Environmental governance and climate change in Africa
... instability and armed conflicts; displacement of people as a result of humaninduced and natural disasters; the prevalence and increase of diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS; wide-spread human rights abuses; developing economies attempting to claim their rightful place in the world economic order; and l ...
... instability and armed conflicts; displacement of people as a result of humaninduced and natural disasters; the prevalence and increase of diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS; wide-spread human rights abuses; developing economies attempting to claim their rightful place in the world economic order; and l ...
Adaptation of Fisheries and Fishing Communities to the
... climate on the harvesting sector. There are some empirical data that can be used for those assessments, but they will depend to a large extent on expert opinion. Throughout the discussion of possible impacts, it will become apparent that a full quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change ...
... climate on the harvesting sector. There are some empirical data that can be used for those assessments, but they will depend to a large extent on expert opinion. Throughout the discussion of possible impacts, it will become apparent that a full quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change ...
R Cook Master Thesis 2010
... The principles of equity and CBDR are equally relevant for the adaptation to climate change. Adaptation raises important equity questions in relation to determining responsibility and the capability of countries to respond. However, as adaptation has only recently gained prominence, the global clima ...
... The principles of equity and CBDR are equally relevant for the adaptation to climate change. Adaptation raises important equity questions in relation to determining responsibility and the capability of countries to respond. However, as adaptation has only recently gained prominence, the global clima ...
Adaptation of Fisheries and Fishing Communities to the Impacts of
... climate on the harvesting sector. There are some empirical data that can be used for those assessments, but they will depend to a large extent on expert opinion. Throughout the discussion of possible impacts, it will become apparent that a full quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change ...
... climate on the harvesting sector. There are some empirical data that can be used for those assessments, but they will depend to a large extent on expert opinion. Throughout the discussion of possible impacts, it will become apparent that a full quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change ...
carbon plantations kit - Private Forests Tasmania
... The changing climate is expected to impact on agriculture in many ways, with warmer temperatures and changing rainfall patterns impacting on water availability. Tasmania is likely to experience moderate rises in temperatures with evaporation predicted to increase in all areas except the west coast a ...
... The changing climate is expected to impact on agriculture in many ways, with warmer temperatures and changing rainfall patterns impacting on water availability. Tasmania is likely to experience moderate rises in temperatures with evaporation predicted to increase in all areas except the west coast a ...
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... geographically diverse and increasingly being felt and recorded across a range of regions, communities and ecosystems. Climate change is the persistent change in the mean and variability of climate parameters due to unimpeded growth of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) observed and recor ...
... geographically diverse and increasingly being felt and recorded across a range of regions, communities and ecosystems. Climate change is the persistent change in the mean and variability of climate parameters due to unimpeded growth of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) observed and recor ...
Framework for Implementation of Climate
... climate and how to play a role in its mitigation. This Framework for Implementation of NCCP is developed keeping in view the current and future anticipated climate change threats to Pakistan’s various sectors. In view of Pakistan’s high vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, in part ...
... climate and how to play a role in its mitigation. This Framework for Implementation of NCCP is developed keeping in view the current and future anticipated climate change threats to Pakistan’s various sectors. In view of Pakistan’s high vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, in part ...
A Technological Solution for Climate Change? Storage
... transforms our lives, and its potential to offer solutions has been questioned, introducing the idea of the ‘technological fix’ in opposition to true technological solutions (Fischer and Black, 1995; Rosner, 2004). Developing over the latter part of the 20th Century, the concept has negative connota ...
... transforms our lives, and its potential to offer solutions has been questioned, introducing the idea of the ‘technological fix’ in opposition to true technological solutions (Fischer and Black, 1995; Rosner, 2004). Developing over the latter part of the 20th Century, the concept has negative connota ...
Corporate Air Quality and Climate Change Strategic Plan
... Air Quality has significant direct and indirect impacts on community health, the environment and the economy of Hamilton. These impacts may be experienced in the area near the pollutant source(s) or at great distances through the influence of wind and weather patterns. A 2005 report from the Ontario ...
