Revised 21st century temperature projections *, Paul C. Knappenberger Patrick J. Michaels
... the climate sensitivity so that for a given input emission scenario (adjusted to account for the enhanced CO2 concentrations produced by the CO2 /climate feedback), the output temperature change for the year 2100 best matched the TAR values. In every case, we had to increase the climate sensitivity. ...
... the climate sensitivity so that for a given input emission scenario (adjusted to account for the enhanced CO2 concentrations produced by the CO2 /climate feedback), the output temperature change for the year 2100 best matched the TAR values. In every case, we had to increase the climate sensitivity. ...
Tropical Forest, Deforestation and Climate Change - Heinrich
... deforestation and degradation (REDD), responsible for 20% of the current global GHG emissions, was finally included into the climate change negotiations. Even Brazil, reluctant to the inclusion of REDD under UNFCCC, presented a proposal5,6 in COP 12 and than further elaborated in COP 13 “to provide ...
... deforestation and degradation (REDD), responsible for 20% of the current global GHG emissions, was finally included into the climate change negotiations. Even Brazil, reluctant to the inclusion of REDD under UNFCCC, presented a proposal5,6 in COP 12 and than further elaborated in COP 13 “to provide ...
Communicating climate change in mainstream
... This guide aims to help reporters draw on existing data and analysis and hone it to meet the specific needs of their investors, who are looking to appraise the significance of climate change for the business from a financial perspective. This advice does not represent a new requirement, and nor shou ...
... This guide aims to help reporters draw on existing data and analysis and hone it to meet the specific needs of their investors, who are looking to appraise the significance of climate change for the business from a financial perspective. This advice does not represent a new requirement, and nor shou ...
Living in an Uncertain World
... respect to the response of social and biological systems to multiple stressors – strongly argues for mitigation rather than adaptation (reinforcing and adding to other arguments, i.e. ethical ones). 2. To limit global warming to 2C – in fact, to keep global warming below 5C – we must cut emissions m ...
... respect to the response of social and biological systems to multiple stressors – strongly argues for mitigation rather than adaptation (reinforcing and adding to other arguments, i.e. ethical ones). 2. To limit global warming to 2C – in fact, to keep global warming below 5C – we must cut emissions m ...
Transitiong to a low-carbon energy system
... creation of sectoral level targets. Excess emissions in one sector would have to be offset by reduced emissions in other sectors. The carbon budgets could act as a series of benchmarks or stepping stones towards Ireland’s 2050 80% emissions’ reduction target. This would have the benefit of providing ...
... creation of sectoral level targets. Excess emissions in one sector would have to be offset by reduced emissions in other sectors. The carbon budgets could act as a series of benchmarks or stepping stones towards Ireland’s 2050 80% emissions’ reduction target. This would have the benefit of providing ...
european society for ecologial economics 2015: transformations
... management offers a strategy for climate change mitigation through restoration of the capacity of forest carbon sequestration. Latin American and Caribbean forests in particular have been subject to extensive deforestation in recent decades, being responsible of 54% of green ...
... management offers a strategy for climate change mitigation through restoration of the capacity of forest carbon sequestration. Latin American and Caribbean forests in particular have been subject to extensive deforestation in recent decades, being responsible of 54% of green ...
AgriculturAl reseArch in 21st century: chAllenges fAcing the food
... climate change caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth’s natural processes (The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/background/items/1349. php, 1994). In this sense, especi ...
... climate change caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth’s natural processes (The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/background/items/1349. php, 1994). In this sense, especi ...
Investor Award on Climate-Related Disclosures
... If the external investment is structured as a segregated mandate, we enforce adherence to our exclusion list. If the investment vehicle is a mutual fund, we are bound by the broader investment guidelines set for the fund. We will still point out the importance of avoiding investment in the names on ...
... If the external investment is structured as a segregated mandate, we enforce adherence to our exclusion list. If the investment vehicle is a mutual fund, we are bound by the broader investment guidelines set for the fund. We will still point out the importance of avoiding investment in the names on ...
Working Paper Series: The Global Energy Market: Comprehensive Strategies to Meet
... reduce GHG emissions. 3 The world’s most famous spokesman on the threat of global climate change currently is an American -- former Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Al Gore. 4 Yet the United States has never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, the centerpiece of international efforts to ...
