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Immigration: IPAT

Posted on June 29, 2016 by climatechangefork

Noah Smith wrote an article in Bloomberg about how to convince the Japanese to have more kids: Japan would like to stabilize its rapidly aging population, and there are really only two ways to do that. It can let in … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability | Tagged Abortion, Adaptation, adult, Affluence, Anthropocene, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, child, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Contraception, developed countries, Developing Countries, Economics, Economy, Education, elderly, emigrant, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, identity, immigrant, immigration, impact, India, indicator, individual, IPAT, IPCC, Japan, labor force, migration, Mitigation, one child, One-Child Policy, Population, Romania, Romney, social security, Sustainability, Technology, US, World Population | Leave a comment

COP21: Industry Commitments to Sustainability and Using Consumer Pressure to Keep Promises

Posted on January 12, 2016 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at Unilever’s CEO’s attempts to make his company sustainable. Unilever is not alone in promising to be more environmentally friendly in the long term. One of the less discussed achievements of COP21 was the mobilization of … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC | Tagged Adaptation, Apple, Australia, Autodesk, Belgium, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, consumer, consumer pressure, COP21, Economics, Elion Resources, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Finland, Fossil Fuels, France, Germany, Global Warming, Goldman Sachs, Google, greenhouse gas, H&M, IKEA, India, Infigen Energy, Investment, investor, IPCC, Italy, Marks and Spencer, Mars, Microsoft, Mitigation, Nestle, Netherlands, Nike, Organization, peer pressure, Power, Power Plants, Procter and Gamble, Renewable, Royal Philips, Science, Solar, Solar Energy, Spain, Starbucks, Sustainability, Sustainable, sustainable development, sustainable production, Sweden, Switzerland, Technology, UK, UN, UNFCCC, Unilever, US, Walmart, Wind | Leave a comment

Paris – The Beginning

Posted on December 1, 2015 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – New windmill being installed on the Champs-Élysées in Paris (Photo by Patrick Kovarik/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) This blog will be posted one day after the scheduled opening of the COP21 meeting in Paris. The last … Continue reading →

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Paris: Measurements for the Future

Posted on November 24, 2015 by climatechangefork

Last week I evaluated the commitments that various countries have made in preparation for the COP21 meeting that is scheduled for the end of this month. Specifically, I looked at the difficulty in converting the commitments from individual countries into … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, commitment, COP21, countries, Data, Earth Observation Fleet, Economics, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Fossil Fuels, France, GDP, GES DISC, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, green tourist, greenhouse gas, individual, IPCC, measurement, Mitigation, NASA, OCO-2, Paris, Paris 2015, Paris attacks, Population, Power, satellite, Science, spectrometer, stuttering energy transition, Sustainability, Technology, Transition, UN, UNFCCC, US, variable, World Population | Leave a comment

COP21 and Paris – Evaluation of Commitments

Posted on November 17, 2015 by climatechangefork

Two weeks ago, through this blog, I was “on my way” to Paris. I wish I could actually be there (see the last two paragraphs for my sentiments on Friday’s terrorist attack and its ramifications); I like the city, I … Continue reading →

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Working for a Better Future

Posted on October 27, 2015 by climatechangefork

The 2016 presidential election campaign is heating up in the US and it seems to me that the widely accepted degree of cynicism about politicians is reaching new heights. In fact, it has already reached the point of paralyzing important … Continue reading →

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British Columbia and the Stuttering Transition

Posted on May 12, 2015 by climatechangefork

Last week I focused on various localities worldwide that are taking steps to limit the use of fossil fuels through carbon pricing – either in the form of Emission Trading Systems (ETS), also known as cap and trade, or by … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, Alberta, BC, British Columbia, Canada, Cap and Trade, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, carbon pricing, Carbon Tax, Clean Energy, Cleantech, Climate Change, CO2 emissions, Conference, Economics, Education, electrical power, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, Energy Storage, energy transition, Environment, ETS, EU, Fossil Fuels, GDP, global energy transition, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Kathryn Harrison, Mitigation, Physics, Power, Power Plants, Science, Solar Energy, stuttering energy transition, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, temperature rise, US, Vancouver | 1 Comment

Back to the Stuttering Transition – One Scale Down from Sovereign States: British Columbia

Posted on May 5, 2015 by climatechangefork

One of the lessons that I learned at the Vancouver conference was to start thinking a bit smaller when talking and writing about the global energy transition. From the beginning, I have referred to this as a stuttering energy transition … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog by Denis Ladyzhensky: Blessings and Climate Change

Posted on April 28, 2015 by climatechangefork

As I mentioned in last week’s blog, April has been a very busy month for me. One of the events I attended was a celebration of my liberation – and that of many others – from Bergen-Belsen and the nightmares … Continue reading →

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Europe in June: The Schedule of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change

Posted on June 10, 2014 by climatechangefork

By the time that this blog is posted I will be in England on my way to the Netherlands and France, ending up in Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland I will attend the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. This is … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: carbon dioxide

COP21: Industry Commitments to Sustainability and Using Consumer Pressure to Keep Promises

Paris – The Beginning

Paris: Measurements for the Future

COP21 and Paris – Evaluation of Commitments

Working for a Better Future

British Columbia and the Stuttering Transition

Back to the Stuttering Transition – One Scale Down from Sovereign States: British Columbia

Guest Blog by Denis Ladyzhensky: Blessings and Climate Change

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