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What Climate Change Means for Africa, Asia and the Coastal Poor

alex — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:03:26 +0000

World Bank: This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and…

G8 leaders commit to 2015 climate change treaty

alex — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:51:55 +0000

RTCC: G8 leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to cutting levels of greenhouse gases and agreeing a climate change deal in…

The Critical Decade: Global Action Building on Climate Change

alex — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:14:53 +0000

AUS Climate Commission: The Critical Decade: Global Action Building on Climate Change presents an overview of progress in international action…

Silent Killers

alex — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:15:04 +0000

Greenpeace: 32,000 life years would be robbed every year if the coal-fired power plants currently under construction or in planning…

The Surprising Role of CO2 in Changes on the African Savanna

alex — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:47:45 +0000

Yale Environment 360: Recent studies show that many of the world’s savannas, including famed African landscapes such as the Serengeti,…

Climate change by the numbers

alex — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:07:47 +0000

Eco-Business: Governments around the world have just received one of the most important scientific reports ever written. It provides the…

World has 10 years of shale oil

alex — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:31:52 +0000

eia: This report provides an initial assessment of shale oil resources and updates a prior assessment of shale gas resources…

Global carbon emissions hit record high in 2012

alex — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:06:31 +0000

World Energy Outlook Special Report

New estimates for global energy related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2012 reveal a 1.4% increase,…

New Map of Antarctica

alex — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:28:39 +0000

NASA: A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock…

Closing the consensus gap

alex — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:35:39 +0000

AUS Climate Commission : Last week, University of Queensland researcher John Cook sparked a worldwide discussion on the gap between the…

Climate change declared public enemy No. 1

alex — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:19:09 +0000

UNISDR: GENEVA, 6 June 2013 – The Head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the emphasis placed on the links…

Historic Agreement on Carbon-Neutral Growth

alex — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:51:32 +0000

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) 69th Annual General Meeting (AGM) overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution on “Implementation of the Aviation Carbon-Neutral…

900 Firefighters Battle Major Wildfires Fueled By ‘Historic’ New Mexico Drought

alex — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:02:18 +0000

ClimateProgress: It was a dry spring across the country, and as of last Thursday (the most recent update), U.S. Drought…

Floods in Europe

alex — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:55:37 +0000

GDACS: Media coverage of this event

Identifying hotspots: Climate Impacts World Conference

alex — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:15:03 +0000

Potsdam: 05/30/2013 – Researchers identified a number of hotspots both of global climate change impacts and the science that deals…

Ice levels, rule changes to boost Arctic northern sea route

alex — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:56:26 +0000

Reuters: Shipping along the Arctic northern sea route is set to grow more than 30-fold over the next eight years…

Electricity Availability Growth Must Double to Achieve Global Access

alex — Wed, 29 May 2013 16:02:30 +0000

Yale 360: More than 1.2 billion people still do not have access to electricity, and 2.8 billion still rely on…

SaskPower set to start testing world’s first carbon-capture facility

alex — Tue, 28 May 2013 13:08:38 +0000

ctv news: The world’s first carbon capture and storage facility is set to start testing in Saskatchewan and it’s already…

Global majority faces water shortages ‘within two generations’

alex — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:06:11 +0000

Guardian: The majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will live with severe pressure on fresh water within the…

Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2013

alex — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:52:29 +0000

IEA: ‌Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2013 examines progress in the development and deployment of key clean energy technologies. Each technology…