{"id":5530,"date":"2019-09-24T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"climate-connects-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/24\/climate-connects-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Connects Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change was top\nof the agenda at the Social Good Summit. Young thought leaders from all regions\nof the globe, including those honoured by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP),\nspoke out on issues central to the climate crisis at the Social Good Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fourteen-year-old&nbsp;Alexandria\nVillase\u00f1or, leader&nbsp;of the New York City climate march and founder of Earth\nUprising, was among the first to speak. Responding to sceptics, as to whether\nthey make a difference, she said: \u201cIt really has in the past year.\u201d If oil\ncompanies see the strikes as the biggest threat to the oil industry, \u201cthen we\nare making a difference\u201d, she said. On an emotional level, strikes help to\nfight climate anxiety, she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day before, she\nand other young climate activists affiliated with the Fridays for Future\nmovement were named UN Champion of the Earth award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discussions throughout\nthe day touched on the far-reaching implications of climate change, which some\nsay are too often little understood. Indigenous communities spoke out about the\nimplications that diminishing natural resources and extreme weather events have\non the shifting roles of women, who may need to go further for water, for\nexample.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/climate-connects-everything\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Climate change was top of the agenda at the Social Good Summit. Young thought leaders from all regions of the globe, including those honoured by the UN&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}