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New Scientist - Climate Change: Can cold showers and coral gardening save the reefs?
With the world's corals in a desperate plight, researchers are considering some extraordinary rescue plans. weighs them up (full text available to subscribers) [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: American icons aren't the animals they used to be
Do hybrid wolf-coyotes, grizzly-polar bears and cattle-bison deserve protection - and are we to blame for their existence? [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: US elections: Power struggle
Whatever the outcome of November's election, a US with a greater commitment to clean energy will undoubtedly emerge, but how do the candidates differ on energy issues? (full text available to subscribers) [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Seeing the wood
Guardian: Unless we safeguard forests, the carbon savings needed elsewhere could entail virtually shutting down the fossil fuel economy. [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Rich Countries Must Pay for Rainforests - UK Report
Planet Ark: - Rich countries should pay tropical nations billions of dollars a year to save their forests, using donor money and global carbon markets to foot the bill, said a UK-commissioned report on Tuesday. [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Experts agree: To protect the environment, biofuel standards are needed
Environmental research web: Group of internationally recognized scientists urges adoption of sustainable standards and incentives [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Britain urges EU to stick to climate change agenda
Yahoo News: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged EU leaders on Wednesday not to abandon their goals to combat climate change in the face of growing pressures from the global financial crisis. [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): EU climate pact in crisis ahead of summit
Guardian: • Friction over methods to meet agreed targets • Sarkozy proposals face UK and German opposition [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Fears mount as EU climate talks hit deadlock
Business Green: Some member states are calling for entire legislative package to be renegotiated in wake of economic crisis [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Climate Deal to Help Overcome Financial Crisis - EU
Planet Ark: - Tackling climate change will help, not hinder, governments' efforts to overcome the global financial crisis, the EU's environment chief said on Tuesday. [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Forest plan may 'fuel corruption'
BBC: The UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a plan to save the world's threatened rainforests - but already it is running into opposition. [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Challenge To Discover Antarctica’s Hidden World
Science Daily: Later this month teams of scientists, engineers, pilots and support staff from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), USA, Germany, Australia, China and Japan will join forces for one of the most scientifically, technically ambitious and physically demanding Antarctic projects yet to be undertaken. [more]
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Climate news from CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo): Smart Solutions Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Science Daily: Better house envelopes, more efficient energy supply systems, and use of biofuels for heating buildings would reduce CO2 emissions in Europe. Buildings account for 36% of Sweden’s energy consumption, and many homes are still heated with electricity. Existing houses therefore have a key role to play in reducing the use of electricity in Sweden. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Forests back in fashion as weapon to combat climate change
Perhaps one of the greatest natural defences against climate change, the Earth's forests, got a boost this week with Britain's Prime Minister and a host of environmental lawyers throwing their support behind plans to protect them and eventually include the forestry sector in carbon markets. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Food stores cut emissions and costs
Energy savings which will lead to a 2,100 tonne cut in carbon dioxide emissions will be implemented by a major food distributor. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Existing homes 'should cut CO2 by 80%'
Government should create a clear long-term plan for low-carbon homes and commit to at least an 80% cut in CO2 emissions from UK households by 2050. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Growth town predicts its 2031 footprint
A town expected to double in size within the next 25 years has carried out a major study to predict the environmental impacts of its expansion. [more]
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New Zealand Herald - Climate Change: Green drive shows signs of flagging
As a certain Muppet once lamented, it's not easy being green. A new survey reveals we are not as environmentally friendly as we would like to be, and that the time, effort and money required to change behaviour may be the reason. The… [more]
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New Zealand Herald - Climate Change: National's plan to axe insulation fund slammed
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has lashed National's decision to axe a 15-year $1 billion household insulation scheme set up as part of emissions trading legislation. The policy, which the Government agreed to in return… [more]
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New Zealand Herald - Climate Change: Editorial: Government's shower move deserves blast
Organisers of the Government's re-election campaign have probably hauled someone over the coals for the news that the Department of Building and Housing is about to restrict our hot showers. At least we hope so. There seems no limit… [more]
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New Zealand Herald - Climate Change: Canadian PM hopes voters reject green plan
TORONTO - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is gambling that an opposition push for an unpopular carbon tax to curb global warming will steer Canadian voters to the right in tomorrow's election and bolster his hold on power. If the… [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Welsh university to showcase hydrogen tech
A Welsh seat of learning will be showing off a variety of technologies demonstrating the viability of hydrogen as a fuel, and focus research in this area. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Businesses offered interest free loans for energy efficiency
Small businesses feeling the pinch during the credit crunch are being offered interest-free loans of up to £200,000 to improve their energy efficiency. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Traditional light bulbs to be phased out from March