... reduce GHG emissions. 3 The world’s most famous spokesman on the threat of global climate change currently is an American -- former Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Al Gore. 4 Yet the United States has never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, the centerpiece of international efforts to ...
Three Meanings of Climate Change
... This aspiration towards god-like status, acclaim and personal glory exemplifies the Greek idea of hubris. And I want to suggest that this confident belief in the human ability to control is the dominant mind-set of the civil intelligentsia of the West. The challenges of climate change are seen in es ...
... This aspiration towards god-like status, acclaim and personal glory exemplifies the Greek idea of hubris. And I want to suggest that this confident belief in the human ability to control is the dominant mind-set of the civil intelligentsia of the West. The challenges of climate change are seen in es ...
Decision-support tools for climate change mitigation planning
... such as estimating the costs of a life. Applications of cost-benefit analysis tend to assume that the value of a given amount of money is the same to both wealthy and poor individuals. As a result, where goods or services are available at below cost, this assumption introduces a bias against lowerin ...
... such as estimating the costs of a life. Applications of cost-benefit analysis tend to assume that the value of a given amount of money is the same to both wealthy and poor individuals. As a result, where goods or services are available at below cost, this assumption introduces a bias against lowerin ...
The Impact of Animal Agriculture on Global Warming and Climate
... pork production.26 In China, India, and Brazil, for example, producers are increasingly favoring intensive, industrial production systems26 over more welfare-friendly practices. “In recent years, industrial livestock production has grown at twice the rate of more traditional mixed farming systems an ...
... pork production.26 In China, India, and Brazil, for example, producers are increasingly favoring intensive, industrial production systems26 over more welfare-friendly practices. “In recent years, industrial livestock production has grown at twice the rate of more traditional mixed farming systems an ...
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... policies are the cornerstones for achieving food security and improving livelihoods. Effective agriculture and climate change policies can also boost green growth, protect the environment and contribute to the eradication of poverty. FAO works closely with many of the world’s most vulnerable populat ...
... policies are the cornerstones for achieving food security and improving livelihoods. Effective agriculture and climate change policies can also boost green growth, protect the environment and contribute to the eradication of poverty. FAO works closely with many of the world’s most vulnerable populat ...
Implementation of the Work Plan for the building a network of energy
... Develop an Internet based communication platform for online exchange, consultations and training Provide on-line training for local teams Prepare project deliverables for publication and issue promotional materials for the project ...
... Develop an Internet based communication platform for online exchange, consultations and training Provide on-line training for local teams Prepare project deliverables for publication and issue promotional materials for the project ...
Trends in public attitudes to climate change
... Involve’s work with deliberative dialogue on climate change dates back to 2009 when it took part in the most extensive global consultation ever held and the first of its kind: World Wide Views on Climate Change.i More than 4000 people in 38 countries took part in a simultaneous, day long deliberativ ...
... Involve’s work with deliberative dialogue on climate change dates back to 2009 when it took part in the most extensive global consultation ever held and the first of its kind: World Wide Views on Climate Change.i More than 4000 people in 38 countries took part in a simultaneous, day long deliberativ ...
Writing Sample Kimiko Nygaard – Technical Narrative (5 pages, Appendix)
... impacts are observed can correspondingly aid in the design of the site-specific response measures that are most commensurate with local resources, needs, and priorities. Site-specific observations of climate change can enhance identification of both the abrupt and discreet impacts resulting from wea ...
... impacts are observed can correspondingly aid in the design of the site-specific response measures that are most commensurate with local resources, needs, and priorities. Site-specific observations of climate change can enhance identification of both the abrupt and discreet impacts resulting from wea ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... line with arrowheads) of the climate sensitivity estimate used by the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon Climate (Roe and Baker, 2007) is indicated by the top black arrowed line. The average of the similar values from 20 different determinations reported in the recent scientific ...
... line with arrowheads) of the climate sensitivity estimate used by the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon Climate (Roe and Baker, 2007) is indicated by the top black arrowed line. The average of the similar values from 20 different determinations reported in the recent scientific ...
