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"Democracy Now! broadcasts live from inside COP 23, the U.N. Climate Change Conference, and from outside in the streets and activist centers in Bonn, Germany."
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COP23 via Democracy Now!
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2017-11-00
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2017-11-20
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"Democracy Now! has long covered the issue of climate change. We reported from the U.N. Climate Change Conferences in Paris, Lima, Warsaw, Doha, Durban, Cancún, and Copenhagen, and from Bolivia?s World Peoples? Summit on Climate Change.
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Democracy Now!
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2016-01-23
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Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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Links to the COP 24, Conference Main Page, and the COP 24 documents. Other links, including the sessions of COP 23 and the agenda for COP 24 can be found on the Main Page.
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United Nations
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1970-01-01
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2018-12-12
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"COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)....
The UNFCCC is a “Rio Convention”, one of three adopted at the “Rio Earth Summit” in 1992. The UNFCCC entered into force on 21 March 1994. Today, it has near-universal membership. The countries that have ratified the Convention are called Parties to the Convention. Preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system is the ultimate aim of the UNFCCC.
The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the supreme body of the UNFCCC Convention. It consists of the representatives of the Parties to the Convention. It holds its sessions every year. The COP takes decisions which are necessary to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of the Convention and regularly reviews the implementation of these provisions.
In accordance with a decision of the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention (COP22) in Marrakesh in November 2016, the successive climate summit will be held in Poland. Poland was selected to host this event within the framework of the Eastern European Group (EEG).
Poland will hold the Presidency of the Climate Convention for the third time.
COP24 will take place from 2-14 December 2018, in Katowice, Poland...."
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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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2018-12-11
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2018-12-12
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an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty... Assessments of climate change by the IPCC, drawing on the work of hundreds of scientists from all over the world, enable policymakers at all levels of government to take sound, evidence-based decisions. They represent extraordinary value as the authors volunteer their time and expertise. The running costs of the Secretariat, including the organization of meetings and travel costs of delegates from developing countries and countries with economies in transition, are covered through the IPCC Trust Fund..."
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International Panel on Climate Change
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2018-10-08
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2018-10-08
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About 66,600,000 results (12 December 2015)
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Google
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2015-12-12
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2015-12-12
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"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. The UN General Assembly endorsed the action by WMO and UNEP in jointly establishing the IPCC.
The IPCC is a scientific body. It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. It does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters.
Thousands of scientists from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC on a voluntary basis. Review is an essential part of the IPCC process, to ensure an objective and complete assessment of current information. IPCC aims to reflect a range of views and expertise. The Secretariat coordinates all the IPCC work and liaises with Governments. It is supported by WMO and UNEP and hosted at WMO headquarters in Geneva.
The IPCC is an intergovernmental body. It is open to all member countries of the United Nations (UN) and WMO. Currently 195 countries are members of the IPCC. Governments participate in the review process and the plenary Sessions, where main decisions about the IPCC work programme are taken and reports are accepted, adopted and approved. The IPCC Bureau Members, including the Chair, are also elected during the plenary Sessions.
Because of its scientific and intergovernmental nature, the IPCC embodies a unique opportunity to provide rigorous and balanced scientific information to decision makers. By endorsing the IPCC reports, governments acknowledge the authority of their scientific content. The work of the organization is therefore policy-relevant and yet policy-neutral, never policy-prescriptive."
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IPCC
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2012-06-26
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About 36,000 results (August 2018)
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Jet Propulsion Laborarotry (JPL)
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2018-08-13
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"The twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22), the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12), and the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 1) were held in Bab Ighli, Marrakech, Morocco from 7-18 November 2016.
The Conference successfully demonstrated to the world that the implementation of the Paris Agreement is underway and the constructive spirit of multilateral cooperation on climate change continues.
The decisions adopted by COP22/CMP12/CMA1 are listed here...
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United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change
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2016-11-00
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2016-11-25
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English, Burmese
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The first result leads to a useful index page
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NASA - National [USA] Aeronautics and Space Administration
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2018-08-13
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"... The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues.
Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and processes.
Its recent and current activities include: the publication of the daily SUNS (South - North Develoment Monitor) bulletin from Geneva, Switzerland, the fortnightly Third World Economics and the monthly Third World Resurgence; the publication of Third World Network Features; the publication of books on environment and economic issues; the organizing of various seminars and workshops; and participation in international processes such as UNCED and the World Bank - NGO Committee..." Its online publications include extracts and compilations of • "Third World Resurgence";
• "Third World Economics";
• "TWN Features";
• Position Papers;
• Briefing Papers etc.
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Third World Network
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2005-01-23
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Roots and Resources - global and regional experience and analysis, Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries
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Papers from UN Climate Change conferences from 2007
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Third World Network
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2012-03-03
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Global, 2020 results; Myanmar,696 (August 2018)
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UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
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2018-08-13
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"2016 is shaping up as the hottest year on record. The first six months of the year were the hottest since records began in 1880, while the Artic has seen record low sea ice levels. As a result of the growing impacts of climate change, millions of people experiencing higher temperatures and extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves, floods and storm surges, putting food and water security at risk, and threatening agricultural supply chains and many coastal cities.
The impacts and risks posed by climate change highlight the need for action to deliver on the Paris Agreement on climate change, reached in December 2015, to keep a global temperature rise this century below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. And with the world?s poorest people hit hardest by climate change, the case for action has been underscored by the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by countries in September 2015, as well as the Financing for Development agenda and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
For the World Bank Group, with its goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity, climate change and poverty are inextricably linked. A Bank report, Shock Waves: Managing the Impact of Climate Change on Poverty, warned that without rapid action, climate change could push an additional 100 million people into poverty by 2030.
Delaying action would significantly increase the cost of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius ? according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios, delaying action until 2030 would increase the costs of mitigating the impact of climate change by 50 percent.//"
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World Bank
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2016-12-01
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"https://democracynow.org - Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, this week, where world leaders gathered to negotiate climate solutions were confronted last week by a teenage climate activist who says they are not doing enough to turn back the clock and prevent catastrophic climate change. Fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg stunned the world last week when she denounced world leaders for inaction and told them: “change is coming whether they like it or not. The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.” She has made international headlines since launching a school strike against climate change in her home country of Sweden earlier this year. Every Friday, she protests outside the parliament building in Stockholm instead of attending school, and her actions have inspired thousands of students across the globe to do the same. Before we speak with Thunberg in person, we play an excerpt of her speech that went viral. “I like school, and I like learning,” said Greta, who plans to end her strike when Sweden starts cutting carbon emissions by 15 percent a year. “But why should we be studying for a future that soon may be no more? This is more important than school, I think.”..."
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Democracy Now
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2018-12-11
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2018-12-12
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"Helene Maria Kyed & Justine Chambers
Violent conflict and state oppression in Myanmar demonstrates the importance of placing conflict analysis and people-centred approaches at the centre of international programming on climate change and environmental protection.
In 2021, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that the impacts of the climate crisis will be particularly pronounced in poor and conflict-affected countries. Research also identifies climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’ that, in combination with socio-political factors like poverty, state incapacity and inequality, can intensify violent conflict. However, gaps remain in how to address the increase in climate change vulnerabilities in contexts with violent conflict and state oppression. This is evident in Myanmar, where a historically repressive military regime is threatening to cause longer-term ‘climate collapse’.
Since a military coup in February 2021, extractive activities and war economies are destroying the natural environment and placing communities at further risk of displacement, violent persecution and food shortages. These effects of conflict are reducing local people’s capacity to adapt to climate change and threatening civil society’s efforts to protect the environment. Under such conditions, climate change programming needs to place conflict analysis at its centre stage and substitute state-centric and purely technical approaches with people-centred ones, in alignment with the localisation of aid agenda.
*Climate change vulnerabilities in Myanmar
In the 2021 Global Climate Risk Index, out of 183 countries Myanmar is ranked the second most vulnerable to extreme weather events. With more frequent heatwaves, floods, cyclones, droughts and rising sea levels that impact production, food security and land scarcity, climate change poses a severe threat to livelihoods and sustainable development. Myanmar is simultaneously rich in natural resources and home to some of the largest remaining areas of contiguous biodiverse-rich rainforests in Southeast Asia, crucial for global climate stabilisation due to their absorption of carbon dioxide. For generations, indigenous communities have protected these forests using local ecological knowledge systems. However, these systems have been perpetually undermined by top-down conservation interventions, extractive activities and conflict dynamics.
Myanmar provides evidence that climate change vulnerabilities cannot be attributed to global changes in temperatures and weather patterns alone, but also to issues related to governance, natural resource use and conflict. The ability of local communities to mitigate and respond to climate change has been severely hampered by decades of authoritarian rule, agrarian land struggles and long running armed conflicts, which have worsened since the coup.
Escalations since the military coup
Research shows that, since the coup, the military has turned to the country’s vast natural wealth to fund its regime and violent operations. This reinforces a long history of military exploitation that was only partly tempered during a ten-year reform period. Satellite data reveals the depletion of large patches of rainforest since the coup. Civil society organisations (CSOs) also report a rapid increase in unregulated mining, which is polluting waterways, decimating forests, destroying mountains, and causing landslides and changes to fragile ecosystems.
Military-linked militias and businesses are behind much of this mining, but the escalating violent conflict is also fuelling a war economy where other armed actors engage in unregulated resource extraction. These activities are further degrading the environment and accelerating the longer-term impacts of climate change. Another concern is that the military junta’s plan to revive controversial hydropower dams and palm oil plantations will heavily disturb important riverine ecosystems and destroy natural forests, in addition to threatening local land rights and livelihoods.
Prior to the coup, some hydropower dams were stalled due to protests by local communities and environmental defenders. However, the violent reimposition of military rule has drastically undermined the civic space for environmental and climate justice actors, which during the 2011-2020 reform period provided some degree of protection to customary lands and the environment. The military’s brutal crackdown on civil society and environmental activists has also significantly undermined previous efforts to create public climate change awareness and to advocate for equitable climate actions.
Since the coup, regulatory and environmental oversight mechanisms have disappeared, meaning that local communities now have nowhere to take complaints about the effects of extractive projects on their land rights, local environment and livelihoods.
Top-down vs. people centered
Top-down technical approaches to climate change typically involve investment in and introduction of agricultural techniques and infrastructures to adjust to climate change, which are developed external to local solutions, knowledge systems and context-specific socio-political relations (e.g. irrigation systems, satellite-based early warning systems, sea walls, drought-resistant crops, new seeds, etc.).
people-centred approach adheres to the localisation of aid agenda, by involving local people and their knowledge in decision-making and planning of climate change programmes from the outset. This also includes incorporating context-specific understandings of climate change and drivers of vulnerability into programme design and solutions.*
In this context, local efforts to adapt to and mitigate climate change are hampered both by the challenges facing the operations of supportive NGOs and CSOs, and by ongoing violent conflicts and displacements. There is also a high risk that natural disaster relief – in the case of, for instance, cyclones, flooding and drought – will be undermined or be used as an oppressive political tool, with the military preventing humanitarian organisations from helping affected populations.
