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Transportation Sector has the Capacity to Nearly Halve its CO2 Emissions

Some argue the transportation sector constitutes a major roadblock on the path to avoiding dangerous climate change. Yet, the sector has the capacity to nearly halve its CO2 emissions by 2050, and may therefore be easier to decarbonize than previously thought. Realizing such a major emissions cut would require further efficiency improvements in fuel consumption and, especially, the promotion of public transport in cities, alongside a large-scale shift to electric cars. These are key findings of the new article published in the journal Science.

20 Nov 2015

Cornell Researchers to Participate in COP21 Global Climate Change Summit

Cornell researchers will travel to Paris in early December as part of the university’s delegation to the global climate change summit, COP21. Even in the wake of the recent Parisian terrorist attacks, delegations from over 190 countries and more than 50,000 people from all over the world are expected to attend.

20 Nov 2015

UK Health Professionals Form Alliance to Advocate for Stronger Measures to Tackle Climate Change

As world leaders prepare to meet in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, UK health professionals have formed an alliance of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals to advocate for stronger measures to tackle climate change.

19 Nov 2015

Ancient Earth Climates Could Have Been More Sensitive to Increased Carbon Dioxide

Ancient climates on Earth may have been more sensitive to carbon dioxide than was previously thought, according to new research from Binghamton University.

18 Nov 2015

New Study Assesses Factors Affecting Climate Change Adaptation

A new study assesses the factors that affect climate change adaptation and ranks six American cities, finding that Portland, Boston and Los Angeles are all in the advanced to middle stages of planning for extreme weather events linked to climate change while Raleigh and Tucson are in the early to middle stages.

17 Nov 2015

Australia and New Zealand Keen to Set up Own Version of Climate-KIC

Ideas are the oxygen of growth in the zero carbon economy, and organisations need to be fed with these big, scalable, commercially-viable ideas to be able to address climate change. Climate-KIC – the European Union’s Knowledge and Innovation Community for climate innovation – has been doing this so successfully, that some in Australia and New Zealand are now keen to set up their own version.

12 Nov 2015

Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere Could Release More CO2 due to Global Climate Change

Many of the world’s approximately 117 million lakes act as wet chimneys releasing large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, into the atmosphere. The most recent estimates show that CO2 emissions from the world’s lakes, water courses and reservoirs are equivalent to almost a quarter of all the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.

11 Nov 2015