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Business needs to play full part in tackling climate change

Janaury 27, 2014, www.enn.com | “Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon kept up the drumbeat for business to play its full part in tackling climate change and promoting sustainable development for a second day today, telling the World Economic Forum in Davos that investments now will generate major savings for tomorrow.”

“‘We need trillions of dollars of investment to move from the brown to the green economy,’
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – Business needs to play full part in tackling climate change
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‘We need trillions of dollars of investment to move from the brown to the green economy,” the United Nations chief told a session on…'”
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First International Summit and Global Tribunal Held on Rights of Nature

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January 14, 2014, www.pachamama.org | “The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is holding its first international summit in Otavalo and Quito, Ecuador this week.  Grounded in an understanding that humans are one part of an interdependent community of life on Earth, and that our existence in all its social, economic, industrial, cultural, and governmental manifestations is wholly dependent on the health of the atmosphere and all other ecosystems and beings that, with us, comprise our living planet, the Rights of Nature movement draws on indigenous wisdom in positing a new jurisprudence that recognizes the right of nature in all its forms to exist, persist, evolve and regenerate.”

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“First International Summit and Global Tribunal Held on Rights of Nature
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The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is holding its first international summit in Otavalo and Quito, Ecuador this week. Grounded in an understanding that humans are one part…”
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Govts pledge $280M to slow deforestation for agriculture

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November 21, 2013, news.mongabay.com | “The governments of Norway, Britain and the United States pledged $280 million toward a new initiative that aims to reduce emissions associated with forest conversion for agriculture, reports Reuters. The money will come out of previously committed funds for climate change.”

“Govts pledge $280M to slow deforestation for agriculture
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The governments of Norway, Britain and the United States pledged $280 million toward a new initiative that aims to reduce emissions associated with forest conversion for agriculture, reports Reuters. The money will come out of previously committed funds for climate change. The initiative, called the…”
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BOOK REVIEW – Another call for the Rights of Nature, as adopted by Bolivia

November 20, 2013, www.amazon.com | “Environmental law has failed us all. As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citizens now realize they must act before it is too late. This book exposes what is wrong with environmental law and offers transformational change based on the public trust doctrine.”

BOOK REVIEW – Another call for the Rights of Nature, as adopted by Bolivia … and where else?

“Propelled by populist impulses and democratic imperatives, Nature as a public trust surfaces at epic times in history as a manifest human right. But until now it has lacked the precision necessary for citizens, government employees, legislators, and judges to fully safeguard the natural resources we rely on for survival and prosperity.”

Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age
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Environmental law has failed us all. As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citizens now realize they must act before it is too l…
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Climate change is here and now: Mainstream Media Begins to Accept that Climate Change is Real

October 14, 2013,  www.usatoday.com | “All too often, global warming is discussed as something that will affect future generations of people, penguins and polar bears. That it will. But a mounting body of evidence demonstrates that climate change is neither distant nor theoretical. It is here and now.”‘

Mainstream Media Begins to Accept that Climate Change is Real!
Climate change is here and now: Our view
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It won’t affect just future generations of people, penguins and polar bears.
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Tell Russia to Release Greenpeace Activists

October 10, 2013, secure3.convio.net | “The Arctic 30 were on the scene of a peaceful protest at an off-shore oil platform owned by Russian oil giant Gazprom. When they arrived, the Russian Coast Guard fired warning shots and threatened the activists’ lives. Then, Russian Coast Guard officers illegally boarded and seized the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise via helicopter.”

 

Hero -> Greenpeace Executive Director offers himself as Bail Bond for the release of 30 Greenpeace activists arrested for interfering with Russia’s drilling in the Arctic
Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo has written to Russian President Vladimir Putin and offered to represent a global movement of millions of people who have joined the call to #SaveTheArctic and #FreeTheArctic30.
Stand with Kumi and the Arctic 30:
►www.greenpeace.org/freethearctic30/?fbgpikumiletter
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Women Connect to Boost Resilience of Planet

September 27, 2013, newswatch.nationalgeographic.com | “It was that moment on stage when Jane Goodall turned to Vandana Shiva and said, ‘We should start working together,’ and without a beat Vandana replied, ‘Yes, let’s!’ Watching two legends of the environmental movement linking up before my eyes was more evidence of a wider phenomenon I am increasingly witnessing around the world, and that was ever present at this week’s International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit.”

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By Jensine Larsen Women everywhere are claiming power and linking networks to restore the Earth and address climate change. They are harnessing digital media and in-person convenings to accelerate …
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Balkan lynx conservation unifies neighboring countries

July 31, 2013, news.mongabay.com | “They still call the Balkans ‘the Powder Keg of Europe.’ For good reason too: bloody ethnic and religious conflicts in the past decades have left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced. As recently as 2001, the army in Macedonia was fighting with ethnic Albanians, many of them from Kosovo.  However, in the past seven years a rare and charismatic wild cat – the Balkan lynx – is serving to unify countries with troubled historical and political relations.“

The Earth is Our Common Ground.

Taking care
of what we share
brings us together.

– Robert Brothers, 8/1/13

Balkan lynx conservation unifies neighboring countries
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They still call the Balkans “the Powder Keg of Europe.” For good reason too: bloody ethnic and religious conflicts in the past decades have left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced. As recently as 2001, the army in Macedonia was fighting with ethnic Albanians, many of them from Kosovo….
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Nuclear power is in decline, despite new reactors

July 25th 2013, www.economist.com | “THIRTY-ONE countries generate nuclear power, with those that use it for more than 30% of their electricity all in Europe. The number of countries building nuclear plants went up by one last year, to 14.  The United Arab Emirates started construction of one unit of South Korean design in 2012 and another in 2013, the first previously non-nuclear nation to start building a nuclear power plant for 27 years.”

“The industry’s role in electricity production is continuing to decline, according to this year’s World Nuclear Industry Status Report, a compendium of analysis and data by the activist and expert Mycle Schneider.”
Nuclear power is in decline, despite new reactors
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Nuclear power is in decline, despite new reactorsTHIRTY-ONE countries generate nuclear power, with those that use it for more than 30% of their electricity all in…
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – CLIMATE IS NUMBER ONE

Photo: Kevin Rudd is back in the PM's seat and agenda item no. 1 needs to be climate action.He's made big promises before. Tell him to keep them by clicking here: http://act.350.org/sign/rudd-climate-promises/If you'll have climate on the mind when you head to the ballot box -- and you're only willing to support politicians who keep their word -> click LIKE and SHARE

act.350.org | “With Kevin Rudd back in the driving seat, it’s time to remind him of why we elected him in 2007.  During the election, Rudd spoke of climate change as the “greatest moral, environmental and economic challenge of our time” and he committed to taking decisive and ambitious action.”

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – CLIMATE IS NUMBER ONE!
Kevin Rudd is back in the PM’s seat and agenda item no. 1 needs to be climate action.
He’s made big promises before. Tell him to keep them by clicking here: http://act.350.org/sign/rudd-climate-promises/
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