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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 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. |
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... |
Finance & Development December 2009 Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
Popular Mechanics June 12, 2009 Jerry Beilinson |
Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Forest, Webster & Reilly |
Narrowing uncertainty in global climate change Unknowns hamper the initiation of climate-mitigation policies. |
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. |
Finance & Development March 2008 Laura Wallace |
From the Editor With prices for oil, nickel, tin, corn, and wheat hitting record highs in recent months, it's time to ask just how long this boom will last and how economies will fare. |
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 |
BusinessWeek December 9, 2010 Efstathiou & Chipman |
As Temperatures Rise, Business Adapts With no deal on carbon emissions expected from Cancun, companies are looking to profit from global warming. |
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. |
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Virtual Climate Experiment's Results A worldwide global climate experiment that ran on tens of thousands of personal computers across the planet offered the most extreme scenario yet for global warming. |
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. |
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... |
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? |
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. |
Finance & Development March 2008 Paul Mills |
The Greening of Markets Financial markets can play a valuable role in addressing climate change. |
Reason November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?... |
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Susan Arterian Chang |
Carbon Commerce The Europeans have demonstrated beyond doubt that the right to emit CO2 is destined to be a major internationally traded asset -- but their experience to date also exemplifies some of the pitfalls the rest of the world faces in establishing such trading systems. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
Chemistry World April 2007 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Swindled? The bottom line is that just a few degrees increase in global average temperatures is likely to have a severe impact on human life. The silver lining of anthropogenic climate change is that, being man-made, at least we stand a chance of doing something about it. |
Wired May 19, 2008 Spencer Reiss |
Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Food can be genetically altered to be more nitrogen-efficient and decrease the need for carbon based processes. |
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. |
TIME Asia December 13, 2010 Alex Perry |
Land of Hope Can combatting climate change actually offer a new future for Africa? Niger is one of the world's foremost examples of a green economy. Fighting climate change in Niger is development. Trees, soil and water have been reinstated as capital. |
Chemistry World December 14, 2015 Emma Stoye |
World leaders agree climate deal at COP21 talks Nearly 200 countries have come to an agreement at the UN's COP21 climate conference in Paris, Frances, where world leaders have been discussing how to tackle climate change. |
Scientific American December 2006 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems |
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. |
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 |
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... |
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever |
Carbon Leaching Out of Siberian Peat New research is showing that as temperatures rise across the Arctic, carbon once locked up in permafrost soils may begin escaping into the area's waterways. |
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. |
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. |
Geotimes April 2005 Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished. |
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Maria Burke |
Latest climate report sees a bigger role for adaptation The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that science can offer ways to adapt to climate change and reduce risk -- something that should be used in combination with cutting emissions. |
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. |
Geotimes June 2007 Fred Schwab |
Plunging into the Debate on Climate Change Debate continues about whether the warming effects of greenhouse gases are overshadowed by natural events. |
CFO April 1, 2007 John Goff |
Cleaning Up Carbon Pressure to curb carbon emissions is mounting. How companies respond will affect much more than their bottom lines. |
Scientific American August 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Making Development Less Risky (Extended Edition) Innovative forms of insurance could unshackle a green revolution in Africa and other poor nations. |
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee |
Rainfall Affected by Climate Change Global climate change will likely cause significant changes in the world's rainfall patterns, according to researchers working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report summary. |
Scientific American June 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change Refugees As global warming tightens the availability of water, prepare for a torrent of forced migrations. Economists, hydrologists, agronomists and climatologists will have to join forces to take the next steps in scientific understanding of this human crisis. |
Geotimes March 2003 S. Julio Friedmann |
Storing Carbon in Earth Carbon sequestration is capturing carbon dioxide, either from the atmosphere or emission streams, and storing it in reservoirs, such as plants or soils. Carbon dioxide could be converted to solid chemicals or injected into the deep ocean. Though there are risks, the potential pay-off is enormous. |
Finance & Development March 2008 Lorcan Lyons |
Picture This The global energy system is on an increasingly unsustainable path. Stronger policies that encourage greater energy efficiency, as well as greater use of renewable energy and nuclear power, would make a major contribution. |
Science News January 3, 2009 R.K. Pachauri |
Obama Administration Should Lead Energy Transition The director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi speaks about the changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration. |
Finance & Development March 2011 Helbling & Roache |
Rising Prices on the Menu Higher food prices may be here to stay. |
Popular Mechanics June 5, 2008 Bijal Trivedi |
Hacking Earth Against Warming, Scientists Favor Fake Volcanoes As the Senate debates a controversial climate-change bill, meteorologists and economists alike say geoengineering solutions aren't so far-out anymore. |