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Climate Change to bring more flooding to Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia will see more extreme weather and more flooding due to Climate Change, a World Bank official has told AFP.
Feeding the world by 2050 will mean limiting demand
Demand must be tackled as well as supply to feed the growing population living in a resource strapped world in 2050, the Soil Association’s Policy Director told the Environmental Audit Committee.
$35 billion per year needed to provide clean energy in Africa
Africa needs $35 billion investment per year in order to provide clean energy across the continent, according to a report by UK charity Christian Aid.
Climate related disasters cost USA $14 billion
Deaths and health problems from climate related disasters cost the US over $14 billion over the last decade, according to new research.
India’s fight against climate change starts at home
The headlines will be made at COP17, but Susannah Fisher from the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute argues that if you dig below the surface, a real move to a low carbon economy is already underway in India.
China flicks the switch on incandescent bulbs
China aims to cut cut 48 million tonnes of CO2 after announcing plans to phase out all incandescent light bulbs by 2016.
Island States call for climate deal by end of 2012
Just weeks ahead of the UNFCCC Climate Conference in Durban, a group island states most vulnerable to climate change have lashed out at rich nations for suggesting a climate deal could wait till 2018 calling it “both environmentally reckless and politically irresponsible.”
UNDP warn climate change could reverse global prosperity by 2050
The economic progress of the world’s developing countries could stall or even reverse by 2050 if swift and drastic measures are not taken to combat the effects of climate change.
Respond Daily: 7 billion and counting
RTCC takes a look at reaction to the world’s population hitting 7 Billion
Victorian to visionary: an unexpected eco-house
How a typical British home went on a low-carbon diet
Cities set to thrive in warmer climates
Economist Matthew Kahn tells RTCC how profit, opportunity and innovation will make us happier in a hotter, urban world
Turning up the heat on energy efficiency
Switching residential heating from fossil fuels to heat pumps and CHP boilers would slash 15% off current UK CO2 levels
Dangerous levels of climate change possible in this lifetime
Dangerous levels of climate change could be seen within the lifetime of people living today, unless a steep reduction in global emissions are put in place, according to two reports published in Nature Climate Change
Off the menu: The climate change food crises
Climate change will threaten a number of crops including coffee, chocolate and rice, according to a number of agricultural research institutes
Emerging economies most vulnerable to climate change
New map shows emerging economies in the global south will be most at risk of climate change, but globalisation will mean all countries will be impacted
Putting children at the heart of climate change risk reduction
Children and young people across the world are being put at the heart of climate change adaptation and risk reduction schemes, for International Disaster Reduction Day 2011
Migration from climate change underestimated
With 42 million people were displaced by natural disasters in 2010, policy makers and aid agencies must consider planned migration in the face of global climate change, making it part of the ‘solution’, says a new report from the Foresight Group
$1 trillion needed to ensure electricity for all
Ensuring universal access to energy will mean $1 trillion of investment by 2030, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), with 60 per cent going to sub-Saharan Africa
17 per cent savings for energy smart households
As domestic energy deals rise above £1000 a year, “smart home” technologies could provide customers with a vital aid to tackling energy efficiency