Scrutinizing dimensions of Growth and Development.
Tuesday 31 May 2016
Monday 30 May 2016
Scientists create world's largest coral gene database
an international team of scientists led by Rutgers faculty has conducted the world's most comprehensive analysis of coral genes, focusing on how their evolution has allowed corals to interact with and adapt to the environment. A second study led by Rutgers researchers with colleagues at the University of Hawaii shows—for the first time—how stony corals create their hard skeletons, using proteins as key ingredients.
"There are a few key genes in corals that allow them to build this house that laid down the foundation for many, many thousands of years of corals," said Debashish Bhattacharya, a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers. "It couldn't be any more fundamental to ocean ecosystems."
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Saturday 28 May 2016
Poll:Sanders the jolly Green Giant. (He's over six feet I've heard)
Sanders Supporters Are the Most Likely to Say “Global Warming” Is a Very Important Issue When Deciding Whom to Vote For, Followed by Clinton Supporters; Supporters of the Republican Candidates Are Least Likely to Say It Is Very Important to Their Vote
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GDP as a percentage of Green Climate Fund Riddle
| 2014 [YR2014] | |
| $ 17,419,000,000,000.00 | United States |
| $ 10,354,831,729,340.40 | China |
| $ 4,601,461,206,885.08 | Japan |
| $ 3,868,291,231,823.77 | Germany |
| $ 2,988,893,283,565.20 | United Kingdom |
| $ 2,829,192,039,171.84 | France |
| $ 2,416,635,506,076.31 | Brazil |
| $ 2,141,161,325,367.43 | Italy |
| $ 1,860,597,922,763.44 | Russian Federation |
| $ 1,785,386,649,602.19 | Canada |
| $ 1,454,675,479,665.84 | Australia |
| $ 1,410,382,988,616.48 | Korea, Rep. |
| $ 1,381,342,101,735.68 | Spain |
| $ 879,319,321,494.64 | Netherlands |
| $ 798,429,233,036.33 | Turkey |
| $ 753,831,733,333.33 | Saudi Arabia |
| $ 701,037,135,966.05 | Switzerland |
| $ 571,090,480,171.00 | Sweden |
| $ 544,966,555,714.06 | Poland |
| $ 531,546,586,178.58 | Belgium |
| $ 499,817,138,323.20 | Norway |
| $ 436,887,543,466.95 | Austria |
| $ 399,451,327,433.63 | United Arab Emirates |
| $ 350,140,810,003.32 | South Africa |
| $ 342,362,478,767.51 | Denmark |
| $ 272,216,575,502.25 | Finland |
| $ 250,813,607,686.11 | Ireland |
| $ 235,574,074,998.31 | Greece |
| $ 230,116,912,513.59 | Portugal |
| $ 205,269,709,743.47 | Czech Republic |
| $ 199,969,858,903.72 | New Zealand |
| $ 199,043,652,215.45 | Romania |
| $ 163,612,438,510.19 | Kuwait |
| $ 138,346,669,914.95 | Hungary |
| $ 131,805,126,738.29 | Ukraine |
| $ 100,248,607,784.10 | Slovak Republic |
| $ 64,873,963,098.49 | Luxembourg |
| $ 57,113,389,357.45 | Croatia |
| $ 56,717,054,673.72 | Bulgaria |
| $ 23,226,158,986.17 | Cyprus |
| $ 17,036,097,481.81 | Iceland |
| $ 2,500,000,000.00 | GreenClimateFund |
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Friday 27 May 2016
Former President Tong of Kiribati speaks to the power of Children.
A quote from a speech President Tong of Kiribati made at the 2015 the World Humanitarian Summit Pacific Regional Consultation honouring the UN’s Secretary General.
