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04.11.2011 | Publications
Pathways towards a 100 % renewable electricity system
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Special Report of the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU)

The report discusses the need for transformation of the electricity supply system, in light of the relevant technical, economic, legal and political factors, and with the goal of ensuring that Germany ...>
03.11.2011 | General news
Rio+20
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Swiss submission handed in

In view oft the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, stakeholders have been asked for input. The submissions made to the C ...>
28.10.2011 | General news
Mountain regions and IPCC AR5
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Call to submit relevant journal articles

Researches are asked to send relevant manuscripts and papers to the Technical Support Units of Working Group II of the IPCC. This Working Group focuses on the detection of observed changes in coupled ...>
17.10.2011 | Meeting report
Earth System Sustainability Initiative (ESSI) replaces WCRP, IGBP, IHDP, DIVERSITAS and ESSP
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Decision taken at the ICSU General Assembly 2011 in Rome

In Rome, ICSU members endorsed the Earth System Sustainability Initiative (ESSI) that would bring the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP; established 1980), International Geosphere Biosphere Progr ...>
12.10.2011 | Publications
Water Management in a Changing Environment
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Strategies against Water Scarcity in the Alps

The role of mountains in providing indispensible water resources for municipal and industrial water supply, irrigation, hydropower production, and other environmental services is well-known and unques ...>
12.10.2011 | Publications
Water in the Alps: Striking the Balance
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Alpine Water Conference 2010

The Alps are widely known as the "water tower" of Europe because of their influence on the continental water balance. They supply a disproportionate amount of water to a wide area, going far beond the ...>
13.09.2011 | Publications
Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change - Social implications
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Social Synthesis Report

The social component of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change study aims to highlight how vulnerability to climate change is socially differentiated, what elements are needed to strengthen the ...>
13.09.2011 | Publications
Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change - General Aspects
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Synthesis Report

Climate change will have dramatic implications for how countries manage their economies, care for their people and design their development paths. Countries will need to adopt measures to adapt to cli ...>
12.09.2011 | Publications
IGBP Newsletter 'Global Change' No 77, July 2011
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Timber! Fall of Rome etched in rings?

Top funders are calling on the international research programmes to refocus efforts to deliver knowledge that supports action and adaptation to regional environmental change. The International Council ...>
07.09.2011 | Publications
Waste opportunities — Past and future climate benefits from better municipal waste management in Europe
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EEA Report No 3/2011

Using a life-cycle perspective, this report analyses the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from municipal solid waste management in the EU, plus Norway and Switzerland. Three scenarios illustrate how was ...>
07.09.2011 | Publications
Landscape fragmentation in Europe
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EEA Report No 2/2011

Roads, motorways, railways, intensive agriculture and urban developments are breaking up Europe’s landscapes into ever-smaller pieces, with potentially devastating consequences for flora and fauna acr ...>
07.09.2011 | Meeting report
Climate Change in High Mountain Regions: From Understanding of the Past to Modelling of the Future
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International Symposium

120 scientists from all over the world met in Salzburg last week for an international conference, Climate Change in High Mountain Regions: From Understanding of the Past to Modelling of the Future, on ...>
31.08.2011 | Meeting report
Quaternary sciences – the view from the mountains
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Meeting report from the XVIII INQUA Congress in Bern

For the first time the world congress of quaternary sciences took place in Switzerland, namely in Bern. Two thousand researchers met for one week in July 2011 to discuss questions like: What exactly w ...>
22.08.2011 | Publications
Potential for geological sequestration of CO2 in Switzerland
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BFE Final Report 31 August 2010

One approach to dispose of the greenhouse gas CO2 is to inject it into deep, porous geological formations, where is remains safely trapped over periods of many millennia. This report evaluates the pot ...>
17.08.2011 | General news
Integrated Risk Governance Project
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New IHDP Core Project on Risk Governance

The Integrated Risk Governance Project (IRG-Project), one of IHDP’s latest core projects, has been launched! The first meeting of the IRG-Project's Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) in China in May ...>
15.08.2011 | Publications
Agriculture in Climate Change
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A CIPRA background report

The agricultural sector is directly affected by climate change impacts but it also contributes to the release of greenhouse gases (GHG) and rising concentrations of GHG in the atmosphere. A sustainabl ...>
15.07.2011 | General news
CO2-tax exempt companies exceed CO2-targets also in 2010
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Swiss companies exempted from paying the CO2 tax have once again surrendered carbon emission credits to the federal authorities. As in previous years, the emission targets agreed with the Federal Offi ...>
29.06.2011 | General news
Carbon efficiency of new cars is increasing
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Preliminary data published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA) show that new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU) in 2010 are emitting 3.7 % less CO2 per kilometre travelled ...>
28.06.2011 | Publications
IPCC Special Report "Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation"
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28.06.2011 | General news
Energy consumption higher than ever
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Swiss consumption 2010

In 2010, Switzerland’s overall energy consumption rose to the new record level of 911,550 terajoules, an increase of 4.4% over 2009. The main causes were the much colder weather, positive developments ...>

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