Quick Climate Links: Existential threat; sinking city; unfinished business; influential voices
Christiana Figueres (pictured) is famous for her achievements in Paris in 2015/16 and now has an organization known a Global Optimism and Outrage which sees Earth's future as being linked to that of food.
Other Quick Climate Links for today are:
"State of Climate Action 2021";
"Africa’s civil society leave COP26 disappointed";
"Floods, sewage and crocodiles: the crisis of the Gambia’s sinking city";
"The Guardian view on the Cop26 agreement: unfinished business";
"Hit $100bn target or poor countries face climate disaster, the Gambia tells Cop26";
"‘Killing us slowly’: dams and drought choke Syria’s water supply – in pictures";
"Stop talking, start acting, says Africa’s first extreme heat official";
"US auctions off oil and gas drilling leases in Gulf of Mexico after climate talks";
"A £300 monsoon-busting home: the Bangladeshi architect fighting extreme weather";
"Living in China’s Expanding Deserts";
"Can ‘the people’ solve climate change? France decided to find out";
"How to talk about climate change: Ask questions";
"Our Reef needs us now more than ever";
"Disruption, Implications, and Choices: Rethinking Climate Change";
"Coalition commissions modelling of climate impact on health system";
"Prepare your garden for summer heat: Step one, weed just enough";
"Buhari signs Climate Change Bill into law";
"Keeping Influential Voices in the Media";
"Connecting the dots between B.C.’s floods, landslides and the clearcut logging of old forests";
"Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope";
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