Bonn Climate Talks:”Humanity’s Last Chance Saloon”?
As the Bonn Climate Talks launched today, France's foreign minister Laurent Fabius urged that any climate agreement must be worded in a manner which does not require consent of the United States Congress. “We must find a formula which is valuable for everybody and...
Farming First Toolkit Prioritizes Agriculture In Climate Change Treaty
As thousands die and roads melt in India's sweltering heat wave and reports file in predicting the imminent collapse of Antarctica's 12,000 year-old Larson B Icesheet, the Bonn Talks commence next Monday. Unfortunately, they begin with scientists weighing in on the...
California Drought: Biochar & Native American Communities
2050kids is laying the groundwork for our first project, which would engage Northern California Native American communities in community-based biochar and permaculture practices to tackle the state's historic drought, reduce climate change, and grow more nutritious...
Reports from Sendai: Disaster Risk Reduction #Action2015
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, speaking at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan, yesterday emphasized the need to "embed Disaster Risk Reduction into the very DNA of our sustainable development framework." "Sustainability...
2050 Weather Reports & Youth @ WCDRR
Seychelles launched a week long series of weather reports imagining what a climate changed world might look like in 2050. Weather forecasters from Madagascar and Chile, Cuba and Ghana, Italy and Nigeria are participating in the third installment of the WMO's Weather...
Youth Mapping The Future
Young Climate Change Mappers continue work through the end of this week, uploading geolocations and images as key contributions to UNICEF's global digital chart highlighting climate change and disaster risk reduction throughout the world. They will come together at...
Youth & The Post-2015 Agenda
The failure of government officials to adequately represent the necessity to actively involve youth within the framework of the Sustainble Development Goals (SDGs) is further fueling collaboration among numerous organizations championing the rights of youth to...
Redefining Disaster, Preparedness, and Resilience
from Stanford Innovation Review By Dara Major, Betsy Dubovsky, & Brian Byrd A billion dollars is a lot of money. A billion dollars in damage is the US government’s benchmark for measuring the relative impact of natural disasters. In the United States alone, the number...
The World We Want
The United Nations launch of The World We Want calls on citizens everywhere to sign up and share their priorities to build "a collective vision that will be used directly by the United Nations and World Leaders to plan a new development agenda launching in 2015, one...
Educational Philosophy
Children as Agents of Adaptation Educational Philosophy "We are hurtling towards a future where the gains being made for the world's children are threatened and their health, well being, livelihoods and survival are compromised … despite being the least responsible...