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Model Copenhagen

Hello everyone, on Thursday I spent a day in the holy halls of the Potsdam Insititue for Climate Impact Reseach, modelling Copenhagen! A one day role play, each participant representing a country in the international UNFCCC negociations. A very interesting setting, depicting realistically the challenges in negociations processes, especially in this v… Continue

Added by Caren Herbstritt on November 21, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Press Release: 60 Nobel Laureates: Copenhagen must be a Turning Point towards Global Sustainability

PIK Potsdam Press release 11/10/2009 - 60 Nobel Laureates are calling on world leaders for a global deal on climate change that matches the scale and urgency of the human, ecological and economic crises facing the world today. Political leadership is now more necessary than ever. The call comes in a Memorandum signed by Laureates from across the disciplines, including Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Mikhail Gorbachev, his Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mohamed el-Baradei, chief of the IAEA, and winners… Continue

Added by Mika Huettner on November 12, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

International Day of Climate Action - Impressions from Berlin, Germany

Dear friends, there were incredible 5,200 climate actions in 170 countries around the world this saturday. On the "International Day of Climate Action" thousands of people went to the streets to protest for a strong climate agreement in Copenhagen. There, the upcoming climate conference should set stringent emi… Continue

Added by Mika Huettner on October 25, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

The girl who silenced the world for five minutes

Dear Friends, I just returned from an intensive week-end at the european LIFE academy where we learned a lot about european politics. Upon my return, I was shown the video of the girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes, a 13 year old holding an awe-inspiring speach before the United Nations, challenging the politicians to listen, for future generations sake. Calling on the politicians, negociaters, businessmen who are in fact mothers and fathers, not to destroy the world and childrens' futur… Continue

Added by Caren Herbstritt on October 25, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Climate change in Ghana has become a threat to livelihoods

Climate change in Ghana has become a threat to livelihoods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GsFiouegJM MDGS INTERRELATIONSHIPS MDG7: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability MDG 1: Eradicate extreme Poverty and Hunger Continuous Degradation of natural resources such as food, medicinal plants, fuel wood etc. and land degradation might lead to poverty MDG2: Achieve Universal Basic Education Availability of water and energy sources part… Continue

Added by Kenneth Nana Amoateng on October 23, 2009 at 12:56pm — No Comments

2010 International Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Bali - Indonesia

Hi folks! Hope we can meet (again) on this unique event... :) ============================================================================================== The 2010 international meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation will be held 19-23 July at the Sanur Beach Hotel in Bali, Indonesia. The ATBC, founded in 1963, is the world's largest professional society devoted to promoting biological research and conservation in the tropics, and fostering communication among biolo… Continue

Added by Gista M. Rukminda on October 10, 2009 at 5:59am — 2 Comments

Social Media Is Changing the World

How? Right before our eyes, the world is changing. No need to buy Travel medical insurance to debate about the environment with people in other countries. Instead, just get online. In my field, Women and business now hold intera… Continue

Added by Pat Jewett on October 8, 2009 at 11:29pm — No Comments

Save the planet - Play the CLIMATE CHALLENGE Game!

Hey people, I have recently found this very interesting online game. In CLIMATE CHALLENGE you take the "hot seat" to guide Europe through the 21st century, making tough choices that could make the difference between a safe or dangerous future for humanity. Will your ideas save the planet, or will you g… Continue

Added by Mika Huettner on October 6, 2009 at 2:23pm — No Comments

Let's Blog About Going Green

I think we all need to push the green initiative from the bottom up. By this, I mean we all need to blog about the little things people can do to help, like changing a light bulb or cleaning a street. I've done some Freelance writing and blogging, but if we get enough people doing it, we can drown out the national media and their focus on… Continue

Added by Pat Jewett on September 16, 2009 at 2:43pm — 3 Comments

Trade • Urbanization • Environment International Conference on Environment and Development

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Dear Sustainable Development List member, We are glad to announce "Trade, urbanization and the… Continue

Added by Johho on September 15, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

GET ACTIVE ++++ 100 Days to Unite 1 Million Global Youth+++++

Sign the petition at http://www.planetcall.org/ A website endorsed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, PlanetCall.org, aims to collect 1million signatures from youth in the final 100 days to COP15. With just 100 days to go until the critical U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), a Web campaign launched today with the aim of uniting 1 million global youth on a declaration that calls for a bold new climate treaty… Continue