Pre-coup climate change policies in Myanmar
In the current situation in Myanmar there is an urgent need for international donors to rethink conventional climate change programming. This includes a critical reframing of the policies and approaches that were adopted by the civilian government prior to the military coup, based on international technical assistance, such as the 2019 interlinked Climate Change Policy, Strategy and Master Plan, which aimed to create a climate-resilient and low-carbon society.
While recognising the urgency of climate change actions, earlier policies focused predominantly on support through central government departments and on techno-managerial solutions, with a heavy focus on state regulations. These were by and large apolitical and conflict blind. There was no mention of armed conflicts in the border regions, agrarian land struggles, non-state-controlled areas, or the legacies of authoritarianism, let alone a recognition of how these realities affect the lives of people. Locally-driven climate change adaptation and indigenous natural resource protection were underprioritized in favour of state-centric and top-down solutions. This was evident in the design of several internationally sponsored adaptation projects, some of which were aborted after the coup due to the freezing of aid channelled through government departments. These projects reflected the centrality of technical solutions and involved very little local consultation. They also largely ignored conflict dynamics and failed to target vulnerable populations in areas controlled by non-state ethnic resistance organisations (EROs).
Research also shows that large-scale mitigation projects, like REDD+ ignored local concerns, contributing instead to indigenous communities’ vulnerability and a consolidation of central state power at the expense of local conservation initiatives. These projects also had conflict repercussions. There were some exceptions to this dominant trend, such as international support for community-led conservation initiatives. However, much of the climate-related programming failed to acknowledge the socio-political marginalisation and asymmetric power relations that lie at the root of Myanmar’s protracted conflicts and authoritarian governance structures.
Ways forward and entry points for programming
Since the February 2021 coup, many international donors have withdrawn their state-to-state aid, including for climate change, so as not to legitimise and finance the military regime. Many of the CSO partners of international NGOs have moved their environmental and climate change work underground. Under these conditions, and with the gaps in pre-coup climate change policies, there is an urgent need to adopt more conflict-sensitive, flexible and adaptive programming:
Conflict analysis should be integrated into the design of climate change programmes, with a focus on mapping the power relations, political contestations and pluralism of actors that are implicated both in environmental protection and in natural resource management and extraction. The analysis should be based on in-depth contextual and historically grounded understanding that climate-related challenges are deeply embedded in longer-term ethno-nationalist conflicts and the co-existence of state and non-state legal-institutional arrangements (e.g. for the manangement of land, forests and other natural resources). Particular attention should be paid to EROs like the Karen National Union, which for decades have engaged in natural resource governance in their areas of non-state control.
Localisation of programme implementation is important to ensure that support benefits and reflects the needs of local populations. This requires a shift in programme implementation from top-down, state centric technical solutions towards climate change actions that are people-centred and work from the ground up. Flexible funding and reporting requirements that are adjustable to a volatile and insecure context is important to this approach. Entry points for support could include: a) core costs to secure the continued activities of existing environmental CSOs and indigenous-led networks, and their research and policy advocacy for inclusive and community-led climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes and policies; b) funding for the ongoing documentation of indigenous and customary natural resource management and ecological knowledge systems as a basis for sustainable development; c) support for the documentation of environmentally harmful extractive projects; and d) integration of climate adaptation and environmental protection into humanitarian support to internally displaced people and the communities that host them (e.g. in terms of forestry, green energy and waste management).
Policy-related support to pro-democratic movements in developing climate change policies and initiatives that support sustainable environmental protection and equitable natural resource sharing, land rights and locally embedded solutions. The ongoing drafting process of a federal democratic charter by the National Unity Government (NUG), in collaboration with the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) and allied EROs, presents an opportunity to provide technical support within the area of climate change. Informed policy advice should support the inclusion of CSOs that have an existing track record for working with climate change and in-depth experiences with environmental protection and familiarity with indigenous ecological knowledge systems. Funds and technical advice should also be targeted to support these groups to engage in international climate-related forums such as the UN’s Conference of the Parties (COP) to assess progress and add to global conversations on climate-related programming in conflict affected areas.
While these recommendations are specific to the current situation in Myanmar, they also apply more broadly to climate change actions in other conflict-affected and authoritarian states..."
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Danish Institute for International Studies (Denmark) via "Reliefweb" (New York)
Date of publication:
2023-03-06
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2023-03-30
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"1. As the Acting President of the National Unity Government (NUG) of the Republic of the
Union of Myanmar, I would like to deliver this message on behalf of the people of Myanmar for
the 27th historic meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) hosted by the Government
of Egypt in Sharm El-Sheikh which is the City of Mangrove: A Natural Connection between
Biodiversity and Climate.
2. The Conference of the Parties (COP27) held today is also the 30th anniversary of
adopting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). During
these 30 years, our earth has encountered the global climate change and its impacts.
Meanwhile, we have endured a long journey as we steadfastly cope with the threats of
ecological destruction and the COVID-19 pandemic in recent years. It is evident that every
country bears responsibility and needs to work together to protect our mother earth, mitigating
climate change and adapting to its impacts, combating environmental degradation, and
building a greener and more prosperous society for our future.
3. Myanmar is a country rich in natural forests and resources. However, Myanmar is a least
developed country and has limited capacity to alleviate climate change and ecological damage.
It therefore joins the list of countries with the highest destruction of natural resources. In
addition, since the military junta forcibly attempted to seize power on February 1, 2021, the
rule of law collapsed. This led to a sharp increase in the exploitation of natural resources and
significant damage to the natural environment. The people of Myanmar have been traumatized
by experiencing more disasters such as floods, landslides, and climate change as the consequences of the excessive exploitation of natural resources, including forests and gems,
by the military junta in their attempt to gain power.
4. In July 2021, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation
(MONR EC) under the National Unity Government (NUG) released a report on "the Status of
Natural Resources Depletion During the Military Regimes in Myanmar" . The research found that
the heritage sites are put in danger due to illegal gold mining, the natural resources are largely
lost due to illegal activities, the forest ecosystems are largely deteriorated, and the people are
inevitably facing the impacts of climate change.
5. In October 2022, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation
issued a report on deforestation conditions in Sagaing Region, which is one of the areas most
brutally and constantly oppressed by the military junta. Several efforts have been made to
contribute to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) submitted by the National Unity
Government by estimating the carbon emissions in Sagaing Region as well as at the national
level following the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.
6. Now, despite facing relentless brutality and injustices committed by the military junta,
the people of Myanmar are actively participating together with the NUG in environmental
conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation activities, in addition to their
regional rehabilitation works, in the areas controlled by the local administrative bodies. In
territories under the control of the NUG and Ethnic Revolutionary Organizations (EROs), the
NUG has also been carrying out planting activities, awareness raising, and monthly talk shows
and other events related to environmental conservation with the enthusiastic participation of
the people.
7. In implementing climate change mitigation and adaptation activities to contribute to
the NDC, the EROs play a vital role, as most of the forest cover are under their control. In
cooperation with the EROs and in accord with the provisions of the Federal Democratic Charter
(FDC), programs and activities have been performed, including climate change mitigation and
adaptation programs; systematic extraction and utilization of natural resources, including
forests; and the people-centered protection and conservation.
8. While our National Unity Government has continued the implementation of its
commitments to combat climate change, it is apparent that the military junta has been
accelerating the exploitation of timber and other natural resources and carrying out other
illegal activities and violence, including terrorizing and killing the people. The country’s
situation has worsened due to the combined effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the militarycoup in addition to climate change, resulting in an economic recession. Along with a multitude
of climate problems, millions of people are being pushed into poverty, and sustainable
development is failing.
9. For these reasons, engagement with Myanmar to fulfill Myanmar’s climate commitments
can only succeed by working together with the National Unity Government, which is mandated
by the people and has the will to join with our international friends to meet our commitments.
Progress towards our shared goals can be strengthened through supporting the NUG by all
means, including technical and financial assistance. This will contribute to combatting climate
change and environmental conservations, as well as addressing the rights of Myanmar people.
Furthermore, it will be another contribution to the goal of the Paris Agreement, laid down in
accord with the basic norms for the well-being of the planet and humans in the Framework
Convention.
10. In conclusion, the National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
on behalf of our people would like to respectfully inform all member countries that now is a
good time to join together to mitigate climate change, and we will heartfeltly appreciate and
genuinely honour each of your contributions to our common cause and to Myanmar. In
addition, our National Unity Government affirm that Myanmar, as a member of the Convention,
will continue to lead the people of Myanmar in the Fight against the climate change for the
benefit of humanity and the planet..."
