View Larger if you’re interested in having your school, bank, church or any other institution divest from the fossil fuel industry (a crime syndicate of global terrorists who funded the war in iraq among other genocides in our lifetime) go to gofossilfree.org
Currently, climate change refugees have few rights. While international law provides protection for political refugees, climate and environmental refugees are inadequately covered. If they are taken in by a neighboring country, the support that they are supposed to receive is unclear.
Developing adaptation strategies
Still, the international community has been able to agree that countries, especially in the southern hemisphere, have to adapt to climate change and protect themselves against natural disasters. In 2011, a Green Climate Fund was set up at the UN Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa, to help countries adapt to climate change. The fund was provided with 30 billion euros ($40 billion) of initial capital, which is now set to be increased to 100 billion euros ($134 billion) by 2020.
Via DW
View Larger Celebrating wetlands across the world
Feb. 2 marks World Wetlands Day, which commemorates an agreement to conserve the Earth’s marshes, swamps and bogs. To mark the occasion, take a tour of some of the world’s most remarkable wetlands.
See more wonderful wetlands photos.
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Join us in D.C. for the largest climate rally in U.S. history!
On February 17, 2013, NRDC, Sierra Club, 350.org and partners will be leading the “Forward on Climate” rally in DC to call on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and set carbon standards for dirty power plants!
Watch this video on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and march with us on February 17 – sign-up today!
A polar bear struggles on thin ice. BBC
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.
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Stephen Jay Gould (via jngaio)
Nicely dovetails my previous rant on tech gurus corrupting environmental science.
(via climateadaptation)
