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Extreme and unusual trends continue in 2017
The year 2016 made history, with a record global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, and unabated sea level rise and ocean heat
Questions about climate change ?
Do you have questions about climate change? What’s Happening? What could happen? What to do?
Declining fish catches
Soooo many boats chasing sooooo few fish …
The inglorious outcome should be clear …
Corporate climate change
Exxon Mobil will reconsider how it communicates the risks it faces from climate change …
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Plastic attacks hit Swiss supermarkets (Le News)
Swiss shoppers dump plastic wrapping at supermarkets to protest excessive plastic packaging. Plastic Attacks, which began at Tesco in Keynsham near Bristol, UK, have occurred in Sion, Pully, Zurich, Bern and elsewhere…
GEN Geneva this week
Check the list here to see the events taking place this week in and around Geneva – it’s non-exhaustive.
EU bans pesticides which harms bees
EU agrees to total ban on neonicotinoids, bee-harming pesticides, by the end of 2018.
Plastic is not the worst pollutant …
Almost 5 billion metric tons of plastic has been dumped into the oceans of the world since we started to produce and use the stuff – that sounds bad. But if plastic’s not the worst pollutant, then what is?
Initiatives, campaigns and petitions of interest:
Afforestation
Desertification threatens a third of world’s land. Read how afforestation is a solution to it …
The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond
Half a degree makes a very big difference when judging how different parts of the world will feel the effects of climate change.
Temperature anomaly
Variation of 192 countries from their long-term averages, from 1880 – 2017.
By Antti Lipponen, the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
A map of global cumulative CO2 emissions over time
Share of CO2 emissions around the world over the years, from 1751 – 2016.
Grève du climat 15 mars 2019
On ne lâche rien ! Une nouvelle grève est annoncée pour le vendredi 15 mars – dans une soixantaine de pays, et bien sûr en Suisse …
What makes your country wealthy?
??Leaders from business, politics and NGOs respond to the question, have we been getting “wealth” wrong all these years? Watch a recording of the televised debate, 9 January 2019, 17:00 CET.
Average temperatures have risen by ~0.8°C. By 2040 1.5°C will be reached …
IPCC report on global warming finds severe effects of waming at even 1.5°C rise of temperature.
Rising waters
Rising seas and oceans menace coastal communities from southern USA to southeastern Asia …
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