Our Common Future under Climate Change

New seed varieties help Indian farmers adapt to climate change

201507-02

By Arnab Gupta and Jacob van Etten

Climate change is showing its effects on different aspects of todayï¿½s world ï¿½ affecting crop production directly through the intensity and frequency of different types of stress, such as drought, heat stress, and flooding.

Learn more about INDCs at Our Common Future

201507-01

By Our Common Future

Countries are currently preparing submissions to the UNFCCC, in the form of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), committing to legally-binding targets for the post-2020 period. A key new area for climate science is how to assess these commitments. Scientists at the Our Common Future under Climate Change conference will discuss whether countriesï¿½ proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after 2020 are ambitious compared to their peers as well as other methodologies to rate countriesï¿½ climate action.

Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging?

201507-01

By Our Common Future

Population growth. Land privatisation & degradation. HIV/AIDS. Poorly conceived social and environmental policies. Erosion of traditional knowledge. Overcoming these non-climatic barriers to adaptation will result in cascading positive changes towards more sustainable adaptation at the local level, say Sheona Shackleton and Penny Urquhart.

Scientist pinpoints how quickly climate is changing

201506-30

By Sarah Perkins

By 2100, the latest state-of-the-art global climate models project a global average temperature rise of 2.6-4.8 degrees C under a high emissions scenario. What is likely more important for the adaptation of these systems is the rate of change towards the projected increases.

Making heat visible: Thermal images motivate household energy efficiency

201506-30

By Our Common Future

People are more likely to respond to the issue of climate change if they can see it with their own eyes, research on thermal imaging has found.

An inclusive way to climate-proof development policies and plans

201506-29

By Joost Vervoort and Cecilia Schubert, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Envisioning future scenarios for a country or region can be a powerful way to explore future uncertainties. However, scenarios are not strategies. Instead, they outline contexts that can be used for challenging decision-making. And challenging is really the word, as the world braces itself for increasing climate variability that spell huge uncertainties for the future, to which policies and governance systems have to adapt.

The future of cities: Q+A with Shobhakar Dhakal

201506-29

By Michelle Kovacevic

Humanityï¿½s ability to curb global greenhouse emission largely depends on how future cities and towns embrace carbon mitigation. ï¿½Despite uncertainties on how cities will evolve in the future, we have a large window of mitigation opportunities in guiding new urbanization,ï¿½ says Shobhakar Dhakal, Associate Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology

My forays into the unthinkable with climate research beyond 2 degrees C

201506-26

By Asher Minns, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia

What can we learn about going beyond 2 degrees Celcius at the Our Common Future under Climate Change, coming just 6 months before COP21 in Paris?

Are we morally obliged to curb fossil fuel exports?

201506-26

By Professor Jeremy Moss, University of New South Wales

Like tobacco, fossil fuels are a commodity that we know cause significant harm when we export them for its standard uses. If the practice can be avoided, then resource-exporting nations have a prima facie responsibility for the harms that these exports cause.

How do you talk to your friends and family about adapting to climate change?

201506-25

By Liese Coulter, PhD Candidate at Griffith University

How do personal perspectives colour your ideas of vulnerability to climate change? Liese Coulterï¿½s PhD research considers how climate change professionals talk to family and friends about the next stages of their lives, adapting to climate change.

Our Common Future Under Climate Change

International Scientific Conference 7-10 JULY 2015 Paris, France

New seed varieties help Indian farmers adapt to climate change

Learn more about INDCs at Our Common Future

Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa so challenging?

Scientist pinpoints how quickly climate is changing

Making heat visible: Thermal images motivate household energy efficiency

An inclusive way to climate-proof development policies and plans

The future of cities: Q+A with Shobhakar Dhakal

My forays into the unthinkable with climate research beyond 2 degrees C

Are we morally obliged to curb fossil fuel exports?

How do you talk to your friends and family about adapting to climate change?