HOW much will climate change end up costing the world?
We can't stop dangerous climate change, end extreme poverty or end child deaths from malaria and diarrhoea without everybody playing their part – so when companies like Unilever, GSK or RB step up, we should back them and when billionaires follow the lead of Bill and Melinda Gates and use their wealth for good, we should urge others to follow.
The organization recently released Mālama 'Āina: A Conversation About Maui's Farming Future, a detailed 50 page report (viewable here) that analyzes opportunities to grow profitable crops and market Maui-branded value-added products, using farming methods which offset climate change, end chemical spraying and crop burning, use less water, and restore soil quality.
Where climate change ends, economic uncertainty begins.
To be clear, even if the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ends up sticking with the lowball numbers in these two instances, they are worrisome enough.
Heat, carbon dioxide and air pollution are already having significant effects on trees, plants and crops, and for most plant scientists, the debate over climate change ended long before the arrival of extreme weather like Hurricane Sandy.
Coal giant Peabody Energy has agreed to change the way it reports the risks posed to investors by climate change, ending an eight-year investigation by the New York attorney general.
The Durban conference on climate change ended with a much better deal than most experts expected, but so much remains to be worked out that it is hard to say how much real progress has been made.
30 Climate Conference Ends Two weeks of negotiations at a United Nations conference in Buenos Aires on climate change ended early with a weak pledge to start limited, informal talks on ways to slow down global warming, after the United States blocked efforts to begin more substantive discussions.
ALBANY — It may not have the political sex appeal of fighting climate change, ending the war on drugs or thwarting hydrofracking, but the issue of campaign finance reform is getting a little celebrity spin this week, compliments of a series of Web videos being released on Wednesday.
Of all the great social causes -- climate change, ending discrimination, protecting the environment, etc. -- to which Reed and his merry band of "concerned citizens" could dedicate themselves they choose to fight to reduce the already modest incomes of retired police officers, firefighters, nurses, health care professionals, state and municipal workers, and teachers?