Added by Mika Huettner on September 15, 2009 at 7:27am — No Comments

@ NAJU Headquaters in Berlin

Hello everyone, I started my work @ NAJU headquaters in Berlin for International affairs! Great stuff!!!! Real nice place to be and a good working spirit! If any of you guys want to know more about what I do there, or even get involved in organising an environmentalist-exchange program with other environmentalists, feel free to contact me. I'm happy to help jiggling the environmentalists around to globe together to get fresh new ideas to protect our precious nature! Join in!!!! More infos: w… Continue

Added by Caren Herbstritt on September 10, 2009 at 1:04pm — No Comments

REDD - free online training course!

As 20 percent of global carbon emissions come from deforestation, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD, is a crucial component to reducing and mitigating climate change. ConservationTraining.org offers a free, interactive online course that presents a comprehensive introduction and background on REDD. The course is global in scale and is comprised of 14 lessons divided into four modules: 1) Background on Climate Change, 2) International Consideratio… Continue

Added by Johho on September 9, 2009 at 6:24pm — No Comments

STOP FEAR - START ACTION! granted :D

Dear friends, I proundly anounce the NAJU recieved the 'Youth in Action'-grant for an european training course (TC) against climate change. Together with partner-NGOs from 9 countries this TC will be held the 6th to the 13th of December 2009 in the north of Germany as well as in Copenhagen where the UNFCCC will… Continue

Added by Juli Rosin on September 8, 2009 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

Two new reports from WBGU Germany - Climate negotations and Bioenergy

Hi, if you want to know more about current global environmental issues, I can warmly recommend to check the reports from the WBGU. The WBGU is the German Advisory Council on Global Change - an independent think tank of top-class researchers. Comments on the reports below are welcome here in the blog. Cheers Mika The report "World in Transition – Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use" can be downloaded from http://www.w… Continue

Added by Mika Huettner on September 1, 2009 at 11:06am — 3 Comments

STOP Long Animal Transports - Sign petition!

I found this interesting webpage today: http://www.8hours.eu/ STOP Long Animal Transports Today, too many animals are transported under unacceptable conditions on European highways. The most important issue is the duration of the transports. Current EU legislation allows for animals to be transported for several days. This has to be changed. Live animals for slaugther should never be transported for more than eight hours. Support 8hours. Our… Continue

Added by Mika Huettner on July 29, 2009 at 11:41am — No Comments

Rules of the network

Dear networkers, We recently had some member which used the forum for commercial purposes, such as advertising all sorts of stuff. I have tried to keep and eye on that and deleted such posts immediately. Please note, that any member who posts commercial stuff will be banned immediately! This is a non-profit initiative, its members contribute to the network in their freetime. Our aim is to share information on environmental issues and help each other with news, posting and answering requests and… Continue

Added by Mika Huettner on July 29, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Mutterschaftsvertretung gesucht: NAJU sucht ReferentIn Internationales

Die Naturschutzjugend im NABU (NAJU) ist die Jugendorganisation des Naturschutzbundes Deutschland. Mit rund 75.000 Mitgliedern im Alter von 6 bis 27 Jahren ist sie einer der größten Jugendumweltverbände in Deutschland. Der NAJU-Bundesverband bü… Continue

Added by Juli Rosin on July 14, 2009 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Press Release: Permafrost melting a growing climate threat -study

Permafrost melting a growing climate threat SINGAPORE, July 1 (Reuters) - The amount of carbon locked away in frozen soils in the far Northern Hemisphere is double previous estimates and rapid melting could accelerate global warming, a study released on Wednesday says. Large areas of northern Russia, Canada, Nordic countries and the U.S. state of Alaska have deep layers of frozen soil near the surface called permafrost. Global warming has already triggered rapid melting of the permafro… Continue

Added by Mika Huettner on July 6, 2009 at 9:26am — No Comments

Conservation = Mitigation: new UNEP report on managing ecosystem carbon

This UNEP report is quite interesting (scroll to the bottom for a copy). Although it is well known that REDD can prevent emissions, this report brings other ecosystems into question and argues that the conservation of all ecosystems plays a key role in reducing emissions. So for thos… Continue

Added by eric on June 5, 2009 at 3:24pm — 1 Comment