Source/publisher:
Acting President Duwa Lashi La via National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of publication:
2022-11-13
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2022-11-14
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"အီဂျစ်နိုင်ငံ၊ Sharm El-Sheikh မြို့တွင် ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ်၊ နိုဝင်ဘာလ (၆) ရက်နေ့မှ (၁၈) ရက်နေ့အထိ ကျင်းပလျက်ရှိသည့် ကုလသမဂ္ဂရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုဆိုင်ရာမူဘောင်ကွန်ဗင်းရှင်း (UNFCCC) အဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံများ၏ (၂၇) ကြိမ်မြောက် အစည်းအဝေး (COP27) သို့ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ ယာယီသမ္မတ ဒူဝါလရှီးလမှ သဝဏ်လွှာပေးပို့ခဲ့ပါသည်။
ယာယီသမ္မတ၏ သဝဏ်လွှာအား အောက်ပါအတိုင်း အကျဥ်းချုပ် ဖော်ပြအပ်ပါသည်-
- အဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံများ၏ (၂၇) ကြိမ်မြောက် ယခုနှစ် အစည်းအဝေးသည် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ မူဘောင်ကွန်ဗင်းရှင်းကို အတည်ပြုခဲ့သည့် နှစ် (၃၀) ပြည့် နှစ်ပတ်လည်နေ့ အခမ်းအနားလည်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ ဤနှစ် (၃၀) အတွင်း ကမ္ဘာမြေသည် ရာသီဥတု ပြောင်းလဲမှုနှင့် နောက်ဆက်တွဲ အကျိုးဆက်များကို ရင်ဆိုင်ရလျက်ရှိပြီး စိမ်းလန်းသာယာသည့် အနာဂတ်ကို တည်ဆောက်ရန်မှာ ကမ္ဘာ့နိုင်ငံအားလုံး၏ တာဝန်ဖြစ်ပြီး လက်တွဲလုပ်ဆောင်သွားကြရန် လိုအပ်ပါကြောင်း၊
- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် သဘာဝသယံဇာတများ ပေါကြွယ်ဝသည့် နိုင်ငံဖြစ်သော်လည်း ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု အနည်းဆုံးနိုင်ငံဖြစ်သည့်အပြင် ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုနှင့် ဂေဟစနစ် ပျက်စီးမှုများကို ကာကွယ်ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်စွမ်း အကန့်အသတ်သာ ရှိသည့်အတွက် သဘာဝသယံဇာတများ ထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးဆုံးရှုံးမှု အမြင့်မားဆုံး နိုင်ငံများထဲတွင် ပါဝင်နေပါကြောင်း၊
- ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ (၁) ရက်နေ့ စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ အဓမ္မအာဏာသိမ်းယူခဲ့သည့် အချိန်မှစပြီး တရားဥပဒေစိုးမိုးမှု မရှိသည့်အတွက် သဘာဝသယံဇာတများအား လက်လွတ်စပယ် ထုတ်ယူသုံးစွဲမှုမှာ အလွန်များပြားလာပြီး သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ကို သိသိသာသာ ထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးမှုများ ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာခဲ့ရ ကြောင်း၊
- အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၊ သယံဇာတနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနအနေဖြင့် UNFCCC ကွန်ဗင်းရှင်းသို့ တင်ပြခဲ့သော “အမျိုးသားအဆင့် ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှု လျှော့ချရေးနှင့် လိုက်လျောညီထွေ ရှိစေရေးဆိုင်ရာ အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်မည့် လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ် (Nationally Determined Contributions – NDC)” ကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နိုင်ရန် စဉ်ဆက်မပြတ် ကြိုးပမ်းဆောင်ရွက်လျက်ရှိပါကြောင်း၊
- ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှု လျှော့ချရေးနှင့် လိုက်လျောညီထွေရှိစေရေး လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များ၊ သဘာဝသယံဇာတများ စနစ်တကျထုတ်ယူအသုံးပြုရေးနှင့် ဒေသခံများ ပူးပေါင်းပါဝင်သည့် ကာကွယ်ထိန်းသိမ်းခြင်း လုပ်ငန်းများအား ဖက်ဒရယ်ဒီမိုကရေစီပဋိညာဉ်ပါ ပြဋ္ဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ တိုင်းရင်းသားတော်လှန်ရေး အင်အားစုများနှင့် ပူးပေါင်းညှိနှိုင်း လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိပါကြောင်း၊
- မြန်မာပြည်သူများသည် စစ်အာဏာရှင်များ၏ ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်သည့် ဥပဒေမဲ့လုပ်ဆောင်မှုဒဏ်ကို ဆိုးဆိုးဝါးဝါး တွေ့ကြုံခံစားနေကြရသော်လည်း နယ်မြေစိုးမိုးမှုရရှိထားသည့် ဒေသများတွင် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၏ ကူညီပံ့ပိုးမှုများနှင့်အတူ ဒေသ၏ ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းများကိုသာမက ရာသီဥတု ဖောက်ပြန်ပြောင်းလဲမှု လျှော့ချရေးနှင့် လိုက်လျောညီထွေရှိစေရေးလုပ်ငန်းများ၊ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးလုပ်ငန်းများတွင် ပူးပေါင်းပါဝင်လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိပါကြောင်း၊
- ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုကြောင့်သာမက ကိုဗစ် - ၁၉ ကပ်ရောဂါ၏ နှိပ်စက်မှုနှင့် စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကြောင့် တိုင်းပြည်အခြေအနေသည် ပိုမိုဆိုးဝါးလာပြီး ရာသီဥတုဆိုင်ရာပြဿနာများစွာနှင့်အတူ ယခုအခါ စီးပွားရေးဆုတ်ကပ်ဆိုက်ကာ ပြည်သူသန်းပေါင်းများစွာသည် ဆင်းရဲတွင်းထဲသို့ တွန်းချခံနေရသည့်အပြင် ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သည့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုသည်လည်း မအောင်မြင်ဘဲ ကျဆုံးလျက် ရှိနေပါကြောင်း၊
- ပြည်သူကို ကိုယ်စားပြုသည့် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရအား နည်းပညာနှင့် ငွေကြေး အထောက်အပံ့အပါအဝင် နည်းလမ်းပေါင်းစုံဖြင့် အသိအမှတ်ပြု ထောက်ပံ့ပေးခြင်းကသာ ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှု တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးနှင့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိန်းသိမ်းရေးလုပ်ငန်းများတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက တက်တက်ကြွကြွ ပါဝင် ဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ရန်နှင့် မြန်မာပြည်သူလူထု၏ အခွင့်အရေးအား မြှင့်တင်ပေးနိုင်ရန်အတွက် တစ်ဖက်တစ်လမ်းမှ ကူညီထောက်ပံ့ပေးနိုင်မည် ဖြစ်ပါကြောင်း၊
- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် ကွန်ဗင်းရှင်းအဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံ ဖြစ်သည်နှင့်အညီ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရအနေဖြင့် မြန်မာပြည်သူများအား ဦးဆောင်ကာ ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှု တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးနှင့် လိုက်လျောညီထွေ ရှိစေရေးလုပ်ငန်းများကို ဆက်လက်ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း။
ယာယီသမ္မတမှ ပေးပို့ခဲ့သည့် သဝဏ်လွှာအား မြန်မာ/အင်္ဂလိပ် (၂) ဘာသာဖြင့် ထုတ်ပြန်အပ်ပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Acting President Duwa Lashi La via National Unity Government of Myanmar
Date of publication:
2022-11-13
Date of entry/update:
2022-11-14
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"Statement regarding to 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (9/2022)..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation - NUG
Date of publication:
2022-11-07
Date of entry/update:
2022-11-07
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Statement regarding to 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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"1. Regarding the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, which is taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from 6 to
18 November 2022, the National Unity Government (NUG) would like to issue a statement
on climate change on behalf of all the people of Myanmar.
2. Following the military junta's attempted coup on February 1, 2021, the rule of law has
collapsed, and numerous illegal over-exploitations of natural resources has led to
environmental damages. Additionally, as the military has been over-extracting natural
resources, including forests and gems, to perpetuate their power, the country has now been
facing increased natural disasters such as floods, landslides, and climate change. In addition,
the illegal-coup-staging military council has been burning civilian properties, including
approximately 36,000 homes, and the surrounding forests nearby the villages have been
destroyed. Such burnings have resulted in an increase in the emission of greenhouse gasses,
which are the major causes of global climate change, and our efforts to reduce greenhouse
gasses due to deforestation are also hampered. It is obvious that as the military junta
constantly seeks to perpetuate only their power, they are not willing to address the country's
climate issues. The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) currently submitted to the
UNFCCC by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation under the
State Administration Council is merely a stack of paper, and in reality there is no any
pragmatic implementation for the NDC.
3. However, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation under the
National Unity Government (MONREC-NUG) issued an analysis report in July 2021, that
examines the poor management of natural resources and the subsequent depletion during
the previous military regimes and the current illegal military junta. Also, in October 2022, the
reconnaissance report on monitoring deforestation alerts in Sagaing, the most brutally
oppressed region by the military junta, was published in collaboration with the external
organizations. Efforts are being made to implement the NDC submitted by the NUG, calculating the carbon emission not only in Sagaing Region but also at national level
following the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.
4. Each and every citizen plays a vital role in climate change mitigation and environmental
conservation activities. Currently, the people of Myanmar are severely suffering from the
various forms of brutality and atrocity conducted by the military junta. Amidst the turmoil,
people are supporting the NUG not only in implementing rehabilitation activities but also in
climate change mitigation and environmental protection actions in the territories controlled
by the NUG. The NUG has been undertaking the reforestation works in the territories
controlled by the NUG and the ethnic revolutionary organizations (EROs), and more than
5,000 trees of various species were planted in each state and region in honour of the
martyred heroes of the spring revolution. Furthermore, on World Environment Day, 50
million people across the country participated in trees planting campaign to honour the
fallen heroes during the spring revolution. In addition, six monthly public awareness talks,
World Environment Day, and World Ozone Day were celebrated with public participation.
5. Besides, the Ethnic Revolutionary Organizations (EROs) play an important role in the
implementation of the National Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (NDC) as most
of the forested areas are under their control. In coordination with the EROs, the NUG has
been carrying out the activities of climate change mitigation and adaptation, the systematic
extraction and utilization of natural resources, including forests, and the people-centered
conservation activities in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Democratic Charter.
6. Recognizing the crucial role of indigenous people and minority groups in establishing a
federal democratic nation, the NUG is making efforts to consult with Civil Society
Organizations (CSOs)/Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), Ethnic Revolutionary
Organizations (EROs), and Indigenous People (IP) to revise the NDC issued last year.
Regarding that, the MORNEC-NUG cordially invites all CSOs/CBOs, EROs, and IP groups to
work together.
7. Hence, the NUG hereby announces that we, in cooperation with CSOs/CBOs and EROs,
would practically implement the main activities for climate change mitigation and adaptation
at our best during the interim period to achieve a sustainable low-carbon environment for
present and future generations, getting together with the people of Myanmar over the crisis
and hardship..."
Source/publisher:
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation - NUG
Date of publication:
2022-11-07
Date of entry/update:
2022-11-07
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Excerpts from entries to our youth essay contest
Description:
"In this year’s essay competition The Economist received nearly 2,400 entries from 130 countries and territories. They came from entrants as young as nine and as old as 71—who said they felt compelled to add their voice, even though the rules specified that only those aged 16 to 25 were eligible to win.
The essays advocated everything from eco-authoritarianism to anarchy to artificial intelligence. Common themes included treating climate change as a new “world war” and replacing subsidies that contribute to pollution with ones that mitigate it. A “green index” to track the extent of the problem was put forward, as was the idea of a “green GDP” to price the value of the environment in national accounts..."
Source/publisher:
"The Economist" (London)
Date of publication:
2019-09-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
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"The number of forcibly displaced people in the world is rising. 2017 marked the sixth consecutive year in a row that the displacement record was broken, and early numbers indicate 2018 followed suit.
The United Nations refugee agency’s data shows nearly 70 million people in the world have been forced to flee their homes, and every two seconds another person suffers this fate as a result of conflict or persecution.
Unfortunately, there is a rising population that is largely ignored when world leaders and humanitarian groups provide aid to help amend the global refugee crisis: the “climate refugee.” Conflict Catalyst: Climate change is catalyst for conflict and unrest, and the disruption of peoples’ livelihood creates a situation of permanent internal and external migration..."
Source/publisher:
"The Global Post" (USA)
Date of publication:
2019-03-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
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"The swirling currents of the once mighty Mekong, shrunk by drought and increasingly crippled by dams point towards an unprecedented crisis of water governance along the more than 4,900 kilometers of southeast Asia’s longest river.
