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Palmer also focuses on Eco-Anxiety in young people related to climate change. She said "I'm looking at the future, and what we face in the future, and there is a lot of fear and anxiety." Young people, myself included, feel betrayed by world leaders.". [31] [32] She organises climate action as a method to deal with it [33] [34]
In October 2020, Nakate gave a speech at the Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture urging world leaders to "wake up" and recognise climate change as a crisis, tying it to poverty, hunger, disease, conflict and violence against women and girls. "Climate change is a nightmare that affects every sector of our lives," she stated.
In 2018, Jetn̄il-Kijiner collaborated with Aka Niviâna, a climate change activist poet from Greenland, to write a poem about their stories of climate change. The poem, "Rise: From One Island to Another," explains the destruction of two opposite homelands and the reality of melting icecaps and rising sea levels. [ 20 ]
“Black people are the most impacted [by climate change] in this country and the most at risk,” he said. “68% of us live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant leading to ...
World leaders, policymakers and delegates from nearly 200 countries are in Egypt at the COP27 U.N. climate summit, which delegates kicked off with a deal to discuss compensating poor nations for ...
In 2008 Bellamy signed the Manhattan Declaration, calling for the immediate halt to any tax-funded attempts to counteract climate change. [29] He maintained a view that man-made climate change is "poppycock", insisting that climate change is part of a natural cycle. [30] [31] His opinions changed the way some organisations viewed Bellamy.
In 2009, Hansen was awarded the 2009 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, [126] the highest honor bestowed by the American Meteorological Society, for his "outstanding contributions to climate modeling, understanding climate change forcings and sensitivity, and for clear communication of climate science in the public arena."
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Here are some of the comments made as negotiators at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt made a final push for a deal, trying to bridge divisions over ...