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Saying that “ investment-grade climatechange and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climatechange.
A new report from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change shows the importance of all major nations taking part in global efforts to reduce emissions—and in particular, finds China’s role to be crucial. From 2000 to 2010, China’s energy use grew 130%, up from a growth of 50% the previous decade.
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climatechange. Improving coordination and support for research efforts on climatechange preparedness.
A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climatechange science from mid-2006 to the present day. Click to enlarge.
billion tonnes of CO 2 ) in 2010 for the first time. Published in the journal Nature ClimateChange , the new analysis shows fossil fuel emissions increased by 5.9% in 2010 and by 49% since 1990, the reference year for the Kyoto protocol. in 2010 and by 49% since 1990, the reference year for the Kyoto protocol.
As commissioned by the Australian Government in 2010, the Garnaut ClimateChange Review, led by Professor Ross Garnaut, has issued the first of a series of papers scheduled for this month and next updating the 2008 ClimateChange Review. —2008 ClimateChange Review. Earlier post.)
The National Research Council of the US has released a report examining the potential for climatechange to pose or to alter security risks for the United States over the next ten years. It also emphasizes climate-driven security risks that call for action within the coming decade either to anticipate or to respond to security threats.
It will be much harder and more expensive for Australia to do its fair share on climatechange without a carbon pricing scheme, according to the final report of the Garnaut ClimateChange Review – Update 2011, Australia in the Global Response to ClimateChange. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)
The recent South-East Queensland (SEQ) drought was likely caused by shifts associated with climate variability over decades rather than climatechange, according to the findings of a team of CSIRO researchers led by Dr Wenju Cai. —Wenju Cai. Much of the regional annual rainfall is recorded in summer.
This year’s edition highlights the growing divergence between demands for action on climatechange and the actual pace of progress on reducing carbon emissions. in 2018, faster than at any time since 2010-11. —Bob Dudley, group chief executive. and carbon emissions grew by 2.0% The world is on an unsustainable path.
Schematic diagram of the trade-offs between the implications for regional air quality and global climatechange of new policies for management of the atmosphere. 2010 CalNex Science and Implementation Plan. The gray ellipse approximately represents the direction of current trends in the US. Source: NOAA. Click to enlarge.
Earlier observations from satellites and balloons suggest that stratospheric water vapor probably increased between 1980 and 2000, which would have enhanced the decadal rate of surface warming during the 1990s by about 30% compared to estimates ignoring this change, according to the authors. —Solomon et al.
World energy consumption by fuel type, 2010-2040. The US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013) projects that world energy consumption will grow by 56% between 2010 and 2040, from 524 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) to 820 quadrillion Btu. Source: IEO2013.
Illustration of projected ozone changes in the South Coast region due to climatechange in 2050. The study also predicts that peak concentrations of dangerous airborne particles will increase in the San Joaquin Valley due to the effects of climatechange on wind patterns. Click to enlarge. Kleeman, Ph.D.
Energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2010 were the highest in history, according to the latest estimates by the International Energy Agency (IEA). In terms of fuels, 44% of the estimated CO 2 emissions in 2010 came from coal, 36% from oil, and 20% from natural gas. tonnes for China, and 1.5 tonnes in India. Earlier post.).
The researchers caution that their findings do not imply that policies affecting aging or urbanization should be implemented as a response to climatechange, but rather that better understanding of these trends would help anticipate future changes. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1004581107. 1004581107.
The final report shows overall emissions in 2010 increased by 3.2% EPA attributes the trend to an increase in energy consumption across all economic sectors, due to increasing energy demand associated with an expanding economy, and increased demand for electricity for air conditioning due to warmer summer weather during 2010.
response to climatechange. The temperatures of large inland water bodies are good indicators of climatechange and have been used for climatechange studies. Our analysis provides a new, independent data source for assessing the impact of climatechange over land around the world.
Population growth, limits to arable land and fresh water, and climatechange have “ profound implications ” for the ability of agriculture to meet this century’s demands for food, feed, fiber, and fuel while reducing the environmental impact of their production. ” —Federoff et al. Resources. Fedoroff, D.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “ Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2010 ” draft report shows that in 2010, overall greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions increased by 3.3% There was also an increase in air conditioning use due to warmer summer weather during 2010. from the previous year.
Greenhouse gas emissions increased in the EU in 2010 as a result of both economic recovery in many countries after the 2009 recession and a colder winter, according to the latest greenhouse gas inventory published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). below 1990 levels in 2010. Emissions increased in 2010.
Energy-related CO 2 emissions buy state, 2010. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 2010 state energy-related CO 2 emissions for transportation sector.
g/km CO 2 in 2010 according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders’ (SMMT) 10 th annual CO 2 report. The 2010 CO 2 emissions fall is one of the highest annual reductions on record but lower than the 5.4% It appears, though, that the rate of improvement in emissions slowed in the second-half of 2010.
finds that the sea-level rise is at least partly a result of climatechange. 2010) Patterns of Indian Ocean sea-level change in a warming climate. The study, led by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., Weiqing Han.