“This is the worst ecological disaster in history of the Mekong,” declared Chainarong Setthachua, natural resources expert at Thailand’s Maha Sarakham University. “It should be a massive wakeup call for policymakers and leaders of the region.” After the July drought and the lowest water levels in more than a hundred years, water levels have still not recovered. “The water in the Mekong River has fallen to a critical level. Sand islands are now exposed along many sections of the waterway,” the Bangkok Post reported in October.
The Mekong has long enchanted explorers, travelers and researchers. In more recent times, it has become the focus of commercial interests dominated by the exploitation of hydropower and sand mining. China embarked on a massive dam program with 11 dams already operating on the Upper Mekong. A recent study, published in Nature, documented “unprecedented changes due to the recent acceleration in large-scale dam construction.” While Chinese hydropower expansion attracts most attention, Thailand has also played a role in building dams and the Lao government is currently celebrating completion of the huge 1285-megawatt Xayaburi.
At risk is the world’s largest inland fisheries, providing food security and livelihoods for 60 million people living downstream among the four member states of the Mekong River Commission – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, reports have long maintained..."
Source/publisher:
Yale Global Online (Yale University)
Date of publication:
2019-11-28
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
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"Several actions were organized across Southeast Asia from 20 to 22 September 2019 in support of the Global Climate Strike. One of the aims of the global strike was to mobilize young people and put pressure on world leaders who were scheduled to meet at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.
The protest actions in Southeast Asia highlighted various issues such as the impact of large-scale mining, haze pollution, and continuing dependence on fossil fuels. Like in other parts of the world, the climate strikes in Southeast Asia featured the active participation and leadership of young people.
Below is an overview of protest activities across Southeast Asia:
Myanmar protesters demand the declaration of a climate emergency
More than 200 people marched from the new Bogyoke Market to Sule Pagoda, and then gathered outside Mahabandoola Park in Yangon on 21 September. They urged the Myanmar government to declare a climate emergency, impose a moratorium on projects that harm the environment, and promote environmental justice..."
Source/publisher:
"Global Voices"
Date of publication:
2019-09-25
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
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To deliver on its goal of 100 per cent energy access by 2030, Myanmar will need to shake up its energy market. With hydropower facing increasing objection from society, how will the former hermit nation power its people for a more sustainable future?
Description:
"Among the 10 countries that make up the Asean, Myanmar has the highest percentage of renewables in its energy mix - hydropower constitutes 65 per cent of generated electricity.
But this figure alone masks the country’s absymal rate of electrification, with chronic power shortages a regular occurence and more than 40 per cent of its total population still lacking access to the national grid. Sixty per cent of Myanmar’s rural populace live off gid, relying on polluting, expensive kerosene lamps and firewood to illuminate their homes.
Providing clean and sustainable electricity to off-grid areas is a challenge, to say the least. Assaad Razzouk, chief executive of clean energy projects developer Sindicatum Sustainable Resources comments: “Even India, a country that has seen great success in scaling up utility-scale solar, has struggled to scale up distributed and rooftop solar [in rural villages]. Fundamentally what’s required are clear government policies and credit support for the rural population.”
This has not stopped the previous government from announcing its goal to provide full access to electricity by 2030. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) inherited these lofty ambitions when it swept into power later that same year, as well as a growing economy with low foreign direct investment and weak infrastructure..."
Source/publisher:
"Eco-Business" (Singapore)
Date of publication:
2019-05-30
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
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Climate change, Resource efficiency, Environment under review
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Climate change, Resource efficiency, Environment under review
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"As the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit climate change, it is crucial to track progress towards globally agreed climate goals. For a decade, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report has compared where greenhouse gas emissions are heading against where they need to be, and highlighted the best ways to close the gap.
What’s new in this year’s report?
Update on emissions gap
The report presents the latest data on the expected gap in 2030 for the 1.5°C and 2°C temperature targets of the Paris Agreement. It considers different scenarios, from no new climate policies since 2005 to full implementation of all national commitments under the Paris Agreement. For the first time, it looks at how large annual cuts would need to be from 2020 to 2030 to stay on track to meeting the Paris goals..."
Source/publisher:
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) (Nairobi)
Date of publication:
2019-11-26
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-30
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UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries, The global environment - resources
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"According to the observations at (17:30)hrs M.S.T today, the depression over the Eastcentral Bay and adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal has moved Westwards and centered at about (130) nautical miles West-Northwest of Maya Bandar (Andaman Islands), India, (490) nautical miles Southeast of Paradip (Odisha), India, (170) nautical miles Southwest of Coco-Island, (320) nautical miles Southwest of Pathein (Myanmar).
It is not moving towards Myanmar coasts, the present stage of the depression is coded yellow stage.
Position of depression, center pressure and wind
Depression is located at Latitude (13.1) degree North and Longitude (90.7) degree East, centre pressure of depression is (1003) hPa and maximum wind speed near the center is (35)miles per hour at (17:30) hrs MST today.
During next (24)hrs forecast: The depression is likely to intensify into a deep depression during next (12)hrs and into a cyclonic strom during next (24)hrs. It is very likely to move West-Northwestwards initally and then North-Northwestwards.
General caution: Due to the depression, rain or thundershowers will be fairly widespread in Bago, Yangon, Ayeyarwady and Thanintharyi Regions, Rakhine States, scattered in Naypyitaw, Lower Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway Regions, Shan, Kayah, Kayin and Mon States within next (48)hours commencing today evening.
Occasional squalls with rough to very rough seas will be experienced off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speed in squalls may reach (40)m.p.h. Wave height will be about (8-12) feet off and along Myanmar Coasts..."
Source/publisher:
Government of Myanmar via Reliefweb (USA)
Date of publication:
2019-11-05
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-06
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Individual Documents
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Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries, Climate Change - networks, campaigns, guides, resources, Burma/Myanmar reports to international bodies and mechanisms, Climate Change - Migration Burma/Myanmar
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Adam Smith once said science is the greatest antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. A world without science would mean living in a very different place, without our modern comforts like smart phones, air conditioning, modern transport or e
Description:
"Learning about science can be even more exciting, as it teaches us how things work and how much our lives have benefited. So if the daily grind of the big city is getting you down, and you want a pick-me-up then why not indulge your enquiring mind and learn more about the wonders of science?
Myanmar’s Eighth National Science Film Festival is the place to do that, and it is taking place right here in Yangon. It is a celebration of scientific discoveries, and how they add to our understanding of the natural world. The festival has been a success throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, and here will also promote science literacy and awareness of current environmental and technological issues. The theme of the festival this year is “Humboldt & the Web of Life”, in honour of Alexander von Humboldt, a notable Prussian geographer, explorer and naturalist. He revolutionised the conception of nature by dealing it as an interconnected living web – and in doing so, inspired countless scientists, environmentalists, writers and artists alike. The Science Film Festival 2019 aims to highlight the relevance of this view in the 21st century in regard to environmentalism, climate change and sustainability..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-11-05
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-05
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Individual Documents
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Climate Change - climate education, introductions, films, guides, links, bibliographies, Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries
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"The 2019 Refinement to the 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories was adopted and accepted during the 49th Session of the IPCC in May 2019. It was prepared by the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) in accordance with the decision taken at the 44th Session of IPCC in Bangkok, Thailand, in October 2016.
The files posted are the advance version of the Overview Chapter including the Glossary as adopted/accepted on 12 May 2019. (Decision – IPCC-XLIX-9 – Adoption and Acceptance of 2019 refinement). Added is the Note with the explanation of the technical corrections of editorial nature made to the accepted 2019 Refinement.
The advance underlying chapters are available on the TFI website
They are subject to final copy-edit and layout prior to its final publication..."
Source/publisher:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Switzerland)
Date of publication:
2019-06-13
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-29
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"The Synthesis Report (SYR) distils and integrates the findings of the
three Working Group contributions to the Fifth Assessment Report
(AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the
most comprehensive assessment of climate change undertaken thus
far by the IPCC: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis; Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; and Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. The SYR also incorporates the findings of two Special Reports on Renewable Energy Sources
and Climate Change Mitigation (2011) and on Managing the Risks of
Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
(2011).
The SYR confirms that human influence on the climate system is clear
and growing, with impacts observed across all continents and oceans.
Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over
decades to millennia. The IPCC is now 95 percent certain that humans
are the main cause of current global warming. In addition, the SYR finds
that the more human activities disrupt the climate, the greater the risks
of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems,
and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system. The
SYR highlights that we have the means to limit climate change and
its risks, with many solutions that allow for continued economic and
human development. However, stabilizing temperature increase to
below 2°C relative to pre-industrial levels will require an urgent and
fundamental departure from business as usual. Moreover, the longer we
wait to take action, the more it will cost and the greater the technological, economic, social and institutional challenges we will face.
These and the other findings of the SYR have undoubtedly and considerably enhanced our understanding of some of the most critical issues
in relation to climate change: the role of greenhouse gas emissions; the
severity of potential risks and impacts, especially for the least developed countries and vulnerable communities, given their limited ability
to cope; and the options available to us and their underlying requirements to ensure that the effects of climate change remain manageable.
As such, the SYR calls for the urgent attention of both policymakers
and citizens of the world to tackle this challenge.
The timing of the SYR, which was released on 2nd November 2014 in
Copenhagen, was crucial. Policymakers met in December 2014 in Lima
at the 20th Conference of Parties under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to prepare the groundwork
for the 21st Session in 2015 in Paris, when they have been tasked with
concluding a new agreement to deal with climate change. It is our
hope that the scientific findings of the SYR will be the basis of their
motivation to find the way to a global agreement which can keep climate change to a manageable level, as the SYR gives us the knowledge
to make informed choices, and enhances our vital understanding of the
rationale for action – and the serious implications of inaction. Ignorance
can no longer be an excuse for tergiversation.
As an intergovernmental body jointly established in 1988 by the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) has provided policymakers with the most authoritative
and objective scientific and technical assessments in this field. Beginning in 1990, this series of IPCC Assessment Reports, Special Reports,
Technical Papers, Methodology Reports and other products have
become standard works of reference.
The SYR was made possible thanks to the voluntary work, dedication
and commitment of thousands of experts and scientists from around
the globe, representing a range of views and disciplines. We would
like to express our deep gratitude to all the members of the Core Writing Team of the SYR, members of the Extended Writing Team, and the
Review Editors, all of whom enthusiastically took on the huge challenge of producing an outstanding SYR on top of the other tasks they
had already committed to during the AR5 cycle. We would also like
to thank the staff of the Technical Support Unit of the SYR and the
IPCC Secretariat for their dedication in organizing the production of
this IPCC report..."
