Press Release
Bob Perciasepe on the release of the Climate Science Special Report
Communities across the United States are experiencing increasingly severe and frequent floods, wildfires, extreme heat, and other hazards due to climate change. These hazards are impacting local economies by damaging critical infrastructure and commercial districts, disrupting business operations, reducing municipal budgets, threatening worker safety, and reducing housing supply and affordability, among other impacts. Economic development […]
Basic Science on climate change: Projections of future climate change suggest a global temperature increase of 1 to 6°C (2 to 10°F) from 1990 to 2100, with warming in most of the United States expected to be even higher. Current scientific research shows that climate change will have major effects on precipitation, evapotranspiration, and runoff […]
To enable a better understanding of the mitigation pledges offered under the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancún Agreements, this analysis converts the 2020 pledges of the major economies into four common metrics: percent change in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990; percent change from 2005; percent change from “business as usual” and; percent change in emissions […]
