Acting today with tomorrow in mind
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The world’s largest biodiversity summit, known as COP16, concluded this weekend in Colombia, with several landmark decisions, including first ever agreements on nature’s genetic data and on recognising people of Africa descent and Indigenous Peoples as key stewards in conservation efforts. Efforts to get a seat at the table have spanned three decades.
Continue reading “Global climate news: November”As appeared in the Gabriola Sounder on 03 April, 2024
Spring, what a wonderful feeling it brings. As temperatures rise, nature comes alive with sounds, sights, and smells. This urge to grow and blossom is all part of the natural cycle. You can feel the changes in the air and watch as bulbs start blooming and trees in the forest regain their leafy canopy.
Continue reading “Spring into Food Security”Select items as presented to Sustainable Gabriola at our March monthly meeting, by Deb Ferens.
Hidden environmental costs in our daily lives, and how to reduce them — this month’s report on climate news, presented to Sustainable Gabriola by Deb Ferens. It touches on your email inbox, general internet use, generative AI, online shopping, and cryptocurrency —all activities with an invisible energy footprint.
Continue reading “Hidden environmental costs”Here are the month’s significant climate news items, as curated by Deb Ferens and presented to the Sustainable Gabriola meeting on Sunday, Jan. 28.
Loss and Damage Funds operationalised on day one. Agreement on “global transition away” from fossil fuels (not stronger wording of “phase-out”).
Link: https://unfccc.int/cop28
Sustainable Gabriola co-hosted a special event featuring Joe Brewer at The Surf Lodge on Oct-25. Gabriola was the 11th of 14 stops around the region on Joe’s “Regenerate Cascadia” tour.
Continue reading “Regenerating Gabriola”Here are five significant developments in environmental news over the past month, as tracked by Sustainable Gabriolan Deb Ferens and presented at October’s SG meeting.
Avaaz has partnered with some of the best international lawyers to file a powerful submission on climate change with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Continue reading “October: world climate news”Sustainable Gabriolan Deb Ferens tracks worldwide climate news. At September’s SG meeting, she presented a heartening list of SIX recent good-news climate stories. The group thought it would be a good idea to post these for the community’s linking and reading pleasure.
It’s the first trial of its kind in the US, and legal scholars around the world are following its potential addition to the small number of rulings that have established a government duty to protect people from climate change. nbcnews.com/science/environment/youth-environmentalists-bring-montana-climate-case-trial-12-years-seek-rcna88927
Continue reading “Good news on climate!”Gabriola Sounder, 20 Sep. 2023 — The Climate 12-12-12 project held its final event at Agi Hall on August 24th. The event was a wrap of the previous year, where we focused on a specific climate change topic each month. The project brought us together and directed the community’s collective wisdom and experience to address 12 wicked problems of climate change.
Continue reading “Climate 12-12-12 wraps, rolls into action”
