As climate changes, nations will covet our fresh water: scientists
Top scientists say the latest international report on climate change shows that Canadians must wake up to the impact of warming temperatures on land, on water and in communities across the country. They say the Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change, released Sunday in Japan, shows changes are on their way and further delays in responding to them only narrow the options. "We no longer have the option of choosing between mitigation and adaptation," Debra Davidson, a University of Alberta sociologist and lead author on the report, said Monday. "We're already locked into a global warming scenario in which adaptation will be absolutely necessary if we want a reasonable quality of life," said Davidson, one of more than 2,000 scientists and expert reviewers from 70 countries who contributed.
Equity remains low on the REDD+ policy agenda
Government officials in forest-rich developing countries are more concerned about their nation being treated fairly in international negotiations on REDD+ than about fairness within their own territory, a media analysis of public discourses on REDD+ has found. REDD+ — Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation — is a U.N.-backed international mechanism that provides developing countries with financial incentives to keep their trees standing and hence maintain and increase carbon stocks.
Officials' failure to address the issues that weaken fairness, or equity, within a country with entrenched inequalities could ultimately undermine the effectiveness of REDD+ and leave marginalized groups worse off, argue the authors of "Equity and REDD+ in the media: A comparative analysis of policy discourses."
New IPCC Report: How Vulnerable are We to Climate Change?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, has just issued a stark warning of the vulnerabilities of many nations, including the USA, to future climate change.
As part of the current round of reports based on major climate model simulations published prior to 2012, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released a report describing the likely vulnerability and needs of nations to climate change. The IPCC published this report, a largely qualitative assessment of the likely occurrences, on 31 March 2014. The report focuses on risk, which is a new area of departure for the IPCC. It differs from the science report which is quantitative, but makes no comments about risks and mitigation.
Climate Change Damages Are Happening Now & More Severe Impacts Are Coming if We Don't Act Aggressively
The climate science community released its second new consensus report documenting the impacts of climate change in communities around the world, both now and in the future. This report follows on the heels of the earlier report that found that humans are causing global warming and this changing climate is already impacting us. This report is the definitive scientific consensus on the damages of climate change. The findings of this new report are clear: damages from climate change have already been set in motion and major impacts will hit humanity if we fail to act aggressively.
The report – Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (full report here) — from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the second in a series of reports in its fifth round of "Assessment Reports" – often referred to as AR5. More than 300 researchers from 70 countries reviewed more than 12,000 peer-reviewed studies for this report compiled by the IPCC. The report went through extensive scrutiny and has been signed-off by governments around the world
No one will remain untouched by climate change, says IPCC head
UNITED NATIONS: A new United Nations report on climate change says "the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans," and the world is mostly "ill-prepared" for the risks that the sweeping changes present. The comprehensive report by a panel of international experts released on Monday in Yokohama (Japan) blames "Human interference" with the climate system.
"Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change," says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in the report.
Top 5 Ways the Latest IPCC Review of Climate Change Reflects the U.S. Experience
Reading the summary of the IPCC report on climate impacts, I was struck by the parallels between the major findings and the observed trends in the U.S.
The report summarizes eight key risks that people, policy makers, and communities will be facing as a result of the carbon pollution that is causing widespread, systematic changes to the climate. While the IPCC's list wouldn't exactly make Buzzfeed, Seth Borenstein simplified it so that it might and managed to report bad news with good humor.
Climate Change Threatens India's Food Security
NEW DELHI, April 1 (Bernama) -- High levels of warming resulting from continued growth in greenhouse gas emissions may have an adverse impact on India's food security especially on rice and maize production, said a report on climate change. Press Trust of India (PTI) reports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as saying that India's fisheries could also be negatively affected by climate change.
CO2 emissions are often accompanied by ozone (O3) precursors leading to a rise in tropospheric O3 that harms crop yields, IPCC said in its report titled "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" released Monday in Yokohama, Japan. "Elevated O3 since pre-industrial times has very likely suppressed global production of major crops, with estimated losses of roughly 10 percent for wheat and soyabean and 3-5 percent for maize and rice," the report said.
