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#NaiderCOP21 (Second day): Boycott Obama, boycott the COP
SECOND DAY OF THE COP21. The optimism conveyed yesterday by world leaders during the start of the COP21 negotiations has been overshadowed by news from the other side of the Atlantic. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican opposition to Obama, has officially launched a boycott campaign to stop the US president’s emissions reduction plan,…
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#NaiderCOP21 (Second day): World leaders mark the pace of the negotiations
SECOND DAY OF THE COP21. Yesterday, the first day of COP21 was marked by the participation of the great world leaders. Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, François Hollande, Xi Jinping and even Vladimir Putin were part of the more than 150 heads of states present. Their messages were marked by three elements: optimism for the possibility…
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#NaiderCOP21 (Second day) VIDEO: History of climate negotiations
SECOND DAY OF THE COP21. We allow ourselves to bring you a video that explains in a didactic way the history and trajectory of the climate negotiations, courtesy of Agence France Presse. From the 1972 summit on sustainable development in Stockholm, through the creation of the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, and up to Paris…
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#NaiderCOP21 (First day): Climate change is already here
FIRST DAY OF COP21. Last week we talked about why the limit of two degrees should be the minimum inalienable objective of the agreement to be obtained during COP21. Today, we want to delve a little deeper into this aspect. COP21 is not intended to prevent global climate change. It is too late for that,…
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#NaiderCOP21 (First day): Starting gun
FIRST DAY OF COP21. Today begins, in Paris, the twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP21, for the acronym of its English name “Conference Of the Parties”) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). As we have been showing in recent days, this international event is…
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#NaiderCOP21: Food for thought, 10 TED talks on climate change
With COP21 less than two weeks away, at Naider we are already warming up and preparing for the event. Today, we’d like to share with you a TED Playlist with ten talks covering different aspects of this phenomenon. The list includes the following exhibits: Mary Robinson: Why climate change is a threat to humans Al…
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#NaiderCOP21: This October, the warmest on record
The weekend of November 14 and 15 we witnessed surprisingly high temperatures for this time of year. The bravest came to go to the beach and even dive into the waters of the Cantabrian Sea. Is it just a subjective impression, or is it not a good time of year for swimming? Is memory playing…
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#NaiderCOP21: Why the limit of two degrees?
If our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue on the current trajectory, the average temperature of the planet will rise between 2.9 and 3.1 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level. As of today, the temperature has already increased 0.74ºC with respect to said reference level. This change, although it is not the…
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new industrial generation
Basque industry 4.0 has ended up being the flagship event for those companies in the Basque Country interested in adapting in some way to the fourth industrial revolution, where new information technologies are integrated into production processes, automation levels increase and where the industry it gets smarter.
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#NaiderCOP21: The points of success
Much is being said about COP21. The climate summit that will take place in Paris between December 30 and 11 is generating great expectations along with great hopes, although always tinged with skepticism caused by the great disappointment caused by the Copenhagen summit in 2009. What will the success of this event depend on? We…