Interview with Mr. Milton Nogueira da Silva, Executive Secretary

Cerrado, the Brazilian Savanah, is being deforested by agro business and for making charcoal.  But there is hope, as Cerrado has a large potential for Carbon Capture and for recovery of degraded land.

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Interview with Pat Finnegan, Co-ordinator, Grian, Ireland

Shifting the dominant thinking of the last 10 years, that mitigation is a burden to be avoided at all costs, and recasting it into the idea that well-designed and programmatic decarbonisation offers major net national benefits for employment, manufacturing and GDP. The question hanging over Cancun is whether the USA as a whole is ready for this yet.

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Interview with Eleni Despotou, Secretary General, European Photovoltaic Industry Association

The potential of solar photovoltaic energy in the Sunbelt region, located between parallels 35 North/South, remains untapped despite the high levels of sun radiation registered in this area, which accounts for 5 billion people of the world’s population.

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Interview with Mark Terry, Filmmaker, President of Neko Harbour Entertainment

This special film presentation to delegates attending COP16 reports on the latest climate change research from both polar regions: the Arctic and Antarctica. Having just returned from his polar expedition, filmmaker Mark Terry partners once again with the UNEP and explains why the polar regions are critical in these climate change talks.

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Interview with Lili Fuhr, Head of Ecology and Sustainable Development Department, Heinrich Boell Foundation

The Heinrich Boell Foundation is working with partners around the world on the link between extractive industries and climate politics – from tar sands, uranium and coal to strategic minerals for Green technologies – thereby bridging the demand and supply side of the global transformation.

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Interview with Frans C. Verhagen, M. Div., M.I.A., Ph. D., Sustainability Sociologist

The Tierra Fee & Dividend governance system proposes to use a carbon-based international monetary system to combat climate change by advancing low carbon, climate resilient development. Its carbon-based standard would make currencies convertible and remove the global reserve system that costs non-hard currency countries about $100 billion annually.

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Interview with Dr. Shaye Wolf, Climate Science Director, Center for Biological Diversity

Why a 350ppm/1.5C target is necessary to preserve healthy ecosystems and biodiversity with an emphasis on global warming threats to Mexican species.

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Interview with Dr. Cosmas Zavazava, Chief of Projects and Initiatives Department and Cristina Bueti, Programme Coordinator, ITU

The role of information and communications technologies in combating climate change

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Interview with Grain MaLunga, Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, Malawi

Urgency for adaptation, mitigation and advocacy.

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Interview with Axumite Gebre-Egziabhr, Director, UNHABITAT

Cities both contribute to climate change and are affected by its impacts. However, the degree to which any city’s emissions contribute to climate change is not necessarily matched by the range and severity of impacts. Both adaptation and mitigation strategies in urban areas require new and improved infrastructure and basic services.

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Interview with Dr. Vicky Pope, Head of climate science advice organisation, Met Office Headley Center

We will highlight some of the latest evidence of climate change. We will also introduce the latest policy relevant work with our new climate model. Finally we will say something about our partnerships enabling scientists in many countries to do their own climate modeling.

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Interview with Frances Seymour, Director General, Center for International Forestry Research

With 13 million hectares of forests lost annually, Frances Seymour, the Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research, will discuss the state of REDD+ negotiations, the impact an agreement could have on deforestation rates and the challenges of implementing a future pact.

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Interview with Stephanie Hodge, Cross Sector Coordination Specialist Education Division, UNICEF

Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Education for Children.

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Interview with Peter Liese, Member of the European Union Parliament

Transport emissions from aviation and shipping have grown dramatically since 1990. Peter Liese, who was the EU Parliament ‘rapporteur’ on including aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, believes aviation and maritime should be set the same binding targets as other industry sectors.

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Interview with Stewart Magginis, Head of Delegation, IUCN

Managing natural resources such as forests, wetlands and coastal ecosystems can enable store substantial amounts of carbon, as well as provide food, fuel and water for adaptation. These approaches are available, cost-effective and sustainable ways to urgently reduce emissions and adapt.

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Stéphane Pouffary, Executive Director, HELIO International

In the light of increasing climate disturbances, issues of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience are becoming more and more urgent.  This is why access to clean, efficient, accessible and affordable energy is definitely an omnipresent challenge whereas it is too often not yet considered in the light of ecodevelopment goals. HELIO with its lasting contribution on this topic advocates strengthening actions and projects and implementing new initiatives on this issue.

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17:20

Jean de Matha Ouédraogo, Region Head Renewable Energy for East and Southern Africa, (SNV) Netherlands Development Organisation

Poverty alleviation and access to energy are critically connected. SNV believes in renewable energy as a means to lift households out of poverty, provide jobs, grow small businesses and combat climate change. We support the establishment of sustainable sectors in developing countries worldwide.

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17:40

Interview with, Ned Helme, President of the Center for Clean Air Policy

Ned provides analysis of the events at Cancun, and explains the importance of on-the-ground action, MRV and finance moving forward.

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Interview with Jonathan Williams and Emilie Novaczek

Giving a Canadian youth perspective on climate change and the actions of the Canadian government.

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Interview with Sharmind Neelormi and Ahsan uddin Ahmed of GenderCC

The "gender"-site / perspective on climate change with a focus on Adaptation.

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