New book of the Club of Rome on 'Plundering the Planet'

On June 6th the Club of Rome launched a new report on our misuse of natural resources: Plundering the Planet. How to manage the Earth's limited mineral resources.
Up to now it is only available in German, but more information (in English) can be found here:
- executive summary
- some findings in detail
- background information

Climate change: background, myths and denial strategy

Interested to understand the mechanisms behind climate change, to discover the strategy of climate change denialers and to be able to counter their arguments?
The department of prof. van Ypersele (UCLouvain), vice-chair of IPCC, developed a website with lots of interesting information on this subject: www.climate.be/desintox . 
The main page is in French, but it also contains presentations and links to English sources of information.

Klimaatverandering

Klimaatverandering is een interessante blog met allerlei berichten over de klimaatverandering geschreven door Bart Verheggen, een Nederlandse atmosferische wetenschapper. Een goed startpunt in duidelijk verstaanbare taal voor wie nog vragen heeft over wat we wel en nog niet weten over de klimaatverandering. 

Rotterdam Climate Initiative

The Rotterdam Climate Initiative is a collaboration between the city of Rotterdam, the port of Rotterdam and other partners with the ambitious goal to achieve a 50% CO2 reduction in the region of Rotterdam and to make Rotterdam climate proof by 2025.
Many interesting projects that support this climate program are described on the website (partly in English).
A nice project by TU Delft is the Rotterdam Energy Approach (REAP) to make the building stock energy neutral. More information on this project (report in Dutch) can be found here.

Climate Action Tracker

Source: Climate Action Tracker

If you are interested to know which impact our current efforts concerning GHG emission reduction will have on the global temperature rise, have a look at the Climate Action Tracker, developed by Ecofys.
You also find detailed information there on individual countries and how well they are on track.