Climate Change

Climate shuffle

This Climate Action Tracker update shows that current emissions and policies - and future emission trends - are likely to lead to higher 21st century emission levels than previously projected. This, in turn, implies a higher level of warming by 2100.

Publication Date: 
12/06/2013
Marion Vieweg, Bill Hare, Niklas Höhne, & et al
Ecofys
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Green House Gases, Carbon Dioxide, Emissions Trading, Kyoto Protocol, CFCs, COP 18 (Doha), Certified Emission Reduction
Climate Change

New York lays out $20 billion plan to adapt to climate change

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades.

Publication Date: 
12/06/2013
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
New York, Climate Change, United States Of America (US), Natural Disasters, Floods, Storms, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, Climate Mitigation
Climate Change

India rejects linking emission reduction to financial resources

India has made it clear that it will not support a global climate change regime that simply links commitment to reduce carbon emissions to a country's financial resources.

Publication Date: 
12/06/2013
Urmi A. Goswami
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Climate Change, UNFCCC, Climate Equity, Developing Countries, China, Brazil, South Africa, Economic Development, Finance, Climate Adaptation, Climate Mitigation
Climate Change

Elements of a new climate agreement by 2015

This year’s Perspectives from UNEP and its UNEP Risø Centre in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) focuses on the elements of a new climate agreement by 2015 that will contribute to achieve the 2°C limit for global warming.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2013
Karen Holm Olsen, Jørgen Fenhann, Søren Lütken
UNEP Risø Centre
Tags:
Climate Agreements, Climate Change, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), REDD, India, Global, Carbon Dioxide, Air Transport, UNFCCC, Conference Of Parties, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Market
Climate Change

Scientists for extensive, coordinated research effort on glaciers

Scientists, administrators and other experts have underlined the need for an effective networking of various institutions engaged in research on climate change for a well-coordinated effort to stud

Publication Date: 
31/05/2013
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Scientists, Climate Change, Glaciers, Climate Mitigation, Climate Impacts, Environmental Science
Climate Change

Welspun Energy collaborates with ICFRE for increasing India’s forest cover

The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) and Forest Research Institute Dehradun (FRI) in collaboration with Welspun Energy Ltd. (WEL), India’s foremost renewable energy generator, organized a workshop titled ‘Innovation for Forest Carbon Finance in India’ on 28th May 2013 at FRI’s Dehradun campus.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2013
Welspun Energy Ltd
Tags:
Carbon Market, Forests, India, Finance, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Forest Conservation
Climate Change

Global warming will destroy half of common plants by century end: Study

NEW DELHI: More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Researchers from the University of East Anglia looked at 50,000 globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of global warming and slow it down.

Publication Date: 
13/05/2013
Subodh Varma
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Endangered Species, Climate Impacts, Extreme Weather Events, Ecotourism, Climate Mitigation, Green House Gases, Trees, Biodiversity
Climate Change

Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss

Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions in range size and abundance, especially amongst endemic species. However, little is known about how mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions could reduce biodiversity impacts, particularly amongst common and widespread species. Our global analysis of future climatic range change of common and widespread species shows that without mitigation, 57±6% of plants and 34±7% of animals are likely to lose ≥50% of their present climatic range by the 2080s.

Publication Date: 
12/05/2013
R. Warren, J. VanDerWal, J. Price & et al
Nature
1-5
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Flora, Fauna, Climate Impacts
Climate Change

Carbon budgets for climate change mitigation – a GAMS-based emissions model

In this article we have studied a scheme of partitioning the global carbon budget using an equity principle. In contrast to earlier approaches, this article carefully distinguishes between the two quantities – ‘entitlements to carbon space’ and ‘physically available carbon space’. A positive feature of the carbon budgets approach to allocation of mitigation burdens discussed here

Publication Date: 
10/05/2013
Tejal Kanitkar, T. Jayaraman, Mario D’Souza & et al
Current Science
104
9
1200-1206
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, India, Climate Equity, Green House Gases, UNFCCC
Environment

Exim Bank secures €150 m loan to fund green projects

The Exim Bank today said it has signed an agreement for a 20-year €150 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support projects that contribute to climate change mitigation.

Publication Date: 
10/05/2013
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Hydroelectricity, Biomass, Geothermal Energy, European Union (EU)

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