#cop 17

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Fungi connect life, recycle the dead, nourish the living, and help ecosystems thrive. Yet, fungi remain critically underprotected and the UN still doesn’t include them in global nature protection agreements.

That's why we're teaming up with an organization fighting for global fungi protection. This mission goes deeper than any before: into the soil, the science, and a campaign that could transform how we protect nature.

A special thanks to Patrick Hickey at HYPHA Research Ltd. for additional microscopy footage.

And special thanks to Mateo Barrenengoa for providing us with additional footage.

0:00 Flora, Fauna, Funga

1:21 Introduction to Fungi

3:20 Why were Fungi ignored?

4:30 Meet the Fungi Foundation

6:02 Cool Fungi Facts

7:10 Interconnectedness

7:51 The Policy Campaign

10:40 Let's educate

11:07 The impact

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Najah Dali : Les éléments clés du protocole de Kyoto, de la CCNUCC et les enjeux économiques

cadre des nations unies a pris naissance lors du sommet sur l’environnement qui a été tenue en Rio en 1992.

En effet, selon Najah Dali, à ce moment là la communauté internationale avec l’industrialisation a remarqué l’augmentation importante des gaz à effets de serre et leurs effets sur le climat. En effet selon Najah Dali, cette augmentation galopante des émissions a entrainé l’accélération du réchauffement climatique qui a entravera durablement le développement des pays et l’accentuation des catastrophes naturelles comme les feux de forêts, les inondations, la sécheresse,…. .

 Lire la suite:Najah Dali

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A Terra pede: "SOCORRO!!!"

Tendo como principal tema na COP 17 realizada em Durban, África do Sul, o meio ambiente, foi discutido pelas nações mundiais a situação da Terra atualmente, focando especificamente na emissão de gases poluentes pelas indústrias produtoras, a grande polêmica foi a não adesão dos EUA, Índia e China não aderirem o protocolo do Kyoto 1995.

Os países entraram em um acordo para a criação de um novo protocolo em 2015 para que as nações não signatárias passem a fazer parte do documento, sendo esse com previsão de entrar em vigor em 2020 

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    C’è un’immagine chiara ed esplicativa, che aiuta a comprendere quale sia l’effettivo bilancio della conferenza sul cambiamento climatico chiusasi a Durban, in puntuale ritardo, nelle prime ore di domenica. È l’immagine di Achim Steiner, direttore esecutivo dell’Unep, che lascia il tavolo ben prima della conclusione dei negoziati scuotendo la testa sconsolato: “ Non riesco a vedere nulla in questi negoziati che possa aiutare a impedire al riscaldamento globale di superare i due gradi centigradi. Per evitare ciò bisognerebbe far sì che le emissioni di CO 2 crollino entro il 2020, ma a quanto pare potremmo non avere nemmeno un accordo effettivo prima del 2020.” La musica che ha suonato al Cop17 di Durban quest’anno ha la stessa partitura dei fallimentari meeting precedenti: due settimane di discussioni, contrattazioni, teste scosse e occhi esasperati levati al cielo. Il risultato, tuttavia, ha qualcosa di più concreto delle fumate nere di Cancun e Copenhagen. Le nazioni presenti al tavolo di Durban si sono accordate infatti per stipulare entro il 2015 un accordo che vincoli legalmente a una impegnativa riduzioni delle emissioni a partire dal 2020. Questo significa che fino al 2020 le nazioni (e i grandi inquinatori in particolare) dovranno solamente attenersi agli impegni presi volontariamente negli anni passati, il che lascia intuire che chi più dovrebbe rimboccarsi le maniche per ridurre la propria impronta ecologica potrà tenere i polsini bene allacciati per altri 8 anni almeno.

(continua su Wired)

                                                                 credits immagine: ericwagner @ Flickr

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There’s really only one label for the pathetic exercise we’ve just witnessed in South Africa: deceit. The whole climate-change negotiation process and the larger political discourse surrounding this horrible problem is a drawn-out and elaborate exercise in lying – to each other, to ourselves, and especially to our children. And the lies are starting to corrupt our civilization from inside out.

Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and CIGI Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario, in his new article in the Globe & Mail, 'Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit'.

[lasterfox]

Guardian guide to the Durban deal

The news: Durban climate deal struck after tense all-night session

Two hours later the 16-day talks were effectively over, with a commitment by all countries to accept binding emission cuts by 2020. As part of the package of measures agreed, a new climate fund will be set up, carbon markets will be expanded and countries will be able to earn money by protecting forests.

Why it's news: Why Durban is different to climate change agreements of the past (Q&A)

A last-minute compromise at Durban meant the new phase of negotiations about to start should be "a protocol, a legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force". The latter is the weakest option, but according to the EU it will effectively mean countries are legally bound.

What it means: Climate deal: A guarantee our children will be worse off than us (at Damian Carrington's Environment Blog)

Getting 194 nations to agree on anything with legal force, as happened in Durban, is an achievement, as is the rejection of the alluring calls to abandon the UN as the place to solve this global problem.

But the brutal truth is that our leaders lack the political will to do what is necessary. The delay in Durban means politicians have deepened our titanic environmental overdraft.

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let´s watch this!!!!!!!!!!!! how the mantra will change the world ...

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For real though, this is dumb.