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Red Goes Green: a new operational checklist for greening the Movement - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

01/02/2021 - by the Climate Centre The Red Cross Red Crescent has published a new checklist for greening the Movement, strengthening its environmental sustainability and supporting advocacy. The Green Response Working Group (GRWG) – a coalition of National Societies, IFRC and ICRC representatives – last month released a new report, Red Goes Green, drawing on interviews across the Movement as well as with environmental experts and local humanitarian actors. Its findings and recommendations were used to develop the checklist for Movement components and other agencies. “Climate change and environmental degradation are increasing the world’s vulnerability and exposure to risks, disproportionately impacting the most vulnerable communities,” the report says, adding that “the humanitarian community has a responsibility to support vulnerable communities to increase their resilience to the impacts of the climate and environmen

Kronikk: Polmak skoleinternat i krig og fred

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Paul J Crutzen, Nobel laureate who studied ozone and named new Anthropocene era, dies at 87

Paul J. Crutzen, Nobel laureate who studied ozone and named new ‘Anthropocene’ era, dies at 87 Harrison Smith © Eric Roxfelt/AP Dutch atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen, left, receives the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf. Paul J. Crutzen, a Nobel-winning chemist who revealed threats to the ozone layer, developed the concept of “nuclear winter” and concluded that humans were having such a profound impact on the planet that it was time to recognize a new geological epoch the Anthropocene died Jan. 28 at a hospital in Mainz, Germany. He was 87. His death was announced by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, where Dr. Crutzen directed the atmospheric chemistry department from 1980 until retiring in 2000. A spokeswoman for the institute, Susanne Benner, said he “suffered from several years of illness” but did not specify the cause.

Pandemic deaths have numbed our humanity and perception of risk

Pandemic deaths have numbed our humanity and perception of risk COVID-19 is not the first event to demonstrate the numbing effect of big data, but it reinforces the challenge of developing a true perspective of risk. This article was first published in the newsletter Managing Outcomes . On one terrible day in December, COVID-19 deaths on a single day in the United States for the first time exceeded the death toll from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Commentators noted that the 3054 COVID fatalities in one 24-hour period also exceeded the deaths at Pearl Harbour in 1941, and more than died as a result of the Johnstown flood in 1889; Hurricane Katrina in 2005; Hurricane Maria in 2017; and the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

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