“…I remember I had been trying to convince him to visit Kiribati and he did in 2011. He came to Kiribati and I remember he went to visit one of these communities that was flooded every time there is very high tides and there was this young boy who stepped up to the Secretary General and said Mr. Secretary General, you are a very important man you know, is there something that you can do to ensure I will have a future, that I will have a home. And the Secretary General came back and he said Mr. President I have been listening to you at the General Assembly but I never truly understood what it was you trying to communicate but now I do and I feel and I understand I would do everything that I can”
And Now This
Thursday 26 May 2016
Entrepreneurs can tackle Climate Change
The business case for fighting climate change
From Tel Aviv to Palo Alto, New York to London, entrepreneurs have created in the last handfuls of years an eclectic arsenal of innovations that are already beginning to show their mettle in the battle against climate change, as well as their potential to help the bottom lines of a wide swath of businesses. Many of these innovations currently fly inches, or miles, below the radar of public and governmental awareness. Yet the climate change needle could well be nudged if such disparate technologies were properly shared, engaged, supported and leveraged on a global scale. Global leaders in tech, government, business and beyond can help. Seeking, promoting, supporting and engaging existing innovations, on a large scale, is the sort of aggressive action that our time and planet require. If a subset of political decision-makers must spend their time arguing and denying, blaming and stonewalling while Antarctica sweats, so be it. But in the meantime, technologies that can benefit both businesses and the climate change battle are here now, working and waiting. For the sake of the rest of us, they must be activated, globally and with great force.
From Tel Aviv to Palo Alto, New York to London, entrepreneurs have created in the last handfuls of years an eclectic arsenal of innovations that are already beginning to show their mettle in the battle against climate change, as well as their potential to help the bottom lines of a wide swath of businesses. Many of these innovations currently fly inches, or miles, below the radar of public and governmental awareness. Yet the climate change needle could well be nudged if such disparate technologies were properly shared, engaged, supported and leveraged on a global scale. Global leaders in tech, government, business and beyond can help. Seeking, promoting, supporting and engaging existing innovations, on a large scale, is the sort of aggressive action that our time and planet require. If a subset of political decision-makers must spend their time arguing and denying, blaming and stonewalling while Antarctica sweats, so be it. But in the meantime, technologies that can benefit both businesses and the climate change battle are here now, working and waiting. For the sake of the rest of us, they must be activated, globally and with great force.
Today’s young people can and should hold their parents’ generation to account for their present actions. They can elicit an emotional response that can motivate action. If thinking about the lives of unborn future generations seems too abstract to motivate you to act, try instead looking a young child or grandchild in the eye and asking yourself what sort of future you are leaving for them. There is something that, on reflection, many adults would surely find repugnant in the idea that they will leave their children a damaged planet that will radically affect their life possibilities. Lord Nicholas Stern
Wednesday 25 May 2016
Fed up with denial, Alberta introduces aggressive climate change bill
The Alberta government is speeding ahead with aggressive action to address climate change, introducing new legislation on Tuesday that would require the province's population and industry to pay for their pollution and reduce energy consumption.
“For too long, governments in Alberta chose to ignore and deny the problem," Phillips said at a news conference. "That approach didn’t work.”
Environment Minister Shannon Phillips
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Today’s young people can and should hold their parents’ generation to account for their present actions. They can elicit an emotional response that can motivate action. If thinking about the lives of unborn future generations seems too abstract to motivate you to act, try instead looking a young child or grandchild in the eye and asking yourself what sort of future you are leaving for them. There is something that, on reflection, many adults would surely find repugnant in the idea that they will leave their children a damaged planet that will radically affect their life possibilities. Lord Nicholas Stern
Today’s young people can and should hold their parents’ generation to account for their present actions. They can elicit an emotional response that can motivate action. If thinking about the lives of unborn future generations seems too abstract to motivate you to act, try instead looking a young child or grandchild in the eye and asking yourself what sort of future you are leaving for them. There is something that, on reflection, many adults would surely find repugnant in the idea that they will leave their children a damaged planet that will radically affect their life possibilities. Lord Nicholas Stern
To Swim or Not to Swim? | Polar Bears International
To Swim or Not to Swim? | Polar Bears International
he question of to swim or not to swim, at least for polar bears, can only be answered in light of sea ice conditions. I discovered this after working with a team of scientists from the University of Alberta and Environment and Climate Change Canada—led by Dr. Nicholas Pilfold—to better understand swimming behavior in polar bears in the Beaufort Sea and Hudson Bay populations. In results published in Ecography, our team found that more frequent long-distance swims (> 50 kilometers) by polar bears are directly related to sea ice melting faster and retreating farther from shore in the summer. Read More...
he question of to swim or not to swim, at least for polar bears, can only be answered in light of sea ice conditions. I discovered this after working with a team of scientists from the University of Alberta and Environment and Climate Change Canada—led by Dr. Nicholas Pilfold—to better understand swimming behavior in polar bears in the Beaufort Sea and Hudson Bay populations. In results published in Ecography, our team found that more frequent long-distance swims (> 50 kilometers) by polar bears are directly related to sea ice melting faster and retreating farther from shore in the summer. Read More...
