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Political & economic short-termism driving civilisation to destruction
March 29th, 2013 by University West
Climate scientists have shown through their research that the ongoing rise in global temperature will cause the sea level to rise, which will drown coastal communities, and cause severe weather, which will kill many people. So why don’t politicians act on these findings? Social scientist Stellan Vinthagen shows that today’s power relations prohibit change. The [...]
CEO survey reveals greater concern for energy and raw material costs
December 10th, 2012 by PwC
According to preliminary results from PwC’s Global Annual CEO Survey, concern about energy and raw material costs as a threat to business growth prospects are at a three year high. Fifty-three percent of CEOs – a 7% increase on last year’s results – said the issue had now overtaken consumer spending and behaviour as a [...]
Ocean temperature is now the primary climate-induced threat to North Atlantic calcifying plankton
December 3rd, 2012 by Nature
Ocean temperature is now the primary climate-induced threat to North Atlantic calcifying plankton according to research published in the paper “Long-term responses of North Atlantic calcifying plankton to climate change” in the journal Nature Climate Change. This study suggests that although ocean acidification may become a serious threat in the future, from 1960–2009 the primary [...]
Biggest barrier to tackling climate change threat is collective and individual failure of political will
November 25th, 2012 by WWF
Governments are falling far short of their commitment to keep global average temperature rise below the accepted 2°C goal, putting the world on the brink of climate catastrophe. The UN Environment Program’s Emissions Gap Report 2012 identifies a huge gap between current pledges to cut polluting greenhouse gas emissions for 2020 and the benchmark of [...]
Report outlines impacts of climate change in Europe
November 23rd, 2012 by European Environment Agency
Climate change is affecting all regions in Europe, causing a wide range of impacts on society and the environment. Further impacts are expected in the future, potentially causing high damage costs, according to the latest assessment published by the European Environment Agency this week. The report, ‘Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012’ finds [...]
World Bank report states climate change is one of the single biggest challenges facing development
November 19th, 2012 by World Bank
The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4°Celsius by 2100, if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, according to a scientific report “Turn Down [...]
PWC shows that decarbonisation of global economy far too slow to limit global warming to 2° Celsius
November 5th, 2012 by PwC
The annual rate of reduction of carbon emissions per unit of GDP (or the carbon intensity of the economy) needed to limit global warming to 2°C, has passed a critical threshold according to new analysis from PwC. The carbon intensity of an economy is affected by a country’s fuel mix, energy efficiency, and the proportion [...]
Greenhouse gases rise with GDP but fall more slowly with recession
October 8th, 2012 by Thomson Reuters
Greenhouse gas emissions rise when economies expand but don’t fall as quickly when recession strikes, perhaps because people stick with a higher-emitting lifestyle from the boom times, a study showed. The report, ‘Asymmetric effects of economic growth and decline on CO2 emissions’ in the 7 October 2012 edition of the journal Nature Climate Change dents [...]
Insurers can play leading role in mitigating climate change risk
September 21st, 2012 by Ceres
According to a Ceres report “Stormy Future for U.S. Property and Casualty Insurers: The Growing Costs and Risks of Extreme Weather Events, published in September 2012, worsening weather in a warming world poses a growing risk to the financial stability of insurance companies and has broad ramifications for the economy and society. The report outlines a [...]
Global carbon dioxide emissions reached all-time high in 2011
July 26th, 2012 by European Commission Joint Research Centre
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main cause of global warming – increased by 3% in 2011, reaching an all-time high of 34 billion tonne. In China, the world’s most populous country, average emissions of CO2 increased by 9% to 7.2 tonnes per capita. China is now within the range of 6 to [...]
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