The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals. An emissions gap persists, …
In Norway capturing and burying carbon emissions has brought down one prime minister, been likened to a national ‘moon landing’ by another and left the country’s highest-emitting gas plant as a monument At least 10 European power plants were supposed to begin piping their carbon emissions into underground tombs this …
Q&A with Chris Field: The link between climate change and disaster risk reduction. Chris Field says that intergovernmental processes are really more about creatively encouraging ambition than mandating it.
The world is clearly slipping on its targets to reign in heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Action on cutting carbon dioxide emissions is not easy as the world has to re-invent growth as it knows it today to reduce emissions, and it has to share that growth between nations. In …
The European Union will fail to meet its aggressive climate change goals unless significant changes are made, according to a report published Tuesday. The news comes after the group’s 28 member states spent years implementing drastic changes to energy and transportation infrastructure to adhere to the EU's goal of reducing …
After Cyclone Hudhud pounded India's southern port city of Visakhapatnam last October, snapping bridges, swamping farmland and wrecking fishing boats, many breathed a sigh of relief. The lives of tens of thousands of residents had been spared as a result of a well-rehearsed mass evacuation to shelters - a lesson …
It turns out that the sea-level rise scenarios for high-risk coastal areas aren't good enough--at least according to new research. While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) created these sea-level rise scenarios, researchers are now arguing that they don't provide the right information for coastal decision-making and management. "Although …
LAHORE (PR): A high level outreach event was held in Planning & Development Department Wednesday to launch the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC). The event was presided over by Chairman P&D;, Irfan Elahi which was attended by eminent officials from different provincial departments, academic …
Asia experienced the most weather and climate-related disasters in the world between 2000 and 2008, says the fifth assessment report of the International Panel for Climate Change’s (IPCC). It says the region also suffered the second highest proportion of global economic losses. The report was launched on Tuesday at a …
The Communication sets out the EU's vision for a transparent and dynamic, legally binding United Nations climate change agreement that sets the world on a pathway to prevent global warming from reaching dangerous levels. International negotiations are under way and are set to be finalised at the UN climate conference …
A major UN climate summit in Paris later this year should call on countries to make tough carbon cuts to avoid dangerous global warming, EU document says The world’s states should commit to a legally binding emissions cut of 60% by 2050, with five-yearly reviews, in a Paris Protocol to …
Environmental damage in the climate change-hit islands of Sundarbans is costing India Rs 1,290 crore each year, estimates a latest World Bank report. The cost of environmental damage associated with ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss is about Rs 6.7 billion (Rs 670 crore) annually, while the cost of health effects …
Environmental damage in the climate change-hit islands of Sundarbans is costing India Rs 1,290 crore each year, estimates a latest World Bank report. The cost of environmental damage associated with ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss is about Rs 6.7 billion (Rs 670 crore) annually, while the cost of health effects …
Nearly 20 nations, including India, will deploy a global calculator, similar to those launched in London and Beijing last week, to calculate climate impact scenarios in their territories. Some have already developed the calculator and others are in the process of creating their own versions of it. Showcasing the calculator …
This paper analyses the effect of different emission metrics and metric values on timing and costs of greenhouse gas mitigation in least-cost emission pathways aimed at a forcing level of 3.5 W m−2 in 2100. Such an assessment is currently relevant in view of UNFCCC's decision to replace the values …
Since 1990, scientists have used complex models to predict how climate change and manmade greenhouse emissions will affect the world. But a team of experts - including an astrophysicist, statistician, and geography professor – has claimed these models ‘very greatly exaggerate’ the effects of global warming. Using a simpler, solar-based …
Global sea-level has been rising about 2.5 times faster during the past 20 years than it has for the preceding eight decades of the 20th century, according to a newly published study in the journal Nature. Researchers at Rutgers and Harvard universities found that between 1901 and 1990 sea-level rose …
Last year was Earth's hottest on record in new evidence that people are disrupting the climate by burning fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases into the air, two U.S. government agencies said on Friday. The White House said the studies, by the U.S. space agency NASA and the National Oceanic …
Scientists overestimated the rate of sea level rise between 1901 and 1990, meaning Earth’s oceans have expanded more dramatically in the past 25 years and major coastal cities and island communities could be closer to going under than previous research has shown. That’s the crux of a new study from …
KETI BUNDER, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For fisherman Sammar Dablo, it was as if "the seawater stole our homes" when land erosion forced his village to relocate further inland on Pakistan's south coast. The people of the fan-shaped Indus Delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea, are …
For the first time in earth’s history, man is responsible for accelerating climate change but the extent of man’s activities on climate change is difficult to pinpoint, believed a majority of scientists during the climate change session at the Indian Science Congress. The session saw different voices, some who blamed …