World Humanitarian Summit
World Humanitarian Summit criticized for lack of action, accountability
Canada's presence at the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul marks a policy change for this country, which has for the past several years distanced itself from an organization whose relevance was questioned by the previous government.
But critics say the summit, which took place Monday and Tuesday, may be just another five-star gathering of well-intentioned idealists.
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Ethiopian Drought
Severe drought leaves millions relying on emergency aid
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The Ethiopian government and international NGOs have launched a $1.4-billion appeal to deal with the crisis, but only about half that amount has been raised so far.
In December 2015, Canada announced it would contribute $30 million in emergency humanitarian assistance funding to several UN agencies and NGOs working in Ethiopia. A separate $73 million has been earmarked for development assistance in the coming year.
In 2015, Canada ranked as the fifth-largest humanitarian donor to Ethiopia.
This week, the EU announced 122.5 million euros in extra aid.
The UN and other aid agencies are in the middle of a 90-day campaign to raise awareness of the additional funding needed to "address the humanitarian resource gap."
Surprise?
Alberta's oilsands industry is a huge source of harmful air pollution, study says
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/oilsands-soas-1.3599074
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Sunday 22 May 2016
Spencer's Climate Change Action Heroes
Spencer's Climate Change Action Heroes Thanksgiving Thanks 2015
Catherine McKenna opens Parks Canada season at Thousand Islands National Park
Catherine McKenna got a chance to start the long weekend in her happy place.
The federal minister of environment and climate change made a stop at the Thousand Islands National Park visitor centre in Mallorytown Landing on Saturday morning. In addition to officially opening Parks Canada’s 2016 visitor season, McKenna – the minister responsible for the federal agency – announced that Parks Canada is hiring 400 additional students in 2016-2017 by way of the Summer Work Experience stream of the government’s Youth Employment Strategy.
The minister said that the federal government is “deeply committed” to protecting and presenting special places like Thousand Islands National Park for the benefit of all Canadians.
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Tom Rand is a successful cleantech venture capitalist
An Energy Revolution
Tom Rand Knocks it outta the Park again. Tom Rand for Environmental/Economics Prime Minister
Air Date: Apr 28, 2016 Length: 55:12
About this Video
Bill Gates predicts researchers will "discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world" within the next 15 years. What is the current state and future of clean energy technology? Can renewables such as solar and wind replace carbon-intensive energy sources? Is a game-changing energy innovation needed to avert climate catastrophe? The Agenda examines the current state and the future of cheap and clean energy technology, and the practical and political challenges of shifting to renewable energy.
The Agenda at WGSI: Energy's Future
Saturday 21 May 2016
Over A Third Of North America’s Bird Species Need ‘Urgent Conservation Action’
Thanks to a multitude of threats, over a third of the bird species in North America are “of major conservation concern,” according to a comprehensive study released Wednesday.
The report, released by the governments of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, is the first to look at the threats facing all 1,154 migratory bird species native to North America. Taking into account population sizes and trends, extent of habitats, and severity of threats, the report found that 37 percent of migratory birds in North America qualify for the conservation watch list, “indicating species of highest conservation concern based on high vulnerability scores across multiple factors.”
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The report, released by the governments of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, is the first to look at the threats facing all 1,154 migratory bird species native to North America. Taking into account population sizes and trends, extent of habitats, and severity of threats, the report found that 37 percent of migratory birds in North America qualify for the conservation watch list, “indicating species of highest conservation concern based on high vulnerability scores across multiple factors.”
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What are the economic consequences of climate change?
In a paper recently published in Nature, Marshall Burke, Solomon Hsiang, and Edward Miguel, economists based at Stanford and the University of California Berkeley, presented a new analysis of the relationship between historic temperature fluctuations and macroeconomic growth.
Their conclusion delivers two blockbusters. First, in contrast to past studies, they argue that 21st century warming could lead to huge global-scale macroeconomic impacts. The best estimate from Burke and colleagues is that business as usual emissions throughout the 21st century will decrease per capita GDP by 23% below what it would otherwise be, with the possibility of a much larger impact.
