Speech on global warming

By Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF Nazarbayev University, Astana June 8, 2023 As prepared for delivery 1. Introduction Thank you, Shigeo [Katsu], for the introduction. I’m honored to join you today at Nazarbayev University. It is always a great pleasure to speak to an audience of so many young people. This city, this country, and this region hold so much promise. And you are the face of that promise. As I was flying into Astana yesterday, I admired the Kazakh steppe below, the altyn dala as it is called in the Kazakh language. This “golden steppe” is truly the heartland of Kazakhstan. Throughout history, the Caucasus and Central Asia have been great crossroads. Many peoples have shaped this region, from the nomads of the steppe to the traders of the Silk Road. When Kazakhstan and other countries in the region gained independence in the early 1990s, they undertook a series of difficult reforms to transition away from a centrally planned economy. I remember well how challenging this transition was in my home country, Bulgaria. I applaud the courage of policymakers, and the resilience of the people, during these years. Yet we also know that the pace of market-oriented reforms eventually slowed, and so did growth in the region. Then came the pandemic, which increased poverty and inequality. Now, the region is experiencing spillovers from Russia’s war in Ukraine, which is reshaping the flow of trade, finance and migration. The war is a tragic example of a world tha...

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September 15, 2020 In this aerial view from a drone, search and rescue vehicles from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office are seen in a mobile home park that was destroyed by wildfire on Sept. 11, 2020 in Ashland, Oregon. Hundreds of homes in Ashland and nearby towns have been lost due to wildfire. Credit: David Ryder/Getty Images The following is an edited text of Democratic presidential nominee Good afternoon. As a nation, we face one of the most difficult moments in our history. Four historic crises. All at the same time. The worst pandemic in over 100 years, that’s killed nearly 200,000 Americans and counting. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, that’s cost tens of millions of American jobs and counting. Emboldened white supremacy unseen since the 1960s and a reckoning on race long overdue. And the undeniable, accelerating, and punishing reality of climate change and its impact on our planet and our people—on lives and livelihoods—which I’d like to talk about today. Jill and I continue to pray for everyone in California, Oregon, Washington and across the West as the devastating wildfires rage on—just as we’ve held in our hearts those who’ve faced hurricanes and tropical storms on our coasts, in Florida, in North Carolina, or like in parts of New Orleans where they just issued an emergency evacuation for Hurricane Sally, that’s approaching and intensifying; Floods and droughts across the Midwest, the fury of climate change everywhere—all this year, all ...

Claire Hardwick, USA TODAY The claim: John Kerry called on farmers to stop growing food to meet ‘net zero’ emissions goals A June 2 Instagram post ( "John Kerry: Farmers Must Stop Growing Food to Meet 'Net Zero' Goals for 'Emissions,'" reads the headline, which was published in a It was liked nearly 300 times in three days. Follow us on Facebook! Our rating: False In his speech at the AIM for Climate Summit, Kerry said the agriculture industry should focus on innovation to combat climate change. He never suggested farmers should stop growing food. Kerry suggested agricultural innovation, not elimination, to reduce emissions Kerry gave a "We can’t get to net zero – we don’t get this job done – unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution," he said. "This sector needs innovation now more than ever.” Fact check: But Kerry never suggested farmers should stop growing food, contrary to the post's claim. Instead, he shared concerns about the impact of climate change on global rates of malnutrition. "A 2-degree future could result in an additional 600 million people not getting enough to eat," he said. "And you just can’t continue to warm the planet while also expecting to feed it.” Kerry also advocated for research into heat-resistant plants and alternative feeds for livestock that would produce less methane. He never mentioned halting any kind of agricultural production. USA TODAY reached out to Slay News for comment but did not immediately receive a response. ...

Great Britain’s Prince Charles spoke at the COP 26 United Nations Climate Change Conference on Monday, telling leaders that the “hopes of the world are upon you.” “I know you all carry a heavy burden on your shoulders and you do not need me to tell you that the eyes and hopes of the world are upon you to act with all dispatch and decisively, because time has quite literally run out,” said Charles. Watch the speech in the player above. The heir to the British throne issued a plea to the representatives of over 200 countries to come together to “create the environment that enables every sector of industry to take the action required.” Charles, a long-time champion of environmentalism, said the solution to the threats of climate change is “radically transforming our current fossil fuel-based economy to one that is genuinely renewable and sustainable.” The hope is that countries can curb carbon emissions enough to keep global warming as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) as possible. Environmentalists and scientists have described the U.N. conference as the world’s “last best hope” for nailing down commitments to limit the global rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average. Related • WATCH: Biden speaks at COP26 climate summit in Glasgow By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas and Seth Borenstein, Associated Press • Don’t waste chance to save the planet, pope tells UN climate conference By Associated Press • A look ...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg “You have stolen my childhood and my dreams with your empty words,” Thunberg said at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York. Thunberg WATCH: Greta Thunberg’s full speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit Read Greta Thunberg’s speech below: This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you? For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight? You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe. The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in ten years only gives us a 50 percent chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk of setting up irreversible chain reactions beyond human control. Fifty percent may be acceptable to you, but t...