climate report Articles
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2014 U.S. Climate Action Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
On January 1, 2014, the Department of State submitted the 2014 U.S. Climate Action Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This report, which includes the First U.S. Biennial Report and Sixth U.S. National Communication to the UNFCCC, details actions the United States is taking domestically and internationally to mitigate, adapt to, and assist others in ...
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Clean Tech Investment rise 35% in 2010
Datamonitor predicts clean tech will rise despite failure to deliver international climate change, reports ...
By Vital Energi
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US Senate decision outshines Bonn climate change talks
Diplomats reassure US remains fully committed to climate change agreement despite Senate decision to drop climate change legislation, reports ...
By Vital Energi
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Growing Hope, A Climate Change Report
While the world’s leaders met in Paris for COP21, the World Forestry Center convened 26 leading organizations working to address climate change in the region and worldwide. They discussed the role of global forests in addressing climate change, and interviewed The Climate Trust to showcase how they are #GrowingHope. Mik McKee, The Climate Trust’s Senior Forestry Analyst discusses The ...
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Reducing problems through reduced complexity? Considering the benefits and limits of economic perspectives on climate change
Economic perspectives on climate change loom large since the publication of the commonly called Stern Report, Economics of Climate Change. A great number of studies subsequently employ similar approaches. Considering the huge uncertainties in climate science, however, these calculations raise a number of questions: How can costs and benefits of emissions reductions be assessed and compared for ...
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One Planet Economy
Everybody is talking about environmental issues, from the recent publication of the Stern Report on Climate change, to the Queen’s Speech and future Climate Change Bill in association with the revised Companies Act, all are increasingly focussing on businesses to behave in an environmentally sustainable and responsible way. Becky Toal looks at how the environment has been high on the political ...
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Guide for Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy - A Caring for Climate Report
Executive Summary This report is not designed to make the case that climate change—or global warming—is the greatest threat facing the world today. Climate scientists from across the globe, as well as military and economic analysts, have already established the severity of the issue and the scale of the challenge. And neither is this report designed to make the case that policy ...
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Timeline of 2013: A Year of Extreme Weather Events
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC ) its Global Climate Report today, a summary of 2013’s temperature, precipitation, and other extreme weather events. It found that the world’s climate was certainly extreme—with 2013 ranking as the fourth-warmest year on record (tied with 2003)! As we recap in our extreme ...
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Big climate report: Warming is big risk for people
If you think of climate change as a hazard for some far-off polar bears years from now, you're mistaken. That's the message from top climate scientists gathering in Japan this week to assess the impact of global warming. In fact, they will say, the dangers of a warming Earth are immediate and very human. "The polar bear is us," says Patricia Romero Lankao of the federally financed National ...
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Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: 2014 Findings & Recommendations
Amid growing evidence that climate change is having wide-ranging global impacts that will worsen in the years ahead, Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: 2014 Findings & Recommendations, ranks the nation's 330 largest insurance companies on what they are saying and doing to respond to escalating climate risks. The report found strong leadership among fewer than a ...
By Ceres
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Urbanisation and global environmental change: new intergenerational challenges
The recent Stern Review Report into climate change has focused attention on the economics of Global Environmental Change (GEC), producing arguably the most authoritative review to date. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due for publication in spring 2007, will underpin yet further the growing scientific consensus regarding the seriousness of GEC ...
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The European Community`s initial report under the Kyoto Protocol
This EEA report constitutes the main part of the European Community's submission of its initial report to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The report establishes the assigned amount for the European Community (EU-15), and demonstrates its capacity to account for its emissions and assigned amount for the first commitment period under the Kyoto ...
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Ability of global climate models at a regional scale over Australia
We evaluate the coupled climate models used in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Our evaluation is focused on twelve regions of Australia for the daily simulation of precipitation, minimum temperature and maximum temperature. We base our evaluation on Probability Density Functions (PDFs). We introduce a simple quantitative measure of how well ...
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Rebuilding in hurricane sandy aftermath should be climate-resilient, report says
The region hit by Hurricane Sandy should be rebuilt with a focus on resilient infrastructure that can withstand future storms and other climate risks, an interagency task force said in a report released Aug. 19. The need for climate-resilient infrastructure was among 69 policy recommendations made by the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force as part of its strategy for rebuilding in the ...
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New Zealand tourism entrepreneur attitudes and behaviours with respect to climate change adaptation and mitigation
Although the potential impacts of climate change on tourism has been examined with respect to tourism destinations and resorts there is a dearth of information on the attitudes and behaviours of small firm entrepreneurs even though such enterprises make up by far the bulk of the tourism industry by number of businesses. The attitudes and adaptation and mitigation behaviours of New Zealand ...
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Monitoring the receipt of international climate finance by developing countries
The 2010 Cancun Agreements and 2011 Durban Outcome call for developing countries to register, monitor, and report on support received, and for developed countries to improve their reporting by using more complete climate finance reporting guidelines. Doing so will enable information on climate change finance from developed countries to be matched with information from developing countries. The ...
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Analysis of key trends and drivers in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU between 1990 and 2015
Publication Created 31 May 2017 Published 01 Jun 2017 Topics: Climate change mitigation The report analyses the major factors underpinning the trends in greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, both in the last year and over the period since 1990. The data is based on the EU’s 2017 submission to the UNFCCC of its greenhouse gas inventory. ...
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Loss and damage from climate change: local-level evidence from nine vulnerable countries
Loss and damage is already a significant consequence of inadequate ability to adapt to changes in climate patterns. This paper reports on the first ever multi-country, evidence-based study on loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in least developed and other vulnerable countries. Researchers in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Kenya, Micronesia, ...
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We only have 12 years to save the earth!
Flash, I love you! But we only have 12 years to save the Earth! In the film of Flash Gordon, NASA scientists claim the unexpected eclipse and strange hot hail are nothing to worry about. Not so in our current reality. The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has warned that we only have 12 years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, after which ...
By i2O
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The world meteorological organization’s contribution to improved decision making for climate adaptation
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report states that warming of the climate system is unequivocal and that the cause is very likely due to the anthropogenic greenhouse gases concentration. Climate change is caused by carbon-intensive world economic development and in turn affects sustainable development due to increased climate risks. Therefore the report ...
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