Secondly, they conclude that both the size and the direction of the temperature effect depend on the starting temperature. Countries with an average yearly temperature greater than 13°C (55°F) will see decreased economic growth as temperatures rise. For cooler countries, warming will be an economic boon. This non-linear response creates a massive redistribution of future growth, away from hot regions and toward cool regions. Based on the analysis, rich and poor countries respond similarly at any temperature, but the impact of warming is nonetheless much greater on poor countries, because they are mostly in regions that are already warm.
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Their conclusion delivers two blockbusters. First, in contrast to past studies, they argue that 21st century warming could lead to huge global-scale macroeconomic impacts. The best estimate from Burke and colleagues is that business as usual emissions throughout the 21st century will decrease per capita GDP by 23% below what it would otherwise be, with the possibility of a much larger impact.
Secondly, they conclude that both the size and the direction of the temperature effect depend on the starting temperature. Countries with an average yearly temperature greater than 13°C (55°F) will see decreased economic growth as temperatures rise. For cooler countries, warming will be an economic boon. This non-linear response creates a massive redistribution of future growth, away from hot regions and toward cool regions. Based on the analysis, rich and poor countries respond similarly at any temperature, but the impact of warming is nonetheless much greater on poor countries, because they are mostly in regions that are already warm.
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Interview: Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: What happened with Greece in 2015, the crashing of our government and the refusal to negotiate with us, is simply symptomatic of the process of disintegration. You can see the effects of it everywhere. In Greece we have a great depression, in Spain the same. In Germany, we have a great deflation. We have savers facing the terrible prospect of negative interest rates eating into their savings. The result is a turn against the European Union everywhere. We have new border fences, electrified ones, being erected all over the place between Austria and Italy, Austria and Germany. We have a political climate which is quite toxic.
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Friday 20 May 2016
India sets hottest temperature record amid deadly heat wave
The deadly heat wave has spread across much of northern India, where temperatures have topped 40C for several weeks. It has already killed hundreds of people and destroyed thousands of crops in over 13 states.
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These life-threatening conditions have prompted government officials to issue a severe heat wave warning for western states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and the central state of Madhya Pradesh. Parts of the country are also under a daytime cooking ban.
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Warming far outpacing climate action, as UN negotiators meet in Bonn
The Bonn climate conference (running May 16-26) is hashing out the particulars of the Paris Agreement, including financing for REDD+ dealing with deforestation, but the real policy decision-making will happen Nov. 7-18 at COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
While national leaders spout optimistic platitudes celebrating the great achievement of the globally unifying Paris Agreement on climate, environmentalists note that there is little in the way of substantial action plans behind the many promises made last December.
Meanwhile, the most intense El Niño in history is leaving in its wake a world gripped by 7 months of record high temperatures; drought, water shortages, and famine (especially in India and Africa); wildfires (Fort McMurray, Canada); record coral bleaching; and a fast shrinking Arctic ice cap that set stunning early melt records this winter and spring.
Many scientists agree that limiting global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100 — the Paris Agreement goal — is nearly impossible, with the carbon cut commitments of all participating nations now putting us on a path to a 3 degree Celsius (5.4 degree Fahrenheit) increase, which could make parts of the planet uninhabitable.
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While national leaders spout optimistic platitudes celebrating the great achievement of the globally unifying Paris Agreement on climate, environmentalists note that there is little in the way of substantial action plans behind the many promises made last December.
Meanwhile, the most intense El Niño in history is leaving in its wake a world gripped by 7 months of record high temperatures; drought, water shortages, and famine (especially in India and Africa); wildfires (Fort McMurray, Canada); record coral bleaching; and a fast shrinking Arctic ice cap that set stunning early melt records this winter and spring.
Many scientists agree that limiting global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100 — the Paris Agreement goal — is nearly impossible, with the carbon cut commitments of all participating nations now putting us on a path to a 3 degree Celsius (5.4 degree Fahrenheit) increase, which could make parts of the planet uninhabitable.