... Air Quality has significant direct and indirect impacts on community health, the environment and the economy of Hamilton. These impacts may be experienced in the area near the pollutant source(s) or at great distances through the influence of wind and weather patterns. A 2005 report from the Ontario ...
carbOn in the bank: OntariO`s Greenbelt and its rOle in MitiGatinG
... almost double the size of the City of Toronto. Approximately 92 per cent of the land in the path of development is classified as prime agricultural land.2 As is often the case with rapid growth, development in the GGH brings both benefits and challenges. Many of its residents have been lured to the ...
... almost double the size of the City of Toronto. Approximately 92 per cent of the land in the path of development is classified as prime agricultural land.2 As is often the case with rapid growth, development in the GGH brings both benefits and challenges. Many of its residents have been lured to the ...
Climate Change and Wetlands: Impacts and Mitigation
... and regional climate and some other pressures (e.g., land use and land cover change). The paper also examines adaptive management options and reviews the extent to which the tools and guidelines contained in the Ramsar ‘toolkit’ of Wise Use Handbooks provides adequate guidance in support of manageme ...
... and regional climate and some other pressures (e.g., land use and land cover change). The paper also examines adaptive management options and reviews the extent to which the tools and guidelines contained in the Ramsar ‘toolkit’ of Wise Use Handbooks provides adequate guidance in support of manageme ...
South Asia Disaster Report 2010 UNISDR
... Decision makers in the region need to be much more committed and determined to bring about required development changes that allows management of ever intensifying disaster risk through reducing poverty in a sustainable manner. South Asia is still quite dependent on external assistance and therefore ...
... Decision makers in the region need to be much more committed and determined to bring about required development changes that allows management of ever intensifying disaster risk through reducing poverty in a sustainable manner. South Asia is still quite dependent on external assistance and therefore ...
Democracy as it Should Be
... I want to encourage our members of Congress --especially Rep. Scott Tipton --to consider legislation that would address the problem more comprehensively by putting a price on carbon. Virtually all economists, on the right as well as on the left, agree that that’s the most efficient and painless way ...
... I want to encourage our members of Congress --especially Rep. Scott Tipton --to consider legislation that would address the problem more comprehensively by putting a price on carbon. Virtually all economists, on the right as well as on the left, agree that that’s the most efficient and painless way ...
Taxes, targets, and the social cost of carbon
... Must a poor country reduce its emissions as much as a rich one? Must a country (rich or poor) with very low per capita emissions reduce future emissions as much as a country with high per capital emissions? What should be the overall target for emission reductions, given uncertainty over timing and ...
... Must a poor country reduce its emissions as much as a rich one? Must a country (rich or poor) with very low per capita emissions reduce future emissions as much as a country with high per capital emissions? What should be the overall target for emission reductions, given uncertainty over timing and ...
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Conservation
... "best idea" is as good a time as any to think seriously about what the parks will look like at their next centennial and what we can do now to assure they have one.” Comment: This essay adds perspective to existing management practices by the National Park Service and comments on the need the need t ...
... "best idea" is as good a time as any to think seriously about what the parks will look like at their next centennial and what we can do now to assure they have one.” Comment: This essay adds perspective to existing management practices by the National Park Service and comments on the need the need t ...
Jordan`s Third National
... It is a very suitable timing to launch Jordan’s Third National Communication report on Climate Change which will be submitted to the UNFCCC and then to the international community of Climate Change stakeholders. As the UNFCCC negotiations are approaching the crunch time of developing an ambitious, f ...
... It is a very suitable timing to launch Jordan’s Third National Communication report on Climate Change which will be submitted to the UNFCCC and then to the international community of Climate Change stakeholders. As the UNFCCC negotiations are approaching the crunch time of developing an ambitious, f ...
a prediction market for climate outcomes
... leading to rational policy discussion. Climate scientists, not generally accustomed to the glare of public policy debate, have found themselves the targets of accusations, investigations, and sometimes death threats. 3 In this science policy discussion of supreme importance, it is painfully obvious ...
