The Climate Toolkit for Museums, Gardens and Zoos

The Climate Toolkit for Museums, Gardens and Zoos

The Climate Toolkit is a collaborative opportunity for museums, gardens and zoos who want to learn how to aggressively address climate change within their own organizations and inspire the communities they serve to follow their lead.

Currently, the Climate Toolkit embraces thirty-one goals for addressing climate change within the categories of energy, food service, transportation, plastics, landscapes and horticulture, investments, visitors and research.

The Climate Toolkit’s goals are designed to align with both the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (as compared here) and the Project Drawdown Table of Solutions (as compared here).

Source: The Climate Toolkit

 

Original Author: Bobby Maraquilla

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The Climate Toolkit for Museums, Gardens and Zoos

The Climate Toolkit for Museums, Gardens and Zoos

The Climate Toolkit is a collaborative opportunity for museums, gardens and zoos who want to learn how to aggressively address climate change within their own organizations and inspire the communities they serve to follow their lead.

Currently, the Climate Toolkit embraces thirty-one goals for addressing climate change within the categories of energy, food service, transportation, plastics, landscapes and horticulture, investments, visitors and research.

The Climate Toolkit’s goals are designed to align with both the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (as compared here) and the Project Drawdown Table of Solutions (as compared here).

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Original Author: Bobby Maraquilla

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C40 Cities Good Practices Guides

C40 Cities - Good Practices Guides

The Good Practice Guides provide mayors and urban policymakers with practical solutions to tackle climate breakdown, reduce climate risk, and encourage sustainable urban development. They identify nearly 70 categories of good practice for climate change actions covering energy, transport, solid waste management, urban planning, adaptation and finance. The case studies come from C40 member cities of every size, geography, region, and stage of development, providing tangible examples of climate solutions that other cities can replicate.

The Guides can be accessed in English or Mandarin here

Source: C40 Cities

Region: Global

 

 

 

 

 

Original Author: Bobby Maraquilla

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The Urban Heat Island Effect : What it is, why it's harmful and what can be done

The Urban Heat Island Effect : What it is, why it's harmful and what can be done

 A clear and comprehensive guide for learning all about Urban Heat Islands.

Contents cover negative effects, measurement techniques and offer solution strategies to help communities identify the risks and mitigate the effects.

Read the Guide here

 

Source: LA Homes

Region: North America

Country: USA

 

 

 

 

Original Author: Bobby Maraquilla

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Compare Carbon credits

Compare Carbon Credits by Ubermorgan Ventures

More and more individuals and organizations are interested in buying carbon credits to offset some or all of their carbon emissions. Unfortunately, it is challenging to understand which credits are effective and which ones aren’t. Moreover, prices and the quality of the underlying reduction / removal processes vary considerably. An article written by investors seeking to bring clarity to the topic and provide guidance to potential buyers and people generally interested in the space.

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Access infographic summary here

Source : Ubermorgan Ventures

Region: Europe, Switzerland

 

 

 

 

 

Original Author: Bobby Maraquilla

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Harnessing the power of Algae

Harnessing the power of Algae for carbon sequestration

Brilliant Planet is unlocking the power of algae as an affordable method of permanently and quantifiably sequestering carbon at the gigaton scale.  The company’s innovative process enables vast quantities of microalgae to grow in open-air pond-based systems on coastal desert land. This is achieved without using fresh water, by harnessing a natural process that contributes to the health of oceans and air.

 Source: Brilliant Planet

Region: Europe

Country: UK

 

 

 

 

 

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Climate Action Plan report by Town of Mountain Village

Climate Action plan report by Town of Mountain Village

This Climate Action Plan (CAP) for Mountain Village presents a framework for achieving significant emissions reductions in the community between 2020 and 2050.
 

Access PDF here

Source: Town of Mountain Village

Region: USA

 

 

Original Author: Bobby Maraquilla

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Visit Inverness Loch Ness Climate Action Plan June 2022

Visit Inverness Loch Ness Climate Action Plan

 This Climate Action Plan (CAP) explains how Visit Inverness Loch Ness, the official organization for the Inverness and Loch Ness tourism destination will meet the five pathways of the Glasgow Declaration and will also showcase which sustainable development goals are being met and which ones are being targeted. This CAP helps the destination monitor, evaluate, and improve its environmental impact.