CO2 emissions are often accompanied by ozone (O3) precursors leading to a rise in tropospheric O3 that harms crop yields, IPCC said in its report titled "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" released Monday in Yokohama, Japan. "Elevated O3 since pre-industrial times has very likely suppressed global production of major crops, with estimated losses of roughly 10 percent for wheat and soyabean and 3-5 percent for maize and rice," the report said.
Understanding water management for food security
Water for all provided in an equitable and sustainable way is central to global justice for poor women and men. It has a particularly important role in food security through its multiple impacts on health, agricultural production and food processing. Yet despite successive global declarations and efforts, hundreds of millions still suffer from lack of access to water for drinking, cooking, agricultural irrigation and food production at domestic and industrial levels.
World green economy summit announces programme and keynote speakers for upcoming inaugural event
HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Chairman of World Green Economy Summit (WGES) that will be held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announced the latest preparations to the Summit, including the keynote speakers and the agenda. This Summit will be hosted by DEWA from 15 to 16 April 2014 in conjunction with the 16thWater, Energy, Technology And Environment Exhibition "WETEX 2014" that will be held at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. As the first of its kind to be held in the Middle East and North Africa under the theme "World Partnerships For Sustainable Future", the Summit's programme includes speeches by VIPs, public seminars, round-table meetings and workshops aiming to reach practical and viable recommendations to drive the green economy.
Whether or not global warming leads to more war, it hurts vulnerable people
Joshua Busby is an associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin and one of the leading researchers involved in the Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program, a five-year grant funded by the U.S. Department of Defense under its Minerva Initiative.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just released the Working Group II report from its Fifth Assessment, summarizing the scientific community's latest findings on climate change impacts around the world. For the first time, the IPCC includes a chapter on human security. The media immediately highlighted the connections between climate change and conflict. The IPCC is going beyond the physical sciences to examine how climate change affects society and politics.
Global action needed on climate change
A NEW report released on Tuesday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints the starkest picture yet of the extreme challenges facing our planet as a direct result of climate change.
The Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), David Sheppard, has welcomed the release of the report and echoes the call for swift, concentrated and global action to respond to the indisputable risks that are identified.
The report preparation was led and coordinated by a total of 309 lead authors and editors from 70 countries who form the second of three working groups tasked with assessing the state of climate change. They were further assisted by an additional 436 contributing authors, and a total of 1,729 expert and government reviewers.
Entitled Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, the IPCC Working Group II report outlines how the impact of climate change is already taking place in all continents and oceans around the globe. It also warns that in most cases, people and governments are not adequately prepared for the risks from a changing climate.
While no-one is immune to the impacts of climate change, the report clearly identifies the people and ecosystems that face the greatest and most immediate threat.
Entitled Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, the IPCC Working Group II report outlines how the impact of climate change is already taking place in all continents and oceans around the globe. It also warns that in most cases, people and governments are not adequately prepared for the risks from a changing climate.
While no-one is immune to the impacts of climate change, the report clearly identifies the people and ecosystems that face the greatest and most immediate threat.
EU-Africa Ministerial Statement on Climate Change
On the occasion of the EU-Africa Summit, EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, the President of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN) Binilith Mahenge, and the African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture Rhoda Tumusiime hosted a ministerial climate seminar in Brussels on 1 April 2014.
We, Ministers, recall that climate change is a decisive global challenge, which, if not urgently addressed, will put at risk not only the environment and the ecosystems on which we all depend but also world economic prosperity, development, food security and, more broadly, stability and security. We underline the imperative need of limiting global warming and are concerned about the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties' mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C or 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, while reiterating that all Parties should take urgent actions to meet this long-term goal consistent with science and on the basis of equity, and bearing in mind that social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of developing countries and that climate resilient and low emission development strategies are indispensable to sustainable development, while acknowledging that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet, and thus requires to be urgently addressed by all Parties, and that developing countries in particular African countries are among the most vulnerable. We recall the guidance of Nelson Mandela, who urged us to 'stand together to make our world a sustainable source for our future as humanity on this planet'.
