Posted on 18 April 2020 by John Hartz

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World’s Largest Online Climate Conference Announced to Mark 50th Anniversary of World’s First Earth Day

Over 100 speakers from five continents will participate in Earth Day Week. The world’s largest online climate conference ever held. Tune in Daily from 20 to 25 April: Leading Voices from Sachs to Robins and Figueres to Thiaw. Partners behind the conference have a total social media reach of over 85 million followers and include key representatives of business; the United Nations; governments; academia and scientific think-tanks; entrepreneurs; social media platforms; artists; campaigners and civil society.

Stockholm/Washington DC, 14 April 2020–Today marks the six-day countdown to what is shaping up to the be the biggest climate conference of 2020. In just six days around 100 of the world’s key experts ‘meet’ to fast forward the creative solutions needed to build a better future and avert the biggest crisis facing humanity.

The event, organized by the social network We Don’t Have Time in collaboration with lead partners Exponential Roadmap and Earth Day Network, will be live streamed as part of the 50 anniversary events marking Earth Day 2020.

Other partners and guests include key representatives of business; the United Nations; the UK government; academia and scientific think-tanks; entrepreneurs; social media platform Twitter; artists; campaigners and civil society.

Worlds largest online climate conference announced to mark the 50th anniversary of world’s first Earth Day, Press Release, Earth Day, Apr 14, 2020

Click here to access the entire press release.

Articles Linked to on Facebook

Sun, Apr 12, 2020

• A View from My Porch: The Rising Waters of Long Island Sound — A Primer on Global Warming and Climate Change by Thomas D Gotowka, LymeLine.com (CT), Apr 11, 2020
• Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year - Carbon Tracker by Nina Chestney, Reuters, Apr 8. 2020
• Ken Ward Jr. on covering coal with 'sustained outrage' by Maxine Joselow, Off Topic, E&E News, Apr 10, 2020
• Earth Day 2020: The Thirty Year War, Opinion by Peter Dykstra, Environmental Health News, Apr 12, 2020
• Shifting Gears: The Climate Protest Movement in the Age of Coronavirus by Paul Hockenos, Yale Environment 360, Mar 26, 2020
• The Coronavirus and Climate Change: How We’re Making the Same Mistakes by Charles Kutscher, Medium, Apr 8, 2020

Mon, Apr 13, 2020

• Scientists Cite Pollution Decrease in Calls To 'Flatten the Curve' of Climate Change Post-Coronavirus by Benjamin Fearnow. Newsweek, Apr 12, 2020
• Coronavirus puts Arctic climate change research on ice by Alex Matthews, Deutsche Welle (DW), Apr 12, 2020
• The silver lining to coronavirus lockdowns: Air quality is improving by Andrew Freedman & Lauren Tierney, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post, Apr 9, 2020
• As the planet warms, can we afford to treat poop as waste? by Sarah Wesseler, Article, Yale Climate Connections, Apr 10, 2020
• Three coronavirus pandemic questions that science hasn’t answered with certainty by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Matt Field, Apr 9, 2020
• Latest Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Underscores Global Coral Crisis by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Apr 13, 2020
• Cranky Uncle video: Cold weather by John Cook, YouTube Video, Apr 23, 2020 
• Methane Levels Reach an All-Time High by Jeremy Deaton, Nexus Media/Scientific American, Apr 12, 2020
• The case for ending the Covid-19 pandemic with mass testing by Umair Irfan, Vox, Apr 13, 2020

Tue, Apr 14, 2020

• The link between viruses, habitat destruction and climate change by Carl Meyer, Features, Canada's National Observer, Apr 13, 2020
• Japan minister: Paris accord under threat if coronavirus trumps climate change by Kiyoshi Takenaka & Ritsuko Shimizu, Reuters, Apr 13, 2020
• To Cut Carbon Emissions, a Movement Grows to ‘Electrify Everything’ by Jonathan Mingle, Yale Environment 360, Apr 14, 2020
• Coronavirus doubters follow climate denial playbook by Dana Nuccitelli, Article, Yale Climate Connections, Apr 14, 2020
• Will the next great pandemic come from the permafrost? by Jimmy Thomson, In-Depth, Narwhal, Apr 10, 2020
• Climate Change Turns the Tide on Waterfront Living by Jim Morrison, Washington Post Magazine, Apr 13, 2020
• Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic by Abrahm Lutsgarten, ProPublica, Apr 13, 2020

