Closing in on Climate Tipping Points: Irreversible Climate Change, Managing...
In the past days and weeks several scientific reports indicate that, even while advocating a 1.5 to 2 C degree rise in average global temperatures over the next century, we may now be at or even passed...
View ArticleEarthTalk: Climate Change and Extreme Weather
EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What is the scientific consensus on all the extreme weather...
View ArticleMeeting the Climate Challenge: Cities Plan for Worst and Hope for the Best
At the national and international level climate action is stalled under the unyielding weight of factionalism and meeting the diverse agenda of a global community. At the personal level the issues of...
View ArticleWill Our Cities Save Us? Municipalities at the Nexus of Change
Editor’s note: The following post is adapted from several previous posts published in GWIR over the past year about how cities are often the best examples of furthering sustainable development,...
View ArticleGCF Board Meets to Launch Yet Another Climate Finance Vehicle
The 24-member board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Green Climate Fund (GCF) is meeting at its recently established headquarters in Songdo, South Korea this week...
View ArticleRising Seas – Adapting to Changing Coastlines
Sea level rise and the changing shoreline Oceanographer and author of High Tide on Main Street, John Englander is a leading expert and educator on sea level rise. In this TED talk Englander explains...
View ArticleEarthTalk: The Best Places to Live in a Climate-Changed World
EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Where will be the best places to live if global warming gets...
View ArticleUNDP, UNEP Expand National Climate Adaptation Program
The United Nations (UN) is marshaling and expanding the wide range of resources at its disposal to assist the world’s least-developed and developing countries craft and implement strategic and project...
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