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How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the…

How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the Poor

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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…
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A World Without Modern Energy

A World Without Modern Energy

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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…
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The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of…

The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of Energy Systems

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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…
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The Rights of Indigenous Populations

The Rights of Indigenous Populations

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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…
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The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change

The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change

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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…
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The Consequences of the BAU Trajectory

The Consequences of the BAU Trajectory

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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…
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Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries

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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…
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The Earth's Energy Balance

The Earth's Energy Balance

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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…
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Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based…

Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based Solutions Programme Officer, IUCN

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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…
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The History of Climate Change Science

The History of Climate Change Science

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Although some people say climate change science is a hoax, it dates back almost two centuries and the basics have become very well understood. Joseph Fourier, a French…
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Energy and Poverty

Energy and Poverty

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In this lecture, Professor Sachs discusses those whom he calls the poorest of the poor, a population of around one billion people, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and in…
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What is an Energy System?

What is an Energy System?

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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…
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Interview with Koen Doens, Director General…

Interview with Koen Doens, Director General DG-INTPA, European Commission

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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…
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The Relentless Rise of CO2

The Relentless Rise of CO2

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Carbon dioxide makes up about 2/3 of the anthropogenic greenhouse effect, mainly from burning of coal, oil, and gas. There has been a relentless rise in carbon emissions…
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Los motores y retos de la crisis ambiental global

Los motores y retos de la crisis ambiental global

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Este vídeo es la primera lección del curso Nuestro Futuro, creado por el Centro de Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible y la Universidad de los…
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Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case…

Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case study from Colombia

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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…

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