by Deborah Phelan | Jun 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Food Security
A USDA research team investigating the ancient soil amendment biochar to address food security is suggesting that, with its potential to store one gigaton of carbon per year by 2050, biochar could be a “game changer” in addressing global warming. In field and lab...
by Deborah Phelan | May 2, 2016 | Climate Change, Food Security
THE PHOSPHORUS TAX As efforts to feed an estimated 2050 global population of 9.7 billion swing into overdrive, the global breadbasket tropics from Africa to the Amazon are the primary target for “agricultural intensification.” Industrializing food security places the...
by Deborah Phelan | Apr 26, 2016 | Climate Change, COP21
Despite years of research pointing to the inadequacies of limiting global warming to 2° C, the UNFCCC scored a long awaited PR victory on Earth Day 2016 as leaders from 171 countries convened at the UN to sign the Paris Climate Agreement. As scientists continue to...
by Deborah Phelan | Dec 14, 2015 | Climate Change, COP21, Ideas, Real Life Story, Take Action, Youth, Youth and Climate Change
Dayo Awosola is an accomplished technology entrepreneur from climate-vulnerable Lagos in Nigeria. He joined more than 6000 people in Paris for the 11th annual Conference of Youth (COY11) to help gather and present the youth voice just before the official COP21 climate...
by Deborah Phelan | Dec 11, 2015 | Climate Change, COP21, Ideas, mitigation, Uncategorized
Everyone knows that decades of international climate summits haven’t worked. Greenhouse gas emissions, concentrations and impacts all rise as if no discussion or agreement had ever been attempted. Yet climate conference agendas never include the question...