Climate Change

The complex politics of global warming results from numerous cofactors arising from the global economy's dependence on carbon dioxide (CO2) emitting fossil fuels; and because greenhouse gases such as CO2, methane and N2O (mostly from agriculture) cause global warming.

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 18 July 2024 English

In this integrated cost-benefit analysis, the Nature-Based Infrastructure (NBI) Global Resource Centre demonstrates the potential of ecosystem-based adaptation to stabilize hydrology and ensure a reliable water and energy supply in …

Participating experts Report details Topic Climate Change Adaptation Infrastructure Nature Project


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 18 July 2024 English

The Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SUNCASA) project aims to enhance climate resilience, gender equality and social inclusion, and biodiversity protection in urban communities in …

capacity to adapt to climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts temperatures improve urban communities' capacity to adapt to climate change. By implementing gender-responsive NbS for SUNCASA project directly responds to risks like climate change-induced flooding, landslides, extreme heat erosion, and water scarcity are critical climate change hazards in Dire Dawa. Community health and


Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

anecdotes outlining the purported costs of climate change, chiefly associated with extreme weather events climate policies and the fraction of future climate change damages that will be avoided by implementing prevent, at most, a tiny fraction of future climate change, and therefore the benefits attributable even Damages Claims Furthermore, the claimed costs of climate change are presented in a misleading and over- stated implying this is entirely attributable to climate change. Yet forest fires have always been a feature


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

This report explores Indonesia's agrifood systems transformation, offering insights from innovative economic models to guide policy-makers in developing effective, sustainable policies.

experts Report details Topic Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Mitigation Food and Agriculture


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

our life? The Anthropocene and human-made climate change are the starkest contemporary manifestation was a series of lectures on reversibility, climate change, and the Anthropocene at Sciences Po Lyon


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

fuelled (pun intended) in part by fears of climate change and the reality of succes- sive summers of before the Little Ice Age to contemporary climate change.4 Pyne compellingly demon- strates how settler


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

done to stop it, even though the threat of climate change was so apparent and severe that it was already financial means to pursue solutions. While climate change would appear in the news every time there was global pandem- ic; increasing impacts from climate change; growing polarization and conspiracy theories oriented toward solving the problems of war, climate change, or poverty. Humanitarian efforts are essential rush hour to protest perceived inaction on climate change, they can set back achievement of the activists’


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 25 June 2024 English

This study evaluates the feasibility of switching from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stoves to induction stoves in urban Indonesian households, focusing on cooking practices, energy demand, and cost. Using the …

not maximize the potential for progress on climate change mitigation, which is becoming increasingly


Fraser Institute · 21 June 2024 English

In its 2023 Emission Reduction Plan, the Government of Canada has committed to a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to at least 40 per cent below 2005 levels by …

≅ 1.19. References Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada (2023a). 2030 Emission Reduction Plan: of March 22, 2024. Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada (2023b). 2023 Progress Report on the


Fraser Institute · 18 June 2024 English

ESG investing incorporates environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) considerations into investment decisions. Until recently, ESG-themed investing comprised an increasing share of investments made by professional money managers and …

ENVIRONMENT PILLAR SOCIAL PILLAR GOVERNANCE PILLAR Climate Change Natural Capital Pollution & Waste Env. Opportunities Opportunities in Nutrition & Health Ownership Climate Change Vulnerability Supply Chain Labor Standards


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