Home » Topics » A Changing Climate » IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: the final act Printed from http://www.carlocarraro.org/en IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: the final act Tags: AR5 , climate change , climate policy , IPCC , SYR | Date: 11/07/2014 | No comments The science is clear. The impacts of…

1. The Outcome Mapping Facilitation Guide The original book published by IDRC in 2001. It explains the origins and principles of the OM approach and the steps involved. 2. The Outcome Mapping Practitioner Guide An online guide launched in 2014, built on a growing set of practical contributions from…

Cities are not static. Like living organisms they change and adapt over time. Some grow and others shrink in response to economic, political and environmental shifts. But they do this in radically different ways, reflecting local responses to regional, national and global changes. Recently, LSE…

Global Home Policy News Rise in heatwaves puts pressure on city planning Catarina Chagas 19/02/15 Speed read Cities around the world are suffering more heatwaves and ‘extreme hot nights’ Those in inadequate shelter in informal settlements may be most vulnerable Temperatures can be managed using more…

Start by asking the tough questions: This year sees several important negotiations processes coming to a head – the post-2015 process on the SDGs, the UNFCCC process on climate change, the UN’s third Financing for Development conference in July. These processes are still being progressed as separate…

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investing in insurance programs for poor farmers today could save tens of billions of dollars in coming decades as climate change upsets growing patterns and makes harvests fail, U.N. officials said ahead of next week's conference in Japan on disaster…

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Solar arrays in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. ‘China has committed to peak emissions and to increase the non-fossil fuel share of its energy mix to 20% by about 2030.’Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images W hile all contributions from the 195 countries at the UN’s global climate…

Two days into the COP21 Paris climate talks , and there has been no shortage of presidential speeches, big-dollar financial commitments and haggling over policy proposals. Unless you're a real climate change wonk, however, it can be tough to understand what's actually going on. At a high level,…

NAZCA = Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action NAZCA is a global platform that brings together the commitments to action by companies, cities, subnational regions, investors and civil society organizations to address climate change. NAZCA was launched by the Peruvian Presidency of COP20, alongside…

So, you support a strong global agreement at the U.N. Conference of the Parties? You want business, NGOs, policymakers and every stakeholder you forgot to mention to unite for once and for all to save the world. Of course you do. Put your name in lights in the City of Lights for what some see as an…

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's response to the floods in Tamil Nadu is frightening. A report in NDTV quotes her as saying, “Losses are unavoidable when there's very heavy rain. Swift rescue and relief alone are indicators of a good government.” These words are intended to normalise a…

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Bookkeeping had a 97.6 percent chance of being automated in the near future. Accounting and auditing did only a little better, at 95.3 percent. Where would we then stand in terms of creating professionals to face this change? What would they need to do? What (new) skills would they need? How would…

Today, at VERGE 17, Google and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation are launching a report on Cities in the Circular Economy: The Role of Digital Technology . It’s part of an ongoing exploration both organizations have been undergoing for the past two years on how to harness the flow of energy and…

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As the world rushes to reduce the negative impacts of climate change, ambitious sub-national actors are rising to the fore. The recent One Planet Summit exemplifies this trend. Earlier this month, urban leaders joined CEOs, financial institutions, researchers, Heads of State, and more in the…

Technical Paper c b Like # Shares: 0 Download English PDF 11.55MB Text file 141.2KB Published 2018-09 Author(s) Bhada-Tata, Perinaz Metadata Show full item record Abstract The Decision Maker’s Guides for Solid Waste Management Technologies were created to help mayors and decision makers understand…

The atmosphere and the ocean are interconnected. At a basic level, the ocean releases oxygen into the atmosphere and absorbs carbon dioxide and heat from the atmosphere. Indeed, the ocean produces half of the Earth’s oxygen (every second breath you take comes from the ocean). However, over 25% of…

Publication details Number of pages : 220 Publication date : 2018 Languages : English, Russian (French, Spanish, Arabic in production) ISBN : 978-92-4-151470-5 Downloads Guidelines on sanitation and health (English) [pdf, 6.3 Mb] Russian [pdf, 6,7Mb] Preliminary extract - In French pdf, 2.86Mb…