Posted on December 18th, 2011 by Wil Burns
From where I sit, Climate Action Tracker, a project of several organizations including Ecofys, PIK and Climate Analytics, is a “must see” site for climate change instructors, providing a regular updated snapshot of the climatic implications of commitments made by the parties to the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol and potential successor instruments. The Tracker’s latest [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2011 by EBurleson
The Durban agreements provide a mandate with which all greenhouse-gas emitting countries will commit to a common UN legal regime as early as possible but no later than 2015. Country parties also agreed that the new deal will take effect no later than 2020. For the first time, major emerging economies have agreed to negotiate [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2011 by Wil Burns
Bioclimate is a web-based reference tool that aggregates biodiversity and climate change related information from an array of peer-reviewed sources and gray literature. It currently has over 3000 citations, categorized and searchable. It is in its beta version currently and the developers are still seeking collaborators. The site would benefit from substantial updates in many [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2011 by Wil Burns
The Global Carbon Project has released its Carbon Budget 2010, an annual update of the global carbon budget and trends. The site is a treasure trove of information and resources for climate change instructors, including contemporaneous data on carbon dioxide emissions, sources, and breakdowns by region. Moreover, the site includes a Power Point presentation with [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2011 by Wil Burns
A new study prepared for the Civil Society Institute by staff at Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. provide a hopeful scenario for U.S. energy policy which moves away from a future commitment to coal with coal with pollution control technologies and nuclear power to a robust commitment to renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Among the take-aways from [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2011 by Wil Burns
The Global Carbon Project has just published the new global carbon budget and carbon trend analyses including 2010.
Key findings and analyses include:
* CO2 emissions grew 5.9% in 2010 to reach 9.1 GtC (33.5Gt CO2), overcoming a 1.4% decrease in CO2 emissions in 2009
* Including land-use change and deforestation, in 2010 emissions reached 10.0 GtC (36.8 [...]
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