Climate Change Institute

The Critical Decade 2013: Climate change science, risks and responses

In its latest report, released on 17 June 2013, the Climate Commission says there needs to be a fundamental change in the way we create energy if international targets for global warming are to be met. Read the full report.

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Untangling the confusion around land carbon and climate change mitigation policy

Policy-makers and the off-setting industry worldwide need to re-think the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, says an international study published today in Nature Climate Change.

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The Global Climate Change Regime Complex: Institutions and Governance

Dr Tim Cadman of Griffith University and Dr Jamie Pittock of ANU will discuss the wide range of climate change institutions in the CCI lunchtime talk, 7 June 2013, 12-1pm, Frank Fenner Seminar Room.

First Steering Committte meeting of the IRAP-HKH initiative was held in Guangzhou, China

The IRAP-HKH project (Improving resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region) held its first steering committee meeting in Guangzhou, China during March this year.

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Climate Change and The Third Pole

Climate Change Institute will work towards improving resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region

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ANU Study shoes ten-fold increase in Antarctic Peninsula summer ice-melt

Summer ice melting in the Antarctic Peninsula has intensified almost ten-fold in the last 600 years, with the most rapid melting occurring in the last 50, according to research from The Australian National University (ANU) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).