Bob Ward
Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. But these views are my own.
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African Ministers of the environment agree to accelerate action through effective mechanisms for sustainable development
In a ministerial declaration issued today at the closing of the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), African governments agreed to make the Conference the forum for making regional environment...
Bob Ward
African Ministers of the environment agree to accelerate action through effective mechanisms for sustainable development
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Our country is already seeing the impact of climate change
Climate change is not a localized crisis and the U.S. will not be protected from its effects by location or wealth.
Climate signal links global floods and fires
Scientists say rising temperatures are having a big influence on the scale and frequency of extreme weather events.
Propagation of economic shocks through supply chains
Natural disasters can have enormous economic consequences that affect firms both directly and indirectly. Using the example of the Great East Japan Earthquake, this column investigates how the
Job Opening: Climate Policy Analyst
The Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan think tank and advocacy organization that works to promote an open society, is seeking an entry-level Policy Analyst to join our growing climate department. Niskanen’s climate program produces original research and...
Climategate: The chilling tale of a failed bid to discredit scientists
Ten years ago, on November, 17, 2009, a server at the Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia was hacked and thousands of emails and documents leaked online. Climate change deniers seized on a few specific sections as “proof” that global...
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Bob Ward
Nice takedown of hopeless superweed @JamesDelingpole in this @EveningStandard review of last night’s BBC documentary about the ‘Climategate’ hoax by deniers
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Climate change looms over giant Saudi energy IPO
Climate change looms over giant Saudi energy IPO
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Climate change looms over giant Saudi energy IPO france24.com/en/20191115-cl… via @FRANCE24
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Sweden's central bank dumps Australian bonds over high emissions
Riksbank says Queensland and Western Australia, as well as Canada’s Alberta, ‘not known for good climate work’
Autumn flooding
Blog post by Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, in which she talks about the impacts of the Autumn flooding and the work that the Environment Agency is doing to reduce flood risk and help keep communities safe.
Climate Change—Assessing the Worst Case Scenario
Does a thinking person today have a chance of figuring out what to think about climate change? On the one hand, we are told there is a scientific consensus that humans are changing the climate. On the other hand, the most pessimistic future...
Global change and relative sea level rise at Venice: what impact in term of flooding
Relative sea level rise (RSLR) due to climate change and geodynamics represents the main threat for the survival of Venice, emerging today only 90 cm above the Northern Adriatic mean sea level (msl)....
Bob Ward
Interesting paper from 2010 explaining why Venice floods. Not really sinking anymore, combination of rises in sea level and high tides
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What does your car run on?
Almost two-fifths of Turkish cars run on liquefied petroleum gas
Climate change to ‘double risk of flooding by 2050’
The immediate cause of the floods that have devastated communities in northern England was a month’s worth of rain falling in 24 hours last week. The ground was already saturated after a very wet...
Wall Street Greens: The Top Givers to Environmental Causes from Finance
Leading philanthropists from finance have given more than $2 billion to environmental causes in recent years, transforming this funding landscape. We analyze the giving of these donors, looking at who’s giving to which organizations.
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Wall Street Greens: The Top Givers to Environmental Causes from Finance — Inside Philanthropy
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Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change
Climate change will increase the size of stalled high-pressure systems that can cause heat waves, droughts and other extreme weather, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters.
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Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change bit.ly/2NG86hb via @RiceUNews @EurekAlert
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World Energy Outlook 2019 highlights deep disparities in the global energy system
Rapid and widespread changes across all parts of the energy system are needed to put the world on a path to a secure and sustainable energy future
Marco Rubio joins bipartisan climate change caucus
Marco Rubio is the latest Republican to join the Senate's bipartisan climate change caucus, the Washington Examiner has exclusively learned.