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The Millennium Development Goals were commitments made in the year 2000 by the UN to help Africa and other poor regions of the world end extreme poverty, and also to…
How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the…
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Our most important mission and goal is to increase access to modern energy in poor places in the world so that simple daily tasks can be achieved much more easily and…
A World Without Modern Energy
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This video is the first video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
What do we mean by Nature-based Solutions to…
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Laudato si' inspired all of us with its call for integral human development. And that means that we have to look at human development with a holistic approach,…
The Rights of Indigenous Populations
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How can we achieve deep decarbonization while satisfying the conditions for continued economic growth and development and growing prosperity? CO2 energy related…
The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of…
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This lecture introduces the idea of the Anthropocene, the age of human interaction with the climate, in the context of the SDGs. It examines climate change as a result…
Environmental Threats
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This video is the second video of unit 1.2 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case…
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This chapter discusses the challenge of human-induced climate change. The general problem is of living in a crowded and productive world. There are 7.2 billion people on…
The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change
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This lecture discusses the basics of climate science in order to support the discussion of deep decarbonization and other actions related to greenhouse gas emissions. As…
The Earth's Energy Balance
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In this chapter, Emmanuel Guérin discusses the consequences of temperature increases that result from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming of 4 degrees…
The Consequences of the BAU Trajectory
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This video is the third video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based…
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While to avoid the potential consequences of uncontrolled climate change requires profound transformations of the way we grow our economies, and in particular, a…
What is an Energy System?
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This chapter discusses the social foundations for the planetary boundaries. This goes back to the Brundtland Report of 1987, which defined sustainability as a…
Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries
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This video is the first video of unit 3.2 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
Applying Nature-based Solutions in cities,…
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This video is the sixth video of unit 5.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
Interview with Koen Doens, Director General…
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Terrestrial ecosystems are all ecosystems on land. Human activities have many adverse effects on terrestrial ecosystems. We are cutting down forests, contributing to…
Introducing SDG 15: Life on land
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