Bellona: The upcoming fifth
climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is believed to reveal new, and gruesome, scientific data: Natural and anthropogenic factors...
Bellona: The upcoming fifth
climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is believed to reveal new, and gruesome, scientific data: Natural and anthropogenic factors contributing to global climate change will escalate in the 2040s, causing ever more devastating effects on the planet.
An oil industry association in the US attempted to influence
climate change reporting by spreading uncertainty about the causes of global warming, while environmental groups can tend to go the other way and highlight the most alarming elements of climate change.
Not exact matches
As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this obje
Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C
by 2100 (and governments attending the successive
climate summits have agreed in principle to this obje
climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).
The new
report «Lights Out for the Reef», written
by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of
climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.
The
report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of
climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded
by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».
Governments can manage
climate change but will have to cut greenhouse gases to zero
by 2100 to limit risks a U.N.
report said on Sunday.
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or
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by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly
reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports&r
reports on Form 10 - Q (the «
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Reports»).
The US Global
Change Research Program is required by statute to produce the comprehensive National Climate Assessment report on climate change impacts on the United States every four
Change Research Program is required
by statute to produce the comprehensive National
Climate Assessment report on climate change impacts on the United States every four
Climate Assessment
report on
climate change impacts on the United States every four
climate change impacts on the United States every four
change impacts on the United States every four years.
United Nations
report backed
by financial sector highlights need for success of post-Kyoto
climate change negotiations
The
report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's
climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort
by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.
Note: The results of the Fraser Institute
report are disputed
by the Pembina Institute «s Simon Dyer, who told the CBC that the
report «is based on unreasonable production levels that don't consider the world making progress on
climate change.»
The
report, hinged on the implications of
climate change, came at a time when energy experts were insisting that unless countries drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions
by moving away from fossil fuels,
climate change would remain inevitable.
A research team is
reporting a «glimmer of hope» for ocean coral threatened
by climate change, after successfully breeding baby coral on Australia's iconic...
While energy companies are the most frequent targets of
climate activism, a new
report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global
climate change.
Europe is already in the vanguard of
climate change action: a European Environment Agency
report published last month said within five years emissions on the continent may have been slashed
by a quarter on 1990 levels, «meeting and overachieving» its 2020 target of 20 per cent.
Last year, a
report by the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, led
by Professor Marco Springmann, said a tax on animal products could have a «substantial» effect in terms of mitigating their contributions to
climate change.
A new
report and campaign
by the environmental group finds that slashing our meat intake
by 50 per cent
by 2050 is an important way to stop the worst effects of
climate change, and the best way to alleviate a raft of health issues linked to eating too much meat.
As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced
by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to
climate change, a new
report says.
Global dairy and meat production and consumption must be cut in half
by 2050 to avoid dangerous
climate change and keep the Paris Agreement on track, according to a new Greenpeace
report.
A new
climate change report is forecasting an almost 50 per cent reduction in rain
by 2090, but one farmer in southern NSW says he has already seen things
change over the past 30 years.
You can learn more about Mass Audubon's efforts to identify areas that are critical for conservation in the face of
climate change by reading our Losing Ground
report.
An Op Ed
by Mass Audubon's Jack Clarke discussing the importance of conserving critical landscapes in the face of
climate change, as the
report suggests, has been published in regional papers statewide (July 20, 2014).
Massachusetts Birds and Our
Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming
Changing Climate builds on those previous
reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected
by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming
changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming planet.
Last week's New
Climate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's
Climate Economy
report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints,
climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's
climate change), accompanied
by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's lives.
A new study I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television
reporting of the three recent blockbuster
reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still
by far the most common in the six countries it examined.
The UK
Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 evidence report, prepared for the UK Government by the the Committee on Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate
Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 evidence report, prepared for the UK Government by the the Committee on Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate c
Change Risk Assessment 2017 evidence
report, prepared for the UK Government
by the the Committee on
Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate
Climate Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of climate c
Change, identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address the risks of
climate climate changechange.
