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and China’s top climate official, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua, signed an agreement on climatechange—the first between the NDRC and a subnational entity. The NDRC oversees China’s efforts to address climatechange and much of the government’s economic strategy.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has posted a new online collection of resources related to climatechange, including audio and visual presentations from a recent ACS forum on the science of climatechange and video from an ACS press briefing on this forum. Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University.
Relocating species threatened by climatechange—managed relocation, also known as assisted colonization—is a controversial strategy for maintaining biodiversity. —Dr Eve McDonald-Madden, co-author, CSIRO researcher and research fellow at the University of Queensland. —Dr Tara Martin. Runge, Hugh P.
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A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from IIASA, Boston University, and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century, climatechange will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming.
In response to the ongoing discussion about the reliability of the UN IPCC and the climate reports, a group of 55 leading Dutch scientists working in the field of climatechange, energy and the environment wrote an open letter. Errors in the IPCC climatechange report are being seized by some to discredit climate science.
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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climatechange as soon. markets all remain in action as effective tools to leverage global climate action and as models to inform. Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC). future agreements.
We wanted to provide the information in a way that would be more helpful for policy makers. This approach will make it easier to identify sectors for which emission reductions will be most beneficial for climate and those which may produce unintended consequences.”. Bauer (2010) Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors.
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The University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment launched a new four-year research program to help businesses and policy-makers identify high-carbon sectors and assets that could be significantly devalued or written off—i.e, — Rt Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, Chairman of the Committee on ClimateChange.
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Two researchers, respectively from the Centre for ClimateChange at the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Spain and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom, have found that 80% of global climate data cannot be used by scientists in digital format.
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An Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) paper published in Computers & Geosciences outlines a process that might help to determine the relative importance of population increases vs. climatechange. Our work establishes a new method to couple geographic information system data with global climate outputs and statistical analysis.
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Mann, internationally known for his studies of climatechange, was under investigation for allegations of research impropriety that surfaced in 2009 after thousands of stolen e-mails were published online. University Vice President for Research Henry C. —Henry Foley.
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Public concern about global warming has dropped sharply since the fall of 2008, according to the results of a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities. Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on ClimateChange. They also distrust leaders on both sides of the political fence.
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