The decision to limit global warming to 1.5°C is vital for small scale family agriculture, which is especially climate-vulnerable. However, as the UNEP emissions gap report highlights, there is still too much distance between the Paris Agreement targets and Parties’ NDC commitments. This gap reveals a clear imperative for countries to reaffirm and set an ambitious course towards attaining this goal during COP22, a sentiment echoed across
Now that the Paris Agreement has been signed by 193 parties and ratified by over 100, one message is very clear: the era of fossil fuels is over. But it seems that not everyone has gotten the message. In many countries, the coal lobby stubbornly believes it can delay the inevitable. Let’s take Brazil as an example. Brazil likes to boast about being a climate champion. But its Congress just approved a billion-dollar subsidy to
The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm was founded in 1997 by Peg Schafer who was seeking a niche market to utilize her background in nursery management and farming. Along with potted medicinal plants and row cropping came experimentation with various cultivation methods leading to specialization in certified organic, wild-simulated herb cultivation. As part of the farm mission novel medicinal plants are trial grown to evaluate for viable domestic
November 8-18, every day from 9.30-10.00 (free coffee and croissants) – watch the streaming from our COP22 morning talk at facebook and join us virtually or in real life at COP22 SEE ATTACHED PROGRAMME, INCLUDING FULL OVERVIEW OF EVENT AT THE NORDIC COP22 PAVILION – ALL OTHER EVENTS ARE STREAMED AT WWW.NORDEN.ORG/COP22/STREAMING Tuesday, November 8: YOUNGO – UNFCCC Youth will talk about the climate crisis or challenge
Photo by Liza Matthews. Yes, it’s a strange thing to do — just sit there and do basically nothing. Yet the simple act of stopping, says Pema Chödrön, is the best way to cultivate our good qualities. Here are five ways meditation makes us better people. The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can’t escape any of these experiences in the vast
Võ Tuấn Nhân, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, spoke to the Viet Nam News Agency (VNA) about the country’s efforts to adapt to climate change. What are your assessments on the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) achievements and Việt Nam actions on climate change? The whole world, particularly developing countries, has felt strong impacts of climate change However, Its impacts are becoming stronger,
Like almost everyone, we were stunned by last week's "not guilty" verdicts for the Bundy brothers and other defendants following the 41-day armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year. "This is an extremely disturbing verdict for anyone who cares about America's public lands, the rights of native people and their heritage, and a political system that refuses to be bullied by violence and racism,"
| Courtesy Environmental groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its decision to not list Graham's beardtongue, a rare desert flower that grows only near Uinta Basin's oil shale outcrops. This week, a federal judge rejected a conservation agreement Utah officials claimed would ensure the plant's survival if the area's oil shale is strip-mined. Photo by Kevin McGown, U.S. Forest Service. Conservation agreement
BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in Paris, 196 governments agreed on the need to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – an objective that holds the promise of delivering precisely such a transformation. Achieving it will require overcoming serious political challenges, reflected in the fact that some are advocating solutions that will end
