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  • 2012 ESRI User Conference - San Diego, CA - US

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    Date : July 23, 2012

    Join over 14,000 fellow Esri users in San Diego and learn how to harness the Power of Where in everything you do.

    o Extend your use of Esri technology to deliver positive returns across your entire organization.
    o Gain best practices directly from those who are making the most of GIS.
    o Maximize your technology investment through cloud and mobile offerings.
    o Discover solutions that will shape the future of GIS in your organization.

    You will come away smarter, more connected, and ready to answer tough questions from senior leadership, partners, and clients in today's new business world.

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  • Earth Summit 2012: RIO+ 20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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    Date : June 20, 2012

    The Earth Summit 2012: Vision, Cooperation, Transformation.

    The world is facing a mounting crisis. In recent years we have experienced a combination of a global financial crisis, a food crisis, volatile oil prices, accelerating ecosystem degradation and an increasing number of climate-induced extreme weather events. These multiple and inter-related crises call into question the ability of a growing human population to live peacefully and sustainably on this planet, and demand the urgent attention governments and citizens around the world.

    Earth Summit 2012 will be the fourth Summit of its kind and represents another milestone in ongoing international efforts to accelerate progress towards achieving sustainable development globally. This background section provides information on the following areas

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  • Geography International Symposium, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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    Date : April 13, 2012

    On the 13th – 17th of April 2012, the “Geography International Symposium” will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

    Presented by the Student Association for the Department of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), in cooperation with the Indonesian Geography student association (IMAHAGI), the theme will be “Climate Change for Sustainability”.

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  • REDD: When carbon credits work in the Amazon

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    Date : February 01, 2012

    By Simeon Tegel

    For Brazil nut farmers in the Amazon, carbon credits could offer new income.

    This article is the second in a three-part series that explores the issue of deforestation and climate change. In part one, GlobalPost considered how a proposed international carbon-credit market could slash greenhouse-gas emissions and save the world's surviving forests. Part two shows how indigenous people can benefit from carbon credits, while part three looks at "carbon cowboys" accused of abusing the system.

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  • Wheat will age prematurely in a warmer world

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    Date : January 30, 2012

    By Debora MacKenzie

    It could be much more difficult than we thought to feed everyone in a warmer world. Satellite images of northern India have revealed that extreme temperatures are cutting wheat yields. What's more, models used to predict the effects of global warming on food supply may have underestimated the problem by a third.

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  • Flooding rated as worst climate change threat facing UK

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    Date : January 27, 2012

    By Juliette Jowit, The Guardian

    Defra report lists 700 impacts, including flood risk for 3.6 million people, water shortages, soil erosion and wildlife disruption.

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  • A new video is on line: Energy for Africa

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    Date : January 24, 2012

    In collaboration with VIA BRACHY, Planet Action has completed a video about deforestation impacts and adaptation.

    Click here for a project description and here to view the video.

    Enjoy!

     

  • Complications of Hacking the Planet

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    Date : January 24, 2012

    By Justin Gillis,

    As scientists, with some reluctance, begin to study the idea of “geoengineering” the planet to slow or halt global warming, they are finding that any such program would quite likely have a complex array of effects, not all of them to humanity’s benefit.

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  • Global warming threatens China's advance

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    Date : January 19, 2012

    REUTERS

    Global warming threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the government's latest assessment of climate change, projecting big shifts in how the nation feeds itself.

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  • How Elks are Destroying Song Birds

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    Date : January 11, 2012

    David A Gabel, ENN

    The link between the two very different species may seem strange, but taken in the context of climate change, it makes perfect sense. Elks are highly prevalent in the American West and are known to be prolific eaters of local flora. One of climate change's most noticeable effects in this region is the decrease in amount of winter snowfall. This allows the elks to continue consuming plants and at higher elevations. As a result, deciduous trees and their associated song birds have been in continuous decline.

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