Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is not satisfied by the lack of attention given to environmental and social issues at the current Poznan talks. I was right in my article on sustainable development, our leaders only think about the economy, the economy and the economy. Climate change is …
Carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases emissions have been increasing continuously since the beginning of the industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century. According to the IPCC experts who met the EU environment ministries today, this trend have to be reversed and emissions have to start decreasing within the next seven years. To these …
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The European Union presented last week its climate change mitigation and energy plan, and I am somehow disappointed by it. The final plan states a measure to decrease by a mere 20 percent greenhouse gases emissions by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. This is in total contradiction with what was mentioned in Bail (minimum of …
The last part of the Fourth Assessment report (AR4) of the IPCC was released Friday in Valencia, Spain. The main news is that the situation is worse than forecast during the writing of the report. Mankind thus have to act quick and in a massive way if it wants to avoid global warming and can’t …
Final part of AR4 released. We have to act NOW ! Read More »
Today’s major event is the Nobel Peace Prize, which goes to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and to Al Gore, for their tireless work on raising the public awareness on man-made climate change. This recognizes in perhaps the best possible way that global warming has to be fought against. The Nobel Committee was …
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The United Nations met last week in Vienna and agreed on recognizing the target set by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They thus made the first step toward action. The target agreed upon mentions a decrease of 25 to 40 percent of global greenhouse gases by 2020. This meeting was preparing the Bali …
The IPCC paper shows the existence of numerous solutions to mitigate and even stop climate change. Here are some of them that can, and have to, be putted in place before 2030.
As I wrote here on Friday, below is a short version of the Summary of Policymakers of the third Working Group of AR4. Those pages concern the mitigation of climate change. We will see it is still time to act and hope remains.
The International Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) released the third Summary for Policy-makers of their Fourth Assessment Report. It is available there. I haven’t read it yet but will do a article I will publish on Monday.
The third part of the fourth assessment report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to be released on Friday. This one will tackle the responses that can be brought to mitigate climate change.
