by Deborah Phelan | Jun 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Food Security, Global Health, mitigation
A new analysis released today at the G7 summit provides a ‘bread and butter’ overview of how national climate action plans will benefit everyday citizens in terms of better jobs, longer lives and a cleaner atmosphere. The report was issued hours before G7...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 1, 2015 | Climate Change, mitigation
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...
by Deborah Phelan | May 28, 2015 | Climate Change, Food Security, mitigation
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...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 11, 2015 | Climate Change, Food Security
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...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 16, 2015 | Children, Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Global Health, Youth
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.”...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 9, 2015 | Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Youth and Climate Change
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...