From next year traditional light bulbs are to be phased out of shops in Ireland, the Minister for the Environment has said. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: ESB to support electrical vehicle network
Electrical vehicles have been hailed as "the way of the future" by Electricity Supply Board's (ESB) director of sustainable energy. [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: US wildfires pushed ozone past legal limits
Californian fires in 2007 pushed levels of the pollutant way past what is considered safe the effects may have been felt as far as Nevada [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: The greenhouse effect that may be cooling the climate
The roofs of Spanish horticulture hothouses are reflecting so much sunlight that local temperatures have dropped in recent decades [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Ireland to continue with green housing plans
Current economic conditions are not a reason to renege on housing policy plans for sustainable communities in Ireland. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Tesco opens first eco-friendly Irish store
British supermarket giant Tesco has opened its first eco store in Ireland. [more]
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New Zealand Herald - Climate Change: Penguins feel heat as Antarctic warms
Environmental researchers say half to three-quarters of the Antarctic's major penguin colonies face decline or disappearance if global temperatures climb more than 2C. American researcher David Ainley, who has written a report… [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Map reveals species most at risk from climate change
A huge project aims to work out which species most need help to survive climate change of the 17,000 species assessed, over a third are at risk [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Are shiny hothouses keeping Spain cool?
The roofs of Spanish horticulture hothouses are reflecting so much sunlight that local temperatures have cooled in recent decades [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Renewable energy: Electric dreams
Capture just a fraction of the energy swirling round our planet and we'll have all the power we need for a carbon-free future. In this special issue, shows how it can be done (full text available to subscribers) [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Renewable energy: Anywhere the wind blows
With twice the wingspan of a jumbo jet, and standing taller than the Statue of Liberty, a single wind turbine can now power a small town (full text available to subscribers) [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Renewable energy: The dream becomes reality
From the smallest village to entire nations, the evidence is clear that powering our world with renewables can be more than a pipe dream (full text available to subscribers) [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Editorial: How to run the world on renewables
Tapping endless resources of guilt-free energy is no longer a hippy's fuzzy green dream (full text available to subscribers) [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Renewable energy: The tide is turning
Harness the oceans' ebb and flow and you can generate electricity, whatever the weather (full text available to subscribers) [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Developers told to use contam land for green energy
Using contaminated land to develop renewable energy is less likely to meet opposition and could come with a big financial bonus, developers are being told. [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Renewable energy: Dreams become reality
From the smallest village to entire nations, the evidence is clear that powering our world with renewables can be more than a pipe dream (full text available to subscribers) [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Southwold Primary School does it's homework to improve energy efficiency
EDF Energy has helped a Hackney-school become more energy efficient after issuing the school with the energy company's first Display Energy Certificate (DEC). [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Cities aren't the only culprits in climate change
Large urban areas are shouldering too much of the blame for heating up the planet, while other causes are not getting the attention they deserve [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Early birds get to survive changing climate
Birds that haven't adjusted to the realities of a warming world are worse off than their more flexible counterparts, suggests a first-of-a-kind study [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: West putting climate treaty in jeopardy, China warns
Rich countries are failing to deliver on promises and threaten "son of Kyoto" global warming pact with failure, top climate envoy says [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: 'Tens of millions' of environmental jobs to come - UN
Efforts around the world to tackle climate change and other environmental bugbears could lead to the creation of tens of millions of jobs, according to the United Nations. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Optimising voltage at the MET… Boys in blue going green
Fighting crime and trying to keep our streets safe may be the main preoccupation for the city's Metropolitan Police, nevertheless, they can't be accused of not keeping their eye on the bigger picture and arresting the continued rising energy consumption and carbon emissions in their own buildings. [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Economic turmoil could scupper EU climate plans
The European Union was planning to impose limits on CO emissions from cars, but car makers argue that the financial crisis will make the targets impossible to achieve [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Americans given tax breaks on water saving tech
A scheme which already offers tax breaks to ordinary Americans when they buy energy efficient goods has been rolled out to cover water-saving technology too. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Carbon trading begins in USA
Carbon has officially became a tradable commodity in the USA, with New York Governor David Paterson presiding over the launch of the nation's first ever auction of CO2 allowances. [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Cities not the only culprits in climate change
Large urban areas are shouldering too much of the blame for heating up the planet, while other causes are not getting the attention they deserve [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Microwave factory to act as carbon sink
An industrial microwave plant opens in New Zealand to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by turning organic waste into charcoal [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Aspects International Carbon Footprint Management Course receives IEMA approval
