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Measuring climate change action

Original story at MIT News Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions could have big benefits in the U.S., according to a report released today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including thousands of avoided deaths from extreme heat, billions of dollars in saved infrastructure expenses, and ...

Jun. 22, 2015

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Measuring climate change progress in China

New data should cheer Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and her Chinese counterparts as they address climate change during her first visit to China as a representative of the new US administration. China’s latest economic report shows some welcome strides toward controlling greenhouse gas emissions. With climate change one of Secretary Clinton’s top priorities, China’s approach is not only ...

Feb. 18, 2009

By World Resources Institute WRI

Measuring the investment risks of climate change

New Carbon Strategy Indices for Australia, Europe and Japan have been launched by global index provider the FTSE Group, in partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project and ENDS Carbon. The indices are designed to help investors reduce the long-term investment risks associated with climate change and related regulation in these markets. David Harris, ...

Feb. 28, 2012

By GLOBE Foundation

Climate change

Latest projections indicate that the 15 States which were EU members before 2004 (EU-15) will only just reach their Kyoto Protocol target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The EU-15 are committed to reducing their collective emissions in the 2008-2012 period to 8% below the levels of the base year (1990 in most cases). The Commission's annual progress report shows that an 8% cut can be ...

Oct. 27, 2006

IPCC Presents Assessment on Measures to Mitigate Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the group of the world's leading climate change scientists established by the UN General Assembly and working under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization, has just released in Berlin, after 6 years of intensive work reviewing all available science, its 2014 assessment on ...

Apr. 13, 2014

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Blending synthetic air to measure climate change

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have produced a synthetic air reference standard which can be used to accurately measure levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. This will greatly help scientists contribute to our understanding of climate change. A paper published in Analytical Chemistry describes how ...

Mar. 10, 2014

By National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Climate change and international security

The report Climate Change and International Security presented by the Council of the European Union discusses the potential security threats resulting from climate change, and measures that can be taken to mitigate such threats. Climate change is best viewed as a threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and instability. The core challenge is that climate change threatens to ...

Apr. 8, 2008

By GLOBE Foundation

Climate Change and Rio+20

Despite 1992 Rio Earth Summit being the birthplace of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, climate change doesn’t have a major place on this year’s official Rio+20 agenda. But we shouldn’t assume that it’s a forgotten issue. In fact, ...

Jun. 15, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

China acts on climate change

China introduces new environmental legislation laws to combat climate change, reports EnvidoChina has announced its first climate change resolution and plans to draw up new laws to combat climate change.The announcement by National People's Congress, the country’s governing power, is timed to strengthen China's negotiating position as it prepares a new announcement on carbon emissions policy ...

Aug. 28, 2009

By Vital Efficienci Ltd.

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

Energy Poverty and Climate Change

A new report published as part of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Initiative says that a population four times the size of the United States still lives without access to electricity, which is a major impediment to global economic development. In addition, fossil fuels still account for more than 80% of the world's energy mix, despite efforts to limit climate change. The Global ...

Jun. 3, 2013

By GLOBE Foundation

Climate change impact report

The US Department of the Interior has released a report that assesses climate change risks and how these risks could impact water operations, hydropower, flood control and fish and wildlife in the western US. The report to Congress represents the first consistent and coordinated assessment of risks to future water supplies across eight major reclamation river basins. “Water is the ...

Apr. 26, 2011

A model for health and climate change

The impacts of climate change on human health are projected to be severe and widespread. A reliable model or software tool is needed to help quantify these impacts so that policies can be developed to mitigate against them. A recent report suggests that newly developed systems-based models need to be further expanded to allow greater quantification of climate-health relationships. Most research ...

May 23, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

CSA in Climate Change

The Canadian Standards Association (CSA), a leading developer of standards and codes, has announced the availability of its CSA in Climate Change Background Report. The new white paper was developed to help provide the media, public, academia, government bodies and other stakeholders with a comprehensive overview of CSA's role in supporting the development and deployment of technologies, services ...

Dec. 20, 2007

By GLOBE Foundation

Climate changes your business

Six major industry sectors are in particular danger from climate change risks, claims professional services organization KPMG. Aviation, healthcare, tourism, transport, oil and gas and the financial services sector all feature in the "danger zone" in a report on climate change risks from KPMG - meaning that they score highly on the risks which face them yet score poorly in terms of their ...

Apr. 22, 2008

By GLOBE Foundation

Climate change in atlantic Canada

Whether it’s freshwater flooding or rising sea levels, the biggest climate change threat facing Atlantic Canada comes from water, and although the threat has been identified, questions remain whether the region is truly prepared for the inevitable impacts that are coming? This final GLOBE-Net installment on the Natural Resources Canada report, From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada ...

May 8, 2008

By GLOBE Foundation

China in action on climate change

Climate change is a serious challenge to humanity and sustainable development, which requires both proactive responses and concerted effort by the international community. China attaches great importance to tackling climate change. In 2007, it established the National Leading Group on Climate Change (NLGCC), headed by Premier Wen Jiabao. That same year, China issued its National Climate Change ...

Jun. 9, 2009

By Global Policy Innovations

Climate change - there are solutions

Emissions spewing into the atmosphere now could easily lead to atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 1,000 parts per million by the year 2200, effectively pushing the world beyond the tipping point for irreversible climate impacts, according to a survey of 14 renowned climate scientists published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to Dr. Myles Allen, a climate ...

Jul. 7, 2010

By GLOBE Foundation

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

Europe’s climate continues to change

The period from 2004-2013 was the warmest decade on record in Europe. Many other changes significant for Europe have been observed across the climate system, including warming oceans, rising sea level and shrinking snow cover, ice sheets, sea ice and glaciers. In the last decade global near-surface average annual temperature was 0.75 - 0.81 °C warmer than the pre-industrial average. ...

Aug. 6, 2014

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

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