Climate

CO2 emissions from the United States have increased for two consecutive years
According to the monthly Energy Review (Monthly Energy Review) issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on April 20, 2015, energy-related CO2 emissions in the United States have increased for two consecutive years. However, unlike 2013 CO2 emissions and gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 2.5 per cent and 2.2 per cent respectively, CO2 emissions grew by only 0.7 per cent in 2014, much lower than the 2.4 per cent GDP growth rate in 2014 (figure 1).
By test4 years ago in Earth
Antarctic Ice Core reveals changes in CO2 concentration over the past thousand years
On April 27th, Natural Geoscience (Nature Geoscience) magazine published an article entitled "links between atmospheric CO2, terrestrial carbon banks and climate in the past millennia" (Links between Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, the Land Carbon Reservoir and Climateover the Past Millennium). According to the reconstruction data of CO2 concentrations over the past millennium, the main reason for CO2 concentration fluctuations on a time scale from decades to centuries is the feedback mechanism between climate and terrestrial carbon banks.
By test4 years ago in Earth
70 years after the founding of the United Nations, the coordinated development of economy, environment and society is still a great challenge.
On 13 April 2015, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ESC) discussed and signed the outcome document of the High-level statement of the Economic Commission for Europe Regional Development agenda and expected Sustainable Development goals (High-level statement on the post-2015 development agenda and expected sustainable development goals in the ECE region).
By test4 years ago in Earth
OECD: strengthen urban water management to ensure sustainable utilization of urban water resources
In April 2015, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report entitled "Water and cities: ensuring a sustainable future" (Water and cities: Ensuring Sustainable Futures), which aims to promote urban development and coordinated use of water resources and sustainable development in its member countries. OECD member countries are basically at a high level in terms of urban water management measures, and most residents have access to safe and reliable water supply services. The main risks faced by its member countries are to withstand floods, droughts, deterioration of water quality caused by urban growth, competition for water resources, water pollution caused by agriculture and climate change. There are also problems caused by aging infrastructure. Most OECD member cities need to solve their problems from the current situation of existing infrastructure and environment.
By test4 years ago in Earth
American Anthropological Association releases Anthropology and Climate change report
On March 4, 2015, the American Anthropological Association (American Anthropological Association, AAA) released a report entitled "changing atmosphere: anthropology and Climate change" (Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change), which provides a guide to anthropological climate change research. It focuses on the promotion of human activities to climate change, the experience of human adaptation to climate change, the evaluation of "global-regional-local-community" spatial scales to study the adaptability and vulnerability of climate change, and the importance of community research. the necessity of interdisciplinary research and so on. From the point of view of anthropology, eight viewpoints are put forward to understand the impact of climate change:
By test4 years ago in Earth
Canadian scholars jointly put forward proposals for climate change action to the government
In March 2015, the Sustainable Canada Dialogue (Sustainable Canada Dialogues,SCD) released a report entitled "Climate change Action: solutions for Canadian Scholars" (Acting on Climate Change: Solutions from Canadian Scholars), which pointed out that thanks to abundant renewable energy, Canada can fully achieve renewable energy generation by 2035 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. The report identifies ten policy directions that can be taken immediately to promote the necessary transformation of Canada's low-carbon economy and sustainable society:
By test4 years ago in Earth
Climate Finance in 2022 risk and opportunities
As predicted by some experts, Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) investment will become the “new-bottom line”. The ESG and broader climate finance is propelled by a combination of recent catalyzers, namely, climate regulation becoming more forceful; climate crisis and its economic impact skyrocketing and overall coordination among ESG stakeholders improving. The Green Deal in Europe and the Build Bank Better bill in the US, represent the two biggest global catalyzers for the 2022 ESG investment momentum. Furthermore, the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US and EU Central Banks taking climate risk more seriously, will position ESG investment as the greatest value generation opportunity in 2022.
By Andrea Zanon4 years ago in Earth
With an area of over 9.4 million square kilometers, how did such a huge desert come to be?
Truth be told, albeit the degree of the Incomparable Sahara Desert arrives at 9.4 million square kilometers, it doesn't intend that inside the area of 9.4 million square kilometers are unending sand hills, assuming this is the case, it would be excessively terrible. Truth be told the sand rise inclusion of the Incomparable Sahara Desert isn't especially high, likely just around 15%.
By wang yang4 years ago in Earth
Global Warming
An Earth-wide temperature boost is a peculiarity connected with nature and is brought about by elements like emotional populace development, barometrical contamination, obliteration of land, harmful material contamination, and water contamination. Populace blast is one of the fundamental elements causing a worldwide temperature alteration. At the point when individuals consume non-renewable energy sources, like oil and coal, or cut down woods and consume them, a lot of carbon dioxide is created, which prompts an expansion in the temperature of the earth, for example the nursery impact. At the point when the nursery impact continues to collect, it prompts an irregularity between the energy consumed and produced by the world's air framework, and the energy continues to gather in the world's air framework, which prompts a climb in temperature and causes the peculiarity of an unnatural weather change.
By wang yang4 years ago in Earth
The Website That Makes Climate Denial Easy — (ft. Climateaction.org)
Why hello there, traveler, and welcome to the "Apocalypse Tour!" This is the extraterrestrial walking (or hovering) tour where we observe all the locations that led to species 947's demise — 947 was also known as humanity [hyoo·ma·nuh·tee]. This tour covers the locations that contributed to humanity's untimely end on a tiny planet called Earth in the year 90,423 XE (what humans may know as 2XXX AD).
By Alex Mell-Taylor4 years ago in Earth
Perfect Super Storm (3): cosmic radiation, extreme Climate, Little Ice Age
When talking about the cycle of the sun, the most important thing is to remind us not to ignore such obvious and important effects in the face of common human problems.
By michaeldbarr khg4 years ago in Earth
Interesting Facts About Earth
You’d be forgiven for thinking that we know everything there is to know about Earth. It’s the planet we all call home, after all, and one that has been extensively studied by scientists over the centuries. However, even though there are plenty of books and articles out there that tell us interesting things about our planet, there still seems to be so much more to discover about it. You might think you already know everything worth knowing about Earth — but these facts will prove you wrong! Read on for some amazing insights into our home planet that you probably didn’t know.
By PP4 years ago in Earth