November 1, 2021 |聽Caroline Merner shares her insights on 2021 Glasgow Climate Conference (COP26).
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Published on: 4 Nov 2021
The twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be hosted by the United Kingdom, in partnership with Italy. The summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC. More than 190 world leaders will participate, along with tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens for twelve days of talks. ()
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Published on: 1 Nov 2021
During his official visit to the Netherlands and the Global Center on Adaptation on October 29 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (seen here with Dr. Patrick Verkooijen, Chief Executive Officer, Global Center on Adaptation) examines the "State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021:聽 Africa", co-directed by ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir.聽 The full report can be found online.
Published on: 29 Oct 2021
October 21, 2021 | In this op-ed for Maclean's Max Bell School director Chris Ragan, Dale Beugin and Gord Lambert explain why ahead of COP26,聽Alberta needs to prepare for the inevitability of a聽low-carbon world.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2021
In this new policy brief by Brenden McKinney, we learn that the effects of climate change are causing risk management to become an increasingly essential tool to help farmers anticipate and react to weather- related shocks like droughts and floods.
Published on: 18 Oct 2021
To fully grasp and plan for climate impacts under any scenario, researchers and policymakers must look well beyond the 2100 benchmark. Unless CO2 emissions drop significantly, global warming by 2500 will make the Amazon barren, the American Midwest tropical, and India too hot to live in, according to a team of international scientists.
Published on: 13 Oct 2021
August 23, 2021 | When voters went to the polls in the recent federal election, climate change was front of mind for many. For the first time, all major parties had credible plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But how did聽the plans stack up to each other? Max Bell School director Chris Ragan weighs in on this episode of The Current.
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Published on: 21 Sep 2021
September 12, 2021 | The 44th federal election campaign is over, and the Liberals have clung to their plurality of seats in the House of Commons, setting them up to form another minority government. Read about what they have promised to do to fight climate change during聽their new mandate.
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Published on: 21 Sep 2021
Climate change is a hot-button issue in this federal campaign, and data shows that a party鈥檚 environmental strategy could help influence its results in at least 9 ridings where races were neck-and-neck in the last election. Environics Analytics analyzed all 338 Canada鈥檚 federal electoral districts and found environmental issues are important to a wide swath of Canadians. The data and analytics firm found that voters in 46 ridings had above average concerns 鈥� compared to the national average 鈥� for the way their lifestyles have an impact on the world around them.
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Published on: 17 Sep 2021
In a recent study in , researchers from 6 different countries, including Camilo Alejo and Catherine Potvin of the Department of Biology at 91黑料网, examined the importance of Indigenous Territories in climate change mitigation across Panama and the Amazon Basin.
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Published on: 17 Aug 2021
More than 130 forest fires were burning in northwestern Ontario on Sunday, July 25, with Environment Canada issuing air quality statements for much of the region due to smoke. ()
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Published on: 28 Jul 2021
The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the global rate. A new study led by researchers from 91黑料网 finds that cold-adapted Arctic species, like the thick-billed murre, are especially vulnerable to heat stress caused by climate change.
鈥淲e discovered that murres have the lowest cooling efficiency ever reported in birds, which means they have an extremely poor ability to dissipate or lose heat,鈥� says lead author Emily Choy, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Natural Resource Sciences Department at 91黑料网.
Published on: 7 Jul 2021
A 91黑料网-led study has shown that the size of the Maya population in the lowland city of (in present-day Guatemala) varied over time in response to climate change. The findings, published recently in , show that both droughts and very wet periods led to important population declines.
Published on: 30 Jun 2021
A new study led by researchers from 91黑料网 and found that between 51-60% of the 64 million kilometres of rivers and streams on Earth that they investigated stop flowing periodically, or run dry for part of the year. It is the first-ever empirically grounded effort to quantify the global distribution of non-perennial rivers and streams.
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Published on: 16 Jun 2021
Forest fires have crept higher up mountains over the past few decades, scorching areas previously too wet to burn, according to researchers from 91黑料网. As wildfires advance uphill, a staggering 11% of all Western U.S. forests are now at risk.
Published on: 15 Jun 2021
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