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. 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.

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. The Early Warnings for All initiative was launched by the UN Secretary-General and spearheaded by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). It aims to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous weather, water and climate events through life-saving early warning systems by the end of 2027. Over the last few weeks, record heatwaves have scorched the US, Europe, and China, so much so that the beginning of July had the hottest week the world has ever recorded. Despite the repeated pledges of countries to thwart the impact of climate change, global temperatures continue to rise. It's hard to know how to respond.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. This collaborative partnership will benefit from the expertise of the GEO community – an intergovernmental partnership on Earth observations – as well as other implementing partners of the Early Warnings for All initiative to strengthen adaptation and resilience efforts worldwide.

We have to learn the formula: when we take care of the ball, we give ourselves a chance,” Pistons coach Monty Williams said. “When we give it away, like we did in the fourth quarter, it's hard.” 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. While it seemingly has the perfect title for the planet's current predicament, The Day the Earth Caught Fire's director Val Guest, who co-wrote it with Wolf Mankowitz, actually created the story to warn against the growing threat of nuclear war.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.

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. We're the highest-scoring team on the planet,” Carlisle said of the NBA's No. 1 offense. “Teams are loading up, trying to figure out ways to slow us down.” 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. I was mad, just sitting out," he said. "Once I got out there, I just told myself, ‘Go. Put your head down and work.' ” By not even naming the British prime minister, president of the United States, or UN general secretary, the film highlights how powerless they are in a battle against nature.

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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. Despite playing with a sprained right wrist, Haliburton boosted a 9-of-23 shooting effort with five 3-pointers. Seven Pacers players scored at least 15 points. INDIANAPOLIS -- — Tyrese Haliburton had 26 points and 10 assists, Myles Turner scored 10 of his 23 points in the final quarter, and the Indiana Pacers earned a quarterfinal home game in the NBA In-Season Tournament with a 136-113 home victory over the Detroit Pistons on Friday night. A critical component of this ambitious global initiative is technology and innovation to improve disaster risk knowledge and information.

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. Access to robust disaster risk data is key for vulnerable countries like Belize to formulate evidence-based policy and adaptation actions, and to mobilize the required support for their implementation.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. One of the smartest creative decisions that Guest and Mankowitz made while writing The Day the Earth Caught Fire was to show the film entirely from the perspective of journalists, rather than the politicians that are trying to solve the problem. The result is that Peter, Bill, and Jeannie are all completely powerless as the end of the world looms larger and larger.