I love Wednesdays…. Continue Reading
I love Wednesdays…. Continue Reading
Five days of the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona have left us with around 2.500 photos (see a selection on Flickr). Our task now is to catalogue them to make them useful for IUCN in the long term. I covered the Opening Ceremony yesterday. Could you guess who standing on the picture below?… Continue Reading
The Australian organization Learning Fundamentals has drawn an excellent mind map with ways how individuals can help to fight climate change. Two comments, though: Local food is not always more carbon-efficient. And: Apart from using less, you can also buy less (and share more) and waste less (and reuse more). _uacct = “UA-1224285-1″; urchinTracker();… Continue Reading
Everybody is talking about climate change, and still I’m always deeply moved when I’m reading the actual figures of how serious climate change really is. This speech – given at the Brussels based Black Forest Toastmasters Club – builds on figures from the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It’s very… Continue Reading
Worried about climate change? Sure. But unfortunately it’s not the only way humans are changing the life-support systems of our planet. Biodiversity – the net of genes, species and ecosystems – itself is in danger: Since 1970 we’ve lost 40% of species abundance, endangered every fourth mammal and driven two thirds of ecosystem services into… Continue Reading