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Thursday 19 May 2016
Climate Action plea from Small Island States
Small islands call on countries to accelerate climate action:
The solutions to climate change are more cost effective than ever and success stories for effective action abound. The only question is whether we join together quickly and boldly enough to avoid catastrophe.” -Thoriq Ibrahim
BONN, Germany–At the opening of the United Nations climate change conference, the first since the international community reached the historic Paris Agreement last year, Thoriq Ibrahim, Minister of Environment and Energy for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), released the following statement on behalf of the coalition of 44 small island and coastal states that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: “The first round of climate change talks since Paris, like so many others have before, opens against the backdrop of extreme climate impacts across our membership: Cyclones Ula, Winston, and Zena wreaked havoc in the South Pacific earlier this year; Severe droughts in parts of the Caribbean and the Western Pacific continue to cause water and food security crises; A massive coral-bleaching event has turned reefs bone white across the tropics; And scientists have confirmed the loss of 5 islands to sea level rise in the Solomon archipelago—showing climate change is now infringing on sovereign territory.
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The solutions to climate change are more cost effective than ever and success stories for effective action abound. The only question is whether we join together quickly and boldly enough to avoid catastrophe.” -Thoriq Ibrahim
BONN, Germany–At the opening of the United Nations climate change conference, the first since the international community reached the historic Paris Agreement last year, Thoriq Ibrahim, Minister of Environment and Energy for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), released the following statement on behalf of the coalition of 44 small island and coastal states that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: “The first round of climate change talks since Paris, like so many others have before, opens against the backdrop of extreme climate impacts across our membership: Cyclones Ula, Winston, and Zena wreaked havoc in the South Pacific earlier this year; Severe droughts in parts of the Caribbean and the Western Pacific continue to cause water and food security crises; A massive coral-bleaching event has turned reefs bone white across the tropics; And scientists have confirmed the loss of 5 islands to sea level rise in the Solomon archipelago—showing climate change is now infringing on sovereign territory.
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Wednesday 18 May 2016
La Niña coming?
Deep pool of cool water is making its way across tropical Pacific
One of the strongest El Niños on record has been dominating the tropical Pacific Ocean for the past year. But beneath the surface, a deep pool of cool water has been sliding slowly eastward for the past couple of months. This massive, slow-motion wave is a favorable sign that La Niña—the cool phase of the ENSO climate pattern—might develop. This animated gif shows where temperatures in the top 300 meters (~1,000 feet) of the Pacific Ocean at the equator were warmer or cooler than average during 5-day periods centered on three dates this spring: March 14, April 13, and May 3. As the weeks pass, the layer of warm water at the surface contracts to the central Pacific and becomes very shallow, a sign that the current El Niño is on its way out. By the final frame of the animation, the cold pool is just breaching the surface of the eastern Pacific off South America. (You can see these cool-water breakthroughs in our map of April 2016 surface temperatures.)
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One of the strongest El Niños on record has been dominating the tropical Pacific Ocean for the past year. But beneath the surface, a deep pool of cool water has been sliding slowly eastward for the past couple of months. This massive, slow-motion wave is a favorable sign that La Niña—the cool phase of the ENSO climate pattern—might develop. This animated gif shows where temperatures in the top 300 meters (~1,000 feet) of the Pacific Ocean at the equator were warmer or cooler than average during 5-day periods centered on three dates this spring: March 14, April 13, and May 3. As the weeks pass, the layer of warm water at the surface contracts to the central Pacific and becomes very shallow, a sign that the current El Niño is on its way out. By the final frame of the animation, the cold pool is just breaching the surface of the eastern Pacific off South America. (You can see these cool-water breakthroughs in our map of April 2016 surface temperatures.)
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El Ninos record
One of the strongest El Niños on record has been dominating the tropical Pacific Ocean for the past year. But beneath the surface, a deep pool of cool water has been sliding slowly eastward for the past couple of months. This massive, slow-motion wave is a favorable sign that La Niña—the cool phase of the ENSO climate pattern—might develop.
Green roofs are receiving praise
Beyond aesthetics, it is well documented that green roofs can:
Help reduce the urban heat island effect
Reduce noise pollution
Sequester carbon
Be used as a passive tool for energy savings
Encourage biodiversity and
Support biophilia – the connection between human beings and nature
The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Climate Quotes May 2016
"Young people are our future; they recognize that we must act now to protect our planet and that we must be thinking outside the box. I appreciated the many ideas put forward by students at Magee Secondary and I encourage schools across Canada to host their own town hall events to discuss climate solutions. All Canadians, including Indigenous peoples, are invited to post their ideas on our interactive website." –
"Young people are our future; they recognize that we must act now to protect our planet and that we must be thinking outside the box. I appreciated the many ideas put forward by students at Magee Secondary and I encourage schools across Canada to host their own town hall events to discuss climate solutions. All Canadians, including Indigenous peoples, are invited to post their ideas on our interactive website." –
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says
Climate Quotes May 2016
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says he doesn’t think a future president will be able to undo President Obama’s climate work.
