Efforts to tacle accelerating drought and desertification take shape this year an Namibia

Worldwide Efforts to Combat Drought, Desertification to Take Shape in Namibia This Year

High-level representatives from 195 nations party to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification,, along with civic and environmental groups, will meet in Windhoek to assess progress and plan for future actions to address desertification, land degradation and drought, issues that now affect 168 nations at a cost of some $490 billion, not to mention the loss of lives, health, livelihoods, biodiversity and ecosystems.

New resiliency index announced with C40 Cities at the Clinton Global Initiative

Resiliency Index Will Assess Climate Risks for Cities

Working under the umbrella of C40 Cities, an international collaborative of cities working to assess and reduce their climate risk impacts, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg
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Global community risks catastrophic sea level rise if current fossil fuel and c02 emissions stay on track

Rising Temperature, Sea Level On Track to Wipe Out Major World Cities Former Shell Exec Tells UN

The global community of nations is headed for catastrophes on an unprecedented scope and scale if fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions continue on trend, according to the latest scientific evidence and research. Global average temperature is on a path toward a warming of 4 degrees Celsius, which could result in sea level rises of 70 meters (230 feet), wiping out major cities, including London, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Climate change education is an essential part of a sustainable future for our children

Enviro New Wrap: Nuclear Powet Updates; Cautious Chevron Shareholders; Cheaper EV Batteries, and more…

By Anders Hellum-Alexander · Comments (0) · Monday, May 30th, 2011

GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:

Nuclear power news wrap:
- Turkey is industrializing and modernizing at the expense of the environment. Nuclear plants and dams are in the works.
- While Turkey is building nuclear plants, industrialized countries are stepping away from them.
- Germany is stepping past its dirty economy and has made the pledge to phase out all nuclear plants by 2020.
Chevron is constantly being attacked by activist groups, and it may be paying off. Now, investors in Chevron are asking the company to re-examine its stance on its ongoing case in Ecuador. If you don’t know much about Chevron’s lawsuit in Ecuador I suggest you read up.
Grist.org provides a list of victories over Big Coal around the world.
GreenChoices.org has a great interactive page for learning about environmental labels. Learn what those eco labels really mean.
Environmental regulation can end environmental externalities, and the result is cleaner air and more jobs in the environmental sector. (For more on externalities read this paper by Dr. U. Sankar)
A lesser known effect of climate change is the acidification of our oceans. The global pollution of our water and air feeds into the oceans and swirl into a mixture of human-driven change.
Check out this interactive map of coal fired power plants in the US. See if there is one near you and notice that most of the plants are along the Mississippi river.
Large corporations are finally trying to clean-up and green-up their supply chain. This basically means that they are going to start harassing the companies they source parts and products from to become more environmental.
Nike is drinking the environmental Kool-Aid and diving into a business model focused on the idea that sustainability is profitable.
More on the advancement of the electric car; reducing the price of the battery.
A couple of years ago, some vehicles starting to be equipped with a shock system that turned the bumps of the road into electricity for the car, now a company is trying to do the same thing for the heat created by a regular combustion engine.