Member journalists from different locations use EJN to share information and ideas for how to
add global context to their local stories.
Not exact matches
The
Global Opportunity Report will
add a systemic perspective, connecting the dots and providing the
context in which we can see the role for the individual solutions,» says Erik Rasmussen.
Based on a
global declaration signed in 2015 by investors at the Paris COP21 UN Climate Conference, the Brazilian Statement
adds local
context, with input from market participants, including fund managers, insurance companies and pension funds.
In some cases, the benefits of incorporating the
global perspective will be clear; in other cases, parsimony would perhaps continue to dictate emphasizing more proximate factors, but seeing things in
context might argue for
adding in less proximate effects in order to enhance our consciousness of
global interdependence itself.
Dr Jochen Hinkel from
Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report
added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the
context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»
The 2018 assessment will put a larger emphasis on reading literacy and
add global competence as a subject to measure whether students have the skills and attitudes needed «to interact effectively and appropriately with people in different countries and with people of different cultures in their local
context,» according to the OECD.
Here are Dr. Brulle's thoughts about the media, the human mind and looming issues, like
global warming, that hide in plain sight (I
added the links for
context and background):
If the
context is that investment in renewables comes from drawing resources from other energy sources that are effectively or otherwise being subsidized, and that have greater negative externalities — even independent of views of
global warming — then it
adds to the justification.
The research creates
context around the idea of
global warming effects,
adding crucial information to the previously conducted studies in the attempt to understand the water climate.