A modelling framework for assessing adaptive management options
... Soil-plant models within the framework are used to assess the impacts of climate variability and change, and effects of changes in management practices at field or cropping system level on production and soil-plant processes. In addition to yield estimates, also nutrient leaching and GHG emissions f ...
... Soil-plant models within the framework are used to assess the impacts of climate variability and change, and effects of changes in management practices at field or cropping system level on production and soil-plant processes. In addition to yield estimates, also nutrient leaching and GHG emissions f ...
GCOS Status and Plans
... - how to connect different ECVs, need to define a common integrator - accuracy requirements for time series of 10+ years need to be discussed - finding key data centres for ECVs like ice sheets, albedo, etc. - financing workshops to gather communities around cross-cutting ECVs - definition new terre ...
... - how to connect different ECVs, need to define a common integrator - accuracy requirements for time series of 10+ years need to be discussed - finding key data centres for ECVs like ice sheets, albedo, etc. - financing workshops to gather communities around cross-cutting ECVs - definition new terre ...
DrieD up, DrowneD out - TILZ
... That was seven years ago. We wanted to find out what had changed since then. Science tells us that climate change has become more extreme over those years. But there should have been signs that things were starting to change for the better in the world’s poor communities. There were no such signs. W ...
... That was seven years ago. We wanted to find out what had changed since then. Science tells us that climate change has become more extreme over those years. But there should have been signs that things were starting to change for the better in the world’s poor communities. There were no such signs. W ...
Detection and attribution
... Temporal development of Ti(m,L) = Ti(m) – Ti-L(m) divided by the standard deviation of the m-year mean reconstructed temp record for m=5 and L=20 (top), and for m=30 and L=100 years. The thresholds R = 2, 2.5 and 3σ are given as dashed lines; they are derived from temperature variations modelled as ...
... Temporal development of Ti(m,L) = Ti(m) – Ti-L(m) divided by the standard deviation of the m-year mean reconstructed temp record for m=5 and L=20 (top), and for m=30 and L=100 years. The thresholds R = 2, 2.5 and 3σ are given as dashed lines; they are derived from temperature variations modelled as ...
China, the United States and the European Union: Multiple
... since the adoption of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which featured climate mitigation targets for developed (Annex I) countries only.4 At present, the world can no longer be easily divided into rich, developed countries on the one hand, and ...
... since the adoption of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which featured climate mitigation targets for developed (Annex I) countries only.4 At present, the world can no longer be easily divided into rich, developed countries on the one hand, and ...
Economic Impacts Of Climate Change On Georgia
... with basic recommendations and concluding lessons learned from this series of statelevel studies. Not all environmentally induced impacts on infrastructures, economy, society and ecosystems reported here can be directly or unequivocally related to climate change. However, historical as well as model ...
... with basic recommendations and concluding lessons learned from this series of statelevel studies. Not all environmentally induced impacts on infrastructures, economy, society and ecosystems reported here can be directly or unequivocally related to climate change. However, historical as well as model ...
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... and user experiences have been fulfilling… ICPAC Has more 10 years of operational climate service provision to Eastern Africa as a whole. Most recent example of regional vulnerability to climate extremes is failure of rainfall in large areas of Equatorial Eastern Africa since 2010 through most of 20 ...
... and user experiences have been fulfilling… ICPAC Has more 10 years of operational climate service provision to Eastern Africa as a whole. Most recent example of regional vulnerability to climate extremes is failure of rainfall in large areas of Equatorial Eastern Africa since 2010 through most of 20 ...
federal actions for a clean growth economy
... In Alberta and across the West, we see bigger wildfires that last longer than ever before. We see droughts in the Prairies and floods in the Atlantic provinces. Along Prince Edward Island, we see coastal erosion that is quite literally shrinking the province. And, in the Arctic—where average tempera ...
... In Alberta and across the West, we see bigger wildfires that last longer than ever before. We see droughts in the Prairies and floods in the Atlantic provinces. Along Prince Edward Island, we see coastal erosion that is quite literally shrinking the province. And, in the Arctic—where average tempera ...
Economics of climate change mitigation
This article is about the economics of climate change mitigation. Mitigation of climate change involves actions that are designed to limit the amount of long-term climate change (Fisher et al.., 2007:225). Mitigation may be achieved through the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or through the enhancement of sinks that absorb GHGs, for example forests.