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New study targets air pollution to save lives and climate

1/13/2012 2:36 AM EST - Stockholm Environment Institute

Press release: January 13, 2012

Researchers from the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York played a central role in a new study that shows that implementing 14 key air pollution control measures could save millions of lives, slow the pace of near-term climate change and boost agricultural production.
The study, published in the journal Science this week, identifies 14 measures targeting...

City of Ventura Recognized for Financial & Environmental Leadership

1/9/2012 6:00 AM EST - The Climate Registry

Awarded Cool Planet Project Status By Southern California Edison
Ventura, California - January 9, 2012 - The City of Ventura has been awarded membership in the Cool Planet Project, due to its extensive energy saving measures. These actions have reduced the city’s annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 14 percent since 2007, the equivalent of removing 380 vehicles from the road. The Cool Planet Project...

New research reveals risks to global low-carbon technology push

12/20/2011 2:15 AM EST - Stockholm Environment Institute

Press release: 20 December, 2011 Energy systems in the EU should be decarbonised by 2050, according to the Energy Roadmap adopted by the European Commission on 15 December, and low carbon technologies will be vital to achieve this goal. A new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute explains why recent progress in developing and deploying low carbon technology is fragile, and advises that policy support must...

Scientists say Durban deal inadequate, call for world leaders to raise ambitions

12/14/2011 4:04 AM EST - Stockholm Environment Institute

Press release: December 14, 2011 Today, looking ahead to Rio+20 and future climate negotiations, four of the world’s leading research institutes on global sustainability have released a statement calling on world leaders to “adopt a new mindset to listen to the voice of science and knowledge and address the unavoidable interconnections between global sustainability, poverty eradication, social justice and economic...

U.S. Believers Favor International Action on Climate Change, Nuclear Risk: UMD P...

12/7/2011 10:21 AM EST - University of Maryland, College Park

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A majority of Americans professing belief in God favor cooperative international efforts to combat climate change and the spread of nuclear weapons - branding it a moral obligation - says a new public opinion poll conducted jointly by the University of Maryland's Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and its Program on International Policy...

Political leaders and scientists call for strong, immediate and integrated respo...

12/6/2011 7:02 AM EST - Stockholm Environment Institute

Press release: December 6, 2011

High-level dialogue urges climate negotiators to ‘adopt a new mindset’ that listens to science and addresses the links between global sustainability, poverty eradication, social justice and development.
The High-level Dialogue and Adaptation Round Table: Global Sustainability in a Changing Climate was held in the Africa Pavilion at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International...

Engineering the climate: understanding the technologies and policy implications

12/2/2011 10:56 AM EST - Stockholm Environment Institute

Press release: December 2, 2011

SEI research fellow Clarisse Kehler Siebert is a co-author of a UNESCO-SCOPE-UNEP policy brief that outlines key research questions and ethical, social and political challenges.
In the face of increasingly dire climate-change projections, and with carbon emissions continuing to rise, there is a growing interest in large-scaled, engineered interventions to remove carbon from the...

Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electricity’s Thirst for a Precious Resource

Water shortages threaten electricity generation at the same time power plants st...

11/28/2011 2:08 PM EST - The Kresge Foundation

Climate change exacerbates and is exacerbated by what Kresge-supported research describes as an ‘energy-water collision.’
TROY, Michigan – A scarcity of fresh, clean water is recognized as one of this century’s biggest challenges – with increasing temperatures, droughts and extreme storms linked to climate change expected to make the problem even worse.

Many Americans are responding by installing low-flow...

Cost-effective actions to cut black carbon, methane and ground level ozone spotl...

11/25/2011 7:02 AM EST - Stockholm Environment Institute

Press Release: November 25, 2011

Fast action could cut near term climate change by about half a degree C, reduce air pollution deaths by over two million a year and boost food security. Half of black carbon and methane emission reductions will save money or be low cost.
A package of 16 measures could, if fully implemented across the globe, save close to 2.5 million lives a year; avoid crop losses amounting to...

New initiative supports women’s cooperative on sustainable biofuel production

11/23/2011 4:52 AM EST - Stockholm Environment Institute

Press Release: November 23, 2011

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), in partnership with the Ethiopian Gaia Association and the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority, today launches the new project “Fuel from Waste: Demonstrating the Feasibility of Locally Produced Ethanol for Household Cooking in Addis Ababa”.
The two year initiative is supported by a grant from the Nordic Climate Facility (NCF),...

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