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16.06.2011 | Press
Arguments from Global Warming Sceptics
1994
Climate Press No 29 (English)

Scepticism is the foundation of scientific work, because scientific findings must be verifiable. However, the scepticism of climate sceptics is problematic, because climate sceptics accept scientific ...>
08.06.2011 | Publications
Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth
1978
By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is “decoupled” fr ...>
08.06.2011 | Publications
Environmental Impacts of Swiss Consumption and Production
1977
A combination of input-output analysis with life cycle assessment

There is a need for information on total environmental impacts of Swiss consumption and production as a complement to economic information. The study published by FOEN 2011 investigated for the first ...>
01.06.2011 | Meeting report
Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Uses (AFOLU)
1969
IPCC AR5 WG III: Mitigation of Climate Change

A small Workshop called “AFOLU topics and the Swiss Research since 2007” was held on 31 May 2011 in Bern. Carmenza Robledo from Intercooperation Switzerland was selected as one of the lead authors for ...>
11.05.2011 | Meeting report
IMILAST Workshop in Interlaken
1960
Meeting report

IMILAST (Intercomparison of Mid-latitude Storm Diagnostics) is an international project coordinated by ProClim-. It aims at comparing the different identification and tracking algorithms for extratrop ...>
11.05.2011 | General news
Direct Air Capture of CO2 with chemicals is inefficient
1959
The American Physical Society just published the results of a two-year long study called "Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals". 13 internationally known scientists from the USA, Europe and Switze ...>
09.05.2011 | Publications
IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation published
1954
New IPCC report assesses existing literature on the future potential of renewable energy for the mitigation of climate change

A New Special Report has been published by IPCC on 9 Mai 2011 which assesses existing literature on the future potential of renewable energy for the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six mos ...>
06.05.2011 | General news
Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area
1946
White Paper 2011

The European Commission adopted a roadmap of 40 concrete initiatives for the next decade to build a competitive transport system that will increase mobility, remove major barriers in key areas and fue ...>
04.05.2011 | Meeting report
From learning to action: What is needed to provoke societal change?
1943
Workshop in Grindelwald to shape a new international research program "Knowledge, Learning and Societal Change" (KLSC)

35 Experts from around the world discussed from April 13 - 15 2011 in Grindelwald the science plan and potential projects of a new program to better understand the mechanisms that lead to societal cha ...>
29.04.2011 | General news
The Networker – new IHDP newsletter
1928
The newly-updated newsletter of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), called The Networker is replacing the E-zine. It will offer readers a new for ...>
29.04.2011 | General news
ESPERE: Information on the climate system
1927
...for schools and the world's citizens

ESPERE stands for Environmental Science Published for Everybody Round the Earth. It is a project funded by the European Commission with the aim to put up-to-date and accurate scientific information on ...>
28.04.2011 | Publications
World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability
1924
WBGU Report 2011

In this report, the WBGU (German Advisory Council on Global Change) explains the reasons for the desperate need for a post-fossil economic strategy, yet it also concludes that the transition to sustai ...>
27.04.2011 | General news
New Platform of the Swiss NGOs Active in Disaster Risk Reduction
1925
SDC and Swiss NGOs initiated in July 2010 a dialogue on the importance of DRR and Adaptation to Climate Change (ACC) practices and experiences. Subsequently, interested Swiss NGOs promoted the creatio ...>
27.04.2011 | General news
Launch of the mountain.TRIP website
1921
New community platform for sustainable mountain development

The goal of Mountain.TRIP is to provide stakeholders and practitioners with understandable forms of research-based information about mountain sustainability. Mountain.TRIP has started where other EU p ...>
21.04.2011 | Meeting report
12th Swiss Global Change Day - Meeting Report
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On 19th April 2011 the Swiss global change research community met for the 12th time on the Swiss Global Change Day in Bern. About 310 participants attended the event and about 90 posters were presente ...>
18.04.2011 | General news
Greenhouse gas emission reductions are too slow
1781
Switzerland is not on track to reach the Kyoto target

In Switzerland, Greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 1.5 million tons of CO2 equivalents in 2009. However, the emissions were still too high with regard to the Kyoto target. ...>
13.04.2011 | General news
Electricity consumption up 4% in 2010
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Electricity consumption in Switzerland increased by 4% in 2010 to 59.8 billion kilowatt hours (kWh). In every month of 2010, Switzerland's electricity consumption was between 1.9% and 6.8% higher than ...>
07.04.2011 | Publications
UNEP Green Economy Report 2011
1775
Synthesis Report for Policy Makers

At the Rio Conference 1992 we were just glimpsing some of the challenges emerging across the planet from climate change and the loss of species to des ...>
02.04.2011 | Publications
Road to Rio+20
1772
First report of series in run-up to 2012 global conference

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has published the first in a series of volumes focusing on green economy. The aim of th publication is to contribute to the debate through a coll ...>
11.03.2011 | Publications
Impacts of climate change on snow, ice, and permafrost in Europe
1747
Observed trends, future projections, and socioeconomic relevance

The European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change (ETC/ACC) recently published a background report about impacts of climate change on cryosphere in Europe. The report was elaborated in close coopera ...>

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