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Climate change adaptation initiative feted and farewelled

June 26, 2013No Comments

From ABC Environment, 26 June 2013: A ‘VISIONARY’ federally-funded climate change research initiative has come to an end, leaving its extensive network of researchers — many of them recent graduates — pondering an uncertain future. The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) was established in 2008, with a five-year, $50 million mandate to address … Continue reading Climate change adaptation initiative feted and farewelled

Late 20th century hottest in over 1000 years

April 22, 2013No Comments

From ABC News in Science, 22 April 2013: Average temperatures around the world in the last thirty years of the 20th century were higher than any other time in nearly 1400 years. That’s the conclusion of the first climate reconstruction to examine global climate change from a regional perspective by an international network of climatologists … Continue reading Late 20th century hottest in over 1000 years

Antarctic warming part of longer trend

August 23, 2012No Comments

From ABC Science Online, News in Science, 23 August 2012: The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula may partly be due to a long-term trend that began long before the Industrial Revolution, according to a team of Australian, British and French researchers. But, they say, warming in the past 100 years has been unusual and, … Continue reading Antarctic warming part of longer trend

Uncertain future for international forest scheme

June 19, 2012No Comments

From ABC Environment, 19 June: TO INDUSTRIAL NATIONS scrabbling desperately for ways to reduce their carbon debt, the idea was instantly appealing: invest in developing-world projects that either prevent a forest from being cleared, or replant an area that has been cleared, thus reducing global carbon emissions, and earn carbon credits in the process. With … Continue reading Uncertain future for international forest scheme

Indonesia’s peatlands a testground for REDD+

June 8, 2012No Comments

From Ecos magazine, June 2012: Once home to one of the world’s largest unbroken stretches of tropical peatlands, Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan region has suffered badly from environmental mismanagement in recent years. Its devastated peatlands are now the focus of an Australian–Indonesian restoration effort that is using the region as a demonstration project for reducing global … Continue reading Indonesia’s peatlands a testground for REDD+

Insurance companies: unlikely planet saviours

July 5, 20101 Comment

From ABC Environment, 5 July 2010: Insurance companies stand to lose a lot of money if the climate changes in unpredictable ways so they have become partners in the push to save the globe. EVEN ON THE ALREADY enlarged scale of renewable energy projects, DESERTEC is ambitious. It aims to build more than 16,000 square … Continue reading Insurance companies: unlikely planet saviours