The University of Utah provided details of a new study on the Science Daily website that examined the comparative effectiveness of energy efficiency improvement and renewable energy production in the United States. For the past 150 years, humans have pumped extraordinary amounts of greenhouse gasses, such as CO2, into the atmosphere and warmed the planet … Continue reading Focusing solely on technical solutions will fail to solve the climate crisis
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Flagship DNV report says energy efficiency remains the biggest opportunity to tackling climate change as the world drifts further away from achieving Paris climate agreement
DNV’s annual Energy Transition Outlook presents the results from their independent model of the world’s energy system. It covers the period through to 2050 and forecasts the energy transition globally and in 10 world regions. An article on the evwind website provides a good commentary on the report. Electrification Not Enough to Meet Net … Continue reading Flagship DNV report says energy efficiency remains the biggest opportunity to tackling climate change as the world drifts further away from achieving Paris climate agreement
IPCC 6th Assessment Report – the authors understand the urgency of communicating the message effectively
Simon Torok, Honorary Fellow, School of Earth Sciences at The University of Melbourne; James Goldie, Senior Knowledge Broker at Monash University; and Linden Ashcroft, Lecturer in climate science and science communication at The University of Melbourne discuss the importance of effective communication in an article on The Conversation website. Communicating climate change has never … Continue reading IPCC 6th Assessment Report – the authors understand the urgency of communicating the message effectively
IPCC report – alarmingly, the rate of temperature increase across the African continent exceeds the global average
Victor Ongoma, Assistant Professor at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco raises some important implications for Africa from the findings of the IPCC report in an article on The Conversation website. Insights for African countries from the latest climate change projections The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – a body of the UN tasked … Continue reading IPCC report – alarmingly, the rate of temperature increase across the African continent exceeds the global average
Understanding the Earth’s energy budget that is at the heart of the upcoming IPCC climate assessment
Scott Denning, Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University in an article on The Conversation website, explains that our energy budget is out of balance and what it means. With knowledge of what’s changing, everyone can make better choices to preserve the climate as we know it. Earth’s energy budget is out of … Continue reading Understanding the Earth’s energy budget that is at the heart of the upcoming IPCC climate assessment
The global risks from toxic pollution and climate change are highly correlated and should be jointly analysed in order to inform and better target efforts to reduce or mitigate both risks
A news item on the Climate Adaptation Platform discusses a new study, demonstrating a strong correlation between toxic pollution risk and climate risk, along with varying capacities of countries to manage that risk. They explain that high-risk low-income countries that must urgently address governance challenges in order to have a chance at successfully addressing pollution … Continue reading The global risks from toxic pollution and climate change are highly correlated and should be jointly analysed in order to inform and better target efforts to reduce or mitigate both risks
Delegates to IPCC Working Group 1 finalising summary for policymakers
Scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are meeting to finalise the initial part of its first major climate assessment in seven years. On the fourth day last week, delegates continued their consideration of the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group I (WG I) contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental … Continue reading Delegates to IPCC Working Group 1 finalising summary for policymakers
A female scientist 165 years ago explicitly warned us about extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas to absorb heat – the driving force of global warming
Sylvia G. Dee, Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University writes on The Conversation website about an American scientist named Eunice Foote who documented the underlying cause of today’s climate change crisis in 1856. The author ends with an important question: Why haven’t we listened more closely? Scientists understood … Continue reading A female scientist 165 years ago explicitly warned us about extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas to absorb heat – the driving force of global warming
New book on thermal design of buildings
The way we heat, cool and ventilate our buildings is central to many of today’s concerns, including providing comfortable, healthy and productive environments, using energy and materials efficiently, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As we drive towards a zero-carbon society, design solutions that combine architecture, engineering and the needs of the individual are increasingly being … Continue reading New book on thermal design of buildings
Measuring “net-zero” emissions is not simple
Emily Chung writes on the CBC website about a new study suggesting that the assumption that a tonne of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is balanced by a tonne removed from the atmosphere may have to be revisited because there are differences, according to the research. Carbon removal study suggests arithmetic to achieve net-zero … Continue reading Measuring “net-zero” emissions is not simple
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