As globe warms, adapt and mitigate: Our view
As a piece of literature, the latest report from the United Nations' expert organization on climate change is no John Grisham page-turner. Pulled together by 309 authors and editors from 70 countries, the document released this week brings to mind the saying about a camel being a horse designed by committee. Despite the turgid prose, excessive acronyms and bewildering flow charts, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes an important contribution, most notably with its new emphasis on adaptation.
Reactions to the IPCC climate change report from business leaders and experts
The IPCC's second climate change report has spurred plenty of debate from business leaders, news media and experts
Floods near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Experts say Asia and the South Pacific, home to 4.3 billion people or 60% of all humankind, face rising risks from climate change. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman, File) Photograph: Pavel Rahman/AP
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meant to represent the global consensus on the state of climate-change science, came out Monday. Read the Guardian's extensive coverage of the report, including:
• Climate change report: 'The worst is yet to come' – as it happened
• Climate change report: five key points
• Climate change: the poor will suffer most
• Climate change 'already affecting food supply' - UN
• Climate change report: five key points
• Climate change: the poor will suffer most
• Climate change 'already affecting food supply' - UN
We've collected reactions from business leaders, thought leaders and experts here.
A shifting climate could mean trouble for one of Africa's staple crops
One of the warnings from the new climate change report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, is food insecurity: It will be harder to grow many crops in parts of the world.That includes staple crops like corn, wheat and rice. In Kenya, this could dramatically shift societal norms, where corn is life. "Almost everybody is growing maize [corn], everybody is consuming maize. It's made into a very thick porridge for the dinner time and into a less thick porridge for the breakfast time," said Bruce Campbell, director of the climate change and agriculture program at CGIAR, a global food research organization. "You can get a vision of what happens with any impact on maize if you go back to 2008 when something like 1 million people in rural areas, 4 million in urban areas, were food insecure."
Reckless human acts threaten global biodiversity
My day begins with a cup of coffee and ends with hot chocolate. In between, I consume a variety of food and medicines, including my daily 81 mg dose of aspirin.A brightly colored orchid enlivens my study, and, through the window, I catch a glimpse of my green garden.In short, my life – like everyone's – is enabled, enriched and extended by a wide variety of plants and their derivatives.
Britain calls for global action against climate change following IPCC report
British Foreign Secretary William Hague Monday called for "global cooperation" to tackle the climate change, urging governments around the world to take actions.
"Unless there is unprecedented global cooperation to bring down emissions, no country would be left unaffected. Governments everywhere have to act," Xinhua quoted Hague as saying following the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its second report "Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" Monday. "A two degree increase in the world's temperature would be dangerous, and four degrees would be catastrophic," he said, citing research findings from the IPCC report.
Formalise Non-State Stakeholder Participation in the Extractive Industries -Says UNU-INRA Book
Formalising the interactions between non-state stakeholders and public agencies for collaborative governance could help in addressing some of the challenging issues in Africa's extractive industries.
This, according to a book released by the United Nations University- Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), could play an instrumental role in enhancing the operations and the management of extractive resources for Africa's development. The book, entitled â€Å"Collaborative Governance in Extractive Industries in Africa", urges leaders in Africa's extractive industries to institutionalise a governance system that is transparent, inclusive and accountable in order to improve transparency, equity and efficiency in the management of revenues from the industries. Collaborative governance, the book indicates, will also promote a common understanding of the environmental and socio-economic challenges associated with the extractive industries. It also suggests that with formalised arrangements, non-state stakeholders could easily have access to relevant information including financial statements, public expenditures and other disbursements without resorting to conflicts.
Climate change poses risk, opportunities for Africa
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report says African states may need to spend between USD 20 billion and 30 billion annually over the next two decades to adapt to climate change and protect rural and urban livelihoods, societies and economies.