Read PDF here

Source: Visit Inverness Loch Ness

Region: Europe - Scotland

Original Author: Bobby Maraquilla

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First Maurice Strong Memorial Lecture Announced on World Environment Day 2022

SUNx Malta announce the launch of the Annual Maurice Strong Climate Friendly Travel Lecture Series. Supported by the Earth Charter International based in Costa Rica; the European Centre for Peace and Development in Belgrade; the China Biodiversity and Green Development Foundation in Beijing.

It is 50 years since the first Earth Summit that Maurice Strong led in Stockholm and 30 years after the Second Earth Summit in Rio that he also led.  We are acting to commemorate his early vision on the need for humanity to confront the existential Climate Crisis.

We are also putting in place an annual marker of the Code Red Climate Crisis and the key response role that Tourism must play.

We will host each Memorial Lecture in the side-lines of the Annual COP Climate Summit, with the first one at Sharm el Sheikh in November 2022. It will be delivered by the former President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon and Honorary Chair of the New Climate Economy Commission, in a hybrid event that will be streamed worldwide, over the World Tourism Network.

Professor Geoffrey Lipman President of SUNx Malta said “ Maurice Strong, more than any other human being laid the foundations for today’s global Code Red Climate response. He saw Travel & Tourism as a pivotal sector for stimulating positive change. We are proud to start this Lecture series in his memory and delighted that President Calderon accepted to deliver the inaugural address to build on his inspired vision”.

  • Notes on Maurice Strong

    Despite not finishing high school, as a teenager in Canada, Maurice Strong was 7 times Under Secretary General of the UN. He earned some 60 honorary degrees from around the world, before his death just before the 2015 Paris Climate COP, which started with a eulogy to him.

    Secretary General of Stockholm 72 the 1st Earth Summit, launching the global green movement

    Founding Executive Director of UNEP leader of the UN Environment System during its formative years of the 1970s

    Member of the Club of Rome that defined Planetary Boundaries. Of the Founding Board of the World Economic Forum, that brought business to the environment table. And of the Brundtland Commission that defined Sustainable Development as leaving the world a better place for our Kids. He was also Advisor to the World Bank President

    Secretary General of the landmark 2nd Rio Earth Summit, in 1992 – commemorating 20 years of Stockholm - with its visionary Agenda 21 codifying Sustainable Development.  Spawning Conventions on Climate, Desertification, Biodiversity and Forest Management. Empowering UNFCCC and IPCC

    Designer with former USSR President, Mikhael Gorbachev of the Earth Charter, introduced in the Hague in 2000 – a far-sighted compact between people & planet - picking up where Rio stopped.

    These are the firm foundations that today support the SDGs and Paris 1.5, The 2030/2050 Agenda, former UN Secretary General Ban Ky Moon called “the Future We Want”.

    See www.mauricestrong.net

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World Environment Day "Stockholm Message"

Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President SUNx Malta gave the keynote at the Igem Summit as part of the WED Stockholm celebrations. During his address he commented on the visionary early role of Maurice Strong in building today's UN Led Climate and Sustainability response programs, as well as the potential of Climate Friendly Travel to help catalyse a just transformation to Zero GHG 2050. 
 
His main point being that while we are running out of time to make the essential changes we still have hope for a bright future in the energy, passion and enthusiasm of the next generation of young graduates for a clean & green future.

 

We Still have Time. And the secret sauce for a better future lies in those next generations – our kids and grandkids –

-  Who have green, nature based thinking in their DNA. 

-  Who have deep passion in their hearts for a cleaner, greener Paris 1,5 and SDG led future 

-  Who have  an inherent sense of decency unpolluted by cynicism, greed, inequity and beggar my neighbour politics that our world has created. 

 
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Original Author: Olly Wheatcroft

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