter Lovins
L. Hunter Lovins is President and founder of the Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In partnership with leading thinkers and implementers, NCS creates innovative, practical tools and strategies to enable companies, communities and countries to become more sustainable.
Trained as a sociologist and lawyer (JD), Hunter co-founded the California Conservation Project (Tree People), and Rocky Mountain Institute, which she led for 20 years. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. She has consulted with large and small companies including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, Clif Bar and Wal-Mart. Governmental clients include the Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy and other agencies, numerous cities, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and the U.S. She also serves an advisor to the Energy Minister of the Government of Afghanistan.
Recipient of such honors as the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award and Leadership in Business, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet. She has co-authored nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book, Natural Capitalism and 2006 Climate Protection Manual for Cities. She has served on the boards of governments, non and for profit companies.
Hunter's areas of expertise include Natural Capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, and fire rescue and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She is currently a founding Professor of Business at Presidio School of Management, one of the first accredited programs offering an MBA in Sustainable Management. |
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Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
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http://www.ted.com - In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future. |
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Google Founders Climate Change Conversation w. Tom Friedman
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A Climate Change Conversation with Google Founders, moderated by Tom Friedman, held at the World Economic Forum's Annual General Meeting in Davos, January 2008. |
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Kim Stanley Robinson On Google and Climate Change
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Google Tech Talks
December, 11 2007
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As part of our SciFoo Campers @Google Tech Talk series, acclaimed author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his thoughts on climate change in what promises to be an insightful and provocative hour.
The recent IPCC and UN reports on climate change make it clear that we
face an imminent environmental crisis, and that there is an urgent need
to decarbonize our civilization as rapidly as possible. Robinson will
discuss strategies for accomplishing this, focusing on social
questions, cleaner energy and transport, mission architectures,
possibilities of geo-engineering, and the important role that Google
can have in all these as world leader in information technologies. As
in his novels, Robinson will attempt to synthesize the Big Picture
while also making specific suggestions for action now.
Speaker: Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is a Californian science fiction writer best
known for his Mars trilogy, Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars. He
has recently published the last volume of his Climate Trilogy, Forty
Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting. He is
two-time winner of both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards, and was
selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation to go to Antarctica as
part of its Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, which resulted in
his novel Antarctica, a precursor to his Climate Trilogy. He lives in
Davis, and has enjoyed a couple of previous visits to the Googleplex. |
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Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause?- pt 4 of 4
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Part 4 - Professor Bob Carter examines examples of the scientific data being ignored over popularist views about CO2 causing climate change and Global warming. Inconvenient Truth author Al Gore would find his presentation contradicted by this presentation? Will kyoto`s greenhouse reduction goals be in vain? |
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Clarke and Dawe on climate change
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John Clarke and Bryan Dawe talk to John Howard about global warming and climate change. Tx: 02/11/06.
If you enjoyed this sketch, try these websites:
http://www.myspace.com/clarkeanddawe
http://www.mrjohnclarke.com |
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Freeman Dyson on Global Warming 1of2 Bogus Climate Models
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A prominent scientist who's followed the science of global warming from the beginning, Dyson explains why climate models have no scientific merit, why average global ground temperature is a great fiction, and what he believes the real dangers of increased CO2 in the atmosphere are. He suggests that the relatively simple solution of land use management could potentially give us the ability to control the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere at any level we'd like, and there's no need to stop burning coal and oil.
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101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
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Peak Moment 26: Author Guy Dauncey's lively, optimistic solutions for Peak Oil and climate crisis are do-able here and now. Conservation, efficiency, proven technologies, and emerging innovations will take us through this critical planetary energy transition. |
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