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Se il cambiamento climatico cancella le Bahamas

«Quando parliamo di cambiamento climatico, stiamo parlando di sopravvivenza». Lo ha detto senza fronzoli Perry Christie, primo ministro delle Bahamas e presidente della Comunità dei Caraibi (CARICOM), nel corso di un vertice con il presidente francese François Hollande tenutosi sabato in Martinica. Il meeting ha radunato più di 40 capi di stato, governi e organizzazioni dei Caraibi per discutere l’impatto del climate change sulle nazioni della regione.

Calling Obama’s Bluff on Climate Change

From immigration to Internet regulation, there is scarcely an issue on which President Obama has not pushed the limits of executive power to achieve his ideological goals. The Republican Congress has been able only to react to these usurpations, often floundering, as seen in the recent debacle over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Is there a way the GOP Congress can get ahead of Mr. Obama?

Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change

Drawing one of the strongest links yet between global warming and human conflict, researchers said Monday that an extreme drought in Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due to climate change, and that the drought was a factor in the violent uprising that began there in 2011. The drought was the worst in the country in modern times, and in a study published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists laid the blame for it on a century-long trend toward warmer and drier conditions in the Eastern Mediterranean, rather than on natural climate variability.

Things just got very hot for climate deniers’ favorite scientist

Wei-Hock Soon is always in hot demand. Among climate change skeptics, few commodities are rarer. Soon isn’t just a scientist. He’s a scientist who doubts climate change is man-made. Soon doesn’t work for just any university — he works for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. If you doubt man-made climate change, Soon isn’t just your man. He’s your high priest.

Equità intergenerazionale e giustizia climatica nel nuovo testo in vista della COP di Parigi

Mentre ci avviciniamo alla Conferenza delle Parti sui cambiamenti climatici di Parigi, a Ginevra si è appena conclusa la conferenza Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, o ADP: è il gruppo di lavoro costituito a Durban, nel 2011, con il mandato di “sviluppare un protocollo, un altro strumento legale o un risultato condiviso con forza legale attraverso la convenzione UNFCCC e applicabile a tutte le Parti”. L’ADP dovrà completare il suo lavoro entro il 2015, e quindi entro la Conferenza delle Parti numero ventuno di Parigi; mentre il nuovo trattato entrerà in azione dal 2020.

France says UN climate talks crucial for world security

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius launched a round of global climate talks in Geneva on Sunday and warned that world security, as well as the environment, depended on their success.The week-long meeting is the first in a series that is meant to culminate in a globally binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Paris in December, with a target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2C above pre-industrial times.