... leading to rational policy discussion. Climate scientists, not generally accustomed to the glare of public policy debate, have found themselves the targets of accusations, investigations, and sometimes death threats. 3 In this science policy discussion of supreme importance, it is painfully obvious ...
climate change - Centre for Science and Policy
... a given year starts to become significant for a global temperature rise of around 5°C, and could exceed 50% for a global temperature rise of around 7°C, in hot areas such as northern India, southeastern China, and southeastern USA. • Crops have limited tolerance for high temperatures. When critical ...
... a given year starts to become significant for a global temperature rise of around 5°C, and could exceed 50% for a global temperature rise of around 7°C, in hot areas such as northern India, southeastern China, and southeastern USA. • Crops have limited tolerance for high temperatures. When critical ...
climate change - Centre for Science and Policy
... a given year starts to become significant for a global temperature rise of around 5°C, and could exceed 50% for a global temperature rise of around 7°C, in hot areas such as northern India, southeastern China, and southeastern USA. • Crops have limited tolerance for high temperatures. When critical ...
... a given year starts to become significant for a global temperature rise of around 5°C, and could exceed 50% for a global temperature rise of around 7°C, in hot areas such as northern India, southeastern China, and southeastern USA. • Crops have limited tolerance for high temperatures. When critical ...
Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate
... uncertainties in these estimates rather than to develop new cost estimates, which is a much larger task than can be accomplished here. The main reasons for under-estimation are that: (i) some sectors have not been included in an assessment of cost (e.g. ecosystems, energy, manufacturing, retailing, ...
... uncertainties in these estimates rather than to develop new cost estimates, which is a much larger task than can be accomplished here. The main reasons for under-estimation are that: (i) some sectors have not been included in an assessment of cost (e.g. ecosystems, energy, manufacturing, retailing, ...
Evaluating land-use related environmental impacts of biomass
... communicate to decision-makers the limited certainty on whether land-use intensive activities can help in meeting the strict mitigation targets we are globally facing. ...
... communicate to decision-makers the limited certainty on whether land-use intensive activities can help in meeting the strict mitigation targets we are globally facing. ...
Spending adaptation money wisely: Working Paper 37 (opens in new window)
... found that the GDP effect of a given climate disaster is twice as high in low-income countries as in middle-income, which in turn suffer twice as much as high-income countries. The link between climate and economic development was further unpacked by Noy (2009), who related the adverse effects of c ...
... found that the GDP effect of a given climate disaster is twice as high in low-income countries as in middle-income, which in turn suffer twice as much as high-income countries. The link between climate and economic development was further unpacked by Noy (2009), who related the adverse effects of c ...
Great Lakes National Parks in Peril
... and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP)’s Working Group on Coupled Modeling for their roles in making available the WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset, provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Santa Clara Un ...
... and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP)’s Working Group on Coupled Modeling for their roles in making available the WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset, provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Santa Clara Un ...
investment and financial flows to address climate change
... For transportation, additional investment and financial flows amount to about USD 88 billion. Efficiency improvements for vehicles and increased use of biofuels are likely to require government policies, but the investment would come mostly from the private sector; For waste, additional investment a ...
... For transportation, additional investment and financial flows amount to about USD 88 billion. Efficiency improvements for vehicles and increased use of biofuels are likely to require government policies, but the investment would come mostly from the private sector; For waste, additional investment a ...
Tipping elements and climate-economic shocks: Pathways toward
... Muddled terminology has thus characterized the past two and a half decades of research on ‘catastrophic’, ‘singular’, ‘abrupt’, or ‘tipping’ impacts of climate change. We distinguish between tipping elements, tipping points, and climate-economic shocks. We apply the Lentonian definition of tipping e ...
... Muddled terminology has thus characterized the past two and a half decades of research on ‘catastrophic’, ‘singular’, ‘abrupt’, or ‘tipping’ impacts of climate change. We distinguish between tipping elements, tipping points, and climate-economic shocks. We apply the Lentonian definition of tipping e ...
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.