Hope. I have seen. From thees nonot come governments or corporations. It comes from the people. Amy 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses World Leaders here in madrid just hours before being named times person of the year. Well hear her full u. N. Addrdress. Just hours after gretas speech, hundreds of climate activists are ushered out of the Conference Center by police. This is exactly what has been happening across the world. We have been shut out and we have not been heard. We, the people, havave been kept out by the very polluters who drive this crisis are kept in. Amy well hear voices from the speak with vanessa nakate, the first fridays for future climate striker in uganda. Then we look at ground zero of the Climate Crisis, the Marshall Islands. We e have been totold that ie wawant to stay in our islaland,e and to adapt t and e elevate with migration as the only plan b. We are having to deal with these issues that we in the first place amy we will also speak
And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke, and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for thatjust began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, itsjust one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. So if the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed in the evacuation would
When you are connected, you are not alone. Cox supports cspan as a Public Service, along with these other television providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next, the chief climate officer from the u. S. Agency for international development, jillian caldwell, on using media to help organizations build credibility and trust and provide access to critical information systems. The discussion also touched on ways the media can promote action on Climate Change. Hi everybody, it got quiet in here, hi, how are you. Good to see so many faces, and although we cannot see their faces there are plenty of people joining us online today as well. It is great to have you here as well. Welcome to our event, and action, how media and Behavioral Insights can address the Climate Crisis. It is great to be here, i am an anchor with abc news pieced here in washington d. C. I am also a senior journal miss the in terms of the media we journalists are focusing on communities and countries, and t
Said they would do and abide by the provisions of the agreement. As we have already outlined, these are critical for putting us on a trajectory to meeting our common goals and ramping up local ambition over time in a transparent and accountable manner. Emission reduction efforts reflect only one part of our agenda. A second is in the arena of mobilizing climate finance. The International Energy agency estimated that pledges made to date would yield a 7. 4 trillion Global Investment in Renewable Energy in the next two decades. A lot of banks sovereign wealth funds and investors do not understand how these take allergies and pipelines function, or how to best backstop and finance such projects. Their dollars are sidelined while they wait for more aggressive actors. If we can attract the inactive funds, it could trigger a new fund of investment in this part of our economy. One third of all develop country develop developed country debt pays a negative interest rate. Bondholders are paying