Climate Impacts & Adaptation
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CanadaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetySevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsWater
Trudeau Warns of More Climate-Driven Floods, as Researcher Suggests Rethinking Quebec’s Relationship with Water
In the wake of massive spring flooding in Quebec, New Brunswick, and parts of Ontario, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is warning of more of ... -
AustraliaBioenergyBitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesForests & DeforestationMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Climate and Environment Emerge as Top Public Concerns Before Canadian, Australian Elections
With federal elections coming up in Canada in October and in Australia in May, opinion polls are identifying climate change—and in Canada, waste reduction, ... -
AustraliaBatteries/StorageClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridHeat & TemperatureLegal & RegulatoryOff-GridPost-Carbon TransitionSolarWind
Coal Plants Failed, Renewables Shone as Epic January Heat Wave Hit Australian Grid
Australia’s mammoth coal plants failed while its wind and rooftop solar installations shone during a major January heat wave in Victoria state, according to ... -
Ontario Guts Endangered Species Act with ‘Pay-to-Kill’ Revisions
Doug Ford’s Conservative government in Ontario is taking serious criticism for a plan to allow municipalities and developers to pay a fee in lieu ... -
Climate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionHeat & TemperatureInternational Agencies & Studies
Independent Data Confirms Warming Trend, as Models Suggest Worse May Be Ahead
A recent review of satellite data is confirming that the Earth is already warming, possibly somewhat faster in the highest latitudes than previously believed, ... -
BioenergyFood SecurityGeneral RenewablesOil & GasPetrochemicals & PlasticsPost-Carbon TransitionSupply Chains & ConsumptionWater
Study Traces Options for Cutting Life Cycle Emissions from Plastic
With carbon pollution from every stage of the plastics life cycle on track to grow four-fold by mid-century, a new study in the journal ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsPost-Carbon Transition
McKibben Compares Climate Fight to Second World War, Sees Solutions ‘Well Within the Realm of the Possible’
Today’s climate crisis is akin to the challenges an earlier generation faced in the Second World War, and it’s “an honour and a privilege ... -
Northern Holland Installing World’s Biggest Floating Solar System
A company in The Netherlands has begun work on the world’s largest floating solar installation, a network of 73,500 panels on 15 islands on ... -
Drive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentHeat & TemperatureInternational Agencies & StudiesPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & Flooding
Central Bank Execs Stress Financial Sector’s Role in Addressing Climate Change
It’s time for central banks and the wider financial community to set clear, measurable goals for building a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy, ... -
CitiesDrought, Famine & WildfiresHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Planners Look for U.S. ‘Climate Havens’ to Receive Millions of Internal Migrants by 2100
Urban planners are looking to cities like Duluth, Minnesota, Buffalo, Cincinnati, and Portland, Oregon as future refuges for climate migrants displaced within the United ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsInternational Agencies & Studies
Declare Climate Change a ‘Festering Injustice’, IPCC Author Urges Teen Protesters
I was invited to speak to a group of teenagers on climate strike in Oxford recently. Like many scientists, I support the strikes, but ...
