Climate Change II

 

Climate Change: Securing Africa’s Future
Climate Change: Securing Africa's Future was jointly hosted by ACET and AUDA-NEPAD as a platform to discuss the outcomes of COP26 for Africa. The event drew on perspectives on resilience, responsibility, accountability, and the gendered impacts of climate to assess where we are in dealing with the climate challenge in Africa.

COP27 | The Future of Climate Technologies in Africa
The goal of the panel is to get insights from leading decision makers regarding policy, financing, and real sector innovations.

Can Africa adapt to future impacts of climate change?
This seminar shares findings from a new ISS report projecting vulnerability to climate change and adaptive capacity in Africa to 2063.

Building climate change resilience in Africa - the story of Future Climate for Africa
Future Climate For Africa, or FCFA, is a research and development programme that has been enhancing scientific knowledge and prediction of African climate for the past 5 years.

What Does Africa's Energy Future Look Like Amid Climate Change?
As the world scrambles for energy, many African countries are harnessing their oil and gas reserves: The Democratic Republic of Congo is auctioning off land rights in rainforests and peatlands, while Nigeria, Niger and Algeria are planning to pipe gas to Europe. Are there alternative ways for African countries to fund development and achieve economic justice besides tapping fossil fuel reserves? What solutions exist and what responsibility does the rest of the world have to help realize them?

Africa's Great Carbon Valley -- and How to End Energy Poverty | James Irungu Mwangi | TED
Our lives depend on curbing climate change, but so many priorities seem to be in competition. What's the most urgent thing humanity can do right now? Social entrepreneur James Irungu Mwangi tells us why Africa could be the ideal home for scaling the latest and most ambitious climate technologies -- including in places like Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park, which could become part of what he calls the "Great Carbon Valley."

Climate Change: What Will Our Lives Look Like in 2050?
Climate disasters, health crisis or even food shortages, the future looks bleak for the planet. Find out what our future could look like if the world population does not change its behavior and consumption patterns.

A Futurist's View on Climate Change | Paul Saffo | TEDxMarinSalon
Paul discusses the competing perspectives in the climate debate and what it may take to solve this Crisis. Paul Saffo is a Silicon Valley-based forecaster exploring long-term technology trends and their impact on society.

TRANSPORTATION and CLIMATE CHANGE with Nikolas Badminton, Futurist Speaker
Futurist Speaker and #1 bestselling author Nikolas Badminton joins Jeff Sammut at SIRIUSXM's Canada NOW to talk about how climate change is affecting baseball and other sports.

Mark Stevenson, Author and Futurist: Reversing Climate Change
If you want to sell voluntary measures to offset carbon emissions, tell a compelling story. Data is less persuasive than the narrative of a village lifted out of poverty. What else is facilitating the cultural shift toward doing the right thing? The market itself. As network-based systems begin to outperform hierarchical ones, companies are realizing the long-term benefit and profit-potential of carbon neutrality.

Futurist, Sustainability, Climate Change - Ben Heard - Our energy responsibilities
Futurist, Sustainability, Climate Change - Ben Heard - Our energy responsibilities

Climate change: What will life be like in 2050?
We asked experts to predict what life will be like in 2050.

Climate-Centered Futures Thinking with Higher Ed Futurist Bryan Alexander
Bryan Alexander is an award –winning, internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of higher education’s future. He's the author of the recent book Universities On Fire: Higher Education in Climate Crisis which forms the foundation of this episode.

IFTF Foresight Talks: Using Foresight to Stress Test Climate Policy, with Dr. Trish Lavery, OECD
Learn about the toolkit Dr. Lavery is developing to stress test the OECD countries’ national climate strategies to arrive at net zero emissions. She’ll also share her experiences using foresight to identify potential disruptions from various geopolitical forces, why she thinks foresight is a great tool for breaking down the bureaucratic silos found in large organizations, and much more.

Future Climate Scenarios - A dialogue with international policymakers
Future Climate Scenarios - A dialogue with international policymakers

Insurance 2040: Rethinking risk in the age of climate change
When change happens, it can happen fast. One of the lessons of the Covid-19 crisis is the importance of identifying the risks and opportunities ahead of us. Faced with accelerated climate warming and declining biodiversity, the environment is probably one of the biggest challenges facing society over the next decades. In a live webinar organized by the AXA Foresight Team, a panel of strategic foresight specialists, climate expert and practitioner discussed the long-term transformations likely to occur, possible pathways to 2040, and the role the insurance industry can play to anticipate and adapt to these changes.

Climate Change: The World in 2050
Here is what the world might look like in 2050, according to recent predictions.

Climate change and conflict: prevention, foresight, resilience and adaptation of populations at risk
Climate change and conflict: prevention, foresight, resilience and adaptation of populations at risk

Predicting future challenges: Creating a foresight methodology for climate change adaptation
Foresight has become an important tool for identifying potential future challenges. It involves gathering together myriad lines of evidence to characterise unknowables and address long-term, strategic issues. To that end, Historic England (formerly English Heritage) are working to develop an holistic methodology to assess possible future stresses upon the historic environment. This approach involves the spatial and quantitative analysis of data drawn from varied UK environmental, land use, infrastructure, climate projections and other sources. The combination and interrogation of these data will allow us to identify places at possible risk in the medium to long term. We have two aims. First, to improve our ability to assess the likely location and scale of future threats to the historic environment. Second, to generate robust information that allows us to begin talking about the adaptation measures required to improve protection where that is possible, and to develop alternative strategies where it is not.

IFTF Foresight Talk: How to Forecast Environmental Change without Being an Environmental Scientist
How do you comprehend the future of climate change at a planetary scale? Join IFTF Distinguished Fellow Mike Liebhold to learn how he uses combinatorial forecasting and systems thinking to track changing ecosystems, behavioral systems, and core technologies such as green computing and climate modeling. Drawing on his decades of experience, Mike will walk us through the current planetary crises he’s tracking and share a few concrete methods for tracking them.

NASA ARSET: Climate Change Future Scenarios, Impact Projection, and Adaptation, Part 2/2
Introduction to NASA Resources for Climate Change Applications

Also see: Climate Action Videophile

Also see: Climate Change Videophile

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