Climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will be out of reach unless investments into nature-based solutions quickly ramp up to $384 billion/year by 2025, more than double of the current $154 billion/year, according to UN Environment Programme. A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns that investment inContinue Reading
Environmental justice leaders, members of Congress, and advocates applauded version 1.0 of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). After extensive feedback on the beta tool, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released version 1.0 of the CEJST last week. The updated tool displays the landsContinue Reading
A narrow GOP House majority has activists assessing the years ahead. Meanwhile, the federal government OKs some Chevron operations in Venezuela, and Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) tough reelection fight may doom his hopes for permitting reform. This is Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused onContinue Reading
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News TIWLT has received a $600,000 grant from Nature Smart Climate Solutions Fund to help with the funding it needs to help conserve land in the Thousand Islands Watershed. Lorraine Payette/for Postmedia Network Photo by Lorraine Payette /for Postmedia Network Article content The Thousand IslandsContinue Reading
Like the apocryphal frog that doesn’t notice the rising water temperature until it’s boiled alive, we as a global society are still struggling to recognise that anthropic global warming is hastening us towards irreversible environmental and ecological catastrophe. While there is consensus among climate scientists about the urgency of theContinue Reading
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Climate metrics calculations We use analytical Impulse Response Functions (IRFs) to calculate the hydrogen GWP and GTP52. The mass of a species S evolves in time in the atmosphere according to: $${Delta {{{{{rm{M}}}}}}}_{S}left({{mbox{t}}}right){{mbox{=}}}{int }_{{{{mbox{t}}}}_{0}}^{{{mbox{t}}}}{{{mbox{E}}}}_{{{mbox{S}}}}left(t^{prime} right){{{mbox{IRF}}}}_{{{mbox{S}}}}left(t-t^{prime} right),{{mbox{dt}}}^{prime}$$ (1) where MS(t) is the species atmosphere mass (kg) at time t, ({{{{{{rm{E}}}}}}}_{S}({{{{{rm{t}}}}}})) theContinue Reading
A few years ago, a group of my students told me they thought capitalism would fix the climate crisis. It was the end of term and we had spent weeks debating world politics; they were not uncritical or naive. But as fires ripped through homes and flood water lapped atContinue Reading
Environmental protection to safeguard climate action Department/ policymaker 101 ideas for a sustainable finance policy package Provide clarity on green Tilt investment to green opportunities Build green investment pipelines private finance public finance blended finance Environmental protection 93. Enforce conservation laws 94. Transparency on nature-related risks and opportunitiesContinue Reading
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This afternoon at COP27, the world’s largest gathering on climate action, a group of Web3 companies convened by ConsenSys and Allinfra, joined civil society leaders and the UNFCCC Climate Innovation Hub, to announce the creation of the Ethereum Climate Platform (ECP). Its mission is to incentivize andContinue Reading