Aspects International's "Carbon Footprint Management Course: An Introductory Programme" has received approval from the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) as part of their CPD course portfolio. The Carbon Footprint Management Course compliments a wide range of environmental courses, including several others approved by IEMA. [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Virgin Galactic craft to help monitor climate
The plane designed to carry SpaceShipTwo flies higher than most others, allowing it to study greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphere [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Carbon-trading scheme gets underway in US
The scheme selling permits to emit greenhouse gases in 10 US states was set up in an absence of federal guidance [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Europe should spend now to avoid climate catastrophes
The continent is warming faster than average desertification, floods and other problems need to be planned for, says a new report [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Climate change: how Obama and McCain compare
If the US is to share the burden of tackling climate change, how do the presidential candidates intend to take up the challenge? [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Acidifying oceans are brewing up an underwater din
As carbon emissions drive chemical changes in the oceans, noise pollution beneath the waves will become more of a problem [more]
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New Scientist - Climate Change: Turbulent weather ahead for southern US
Southwestern regions can expect the most pronounced temperature and rainfall fluctuations in the coming century no matter what we do [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Arctic ice at 'lowest ever levels'
Arctic sea ice may have reached its lowest ever levels, according to environmental campaigners. [more]
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edie.net - Climate Change and Energy Latest News: Voltage Optimisation at the RSPB
Two important environmental charities are leading by example and improving the energy efficiency of their UK Head Offices. The WWF were quick to realise the value of Voltage Optimisation and Panda House was powerperfected back in 2007. During May of this year, we added the RSPB when a pP-280kVA was installed at 'The Lodge', the RSPB's headquarters. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: US dashes hopes of targets for emissions
THE United States will not announce binding emission targets at a historic climate change conference in Indonesia, despite growing pressure from developing countries to take the lead in combating global warming. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: UK enduring more extreme weather patterns, official report reveals
EXTREME weather patterns have become more frequent in the UK, with Scotland's temperature rising by nearly 1C in the last 27 years, a government-funded report has concluded. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: Buying trees helps drivers cut pollution
COMMUTERS driving between Edinburgh and Glasgow have helped to offset some of their pollution by buying trees. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: Daffodils in December? It's a land of confusion
IT is just the thing to put a spring in your step on a cold winter's day. A hardy daffodil in full bloom has sprouted up months early outside an Edinburgh pub. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: Paying to preserve rain forest will help poor, UN climate talks told
INDONESIA'S Papua region is willing to preserve part of its rain forest, in exchange for money, to help the world slow global warming, its governor said at United Nations' climate talks. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: Saving the environment is everyone's business
Local companies' actions can have a global impact, says Sir Ken Collins. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: Fighting climate change may still cost the earth
Poor suffering as growth in biofuels forces up cereal prices, writes ALASTAIR JAMIESON [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: US participation essential for agreement on climate-control measures
ANY agreement hammered out by a massive United Nations climate-change conference starting in Indonesia today would not make sense without the participation of the US, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, the UN's climate chief said last night. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: Brown says N-power will benefit the environment
GORDON Brown yesterday re-ignited the row over building new nuclear power stations, signalling he believed they had a role to play in tackling climate change. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: The voices of the damned
THEY are the human face of climate change - the ordinary people whose lives are blighted by flooding, drought, hurricanes and soaring temperatures. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: £100 - That's how much it will cost you to save planet, says CBI
TACKLING climate change could cost households just £100 a year by 2030 - but only if action is taken now to prepare for the challenges ahead, business leaders warned yesterday. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: Climate alert as levels hit new high
LEVELS of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by burning fossil fuels, hit a record high in the atmosphere in 2006, accelerating global warming, the World Meteorological Organisation said yesterday. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: 'Act now - or millions face ruin from global warming'
CLIMATE change will reverse decades of development in Asia, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people, a coalition of aid agencies and environmental groups have warned. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: As we face rising sea levels, famine, disease and the loss of the most precious treasures of our planet, UN warns it is our last chance
THE Earth faces "abrupt and irreversible changes" that will make the planet unrecognisable unless urgent action is taken, the most definitive report on climate change so far has revealed. [more]
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Scotsman.com News - Climate change: The hands-on way to reduce your footprint
TIME to get serious about trying to stop climate change, says ANDY ROSS. [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Impact of the biofuel industry in South Africa
Increased biofuel production, driven by the rise in oil prices and the threat of climate change, has also caused the price of food to increase, especially those food crops used in biofuel production such as maize and sugarcane. This paper examines the likely effect of raised prices such as these on South African (SA) consumers, especially on the very poor who are particularly dependent on staples like maize and sugar. The document analyses the present SA biofuels strategy, which it finds to be seriously flawed in its [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Summary of COP12/MOP2 Nairobi conference on the next steps in the international effort on climate change
