Posted on July 29th, 2011 by Rónán Kennedy
Something that can make for a good class is a debate. Here are two articles with different views on the sentencing of Tim DeChristopher (who bid on oil and gas leases as a form of protest):
Climate protester DeChristopher gets 2-year sentence
DeChristopher’s Sentence Warranted
This case, and the issues it raises, might make for a good starting [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2011 by Wil Burns
Many of my students labor under the misconception that climate change impacts are not currently being manifested. An excellent new study in Science, Lobell, et al., Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980, 333 Science 616-20 (2011) once again demonstrates the contemporaneous fingerprints of climatic change, but also demonstrates the large uncertainties in seeking [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2011 by Wil Burns
Dear colleagues,
The World Resources Institute (WRI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with the support of the Government of Ireland, have been leading a project aimed at highlighting possible ways forward on some of the key issues surrounding the design of the climate regime. Following a side event in Cancun at COP16 in December [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2011 by Wil Burns
The entire CRUTEM3 database of station temperature measurements has just been released. This comes after a multi-year process to get permissions from individual National Weather Services to allow the passing on of data to third parties and from a ruling from the UK ICO. All the NWSs have now either agreed or not responded (except [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2011 by Wil Burns
DiploFoundation, a non-profit organisation based in Malta, Geneva and Belgrade, is happy to announce its eight-week online course on Climate Change Diplomacy. The course, operating at an introductory level, is a good preparation for understanding global negotiations and policies on climate change. For the course beginning in the week of August 29, please apply until [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2011 by Wil Burns
For instructors who include a discussion of non-Annex I mitigation financing/costs issues in their class, there’s an excellent new article in the journal Climate Policy, Olbrisch, et al., Estimates of Incremental Investment for and Costs of Mitigation Measures in Developing Countries, 11 Climate Policy 970-86 (2011) .
Among the take-aways from the piece:
The international financial support [...]
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