That figure could reach USD 60 billion by 2030, and the IPCC believes the figures are "likely to be under-estimates." "Africa as a whole is one of the most vulnerable continents due to its high exposure and low adaptive capacity climate, ecology and political boundaries in Africa vary across the continent," the IPCC noted. Of nine climate-related key regional risks identified for Africa, eight pose medium or higher risk even with highly adapted systems, while only one key risk assessed can be potentially reduced with high adaptation to below a medium risk level, the report warned.
That figure could reach USD 60 billion by 2030, and the IPCC believes the figures are "likely to be under-estimates." "Africa as a whole is one of the most vulnerable continents due to its high exposure and low adaptive capacity climate, ecology and political boundaries in Africa vary across the continent," the IPCC noted. Of nine climate-related key regional risks identified for Africa, eight pose medium or higher risk even with highly adapted systems, while only one key risk assessed can be potentially reduced with high adaptation to below a medium risk level, the report warned.
EU, Africa lock step on climate challenges
EU, African leaders stress need for collaborative efforts to tackle climate change.
April 2 (UPI) -- Parties to a joint European Union-African summit said Wednesday actions taken to address the challenges of climate change are central to their partnership.
"We confirm that action on climate change is a central area of the Africa-EU Partnership and that we will do all that is in our power to convince other partners of the need for a fair, balanced, equitable and ambitious legally binding agreement to be adopted by the end of 2015," a joint statement read. EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard met in Brussels with African leaders to discuss climate issues.
Climate Change Affecting Asia's Future
Experts are saying that the population of 4.3 billion people currently living in Asia and the South Pacific are prone to the hazards of climate change, Huffingtonpost reports. This population accounts for 60 percent of the entire humankind. With the unruly weather and unexpected rise of the temperature, Asian countries are currently experiencing difficulties that is affecting their daily lives. The sea levels are rising and the availability of drinking water is getting scarcer. The Intergovernmental Panel's scientists say that they have acquired evidence that shows an overwhelming amount of carbon emissions from industrialized areas. There's also evidence that shows the great effect of urban heat in today's environment. Because of the failed efforts to make the people more aware of their own emissions, Asian nations have little option other than to adapt to a "hotter earth."
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We can't stop global warming unless we start eating a lot less meat
Climate scientists are in agreement that we can't avoid feeling the impact of climate change (because, hey, they're already happening), but the key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report is we can take steps to manage our future risk. What will that look like in practice? In a word: tofu. We can have out steak, or we can have our planet — according to a new study published in the journal Climatic Change, we can't have both. That's because the world, with its growing population, just can't sustain continued meat and dairy consumption. Regardless of what else we do, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden found, agricultural emissions remain a major barrier keeping us from containing global warming below the U.N.'s target of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Global Warming and the Developing World
Climate change is drastically affecting the whole world and is likely to become much more damaging unless greenhouse gases are reduced, recent reports from the United Nations and the the American Association for the Advancement of Science have concluded. The problems are most immediate indeveloping nations, many of which have contributed little pollution but are most affected by rising sea levels and drought.
Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific panel warned Monday.
And he's not alone. The Obama White House said it is taking this new report as a call for action, with Secretary of State John Kerry saying "the costs of inaction are catastrophic."
Global Warming a Threat to United States and World Agriculture
In a review of scientific papers published since 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change
declared that the world is already experiencing the impacts of climate change in areas like global security and food production. Global warming is a threat to agriculture in the United States and around the world, say the report's authors.
declared that the world is already experiencing the impacts of climate change in areas like global security and food production. Global warming is a threat to agriculture in the United States and around the world, say the report's authors.These results were part of an extensive analysis and summary of climate change research published this week by the IPCC. Lead author Dr. Michael Oppenheimer said that food supply is the most pressing matter.
In North America, the IPCC reports several likely ways that food production will be disrupted. The report states with high confidence that climate change will have major impact on fisheries off both the East and West coasts of the United States.
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