GenevaLunch » climate change http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Substantial groundwater reserves identified in Africa (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/substantial-groundwater-reserves-identified-in-africa-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/substantial-groundwater-reserves-identified-in-africa-update/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:48:34 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=69264 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Africa could be sitting on 100 times more water underground than what it has on the surface, according to a British report. A report in the Journal of Environmental Research Letters says that some of the largest aquifer reserves are reportedly located under the most arid States, including Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Algeria, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/substantial-groundwater-reserves-identified-in-africa-update/feed/ 0 Geneva will turn off its lights Saturday for an hourhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/geneva-will-turn-off-its-lights-saturday-for-an-hour/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/geneva-will-turn-off-its-lights-saturday-for-an-hour/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:15:08 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68417 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The city of Geneva is one of 30 in Switzerland that will join the worldwide Earth Hour project and turn out lights on public buildings Saturday 31 March from 20:30 to 21:30. This is the fourth year of Earth Hour, begun by WWF, designed to raise awareness of climate change and the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/29/geneva-will-turn-off-its-lights-saturday-for-an-hour/feed/ 0 Rate of increase of nitrous oxide in atmosphere speeding uphttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/rate-of-increase-of-nitrous-oxide-in-atmosphere-speeding-up/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/rate-of-increase-of-nitrous-oxide-in-atmosphere-speeding-up/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:21:12 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63750 GenevaLunch.com Seventh annual Greenhouse Gas Report 3 main gases continuing to rise GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Planet Earth’s three main greenhouse gases continue to rise significantly, says the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva. It released the seventh annual World Greenhouse Bulletin Monday 21 November, showing that N2O, nitrous oxide, is now the third most important greenhouse [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/rate-of-increase-of-nitrous-oxide-in-atmosphere-speeding-up/feed/ 1 EU commits €7 bn to R&D in “biggest ever” EC funding packagehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/eu-commits-e7-bn-to-rd-in-biggest-ever-ec-funding-package/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/eu-commits-e7-bn-to-rd-in-biggest-ever-ec-funding-package/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:00:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60018 GenevaLunch.com BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – The European Commission 20 July agreed to commit €7 billion to research and development, in what it says is its “biggest ever European Commission funding package”, designed to create some 174,000 jobs in the short term and another 450,000 in the long term and to stimulate  nearly  €80 billion in gross domestic [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/eu-commits-e7-bn-to-rd-in-biggest-ever-ec-funding-package/feed/ 0 WWF celebrates 50 years of protecting naturehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/02/wwf-celebrates-50-years-of-protecting-nature/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/02/wwf-celebrates-50-years-of-protecting-nature/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:30:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54745 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The WWF this week begins to celebrate its 50th birthday, kicking off with a new social network version of the four-year-old Earth Hour project to scale up hugely what is already called “the biggest environmental awareness campaign” in the world. WWF Switzerland is also celebrating 50 years: the international organization was [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/02/wwf-celebrates-50-years-of-protecting-nature/feed/ 1 New biodiversity UN agency to mirror Geneva’s IPCChttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/22/new-biodiversity-un-agency-to-mirror-genevas-ipcc/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/22/new-biodiversity-un-agency-to-mirror-genevas-ipcc/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:46:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=51500 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The new United Nations “independent platform” that was officially born 20 December, IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services), “will in many ways mirror the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which has assisted in catalyzing worldwide understanding and governmental action on global warming,” according to an official statement released [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/22/new-biodiversity-un-agency-to-mirror-genevas-ipcc/feed/ 0 WMO raises the alarm: greenhouse gases at highest level since 1748http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/24/wmo-raises-the-alarm-greenhouse-gases-at-highest-level-since-1748/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/24/wmo-raises-the-alarm-greenhouse-gases-at-highest-level-since-1748/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:47:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=50293 GenevaLunch.com (video) Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The main greenhouse gases rose 1 percent from 2008 to 2009 and 27.5 percent from 1990 to 2009, the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva. The higher levels reflect the “rising atmospheric burden of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide”, the three main [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/24/wmo-raises-the-alarm-greenhouse-gases-at-highest-level-since-1748/feed/ 3 Financing the costs of climate change: the challenge aheadhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/03/financing-the-costs-of-climate-change-the-challenge-ahead/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/03/financing-the-costs-of-climate-change-the-challenge-ahead/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:30:49 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=46572 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Details of a massive transfer of $100 billion a year to cover the costs of global warming are being hammered out by officials from more than 40 countries meeting in Geneva 2 and 3 September. One of the few outcomes of the failed Copenhagen Climate Conference in December 2009 was a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/03/financing-the-costs-of-climate-change-the-challenge-ahead/feed/ 0 Dutch back IPCC climate change study (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/06/dutch-back-ipcc-climate-change-study/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/06/dutch-back-ipcc-climate-change-study/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:23:08 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=44514 GenevaLunch.com Update 13:00  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Dutch government has backed the “core conclusions” of Geneva-based IPCC’s landmark climate change study, published in 2007. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change came under fire in 2009 for errors in the report. The Dutch environment minister later asked The Netherlands’ Environmental Assessment Agency to carry out a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/06/dutch-back-ipcc-climate-change-study/feed/ 2 Kofi Annan’s Global Humanitarian Forum put to sleephttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/kofi-annans-global-humanitarian-forum-put-to-sleep/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/kofi-annans-global-humanitarian-forum-put-to-sleep/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:44:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39466 GenevaLunch.com World Economic Forum to take on some of the work Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Global Humanitarian Forum, set up in 2007 with Kofi Annan, newly retired UN director-general as its leader, will “cease activity”, the Swiss federal government announced Wednesday 31 March. Bern will spend CHF1.75 million to pay salaries during the contractual period [...]

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