Source/publisher:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Switzerland)
Date of publication:
2015-03-14
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2019-09-29
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"This Special Report on Climate Change and Land1 responds to the Panel decision in 2016 to
prepare three Special Reports2 during the Sixth Assessment cycle, taking account of proposals
from governments and observer organizations3
. This report addresses greenhouse gas (GHG)
fluxes in land-based ecosystems , land use and sustainable land management4 in relation to climate
change adaptation and mitigation, desertification5
, land degradation6 and food security7
. This
report follows the publication of other recent reports, including the IPCC Special Report on Global
Warming of 1.5°C (SR15), the thematic assessment of the Intergovernmental Science Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on Land Degradation and Restoration,
the IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and the Global
Land Outlook of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). This report provides
an updated assessment of the current state of knowledge8 while striving for coherence and
complementarity with other recent reports.
This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) is structured in four parts: A) People, land and climate in
a warming world; B) Adaptation and mitigation response options; C) Enabling response options;
and D) Action in the near-term.
Confidence in key findings is indicated using the IPCC calibrated language9
; the underlying
scientific basis of each key finding is indicated by references to the main report.."
Source/publisher:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Switzerland)
Date of publication:
2019-08-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-29
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"This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC ‘... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C
above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways’ contained in the Decision of the 21st Conference
of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to adopt the Paris Agreement.1
The IPCC accepted the invitation in April 2016, deciding to prepare this Special Report on the impacts of global warming of
1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global
response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) presents the key findings of the Special Report, based on the assessment of the available
scientific, technical and socio-economic literature2
relevant to global warming of 1.5°C and for the comparison between global
warming of 1.5°C and 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The level of confidence associated with each key finding is reported using
the IPCC calibrated language.3
The underlying scientific basis of each key finding is indicated by references provided to chapter
elements. In the SPM, knowledge gaps are identified associated with the underlying chapters of the Report..."
Source/publisher:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Switzerland)
Date of publication:
2018-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-29
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"People took to the street in Yangon on September 22 to participate in the Global Climate Strike Myanmar.
The activity was led by youth organizations and students numbering about 200 or more people. They marched from new Bogyoke Market to Sule Pagoda, and then gathered outside Mahabandoola Park.
Activists from Myanmar joined the movement since the global climate strike movement began on May 24.
Strike for Climate Myanmar has made three basic demands. Firstly, they have urged the government to officially recognize emergency situations related to climate and to take the required action. Secondly, they have called for a stop to all projects that can harm the natural environment and climate as soon as possible. And, thirdly, they called for environmental justice for all in Myanmar society.
Strike for Climate Myanmar says the situation of the natural environment is bad in developing countries like Myanmar, so they think they should urge relevant authorities to establish suitable policies for natural disaster management and to implement those policies, and that’s why they organized the activity..."
Source/publisher:
"Mizzima" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-09-23
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-23
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Category:
Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries, Climate Change - Burma/Myanmar: general, Myanmar climate change networks, Climate Change - Migration Burma/Myanmar, Biodiversity - global and regional, Natural Disasters - General
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"On the 8th August 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a comprehensive report on Climate Change and Land Use. Their findings immediately sparked controversy and debate. This week we take a brief look at the report and also at some of the reaction..."
Source/publisher:
" Just Have a Think"
Date of publication:
2019-08-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-27
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Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries, International standards, mechanisms and guidelines relating to land, including tenure
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Description:
"(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences,reviews up-to-date data on temperatures of air and water, rates of ice losses and of sea-level rise and illustrate the driving forces of greenhouse gases in an energy-balance model of Earth. Recorded on 02/23/2016. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures"..."
Source/publisher:
"University of California Television (UCTV)"
Date of publication:
2016-03-17
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-11
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Sub-title:
The IPCC land-use report
Description:
"After 29 hours of uninterrupted negotiations the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc), on how alterations in land use are contributing to such change, was gavelled through in Geneva on the afternoon of August 7th. When, minutes later, your correspondent asked to speak with some of the researchers, she was informed they had “gone to bed”. The report these exhausted delegates produced—all 1,300 pages of it—fires another warning shot about the state of the planet and the way people are transforming virtually every corner of every continent. Human activities affect roughly three-quarters of Earth’s ice-free land, with huge consequences for the climate.
Land masses are natural carbon sinks, absorbing greenhouse gases by a variety of processes, including photosynthesis. They also produce such gases—for instance, when vegetation decomposes or burns. By conserving some ecosystems and destroying others to make way for pastures and fields, or chopping down trees for timber, human activities on the land add an extra layer of complexity to already complex natural cycles..."
Source/publisher:
The Economist
Date of publication:
2019-08-10
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-10
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"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases new report detailing how land use contributes to climate change..."
Source/publisher:
"euronews (in English)" via The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Date of publication:
2019-08-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-09
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Sub-title:
IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse gas fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Description:
"This Special Report on Climate Change and Land1 responds to the Panel decision in 2016 to
prepare three Special Reports2 during the Sixth Assessment cycle, taking account of proposals
from governments and observer organizations3
. This report addresses greenhouse gas (GHG)
fluxes in land-based ecosystems , land use and sustainable land management4 in relation to climate
change adaptation and mitigation, desertification5
, land degradation6 and food security7
. This
report follows the publication of other recent reports, including the IPCC Special Report on Global
Warming of 1.5°C (SR15), the thematic assessment of the Intergovernmental Science Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on Land Degradation and Restoration,
the IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and the Global
Land Outlook of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). This report provides
an updated assessment of the current state of knowledge8 while striving for coherence and
complementarity with other recent reports.
This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) is structured in four parts: A) People, land and climate in
a warming world; B) Adaptation and mitigation response options; C) Enabling response options;
and D) Action in the near-term.
Confidence in key findings is indicated using the IPCC calibrated language9
; the underlying
scientific basis of each key finding is indicated by references to the main report. The terrestrial portion of the biosphere that comprises the natural resources (soil, near-surface air, vegetation and
other biota, and water), the ecological processes, topography, and human settlements and infrastructure that operate
within that system.
2 The three Special reports are: “Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming
of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of
strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate
poverty.”; “Climate Change and Land: an IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land
Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse gas fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems”;
“The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”
3 related proposals were: climate change and desertification; desertification with regional aspects; land degradation –
an assessment of the interlinkages and integrated strategies for mitigation and adaptation; agriculture, foresty and other
landuse; food and agriculture; and food security and climate change.
4 Sustainable Land Management is defined in this report as “the stewardship and use of land resources, including soils,
water, animals and plants, to meet changing human needs, while simultaneously ensuring the long-term productive
potential of these resources and the maintenance of their environmental functions”. 5 Desertification is defined in this report as ‘land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas resulting
from many factors, including climatic variations and human activities’.
6 Land degradation is defined in this report as ‘a negative trend in land condition, caused by direct or indirect human
induced processes, including anthropogenic climate change, expressed as long-term reduction and as loss of at least
one of the following: biological productivity, ecological integrity, or value to humans’. 7 Food security is defined in this report as ‘a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social,
and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an
active and healthy life’..."
Source/publisher:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Date of publication:
2019-08-07
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-09
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"I have often said that Myanmar is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change on the planet. Numerous natural disasters befall the country every year, which stand to be exacerbated by a warming planet. Myanmar’s infrastructure to deal with these impacts is extremely limited, leaving millions of lives and livelihoods exposed to serious danger.
My visit to both Nay Pyi Taw and Yangon was to understand how we can support efforts in the current political environment. I discussed these issues with senior government representatives, including the State Counsellor, Aung Sang Suu Kyi and the Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Ohn Win.
Business leaders and NGOs in Myanmar will play a critical role in tackling environmental issues, and so I also held talks with executives in Yangon and witnessed drone technology used by an NGO for mangrove replanting. Needless to say, the broader UN family is also hard at work across a number of priorities in Myanmar. I took the opportunity to be briefed by the UN country team on the current issues, and discussed how UN Environment can play a strategic role in building confidence in the UN with the Myanmar government and population..."
Erik Solheim
Source/publisher:
United Nations Environment Programme
Date of publication:
2018-02-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-11
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Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries, The impact of climate change on the global environment, Biodiversity - global and regional, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
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Sub-title:
HEALTHY PLANET, HEALTHY PEOPLE
Description:
CHAPTER 1: Introduction and Context...GEO-6 healthy planet, healthy people - humanity's transformative challenge...
UNEP's flagship assessment to deliver the environmental dimension of the 2030 agenda...GEO-6 in a changing global context. Environmental governance..The environmental dimension of the sustainable development goals, global environmental governance and
multilateral environmental agreements.. GEO-6 in the context of other environmental assessments...GEO-6 approach, theory of change and structure.....CHAPTER 2: Drivers of Environmental Change..
...Introduction and context...Changes since the last assessment...Population...Urbanization...Economic development...Technology, innovation, and global sustainability...limate change...Unravelling drivers and their interactions...
References......
CHAPTER 3: The Current State of our Data and Knowledge...The demand for environmental statistics and data...History of environmental statistics...Better data for a healthy planet with healthy people...Gender and social-environment intersectionality...Equity and human-environment interactions...Existing data systems...CHAPTER 4: Cross-cutting Issues.. People and livelihoods.. Changing environments...Resources and materials...STATE OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT.....
CHAPTER 5: Air ....
Pressures: emissions...State: atmospheric composition and climate..Impacts...Response: policies and governance...
CHAPTER 6: Biodiversity.....
Global state and trends of biodiversity...
Impacts on the world's biomes....
CHAPTER 7: Oceans and Coasts....
CHAPTER 8: Land and Soil...
Land resources and the sustainable development goals...
CHAPTER 9: Freshwater..
Pressures on freshwater.....Water and land use..Global state and trends of freshwater Water quality... Freshwater ecosystems... Water infrastructure... Impacts ...Policy responses....
PART B: POLICIES, GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE:
AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR EFFECTIVENESS....
CHAPTER 10: Approach to Assessment of Policy Effectiveness
10.2 Environmental policy and governance...Policy instruments...Policy mixes and coherence...Methodology adopted to assess policy effectiveness...Top-down evaluation methodology... Bottom-up evaluation methodology...
CHAPTER 11: Policy Theory and Practice.....
Policy design .... Policy integration Effectiveness of international and multilevel governance .....
CHAPTER 12: Air Policy....Key policies and governance approaches........
CHAPTER 13: Biodiversity Policy....
13.2 Key policies and governance approaches ......Indicators: Biodiversity policy.....
CHAPTER 14: Oceans and Coastal Policy....Key policies and governance approaches ....CHAPTER 15: Land and Soil Policy....
15.2 Key policies and governance approaches .......indicators
CHAPTER 16: Freshwater Policy...ey policies and governance approaches...Indicators (link to SDGs and MEAs).
CHAPTER 17: Systemic Policy Approaches for Cross-cutting Issues...
