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World leaders in Davos to focus on risks to humanity

2015-01-20 13:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: Emerging threats to humanity will be on the agenda when the world's political and business leaders meet in Davos, Switzerland, this week. The 45th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum aims to find solutions for global risks - including environmental challenges and those posed by new technologies. "The risks of the last 10 years were all about economy. Those in the next 10 will be about societal and environmental issues," said Axel P. Lehmann of Zurich Insurance, at the launch last week...

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Comment - A Dangerous World and the Growing Threat to Beverages

2015-01-19 13:46:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

If you thought global insecurity was at an all-time high last year, then the World Economic Forum (WEF) has some bad news.

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IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world

2015-01-17 18:55:27| Green Car Congress

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U.S. cities lag behind others in the world in meeting the challenge of sea-level rise

2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: In December, residents in Marin, a county in the northern part of the San Francisco Bay Area nestled across from the Golden Gate Bridge, woke up to find that some of their roadways, docks and parking lots were underwater. Unlike in past years, when the king tides -- unusually high tides that occur when the sun and moon are closer to the Earth -- were accompanied by stormy weather, residents this year were faced with just some minor flooding. But more and more, parts of California are seeing...

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Top Ideas About Climate Change 2014 World Economic Forum

2015-01-17 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: As Ian Goldin of the Oxford Martin Commission pointed out last year, it's a bit ironic to discuss climate change at Davos, a remote location in Switzerland that requires a tremendous carbon footprint to even get to. Nevertheless, the topic was a key focus of 2014's World Economic Forum. Climate change will likely be discussed again next week at 2015's annual meeting in Davos, so we took a look back at what several key influencers like Goldin, as well as Jim Leape, director general of World Wildlife...

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