Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change
... Scientists, policy-makers, and the general public are increasingly aware that global patterns of environmental degradation are putting people at risk (Kasperson and Kasperson, 2001). These threats are global in both systemic (e.g., climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions) and cumulative terms ...
... Scientists, policy-makers, and the general public are increasingly aware that global patterns of environmental degradation are putting people at risk (Kasperson and Kasperson, 2001). These threats are global in both systemic (e.g., climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions) and cumulative terms ...
Climate change and labour: The need for a “just transition”
... for the international community to free up resources to help provide viable alternatives, notably through adaptation programs. Unfortunately, the evidence thus far on the adaptation programmes promoted under the aegis of the United Nations seems to suggest that workers’ concerns have been absent fro ...
... for the international community to free up resources to help provide viable alternatives, notably through adaptation programs. Unfortunately, the evidence thus far on the adaptation programmes promoted under the aegis of the United Nations seems to suggest that workers’ concerns have been absent fro ...
- Critical Information Collective
... Part I: The Basics What is the Green Climate Fund? The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is expected to be the world’s premier multilateral climate fund for financing adaptation and mitigation activities in developing countries. ...
... Part I: The Basics What is the Green Climate Fund? The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is expected to be the world’s premier multilateral climate fund for financing adaptation and mitigation activities in developing countries. ...
Facilitator Guide - Climate Finance and Markets
... The Clean Technology Fund claims that its concessional loans encourage other financing. In this case the CTF claims its loan of $15 million to EVM “leveraged” almost 10 times that amount ($140 million) from other financial institutions. However, that money had already been pledged. Clean Develop ...
... The Clean Technology Fund claims that its concessional loans encourage other financing. In this case the CTF claims its loan of $15 million to EVM “leveraged” almost 10 times that amount ($140 million) from other financial institutions. However, that money had already been pledged. Clean Develop ...
T M Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy Overview of Core Issues
... The UNDP's 1994 Human Development Report defines human security to include threats in seven areas: economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security. The UNDP definition of environmental security can also be inter ...
... The UNDP's 1994 Human Development Report defines human security to include threats in seven areas: economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security. The UNDP definition of environmental security can also be inter ...
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... plantations in these areas to supply the “developed” world, has caused a myriad of social and environmental conflicts. The traditional inhabitants who have historically relied on forests for subsistence have been displaced in order for these plantations to expand. Precisely due to this fact, it is ...
... plantations in these areas to supply the “developed” world, has caused a myriad of social and environmental conflicts. The traditional inhabitants who have historically relied on forests for subsistence have been displaced in order for these plantations to expand. Precisely due to this fact, it is ...
Project Document - Deliverable Description
... recycling of waste amongst others. 3. While local and regional governments implement national policies, they also have regulatory and planning functions. They are simultaneously policy-makers and financial/infrastructural investors in a number of sectors responsible for GHG emissions (basic services ...
... recycling of waste amongst others. 3. While local and regional governments implement national policies, they also have regulatory and planning functions. They are simultaneously policy-makers and financial/infrastructural investors in a number of sectors responsible for GHG emissions (basic services ...
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... the next ten years. National Outcome 12 states that “We value and enjoy our built and natural environment and protect it and enhance it for future generations”. Preparing for a a changing climate will contribute towards this national aim. In Scotland, the Climate Change (Scotland) Act, 2009 places d ...
... the next ten years. National Outcome 12 states that “We value and enjoy our built and natural environment and protect it and enhance it for future generations”. Preparing for a a changing climate will contribute towards this national aim. In Scotland, the Climate Change (Scotland) Act, 2009 places d ...
Prodoc on Territorial Approach to Climate Chnage in Delta State
... recycling of waste amongst others. 3. While local and regional governments implement national policies, they also have regulatory and planning functions. They are simultaneously policy-makers and financial/infrastructural investors in a number of sectors responsible for GHG emissions (basic services ...
... recycling of waste amongst others. 3. While local and regional governments implement national policies, they also have regulatory and planning functions. They are simultaneously policy-makers and financial/infrastructural investors in a number of sectors responsible for GHG emissions (basic services ...
FINAL DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Cross
... derive some benefits from the ecosystem services that coral reefs provide (Hoegh-Guldberg, 2011) including provisioning (food, livelihoods, construction material, medicine), regulating (shoreline protection, water quality), supporting (primary production, nutrient cycling) and cultural (religion, to ...
... derive some benefits from the ecosystem services that coral reefs provide (Hoegh-Guldberg, 2011) including provisioning (food, livelihoods, construction material, medicine), regulating (shoreline protection, water quality), supporting (primary production, nutrient cycling) and cultural (religion, to ...
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... and mitigation strategies. Undertaking actions to decrease the extent, speed and intensity of climate change, coupled with adaptation policies and measures, will help to limit the impact of climate change and to protect the health of both present and future generations. We hope this report can contr ...
... and mitigation strategies. Undertaking actions to decrease the extent, speed and intensity of climate change, coupled with adaptation policies and measures, will help to limit the impact of climate change and to protect the health of both present and future generations. We hope this report can contr ...
Quantifying Mineral Dust Mass Budgets:Terminology
... However, a survey of recent models (Table 1) shows that estimates of emission range over more than a factor of 2.This translates into a corresponding uncertainty in the climate effect of dust. One goal of this article is to draw awareness to the wide range of model estimates of dust emission and atm ...
... However, a survey of recent models (Table 1) shows that estimates of emission range over more than a factor of 2.This translates into a corresponding uncertainty in the climate effect of dust. One goal of this article is to draw awareness to the wide range of model estimates of dust emission and atm ...