Cross-cutting policy issues and systemic change... Key actors, policies and governance approaches...................................................
17.3 Adapting socioeconomic systems to be more resilient to climate change... Creating a sustainable agrifood system... Decarbonizing energy systems.... Towards a more circular economy...
CHAPTER 18: Conclusions on Policy Effectiveness Overview of the outcomes .....Connections to future policy .... Gaps in knowledge.....Key lessons from the analysis ........
PART C: OUTLOOKS AND PATHWAYS TO A HEALTHY PLANET WITH HEALTHY PEOPLE
CHAPTER 19: Outlooks in GEO-6....
Important elements of future-oriented environmental outlooks... A new framework for combining top-down and bottom-up analysis methods
The role of scale....Roadmap for Part C of GEO-6....
CHAPTER 20: A Long-Term Vision for 2050 ...
20.2 The environmental dimension of the SDGs................
20.3 An integrated view on the SDGs...
20.4 A long-term vision: selected targets and indicators.
CHAPTER 21: Future Developments Without Targeted Policies
Global environmental scenarios.... The achievement of SDGs and related MEAs in trend scenarios... Are we achieving the targets?......
CHAPTER 22: Pathways Toward Sustainable Development
Pathways definition....
Pathways towards achieving the targets...
An integrated approach.....
CHAPTER 23: Bottom-up Initiatives and Participatory Approaches for Outlooks...
23.2 Integrating global assessments and bottom-up analyses.....Sub-global assessments in a multilevel context...Bottom-up futures based on existing local practices... Methodological rationale and approach.....Investigating the broad landscape of bottom-up initiatives ...GEO-6 participatory initiatives... GEO-6 Regional Assessments... Findings from a bottom-up approach... GEO Regional Assessment synthesis ...... Regional outlook interventions and bottom-up initiatives....Enabling conditions for transformations .... Key messages. Key interventions and a critical need to recognize distributive justice given global inequities and inequality...CHAPTER 24: The Way Forward.....Approaches for environmental policy: strategic and transformative...
Transformative change....Building blocks for transformation . Healthy planet, healthy people: challenge and opportunity... Emerging tools for environmental assessment ..... Environmental monitoring for the future....Conclusion: challenges, gaps and opportunities...
Mission of the sixth Global Environment Outlook......
Range of integrated environmental assessments which the sixth Global Environment Outlook draws from ..
Theory of Change for the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6).......
Structure and rationale for confidence statements used in the sixth Global Environment Outlook.....
Towards monitoring the environmental dimension of the SDGs......
The principal biodiversity-related Conventions...
Water contaminants and occurrences.....
Biodiversity conservation and International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)....
Overview of key policy developments and governance responses at a global level...
Bottom-up Initiative platforms and results....
Source/publisher:
United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
Date of publication:
2019-03-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-03-20
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''mitv - Climate Change: Impact In Myanmar..''
Prof. Khin Maung Cho, Aye Lwin
Source/publisher:
mitv - Myanmar International
Date of publication:
2014-05-05
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-24
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Category:
Climate Change - Burma/Myanmar: general, Smallholder farming and farmers in Burma/Myanmar, Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries
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Description:
''At the U.N. Climate talks in Katowice, Poland, we speak with climate scientist Saleemul Huq, who is advising the bloc of least developed countries in the climate negotiations, about their demands. He is director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh...''
Amy Goodman, Saleemul Huq
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now! at COP 24
Date of publication:
2018-12-16
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-17
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Description:
"https://democracynow.org - As protests erupt at the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, we speak with Liam Geary Baulch, part of the new movement called Extinction Rebellion that began six months ago in the United Kingdom and has now spread to 35 countries. Members are taking extreme action to fight the climate crisis, including supergluing themselves to government buildings, shutting down London Bridge and taking to the streets to sound the alarm about the impending catastrophe of global warming. They are demanding governments commit to legally binding measures to slash consumption and reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2025."
Amy Goodman, Liam Geary Baulch, Maya Menezes
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now! at COP 24
Date of publication:
2018-12-14
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-15
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"https://democracynow.org - Officials from nearly 200 countries are in Katowice, Poland, to negotiate how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. But so are representatives from many of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, including a lobby group that represents BP, Shell and ExxonMobil. Just last week, The Intercept reported that an executive from Shell Oil told participants at a COP side event that Shell helped draft a portion of the 2015 Paris climate agreement dealing with emissions mitigation. This week, activists protested outside an event hosted by Shell. Among them was Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian environmental activist and the director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, who says the nonbinding 2015 Paris climate agreement was popular with politicians because polluters saw they “didn’t have to do anything that science requires.” He argues, “This is just the design and the desire of the fossil fuel industry.”
Amy Goodman, Nnimmo Bassey
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now! at COP 24
Date of publication:
2018-12-13
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-15
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https://democracynow.org - “We are not prepared to die.” Those are the words that Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the low-lying island country of Maldives, delivered at the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, this week. In an impassioned plea for nations to overcome their differences, he urged world leaders to take decisive action to tackle climate change. Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed returned home to his island nation in November after two years in exile. Just a month later, Nasheed is now leading the Maldives delegation at the U.N. climate summit. We speak with him from the U.N. climate talks."
Amy Goodman, Mohamed Nasheed
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now! at COP 24
Date of publication:
2018-12-14
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-15
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"As we broadcast from the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, world leaders and officials from nearly 200 countries are here to negotiate how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. But three years after Paris, they appear no closer to curbing global emissions and halting catastrophic climate change. New studies show global carbon emissions may have risen as much as 3.7 percent in 2018, marking the second annual increase in a row. As the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate climate change or face global catastrophe, we speak with Joanna Sustento, who has already felt the harrowing effects of climate change and has dedicated her life to climate activism as a result. Her life was turned upside down in 2013, when Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest cyclones in recorded history, devastated the Philippines, killing five members of her family and thousands of others."
Amy Goodman, Joanna Sustento
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now! at COP 24
Date of publication:
2018-12-12
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-13
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Language:
English
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Description:
"The goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change, as agreed at the Conference of the Parties in 2015, is to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. It also calls for efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The annual UN Environment Emissions Gap Report presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement."
Source/publisher:
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Date of publication:
2018-11-27
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-12
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English (full report); Burmese & Chinese - executive summary
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Description:
"https://democracynow.org - The 24th United Nations climate summit comes amid growing warnings about the catastrophic danger climate change poses to the world. In October, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate climate change or face global catastrophe—with severe droughts, floods, sea level rise and extreme heat set to cause mass displacement and poverty. But on Saturday, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait blocked language “welcoming” the landmark IPCC climate report. New studies show global carbon emissions may have risen as much 3.7 percent in 2018, marking the second annual increase in a row. A recent report likened the rising emissions to a “speeding freight train.” We speak with Kevin Anderson, professor in climate change leadership at Uppsala University’s Centre for Environment and Development Studies, and 15-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg about the drastic action needed to fight climate change and the impact of President Trump on climate change activism."
Amy Goodman, Greta Thunberg, Kevin Anderson
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now!
Date of publication:
2018-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-12
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
"https://democracynow.org - As government ministers from around the globe gather in Katowice, Poland, for the final days of the 24th U.N. climate summit, we speak with 15-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who denounced politicians here last week for their inaction on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. She has garnered global attention for carrying out a weekly school strike against climate change in her home country of Sweden. “We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late,” says Thunberg. We are also joined by her father, Svante Thunberg, a Swedish actor."
Greta Thunberg, Amy Goodman, Svante Thunberg
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now! at COP 24
Date of publication:
2018-12-11
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-12
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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''The goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change, as agreed at the Conference of the Parties in 2015, is to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. It also calls for efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The annual UN Environment Emissions Gap Report presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement...''
UN Environment
Source/publisher:
United Nations Environment Programme
Date of publication:
2018-11-27
Date of entry/update:
2018-11-28
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries, The impact of climate change on the global environment
Language:
English
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Sub-title:
Climate action through COP24 and why it matters
Description:
''The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also referred to as UNFCCC, was established in 1992 and ratified by 196 countries plus the European Union. Its aim is to develop cooperative strategies to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in order to prevent the dangerous impacts of climate change.
As a complex problem, climate change requires integrated responses. Each year, the UNFCCC meets at what is called the Conference of the Parties — the COP — to negotiate a range of issues from global reporting on national climate change efforts to systems for providing financing. It is also an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences...''
Source/publisher:
UN Development Programme
Date of publication:
2018-11-21
Date of entry/update:
2018-11-28
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"https://democracynow.org - Rep. John Lewis has become the most prominent Democratic legilsator to back incoming New York congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a Green New Deal. The resolution would create a bipartisan committee that would work on a plan to bring the U.S. to a carbon-neutral economy and adopt 100 percent renewable energy. For more, we speak to Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org."
Bill McKibben, Amy Goodman, et al.
Source/publisher:
Democracy Now via Youtube
Date of publication:
2018-11-26
Date of entry/update:
2018-11-27
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Sub-title:
Re USG Report on Climate Change
Description:
"Unchecked climate change will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and damage human health and quality of life, a US government report warns.
"Future risks from climate change depend... on decisions made today," the 4th National Climate Assessment says.
The report says climate change is "presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth".
The warning is at odds with the Trump administration's fossil fuels agenda..."
James Cook
Source/publisher:
BBC
Date of publication:
2018-11-24
Date of entry/update:
2018-11-26
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Individual Documents
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Sub-title:
Re USG Report on Climate Change
Description:
"Unchecked climate change will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and damage human health and quality of life, a US government report warns.
"Future risks from climate change depend... on decisions made today," the 4th National Climate Assessment says.
The report says climate change is "presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth".
The warning is at odds with the Trump administration's fossil fuels agenda..."
James Cook
Source/publisher:
BBC
Date of publication:
2018-11-24
Date of entry/update:
2018-11-26
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Description:
"Unchecked climate change will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and damage human health and quality of life, a US government report warns.
"Future risks from climate change depend... on decisions made today," the 4th National Climate Assessment says.
The report says climate change is "presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth".
The warning is at odds with the Trump administration's fossil fuels agenda..."
James Cook
Source/publisher:
BBC
Date of publication:
2018-11-24
Date of entry/update:
2018-11-26
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Sub-title:
Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States Report-in-Brief
Description:
"The NCA4 Volume II Report-in-Brief presents
overall Summary Findings, an Overview that
synthesizes material from the underlying chapters,
and Executive Summaries for each chapter
of this volume.
The 186-page Report-in-Brief is available
as a downloadable PDF at https://nca2018.
globalchange.gov/downloads "
Reidmiller, D.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, K.L.M. Lewis, T.K. Maycock, and B.C. Stewart (eds.)
