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From Research to Action: The Growing Impact of Attribution Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

Attribution science , which is about understanding the role of climate change versus natural weather patterns and climate variability, can help us better understand the connections between extreme weather and climate change, provide new insight into what specific emissions are driving the worst impacts, and help shape climate solutions.

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Arctic Report Card 2024: How Did the Region Fare? Ask the Caribou

Union of Concerned Scientists

Another bright spot this year amid thebad news was that the massive Greenland Ice Sheet had the lowest annual ice mass loss since 2013 ( Poynar et al. , The urgency for reducing emissions is a serious Arctic warning. in Arc2024 ). No doubt about it.

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What’s the Role of the Land Carbon Sink in Achieving US Climate Goals?

Union of Concerned Scientists

A brief history of the land carbon sink Every year, globally, land-based ecosystems remove roughly 30% of human emissions from the atmosphere, slowing both the accumulation of atmospheric CO2 and increases in global temperature. These same environmental changes can also increase carbon losses from land-based ecosystems.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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How Canada Can Unlock the Power of Public Transit to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Enviromental Defense

Our latest report has modeled what is actually possible if federal and provincial governments take public transit seriously as a tool to fight climate change. This is equivalent to the annual carbon emissions produced by 20 million cars. Right now, public transit isn’t being used to its full potential.

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What happened at COP26 in Glasgow?

Enviromental Defense

conference would be worse, for multilateralism and for global action on climate change. Glasgow was about ratcheting up ambition and closing the gap between what has been committed to and what is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. . Because the collapse of a U.N. Some baby steps, some backward steps.

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How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds

Edouard Stenger

Notable examples include: The World Bank (through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD) issued its first green bond in 2008 with $440 M; The African Development Bank (ADB) issued a half a billion USD green bond in October 2013.