A new report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged policymakers the world over to reform subsidies for products from…
WEF: The Global Risks Report 2013 analyses 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections, based on a…
Reuters: A potential tax on big polluters, a taboo subject in the United States in recent years, has come back…
Set aside the politics: Data shows that climate change is happening, measurably, now. And as Vicki Arroyo says, it’s time…
TerraDaily: It’s a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we’ll either have to put the…
Guardian: Combined estimates from other insurance groups have already put total cost of Thai natural disaster at $15bn to $20bn.…
Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by 2100, according to Yale and MIT researchers in a paper published in…
Guardian: One of the most surprising and alarming issues in the climate and energy arena is the fact that the…
Guardian: Australia’s parliament has passed landmark laws to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic…
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) is a forum for collaboration on climate change for European investors.
The NRT has released its latest groundbreaking report as part of its Climate Prosperity series. Paying the Price: The Economic Impacts…
Guardian: This week in Cape Town, the World Bank will decide whether to approve new climate adaptation loans for five…
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It’s not always a great idea to acknowledge that bad things…
Overcoming climate change is the most critical challenge of the 21st century. The flows of funding to assist developing countries…
SEI has unveiled a new version of weADAPT, an online ‘open space’ on climate adaptation issues for practitioners, researchers and…
The International Energy Agency on Wednesday released its first Clean Energy Progress Report, which…
Lloyd’s of London, the world’s largest insurance market, refused to rule out rises in premiums as it reported a sharp…
Carbon Nation doesn’t waste time arguing that climate change is real and caused by humans, the film steps right into…
2010 was among the hottest and wettest years on record – we are entering a period of climate and food…
Southern Europe could face tens of billions in losses, but northern Europe may benefit.
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Physical and economic consequences of climate…
Several major catastrophes in 2010 resulted in substantial losses and an exceptionally high number of fatalities. The overall picture last…
In all the spin from fossil fuels and nuclear industries, it is easy to start believing that renewable energy can’t…
The Least Developed Countries Report 2010, released today, is subtitled “Towards a new international development architecture for LDCs”. The report…
Global environmental damage caused by human activity in 2008 represented a monetary value of $ 6.6 trillion, equivalent to 11%…
Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, has today called on governments to recognise…
April 2010 —
The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings today released a new report — “Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis:…
Europe can switch to low carbon sources of energy without jeopardising reliability or forcing up energy bills to punitive levels,…
Global warming is continuing to cause enormous devastation on the worlds economies particularly in countries like India. India today, is…
This note outlines a scheme for mobilizing financing to help developing countries confront the challenges posed by climate change. The…
SAN FRANCISCO – The green economy continues to show almost remarkable signs of vitality, business leaders say, despite the near-total…
Stockholm Resilience Center: Centre director Johan Rockström among prominent list of speakers at State of the Planet 2010.
Rockström was among…
Washington, DC – 03/24/2010 – For the first time, China led the United States and other G-20 members in 2009…
Amid a growing call for reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to 350 parts per million, a group of economists maintains…
Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Cleo Paskal must be cursing the publishing gods.…
THE EARTH is warming. A chief cause is the increase in greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. Humans are at…
The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world’s biggest companies would wipe out…
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary…
The development of alternative fuel will greatly benefit the U.S., say scientists in an Energy Foundation-funded report published February 16…
Washington, D.C.-Without an intentional cultural shift that values sustainability over consumerism, no government pledges or technological advances will be enough…
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Clean-energy investment in Asia rose during the global recession in 2009, surpassing the Americas for the…
Greenhouse gas emissions come from diverse sources across the economy. The magnitude of emissions and diversity of sources means that…
Greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels dropped off a cliff in recession-hit 2009, plunging by the biggest amount in…
Few major natural catastrophe losses in 2009 General trend confirmed by large number of weather extremes
Natural catastrophe losses were far…
SEI, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launch A Copenhagen Prognosis:…
With the regulatory period of the Kyoto Protocol ending in 2012, and discussions between the Parties to the UNFCCC on…
10 December 2009 – The private sector arm of the World Bank today launched the first ever eco-friendly stock market…
Insurers are in the front line of climate change, paying out an estimated $100bn a year in damage claims. Here…
Europe could profit from early climate protection even if no other countries join in, according to the RECIPE study published…
This report examines how Europe can show leadership in keeping global climate change within these limits: firstly, by undertaking domestic…
Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned that western society must undergo a radical…
