Addressing the United Nations Climate Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, on Wednesday,?Secretary-General?António Guterres called for more ambition, more leadership and more partnerships to tackle climate change.
Today's the start of the high-level week at COP23, and it's noticeably more crowded in the Bula and Bonn Zones.
Also Sunday, countries and corporations announced new initiatives to cut emissions from forest use and establish sustainable forestry management programmes.
In a major new partnership, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Costa Rica and the Paris Process on Mobility and Climate (PPMC) launched the Transport Decarbonisation Alliance to stimulate greater political leadership in the sector.
Al Gore addresses the conference saying, "I’m gonna show you some slides. That’s what I do," and we speak with an astronaut.
In Bonn, new initiatives were announced to push forward the transition to renewable energy and to show that more ambitious clean energy development can quickly become a bigger part of national climate plans submitted under the Paris Agreement.
Peruvian indigenous activists at COP23 in Bonn, Germany, made a strong call Tuesday for indigenous peoples to be part of the solution to tackling climate change.
Indigenous peoples took center stage at the COP on Tuesday when they made a strong call to be part of the solution to climate change.
“The need for urgency is obvious,” said COP23 President and Prime Minister of Fiji Frank Bainimarama, at the opening of the conference.
BULA! That’s the Fijian word for “welcome.” So, bula to Bonn and bula to our live blog of the 蘑菇视频 Climate Change Conference.
The COP23 in Bonn, Germany, starts on Mon., 6 November. The 蘑菇视频 Department of Public Information will be on the scene, writing a daily blog post.
Pledges made under the Paris Agreement are only a third of what is required by 2030 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, pointing to the urgent need to boost efforts by both government and non-government actors, the United Nations environment wing said on Tuesday.
Levels of carbon dioxide (C02) surged at “record-breaking speed” to new highs in 2016, the United Nations weather agency announced on Monday.
