Our Common Future under Climate Change

Informational nudges overshadow subsidies in encouraging uptake of efficient light bulbs in Kenyan community

201507-07

By Aurelia Figueroa, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut fï¿½r Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Reducing the cost of energy efficient light bulbs alone may not be the best way to increase their usage. It seems that telling people how durable these light bulbs does.

[FRENCH] Transcript of Sï¿½golï¿½ne Royal speech

201507-07

By Our Common Future

Climate innovation systems can help us reframe international technology policy

201507-06

By David Ockwell and Rob Byrne, ESRC STEPS Centre

Technology and innovation are vital for efforts to tackle climate change in developing countries. But thereï¿½s a problem: the system for transferring and developing technology via international climate policy doesnï¿½t seem to work as well as it should. National Systems of Innovation provide an opportunity for a new framing.

Could bioenergy and carbon capture help reverse our emissions?

201507-06

By Our Common Future

So far, the world is tracking along the highest carbon dioxide emissions scenarios envisaged by the IPCC. Energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies and nuclear need to be rapidly deployed in order to prevent us from us from levels of warming which may be in excess of 4ï¿½C by 2100. But there may come a time when we need to look at ways of actively hoovering up greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere in order to prevent the worst of climate change.

Time for technology in international policy processes?

201507-06

By Adrian Ely, University of Sussex

As everyone is pointing out, 2015 is a crucial year for sustainable development, with three critical international meetings in the calendar starting this month. But what role do science, technology and innovation play in these processes?

Earth Hour City Challenge: Do more than turn off your lights

201507-03

By Vitor Machado Lira

As the clock for widespread high carbon-emitting practices ticks close to midnight, a new countdown for global transition into sustainability and clean energy use has begun. At the forefront of this much-needed global shift in human behavior is the Earth Hour City Challenge.

Technology policies can support a price on carbon in addressing climate change

201507-03

By Our Common Future

Targeted technology policies can enhance the effectiveness of carbon pricing and thus be an important element of climate change mitigation. Thatï¿½s the finding of an analysis of different policy mechanisms that are attempting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate-smart agriculture: propaganda or paradigm shift?

201507-03

By Vanessa Meadu

Moving beyond the hype to show how the climate-smart agriculture concept can translate evidence into action

Why gender matters for climate change

201507-02

By Dr Virginie Le Masson

What does gender have to do with climate change? Itï¿½s a question I often hear when engaging with practitioners and policy-makers. To answer that question, I tend to avoid using the mainstream argument that women are more vulnerable to climate change than men.

Rescuing historical scientific data

201507-02

By Elizabeth Griffin

Science depends on observations ï¿½ not just their content but also on the way we collect them, record them, store them and share them. In the past 30 years, data have been ï¿½born digitalï¿½ and thus much more amenable to efficient at data management, but what about all the data that were collected before the onset of the digital age?

Our Common Future Under Climate Change

International Scientific Conference 7-10 JULY 2015 Paris, France

Informational nudges overshadow subsidies in encouraging uptake of efficient light bulbs in Kenyan community

[FRENCH] Transcript of Sï¿½golï¿½ne Royal speech

Climate innovation systems can help us reframe international technology policy

Could bioenergy and carbon capture help reverse our emissions?

Time for technology in international policy processes?

Earth Hour City Challenge: Do more than turn off your lights

Technology policies can support a price on carbon in addressing climate change

Climate-smart agriculture: propaganda or paradigm shift?

Why gender matters for climate change

Rescuing historical scientific data