Posted on February 28th, 2011 by Wil Burns
Full scholarship for MSc in Climate Change and Development at University of Sussex/Institute for Development Studies, UK
A full scholarship (fees plus maintenance and travel) funded through the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship scheme is available for applicants to the MSc in Climate Change and Development programme for entry October 2011.
Note: Potential applicants must undertake the following process [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2011 by Wil Burns
Please register now and join us March 11 for our Climate & Energy Webinar:
Engaging Students and Addressing Critical Thinking Skills via the Nuclear Debate – James D. Myers, University of Wyoming
Time – 10:00 am Pacific | 11:00 am Mountain | 12:00 pm Central | 1:00 pm Eastern
Duration – 1 hour. The presentation will be 45 [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2011 by Wil Burns
Dear colleagues,
Responding to increasing concerns over climate change, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI:www.teriin.org), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES:www.iges.or.jp), and World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC:www.jointokyo.org) have jointly developed an eight-week blended distance learning program on “Science and Policy of Climate Change”. This will be conducted for Asia-Pacific region from 8 April [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2011 by Wil Burns
Dear Colleagues: Some of you may recall that about a year ago we posted (and later published in ELI’s ELR) a short description and analysis of an empirical study we conducted of climate change litigation. In a new article for law journal publication, we have extended the study to include all cases filed in [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2011 by Wil Burns
The think tank Climatico has published an excellent new briefing of the agreements reached at COP16/CMP6 in Cancun. Beyond providing a very good summary of the elements of the agreements reached at the meeting, the analysis has the following take-aways
1. The AWG-LCA agreement’s provisions on REDD+ adopts many of the safeguards proposed by Bolivia, resulted [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2011 by Wil Burns
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to draw your attention to our E-Learning course on “Legal Preparedness for Climate Change”, (www.idlo.int/elearning) from May 9 to June 3, 2011.
The course will be conducted online for four weeks and would be highly beneficial for climate change, natural resources and energy, finance and environment specialists from developing countries, countries in [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2011 by Wil Burns
Here’s a very good collection of analyses of COP 16, posted originally on the Global Environmental Politics listserve.
Triple Crisis Blog: (www.triple.crisis.com)
Spotlight:Cancún includes post-mortem analysis by:
Tom Athanasiou, Director EcoEquity and Greenhouse Development Rights;
Ahmed Abdel Latif, IP and Technology Program Manager, ICTSD
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director Center for [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2011 by Wil Burns
22nd Ph.D. Workshop on
International Climate Policy
Organised by:
Ecofys Germany GmbH
Am Wassermann 36
50829 Cologne – Germany
April 28-29, 2011
Call for Papers
The 22nd Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy (ICP) will take place on 28-29 April 2011 at Ecofys Germany in Cologne, Germany. The workshop will not only focus on climate economics, but on policy and energy related topics [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2011 by Wil Burns
Dear CEDD members,
Please inform your faculty that a CEDD team, funded by NASA, has developed 8 self-contained modules for undergraduate general education on climate change. The modules using NASA data and web materials is presently available on the Encyclopedia of Earth. They include:
NASA Time Machine –
Climate Change Impacts on Colorado River water supply -
Seasonality -
Introduction [...]
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