In this panel discussion hear industry experts, policy makers, and academicians deliberate on the directions that Indian industry and academia should take to empower engineers and contribute effectively toward tackling climate change.
Panel Discussion - Climate Change and EconomyRichard CunninghamDavid TerryGrant GoodrichKarlis VasaraisCase Western Reserve University School of Law
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Governor Jay Inslee of the U.S. state of Washington Wednesday warned of the impacts of challenges from climate change such as extreme weather conditions. Addressing a panel discussion on climate change held at the University of Washington, Inslee said the eff...
Climate change is a significant threat to global food security. To address this challenge, Tencent is working with partners to promote a new breed of water-saving and drought-resistant rice (WDR). The project will assess the WDR’s greenhouse gas-reduction potential to develop carbon assets and...
Elizabeth Knup, Ford Foundation's China representative, said at the panel discussion that she is encouraged by the fact that things are back on track. Though the data-sharing and sharing modeling framework under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has not been affected by the tension bet...
Professor Tirole did not mince his words, describing climate change as a time bomb. “If you don’t do anything for a year, it doesn’t seem so bad. But as the years add up, we have a disaster on our hands.” “On the positive side,” he noted, “most people recognize the urgen...
Nearly half of all U.S. homes are threatened by extreme weather conditions, according to a new analysis that examines the potential impact of climate change on the country's housing market. Across the nation, roughly $22 trillion in residential properties are at risk of "severe or extreme dam...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - China's special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said on Tuesday that Beijing is committed to reaching carbon neutrality and believed multilateralism and cooperation is key to solving global climate change. "No matter how much the external environment ...
Current flood risk mapping, relying on historical observations, fails to account for increasing threat under climate change. Incorporating recent developments in inundation modelling, here we show a 26.4% (24.1–29.1%) increase in US flood risk by 2050 d
Climate change threatens the health and survival of urban trees and the various benefits they deliver to urban inhabitants. Here, we show that 56% and 65% of species in 164 cities across 78 countries are currently exceeding temperature and precipitation conditions experienced in their geographic rang...