... to the UK Govt. scientific advisory Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters; led the European Environment Agency response to Fukushima; and served as Advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence Nuclear Submarine Dismantling Project.
Is climate change a significant threat to our world’s well-being and why should it be at the top of the global agenda?
Climate change is perhaps the most significant threat to the well-being of humans and biodiversity. With increasing knowledge, we are ...
As Arctic permafrost rapidly is responding to climate change, Arctic states should do the same
“Human civilisation has never known a time when there has not been sea ice in the Arctic in the summer. We appear to be approaching that time.”
Waleed Abdalati, former NASA Chief Scientist
This spring,...
... sustainability? In order to answer these questions, it is essential to look further and deeper to understand the implications that the current pandemic brings to the table.
Elena Norkina, Sofie Van Canegem:
Insidious Air Pollution. Legal Regimes for Arctic Climate Change
In this article, I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic will compromise the global efforts to preserve the environment if world governments do not adopt a new framework for environmental governance. While environmental improvements have given ...
It is too early to say that a climate-conscious attitude has started to take hold
The International Climate Change Regime
Today’s global climate agenda is supported by various international institutions, and its implementation involves a broad range of measures. We are talking about a complex international regime aimed at preventing climate change....
The Low-Carbon Agenda is Winning over the World Economy
Climate change has long turned from a narrow environmental problem into a significant factor affecting economic processes around the globe. Temperatures on the planet have risen by nearly 1
°
C compared to the pre-industrial era, and scientists have ...
Once they move beyond the “rage phase” of demonizing the Trump administration, leaders of the world's top economies, media assets and civil society groups would be wise to reexamine the benefits and the costs of the Paris climate deal. Climate change is realAccording to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) in the United States, the Earth's globally averaged surface temperature has been rising for over a century.But in the period starting in 2000 through today, NOAA ...
Based on: “
Paris Mismatches. The Impact of the COP21 Climate Change Negotiations on the Oil and Gas Industries
.”
Chatham House Research Paper, August 2016.
In December 2015 in Paris,
a new climate agreement
was signed replacing the Kyoto Protocol. The US, China, India, and the EU have already ratified ...
Combating climate change is one of the seventeen goals in the Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015
[1]
.
When the 21st Conference on Climate Change in Paris (COP21) and the 11th Conference ...
The 42nd session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
took place
in Bonn in early June 2015. The aim of the session was to prepare a climate agreement that could be signed in Paris in December 2015. The meeting failed to make any substantial progress. Participant countries found it difficult ...
A response to “Unraveling the Enigma: Western Expert Community Seeks to Explain Russian Policy” by Dr. Igor Istomin
Climate change and environmental disasters are already challenging the traditional paradigms of constructivism, liberalism and realism. With respect to Dr. Istomin, Ukraine is the least of our worries. Climate action demands a new call for international ...
