The TEC and GEO, with input from other Early Warnings for All partners, including the Green Climate Fund andthe Adaptation Fund, will develop a knowledge product highlighting technologies, innovation andtools that can improve disaster risk information sharing for policy makers and climate project teams. Yet, according to UNDRR, disaster risk information is an area showing slow progress in global multi-hazard early warning coverage. The situation is even worse in least developed countries and small island developing states. The new GEO strategy focuses on providing trusted “Earth intelligence for all”, including governments and multilateral environmental agreements such as the Paris Agreement, offering insights and solutions that can inform strategic climate decisions.

A fundamental starting point for enhanced climate action is access to relevant and robust climate data,” said Ariesta Ningrum, Technology Manager at UN Climate Change. That's exactly how the characters in The Day the Earth Caught Fire feel, too. The cult 1961 British sci-fi disaster film has several eerie similarities with how the world has reacted to the current climate emergency, and ends in a way that's both deeply depressing and a call to action.Lennox Gladden, TEC member, shared the experience of his home country, Belize. According to the Word Bank, Belize ranks eighth out of 167 countries facing climate risks. It suffers from frequent tropical storms and hurricanes, sea-level rise, floods, and extreme temperatures and drought, all causing economic, social and ecosystem losses. The Early Warnings for All initiative is an example of global efforts to assist countries in ramping-up climate action and support to protect the most vulnerable through life-saving early warning systems,” said Gladden. The film explores the same issue that Southern Europe and North America have been experiencing over the last few weeks," remarks Bill McGuire, a climate scientist, activist, and writer who also happens to share a name with one of the leading characters. "The film is a fantastic analogy for how global heating has sped up across the planet today, as the world is getting hotter and hotter."

UN Climate Change joined other stakeholders in welcoming the strategy and GEO’s commitment to facilitating equitable access to science-based Earth observations technology. Earlier this month, GEO held a GEO Week and Ministerial Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, where it endorsed a new strategy for its work beyond 2025 to better respond to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, as well as land degradation, deforestation and environmental disasters. Currently, about one in four countries have included technology for climate observation and early warning systems in their NDCs, mostly in the agriculture and water sectors. Looking at technology needs assessments by countries, about 12 percent of prioritized technology measures for adaptation relate to climate observation and early warning systems.Soon governments have to declare a state of emergency, as water dries up and supplies dwindle, all as they try to figure out how to stop the Earth moving towards the Sun before it is too late.

The game currently has 5 levels, each level is huge and is designed to be more difficult than the previous one and each one with different puzzles and mechanics. Levels will be added in the future. In the film, the US and Russian governments explode nuclear bombs at the exact same time, which causes the Earth's axis to drastically alter by 11 degrees. The result is that the planet starts hurtling closer and closer to the Sun. Initially the world reacts positively to the hotter temperatures. But the conditions soon start to wreak havoc. Guest and Mankowitz almost certainly knew that the science behind the film didn't quite add up, too – but they wanted to use this sensationalist predicament to generate a discussion about Russia and the US's approach to nuclear bombs. Their storytelling and depiction of the world falling into chaos is so strong that more than 60 years later, The Day the Earth Caught Fire is now stirringly resonant for a completely different reason. The Pistons led by one point in the first minute of the final quarter, but were outscored 39-17 in the fourth.

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Buddy Hield had 18 to continue his hot streak. In the last three games since being inserted into the lineup, he's scored 73 points and hit 16 of 25 3s. Obi Toppin and Bennedict Mathurin each scored 15. A critical component of this ambitious global initiative is technology and innovation to improve disaster risk knowledge and information. UN Climate Change News, 22 November 2023 – The UN Climate Change Technology Executive Committee (TEC) has joined forces with the Group on Earth Observation (GEO), under the Early Warnings for All initiative, to assist vulnerable countries in using Earth observations technology for the design of climate policies and adaptation projects.

I think the best novels out there on climate change show how people are affected in small communities," says McGuire, who has written several books and short stories on the subject. "Small personal stories are the best way of getting across to people how bad things are going to be in the future."

Sharing insights from the latest Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs, national climate action plans), Ningrum highlighted that Earth observations technologies and services can be a game-changer for raising ambition, accelerating climate action, mobilizing support and enhancing transparency in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. I was mad, just sitting out," he said. "Once I got out there, I just told myself, ‘Go. Put your head down and work.' ”