What is loss and damage? Loss and damage normally refers to the destructive impacts of climate change that cannot be avoided either by mitigation (avoiding and reducing greenhouse gas emissions) or adaptation (adjusting to current and future climate change impacts). Arguments over finance involve funding from rich,...
COP27 Presidency launches Adaptation Agenda to build climate resilience for 4 billion by 2030 In the Fulani village of Hore Mondji, in southern Mauritania, a women's cooperative uses solar energy to operate the borehole that supplies water to the market garden. A project piloted by UNICEF...
Young Change-Makers from more than 140 Countries Participate in 17th Climate Change Conference of Youth The YOUTH conference COY17 has just finished.The key outcome of COY17 is a policy document called the Global Youth Statement, a comprehensive text providing youth input to world leaders on the...
Click on the image to take you to the homepage for this festival This festival took place in October 2022. Guernsey was represented by two talks:1. Explaining how to find your school carbon footprint by school pupils - (apologies this video will be not be available until...
October FOCUSClimate change is NOT coming - it is already here! David Attenborough said, "The greatest threat to our planet is apathy." Maybe these short videos will inspire you to take action, to join organisations who are trying to make a different with nature or more simply...
A mass extinction is a short period of geological time in which a high percentage of biodiversity, or distinct species—bacteria, fungi, plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates—dies out. In this definition, it’s important to note that, in geological time, a ‘short’ period can span...
Electrical devicesLook around your house and identify anything that is on standby. These devices slowly eat away at your electricity and by turning them off when you don't use them, they will save you hundreds of pounds each year.How can you tell if something is...
What is the 15 minute city initiative?The 15-minute city is defined by its ability to provide access to all human needs by walking or bicycling for a quarter hour or less.It is socioeconomically equitable—those without a car could easily access all their needs. This requirement...
Section 1: Farmed Animals‘From all the greenhouse gas emissions produced by man, 16 % of this is methane while around a third of that comes from ruminant livestock'Prof. John Wallace, University of Aberdeen, UK source: https://bit.ly/3PJAJYs Farmed animals give off a lot of...
"The Greatest threat to our planet is APATHY" - Sir David AttenboroughOur children are crying out - when will we listen? When will we learn? At 14 years old I organised the recycling in my house. My father put the carefully sorted bags in the garage...