Kathmandu, Nepal – Two days of discussion here among experts from 11 countries have concluded that significant progress is possible against the health, agriculture and climate damage caused by much of the brick production in the world.
Category: Climate
Youth leaders, lawyers launch climate actions
Bantayan Island, Cebu, The Philippines – On Earth Day,April 22, youth leaders from all over the world, backed up by top litigationlawyers, converged in Bantayan Island, Cebu. Together, they launched a seriesof socio-political and legal actions to compel to the…
Will the climate ever change for Sundarbans?
Seven years after the first report on the ‘vanishing islands‘ of Sundarbans, Subhra Priyadarshini revisits the fragile delta in the Bay of Bengal to find that it is not just climate change that threatens the existence of this world heritage…
Climate change at heart of developing nations’ plans
Representatives from governments in Africa and Asia have formed a network to support their efforts to factor climate change into their development plans, a statement said.
Developing nations to ‘put climate change at heart of plans’
Representatives from governments in Asia, including Bangladesh and Africa, have formed a network to support their efforts to include climate change into their development plans.
CO2 record highs
From: Andy Soos, ENN
Chemical coolants can quickly cut sea-level rise
Washington– Sea level rise, a growing threat that washes away beaches, attacks costal development, and raises the platform for launching ever more damaging and deadly storm surges—can be cut significantly by reducing local air pollution from black carbon, methane, and…
Wildlife sanctuaries along coasts and climate change
A new report on the potential effects of climate change on NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary uses existing observations and science-based expectations to identify how climate change could affect habitats, plants and animals within the sanctuary and adjacent coastal…
How fast is global climate changing?
There’s plenty of evidence that the climate has warmed up over the past century, and climate scientists know this has happened throughout the history of the planet. But they want to know more about how this warming is different.
Carbon emission efforts of some countries not enough
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Tuesday said some countries are not responding enough corresponding to their capabilities and endowment in curbing carbon emissions to tolerable limits.
US CO2 emissions falls to lowest level since 1994
Carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption in the United States during 2012 fell to the lowest level since 1994, finds a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a branch of the Department of Energy.
Tropical rainfall patterns
Andy Soos, ENN
Global warming impacts on tropical forests
Tropical forests may be less sensitive to global warming than previously thought, argues a new study published in Nature Geoscience.
How warm it was once upon a time
From: Andy Soos, ENN How warm or cold is on Earth as compared to earlier times? Of course, going back far enough and one can find all sorts of extremes.
Global warming to open arctic shipping routes
Who said the effects of global warming are all negative? According to new research conducted by UCLA, melting sea ice during the late summer will make Arctic shipping channels much more accessible.
Volcanic eruptions slowed recent Earth warming
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between 2000 and 2010 now thinks the culprits are hiding in plain sight — dozens of volcanoes…
‘Solar sponge’ soaks up CO₂ emissions
CSIRO scientists have created a ‘solar sponge’ which captures and then releases carbon dioxide using the power of natural sunlight – as published today in scientific journal Angewandte Chemie.
Protecting Arctic in the near-term
Washington, DC. – Arctic Environment Ministers are calling for “urgent action” to reduce black carbon, methane, and HFCs in order to help protect the Arctic and reduce the risk of setting off self-amplifying feedback mechanisms that accelerate warming and lead…
‘Climate change in Pakistan turning extreme’
Suhail Yusuf KARACHI – Data presented at a seminar on climate change in Pakistan highlighted trends where this South Asian country, which stretches from high, snow-capped mountains to a deltaic coast, could be in for a sharp rise in average…
Draft US national climate assessment released
Union of Concerned Scientists The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released its draft National Climate Assessment this week, just a week after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed the United States experienced its warmest year on record.
Mainstream, social media must engage on climate change
Speakers on the first day of a dialogue on future challenges for journalism said its time for the coordination of main stream and social media to play a vital role on climate change issue.
‘Horrible’ 3-feet sea level rise plausible by 2100?
John Roach Melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland may push up global sea levels more than 3 feet by the end of this century, according to a scientific poll of experts that brings a degree of clarity to a murky…
Cities hold key to Doha climate gateway
ICLEI press release Bonn, Germany: The UN Climate Change Summit ended in Doha last Saturday after negotiators agreed to the Doha Climate Gateway – a deal that extends the Kyoto Protocol for eight more years, introduces new principles on compensation…
Climate change and the unrestrained elite
George Monbiot Neoliberalism is not the root of the problem: it is the ideology used to justify a global grab of power, public assets and natural resources by an unrestrained elite. Humankind’s greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an…
The future of New York after sandy
Andy Soos, ENN It will take tens of billions of dollars to repair the damage of Superstorm Sandy. Will this be the norm of the future as climate changes and the sea level rises? If it is the new norm…
Doha deal assures ‘damage aid’ to poor nations
EurActiv/ENN Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight they face from the ravages of climate change, wringing a pledge from rich nations that they will receive funds to repair the “loss and damage” incurred.
Positions on Doha outcome
EurActiv/ENN Speaking to EurActiv during the Doha COP18 summit, Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency said that he would be happy with two outcomes. “One would be if the negotiations led to a second climate change…
25 nations commit to scaling up voluntary action
Source: Unep Doha (Qatar) – Six new countries today joined an international effort aimed at fast action on reducing black carbon, methane, some hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and other short-lived climate pollutants (SCLPs).
Doha climate gateway: Universal agreement by 2015
Source, Unep Countries have successfully launched a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, agreed on a firm timetable to adopt a universal climate agreement by 2015 and agreed to a path to raise necessary ambition to respond to climate…
Divisions persist over aid in climate talks
UN climate talks are heading into the final stretch with a host of issues unresolved, including a standoff over how much money financially stressed rich countries can spare to help the developing world tackle global warming.