Devastating extreme weather including recent flooding in England, Australia's hottest year on record and the US being hit by a polar vortex have a "silver lining" of boosting climate change to the highest level of politics and reminding politicians that climate change is not a partisan issue, according to the UN's climate chief.
As a part of the Paris Agreement, governments have now committed to unlocking USD 100 billion per year by 2020 to boost climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Biofuel production is adding pressure on food prices which are already being boosted by climate change.
The fossil fuel divestment campaign with its focus on "easy" targets, such as universities and charitable organisations, has given a big boost to climate change activism.
Unlike the Maldives, Greenland's economy is getting a boost from climate change.
Farmers can best boost resilience to climate change, scientists say, by improving their soil's fertility and capacity to retain moisture.
This misapprehension, this simple ignorance, matters very much in a world where wild plants are increasingly endangered – including, let it be said, many wild relatives of those 30 or so crops, which may be needed to boost resistance to climate change and plant disease in a 21st century where feeding the soaring world population sustainably will be a terrifying challenge.
Moreover, the evolution of energy generation sources in the first decade of this century clearly shows a mismatch between the theoretical boost to combat climate change, and the actual facts in energy markets.
But the reverse may also be true, with climate change boosting the power of cyclical El Nino events.
What is instead required is a well targeted "green infrastructure QE" which would stimulate the economy, boost employment and tackle climate change countrywide.
The idea of saving the world by shopping is appealing; but tackling climate change, boosting development and reforming the global trade system will require difficult political choices.
