Iowa Climate Prize

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UN Climate Change Report: Sea Level, Air Temperature To Rise The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its latest assessment today. This is the fifth since 1990. The reports project the rate of global warming, sea level rise and other expected effects that result largely from our use of fossil fuels, which puts billions of additio...

More than twenty-one years ago, Sevren Suzuki spoke at the United Nation's Conference on Environment and Development. What this young woman accomplished was to help elevate the importance of environmental issues to an international audience. Within this six minute speech, climate change was addressed. Over the last two decades, the only substantial change in information contained within this plead for action is the increase in the population of the world, from 5 billion to 7 billion. The important issues are still that, important issues that have not been appropriately addressed. We must work to solve these issues, now. In twenty more years, will we look back at this 1992 video and say "The only change that our society has experienced is an increase from 5 billion people to 8.5 billion people. The issues are still the same. We have done nothing to solve these issues."?

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Girl's Speech @ UN Conference on Environment and Development The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Summit, Earth Summit (or, in Portuguese, Eco '92) was a major conference ...