First: – Getting back to our ’big global challenges’ that need urgent response, these include:

1. Global warming,

A changing climate and deforestation:
- All of these are in need of urgent remedy and contributing to: – increasing surface temperature, rise in sea levels, – accelerating ice-melt, -more extreme, unpredictable and frequent weather events, – more intense floods, droughts, stressing water and food shortages, heat waves and species extinction.