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 +====== Sustainability News and Resources ======
  
 +New and resources on sustainability and climate change.
 +\\
 +A lot of it is in German — please add similar resources in English.
 +
 +
 +===== Resources =====
 +
 +=== Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ===
 +
 +The [[https://www.ipcc.ch/|Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)]] is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
 +
 +The [[https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/|Sixth Assessment Report]] consists of three Working Group contributions and a Synthesis Report
 +   * Aug 2021: [[https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-i/|Working Group I]]: The Physical Science Basis
 +   * Feb 2022: [[https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/|Working Group II]]: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
 +   * Apr 2022: [[https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-3/|Working Group III]]: Mitigation of Climate Change
 +
 +
 +=== National Centers for Environmental Organization (NCEI) ===
 +
 +  * [[https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202209|monthly reports on climate change]].
 +
 +=== World Meteorological Organization ===
 +
 +Since 1993, the [[https://library.wmo.int|World Meteorological Organization (WMO)]], through the Commission for climatology and in cooperation with its Members, has issued annual statements on the [[https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97|status of the global climate]] to provide credible scientific information on climate and its variability.
 +
 +  * [[https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=22156|Provisional State of the Global Climate 2022]]
 +  * [[https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=22080|State of the Global Climate 2021]]
 +  * [[https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=21880|State of the Global Climate 2020]]
 +  * [[https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=21700|State of the Global Climate 2019]]
 +  * [[https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=20799|State of the Global Climate 2018]]
 +
 +They also prepare reports for smaller regions, e.g.
 +  * [[https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=22152#.Y2J0EuzMJ0J|State of the Climate in Europe 2021]]
 +
 +In cooperation with the WHO they prepared an 
 +  * [[https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13572|Atlas of health and climate (2012)]].
 +
 +
 +===== News and Interviews =====
 +
 +=== 2024 10 05. ARD: Dürre lässt Amazonas-Nebenfluss austrocknen ===
 +
 +"Durch die extreme Trockenheit ist einer der größten Flüsse Brasiliens fast ausgetrocknet."
 +This in nicely documented in this [[https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/amazonas-duerre-112.html|ARD news clip]].
 +
 +
 +=== 2023 09 28. ARD Tagesschau: Sven Plöger mit Einschätzungen zu Extremwetter ===
 +In the context of the ExtremWetterKongress the Tagesschau broadcasted this 
 +[[https://media.tagesschau.de/video/2023/0928/TV-20230928-1037-2400.webs.h264.mp4|interview]]
 +with [[https://www.brainworx.de/kunde/sven-pl%C3%B6ger|Sven Plöger]] concerning "Wie Extrem ist das Wetter".
 +
 +
 +=== 2023 09 27–29. ExtremWetterKongress ===
 +Hamburg is presently hosting a [[https://extremwetterkongress.org/|congress addressing extreme weather events]] with an amazing [[https://extremwetterkongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/EWK2023_Programm-2.pdf|program]] and a very nice [[https://www.youtube.com/c/ExtremWetterKongress/|YouTube channel]].
 +
 +
 +=== 2023 08 29. ARTE Doku: Fast_fashion ===
 +[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fashion|Fast Fashion]] is causing considerable amounts of the global greenhouse gas emissions, waste water, and house-hold waste.
 +Since years the [[https://unece.org/forestry/press/un-alliance-aims-put-fashion-path-sustainability|UN Alliance aims to put fashion on path to sustainability]].
 +However, it is one of the most rapidly growing industries.
 +Thus, it became the industry with the most severe environmental impacts after oil and mining,
 +and severe social impact due to really bad employment standards.
 +An overview of its present impact is given in the documentary [[https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/089135-000-A/fast-fashion-die-dunkle-welt-der-billigmode/|Fast Fashion.  Die dunkle Welt der Billigmode]]
 +of [[https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/politics-and-society/investigation-and-reports/|ARTE investigation and reports]].
 +
 +
 +=== 2023 08 21. ARTE Doku: Panik in der Antarktis ===
 +For a long time the were little signs of climate change in Antactica. 