Wed, Apr 15, 2020

• How COVID-19 Could Ruin Weather Forecasts and Climate Records by Giuliana Viglione, Nature/Scientific American, April 14, 2020
• Why The Solutions To Coronavirus And Climate Change Are The Same by Amanda Schupak, Coronavirus, HuffPost, Apr 14, 2020
• Chile charts path to greener, fairer future after coronavirus by John Bartlett, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Apr 13, 2020
• Analysis: How ‘carbon-cycle feedbacks’ could make global warming worse by Zeke Hausfather & Richard Betts, Carbon Brief, Apr 14, 2020
• How to make a city livable during lockdown by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Apr 13, 2020
• Ignoring Scientists’ Advice, Trump’s EPA Rejects Stricter Air Quality Standard by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, Apr 15, 2020
• Stronger action on climate change would benefit the economy, study finds by Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, Apr 14, 2020
• That uncomfortable coronavirus feeling: It could be grief by Marnie Hunter, Health, CNN, Apr 15, 2020

Thu, Apr 16, 2020

• U.S. underestimates methane emissions from offshore oil industry -study by Nichola Groom, Reuters, Apr 13, 2020
• Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner by Catrin Einhorn, Climate, New York Times, Apr 15, 2020
• The Carbon We Can’t Afford to Lose, Opinion by Allie Goldstein, Observations, Scientific American, Apr 15, 2020
• How the Laws That Earth Day Inspired Have Benefited Us All by Richard Conniff, Yale Environment 360, Apr 16, 2020
• Innovating to Solve Two Crises at Once by Cyril Yee Bryan & Guido Hassin, Rocky Mountain Institute, Apr 13, 2020
• Climate Science Deniers Turn to Attacking Coronavirus Models by Scott Waldman, E&E News/Scientific American, Apr 15, 2020
• Melting glaciers reveal lost mountain pass and artifacts used by Vikings by Ashley Strickland, CNN, Apr 15, 2020

Fri, Apr 17, 2020

• Study: Warming makes US West megadrought worst in modern age by Seth Borenstein, AP News, Apr 16, 2020
• European politicians, CEOs, lawmakers urge green coronavirus recovery by Gabriela Baczynska & Kate Abnett, Reuters, Apr 14, 2020
• New Zealand activist flies flag of environmental revolution with election run by Stefica Nicol Bikes & Clarence Fernandez, Reuters, Apr 16, 2020
• Worlds largest online climate conference announced to mark the 50th anniversary of world’s first Earth Day, Press Release, Earth Day, Apr 14, 2020
• Republicans Are Planning to Use Coronavirus to Gut Renewable Energy by Geoff Dembicki, Environment, Vice, Apr 13, 2020
• What Do You Trust? Climate, Science, and COVID-19 Uncertainty by Annelise McGough, Grist, Apr 17, 2020
• Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world by Roz Pidcock, Rosamund Pearce & Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, Apr 15, 2020
• Climate changed | Making climate change understandable, approachable by Tim Trainor, East Oregonian, Apr 17, 2020

Sat Apr 18, 2020

• Is waging ‘war’ the only way to take on the coronavirus? by Kate Yoder, Grist, Apr 15, 2020
• South Korea to implement Green New Deal after ruling party election win by Chloé Farand, Climate Home News, Apr 16, 2020
• China may delay submitting climate plans amid economic slowdown by Chloé Farand, Climate Home News, Apr 13, 2020
• As Trump and McConnell mock clean energy, the industry could soon lose a half-million jobs by David Roberts, Energy & Environment, Vox, Apr 16, 2020
• Q&A: Denis Hayes, Planner of the First Earth Day, Discusses the ‘Virtual’ 50th by Evelyn Nieves, InsideClimate News, Apr 17, 2020
• Celebrate Earth Day — even while sheltering in place by Jewel Wicker, Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC), Apr 14, 2020
• The Parched West is Heading Into a Global Warming-Fueled Megadrought That Could Last for Centuries by Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News, Apr 16, 2020
• Why it’s so hard to see into the future of Covid-19 by Brian Resnick, Science & Health, Vox, Apr 18, 2020