This paper documents the key outcomes of the two-week United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Nairobi, November 2006. The aim of the conference was to consider the next steps in the international climate effort. The following topics were discussed: the Montreal Processes future mitigation efforts, with presentations from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), European Commission, Sir Nicholas Stern, China, Brazil and South Africa review of the Kyoto Protocol the [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Adaptation to climate change in rural societies
The paper gives an overview of the ways in which climate change will impact rural societies, in particular poor farmers in developing countries. It predicts that Africa will be hardest hit because of its heavy dependence on agriculture, existing degraded soils and high poverty and tight budget constraints. The authors cover the following areas and suggest steps that farmers, policy makers, and researchers can take to minimise losses and adapt to climate change: farmers must adapt: details the need for new [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: The need for development projects to be incorporated into climate change adaptation strategies
Over six development agencies are screening their portfolios with the aim of ascertaining the extent to which exisiting development projects already consider climate risks or address vulnerability to climate variability; and identifying opportunities for incorporating climate change explicitly into future projects. This paper assesses this screening process in order to dentify opportunites for development agencies to expand their current focus on integrating adaptation to climate change with development planning [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Outlining the options for our energy future
This report is a summary of the International Energy Agencys latest World Energy Outlook. It focuses on its Alternative Policy and Beyond the Alternative Policy Scenarios a deliberate distinction aimed to spur action by underscoring the impacts on the future of the policy decisions made today. It is written in non-technical language to make it accessible to as wide an audience as possible. The report highlights that early moves to shift towards a more sustainable energy system are more effective and cheaper compared [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Several articles discussing coping strategies for climate change
This issue of ICT Update looks at a few pioneering activities African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are engaged in to mitigate and adapt to climte change. The lead article is entitled: Coping with climate change, which looks at the impacts of climate change on the mangroves of American Somoa, identifying priority areas in which local capacities need to be enhanced. Three other articles are featured: Hurricanes and Hams: Discusses the role of ameteur radio can play in offering the people [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Policy directions for governments, businesses and consumers to combat climate change
This report asserts that the only way to combat climate change is through decisive, concerted and sustained actions between governments, businesses and consumers, and identifies policy options to achieve this. It explores policy ideas and concepts which will allow to sustain economic growth while transforming the way society accesses, produces and consumes energy. It calls for the development and deployment of leading-edge technologies through partnerships and incentives and an approach to [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Estimating the impact of climate change disasters on children
If children already constitute half of those affected by any emergency, how will they be affected by the growing number of climate change disasters? Using examples of recent disasters and projections of likely impacts of climate change, this report looks at how increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters will specifically affect children. It estimates that over the next decade, up to 175 million children every year will be affected by both 'slow-moving' climate- related natural disasters such as desertification, as [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: The authorative state of knowledge on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
This report sets out the key policy-relevant findings of the Fourth Assessment (also known as AR4) of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Assessment is of current scientific understanding of impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, how well these systems are able to adapt and their vulnerability. The report addresses issues such as managing freshwater resources, impacts on lake and river systems, food security and agriculture impacts, and human health. [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Integrating climate change-foreign policy for a global climate regime
This report explores ways in which an integrated climate change-foreign policy approach might improve prospects for a more effective global climate regime. Such a regime would be characterised by an international agreement that would see wide global participation following the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol. The paper advocates a broader framing of the challenges of climate change to reveal new opportunities to align goals across policy areas. It recommends the following: international [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Report on a strategy for research into adaptation to climate change
This brief is based on a synthesis study of 105 projects completed under the Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS). It proposes a new strategy for research on adaptation to climate change that will both add value to the earlier research and evolve to address knowledge gaps and key questions. The strategy is based on five research themes. The first four focus on providing opportunities for poor people to strengthen their livelihoods through technologies, strategies and [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Sustainable technologies in the energy sector
This report discusses the need for a change in the energy sector towards sustainable technologies such as renewable energies sources and efficient decentralised cogeneration. It shows that a business as usual scenario, based on the International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Outlook projection, is not an option for future generations. The writers describe climate change as nothing short of an energy revolution that will require a change in the way that energy is produced, distributed and consumed. The [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Different post-Kyoto approaches, but same result?