 +This has changed according to the [[https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/politics-and-society/|ARTE report on Politics and Society]] on
 +[[https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/113043-092-A/panik-in-der-antarktis/|Panik in der Antarktis]]
 +
 +
 +=== 2023 01 15. Documentation on the Santa Fe Workshop: "The Growing Gap Between Our Physical and Social Technologies" ===
 +
 +If you still need inspiration for your essay I recommend the Danish documentation 
 +   * [[https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/107883-000-A/solutions/|Solutions. Rethinking our World]] \\ (available via [[https://www.arte.tv|ARTE]] in English with written summaries in French and German)
 +of the 
 +   * 2018 [[https://www.santafe.edu|Santa Fe Institute]] workshop \\ [[https://www.santafe.edu/events/growing-gap-applied-topical-meeting|The Growing Gap Between Our Physical and Social Technologies]]
 +The participants provide a brilliant analysis of the Sustainability Crisis,
 +and put forward very important ideas to address open problems.
 +However, at times they dramatically go wrong, like in their expectation how a global pandemic 
 +might help(:!:) to solve problems.
 +
 +=== 2022 11 06. Luisa Neubauer zur Klimakonferenz in Ägypten und Klimaaktivismus ===
 +
 +[[https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/interview-der-woche-klimschutzaktivistin-luisa-neubauer-100.html|Interview der Woche]] des [[https://www.deutschlandfunk.de|DLF]]
 +
 +
 +=== 2022 11 05. Klimagerechtigkeit – So wird Klimaschutz sozialer und effektiver ===
 +
 +Die Klima-Krise betrifft uns alle. Aber gerade die Ärmsten leiden unter den Folgen am meisten, während sie am wenigsten CO2 verursachen.
 +\\
 +podcast and more information at [[https://www.quarks.de/podcast/quarks-daily-spezial-folge-70-klimagerechtigkeit-so-wird-klimaschutz-sozialer-und-effektiver/|Quarks Daily Spezial]]
 +
 +
 +=== 2022 11 02. Temperatures in Europe increase more than twice global average ===
 + 
 +Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past 30 years – the highest of any continent in the world. As the warming trend continues, exceptional heat, wildfires, floods and other climate change impacts will affect society, economies and ecosystems, according to a [[https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/temperatures-europe-increase-more-twice-global-average|new report]] from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
 +\\ 
 +sources: [[https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/temperatures-europe-increase-more-twice-global-average|WMO]], [[https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/studie-europa-hitze-temperaturen-101.html|ARD]]
 +
 +
 +=== 2022 10 28. A recent book on democracy and religion ===
 +
 +What would modernity be without religion? Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt, explores this question in his publication "Demokratie braucht Religion" ("Democracy Needs Religion"), which has just been published by Verlag Kösel.
 +\\
 +remark: Gregor Gysi provided a very interesting foreword of the book.
 +\\
 +sources: [[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.de/Paperback/Demokratie-braucht-Religion/Hartmut-Rosa/Koesel/e612837.rhd|publisher]], 
 +[[https://www.uni-erfurt.de/en/university/current/news/news-detail/new-publication-on-democracy-and-religion|Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt]], 
 +[[https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/demokratie-braucht-religion-der-soziologe-hartmut-rosa-im-gespraech-dlf-bea5aa62-100.html|interview]] im [[https://www.deutschlandfunk.de|DLF]]
 +
 +=== 2022 03 15. Deutschland trocknet langsam aus  ===
 +
 +Noch ist Deutschland mit reichlich Wasser gesegnet. Das gilt als selbstverständlich. Doch neue Daten zeigen: Der Wasserverlust ist beträchtlich - und das Ausmaß noch nicht abzusehen. 
 +\\
 +source: [[https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/wasserknappheit-deutschland-101.html|ARD/SWR]]
 +
 +
 +=== 2022 08. Friederike Otto on the UN climate report ===
 +
 +interviews in [[https://www.dw.com/en/un-report-author-and-climate-expert-friederike-otto-talks-to-dw/video-58810649|DW (English)]], [[https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/interview-otto-101.html|tagesschau24]]
 +
 +
 +~~DISCUSSION~~