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Conference of the Parties Twenty-first session Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015.FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1. 12 December 2015. “Welcoming the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in particular its goal 13, and the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the third International Conference on …
Army Corps of Engineers: Actions Needed to Improve Cost Sharing for Dam Safety Repairs, GAO-16-106: Published: Dec 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Dec 10, 2015. Defense Transportation: DOD Needs to Improve the Evaluation of Safety and Performance Information for Carriers Transporting Security-Sensitive Materials, GAO-16-82: Published: Dec 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Dec 10, 2015. Environmental Satellites: Launch …
“Today CHEJ released a new report on the mismanagement of the Superfund program and the need to reinstate polluter pays fees. Superfund: Polluters Pay So Children Can Play 35th Anniversary Report is released as part of a National Day of Action where groups across the country are participating in different ways to deliver the message: …
“JSTOR Sustainability is a digital library of academic research covering issues of environmental stress and its challenges for human society…We are currently testing the JSTOR Sustainability beta site with researchers and instructors in advance of launching it next year. We invite you to learn more about JSTOR Sustainability and participate in our beta testing to …
The World Bank: “An unprecedented number of the world’s leading financial institutions from across the globe have joined the World Bank Group and other multilateral development banks in signing onto new principles to integrate climate change into their financing and operations. All together 26 financial institutions from developing and developed countries with combined balance sheets …
EIA – “According to the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), energy consumption by the U.S. federal government fell to 0.94 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in fiscal year (FY) 2014, the lowest level since data collection began in FY 1975. Declines in jet fuel consumption by the U.S. Department of Defense accounted for most of …
“The Global Carbon Atlas is a platform to explore and visualize the most up-to-date data on carbon fluxes resulting from human activities and natural processes. Human impacts on the carbon cycle are the most important cause of climate change. The graphics and data sources are made available in the belief that their wide dissemination will …
Ordonez N, Seidl MF, Waalwijk C, Drenth A, Kilian A, Thomma BPHJ, et al. (2015) Worse Comes to Worst: Bananas and Panama Disease—When Plant and Pathogen Clones Meet. PLoS Pathog 11(11): e1005197. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005197 “The banana is the most popular fruit in the world and ranks among the top ten food commodities for Southeast Asia, Africa, …
“As the UN Summit on Climate Change ramps up in Paris, Plume Labs, a maker of environmental software for health and well being, announced today the launch of its World Air Map, a live map of air pollution around the world. The data revolution can help policymakers cut air pollution and communities take back control …
Global Challenges: An innovative journal for tackling humanity’s major challenges: “Climate change, energy poverty and security, health security and disease, food and nutrition security, and ensuring safe access to water and sanitation are some of humanity’s major challenges. They can lead to poverty and inequality within a world population projected to grow to 9 billion by …
Grey wolf recovery: 104, not 10,004 or even 1,004 – the number of wolves in Yellowstone National Park is 104 – after recovering from – Zero. The guardian reports that despite a slow and critical re-balancing of what many believed was an irrevocably destroyed predator/prey ecosystem but now documented as an environmental achievement, several states …
Kim Cawley, Chief of CBO’s Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit, testifies on the Nuclear Waste Policy Act before the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives. December 3, 2015. “This testimony provides updated information about the federal government’s responsibilities and liabilities under the Nuclear Waste …
