En marge de la 3ième Conférence mondiale sur la climat qui s’est déroulée du 31 août au 4 septembre dernier à Genève, l’organisation Media21 a invité une vingtaine de journalistes du monde entier à participer à un atelier de formation sur l’environnement. Au programme de cette semaine, rencontre avec des experts et des représentants du secteur privés et voyage sur le terrain pour observer au plus près les effets des changements climatiques. Nous avons suivi le groupe de journalistes le mercredi 2 septembre aux Gets pour la visite de la chaufferie au bois puis à la Mer de Glace de Chamonix.
Vidéo réalisée par Cécile Tran-Tien et Clément Girardot.
Excursion organisée en Partenariat avec la Région Rhône-Alpes et l’agence Rhône-Alpes Energie Environnement.
GENEVA, Aug 31 (IPS) – Climate change is here. The challenge in Geneva this week is to find ways to help the world cope with a climate that will have more and worse extremes in terms of temperatures, floods, and storms.
More than 2,500 experts and policy-makers from 150 countries are attending the Aug. 31-Sep. 4 World Climate Conference to discuss how to improve weather forecasting and long-range seasonal weather projections, especially to help poor nations in areas such as agriculture.
“Until now, the way that we deliver climate information to some sectors has been ad hoc. What we need is a formal system that all people can trust to access vital information that can save their lives and protect property and economies,” said Michel Jarraud, secretary- general of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which is convening the World Climate Conference this week in Geneva. (more…)
Before I begin, I would just like to give you a brief introduction about myself. I started by career as an economic journalist in India. I worked with newspaper, magazine and then news agency and for television. And then I have reported internationally from Geneva. Now I am with the Green Cross International, which is based here in Geneva. Also worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature, not far from here, for over 7 years.
In my presentation today, what I would like to do is present the systemic forces which kind of trap and confine and therefore constrain the short-term politics which in turn defines the way we live, especially the way our production, distribution and transport infrastructure is organised. Linked to this is our grand appetite to reach the heights of consumerism – which left to itself – is very difficult to draw limits on. Yet all around you see today a silent and unmistakeable change that has started – first, of course with the thinking but it is being followed up with actions as well albeit slowly and in a disjointed way. What we are waking up to is the realisation that perhaps we have crossed the limits in consistently not being in harmony with the long-term ecological processes. (more…)
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