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dw.com • 8th December 2023

COP 28 and climate reparations for the Global South – DW – 12/08/2023

During the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, the COP27, industrialized nations pledged to help developing countries pay compensation for loss and damage caused by global warming. But since then talks have stalled. Can a deal be reached at COP28?

DW News • 6th December 2023

COP28: What difference can the 'loss and damage fund' really make? | DW News

Industrialized countries have pledged around half a billion US dollars to help the world's most vulnerable nations cope with the impacts of climate change.

An agreement on the new 'loss and damage fund' on the first day of the COP28 climate conference was met with a standing ovation. The money will help pay for damage caused by slow onset disasters, like rising sea levels, and extreme weather events, like heavy rain, flooding, droughts and wildfires. But many say the money pledged is not enough.

In Pakistan for example, families are still struggling after deadly floods – made worse by climate change – swept through Sindh province in mid 2022.

We talk to Mustafa Talpur. He is Asia Regional head of Advocacy and Campaigns for Oxfam international and joins us from Islamabad.

And for more, DW’s Climate Correspondent Louise Osborne is joining us in the studio.

#cop28 #climatechange #naturaldisaster

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dw.com • 8th August 2023

Amazon deforestation falls as leaders meet for key summit – DW – 08/08/2023

Heads of governments from the Amazon region are meeting to discuss how to protect the crucial rainforest. Illegal deforestation has marred the region for years. Scientists fear it could be reaching a tipping point.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's most important carbon sinks and absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels. Yet it remains under threat — around 17% of the forest has already been destroyed.

Leaders of eight Amazon rainforest countries wil

dw.com • 5th June 2023

Climate change talks begin in Germany – DW

Negotiators from around the world are converging on Bonn, Germany, for a climate change conference. One goal of the talks is to hash out the details for a new fund to pay for loss and damage experienced by poorer nations due to climate change.

dw.com • 24th May 2023

Industry experts meet in Leipzig to push green transport – DW – 05/24/2023

Greener alternatives are topping the agenda as top transportation experts meet in the Germany city of Leipzig. Ministers, business leaders and researchers from around the world are attending the International Transport Forum over the next three days.

DW Planet A • 28th April 2023

How losing biodiversity could be killing us

Antibiotics, pain killers and even treatments for cancer – many are derived from nature. But we are killing off the species that could provide the next nature-based cure. How bad is biodiversity loss for our health?

Credits:
Reporter: Louise Osborne
Camera: Henning Goll
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Biodiversity #Health

Read more:
Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of IPBES: https://zenodo.org/record/6417333#.ZEgk0y0RpTY

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
https://www.iucnredlist.org

From drug discovery to coronaviruses: why restoring natural habitats is good for human health: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2329.abstract

The biodiversity crisis is a business crisis:
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2021/biodiversity-loss-business-implications-responses

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Discovering penicillin
02:05 Disappearing biodiversity
03:57 Healthy planet, healthy humans
06:51 Saving biodiversity
08:56 Conclusion

dw.com • 21st April 2023

A look at the heat wave in Asia – DW – 04/21/2023

A heat wave is sweeping across Asia, worsened by climate change. Rising temperatures are also being linked to other extreme weather events, such as the flooding that devastated large parts of Pakistan earlier this year. But despite the damage to people's lives and the economy, critics have said governments are not doing enough.

dw.com • 7th April 2023

Why humans need a healthy planet to survive. Explanations on World Health Day. – DW – 04/07/2023

Human and planetary health are inextricably linked. But we are destroying the plants, animals and other biodiversity that help us at an unprecedented rate. DWs environment Louise Osborne helps us to understand the background.

DW News • 20th March 2023

UN: Without halving emissions by 2030 world faces warming of around 3°C | DW News

The Earth has already warmed by at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial times in the mid 19th century. In 2015, world leaders agreed after intense negotiations to limit global warming to a common target of 1.5 degrees. So far, no major country is on schedule to meet this goal.

Future scenarios clearly show that climate change can only be halted with a radical transformation of the world's energy system. In addition, the report stressed that measures to adapt to the effects of climate change must already be implemented today. This will save lives and money, when compared with the costs of unchecked climate change on the global economy and society.

However, the window of opportunity to achieve these goals is closing fast, the scientists said. By 2030, the global community needs to nearly halve its emissions from burning coal, oil and gas, or face warming of around 3 degrees Celsius.

Guterres called on world leaders and fossil fuel companies to "massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every time frame." Speaking on Monday, he presented a plan to accelerate net-zero climate deadlines, invest in realistic innovations and deliver climate justice to those experiencing the worst effects of climate change.

Rising temperatures, natural disasters and irreversible ecosystem degradation are becoming increasingly life-threatening for humans and nature all over the world, top scientists warned in a major new report released Monday by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Efforts made so far to avoid passing a dangerous global threshold have been "insufficient to tackle climate change," but multiple options are still available. "Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits," said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. "This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a livable sustainable future for all."

"Today's IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time-bomb," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. "It is a survival guide for humanity. As it shows, the 1.5-degree limit is achievable. But it will take a quantum leap in climate action."

Climate protection measures fall short
The fundamental message of all the IPCC's reports is unequivocal. "Without urgent, effective, and equitable mitigation and adaptation actions, climate change increasingly threatens ecosystems, biodiversity, and the livelihoods, health and well-being of current and future generations," said the report, compiled by 93 authors. Humanity has drastically altered the planet in just a few centuries, with responsibility for climate change linked to the burning of coal, oil and gas. At no time in the past 2 million years have CO2 concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere been as high as they are today.

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DW Planet A • 13th January 2023

Gold: The dark truth behind your jewelry

Why is mining gold one of the world's most destructive industries? From Ancient Egypt to today, the precious metal has held a special value in society. Can the industry clean itself up or should we get less precious about this particular metal?

Credits
Reporter: Louise Osborne
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer, Joanna Gottschalk & Michael Trobridge

Special thanks to the Deutsche Bundesbank for photos.

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Gold #SustainableMining

Read more:

Earthworks: Impacts of dirty gold on communities: https://earthworks.org/issues/dirty-gold-and-communities/

The clinical importance of the mercury problem in artisanal small-scale gold mining https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549531/

Capturing coupled riparian and coastal disturbance from industrial mining using cloud-resilient satellite time series analysis: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35129

A pantropical assessment of deforestation caused by industrial mining: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118273119

World Gold Council: A Modern Day Gold Mine

Risk of tailings dams failure: https://izw.baw.de/e-medien/geotechnical-safety-and-risk-2011/PDF/3%20Risk%20and%20Reliability%20in%20Geotechnical%20Engineering/3_03.pdf

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 A golden history
01:47 How gold is used today
02:48 Industrial gold
05:48 Small-scale mining
07:00 Effect on indigenous communities
08:39 The actual worth of gold
10:57 Recycling gold
11:56 "Better" gold?
14:03 Conclusion: a way forward

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