United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe http://www.unece.org/publications/oes/CatalysingChange.pdf [Announcement] This is the latest report by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). It presents, along with maps and charts, major current and projected climate changes in the UNECE region which spans North America, Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, and Israel. The changes include increased or decreased precipitation, … Continue reading »
Posted on December 18, 2009 …
British Columbia and California : Memorandum of Understanding on Light-Duty Vehicle GHG Emissions Reduction
Ministry of Environment. Province of British Columbia / California Air Resources Board http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/nr121709.htm [Green Car Congress] British Columbia and the California Air Resources Board have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to pave the way for stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards for new light-duty vehicles. The MOU commits the BC Ministry of Environment and the … Continue reading »
Land Surface Climate Station Records
Met Office, UK http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/subsets.html [Website] The data downloadable from this page are a subset of the full HadCRUT3 record of global temperatures, which is one of the global temperature records that have underpinned IPCC assessment reports and numerous scientific studies. The data subset consists of a network of individual land stations that has been designated … Continue reading »
Distributed Renewable Energy Finance and Policy Toolkit
Clean Energy States Alliance / by Charles Kubert and Mark Sinclair http://tinyurl.com/ya5lbzg [From executive summary] Over the past decade, states have played an increasingly important role in providing financial support to renewable energy projects, with funding often derived from state-established public benefit funds. The financial support tools for renewable energy projects have ranged from rebates … Continue reading »
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships : Summary of a Workshop
National Research Council http://tinyurl.com/ye8qbmw [Abstract] Sustainable development–meeting human needs while nurturing and restoring the planet’s life support systems–requires a continuous process of scientific innovation, new knowledge and learning, and collaborative approaches to implementing technologies and policies. To address these challenges, different stakeholder groups are increasingly seeking to ally themselves through partnership, in order to implement … Continue reading »
