by Deborah Phelan | Apr 12, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Drought, DRR, Extreme Weather, mitigation, Take Action, TIme Capsule
The Paris text was a political fix in which grand words masked inadequate deeds. The voluntary national emission reduction commitments since Paris now put the world on a path of 3.4°C of warming by 2100, and more than 5°C if high-end risks including carbon-cycle...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 13, 2017 | Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Drought, DRR, Extreme Weather, Food Security, TIme Capsule
What can we do about climate change? The Best Climate Practices Observatory has just announced its fifth challenge “Building local resilience to climate disaster risk, in a search for innovative best practices to address the severe danger from extreme weather...
by Deborah Phelan | Dec 27, 2016 | Climate Change, Climate Justice, Disaster Risk Reduction, DRR, Food Security, Global Goals, Global Health, Hunger, UN SDGs
End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. In just 17 steps. Over the course of 15 years. Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is 17 aspirational “Global Goals,” which are also referred to as the 17...
by Deborah Phelan | Aug 13, 2016 | biochar, Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Global Health, Hunger, mitigation, Take Action
2050kids Cookstove Challenge kicks off this month with Boy Scouts signing up to join a select group of cookstove test drivers from around the world. The scouts from Troop 118 in Sacramento, CA picked up their starter kits and instructions August 9 to begin building...
by Deborah Phelan | Jul 27, 2016 | Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Ideas, mitigation, Our Blog, Real Life Story, Take Action, Uncategorized, Youth and Climate Change
The task of climate rescue can feel daunting. Where do you start with the new policy, infrastructure and lifestyles urgently needed to switch humanity from wrecking to restabilizing the climate? This big switch should and could be made quickly but it’s...
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.”...
