COP23: A conference of small steps
This year’s COP 23 sent a strong Climate Policy signal, with lots of pending actions to combat CC, to be finalized in next year’s COP24 in Poland.
Tag: human vulnerability
COP23: Summary of the first week from an African perspective
By: Steve Kwatcho Kengdo “Negotiations are important, but action is more important” – Salaheddine Mezouar, COP22 President The first week of the conference was marked by the presence of several African countries which share together the urgent need of implementing the Paris Agreement. Besides participating individually to main plenary meetings and informal consultations during meetings […]
Impacts World Conference – Potsdam (October 11th to 13th, 2017) PART II
By: Katharina Funk, Anna-Lena Hendel, Claudia Steinacker We have entered a stage of post-truth politics. We need trust in science and facts. – Prof. Dr. Klaus von Klitzing Eleven GCE students participated and volunteered at the Impacts World Conference in Potsdam, Germany on the impacts of Climate Change, here their impressions on Day 2 on Climate […]
Impacts World Conference – Potsdam (October 11th to 13th, 2017) PART I
Eleven GCE students participated and volunteered at the Impacts World Conference in Potsdam, Germany on the impacts of Climate Change By: Katharina Funk, Anna-Lena Hendel, Claudia Steinacker On October 11th, 2017 Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK opened the Impacts World International conference on the […]
