Great question: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
MIT Technology Review: The companies and industries that are thinking seriously about how global warming will affect their future
Engadget: White House fights climate change with data sharing
Hack the planet!
The Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) will give organizations access to troves of environmental information so they can make their own plans to counter climate change.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/22/white-house-fight-climate-change-data-sharing/
Joint Declaration on Harnessing the Data Revolution for Climate Resilience (state.gov)
- Organizations involved:
- Amazon Web Services
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Future Earth
- Group on Earth Observations
- IBM
- Microsoft
- World Bank
- World Resources Institute
this is a Fortune 500 company: Ecolab
#221 in 2016
How to Raise Trillions for Green Investments (New York Times)
SAVING our planet from the worst effects of climate change won’t be cheap. A new report from the United Nations says that the world will need to mobilize $90 trillion in public and private capital over the next 15 years.
The best way to fight climate change? Don’t call it climate change.
The $13.5 Trillion Paris Climate “Fund”
At the Paris Climate Conference, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. The International Energy Agency evaluated the deal at $13.5 trillion.
From Bloomberg:
The global energy industry needs to invest $13.5 trillion through 2030 in efficiency measures and low-carbon technologies in order to meet climate-protection pledges by world leaders, the International Energy Agency said.
The expenditure, which includes deployment of nuclear, wind and solar power as well as carbon capture and storage, needs to average $840 billion every year from 2015, the IEA said Wednesday in a report. It said the growth in energy-related emissions “will slow to a relative crawl by 2030” if nations follow through with their pledges.As of Tuesday, 154 countries representing 86 percent of global emissions had submitted their plans, Christiana Figueres, the UN’s top climate diplomat, told reporters at UN talks in Bonn.
#1 on Reddit Homepage – XKCD: Earth Temperature Timeline
Today’s XKCD is a hot one, 2421 comments in the #1 spot on reddit.com’s homepage
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The Verge, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Climate Change
I’m a fan of the intersection of the tech world and “climate change”. Here’s a review from tech powerhouse The Verge on ❤️Leonardo diCaprio’s❤️ “Before the Flood”. Although the film sounds like the usual “gloomy” side of climate change, it’s nice to see the coverage by technology media. Tech Crunch announces a “enivornmental hackathon” yesterday, The Verge today. Leo getting involved is great too! Am gonna see about watching this.