Posted on August 30th, 2010 by Wil Burns
UPDATED! ONLINE INTRODUCTORY COURSE ON REDD+:
www.conservationtraining.org
The Nature Conservancy; Conservation International; the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance; Rainforest Alliance, the World Wildlife Fund, and GTZ have updated their online introductory course on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation and conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+) with new information and activities.
This course provides a basic [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2010 by Wil Burns
V International Workshop Course: Carbon Markets “Carbon Project as a New Business Opportunity September 14th,15th and 16th 2010 Melia Hotel (2599 Salaverry Av. – San Isidro, Lima – Peru)
Dear all,
The National Environmental Fund – FONAM PERU, with the support of Ministry of Environment from Peru, UNDP and UNEP Risoe, is pleased to invite you to [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2010 by Wil Burns
An AP story yesterday reported on startling, if not somewhat predictable, developments in the context of the construction of coal-fired power plants in the United States. The story reports that 32 traditional coal plants have been built since 2008 or are under construction. It’s estimated that these plants will generate about 125 million tons of [...]
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Posted on August 14th, 2010 by Wil Burns
If you will be teaching courses related to climate change politics, policy and ethics in the coming academic year, please consider using WORLD ETHICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: FROM INTERNATIONAL TO GLOBAL JUSTICE (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). Other professors and lecturers have been adopting the book, and it is about to enter its second printing. Information [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Wil Burns
The latest analysis of temperature anomalies by James Hansen and his associates at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies is an important read for those preparing lectures on climate science for fall classes. Among the key take-aways from the analysis:
Global temperature in the past decade was about 0.8°C warmer than at the beginning of the [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Wil Burns
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (http://climate.gmu.edu) invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to
support an NSF-funded planning grant titled Making the Global Local: Unusual Weather Events as Climate Change Education Opportunities. The goal of this project is to establish a national
network of climate and weather science organizations, and [...]
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Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Wil Burns
Hello all
If you didn’t make it to Bonn, all our interviews are now online at: http://www.climate-change.tv/category/guide/meeting/bonn-2010-13th-awg-kp-and-11th-awg-lca. They cover a range of positions on what happens now there is not enough time to negotiate, agree and implement a fair, ambitious and binding agreement once the Kyoto Protocol expires.
We hear from:
Delegation heads, of [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2010 by Estelle Mandigout
Recent failures with international negotiations on Climate Change, especially the outcome of COP15, reinforce the lack of enthusiasm for sustainability among policymakers around the world. However increasing extreme weather incidents clearly show that we cannot afford to wait after international policy agreement to take action.
When international agreements are sterile how to turn a matter of [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Wil Burns
The On the Cutting Edge workshop series is holding an online workshop about climate change this fall. This is a great opportunity to learn about numerical models and how to incorporate them into your teaching. Because this is an online workshop, you don’t even need to leave home to take part.
Please pass this announcement along [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Wil Burns
CLIMATE: Utilities ask Supreme Court to decide if GHGs are a ‘nuisance’ (Wednesday, August 4, 2010)
Gabriel Nelson, E&E reporter
Four of the nation’s largest utilities have urged the Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that could lead courts to limit greenhouse gas emissions under common law, saying the decision makes no sense while U.S. EPA is moving [...]
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