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Calling All Climate Scientists: Join the Our Common Future volunteer social media team!

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  • Conduct your own climate change research, and care about public understanding of climate change?  
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XIV World Forestry Congress

The XIV World Forestry Congress, hosted by the Republic of South Africa, will bring together the global forestry community to review and analyse the key issues and to share ways of addressing them.

The Congress – the first to be held in Africa - is inclusive of people from all...

Sustainable Development: Stories from Those Making it Possible
The year 2015 marks an important date in the global agenda setting for the future of sustainable development. The Rio+20 Summit in 2012 resolved to ending extreme poverty and hunger as well as achieving sustainable development as a matter of urgency. The summit’s final outcome document, “The Future We Want”, called for new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and led to the launch of an...
The Role of the 2015 Agreement in Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change
Adaptation responses are needed to address the existing levels of climate variability and to prepare for future climate impacts. There is wide agreement that adaptation is an important issue and would benefit from being enhanced through more effective action and better planning. The prominence of adaptation in the UNFCCC negotiations has increased, in part as the scientific evidence has become...
2015 Climate South Initiative: Challenges and Solutions

This conference will facilitate South-led initiatives on climate change, connecting government, business, civil society and social enterprise leaders from the global South for "a different kind of debate on climate - a debate led by the South, for the benefit of the whole world". The...

IUSS Conference on Soil Functions and Climate Change

This International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) conference, which is organized under the auspices of the International Year of Soils 2015 and the 350th Anniversary of the Christian Albrechts University, will address the broad question: 'Do we underestimate the consequences of new...

Enhancing mitigation ambitions in the major emitting countries: analysis of current and potential climate policies
This study provides an overview of projected greenhouse gas emissions in seven major emitting countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and the United States) up to 2030, resulting from current, planned and selected enhanced mitigation policies. The emission projection associated with the enhanced mitigation policies shows that by replicating ‘best-in-class’ policies or...
Renewable Energy Disputes in the World Trade Organization
This article analyzes renewable energy disputes in the World Trade Organization (WTO), explores the specific WTO norms that have been, and are likely to be, engaged by trade-distortive measures that WTO Members may seek to argue have been taken to promote renewables, and advocates implementing stronger governance of energy trade and provides an analysis of the WTO’s treatment of renewable energy...
World Soil Day 2015

The FAO Conference, in June 2013, unanimously endorsed World Soil Day and requested official adoption at the 68th UN General Assembly. In December 2013, the 68th UN General Assembly declared the 5th of December as World Soil Day. World Soil Day 2015 will focus on the theme 'Soils, a...

Reducing energy poverty through increasing choice of fuels and stoves in Kenya: Complementing the multiple fuel model
Energy transition theory and its applications in energy policies and development interventions are dominated by the traditional theory of the energy ladder. The linear model predicts a positive relationship between socio-economic development and transition to more efficient, cleaner, and costly energy sources. This study demonstrates, however, that households do not follow the projected patterns...

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