Learning more about Climate Change can be easy and fun!
We are creating a 'library' of books and videos to help you find interesting and useful information.
Click here to see what is GOOD TO READ and GOOD TO WATCH.
Why not share your favourite books and films on social media so your friends can enjoy them too?
We are creating a 'library' of books and videos to help you find interesting and useful information.
Click here to see what is GOOD TO READ and GOOD TO WATCH.
Why not share your favourite books and films on social media so your friends can enjoy them too?
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*NEW* Weekly Climate Cafe launches in Northwich
At a Climate Cafe local people come together to chat, learn more about and share ideas about climate and ecological.
Everyone gets to share their thoughts and opinions and all levels of knowledge are welcome. Indeed, if you have no knowledge we would really like to see you.
It's a useful space if you want to learn how to make changes towards a life-style that will enable all life to flourish within the limits that our planet can provide.
Transition Northwich are inviting residents and visitors to come to a Climate Cafe - Saturdays @ 2.30pm at Bruschetta.
The cafe is now on each week, exploring different themes as the weeks go by, with some specialist guest speakers at future sessions.
At a Climate Cafe local people come together to chat, learn more about and share ideas about climate and ecological.
Everyone gets to share their thoughts and opinions and all levels of knowledge are welcome. Indeed, if you have no knowledge we would really like to see you.
It's a useful space if you want to learn how to make changes towards a life-style that will enable all life to flourish within the limits that our planet can provide.
Transition Northwich are inviting residents and visitors to come to a Climate Cafe - Saturdays @ 2.30pm at Bruschetta.
The cafe is now on each week, exploring different themes as the weeks go by, with some specialist guest speakers at future sessions.
The 'Future We Choose' is a remarkable book - predicting how our world will change if we continue as we are and the positive steps we can take to avert this global catastrophe.
Paul has summarised the book and the recommended actions from “The Future We Choose” by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change and the Senior political Strategist for the Paris agreement respectively.
The book’s essential message is that our future remains unwritten at this moment and that we have two choices remaining. We can still stave off the worst effects of climate change –and indeed would any one of us not wish to - but we must act NOW, no longer the next time we stumble across that can sitting before us on the street. Who, each and every one of us, do we choose to be? Its message is stark and clear, but it is positive, for we have everything we need to help us make that choice and take the right course.
The authors identify “two worlds”, then examine “three mindsets” and “ten actions”.
Paul has summarised the book and the recommended actions from “The Future We Choose” by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change and the Senior political Strategist for the Paris agreement respectively.
The book’s essential message is that our future remains unwritten at this moment and that we have two choices remaining. We can still stave off the worst effects of climate change –and indeed would any one of us not wish to - but we must act NOW, no longer the next time we stumble across that can sitting before us on the street. Who, each and every one of us, do we choose to be? Its message is stark and clear, but it is positive, for we have everything we need to help us make that choice and take the right course.
The authors identify “two worlds”, then examine “three mindsets” and “ten actions”.
We know that young people are leading the Climate action.
Fridays for Future - https://fridaysforfuture.org/
This page gives young people the information they need to organise and demand the changes they want.
Let's help them be empowered and well informed citizens of the future.
Fridays for Future - https://fridaysforfuture.org/
This page gives young people the information they need to organise and demand the changes they want.
Let's help them be empowered and well informed citizens of the future.
COP26 1st-13th Nov 2021
What is the COP26?
The Conference of the Parties is the decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UNFCCC is basically the global acknowledgment that, ecologically, we’re not doing so well. Their long term objective is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations and thus every year (since 1995) states have been meeting to discuss how to go about doing this. COP26 is thus the 26th conference held by this body.
Why is COP26 so important?
Because we are in a climate and ecological emergency and COP26 is widely seen as the last chance for governments around the world to reach agreements about how they will collectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change. It’s vital that the people of the world speak with a resounding voice that cannot be ignored. We must also be prepared, if and when agreement fails, to show our governments that we will not be silenced.
When and where is COP26?
COP26 was originally scheduled for November 2020 but because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, it has been delayed for 12 months, and will now take place between 1st and 12th of November 2021. It is to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in the north of the UK.
Who do we want to influence?
At COP26 governments will be negotiating the details of a whole set of agreements, although these agreements will largely be negotiated at pre-COP meetings and conferences. We want to influence these negotiations and decisions both before and during the COP26 event so that governments feel the pressure to set the ambitious targets required. The first targets, to be set by the end of 2020, are the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) which specify how much every nation will contribute to the required global reductions in CO2 emissions. This is now urgent! Between now and November 2021, governments will also be negotiating on the associated ‘rule book’ to ensure agreements can be monitored and are legally binding as well as agreeing the terms of compensation to countries unfairly affected by the emissions of others.
To influence governments and delegations to make binding agreements, we also need to build public outrage at the poor commitments so far. To build public outrage we need to reach the public around the world in the build up to COP. The Covid-19 pandemic and increasing focus on climate change within the business and financial sectors should assist us in doing this.
What is the COP26?
The Conference of the Parties is the decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UNFCCC is basically the global acknowledgment that, ecologically, we’re not doing so well. Their long term objective is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations and thus every year (since 1995) states have been meeting to discuss how to go about doing this. COP26 is thus the 26th conference held by this body.
Why is COP26 so important?
Because we are in a climate and ecological emergency and COP26 is widely seen as the last chance for governments around the world to reach agreements about how they will collectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change. It’s vital that the people of the world speak with a resounding voice that cannot be ignored. We must also be prepared, if and when agreement fails, to show our governments that we will not be silenced.
When and where is COP26?
COP26 was originally scheduled for November 2020 but because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, it has been delayed for 12 months, and will now take place between 1st and 12th of November 2021. It is to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in the north of the UK.
Who do we want to influence?
At COP26 governments will be negotiating the details of a whole set of agreements, although these agreements will largely be negotiated at pre-COP meetings and conferences. We want to influence these negotiations and decisions both before and during the COP26 event so that governments feel the pressure to set the ambitious targets required. The first targets, to be set by the end of 2020, are the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) which specify how much every nation will contribute to the required global reductions in CO2 emissions. This is now urgent! Between now and November 2021, governments will also be negotiating on the associated ‘rule book’ to ensure agreements can be monitored and are legally binding as well as agreeing the terms of compensation to countries unfairly affected by the emissions of others.
To influence governments and delegations to make binding agreements, we also need to build public outrage at the poor commitments so far. To build public outrage we need to reach the public around the world in the build up to COP. The Covid-19 pandemic and increasing focus on climate change within the business and financial sectors should assist us in doing this.
Climate Resources for Children
Resources for CHILDREN to learn more about Climate Action include this wonderful series of stories to listen to
And a useful PLEDGE list..
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