The Sixth National Communication of the Republic of Belarus
... environment stabilizing lands (forests, natural meadow, tree and shrubbery vegetation, wetlands and lands with water bodies) accounts for over 50% of the total area of lands. The level of woodland and ...
... environment stabilizing lands (forests, natural meadow, tree and shrubbery vegetation, wetlands and lands with water bodies) accounts for over 50% of the total area of lands. The level of woodland and ...
Climate change in Strategic Environmental Assessment
... leading to a general consensus that climate change is actually happening today. Climate change, in its broadest sense, is thereby also beginning to play an increasingly important role in spatial planning globally. The issue is now landing in the area of interplay between spatial planning and environ ...
... leading to a general consensus that climate change is actually happening today. Climate change, in its broadest sense, is thereby also beginning to play an increasingly important role in spatial planning globally. The issue is now landing in the area of interplay between spatial planning and environ ...
Societal Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change and Monsoon
... thus inevitable21,22. Indeed, there is a small but certain probability that climate change will impose catastrophic impacts on future society unless adequate steps are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions23. Adaptation strategies are inevitable as climate extremes are expected to be more profoun ...
... thus inevitable21,22. Indeed, there is a small but certain probability that climate change will impose catastrophic impacts on future society unless adequate steps are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions23. Adaptation strategies are inevitable as climate extremes are expected to be more profoun ...
pLAnnIng fOR cLIMATE chAngE
... and creative thinking from planners and others. To help those facing the challenge of developing and implementing their climate change adaptation initiatives, this guide is organized around four key planning themes: ✗✗ Strategic: All planning – physical, spatial, land use, environmental, economic – ...
... and creative thinking from planners and others. To help those facing the challenge of developing and implementing their climate change adaptation initiatives, this guide is organized around four key planning themes: ✗✗ Strategic: All planning – physical, spatial, land use, environmental, economic – ...
1-Thesis Synthesis
... ways and means of overcoming it; 3/ The individual or society must possess the means to deal with the undesirable state, and; 4/ The motivation to take appropriate action by those who make the relevant decisions. I agree with this general framework, and while I accept that knowledge of the various c ...
... ways and means of overcoming it; 3/ The individual or society must possess the means to deal with the undesirable state, and; 4/ The motivation to take appropriate action by those who make the relevant decisions. I agree with this general framework, and while I accept that knowledge of the various c ...
Human Adaptation to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Its
... ways and means of overcoming it; 3/ The individual or society must possess the means to deal with the undesirable state, and; 4/ The motivation to take appropriate action by those who make the relevant decisions. I agree with this general framework, and while I accept that knowledge of the various c ...
... ways and means of overcoming it; 3/ The individual or society must possess the means to deal with the undesirable state, and; 4/ The motivation to take appropriate action by those who make the relevant decisions. I agree with this general framework, and while I accept that knowledge of the various c ...
Chapter 13 - Clean Air Act
... IV. Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Mobile Sources A. The Endangerment Finding and the Tailpipe Rule B. California’s Waiver under the Clean Air Act for Vehicle Emissions Standards V. Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Stationary Sources A. Regulation of Greenhouse Gases under th ...
... IV. Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Mobile Sources A. The Endangerment Finding and the Tailpipe Rule B. California’s Waiver under the Clean Air Act for Vehicle Emissions Standards V. Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Stationary Sources A. Regulation of Greenhouse Gases under th ...
Southeast Asia and the Economics of Global Climate Stabilization
... 1.2 Purpose, Structure, and Audience for this Report 1.3 Climate Change Should Matter to Southeast Asia 1.3.1 Global warming scenarios suggest a substantially hotter planet 1.3.2 Southeast Asia will be strongly affected by continued climate change 1.3.3 Climate inaction poses economy-wide risks ...
... 1.2 Purpose, Structure, and Audience for this Report 1.3 Climate Change Should Matter to Southeast Asia 1.3.1 Global warming scenarios suggest a substantially hotter planet 1.3.2 Southeast Asia will be strongly affected by continued climate change 1.3.3 Climate inaction poses economy-wide risks ...
Global Catastrophic Risks - The Global Priorities Project
... catastrophic risk. Over the last decades, behavioural psychology has taught us that, as a species, we are bad at assessing scope. Issues that affect ten people do not intuitively seem ten times more important than those that affect one person. Global catastrophic risks are one area where our scope i ...
... catastrophic risk. Over the last decades, behavioural psychology has taught us that, as a species, we are bad at assessing scope. Issues that affect ten people do not intuitively seem ten times more important than those that affect one person. Global catastrophic risks are one area where our scope i ...
Global learning on carbon capture and storage: A call for... cooperation on CCS demonstration
... worldwide. Still in an early stage of development, it is unclear how this new entity will achieve its goals of supporting CCS demonstration projects. It is not yet clear whether its policies, approaches and supporting mechanisms will be able to maximize global learning through coordinated CCS demons ...
... worldwide. Still in an early stage of development, it is unclear how this new entity will achieve its goals of supporting CCS demonstration projects. It is not yet clear whether its policies, approaches and supporting mechanisms will be able to maximize global learning through coordinated CCS demons ...
An Analysis of Adaptation as a Response to Climate Change
... released the “Green Paper on Adaptation” (see EU, 2007) and many EU countries have prepared and started to implement national adaptation plans. The Bali action plan (2008) has identified the need for enhanced adaptation action by Parties of the Convention, and adaptation is among the five key buildi ...
... released the “Green Paper on Adaptation” (see EU, 2007) and many EU countries have prepared and started to implement national adaptation plans. The Bali action plan (2008) has identified the need for enhanced adaptation action by Parties of the Convention, and adaptation is among the five key buildi ...
