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 News Wrap: Solar Trade War Between China and the U.S.; Oil Spill Blackens River in Venezuela; Shareholders and the Environment, and more…

By Anders Hellum-Alexander · Comments (0) · Monday, February 13th, 2012

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

Permitting is a huge headache in the PV Solar installation industry; fixing the way local building departments issue and approve permits is a whole side battle for the renewable energy industry.
Here is a summary of the “solar panel trade war” between China and the US.
Oil spill in Venezuela! Oil spills will stop only when we stop drilling for oil on such a large scale.
Oil and gas companies deal with opposition from environmental groups from every angle, even from shareholders.
These pictures of vulnerable wildlife remind us why we are against the permit-less Tar Sands XL Pipeline.
As wind power gains market share and its impact increasingly scrutinized, the current focus is on how much land a wind farm uses and where that lands comes from, i.e. who owned it before the wind company?
Conflict with Iran is raising oil prices and it could get much worse if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz.
There may be rising tension between the federal government and “states rights” politics, but some responsibilities still appropriately lie with the federal government, this article explains why environmentalism is one of those issues.
Depleting our natural resources comes at a very large financial cost, Europe is feeling the pain of a history of overfishing.
Whenever anything happens in or near a neighborhood, someone says “not in my backyard.“ A group in Oakland, California wants to ban the raising of livestock in city limits, thus limiting the freedom of Oakland residents to source their food. Where are the tea-partyists on this one?