This paper presents an overview of approaches for international climate policy after 2012, when Kyoto Protocol expires. The paper addresses the requirement for stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in general and related global emission and concentration levels. Then, it describes and assesses various approaches to further develop the Kyoto Protocol. This paper compares emission allowances for four future approaches contraction and convergence (C&C), common but differentiated convergence (CDC), the Tryptich [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Jobs: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) seeks researcher for CDM programme, Kanagawa, Japan
IGES is implementing a capacity building project for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Environment. The goal of this project is to develop human and institutional capacity in developing countries for the effective utilisation of CDM and JI as tools to achieve sustainable development in these countries while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions world wide. To implement this project, IGES is looking for a researcher. See link to full text for [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Conference: Energy access and climate change. The role of the private sector and the World Bank Group. Oslo, May 2007
Greater access to energy is an essential condition for the economic and social development of developing countries. Technologies with limited greenhouse gas emission exist, but new approaches are also required. How can the private sector, the World Bank Group and Norwegian institutions and companies play a part in advocating and implementing effective solutions? The Objective of the conference is to exchange experience and ideas between the World Bank Group and Norwegian institutions, companies and researchers, concerning [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Recognising gender differences in decision-making on energy and rural development
This paper discusses links between gender issues and energy within the international sustainable development context. It also presents recommendations on ways of incorporating gender sensitivity into energy and development policies and planning processes. Elements that should be considered in addressing gender and energy linkages include: gender mainstreaming which requires positive action at the policy level, at the programme level and at the organisational level gender [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Addressing the effects of climate change on health
This article considers the health impacts of climate change and discusses policies and interventions to address these effects. Many of the most important global killers including malaria and diarrhoea are highly sensitive to climatic conditions, yet a comprehensive strategy to support a public health response is lacking. The paper discusses preventative environmental health interventions including scaling up water and sanitation services and providing point- of-use disinfection; and examines integrated measures [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Over 50s have the highest carbon footprint in the UK, but also want to do something about it
Known as the baby boomers, this report reveals that the population aged 50-64, have the highest carbon footprint in the UK compared to other age groups. The authors argue that whilst their understanding of the full range of impacts of climate change is often limited, the majority of the over 50s are motivated about climate change. They feel that they should personally take action to combat climate change. However, many feel frustrated with the barriers that prevent them from totally engaging in a low carbon [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: An economic assessment of the impacts of climate change
This is a summary of the Stern Review, which assesses a wide range of evidence on the impacts of climate change, using a number of different techniques to measure costs and risks. The review states that green house gases need to stabilise to 450-550 parts per million carbon dioxide (CO2), which will require a 25% reduction in emissions by 2050. In order to do this Stern estimates that if no action is taken, the overall cost and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global Gross [more]
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Eldis Climate Change newsfeed: Few countries expected to experience catastrophic impacts from sea level rise
This paper assess the consequences of continued sea level rise (SLR) for 84 developing countries divided by region. The aim of this research was to produce a baseline estimate of the impacts of SLR that can be used by policymakers and international development institutions when allocating resources for adaptation to climate change. The following indicators were used to assess SLR impacts: land area affected population affected gross domestic product (GDP) changes urban impact (based on [more]
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