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Climate Change

December 9, 2015

An international research team reports that the rapid increase in global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has slowed in the past two years, underlining the need for action to permanently lower emissions.

Eiffel Tower illustration
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

The real business of decarbonization begins after an agreement is signed at the Paris climate conference, argue David G. Victor and Stanford Earth's James Leape.

As they work toward halting global warming, international delegates at the Paris climate talks will depend on a knowledge base that Stanford scholars helped build over the past two decades.

November 30, 2015

Stanford Earth researcher Aaron Strong joins New York Times reporter Andy Revkin to discuss the history of UN climate summit and what is different at this year's event.

November 30, 2015

Stanford experts on climate change-related issues ranging from energy and ecosystems to law and economics share their persectives on the upcoming COP21 talks in Paris.

November 30, 2015

A new study coauthored by Prof. Noah Diffenbaugh and graduate students Justin Mankin and Deepti Singh finds that as greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures continue to rise, mountain snowmelt will decrease.

November 13, 2015
Stanford scientists have tested a way to measure crop yield from space using satellites that can directly measure plant photosynthesis.
November 10, 2015

Crossing the financial “Valley of Death” to clean energy

Stanford’s Dan Reicher and Alicia Seiger identify key strategies to catalyze investment in clean energy resources.

October 29, 2015
Dollar signs

The high cost of climate change

New research finds that without climate change mitigation, even wealthy countries will see an economic downturn by 2100.

October 21, 2015

Climate change requires new conservation models

In a world transformed by climate change and human activity, conserving biodiversity and protecting species will require an interdisciplinary combination of ecological and social research methods.

October 15, 2015
Chris Field

Chris Field: A Man for All Climates

Field sees the big picture and distills complex detail into a cohesive whole. It’s no wonder the U.S. tapped him for leadership of the U.N.'s top climate change organization.

September 28, 2015