Published:
February 7, 2012
Should research efforts focus on single large-scale geoengineering schemes? Or instead, should efforts go on understanding how a combination of smaller geoengineering schemes could mitigate warming? Mark Stafford Smith and Lynn Russell argue the latter in Carbon Management today.
Published: December 16, 2011
Global carbon dioxide emissions increased by a record 5.9 per cent in 2010 following the dampening effect of the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC), according to scientists working with the Global Carbon Project, co-sponsored by IGBP.
Don't put all eggs in one (geoengineered) basket
Should research efforts focus on single large-scale geoengineering schemes? Or instead, should efforts go on understanding how a combination of smaller geoengineering schemes could mitigate warming? Mark Stafford Smith and Lynn Russell argue the latter in Carbon Management today.
Published: December 16, 2011
Global emissions rebound to record levels after global financial crisis
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Published:
November 24, 2011
The Planet Under Pressure management team is extending the oral presenters registration deadline to Friday 9th December and poster author registration deadline to the 20th January 2012. This is in response to feedback from some delegates who require more time to identify funding opportunities.
Published: November 23, 2011
Published: November 23, 2011
PROVIA, a new research programme on vulnerability, impacts and adaptation has released a survey as part of an international review of research needs.
Published: November 16, 2011
Sustainability remains suspiciously absent from the United Nations Human Development Index. Chuluun Togtokh, vice chair of the Mongolian IGBP Global Change National Committee argues in the journal Nature that this must stop.
Published: November 4, 2011
Published: October 25, 2011
The director of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), Ghassem Asrar, gave a press briefing to launch the WCRP Open Science Conference.
Conference deadline extends
The Planet Under Pressure management team is extending the oral presenters registration deadline to Friday 9th December and poster author registration deadline to the 20th January 2012. This is in response to feedback from some delegates who require more time to identify funding opportunities.
Published: November 23, 2011
Governance experts warn U.N. overhaul required to govern Earth system
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Reducing the risk of potential global environmental disaster requires a “constitutional moment” comparable in scale and importance to the reform of international governance that followed World War II, say experts preparing the largest scientific conference leading up to next June’s Rio+20 Earth Summit.
Published: November 23, 2011
Survey will identify adaptation research needs
PROVIA, a new research programme on vulnerability, impacts and adaptation has released a survey as part of an international review of research needs.
Published: November 16, 2011
Is iconic UN index rewarding polluters?
Sustainability remains suspiciously absent from the United Nations Human Development Index. Chuluun Togtokh, vice chair of the Mongolian IGBP Global Change National Committee argues in the journal Nature that this must stop.
Published: November 4, 2011
Downside of using markets to pay for public goods
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Some payment mechanisms to support ecosystems services can be environmentally harmful, warn experts in the journal Science.
Published: October 25, 2011
International climate conference opens
The director of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), Ghassem Asrar, gave a press briefing to launch the WCRP Open Science Conference.
Tracking groundwater depletion
As water demand rises rapidly, some regions are withdrawing groundwater faster than it can recharge. Now scientists can couple new space-based observations with models and data to quantify global and...
In the line of fire
Scientists who published the famous “hockey stick” graph experienced sustained attacks soon after the figure was incorporated in the 2001 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Now...
Learning from the past
When it comes to managing the environment, we rarely look beyond the past few years to inform decisions. John Dearing says this needs to change.
The Global Fix on Nitrogen
The International Nitrogen Initiative brings together a range of stakeholders including scientists, industry and policymakers. Naomi Lubick discusses its foundations with James Galloway.
Some payment mechanisms to support ecosystem services can be environmentally harmful, warn experts in the journal Science.
Global-change researcher Diana Liverman presented IGBP's Great Acceleration graphs to the Dalai Lama (17 October 2011).
How do scientists reconstruct past climate conditions on Earth? One way of doing this is by culturing living planktonic Foraminifera and analyzing their shell composition under present day conditions in the world oceans. A new short film on the importance of plankton for climate research has just been released. Watch it here.
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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...
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