Initially I was in awe as my eye was moving over the picture’s pixels. Then it was fear. It looked like a Pasolinian alienation, madness, rejoicing at the universal collapse. Climate change is hitting hard, yet shopping for artificially bloated and useless brands supersedes the utter instinct of conservation. Claudia Manzo, the photographer, toned me […]
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PEOPLE’S CLIMATE CASE: EU taken to Court for failing to impose a robust emission reduction plan
A Carpathian shepherd together with other families from Europe and outside are taking the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union to the European General Court for allowing high level of emissions until 2030 and failing to protect the citizens with the existing inadequate 2030 climate target. “Year by year, says the Romanian […]
Naomi Klein in Eastern Europe: Green tech leans towards decentralization away from state socialism
In the wake of the heated talks on the CETA signing, Naomi Klein, at a short online meeting with her readers in Vilnius, Lithuania, brings about some radical perspective on how such trade deals can harm. To reassure her East European readers, she is also dissing centralized socialist/communist economies, stating that the green leap ahead […]
Climate change preparedness: Scandinavia on top, Afghanistan lowest, Romania steepest decline
Norway is the best prepared country for climate change, and has been so for almost 20 years, according to data by the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN). Eastern and Central European countries rank between 30 and 100 with Romania recording the steepest decline (-39), reads a Notre Dame University press release. ND-GAIN […]
CLIMATE CHANGE 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
VISUAL PRESENTATION. Human interference with the climate system is occurring and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems. The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report evaluates how patterns of risks and potential benefits are shifting due to climate change. It considers […]
IPCC Report: A changing climate creates pervasive risks but opportunities exist for effective responses
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report that says the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans. The world, in many cases, is ill-prepared for risks from a changing climate. The report also concludes that there are opportunities to respond to such risks, though the […]
