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Aymeric Maudous joined the 2022 #ClimateTalks Student Forum to discuss his journey from marketing and how drones could help protect tree species and other species living in the forests from extinction as wildfire intensify globally due to climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report which comprehensively assesses the global vulnerabilities, adaptation and mitigation for communities.

The need to point out practical and ideological changes in a post-pandemic world.

An international coalition of leading climate research universities will issue its first Declaration ahead of the G20 Summit on 21 and 22 November 2020

One of the events at COP26 that I was most excited to watch was the Leader Event: Action on Forests and Land Use. Before COP26 started I had read about the Forest Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue being launched in this session. The FACT dialogue is an attempt to halt and reverse deforestation, which is directly linked to making agriculture sustainable. As a sustainable agriculture PhD student, it is exciting to see countries are coming together to discuss this subject on a worldwide stage.

INTERVIEW: by Kerry Smith, Walker Institute at COP26 with Ann and Anthony Craig from the Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security, part of Initiative of Change IoC and SEAchange, an independent charity based in Scotland.

Event organiser: ActionAid International Women leaders from the worlds of science, space exploration, activism and the arts discuss how they’ve witnessed climate change from unique vantage points, and what they’ve learned about solutions, collaboration, and ambition. HOST: Teresa Anderson, ActionAid International Teresa introduces the panel and mentions that there is less accessibility to attending COP26 in person due to worldwide COVID19 vaccine availability for women. COP26 decisions are made behind closed doors, largely dominated by white males.

Looking from space at the globe that is Earth, you instantly appreciate how unequal the distribution of land and water is. The great bulk of the land—Eurasia, North America, Greenland—is clustered around the North Pole but, despite the presence of Africa, South America, Australia and Antarctica, most of the Southern Hemisphere is open ocean.

Rising temperatures, changes in weather and subsequent drying of the soil and vegetation have changed fires in Yellowstone, now they burn hotter and return in less than 30 years.