Moniz dismissed presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s call to renegotiate or ignore the Paris climate deal
Trump:
...at a minimum I will be renegotiating those agreements.,,,The deal was unfair, economically, to the United States economy."
Moniz:
...the climate deal has built-in reassessments over the next few decades, countries should use those to ramp up the greenhouse gas reduction commitments they enshrined last year in the Paris deal.
Clearly, we have essentially every country in the world having made [contributions] and are moving forward with that, But I remind you that there is, within the agreement, a mechanism for revisiting, in the sense of five-year revisits, with the idea that countries, hopefully, as costs go down for technologies, will be having greater ambition going forward as we meet increasingly stringent targets for the years and decades ahead.
The United States, under the Obama administration, has vowed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.
The innovation agenda is going to make this clean energy future much more attractive, both for climate reasons and for things like energy security,”
I believe that mother nature is speaking to us with a louder and louder voice about the need to address these issues.
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says he doesn’t think a future president will be able to undo President Obama’s climate work.
Moniz dismissed presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s call to renegotiate or ignore the Paris climate deal
Trump:
...at a minimum I will be renegotiating those agreements.,,,The deal was unfair, economically, to the United States economy."
Moniz:
...the climate deal has built-in reassessments over the next few decades, countries should use those to ramp up the greenhouse gas reduction commitments they enshrined last year in the Paris deal.
Clearly, we have essentially every country in the world having made [contributions] and are moving forward with that, But I remind you that there is, within the agreement, a mechanism for revisiting, in the sense of five-year revisits, with the idea that countries, hopefully, as costs go down for technologies, will be having greater ambition going forward as we meet increasingly stringent targets for the years and decades ahead.
The United States, under the Obama administration, has vowed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.
The innovation agenda is going to make this clean energy future much more attractive, both for climate reasons and for things like energy security,”
I believe that mother nature is speaking to us with a louder and louder voice about the need to address these issues.
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A Vision for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
A Vision for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
David Hone at The Energy Collective
Within the Paris Agreement sits Article 6, a carefully crafted set of provisions to foster, in the parlance of the UNFCCC and the Parties to the Agreement, cooperative approaches. This includes a provision for cross border transfer of mitigation outcomes and a mechanism to contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and support sustainable development. But for those outside the negotiating process (and hopefully those inside as well), this Article is seen as the foundation for carbon market development. There was a great deal of advocacy effort behind the Article, particularly from the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) who argued strongly that such a construction within the Paris Agreement was essential to see accelerated adoption of government implemented carbon pricing; widely recognised as a critical policy instrument for managing carbon dioxide emissions.
The wording of Article 6 needs some deciphering and for those now assembling in Bonn to begin the process of implementation of the Paris Agreement, some steer from the private sector will hopefully be helpful. After all, if the provisions do enable the development and expansion of carbon markets then it will almost certainly be the private sector that is most deeply involved. To that end, IETA have now published a first thought piece on Article 6, setting out a vision for its implementation.
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Barack Obama - Stefan Lofven Meet
Barack Obama Our six nations remain strong partners in climate change, including the implementation of the Paris agreement and transitioning to a low-carbon economy. And as Arctic nations, we committed to conservation and sustainable development that prioritize our efforts to combat climate change. And we look forward to hosting the first-ever White House Arctic Science Ministerial this fall to ensure that we're working together on that issue.
Stefan Lofven
The same goes for climate change. And I applaud President Obama's instrumental role in pushing for the climate agenda and a clean energy revolution in U.S. and globally. And our Nordic countries will gladly both cooperate and compete in the race to reduce emission. And I can also say that Sweden aims to be the first fossil-free welfare nation in the world.
Stefan Lofven
The same goes for climate change. And I applaud President Obama's instrumental role in pushing for the climate agenda and a clean energy revolution in U.S. and globally. And our Nordic countries will gladly both cooperate and compete in the race to reduce emission. And I can also say that Sweden aims to be the first fossil-free welfare nation in the world.
Monday 16 May 2016
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