May 2, 2012
U.S. Global Change Research Program publishes ten-year strategy
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has released the new National...
20 million Euros for international research
An international group of funding agencies has announced an "International...
Mar 28, 2012
Inclusive Wealth Report unveiled
To surmount sustainability hurdles societies need a new yardstick of national...
Building our Future
Human infrastructure both contributes to and is affected by global change. The...
Risky Business
A sequence of devastating earthquakes and a large number of weather-related catastrophes made 2011 the most expensive year ever for natural catastrophe losses for insurance companies. Owen Gaffney spoke to the world’s largest reinsurance company Munich Re’s Head of Geo Risks Research, Peter Höppe.
Addicted to resources
Industrialisation is consuming natural resources at rates that are demonstrably unsustainable in the long term, points out Helmut Haberl.
"Welcome to the Anthropocene" film and still images
A visually spectacular animated film, Welcome to the Anthropocene, has been released on the eve of...
The promise and perils of creating markets to pay for public goods
Some payment mechanisms to support ecosystem services can be environmentally harmful, warn experts in...
IGBP research presented to Dalai Lama
Global-change researcher Diana Liverman presented IGBP's Great Acceleration graphs to the Dalai Lama...
Don't put all eggs in one (geoengineered) basket
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A resilience view on reframing geoengineering research and implementation
Geoengineering - could we? Should we?
"The debate should be reframed around a preferable and more likely policy goal of deploying a carefully designed suite of smaller scale solutions," say the authors, Mark Stafford Smith, former IGBP vice chair and director of climate adaptation CSIRO in Australia and Lynn Russell, former IGBP scientific committee and academic at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The authors say this will require a very different approach to the type of research required to help policymakers, "research that is not currently being undertaken".
"If the scientific community does not reorient these activities, it will not be ready to assist policy decisions when, and if, they become necessary."
This research is linked to the IGBP synthesis on geoengineering.
A resilience view on reframing geoengineering research and implementation 
Carbon Management
February 2012, Vol. 3, No. 1, Pages 23-25 , DOI 10.4155/cmt.11.71
(doi:10.4155/cmt.11.71)
27th IGBP Scientific Committee Meeting
May 24 - May 24, 2012
"Norwegian science highlights: Bio-Geo-Chemical Cycles and sustainable pathways in the Ocean, Atmosphere and Land"
Symposium in conjunction with the 27th IGBP SC Meeting, Bergen, Norway
Hosted by the Research Council of Norway and supported by Bjerknes Centre and the University of Bergen
Global Change Magazine No. 78
In this issue, we take a look at the Anthropocene, humanity's epoch. We also examine urban expansion, consumption of resources, natural catastrophes' effects on economics and how to better build our...
Global Change Magazine No. 77
In this issue you can debate the influence of climate on history, familiarise yourselves with the International Nitrogen Initiative, and find out how publishing the "hockey stick" graph changed life...
How green is my future?
UN panel foresees big growth in renewable energy, but policies will dictate just how big.
UK:
'The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?'
Royal Society, Philosphical Transactions A