In March 2014, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report on climate change, which has been labelled a “call for action” by the chair of the IPCC as well as climate change scientists and governments around the globe. We took a look at some of the key responses from experts […]
IPCC Report on Climate Change: Key Points
In March 2014, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report on climate change, which has been labelled a “call for action” by the chair of the IPCC as well as climate change scientists and governments around the globe. The report highlights a number of serious threats to the world unless […]
IPCC Report on Climate Change
In March 2014, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report on climate change, which has been labelled a “call for action” by the chair of the IPCC as well as climate change scientists and governments around the globe. The 32-volume, 2,600-page report arrives at sobering conclusions regarding the effects of […]
Framing Climate Change
There is a growing global conversation about the need to “frame” climate change in a way that allows us to assess and discuss this issue more meaningfully than has been the case thus far. While climate change is increasingly relevant for all of us, it is not yet an accepted “social fact”, that is, it […]
Do Electric Cars Pollute More than Conventional Cars?
A study that questions some of the more common assumptions about the environmental benefits of electric cars has been published by engineers based at the Norwegian University of Science and technology. The report, published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, addresses the issue of “problem-shifting”. Essentially, this means that by trying to address one problem, […]
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