The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) provides the July update on global developments in climate finance. July 2016 Climate Finance Update: Meetings Call for Access, Mobilization, Scaling Up During the month of July, a number of high-level meetings highlighted the need for enhanced focus on climate finance. Resilience and disaster recovery projects in … Continue reading Latest update on climate finance
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Important insights from sociologists about responding to climate change
Donald Brown, Scholar In Residence and Professor, Sustainable Ethics and Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School in the US provides an excellent article on what we should be learning from the field of sociology in addressing climate change. As Don Brown wrote in an introductory email, the article provides important insights that sociologists have … Continue reading Important insights from sociologists about responding to climate change
Starting to target airlines in our climate change strategies
Many have argued that air transport has been given too free a ride in pushing for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It is complex because it is international in scope and complicated to address. It is encouraging to see in an article by Associated Press that the Obama administration has taken the first steps to … Continue reading Starting to target airlines in our climate change strategies
UNEP Inquiry Highlights Green Finance in 13 Developing Countries
The International Institute for Sustainable Development has recently reported about a new UNEP report on green finance. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System has published a report highlighting the diverse experiences of 13 developing countries in directing finance toward sustainable development aims. Launching the report to coincide … Continue reading UNEP Inquiry Highlights Green Finance in 13 Developing Countries
“How do we decarbonize the electricity sector, while keeping the lights on, keeping costs low and avoiding unintended consequences that could make emissions increase?”
No one said the sustainable energy transition would be easy. Eduardo Porter writes in the New York Times about some of the bumps along the road. How Renewable Energy Is Blowing Climate Change Efforts Off Course Is the global effort to combat climate change, painstakingly agreed to in Paris seven months ago, already going … Continue reading “How do we decarbonize the electricity sector, while keeping the lights on, keeping costs low and avoiding unintended consequences that could make emissions increase?”
Climate change: the problem is not just the type of energy we are using, it’s what we’re doing with it
This is important summer reading. Jason Hickel, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, writes a thought-provoking article in The Guardian on what it really takes to effectively address climate change. What do you think? Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can Earlier this year media outlets around … Continue reading Climate change: the problem is not just the type of energy we are using, it’s what we’re doing with it
A stark statement on new UK government’s intentions on climate change and energy policy
Everyone is following the developments since Britain voted to leave the EU. New Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that she is merging the Department of Energy and Climate Change with the department responsible for business. Ian Johnston writes in the Independent that it sends a message that she's not remotely bothered about global warming. … Continue reading A stark statement on new UK government’s intentions on climate change and energy policy
Latest update on climate finance
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) provides the May update on global developments in climate finance. June 2016 Climate Finance Update: Funds Meet, Non-state Actor Engagement Accelerates This issue of the Climate Finance Update features recent global and regional news on climate finance activities by a variety of intergovernmental actors. Several climate funds … Continue reading Latest update on climate finance
Current pledges on climate action are well short of what we need
Global leaders agreed on quite an ambitious target at the Paris global climate summit. But new analysis shows that countries are going to have to ramp up their actions to ensure adequate impact. Chris Mooney explains in a good article in the Washington Post. The world has the right climate goals — but the … Continue reading Current pledges on climate action are well short of what we need
Australia finds that, with federal climate change policies lacking, the local level is taking up the cause
We all know how important the local and regional levels are for promoting and contributing towards the energy transition. Stephen Bygrave, CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions, writes a good article in The Guardian about how the local level has been a major force in Australia, especially given that the federal level has definitely not taken … Continue reading Australia finds that, with federal climate change policies lacking, the local level is taking up the cause
Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 