What it will take to stabilize global temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial levels? A new review article by Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Stephane Hallegatte discusses two potential solutions.
Understanding Urban Water Reliability Amid Changes in Supply and Demand
Drivers of the changing water supply and demand characteristics in the Bay Area, and opportunities to enhance future regional water reliability.
Climate-Relevant Behavioural Spillover
Collective behavioural change toward less environmentally-impactful lifestyles, particularly in industrialised nations, remains a substantial and obdurate barrier to mitigating the impacts of serious environmental problems, particularly global climate change.
The Role of Theology and Imagination in Climate Ethics
In a focus article recently published within WIREs Climate Change, Clingerman and O’Brien analyze these two very different ways of framing the moral problem of climate change, proposing that each leads to different outcomes for climate ethics and policy.
Will the Paris Agreement Accelerate the Pace of Change?
An article recently published explores the main policy and political shifts that the Paris Agreement represents, and explains why this new paradigm of international climate policy, politics and cooperation is key to accelerating the pace of change and avoiding the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
Climate Information Websites: An Evolving Landscape
The average person seeking climate information is likely to begin with the internet, and this quickly leads to a confusing array of very dissimilar climate information websites. A recent article reviews a representative sample of such websites from across the world, and draws out key issues for consideration in the ongoing evolution of them.
Cloud Feedback Mechanisms in Global Climate Models
Clouds have a remarkable impact on Earth’s climate.
Carbon Pricing in Climate Policy: Seven Reasons
Carbon pricing is a recurrent theme in debates on climate policy. As there is much misunderstanding about the many reasons to implement a global carbon price, ideological resistance against it prospers.
Climate Conundrum
Sustainability – solar fuels from the sun, not fossil fuels from the earth.
Galapagos tortoises are being threatened by a lack of males
Galapagos tortoises display temperature-dependent sex determination, which may negatively skew population demographics under climate change.