Climate news/2009-2016

• 9 incredible feats of people power that happened in 2016, Dec 30, 2016...^[1]
• Only 'we the people' can rise above the false promise of COP22, Nov 23^[2]
• World's poorest countries to aim for 100% green energy, Nov 18^[3]
• When bottom-up action takes its place at the table. Nov 11^[4]
• Mapped: Climate adaptation around the world, Nov 8^[5]
• 4 ways you can use the law to call out the fossil fuel industry – join the wave of growing legal action, Nov 7^[6]
• A Climate Restoration Manifesto for the Commonwealth, Nov 1^[7]

References

• Why we are taking Arctic oil to court, Oct 19^[1]
• Historic lawsuit against Arctic oil, Oct 18^[2]
• World's largest carbon producers face landmark human rights case, Jul 27^[3]
• US, Canada and Mexico pledge 50% of power from clean energy by 2025, Jun 28^[4]
• The Sustainability Commons: Using Open Source Design to Address Climate Change, Jun 8^[5]
• Judge Sides With Kids Suing The Government Over Climate Inaction: ‘These Kids Can’t Wait’, May 2^[6]

References

• How Can Global CO2 Levels Soar When Emissions Are Flat? Mar 21^[1]
• Climate hopes raised as global energy emissions stall for second year, Mar 16^[2]
• CO2 levels make largest annual leap in 56 years – NOAA, Mar 11^[3]
• Help Fund The Most Effective Climate Solutions On A New Kickstarter-Like Site March 3^[4]
• The climate and the commons, February 8^[5]
• Next stop for Paris climate deal: the courts, January 11^[6]

References

• Climate change with El Niño makes 2015 warmer, raising temperatures and disrupting weather patterns; 2016 predicted to be warmest year yet, due mostly to climate change and partly to El Niño, December 26^[1]
• NASA: 2015 Will Be ‘A Scorcher Relative To All Other Years’ On Record, December 15^[2]

Everyone is the Mother of Victory, December 14^[3]

• Historic Paris climate pact reached – experts react, December 12^[4]
• Paris climate deal: nearly 200 nations sign in end of fossil fuel era. December 12^[5]
• Decrease in China’s coal use sees global emissions fall in 2015, December 7^[6] The rapid growth in global carbon dioxide emissions over the last decade appears to have stalled, a new study says. Early estimates suggest that global emissions will decrease by 0.6% this year, following a small increase of 0.6% in 2014.

The break in the emissions trend is mainly down to a drop in coal use in China, the study says, which drives a projected decrease in Chinese emissions of around 4% compared to 2014.

However, this is unlikely to signal a peak in global emissions just yet, the researchers say.

• Largest Climate Mobilisation in History, December 1:

We did it! This weekend’s Global Climate March broke records as the largest climate mobilisation in history! This is the movement our world has been waiting for.

From São Paulo, to Sana’a, to Sydney, over 785,000 of us marched at 2,300 events in 175 countries united in one voice calling for a 100% clean energy future to save everything we love.^[7]

References

• Story Map Navigates Cause and Effects of Climate Change, November 30^[1]
• President Obama and Bill Gates to announce historic investment in clean energy research, November 30^[2]
• Why COP21 matters, and why I'm going. Rob Hopkins. October 29^[3]

A Hard Deadline: We Must Stop Building New Carbon Infrastructure by 2018, July 2^[4]

Citizens’ Views on Climate Change: Close to Three Quarters Say Action Will Boost Quality of Life, June 10^[5]

• 'Moon shot' call on clean energy, June 2^[6]
• This Was The Hottest 3-Month Start Of Any Year On Record, April 15^[7]
• Global CO2 emissions 'stalled' in 2014, March 13^[8]

References

• UN urges huge increase in green energy to avert climate disaster, April 12, 2014...^[1]
• Report hails international progress on climate change laws, Febraury 27, 2014...^[2]
• Large rise in CO2 emissions sounds climate change alarm, March 8, 2013...^[3]
• George Marshall on why Turning out the lights for the WWF Earth Hour plays into the hands of our critics, March 27, 2009...^[4]

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