Source/publisher:
US Global Change Research Program
Date of publication:
2018-11-24
Date of entry/update:
2018-11-26
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Language:
English
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"The UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius, released on Monday, is a major advance over previous efforts to alert world leaders and citizens to the growing climate risk. But the report, dire as it is, misses a key point: Self-reinforcing feedbacks and tipping points—the wildcards of the climate system—could cause the climate to destabilize even further. The report also fails to discuss the five percent risk that even existing levels of climate pollution, if continued unchecked, could lead to runaway warming—the so-called ?fat tail” risk. These omissions may mislead world leaders into thinking they have more time to address the climate crisis, when in fact immediate actions are needed. To put it bluntly, there is a significant risk of self-reinforcing climate feedback loops pushing the planet into chaos beyond human control..."
Source/publisher:
"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists"
Date of publication:
2018-10-09
Date of entry/update:
2018-10-21
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"Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC...The world?s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.
The authors of the landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Monday say urgent and unprecedented changes are needed to reach the target, which they say is affordable and feasible although it lies at the most ambitious end of the Paris agreement pledge to keep temperatures between 1.5C and 2C..."
Source/publisher:
"The Guardian"
Date of publication:
2018-10-08
Date of entry/update:
2018-10-09
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"...Humanity has a limited window within which it can hope to avoid the more dire effects of climate change, according to climate report...Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels would be a herculean task, involving rapid, dramatic changes in the way that governments, industries and societies function, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But even though the world has already warmed by 1 °C, humanity has 10 to 30 more years to kick its carbon habit than scientists previously thought.
The world would have to curb its carbon emissions by at least 49% of 2017 levels by 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 in order to meet this target, according to a summary of the latest IPCC report, released on 8 October. The report draws on research conducted since nations unveiled the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which seeks to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit global temperature increase to 1.5-2 °C. ..."
Source/publisher:
"Nature"
Date of publication:
2018-10-08
Date of entry/update:
2018-10-08
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Description:
"This Synthesis Report is based on the reports of the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), including relevant Special Reports. It provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC?s
Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).
This summary follows the structure of the longer report which addresses the following topics: Observed changes and their
causes; Future climate change, risks and impacts; Future pathways for adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development;
Adaptation and mitigation..."
Source/publisher:
Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Date of publication:
2014-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2018-01-18
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"Headed toward the danger zone
Human activity is warming the planet. For
the past millennium the Earth?s average
temperature varied within a range of less
than 0.7°C ... however,
man-made greenhouse gas emissions
have resulted in a dramatic increase in
the planet?s temperature over the past
century (shown in yellow). The projected
future increase over the next 100 years
(shown in red) due to growing emissions
could possibly warm the planet by 5°C
relative to the preindustrial period. Such
warming has never been experienced
by mankind and the resulting physical
impacts would severely limit develop-
ment. Only through immediate and
ambitious actions to curb greenhouse gas
emissions may dangerous warming be
avoided.
The evolution of the planet?s tempera-
ture for the past 1,000 years is based on
a range of proxy estimates (such as tree
ring analysis or ice core sampling) that
define the envelope of long-term temperature variation. With modern weather
observations starting in the nineteenth
century, global temperature could be
estimated more precisely; thermometer
data for the past 150 years or so docu-
ment a global temperature increase of
nearly 1°C since the preindustrial period.
Global climate models that estimate the
effect of different future emission scenarios on Earth?s climate predict a range
of possible global temperatures for this
century. These estimates show that even
the most aggressive mitigation efforts
may lead to warming of 2°C or more (a
level already considered dangerous), and
most models project that less mitigation
would lead to warming of 3°C or even
up to 5°C and beyond (though with less
certainty around these higher amounts of
warming)..."
Source/publisher:
World Bank
Date of publication:
2010-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2017-12-31
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English
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34.26 MB
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"COP23 is the informal name for the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC was adopted in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit, which marked the beginning of the international community?s first concerted effort to confront the problem of climate change. Known also as the Rio Convention, the UNFCCC established a framework for action to stabilise concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth?s atmosphere. The UNFCCC entered into force in 1994, and nearly all of the world?s nations—a total of 195—have now signed on.
Each year the parties to the agreement convene to assess progress in implementing the convention and, more broadly, dealing with climate change. The first Conference of the Parties was held in Berlin in 1995. In 1997, the participants established the Kyoto Protocol, which included legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Since 2005 the Conferences have carried another name: CMP. This stands for Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, and so COP23 will also be known as CMP13.
At COP21, held in Paris in November-December 2015, the parties negotiated what is known as the Paris Agreement, which established specific actions and targets for reducing greenhouse gases emissions, mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change, and financing mitigation and adaptation efforts in developing countries. The agreement took effect nearly a year later. Signatory countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius and to make strong efforts to keep the rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Fiji is presiding over COP23 in Bonn with the support of the government of Germany. COP23 will take place in Bonn, Germany, from 6-17 November..."
Source/publisher:
COP23
Date of publication:
2017-11-00
Date of entry/update:
2017-11-20
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Description:
"This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the first of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990."
Source/publisher:
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
Date of publication:
2017-11-02
Date of entry/update:
2017-11-04
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Language:
English
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pdf pdf
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6.87 MB 27.81 MB
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Description:
"This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the first of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990."
Source/publisher:
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
Date of publication:
2017-11-02
Date of entry/update:
2017-11-04
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English
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Description:
"As a key input into the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), the U.S. Global Change
Research Program (USGCRP) oversaw the production of this special, stand-alone report of the
state
of science relating to climate change and its physical impacts.
This report is designed to be an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a
focus on the United States, to serve as the foundation for efforts to assess climate-related risks
and inform decision-making about responses. In accordance with this purpose, it does not
include an assessment of literature on climate change mitigation, adaptation, economic valuation,
or societal responses, nor does it include policy recommendations.
The Climate Science Special Report (CSSR) serves several purposes for NCA4, including
providing 1) an updated detailed analysis of the findings of how climate change is affecting
weather and climate across the United States; 2) an executive summary that will be used as the
basis for the science summary of NCA4; and 3) foundational information and projections for
climate change, including extremes, to improve ?end-to-end” consistency in sectoral, regional,
and resilience analyses for NCA4. As an assessment and analysis of the science, this report
provides important input to the development of NCA4 and its primary focus on the human
welfare, societal, economic and environmental elements of climate change..."
Donald Wuebbles, David Fahey, Kathleen Hibbard et al
Source/publisher:
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Date of publication:
2017-06-28
Date of entry/update:
2017-08-12
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English
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"A new NATO special report concludes that climate change is the ultimate ?threat multiplier”—meaning that it can exacerbate political instability in the world?s most unstable regions—because by intensifying extreme weather events like droughts, climate change stresses food and water supplies. In poor, arid countries already facing shortages, this increased stress can lead to disputes and violent conflicts over scarce resources. As the report concludes:
?? food, water and climate are intimately connected with the sectors of economic development, demography, energy, ecosystems and urban planning—to name but a few interrelated sectors. The international community must improve the international food market to increase stability of prices and availability. Last but not least, the Parties who have ratified the 2015 Paris climate agreement must live up to their pledges, including on climate financing for developing countries.”..."
Dana Nuccitelli
Source/publisher:
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Date of publication:
2017-05-25
Date of entry/update:
2017-06-01
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English
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Description:
xtreme and unusual trends continue in 2017...
The year 2016 made history, with a record global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, and unabated sea level rise and ocean heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Extreme weather and climate conditions have continued into 2017.
WMO issued its annual statement on the State of the Global Climate ahead of World Meteorological Day on 23 March. It is based on multiple international datasets maintained independently by global climate analysis centres and information submitted by dozens of WMO Members National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and Research Institutes and is an authoritative source of reference. Because the social and economic impacts of climate change have become so important, WMO partnered with other United Nations organizations for the first time this year to include information on these impacts.
?This report confirms that the year 2016 was the warmest on record ? a remarkable 1.1 °C above the pre-industrial period, which is 0.06 °C above the previous record set in 2015. This increase in global temperature is consistent with other changes occurring in the climate system,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
?Globally averaged sea surface temperatures were also the warmest on record, global sea levels continued to rise, and Arctic sea-ice extent was well below average for most of the year,” he said.
?With levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere consistently breaking new records, the influence of human activities on the climate system has become more and more evident,” said Mr Taalas.
The increased power of computing tools and the availability of long term climate data have made it possible today, through attribution studies, to demonstrate clearly the existence of links between man-made climate change and many cases of high impact extreme events in particular heatwaves, he said..."
Source/publisher:
World Meteorological Organisation (Press Release)
Date of publication:
2017-03-21
Date of entry/update:
2017-03-22
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Executive summary:
"Warming continued in 2016, setting a new
temperature record of approximately 1.1 °C
above the pre-industrial period, and 0.06 °C
above the previous highest value set in 2015.
Carbon dioxide (CO
2
) reached new highs at
400.0 ± 0.1 ppm in the atmosphere at the end of
2015. Global sea-ice extent dropped more than
4 million km
2
below average ? an unprecedented
anomaly ? in November. Global sea levels rose
strongly during the 2015/2016 El Niño, with the
early 2016 values making new records.
The powerful 2015/2016 El Niño event exerted
a strong influence on the climate and societies
against a background of long-term climate
change. Severe droughts affected agriculture
and yield production in many parts of the world,
particularly in southern and eastern Africa
and parts of Central America, where several
million people experienced food insecurity
and hundreds of thousands were displaced
internally, according to reports from the World
Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) and the International Organization for
Migration (IOM).
Hurricane
Matthew
in the North Atlantic led to
the most damaging meteorological disaster,
with Haiti sustaining the heaviest casualties.
There were also major economic losses in the
United States and elsewhere in the region.
Flooding severely affected eastern and southern
Asia with hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of
thousands of people displaced and severe
economic damage. Wet conditions led to good
crop production in many parts of the Sahel,
with record yields reported in Mali, Niger and
Senegal.
1
Detection and attribution studies have demon
-
strated that human influence on the climate
has been a main driver behind the unequivocal
warming of the global climate system observed
since the 1950s, according to the Fifth Assess
-
ment Report of IPCC. Human influence has
also led to significant regional temperature
increases at the continental and subcontinental
levels. Shifts of the temperature distribution to
warmer regimes are expected to bring about
increases in the frequency and intensity of
extremely warm events."
Source/publisher:
World Meteorological Organisation
Date of publication:
2017-03-21
Date of entry/update:
2017-03-22
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English
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" The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities."
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The detailed rules for the implementation of the Protocol were adopted at COP 7 in Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2001, and are referred to as the "Marrakesh Accords." Its first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012..."
Source/publisher:
UNITED NATIONS
Date of publication:
1998-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2017-01-11
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English
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Description:
"The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992, then entered into force on 21 March 1994. The UNFCCC objective is to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system".[2] The framework set no binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual countries and contains no enforcement mechanisms. Instead, the framework outlines how specific international treaties (called "protocols" or "Agreements") may be negotiated to set binding limits on greenhouse gases..."(Wikipedia)
Source/publisher:
UNITED NATIONS
Date of publication:
1992-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2017-01-11
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries, Climate Change policy - global ( statements, studies, conferences etc.)