A
climate -
change report being released on Wednesday
by the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate calls for a 100 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels
by the middle part of this century.
A
report by the Commons» energy and
climate change committee published today warns that government proposals will effectively provide subsidies to nuclear generators - despite the coalition agreement only permitted new nuclear power stations «provided they receive no public subsidy».
Today's
report, written
by consulting firm Impetus for Greenpeace, warns the government needs to invest heavily in energy efficiency if it is to meet its
climate change goals.
And yet all of us sat to hear Sir Mark Walport, the Government's Chief Scientific Advisor, when he came last month and explained to the Government that the recent IPCC
report - which made clear the threats posed
by man - made
climate change - was the most exhaustive, authoritative, peer reviewed
report on
climate change ever published.
The
report also warned that the current target to reduce emissions
by 60 per cent
by 2050 may not be enough to combat
climate change.
A
report by the Commons Energy and
Climate Change Committee criticises ministers for failing to do enough to help millions struggling with soaring energy bills and reopens the debate on benefits for wealthy older people.
In reference to a
report by a German scientist which showed dissent among scientists who worked on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, Mr Tyrie commented:
Unlike Governor Cuomo, they have both gone out of their way to take positive steps on
climate change; A.G. Schneiderman
by issuing a
report detailing the need to address
climate change at the state level, Comptroller DiNapoli
by effectively pressing the world's largest fossil fuel companies to disclose how their business plans fare in a low - carbon future.»
According to Governor Paterson's
Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly increase deployment of solar technologies to address climate
Climate Action Council, which issued an Interim
Report earlier this month identifying strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent
by 2050, the State over time will need to significantly increase deployment of solar technologies to address
climate climate change.
The analogy to the
climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach
by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to
report before each pre-budget
report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.
As we recently
reported in Nature
Climate Change, significantly expanding sugarcane or lipidcane production in Brazil could reduce current global carbon dioxide emissions
by up to 5.6 percent.
If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive global sea level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment
report and in a 2014 study led
by Kopp.
With every year of inaction the risks posed
by climate change grow, according to a new
report requested
by Congress.
Disturbingly, a few mistakes were also recently uncovered in the second of the
climate research reports produced in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; the second report examines the current effects of climate change and forecasts future e
climate research
reports produced in 2007
by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change; the second report examines the current effects of climate change and forecasts future e
Climate Change; the second report examines the current effects of climate change and forecasts future ef
Change; the second
report examines the current effects of
climate change and forecasts future e
climate change and forecasts future ef
change and forecasts future effects.
This increased certainty is starkly reflected in the latest
report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), the fourth in a series of assessments of the state of knowledge on the topic, written and reviewed
by hundreds of scientists worldwide.
Scientific consensus that humans cause
climate change is akin to the scientific consensus that smoking causes cancer, says a
report released today
by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ethics and costs are contentious issues tackled
by the next Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change report
A controversial prediction that found its way into the most recent
report by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change said they'd be gone
by 2035, but a detailed new analysis contradicts it.
Predictions of how much sea - levels would rise due to
climate change, made
by a key UN
report in 2001, were conservative, say researchers on the eve of the release of the new update of the
report.
EVER since the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error — that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 — there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mi
Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error — that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 — there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mis
Change's 2007
report on the impacts of
climate change was discovered to contain a major error — that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 — there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mi
climate change was discovered to contain a major error — that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 — there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mis
change was discovered to contain a major error — that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone
by 2035 — there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes.
McCarthy expressed hope that the
report, coming from a trusted source — AAAS publishes the prestigious journal Science — and written
by a group of esteemed American
climate scientists, would get across the message that 97 percent of
climate scientists are in agreement and that early action is needed on
climate change.
reported in the journal «Science», scientists led
by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and
Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.
Officials said the agreement furthers the objectives of the league's 2014 sustainability
report, which documented and disclosed the NHL's carbon footprint, and «NHL Green» — a comprehensive sustainability initiative created
by the league in 2010 to address the effects of
climate change and freshwater scarcity upon ice hockey as a sport.