Factors contributing to the growth in energy-related CO 2 emissions in 2010. US carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of fossil fuels were 5,638 million metric tons carbon dioxide (MMTCO 2 ) in 2010, an increase of 3.9% Consumption of coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, rose by 6% in 2010 after falling by 12% in 2009.
A new study published by the Pew Center on Global ClimateChange finds that combined actions across three fronts—technology, policy, and consumer behavior—could deliver up to a 65% reduction in transportation emissions from current levels by 2050. gigatons in 2010 to 2.3 Source: Greene and Plotkin (2011).
rise, as 2010 was one of the two warmest. Source: State of the Climate in 2010. Worldwide, 2010 was one of the two warmest years on record, according to NOAA’s just-released 2010 State of the Climate report. Source: State of the Climate in 2010. Source: State of the Climate in 2010.
The European Commission says cereal production in 2010 will be close to the average recorded since 2005. Europe was hit by very low temperatures in December 2009, as well as in the first three months of 2010. Estimates show that the overall area used in the EU for cereals in 2010 shrank by 3% year-on-year. year-on-year, and 5.0%
The new analysis offers policy makers and the public a far more detailed and comprehensive understanding of how to mitigate climatechange most effectively, Unger and colleagues assert. Bauer (2010) Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors. Tags: ClimateChange Emissions Policy. A hat-tip to Tom!).
KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climatechange to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The KPMG research finds that the external environmental costs of 11 key industry sectors jumped 50% from US$566 to US$846 billion in 8 years (2002 to 2010), averaging a doubling of these costs every 14 years. Source: KPMG.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) released a policymaker’s summary of Working Group III’s (WG III) latest report showing that despite a growing number of climatechange mitigation policies, annual anthropogenic GHG emissions grew on average by 1.0 GtCO 2 eq/yr in 2010. Transport sector.
The smartest scientists on the face of the planet, the ones studying climatechange and global warming, are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more. An oil-covered pelican flaps its wings on an island in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky).
The GISS ModelE2 provides the initial and boundary conditions to a regional climate model for the years 2006?2010 2010 and 2048?2052. ClimateChange Emissions Health Policy' The CT1 and CT2 scenarios, applied economy-wide and in nominal dollars, are intended to represent an upper and lower end of carbon tax options.
The Global Work Party on 10/10/10, which your South Bay 350 Climate Action Group was proud to be part of, was the largest day of carbon-cutting action in the planet’s history. The acceleration of climatechange in 2010 won’t let us. org Los Angeles South Bay 350 Climate Action Group the Cornfield.
A paper on the work was published in the journal ClimaticChange. Repetition of the experiments using different pre-industrial starting dates enabled the scientists to distinguish between anthropogenic climatechange and internal climate variability. Giorgetta, Traute Crueger, Monika Esch, Julia Pongratz (2010).
A study published earlier this year in the journal Nature ClimateChange that cast doubt on whether biofuels produced from corn residue could meet federal mandates for cellulosic biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% compared to gasoline ( earlier post ) has drawn critical response published as correspondence in the same journal.
The study, published as an open access paper in the journal Nature ClimateChange , shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions. Eighty percent of leases remained unplanted in 2010. Curran, Gregory P.
Thus, besides being a marker of changes in the global hydrological cycle, salinity-driven impacts of ocean sequestration of heat and carbon need to be examined in the context of better projections of future climatechange. Journal of Climate (early online release) doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3377.1. Durack and Wijffels.
The conference, attended by 130 international scientists and policy specialists, is the first to consider the global consequences of climatechange beyond 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 °F). 4 degrees of warming averaged over the globe translates into even greater warming in many regions, along with major changes in rainfall.
jumped by more than 5% in 2010, which is unprecedented. jumped by more than 5% in 2010, which is unprecedented. Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period.
Develop and publish a plan to mobilize demand for electric vehicles in city fleets for the period 2010 - 2013 and rally private fleets to the safe end. As part of C40 cities’ commitment to reduce GHG emissions and share best practise, the City of Hong Kong will host a workshop on Electric Vehicles in November 2010.
The results emphasize the temporal asymmetry between the costs of mitigation and benefits of avoided damages from climatechange and thus the long timeframe for which climatechange mitigation investment pays off. —Brown and Saunders. These damage estimates suggest that limiting global warming this century to 1.5 °C
Although it may be appropriate to criticize the media for not presenting the case for climatechange more strongly and for not presenting the implications of individual behavior more clearly , scientists share at least some of the responsibility for the current state of affairs. Attari et al. Shahzeen Z. Attari, Michael L.
trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climatechange catastrophe. The reports estimates that incremental green investment of about 3% of world gross product (WGP) (about $1.9
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