Language:
English
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Description:
"... In December 2015, representatives of governments, civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples? groups, and the private sector met in Paris for the 21st
Conference of Parties (COP 21) of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The aim of this meeting was to determine a global path forward that would limit the rise in global temperature to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and allow countries to reach peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon
as possible.
With its recognition of the crucial role that forests play in achieving targeted emissions reductions, the Paris Agreement marks a major turning point in the global struggle to combat climate change. Yet, the final
Agreement lacks key considerations for the Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP/LCs) who have customary rights to a large portion of the world?s remaining tropical forests, as well as millions of hectares of degraded forests that could capture additional carbon through restoration.
Although Indigenous Peoples and civil society groups from around the world advocated throughout the negotiation process that clear provisions securing IP/LC land tenure would be essential components of any successful and equitable climate agreement, text on the rights of IP/LCs
was limited to the preamble. Ultimately, the Paris Agreement failed to take into account the significance of community land rights and community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) for realizing its ambitious goals.
This brief presents a review of 161 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) submitted on behalf of 188 countries for COP 21 to determine the extent to which Parties made clear commitments to strengthen or expand the tenure and natural resource management rights of IP/LCs as part of their climate change mitigation plans or associated
adaptation actions.
Of the 161 INDCs submitted, 131 are from countries with tropical and subtropical forests..."
Source/publisher:
Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
Date of publication:
2016-04-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-04-22
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries, Climate Change policy - global ( statements, studies, conferences etc.), Land research including land grabbing - global and regional
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
United Nations (FCCC/CP/2015/L.9)
Date of publication:
2015-12-12
Date of entry/update:
2015-12-12
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Description:
"The decision to prepare a Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) was taken by the members of the IPCC at its 28th Session (09-10 April 2008, Budapest, Hungary). Following the election of the new IPCC Bureau at the 29th Session of the IPCC (31 August - 04 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland) and discussions about future IPCC activities at the 30th Session of the IPCC (21-23 April 2009, Antalya, Turkey), a Scoping Meeting was held (13-17 July 2009, Venice, Italy) to develop the scope and outline of the AR5. The resulting outlines for the three Working Group contributions to the AR5 were approved by the 31st Session of the IPCC in Bali (26-29 October 2009)."
Source/publisher:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Date of publication:
2014-11-00
Date of entry/update:
2015-11-03
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English
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Description:
Lots of resources and links....."This portal aims to provide indigenous peoples and the general public with relevant information and resources on climate change and indigenous peoples, and on REDD+ or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation.
Specifically, this website will also serve as the portal for the project: "Ensuring the Effective Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Global and National REDD Processes."
The website is managed by Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples? International Centre for Polcy Research and Education) and is made possible through the support of the Norwegian International Forest and Climate Initiative through the Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation (NORAD)..."
Source/publisher:
Indigenous Peoples? Climate Change Portal
Date of entry/update:
2014-12-04
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Climate Change policy - global ( statements, studies, conferences etc.), Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries
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"The world has received the clearest message yet on how humans are changing the climate. Delegates from 195 countries gathered in Copenhagen this week to add their seal of approval to a 100-page "synthesis report". It?s the final installment in a four-part series from the UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The synthesis report condenses the IPCC?s three other major reports on different aspects of climate change into one concise document. While that means some parts of it may sound familiar, there are some new and different sections as well. Here?s our assessment of what?s new, as well as a look at the report?s main conclusions...Warming continues unabated...A stronger message on human influence...Acidifying oceans, sea level rise and ice melt...Consequences of inaction...Counting the costs...What happens now?.....Today?s report isn?t a rulebook. It?s designed to act as a guide for policymakers on how to avoid the most serious climate change risks, should we collectively decide that?s worth doing. Where we go from here rests largely on what level of risk we?re willing to expose ourselves to.
As today?s report says:
"Decision making about climate change is influenced by how individuals and organizations perceive risks and uncertainties and take them into account."
However, the report does clearly and concisely lay out scientists? best understanding of the science of climate change, in a document that will be closely scrutinised by policymakers. However the politics of climate progress, there can be little doubt that a comprehensive assessment of the science on climate change is now firmly on the table...."
Roz Pidcoc
Source/publisher:
The Carbon Brief
Date of publication:
2014-11-02
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-02
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Introduction:
"The Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) provides an overview of the state
of knowledge concerning the science of climate change, emphasizing new results since the publication of the
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 (AR4). The SYR synthesizes the main findings of the AR5 (IPCC)
based on contributions from Working Group I (The Physical Science Basis), Working Group II (Impacts,
Adaptation and Vulnerability), and Working Group III (Mitigation of Climate Change), plus two additional
IPCC reports (Special Report on Renewable Energy and Special
Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme
Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation).
The AR5 SYR is divided into four topics. Topic 1 (Observed changes and their causes) focuses on
observational evidence for a changing climate, the impacts caused by this change and the human
contributions to it. Topic 2 (Future climate changes, risks, and impacts) assesses projections of future climate
change and the resultant projected impacts and risks. Topic 3 (Future Pathways for Adaptation, Mitigation
and Sustainable Development) considers adaptation and mitigation as complementary strategies for reducing
and managing the risks of climate change. Topic 4 (Adaptation and mitigation) describes individual
adaptation and mitigation options and policy approac
hes. It also addresses
integrated responses that link
mitigation and adaptation with other societal objectives.
The challenge of understanding and managing risks and uncertainties are important themes in this report. See
Box 1 (?Risk and the management of
an uncertain future?) and Box 2 (?Sources and treatment of
uncertainty?).
This report includes information relevant to Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC)..."
Source/publisher:
International Panel on Climate Change
Date of publication:
2014-11-01
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-02
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"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to publish the ?synthesis report” of its fifth assessment period, drawing on three individual working group reports already published on: the physical science of climate change; climate impacts and adaptation; and mitigation, or how to reduce emissions or enhance the natural uptake of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The latest report is the first collective assessment of climate change by governments since the 2007 report, published just as the world fell off a financial and economic cliff. It is therefore a vital input to the current round of UN climate negotiations culminating in Paris next year..."
Simon Buckle
Source/publisher:
"The Conversation"
Date of publication:
2014-11-01
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-02
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"Just when no one needed more lousy news, the U.N.?s weather outfit, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), issued its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. It offered a shocking climate-change update: the concentrations of long-lasting greenhouse gases in the Earth?s atmosphere (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) rose at a ?record-shattering pace” from 2012 to 2013, including the largest increase in CO2 in 30 years -- and there was a nasty twist to this news that made it even grimmer. While such increases reflected the fact that we continue to extract and burn fossil fuels at staggering rates, something else seems to be happening as well. Both the oceans and terrestrial plant life act as carbon sinks; that is, they absorb significant amounts of the carbon dioxide we release and store it away. Unfortunately, both may be reaching limits of some sort and seem to be absorbing less. This is genuinely bad news if you?re thinking about the future warming of the planet. (As it happens, in the same period, according to the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, parts of the American public stopped absorbing information in no less striking fashion: the number of those who believe that global warming isn?t happening rose 7% to 23%.)..."
Rebecca Solnit
Source/publisher:
Tom Dispatch.com
Date of publication:
2014-09-18
Date of entry/update:
2014-09-18
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The State of Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere....."...the U.N.?s weather outfit, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), issued its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. It offered a shocking climate-change update: the concentrations of long-lasting greenhouse gases in the Earth?s atmosphere (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) rose at a ?record-shattering pace” from 2012 to 2013, including the largest increase in CO2 in 30 years -- and there was a nasty twist to this news that made it even grimmer. While such increases reflected the fact that we continue to extract and burn fossil fuels at staggering rates, something else seems to be happening as well. Both the oceans and terrestrial plant life act as carbon sinks; that is, they absorb significant amounts of the carbon dioxide we release and store it away. Unfortunately, both may be reaching limits of some sort and seem to be absorbing less. This is genuinely bad news if you?re thinking about the future warming of the planet..." (Tom Dispatch.com)
Source/publisher:
World Meterological Organisation, Global Atmosphere Watch
Date of publication:
2014-09-09
Date of entry/update:
2014-09-18
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Key Messages:
• Significance of fisheries and aquaculture. Fish provide essential nutrition and income
to an ever-growing number of people around the world, especially where other food
and employment resources are limited. Many fishers and aquaculturists are poor and
ill-prepared to adapt to change, making them vulnerable to impacts on fish resources.
• Nature of the climate change threat. Fisheries and aquaculture are threatened by changes
in temperature and, in freshwater ecosystems, precipitation. Storms may become more
frequent and extreme, imperilling habitats, stocks, infrastructure and livelihoods.
• The need to adapt to climate change. Greater climate variability and ncertainty complicate
the task of identifying impact pathways and areas of vulnerability, requiring research to devise
and pursue coping strategies and improve the adaptability of fishers and aquaculturists.
• Strategies for coping with climate change. Fish can provide opportunities to adapt
to climate change by, for example, integrating aquaculture and agriculture, which can
help farmers cope with drought while boosting profits and household nutrition. Fisheries
management must move from seeking to maximize yield to increasing adaptive capacity.
Source/publisher:
World Fish Center
Date of publication:
2014-05-08
Date of entry/update:
2014-05-23
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Fisheries (including aquaculture and fishing), Climate Change - governmental and inter-governmental bodies, treaties, meetings, reports, commentaries
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A Report for the World Bank
by the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research and
Climate Analytics....."This report spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what
scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
The 4°C scenarios are devastating: the inundation of coastal cities; increasing risks for food production
potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates; many dry regions becoming dryer, wet regions wetter;
unprecedented heat waves in many regions, especially in the tropics; substantially exacerbated water
scarcity in many regions; increased frequency of high-intensity tropical cyclones; and irreversible loss of
biodiversity, including coral reef systems.
And most importantly, a 4°C world is so different from the current one that it comes with high uncertainty
and new risks that threaten our ability to anticipate and plan for future adaptation needs.
The lack of action on climate change not only risks putting prosperity out of reach of millions of people
in the developing world, it threatens to roll back decades of sustainable development..."
Source/publisher:
World Bank
Date of publication:
2012-11-00
Date of entry/update:
2012-11-27
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English
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Issued less than two years ago, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a voluminous and impressive document. Yet key portions of the report are already out of date, as evidence shows the impacts of warming intensifying from the Arctic to Antarctica.
by michael d. lemonick
Michael D. Lemonick
Source/publisher:
Environment 360
Date of publication:
2009-02-09
Date of entry/update:
2012-07-19
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Language:
English
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