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Geotimes July 2007 Megan Sever |
Affording the Costs of Climate Change Taking immediate action to try to mitigate climate change is not only necessary, it is affordable, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
IndustryWeek January 20, 2010 Steve Minter |
First Up -- Clash of the Titans Energy demand and climate change pose powerful challenges for industry and the world. |
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. |
Geotimes March 2007 Linda Rowan |
A Change in Climate in Congress: To Act or Not To Act Because some state and local governments are taking action, Congress will need to set some federal standards in the near term. The nation can ill-afford a hodge-podge of regulations and policies on climate change across the country. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Anna Lewcock |
Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research |
Chemistry World September 22, 2010 Andy Extance |
Warming worry shades ozone success International measures fighting ozone depletion are working, according to the latest scientific assessment, but could elevate the climate change threat without continued effort. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2014 |
Emissions must hit zero by 2100, says IPCC The International Panel on Climate Change says that carbon emissions will have to fall to zero by 2100, but that the means to achieve this are economically affordable. |
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 John Carey |
Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world. |
Reason January 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Obama's Job Fetish Why the government shouldn't view "creating jobs" as an end in itself |
Wired September 22, 2008 Steve Rayner |
Steve Rayner: Take Climate Change Seriously The outgoing administration failed to come to grips with climate change out of fear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would damage the economy. |
Chemistry World October 6, 2015 Angeli Mehta |
China launches nationwide emissions trading scheme China has announced that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme in 2017, and encourage more power generation from renewables. |
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Dawn MacKeen |
Overwhelming evidence of global warming Experts hope a startling new report will be enough to persuade President Bush to take action... |
Finance & Development December 2009 Bjorn Lomborg |
Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2008 Stoss & Stoss |
Heating Up for Global Warming Research and Policy The critical actions in combating global warming call for individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and geopolitical entities to implement a concept of global warming ICE. |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Nobel winners call for energy R&D funding Thirty-four Nobel Prize winners are urging US President Obama to make good on his pledge to provide increased, stable funding for energy research and development. |
Finance & Development March 2008 Natalia Tamirisa |
Climate Change and the Economy Policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases need not hobble the economy. |
Finance & Development December 2009 Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
Reason April 2004 Ronald Bailey |
Why Warming? The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to have found "new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2009 David Lee Smith |
Emissions Friction Now's not the time to implement a costly plan. |
Geotimes April 2007 Semans & de Fontaine |
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The Business World Looks at Climate Change Increasing momentum at the state and federal levels, along with the business community, is proof that we are now in the design phase for climate change legislation, and companies clearly expect regulations soon. |
Geotimes September 2006 Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Science News April 11, 2009 Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
Finance & Development December 2009 Jones & Keen |
Climate Policy in Hard Times Restoring economic growth after the global financial crisis need not thwart the fight against climate change |
Chemistry World October 30, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Economist's Review Marks Turning Point Scientists have welcomed an economist's review into the costs of climate change, which warns of global recession if greenhouse gas emissions are not stabilized. |
Salon.com April 5, 2002 Damien Cave |
Watson, come here, I want to fire you Angry at his predictions of global warming, the Bush administration and the energy industry strive to unseat a prominent scientist... |
Chemistry World January 4, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Copenhagen: after the circus In an agreement forged overnight following fraught negotiations at the end of the Copenhagen climate conference, countries agreed to act to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. |
Reason October 2005 Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan. |
Chemistry World February 5, 2010 Leila Sattary |
Emission reduction pledges pour in Dozens of countries, including the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, have met a 31 January deadline and submitted emission reduction targets to the United Nations in line with the Copenhagen Accord signed during the climate summit in December. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
Hopes Sino -- US climate deal will spur global action in 2015 A historic announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama has injected new momentum into the global fight against climate change. |
Chemistry World June 30, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
Climate change roadmaps announced UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set out a 'Roadmap to Copenhagen' in advance of the climate change conference being held in the Danish capital in December. |
Finance & Development December 2009 |
Response to "Viewpoint: Technology, not Talks, Will Save the Planet" A response to Bjorn Lomborg's article on investment in R&D of low-carbon energy technologies. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 William Sweet |
What to Expect From the Copenhagen Climate Confab Success or at least a perception of success may be critical, but how is success to be measured? |
Geotimes May 2007 Josh Trapani |
A Political Comment on ... Proposals to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the 110th Congress Establishing a nationwide market-based system for greenhouse gases may be one of the most difficult legislative steps for Congress to take, due largely to the potential environmental, economic and social consequences. |
Finance & Development March 2010 Bowen et al. |
Challenge of the Century Climate change is about market failure on a global scale; it must be resolved together with debt and global economic imbalances. |
Scientific American November 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change and the Law (Extended edition) Even the Bush administration has started to recognize U.S. legal obligations to fight global warming. |
Finance & Development March 2008 Mohan Munasinghe |
Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks Global warming is already taking its toll internationally. Making development more sustainable will help address climate change. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Scientific American May 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here Realizing crucial energy technologies will take more than just research and development. The overarching challenge is to make the transition at minimum cost and without economic disruption. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Manufacturers Achieve Emissions Goals Here is a short list of the many goals and achievements reached by manufacturers in their voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide is a primary component of greenhouse gases. |
Salon.com November 17, 2000 Dawn MacKeen |
U.S. clash on global warming A new Department of Energy report undermines the position of U.S. negotiators at a U.N. conference on reducing greenhouse gases... |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz |
Manufacturers Divided On Emissions Cap Proposed emissions standards spur finger pointing and debate. |
IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 |
Executive View -- Energized for Efficiency Neil Rasmussen is helping Schneider Electric pursue its ambitious agenda of becoming a global leader in energy management -- and working to save the planet in the process. |
Finance & Development March 2008 Jones et al. |
Paying for Climate Change Governments must manage the incentives for households and firms to counter and adapt to climate change. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 William Sweet |
Energy & Climate: All Talk, No Action? Europe's made significant progress regarding global warming, but not toward energy independence |
Investment Advisor June 2009 Robert F. Keane |
The Green Advisor: More On Climate Change Climate change can present some healthy investment opportunities for your clients, even if you don't believe it's real. |
Geotimes May 2005 Sara Pratt |
Soot From Indian Cooking A new study says that residential cooking -- with stoves that burn wood, crop waste and dried animal manure -- is actually the largest source of soot emissions in India. Understanding this pollution source could have an important role in bettering both air quality and climate models. |
Chemistry World January 14, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Flawed Policies Encourage Damaging Biofuels, Says Royal Society Simplistic policies are encouraging biofuels that don't cut greenhouse gases. |
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever |
Humans impact the climate, says AGU The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has adopted a new position statement on climate change that recognizes the increasing alteration of the Earth's climate by human activities. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Peter S. Heller & Muthukumara Mani |
Adapting to Climate Change Not much talked about but still worrisome are the economic and fiscal disruptions likely to be caused by global climate change, especially for developing countries. Policymakers should take steps to minimize these disruptions, and sooner rather than later... |