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This is another blog based on the REEEP SEAP series of Pacific islands for an 2012 encyclopaedia. The Polynesian island of Tuvalu is well known for its engagement against climate change because the second smallest island nation is highly vulnerable to the effect of global warming. Some 10,000 people live on 26 km2, and 95% [...]
I have just come back from my trip to the UK and can really sum it up as a success! Not only where all my interview partners from different organizations very helpful and friendly, they also really helped me with organizing the mind map which will be the base for the Climate Compatible Development Thesaurus [...]
Constructing the Climate Compatible Development Thesaurus
18 Mar 2011
by Denise Recheis - Category: reegle
As I have mentioned before I am in the process of building a Climate Compatible Development Thesaurus for our reegle energy information gateway. The Renewable Energy Thesaurus is already in place (but constantly undergoing improvements) already supports our clean energy web search as well as it brings you extensive renewables glossary with definitions and a [...]
The Future of Transportation
03 Mar 2011
by Jennifer Ronk (Research Scientist, Houston Advanced Research Center) - Category: Contributed News
Development and transportation have been intertwined since wheels were first attached to carts over 6000 years ago. Efficient methods to move goods and people are largely responsible for the quality of life many of us enjoy today. However, these societal benefits also have a cost. Transportation accounts for about 13% of global carbon emissions. In [...]
If you read this you most probably belong to a great majority of people who “believe” in climate change as in a phenomena induced by human activity. Yet not everybody will agree with that, and you have probably encountered those who still insist that nothing out of the usual is happening. Classics that those who [...]
It has been suspected for weeks and now two U.S. agencies have confirmed 2010 as the warmest year on record-since 1880! Even if single weather occurrences cannot be directly linked to global warming, the fact the every year since 2000 has ranked as one of the 15 warmest years on record can be regarded as [...]
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