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NEWS | Earth League members & institutes
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Fotolia | Kwest

Before the Flood
News | 17 October 2016
Earth League Chair Johan Rockström appears alongside 
Leonardo DiCaprio in the documentary Before the Flood (2016).  
The film sees Leonardo DiCaprio tour the world to see the impacts of climate change first-hand, and meet global leaders, from Barack Obama, Pope Francis, and John Kerry among others,
to see their stance on the issue and their visions for the future.
​"If you don't believe in man-made climate change then you don't believe in gravity."
​- Lenoardo DiCaprio
#BeforeTheFlood

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Fotolia | imaginis

News | 16 November 2016
Air pollution emerges as a top killer globally
News from the South Centre reveals that air pollution causes 6.5 million worldwide deaths as well as being a major cause of climate change
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Fotolia | annajonesphoto

News | 8 November 2016
Between 1.5°C and 2°C — analysing the global warming targets
IIASA Policy Brief #14, analyse the two temperatures most prominent in the Paris Agreement: 1.5°C and 2°C, and find substantially different climate impacts
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Fotolia | Sergey Ilin

News | 7 November 2016
How fast is the carbon clock ticking?
MCC carbon clock shows how much carbon can be released into the atmosphere if global warming is to be capped at 1.5°C, or 2°C, and you can see how much time remains in each scenario
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Fotolia | NicoElNino

News | 4 November 2016
Informing action on a historic climate agreement
Paris Agreement went into force 4th November, but scientists say there is a long way to go to achieve it. IIASA research suggests pathways to get the world on track
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News | 24 October 2016
EU launches high level panel on decarbonisation chaired by Schellnhuber 
Earth league member and PIK Director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, has being appointed chair of a High Level Panel on Decarbonisation Pathways, towards means to implement Paris Agreement
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Fotolia | Ded Pixto

News | 10 October 2016
Recovering sovereignty over natural resources
The South Centre's Research Paper "Recovering Sovereignty Over Natural Resources: The Cases of Bolivia and Ecuador," analyses the renegotiation process of oil and gas contracts

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Fotolia | janmiko

News | 27 September 2016
5˚C Arctic in a 2˚C World
An international group of experts consider the effects on the Arctic of the Paris agreement and possible actions needed to limit climate change to between 1.5 and less than 2 degrees C

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Fotolia | rcfotostock

News | 26 September 2016
Global temperature rise could hit 2°C threshold by 2050
Without additional action, global emissions are expected to be 33% above 2°C pathway in 2030, according to new report from leading scientists including EL member Nebojsa Nakicenovic

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Fotolia | jzehnder

News | 5 September 2016
​G20 should enact carbon pricingG20 should enact carbon pricing
Before G20 summit MCC, along with the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the environment organization Germanwatch, recommends carbon pricing as driver for realising Paris Agreement
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Fotolia | Smileus

News | 25 August 2016
Climate change: Trade liberalization could buffer economic losses in agriculture
Climate change threatens agricultural productivity, though trade policies could limit associated economic losses to 0.3 percent, according to study by PIK

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Fotolia | Richard Carey

News | 22 August 2016
Logged rainforests can be an 'ark' for mammals
Detailed study led by Imperial College London shows large areas of 'degraded' forest in Southeast Asia can play an important role in conserving mammal diversity
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Fotolia | behind lens

News | 16 August 2016
Can we economically outgrow climate change damages?
Over 50% of weather-related economic losses are from tropical cyclone damage. PIK researchers  show financial losses per hurricane could triple with unmitigated climate change
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Fotolia | livcool

News | 4 August 2016
​Arctic stakeholder divergence in a  warming world
White Arctic vs. Blue Arctic: Recent paper published in Earth's Future on diverging stakeholder responses to environmental change
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Fotolia | bluedesign

News | 29 July 2016
Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal
A paper co-authored by IIASA presents overview of science and policy aspects related to Paris 2 & 1.5°C goals and analyses the implications for mitigation pathways
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Fotolia | Silver

News | 27 July 2016
Natural variation caused temporary cooling at Antarctic Peninsula, shows study
Research suggests rapid warming at Antarctic has 'paused' but this does not mean global warming has, says experts from Imperial College London
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Fotolia | Abdelhamid Kalai

News | 26 July 2016
​Climate disasters increase risk of armed conflict in multi-ethnic countries
Using novel statistical approach to analyse data from past 3 decades, PIK shows that climate disasters e.g. heat-waves, enhance risk of armed conflicts in countries with high ethnic diversity
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Fotolia | Photocreo Bednarek

News | 14 July 2016
Study quantifies climate-change-related deaths
A new study in Environmental Research Letters suggests that during the 2003 European heatwave, one fifth of premature deaths were linked to anthropogenic climate change 

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Fotolia | Andrey Kuzmin

News | 12 July 2016
Researchers develop novel microscope to study the underwater world
Scripps Institution of Oceanography develops a seafloor imaging system that can show details down to one micron, that is one-hundredth the width of a human hair

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Fotolia | vencav

News | 29 June 2016
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EES) enters strategic partnership with TERI
EESL and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) enter into a 2 year strategic partnership to work together for the achievement of common goals related to energy efficiency in India and abroad

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Fotolia | rcfotostock

News | 29 June 2016
Country pledges overshoot Paris temperature limit
Individual country pledges would need to be far stronger, and carbon budget might even have to be emitted by 2030, if we are to stick to well below 2°C, according to study led by IIASA

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