Our Common Future under Climate Change

Energy innovation to tackle climate change: why, what and how?

201507-09

By Matthew Hannon, Imperial College London

Energy innovation is critical to constraining catastrophic global temperature rise and should be at the forefront of negotiators minds in Paris. It is essential that innovation efforts span the energy supply chain, focus on both fossil fuel and renewable energy technologies, and stimulate non-technological innovation.

Climate mitigation policy in a development context: How do we do what we do?

201507-09

By Emily Tyler, Energy Research Centre South Africa

The positioning of climate mitigation as separate to development issues, and isolated in environmental departments, may lead to its implications for development and economic policy being misunderstood or side-lined by economic policy makers and development practitioners.

Getting the measurements right - a new platform for agricultural emissions data

201507-09

By David Valentin Schweiger

Climate change is a hot topic in Paris this year. The City of Light is not only hosting the Our Common Future Under Climate Change science conference this week. It will also be anchoring the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21, in December.

It's time for scientists to make climate change reality clear: UNFCCC head

201507-08

By Christiana Figueres and Joseph Alcamo, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

From writing commentaries in their national newspapers, speaking to the media and engaging with their communities, scientists can be ambassadors for positive change. It is a time for scientists, the custodians of knowledge about climate change and its impacts, to roll up their sleeves to make the realities of climate change clear to the people in their countries.

Speaker slides now available!

201507-08

By Our Common Future

An online archive of #CFCC15 presenter slides.

Charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa can be sustainable

201507-08

By Susan Onyango

Rather than condemning traditional sources of energy like woodfuels, we need sustainable woodfuel systems to avoid forest degradation and generate positive development. The question is: How can the sustainable use of tree-based bioenergy be a solution to development, as well as mitigation and adaptation to climate change?

Modeling Our Agricultural Future

201507-08

By Shari Lifson, AgMIP Communications Coordinator, Columbia University

Our food production system, already stressed to meet todayďż˝s demands, will face even more challenges in the future to provide for a growing population and adapt to a changing climate.

Tweets from Day 1: The state of knowledge on climate change

201507-08

By Our Common Future

2000 scientists met in Paris for the largest scientific convening on climate before the COP21 in December. Here's what they had to say about the the state of knowledge on climate change.

Time for international climate negotiations to consider health

201507-08

By Vitor Machado Lira

International negotiations on climate change do not fully reflect the concerns, prevention, promotion and recovery of global health, says a senior researcher who is determined to do something about it.

Ahead of COP21, new game theories shed light on how to reach international environment agreements

201507-08

By Jobst Heitzig, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

To an outsider, the process of reaching international environmental agreements may seem like a poker game, with countries bargaining for better positions by delaying or denying action. But new models are showing that even purely selfish players (in this case negotiating countries) will eventually join forces to gain from the benefits of a global regime. It just may take a smaller coalition to start, with the rest of the world joining in later.

Our Common Future Under Climate Change

International Scientific Conference 7-10 JULY 2015 Paris, France