With around 85% of Australia’s population living in the coastal zone, rising sea levels and storm surges will have significant impacts on many of our coastal towns and cities. Understanding the risks to infrastructure and private property is particularly important …
On 21 November 2010, Mexico City hosted the World Mayors Summit on Climate before nations meet in Cancun, Mexico at COP16, the UN Conference on Climate following Copenhagen in 2009. At the summit Mayors of 138 cities signed the Global …
Mayors of 138 cities sign Global Cities Covenant on Climate Read more »
On Monday 26 October 2009, the Parliament of Australia House of Representatives Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts presented its report on the inquiry into climate change and environmental impacts on coastal communities.
The Atlantic Ocean current, which may be affected by future climate change, today takes heat north to Europe but 10,000 years ago it was weaker and flowed in the opposite direction. In 2005, scientists at the U.K. National Oceanography Centre …
On 2 December 2009, the NSW Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management (Climate Change) resolved to inquire into issues of sustainable water management with particular reference to climate change impacts and, in particular, to report on the following terms of …
Final Report, Sustainably managing water under climate change (NSW) Read more »
The Sydney Water Balance Project is the only research to date that has tried to determine the potential impacts of climate change on greater Sydney’s water supply and demand. The results of the project provide information on how greater Sydney’s …
Matthew E. Kahn, professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, says that we have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there’s no stopping it. The question, according to Kahn, is not how we’re going …
New book: Climatopolis: How our cities will thrive in the Hotter Future Read more »
At this City Talk Allan Jones MBE will launch the City of Sydney’s green infrastructure plan which will deliver an innovative city-wide decentralised energy, water and waste system. The plan will position Sydney as a global environmental leader energised by …
CityTalks 2010 – Sydney’s energy revolution: Building a low-carbon city, 25 October 2010 Read more »
Within the major Australian cities – where the majority of people live – the immediacy and potentially catastrophic nature of climate risk (i.e. storm surge, fire, drought) pose considerable challenges to contemporary models of governance. In response to climate change …
The Chinese government will invest more than 100 billion yuan ($15 billion USD) to subsidize its eco-friendly car industry over the next decade. Read the article or watch the video on the CCTV website. Sixteen Chinese central stated-owned electric vehicle …
China to invest $15 billion for green autos and electric car alliance launched Read more »