| International Trade Union Confederation decides action on climate changes The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) General Council meeting has adopted a far-reaching plan by the world trade union movement to tackle climate change. ITUC, Thursday 13 December 2007 | |
| New study increases concerns about climate model reliability A new study comparing the composite output of 22 leading global climate models with actual climate data finds that the models do an unsatisfactory job of mimicking climate change in key portions of the atmosphere.
ScienceDaily.com, Wednesday 12 December 2007 | |
| World's protected areas threatened by climate change, new study shows Climate change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the resulting environments will be virtually new to the planet, according to a study presented at the U.N. climate change talks in Bali, Indonesia.
ScienceDaily.com, Tuesday 11 December 2007 | |
| FAO pilot Climate change: focussing on how the vulnerable can cope FAO experts aim to advise governments on how to incorporate gender and equity concerns into their plans for adapting to the worsening impact of climate variability and change. FAO, Monday 10 December 2007 | |
| Put biodiversity at centre of climate debate, says new experts survey A unique survey of 1,000 climate decision-makers and influencers from across 105 countries conducted by GlobeScan, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the World Bank in the two weeks leading up to the Bali Climate Conference.
IUCN, Monday 10 December 2007 | |
| New Research May Lead To Better Climate Models For Global Warming, El Niño One hundred fifty scientists from more than 40 universities in nine countries are starting a coordinated program aimed at gaining new insights about the Earth's climate and the complex, interconnected system involving the oceans, the atmosphere and the land.
ScienceDaily.com, Sunday 9 December 2007 | |
| Carbon Dioxide Expelled From Peatland When Natural Swamp Forest Is Converted To Oil Palm A new data analysis undertaken by Dr. Page of the University of Leicester Department of Geography and colleagues involved in the EU-funded CARBOPEAT and RESTORPEAT projects shows conclusively that large amounts of carbon dioxide are released from peatland in Southeast Asia when it is converted from natural swamp forest to plantations of oil palm or pulpwood trees.
ScienceDaily.com, Thursday 6 December 2007 | |
| Adaptation emerging issue at Bali meeting Delay in considering adaptation for climate change could negatively affect the world's poor, a U.N. official told the climate change conference in Indonesia.
UPI, Wednesday 5 December 2007 | |
| OECD: Climate change could triple population at risk from coastal flooding by 2070 150 million people could be exposed to a 1 in 100 year coastal flood event by 2070, up from 40 million today, says a new report by the OECD. OECD, Tuesday 4 December 2007 | |
| Climate change predicted to drive North American trees northward The most extensive and detailed study to date of 130 North American tree species concludes that expected climate change this century could shift their ranges northward by hundreds of kilometers and shrink the ranges by more than half. ScienceDaily.com, Monday 3 December 2007 | |
