Originally published on the ECOreport. Catherine McKenna, Canada’s new Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, has already been in Paris. She met with her international counterparts for three days to discuss key issues prior to the upcoming United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 21). Some of the most interesting comments came from the … [continued]
The well-regarded, nonpartisan Pew Research Center fact tank has just sliced and diced the results of its Spring 2015 Global Attitudes Survey. The Pew climate change survey included a slew of questions about attitudes toward climate change and the relationship between climate change and other objective economic and environmental indicators. … [continued]
High-level government officials and ministers from more than 70 countries attended a meeting Monday and Tuesday of this week. It served as a precursor to the upcoming 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The pre-COP21 meeting aimed to “provide the … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Bjorn Lomborg has made a lucrative career from being a climate contrarian. His Copenhagen Consensus Centre was even offered $4 million by the Abbott government to set up a research facility in an Australian university. Australian academia should be thankful it didn’t work out. Lomborg’s model … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Reality Project. By now, you’ve likely heard about the UN climate talks from November 30 to December 11 in Paris more than a few times. But even if the conference’s themes and goals are clear, who precisely is involved and what actually happens can still seem … [continued]
A new report from the World Bank highlights the acute threat that climate change poses to the poorer segment of society around the globe. In fact, according to the report, Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty, climate change has the potential to push more than 100 million additional people … [continued]
The World Resources Institute released a couple of positive international findings today for renewable energy in its Assessing the Post-2020 Clean Energy Landscape report. Breaking down the 127 INDCs submitted to the United Nations by late October, the think tank discovered: 80% reference clean energy; 53% mention clean energy targets; … [continued]
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are part of 113 companies that make up CDP’s 2015 Climate A List, a list of companies identified as making strong actions to mitigate climate change. The list is part of not-for-profit organization CDP’s annual Climate Change Report, released this week. Nearly 2,000 companies submitted information … [continued]
As November begins, promises from individual countries to the United Nations have addressed nearly 90% of the world’s current greenhouse gas emissions. The world consensus aims to reduce and stabilize them in order to keep earth’s temperatures from climbing higher than two degrees Celsius by 2100. Since the preindustrial 18th century, temps have … [continued]
GOP working group will encourage greater dialogue on energy and environmental policy U.S. Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have announced the formation of a Senate Energy and Environment Working Group that will focus on ways to protect the environment and climate … [continued]
