Global Climate Change

We’ve all heard the numbers – the global infrastructure investment needed to keep up with projected economic growth is severely lacking. In cities, where 54% of the world’s population now lives , it is estimated that US$4.1 to 4.3 trillion in urban infrastructure investments is needed. To make that infrastructure climate resilient and emission reducing, the estimate increases by 9-27 %.

While emerging scientific evidence suggests that wildfires are on the rise globally, Guatemala’s northern department of Petén, a forest area rich in...

More than 30,000 people from 167 countries descended on Quito, Ecuador last month for the third United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable...

The New York Times (10/15) said negotiators from 170 countries agreed to phasedown the production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), an earth-warming...

BBC (9/3) said the U.S. and China – representing almost 40 percent of global carbon emissions – formally joined the Paris climate agreement. The...