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Cooking up a Storm | Food Climate Research Network
The UK Government should commit to achieving a 70% or more absolute reduction in food-related GHG emissions by 2050 and should set out how it intends to achieve these cuts.
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California Climate Risk and Response | Next 10 and UC Berkeley
In conducting this multi-sector assessment, we compile the most recent available science on climate damage, assess its economic implications, and examine alternative strategies for adaptation.
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Inside WCI | Sightline
Eric de Place takes an in depth look at the Western Climate Initiative's July 2008 draft proposal for a regional cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions.
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“Justinian”: A Climate Plan for the New Administration
Statutes already on the books provide much legal authority for swift action on this most pressing environmental problem.
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The Tragedy - 40 Years Later
The dilemma, following Garrett Hardin's reassessment, is not that the atmosphere is a commons, but that it is an unmanaged commons.
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William Calvin: Climate Will Change Everything | Edge
Climate will change our ways of doing science, making some areas more like medicine with its combination of science and interventional activism.
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Upcoming Geo-Engineering Ocean Fertilization Experiment
Two very different takes on a geo-engineering experiment in the Great Southern Ocean.
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The Adaptation Generation | TNR
Until recently, discussing the notion of "adaptation" to global warming was anathema to most mainstream environmentalists.
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Mary Wood and Tim Ream: Barack Obama at the threshold | Straight.com
Since the earliest times, our legal system has recognized that "we the people" own critical natural resources-like the waters, wildlife, and the air-in common.
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Mitigation and Adaptation
The beneficial overlap in climate mitigation and adaptation strategies is illustrated here.
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George Monbiot Strikes Again | Worldchanging Canada
George Monbiot has been conducting a set of video interviews for the Guardian with key policy-makers.
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Climate Adaptation for Resilient Communities
I explore the idea and practice of adaptation, while surveying a range of materials that have caught our attention.
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One Planet, One Chance
"One Planet, One Chance" is an eight minute Flash movie of Magnum photographs with music commissioned by the UNDP.
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Joe Romm: White Roofs Are the Trillion-Dollar Solution
A global “cool roofs” strategy can achieve the equivalent of several trillion dollars worth of CO2 reductions — since it can increase the albedo (reflectivity) of the planet.
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Eating Less Meat Could Cut Climate Costs | New Scientist
Cutting back on beefburgers and bacon could wipe $20 trillion off the cost of fighting climate change.
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U.S. CO2 Inventory on Google Earth
In the US, there are dramatic differences in total emissions among counties, and the makeup of their contributing sources.
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Responding to the Threat of Climate Change
Dan Gilbert speaks at Pop!Tech 2007 on why the threat of climate change fails to trigger alarms.
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“One Person, One Share” of the Atmosphere
For most of human existence, people living only short distances apart might as well have been living in separate worlds. As a result, our moral intuitions evolved to deal with problems within our community, rather than with the impact of our actions on those far away.
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The Ethics of Climate Change
The consequences of climate change will challenge us to reshape and reform our concepts of individual and political morality.
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Contraction & Convergence
C&C offers an intellectual framework for reaching international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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