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In a 3-2 majority, the UK Supreme Court delivered a landmark ruling today, significantly impacting the consideration of climate impacts in the oil and gas licensing process. While the Government's approach so far has been to only consider exploration and production emissions, the Court's decision establishes that emissions resulting from burning the produced oil and gas (regardless of where it occurs) have to also be considered. The ruling is significant as it is the first highest court decision to adopt this interpretation on climate impacts of fossil fuel production. It will no doubt have a knock-on effect on at least three other cases pending before lower courts in the UK, and potentially affect cases both within and outside the European Union.

Ponencia presentada en: VIII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Climatología celebrado en Salamanca entre el 25 y el 28 de septiembre de 2012. ; [EN]Tourism is an important sector of the Spanish economy. The popularity of Mediterranean beaches does not decrease even during the European economic crisis. Rising temperature and extreme weather events may threat the popularity of summer tourism, both directly and indirectly. Unpleasant heat waves and severe persistent droughts can occur even without a systematic change of the climatic characteristics, but the growing frequency and severity of such events are expected due to the global warming process. ; [ES]El turismo es un importante sector de la economía española. La popularidad de las playas mediterráneas no decrece aún en los años de crisis económica europea. El aumento de la temperatura y fenómenos meteorológicos extremos pueden amenazar la popularidad del turismo de verano, tanto directa como indirectamente. Olas de calor y desagradables graves sequías persistentes pueden ocurrir aún sin cambio sistemático de las características climáticas, pero la creciente frecuencia y gravedad de tales eventos se espera debido al proceso de calentamiento global. ; The research was supported by the Spanish project "Tourism, Environment and Politics" ECO 2010-18158.

AbstractClimate change is very likely to lead to undesirable climate impacts. How to compensate for such negative impacts at the international level has, hitherto, received little attention. This article reviews the most frequently discussed grounds for legal obligations of states vis-à-vis climate impacts (damages) and concludes that no convincing mechanism has yet been found to compensate climate impacts. The authors outline an architecture for a voluntary, international compensation fund with specialized, independent climate courts. Subsequently, this article addresses three strategic considerations related to the fund, namely, the incentives for founding it, the merits of double proportionality with respect to contributions and payments, as well as the benefits of employing prediction markets to enhance trustworthiness.

This bibliography supplements the Long-term Research and Monitoring Plan (LRMP; see Special Publication No. 1) by listing literature associated with climate and ocean change impacts on Pacific salmon. The bibliography covers literatures published up to 2009 most of them with abstracts.

Póster presentado en: VIII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Climatología celebrado en Salamanca entre el 25 y el 28 de septiembre de 2012. ; The research was supported by the Spanish project "Tourism, Environment and Politics" ECO 2010-18158.

Local government managers are increasingly on the front lines of the unprecedented challenge of climate change. Preparing Your (Small) Community for Climate Impacts offers a quick reference for ways to adapt your community to the hazards of climate change and describes how small local governments are developing adaptation best practices.