B4E Summit, April 27-29 Jakarta Indonesia

If you are in the region and believe that businesses can drive action for the environment, this may be an great event to attend. See you there! Nadya

Shangri-La Hotel Jakarta, Indonesia

27 – 29 April 2011

B4E Summit. 

 

B4E, Business for the Environment, is the world’s leading international conference for dialogue and business-driven action for the environment. Held in partnership with WWF and Global Initiatives, the Summit offers collaborative solutions to address the most urgent environmental and climate issues facing the world today.

Leaders from business, NGOs, international agencies and governments gather to discuss green investments, clean technologies and sustainable growth strategies. At the B4E Summit, delegates share and explore transformative solutions to tackle climate change and to protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystems. Partnerships are formed and commitments are made to accelerate the shift towards a more sustainable, low-carbon future.

via B4E Summit.

Richard Wiles: That Awkward Conversation (About the Climate)

If someone told all the parents of the world that there was a 98 percent chance that radical environmental changes in the next 10 – 50 years will wipe out half of all known life forms on earth, and that famine, plagues, floods and droughts on a scale not seen in thousands of years would become routine for billions of people, you would think they would tell their kids.

via The Huffington Post.

Kids Remind Us What a Tough Year 2010 Was for the Climate

This video features a bunch of kids talking about just how bad a year 2010 was for climate and the environment, from legislation to unnatural disasters like the Gulf oil spill to deaths in coal mines.

via GOOD.

Does a small temperature rise actually matter (for agriculture)?

Watch this video. 2 degrees is already making a significant difference.

via CCAFS.

Q&A: Imperiled Birds on a Warming Planet

A species that is narrowly distributed, either vertically or horizontally, will face much more of a challenge. If temperatures change rapidly, they’ll experience conditions they’ve never experienced in their narrow band. Their entire geographic region could disappear.

Their fate will also depend on how flexible they are in terms of things like foods, and there’s a lot of uncertainty there. The rosy finch feeds on mountain snowfields. If temperatures decline and there are no more year-round snow fields, they’ll have to evolve a new feeding strategy.

via NYTimes.com.

Frigid Winters and the Polar Vortex

In Tuesday’s paper, I write about the weakening of the polar vortex that keeps cold air penned up in the Arctic, a change that has contributed to two bitter winters in a row in Europe and the United States. In the piece, I mentioned that several scientists were pursuing ideas about how the drastic decline of sea ice in the Arctic might be playing a role in this pattern.

via NYTimes.com.

How much warmer will the planet get?

No one can say exactly how much warmer the planet will become over the coming years, decades and centuries. Partly that’s due to the simple fact that it’s impossible to know how much greenhouse gas humans will emit in the future. But it’s also because scientists can’t predict exactly how “sensitive” the atmosphere will be to those emissions. There are other areas of uncertainty, too, such as possible future changes to the rate at which oceans and land areas absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and the various feedback loops that could accelerate warming caused by man-made emissions.

via guardian.co.uk.

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