Wednesday, 9 May 2012

UNEP Report

Environment management systems play a vital role in encouraging sustainable, consumption, according to the UN Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/pdf/Global_Outlook_on_SCP_Policies_ExecutiveSummary.pdf

More is More

Recent talk of technological fixes as a means to addressing the climate change problem might be bold and exciting, but can climate change be reversed by technology alone, or do we have to change our habits and ways of life as well. It is a divisive subject, but a recent paper by University of Oregon sociologist Richard York says that technology alone will not save us from it.

http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/analysis/do_we_need_to_change_to_stop_climate_change/

Monday, 6 February 2012

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Extreme weather, or evidence of climate change?

A useful discussion about how climate scientists are attempting to answer the question is it an extreme event, or is it climate change? Attribution of a single weather event to climate change is difficult to demonstrate, but this article provides an accessible introduction to the approaches that are being used to try to uncover those links. The article is on the environment360 website, run by Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/whats_with_the_weather_is_climate_change_to_blame/2388/.