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Climate Change

How can biodiversity help to mitigate and adapt to climate change?

 

Andy Ridley, Director of WWF's Earth Hour

Earth Hour

Andy Ridley, Director of WWF's Earth Hour, talks about what he has presented at Congress and the plans for the climate change campaign in 2009. …  

09 Oct 2008 | Audio

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  • Interview with Andy Ridley (8 October 2008) 920KB
Bleached coral head, Bahamas.

Climate change: pushing species to the brink

Thirty-five percent of the world’s birds, 52 percent of amphibians and 71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are likely to be particularly susceptible to climate change, the first results of an IUCN study have revealed. …   | French

08 Oct 2008 | International news release

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Sustainability Dialogue "Green Construction for Sustainable Living"

Go green through energy efficient buildings

Buildings are responsible for at least 40 percent of energy use in developing countries. As the construction industry booms, the figure is rising fast. Leading global companies have teamed up to act now because buildings can make a major contribution to tackle climate change and energy use. …  

08 Oct 2008 | News story

Maria Blair, Associate Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation

Poverty and the climate crisis

Last year the Rockefeller Foundation launched a $70 million initiative to help poor communities prepare for and recover from the global climate crisis' impacts. Maria Blair, Associate Vice President of the Foundation talks to IUCN web TV about the links between development and climate change and the real urgencies ahead of us. The rule of law and the technical innovations are sometimes just not enough. …  

08 Oct 2008 | Video

Dr. William Karesh, Vice President and Director of WCS’s Global Health Programs and Co-Chair of IUCN’s Wildlife Health Specialist Group

Forewarned is forearmed

Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress today. All have potential impacts to human and wildlife health, as well as global economies. …  

07 Oct 2008 | News story

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Greening Development to Address Climate Change
IUCN TV

Greening Development to Address Climate Change

Watch the entire Sustainability Dialogue. …  

07 Oct 2008 | Video

Grethel Aguilar, directora regional de la UICN-Mesoamerica

Latinoamérica vive el dilema del cambio climático

¿Ser impactados o ayudar a contrarrestar los efectos? de cara al cambio climático Latinoamérica es a la vez un área de alto riesgo y una alternativa para la captura de carbono y la mitigación, el dilema entre sufrir o ayudar dependerá en gran medida de las decisiones políticas y la seriedad con que se aborde el tema. …  

07 Oct 2008 | News story

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  • Entrevista con Grethel Aguilar (7 Octubre 2008) 999KB

Greening development to address climate change

The first of a series of seven sustainability dialogues took place at the IUCN World Conservation Congress today with a high-level discussion on ways to green development to address climate change. …  

06 Oct 2008 | News story

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