IAFF 6101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: United States Agency For International Development, Chemonics, Small Island Developing States
27 Mar 2016
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Class 8: climate change (guest speaker from world resource insitute) George monbiot: by comparison to what it could have been, it"s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it"s a disaster (with regards to cop21 in 2015) Scaling up inance for forests and climate change. Enhancing resilience in small island developing states (sids) Cop21 included non-party stakeholders, including civil socieies, the private sector, inancial insituions, ciies, and other subnaional authoriies. 18% of the world"s populaion sill lives without electricity. Long-term goal for net zero carbon within this century. Adaptaion to help most vulnerable (in the past, focus was on miigaion measure, but now, we must deal with preservaion. ) Financial support especially for the least developed countries. Idenify capacity needs and gaps; increase synergies, collaboraion, and coherence. Poland is pushing back on raifying the agreement for the eu, because poland is a big coal-producing country.
