Watch below for an interview with Leonard Cohen from Norwegian talk show Skavlan in 2007. Cohen sits with singer Anjani Thomas, as well as Al Gore.
Citing climate as the “number one priority,” Parisian mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced plans to increase cycling lanes in 2017.
Happy New Year! Watch Bill Gates discuss solutions for clean and cheap alternative energy:
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A new supercomputer visualization from NASA provides an astounding 3D view of carbon dioxide spreading around the globe over a year.
In spite of the incoming administration’s views on climate change, American states and city mayors are continuing to show leadership on climate action. In last month’s election, Seattle, Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio voted to expand mass transit. Portland began a new municipal waste program, Miami Beach is raising roadbeds and building flood walls to hold back the rising seas. California, led by Governor Jerry Brown, has set one of the nation’s most ambitious climate targets—to reduce GHG emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.
And a high profile task force, chaired by Michael Bloomberg, has just recommended that the global private sector do more to disclose the risks climate change pose to their businesses, and what they’re doing to adapt. Read more about the work of this task force here.
Prime Minister Trudeau just negotiated an agreement for a pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change that meets, or exceeds, the 2030 goal of reducing.
This article and this other one typify the divides we have in our country about climate change. In order to move off our current development path, we have to discover common ground and bridge these divides on the more sustainable ways to move forward.
At the latest United Nations COP 21 Climate Summit, issues around water provided a realistic focus for moving forward on climate action. This is a brilliant strategy , since the problem with climate change is making it ‘real’ for people. Focusing on water, essential for all life, may engage people and their communities into acting now, for politicians will not act until they ‘see’ votes through an engaged constituencies.
This past Friday, the Federal Government released its 87 page long-term climate strategy with a caution that “Most Canadians recognize the need to mitigate climate change and limit the increase in the global average temperature, but the magnitude of the challenge is less well understood, with a requirement for very deep emissions cuts from every sector by mid-century”. The strategy says that global emissions reductions of between 70 and 95 percent are required in order to have a better than 50-50 chance of hitting the 1.5 degree temperature target.