by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
What Happens When You Can’t Build Back? Addressing Climate Change Loss and Damage [link]
Airlines accused of backsliding on climate commitments [link]
Climate change raises conflict risk in South Asia, warn experts [link]
UNFCCC: Current #INDCs don’t deliver a turnaround but only a slowdown of global emissions increase [link]…
Analysis: Negative emissions tested at world’s first major #BECCS facility | [link]
The magic of the EPA’s benefit/cost analysis [link]
Economist on Free Speech: Don’t silence views. Answer with more speech. Win with arguments. Grow a tougher hide. [link]
Why South Asia can’t afford to be glacial in its response to climate change. Are we living in the hope that our vulnerability will act like some sort of protective charm? [link]
Climate change and ‘smart seeds’ in Africa [link]
Why we haven’t made much progress on the world’s deadliest environmental problem [link] So-called clean cookstoves have done little to solve the world’s deadliest enviro problem
Moving beyond pro/con debates over genetically engineered crops [link]
Europe’s renewables investment hits 10-year low [link]
MIT: Incandescents Now More Efficient than LEDs [link] … Too late, incandescents are now illegal
Geoengineering: The crazy climate technofix [link]
Shellenberger: Clean energy is on the decline: why and what we can do about it [link]
Among climate scientists, a fraught debate on the path forward [link]
The clean power conundrum: bringing electricity to more Bangladeshis [link]
“new evidence of links between deforestation in southeast Asia and the EU’s renewable energy mandate” [link]
New biofuels boost will worsen carbon pollution in spite of its ‘renewable’ brand [link]
The global air conditioning boom: Excellent for adapting to heat waves. Not so good for CO2 emissions. [link]
Interesting twist on #CCS: Baking soda ‘sponge’ could capture CO2 emissions [link]
Is US Climate Policy Killing Nuclear Power? [link]
Lomborg: Best strategies to empower girls in Bangladesh [link]
Analysis: Negative emissions tested at world’s first major BECCS facility [link]
Cities can prepare for hurricane season by reforming shortsighted and outdated laws [link]
Marine governance favors consumption and commerce over conservation. Here’s what we can do about it. [link]
Cambodia and Thailand edging closer to nuclear power [link]
Cooling technologies set to become red hot sector [link]
Filed under: Week in review