Latest Adaptation to global warming Stories
ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Over three quarters of the world's oil and gas companies surveyed believe inevitable climate change could impact their business: increasing downtime, system failures and safety; but only 19 percent are taking action, says a new Acclimatise report backed by IBM (NYSE: IBM). (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) "The Oil and Gas industry is an important contributor to our society and economy, so if anything impacts the...
Report says action on climate adaptation may significantly reduce losses and increase economic sustainability. NEW YORK, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A report from the Economics of Climate Adaptation Working Group released today indicates that climate risks could cost nations up to 19% of their GDP by 2030, with developing countries most vulnerable. The report concludes, however, that cost effective adaptation measures already exist that can prevent between 40 and 68 percent of the...
The future of the Earth could rest on potentially dangerous and unproven geoengineering technologies unless emissions of carbon dioxide can be greatly reduced, a new study has found.The report (published September 1, by the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science) found that unless future efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are much more successful than they have been so far, additional action in the form of geoengineering will be necessary to cool the planet. However, the...
 A new study supported by the World Bank has for the first time tried to combine, understand and predict the effects of climate change on food prices and wages in developing countries to assess how badly different socio-economic strata in sixteen vulnerable countries will be hit by extreme weather conditions, associated with climate change such as annual-scale hot, dry and wet extremes.Using the same methodology for climate prediction as the International Panel on Climate Change and data...
LONDON, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- According to an Acclimatise global report, backed by IBM (NYSE: IBM), nearly all electric utilities claim climate change is threatening power outages, higher costs and changes in usage as demand grows to power the world's expanding cities. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) Over ninety percent of global electric utilities that report climate change activity to the Carbon Disclosure Project recognised they are at risk from...
Suffering among the world's poorest people due to climate change is intensifying the need to find ways of adapting to warmer temperatures and potentially more droughts, floods and sea level rise, a University of Arizona professor wrote in a new report by the organization Oxfam International."Because the effects of climate change have unequal impacts, there is a clear need for strategies and funds for adaptation," Diana Liverman wrote in the foreword to Oxfam's July 6 report,...
Two new reports examining climate change adaptation and policy making across Europe will be launched today in Brussels in the presence of Peter Gammeltoft, Head of Unit 'Protection of Water & Marine Environment' at the European Commission. The preliminary conclusions of the research were used in the European Commission's White Paper on climate change, published in April 2009.The reports are published by the Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER), a grouping of seven of the...
Oxfam Calls for Urgent Action, Increase Could Overwhelm Current Response System WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of people affected by climate-related humanitarian disasters is projected to rise by 54% by 2015, threatening to overwhelm emergency response and humanitarian aid systems, said international agency Oxfam America in a new report released today. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080221/DC14723LOGO ) The rise in numbers -- from the current 250...
POZNAN, Poland, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday at the Climate summit in Poznan, the Swedish government announced that it will provide USD 500 million to help developing countries to prepare, plan for and cope with the effects of climate change. However, while the Swedish contributions are significant, they are still insufficient to meet the adaptation needs of developing countries. This contribution, combined with earlier pledges to the World Bank and European Union,...
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released a report urging California's water managers to develop climate adaptation strategies. The report, "Managing an Uncertain Future: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for California's Water," details how climate change is already affecting the state's water supplies and sets forth a number of recommendations to help avoid or reduce climate change impacts to water resources. Disturbing trends over the last half century suggest California...