UNEP Regional Office for Africa
... Report confirms the world is on course for levels of warming that will be catastrophic for Africa. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emission Gap Report confirms that the current mitigation pledges – unless strengthened – will set the world on course for global warming of between 2.5 t ...
... Report confirms the world is on course for levels of warming that will be catastrophic for Africa. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emission Gap Report confirms that the current mitigation pledges – unless strengthened – will set the world on course for global warming of between 2.5 t ...
Climate Change: An Australian Guide to the Science and Potential
... these various forcings, noting particularly that while aerosol radiative effects are largely confined to the Northern Hemisphere, effects may propagate into the Southern Hemisphere via atmospheric dynamics. They also find that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and stratospheric ozone depletio ...
... these various forcings, noting particularly that while aerosol radiative effects are largely confined to the Northern Hemisphere, effects may propagate into the Southern Hemisphere via atmospheric dynamics. They also find that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and stratospheric ozone depletio ...
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... responsibilities of urban areas for the reduction and mitigation of global environmental impacts. Since the beginning of the nineties, after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, an increasing number of networks and initiatives among cities and local administrations have been established with the objective ...
... responsibilities of urban areas for the reduction and mitigation of global environmental impacts. Since the beginning of the nineties, after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, an increasing number of networks and initiatives among cities and local administrations have been established with the objective ...
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. (2010) Adapting Institutions to Climate Change, Twenty-eighth report
... extreme weather events becoming more frequent. Sea levels will rise, some familiar species will disappear and new alien species will arrive – for better or worse. These changes will only emerge erratically over the coming years and decades, but they require action now if society is to be prepared. T ...
... extreme weather events becoming more frequent. Sea levels will rise, some familiar species will disappear and new alien species will arrive – for better or worse. These changes will only emerge erratically over the coming years and decades, but they require action now if society is to be prepared. T ...
Conceptualizing urban adaptation to climate change. Findings from
... responsibilities of urban areas for the reduction and mitigation of global environmental impacts. Since the beginning of the nineties, after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, an increasing number of networks and initiatives among cities and local administrations have been established with the objective ...
... responsibilities of urban areas for the reduction and mitigation of global environmental impacts. Since the beginning of the nineties, after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, an increasing number of networks and initiatives among cities and local administrations have been established with the objective ...
Economic Analysis of Climate-Proofing Investment Projects
... climate-proofing measures, nor does it require a new type of economic analysis. While better and more accurate information may be desirable (ignoring the cost of producing such information), the economic analysis of investment projects and of their climate proofing does not demand accuracy and preci ...
... climate-proofing measures, nor does it require a new type of economic analysis. While better and more accurate information may be desirable (ignoring the cost of producing such information), the economic analysis of investment projects and of their climate proofing does not demand accuracy and preci ...
Vulnerability Does Not Fall From the Sky
... The overwhelming evidence now suggests that climate change exacerbates existing development challenges, further exposing the vulnerability of the poor, and pushing those living on the margins closer to the edge. For those people most at risk, climate change is a crisis today. The rights, interests, ...
... The overwhelming evidence now suggests that climate change exacerbates existing development challenges, further exposing the vulnerability of the poor, and pushing those living on the margins closer to the edge. For those people most at risk, climate change is a crisis today. The rights, interests, ...
US Senate Minority Report
... statements. Essentially, only two dozen or so members on the governing boards of these institutions produced the "consensus" statements. This report gives a voice to the rank-and7 ...
... statements. Essentially, only two dozen or so members on the governing boards of these institutions produced the "consensus" statements. This report gives a voice to the rank-and7 ...
Final Consultants Report
... last two decades has led to substantial growth in emissions to the atmosphere. Energy demand in the Asia Pacific region grew 9.7% per year between 2000 and 2007 and greenhouse gas emissions rose by nearly 8% per year over the same period (Lohani, 2009). Subsequently, Asia’s share of global energy-re ...
... last two decades has led to substantial growth in emissions to the atmosphere. Energy demand in the Asia Pacific region grew 9.7% per year between 2000 and 2007 and greenhouse gas emissions rose by nearly 8% per year over the same period (Lohani, 2009). Subsequently, Asia’s share of global energy-re ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty (currently the only international climate policy venue with broad legitimacy, due in part to its virtually universal membership) negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. The objective of the treaty is to ""stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system"".The treaty itself set no binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual countries and contains no enforcement mechanisms. In that sense, the treaty is considered legally non-binding. Instead, the treaty provides a framework for negotiating specific international treaties (called ""protocols"") that may set binding limits on greenhouse gases.The UNFCCC was adopted on 9 May 1992, and opened for signature on 4 June 1992, after an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee produced the text of the Framework Convention as a report following its meeting in New York from 30 April to 9 May 1992. It entered into force on 21 March 1994. As of March 2014, UNFCCC has 196 parties.The parties to the convention have met annually from 1995 in Conferences of the Parties (COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change. In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol was concluded and established legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The 2010 Cancún agreements state that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level. The 20th COP took place in Peru in 2014.One of the first tasks set by the UNFCCC was for signatory nations to establish national greenhouse gas inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, which were used to create the 1990 benchmark levels for accession of Annex I countries to the Kyoto Protocol and for the commitment of those countries to GHG reductions. Updated inventories must be regularly submitted by Annex I countries.The UNFCCC is also the name of the United Nations Secretariat charged with supporting the operation of the Convention, with offices in Haus Carstanjen, and UN Campus [known as: Langer Eugen] Bonn, Germany. From 2006 to 2010 the head of the secretariat was Yvo de Boer. On 17 May 2010, Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica succeeded de Boer. The Secretariat, augmented through the parallel efforts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aims to gain consensus through meetings and the discussion of various strategies.