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Mayors `get it` on climate change

Ironically, the most ambitious US action in the fight against global warming is coming from big cities and their mayors. It seems preposterous on its face. Each city’s emissions are only a tiny fraction of the global pie. Cities can’t force utilities to shift to renewables, or make Detroit produce smarter cars. Nonetheless, some of the biggest US mega-cities are stepping up in a big way on global ...

Sep. 30, 2008

By World Resources Institute WRI

EU president on climate change

The work of the European Union is sometimes seen as rather technical. As cut off from daily concerns. Interesting to specialists, but not relevant to people's daily lives. The action we are discussing today proves this theory wrong. The struggle against climate change and the quest for secure, sustainable and competitive energy touches on every European, every day. That is why ...

Jan. 23, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

Climate change talks: MEPs chart the course from Lima to Paris

Talks to be held in Lima next month should enable global partners to reach an ambitious climate agreement in Paris in 2015, so as to keep the world on track for a sub-2°C climate warming scenario, said the Environment Committee in a resolution voted on Wednesday. MEPs reiterated the pledge by the EU and its member states to step up contributions to the UN Green Climate Fund so as to mobilise ...

Nov. 5, 2014

By European Parliament

Climate change talks: MEPs chart the course from Lima to Paris

Talks to be held in Lima next month should enable global partners to reach an ambitious climate agreement in Paris in 2015, so as to keep the world on track for a sub-2°C climate warming scenario, Parliament said in a resolution voted on Wednesday. MEPs reiterated the pledge by the EU and its member states to step up contributions to the UN Green Climate Fund. "We'll be facing a ...

Nov. 26, 2014

By European Parliament

Foreign Secretary on Climate Change

Under this Coalition government, the Foreign Office has a renewed sense of mission. It is a mission to promote Britain’s national interest, while tirelessly working for a world which is more secure, more stable, more free and more prosperous. In no area is this more relevant than the fight against climate change. Today ministers from more than 20 countries will meet in London with the goal ...

Apr. 25, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Adapting to climate change in Bangladesh

Floating gardens, raised homes, and reflections from the field. WRI’s Aarjan Dixit recently attended the 5th Annual Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change Conference in Bangladesh. As part of the conference, participants visited local communities to see ...

Apr. 14, 2011

By World Resources Institute WRI

The challenge of reporting on climate change and health

Reporting on how climate change affects health is a real challenge — screen your sources and find reliable experts, says Asefaw Getachew. When journalists communicate how climate change might affect the spread of insect-borne disease, they play an ambitious, yet pivotal, mediator's role. They must, in partnership with scientists, translate research results into plain English and present ...

Sep. 9, 2009

By SciDev.Net

Climate Change Plan for SEPA published

With the Climate Change Scotland Bill now in parliament, it is important that everyone starts thinking how they will contribute to the ambitious world leading targets set out in the Bill. As Scotland's environment watchdog, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has a key role in addressing climate change and has today (19 December) published its climate change plan for SEPA. This ...

Dec. 30, 2008

By Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)

Effects of ‘high-end’ climate change

The impacts of climate change will be widespread across the globe. Emissions of greenhouse gases have already altered the Earth’s atmosphere and the climate is already changing. We will live with the consequences of these changes for the next few decades, regardless of the actions we take now to reduce our emissions. However, as Kirsty Lewis, Principal Climate Change Consultant, explains beyond ...

Oct. 26, 2009

By The Met Office

Big tick award for climate change

We are delighted to announce that we have retained our Big Tick status for Climate Change in the Business in the Community"s (BITC"s) 2010 Awards for Excellence. We achieved the Big Tick in 2009 where we were described as "... making a significant and positive contribution to climate change, shaping strategy and growing in influence...they are leaders in this field...and they are influential in ...

Jun. 7, 2010

By WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

Turkey Moves to Address Climate Change

ANKARA, Turkey (ENS) - Turkey is taking steps to respond to the threat of climate change. The Turkish Grand National Assembly Tuesday adopted a decision to set up a Research Commission on the causes and effects of global warming in the country. The new Commission is expected to consist of 14 members of Parliament who will provide input as the country attempts to adapt to climate ...

Feb. 19, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)

EU poised for climate change legislation

All eyes will be on Brussels this week where the European Commission will table legislative proposals - the 'energy and climate change package'- to achieve a 20% reduction in the bloc's CO2 and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2020. Also expected are details on CO2 burden sharing, renewables, carbon capture and storage, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and state aids for environment. ...

Jan. 22, 2008

By GLOBE Foundation

Smithsonian Institution Statement on Climate Change

It was perhaps inevitable, but was significant nonetheless. The 160 year old Smithsonian Institution has formulated its first official statement about the causes and impacts of climate change. In a blog statement posted on ...

Oct. 2, 2014

By GLOBE SERIES

Climate change and the EU`s response

The world is getting rapidly warmer, and there is an overwhelming consensus among the leading climate scientists that this is being caused mainly by carbon dioxide and other 'greenhouse gases' emitted by human activities, chiefly the combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation. These gases remain in the atmosphere for many decades and trap heat from the sun in the same way as the glass of a ...

Jan. 21, 2009

Making effective decisions in a changing climate

A third of Thailand is under water. Epic floods have taken people’s lives, destroyed businesses and crops, and are now sweeping into Bangkok. As the capital braces itself, some people are beginning to point fingers at various culprits: the unusually heavy rains possibly linked to climate change, ineffective communications within government, and poor infrastructure decisions. It will ...

Nov. 2, 2011

By World Resources Institute WRI

European Commission to host conference on soil and climate change

The Commission will host a high-level conference in Brussels on Thursday 12th June 2008 on soil and climate change and on the possible role of soil management in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The conference aims to inform the debate at European level on the best course of action for supporting the Soil Thematic Strategy and its accompanying legislative proposal adopted by the European ...

Jun. 11, 2008

By European Commission

AUS$26.5m for training to prepare farmers for climate change

Primary producers and industries will have access to specialised training to help them deal with the impacts of climate change under a new AUS$26.5 million FarmReady fund announced by the Rudd Government. The new FarmReady fund is part of the AUS$130 million Australia’s Farming Future initiative, announced in the Federal Budget to ensure the $38 billion agricultural industries are resilient ...

Jul. 30, 2008

By Australian Government

EUMETSAT satellites contribute to climate change monitoring

For the first time both the Northeast and the Northwest Passages through the Arctic are free of ice at the same time. What could be considered a blessing for shipping and other industries is actually more likely to be yet another disconcerting sign that the predictions for the Polar Regions presented in the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are already proving ...

Sep. 3, 2008

By European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

Climate change – helping consumers walk the talk

In an address today at GREENHOSUE 2009 in Perth, Ms Dowd says a CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship project called Energymark aims to develop new ways to foster long lasting behavioural change at home and at work. “Energymark, brokers public dialogue about the role that individuals can play in moving towards a new energy future,” Ms Dowd says. “Based on the concept that behavioural change ...

Mar. 27, 2009

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Companies cannot sweep climate change under the rug

In Australia, epic floods and drought have caused billions of dollars in economic losses and helped send food, coal and other global commodity prices through the roof. In China, melting glaciers have contributed to a drop in water supplies comparable to the entire flow of the Mississippi River. In the western U.S., warmer temperatures and the spread of destructive insect pests have ...

Mar. 11, 2011

By 3BL Media

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