National Park Service
... by radical shifts in seasonal stream flow and associated hydrology. General findings included the need for increased traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in planning; increased co-management, cooperation at local level, place-based education and valuebased planning; risk assessment and increased m ...
... by radical shifts in seasonal stream flow and associated hydrology. General findings included the need for increased traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in planning; increased co-management, cooperation at local level, place-based education and valuebased planning; risk assessment and increased m ...
Suburban Climate Change Efforts: Possibilities for Small and Nimble Cities Participating in State, Regional, National, and International Networks
... networks in which they make voluntary pledges to reduce emissions and through which they pressure national governments.7 However, the piecemeal nature of these urban efforts to address climate change constrains their overall impact. In the United States, for example, 1,054 mayors, representing a tot ...
... networks in which they make voluntary pledges to reduce emissions and through which they pressure national governments.7 However, the piecemeal nature of these urban efforts to address climate change constrains their overall impact. In the United States, for example, 1,054 mayors, representing a tot ...
Africa Talks Climate
... global climate change? What do African opinion leaders know and understand about climate change and what are their views on their country’s responses to climate change? African citizens are least responsible for climate change and will be among the most affected; yet, according to this research, the ...
... global climate change? What do African opinion leaders know and understand about climate change and what are their views on their country’s responses to climate change? African citizens are least responsible for climate change and will be among the most affected; yet, according to this research, the ...
Asia-Pacific Human Development Report
... can help deal with climate change, while ignoring them will affect human development negatively. Climate change is a threat on a planetary scale. People everywhere, especially the poor, are increasingly exposed to the consequences of global warming regardless of where the causes originate. The woven ...
... can help deal with climate change, while ignoring them will affect human development negatively. Climate change is a threat on a planetary scale. People everywhere, especially the poor, are increasingly exposed to the consequences of global warming regardless of where the causes originate. The woven ...
Approaches for generating climate change scenarios for use in
... research which supports a picture of a warming world with significant changes in regional climate systems. For instance, an increase in the area of the globe affected by drought under enhanced greenhouse gas conditions is likely, despite much variation between regions and across climate change scena ...
... research which supports a picture of a warming world with significant changes in regional climate systems. For instance, an increase in the area of the globe affected by drought under enhanced greenhouse gas conditions is likely, despite much variation between regions and across climate change scena ...
Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement
... goal is both ambitious and incisive, because the zero target must be reached by every country, every municipality, every company and every citizen if the world as a whole is to become climate-neutral. However, the 2 °C line can only be held if a large proportion of actors – especially the OECD count ...
... goal is both ambitious and incisive, because the zero target must be reached by every country, every municipality, every company and every citizen if the world as a whole is to become climate-neutral. However, the 2 °C line can only be held if a large proportion of actors – especially the OECD count ...
Climate Change Knows No Borders
... migration discourse, but it is likely to drive migration in far greater numbers in future. Clearer definitions are needed for climate migration and displacement, and these need to provide the basis for clear information and data collection on the contribution of climate change towards migration. The ...
... migration discourse, but it is likely to drive migration in far greater numbers in future. Clearer definitions are needed for climate migration and displacement, and these need to provide the basis for clear information and data collection on the contribution of climate change towards migration. The ...
FIFTH NATIONAL COMMUNICATION of the Austrian Federal
... Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, by several Länder and by environmental NGOs. Amendments to the draft report have been contributed by the members of the Interministerial Committee for the Co-ordina ...
... Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, by several Länder and by environmental NGOs. Amendments to the draft report have been contributed by the members of the Interministerial Committee for the Co-ordina ...
Expert meeting on assessing the risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change (opens in new window)
... risk assessment, ranging from qualitative and participatory methodologies to quantitative modelling approaches taking not solely into account a pure economic damage and loss assessment approach but rather a wide consideration of social, environmental and physical risk factors (e.g. International Fed ...
... risk assessment, ranging from qualitative and participatory methodologies to quantitative modelling approaches taking not solely into account a pure economic damage and loss assessment approach but rather a wide consideration of social, environmental and physical risk factors (e.g. International Fed ...
Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen: Antagonism, the
... of the ways in which climate change has become a post-political issue. We agree that a “carbon consensus” has emerged shaped by organisations such as the 10:10 campaign, “a movement of people, schools, businesses and organisations cutting their emissions 10% at a time” (10:10 campaign website). Such ...
... of the ways in which climate change has become a post-political issue. We agree that a “carbon consensus” has emerged shaped by organisations such as the 10:10 campaign, “a movement of people, schools, businesses and organisations cutting their emissions 10% at a time” (10:10 campaign website). Such ...
Future of carbon capture and storage in the UK
... cement, chemical and steel plants. Rather than being a single technology, CCS is a suite of technologies and processes.2 While some of these have been operated successfully for decades, progress in applying large-scale CCS to power generation in the UK and globally has been slow. 2. Although large-s ...
... cement, chemical and steel plants. Rather than being a single technology, CCS is a suite of technologies and processes.2 While some of these have been operated successfully for decades, progress in applying large-scale CCS to power generation in the UK and globally has been slow. 2. Although large-s ...
Intellectual Property Rights and International Technology
... “hard” access mediated through market transactions and “soft” access alternatives that include allowing novel approaches to R&D financing, making use of limitations to IPRs and supporting the exercise of national discretion in areas left unregulated by the TRIPS Agreement. In this paper, we view com ...
... “hard” access mediated through market transactions and “soft” access alternatives that include allowing novel approaches to R&D financing, making use of limitations to IPRs and supporting the exercise of national discretion in areas left unregulated by the TRIPS Agreement. In this paper, we view com ...
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.