10,000 simulations show warming range of 1.4-3 degrees by 2050newsA study project running almost 10,000 climate simulations on volunteers’ home computers, using a complex atmosphere-ocean climate model, has found that a global warming of 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 is ‘equally plausible’ as a rise of 1.4 degrees, if emissions continue unabated. The forecast range is derived from models...
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International Conference of Mountain Countries on Climate ChangeeventInternational Conference of Mountain Countries (5-6 April 2012, Nepal)
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Electronic Forum: Adaptation to climate changes in Amazonian Andes - from 16 to 20 April 2012newsThe Electronic Forum “Adaptation to climate changes in Amazonian Andes” will be held from 16 to 20 April 2012, by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), CARE Perú, the Consortium for the Sustainable Development of Andean Ecoregion (CONDENSAN), the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (SGCAN) and the United...
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Yosemite’s Alpine Chipmunks Take Genetic Hit from Climate ChangenewsGlobal warming has forced alpine chipmunks in Yosemite to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species’ genetic diversity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The novel study, recently appeared in the online publication of the journal Nature Climate Change, also shows...
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Technical Experts – REDD+ and Climate Change Adaptation – application deadline: 31 March 2012newsTetra Tech ARD, an international development consulting firm based in Burlington, Vermont and Washington, D.C., is currently accepting expressions of interest from qualified regional and local technical experts for anticipated USAID-funded climate change adaptation and REDD+ projects in South East Asia and in Latin America and the Caribbean. The projects...
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CIPRA received the Dutch sustainability awardnewsThe International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA) was awarded the 2012 Sustainability Organization of the Year by the Royal Dutch Mountaineering and Climbing Club (NKVB). In an on-line ballot, Dutch mountaineers from NKVB, the biggest mountaineering club outside of the Alps, voted CIPRA. CIPRA is a non-governmental...
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