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24.02.2012 | Publications
UNEP Year Book 2011: Emerging Issues in our Global Environment
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The UN Environment Programme flagship report examines global emerging issues and provides the latest environmental science. It also highlights major environmental events and developments over the past ...>
20.02.2012 | Publications
IPCC Special Report "Extreme Events and Disasters (SREX)"
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IPCC just published the Summary for Policymakers of the new special report on "Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)". The report was three ye ...>
16.02.2012 | General news
Global temperatures in 2011: Provisional statements
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Warmest year with La Niña on record

According to provisional statements on the status of global climate 2011 is ranked as the 10th or 11th warmest year since records began in 1880. 2011 marks the 35th consecutive year, since 1976, that ...>
10.02.2012 | Publications
Earnings, jobs and innovation: the role of recycling in a green economy
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EEA Report No 8/2011

The EU has introduced a variety of policies to increase recycling in the last 15 years. Recycling benefits the environment by diverting waste away from landfill, thereby avoiding pollutant emissions. ...>
06.02.2012 | Publications
Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation
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Agriculture Sector

The agriculture sector faces the daunting challenge of providing adequate food and other necessities to a growing world population, which is projected to increase to nine billion by 2050. There is lim ...>
19.01.2012 | General news
Arctic sea ice extent: 2011 in review
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Arctic sea ice extent fell to its seasonal minimum on September 9, 2011, falling just short of the record low set in September 2007, when summer weather conditions were extremely favorable for ice los ...>
18.01.2012 | Publications
EU Energy Roadmap 2050
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A secure, competitive and low-carbon energy sector is possible

To achieve the goal of cutting emissions by over 80% by 2050, Europe's energy production will have to be almost carbon-free. How to achieve this without disrupting energy supplies and competitiveness ...>
12.01.2012 | Publications
Water in climate change
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A CIPRA background report

Alpine rivers supply more than 170 millions of people with water. Climate change is going to reduce this water availability in the Alps and also in other regions. Water demand will rise as well as the ...>

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21.12.2011 | General news
Open call to take part in a climate impact study
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Initiative by the Oeschger Center and the NCCR-Climate

This is an open call for participation in a cross-sectorial quantitative impact study for Climate Change based on CH2011 Scenario data for Switzerland. It extends the qualitative assessment of the OcC ...>
15.12.2011 | Publications
Climate adaptation and natural hazard management in the alpine space
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Final report

Climate change imposes extra stress on the social-ecological system of the European Alps. The rise of temperature as well as changes in precipitation measures have unforeseeable impacts on the intensi ...>
12.12.2011 | General news
Durban - UN Climate Change Conference 2011
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The 17th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban (South Africa) ended on Sunday, 11 December 2011. The outcome, an agreement to negotiate a comprehensive global compact for emissions reduc ...>
12.12.2011 | General news
IPCC AR5 expert review of WGI from 16 December 2011 to 10 February 2011
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Call for registration as expert reviewer

The WGI Expert Review seeks wide participation of experts and aims for a range of views, expertise, and geographical balance. The WGI Bureau therefore invites all experts with expertise and/or publica ...>
09.12.2011 | Publications
WCRP Newsletter e-zine No 21
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November 2011

Highlights reported in this issue:
09.12.2011 | Publications
Migration and Global Environmental Change
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Foresight Report

The Migration and Global Environmental Change project by Foresight has explored the global patterns and impacts of migration over the next 50 years arising from environmental change as well as the cha ...>
23.11.2011 | Publications
An experimental framework for ecosystem capital accounting
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Ecosystems such as forests, wetlands and rivers as well as pastures or cropland supply basic goods and services. These include food, fibre, energy, clean water, temperature control and flood regulatio ...>
23.11.2011 | General news
Scientific Committee approves Knowledge, Learning and Societal Change (KLSC) initiative as alliance of IHDP
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The IHDP Scientific Committee has formally accepted the Knowledge, Learning and Societal Change (KLSC) initiative as an alliance of IHDP. After a presentation of the KLSC project proposal during the I ...>
23.11.2011 | Publications
Air quality in Europe - 2011 report
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Air quality in Europe has improved between 1990 and 2009, as emissions of most pollutants have fallen, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). But there is still a lot of ...>
18.11.2011 | Meeting report
3. Symposium Anpassung an den Klimawandel - "Herausforderungen für die Schweiz"
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18. November 2011 - Uni S Bern (OcCC, ProClim, BAFU, MeteoSchweiz, PLANAT, BLW)

Die Arbeiten an der Klima-Anpassungsstrategie des Bundes in den letzten Jahren haben gezeigt, dass Herausforderungen im Umgang mit Anpassungsmassnahmen insbesondere auch an thematischen Schnittstellen ...>
10.11.2011 | Publications
World Energy Outlook 2011
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Without a bold change of policy direction, the world will lock itself into an insecure, inefficient and high-carbon energy system

At the launche of the 2011 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned from a world locked into an inefficient carbon-intensive energy system. The agency’s f ...>

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