The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Risk from Natural Hazards to
... on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that weather variability will increase and that overall extreme event impacts are ‘very likely’ to change (Solomon et al. 2007). There is even mounting evidence of a current “climate signal” with the IPCC reporting observations of widespread changes in temperat ...
... on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that weather variability will increase and that overall extreme event impacts are ‘very likely’ to change (Solomon et al. 2007). There is even mounting evidence of a current “climate signal” with the IPCC reporting observations of widespread changes in temperat ...
An overview of climate change impacts on European viticulture
... southern/northern Europe (Christensen et al. 2007) are also expected under higher anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing in the future. These changes were shown to occur not only in the normal values but also in the rate of occurrence of extremes (Hanson et al. 2007). In fact, changes in the fre ...
... southern/northern Europe (Christensen et al. 2007) are also expected under higher anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing in the future. These changes were shown to occur not only in the normal values but also in the rate of occurrence of extremes (Hanson et al. 2007). In fact, changes in the fre ...
Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation
... decisions about responses, and means of implementation are all mediated by culture. Cultures are dynamic and reflexive and so are in turn shaped by the idea of climate change. Hence culture, and its analysis, is central to understanding the causes and meaning of, and human responses to climate chang ...
... decisions about responses, and means of implementation are all mediated by culture. Cultures are dynamic and reflexive and so are in turn shaped by the idea of climate change. Hence culture, and its analysis, is central to understanding the causes and meaning of, and human responses to climate chang ...
Superannuation Trustees and Climate Change Report
... The potential investment gains from low carbon and energy efficient technologies will depend upon the rate of progress of the individual technology and investment flows into that technology. As the technologies mature, their success and the subsequent investment gains should improve. Large investmen ...
... The potential investment gains from low carbon and energy efficient technologies will depend upon the rate of progress of the individual technology and investment flows into that technology. As the technologies mature, their success and the subsequent investment gains should improve. Large investmen ...
Building Place-Based Climate Change Education
... Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge (WA) Mount Rainier National Park (WA) Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge (WA) North Cascades National Park (WA) Olympic National Park (WA) ...
... Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge (WA) Mount Rainier National Park (WA) Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge (WA) North Cascades National Park (WA) Olympic National Park (WA) ...
analysis - Climate Change Commission Wales
... Good long-term data on trends and analysis that is sophisticated enough for sector and locations Changing the current financial models which focus primarily on a narrow definition of cost ...
... Good long-term data on trends and analysis that is sophisticated enough for sector and locations Changing the current financial models which focus primarily on a narrow definition of cost ...
Embracing the Climate Challenge: Tasmania`s draft climate change
... The plan provides a framework for the Government’s ongoing response to climate change over a five-year period through to 2021. It builds on our achievements and positions Tasmania to continue to capitalise on our comparative advantages in responding to this issue. It also sets policy directions and ...
... The plan provides a framework for the Government’s ongoing response to climate change over a five-year period through to 2021. It builds on our achievements and positions Tasmania to continue to capitalise on our comparative advantages in responding to this issue. It also sets policy directions and ...
A PRIMER ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN THE
... Resilience refers to the capacity of a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing ...
... Resilience refers to the capacity of a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the social system is capable of organizing ...
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... use less energy or use energy more efficiently; and (3) prefer products or services that are lowerpriced by virtue of incorporating less emission tax. Each of these activities would reduce GHG emissions compared to a business-as-usual track. These expected behavioral changes mirror the activities th ...
... use less energy or use energy more efficiently; and (3) prefer products or services that are lowerpriced by virtue of incorporating less emission tax. Each of these activities would reduce GHG emissions compared to a business-as-usual track. These expected behavioral changes mirror the activities th ...
Carbon pricing: how best to use the revenue?
... economy in a market-friendly way (Bowen, 2011). It can also raise considerable amounts of revenue for governments, which in turn raises a crucial question: how should these new revenues be spent? This question matters because the potential level of revenue from pricing carbon, whether by taxation or ...
... economy in a market-friendly way (Bowen, 2011). It can also raise considerable amounts of revenue for governments, which in turn raises a crucial question: how should these new revenues be spent? This question matters because the potential level of revenue from pricing carbon, whether by taxation or ...
Final Report of the Select Committee on Climate Change
... consultations, informed by a climate change discussion guide, Building a Stronger New Brunswick Response to Climate Change, and reporting to the House with recommendations. The Committee was fortunate to hear from a wide diversity of New Brunswickers who shared their opinions about how New Brunswick ...
... consultations, informed by a climate change discussion guide, Building a Stronger New Brunswick Response to Climate Change, and reporting to the House with recommendations. The Committee was fortunate to hear from a wide diversity of New Brunswickers who shared their opinions about how New Brunswick ...
Climate Change Science for Mesoamerican Decision Makers
... The Mesoamerican region is already suffering the effects of climate change. Furthermore, the region’s limited capacity to adapt, largely a product of its socio-economic context, makes it highly vulnerable. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to help support these countries as they attempt to under ...
... The Mesoamerican region is already suffering the effects of climate change. Furthermore, the region’s limited capacity to adapt, largely a product of its socio-economic context, makes it highly vulnerable. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to help support these countries as they attempt to under ...
Report
... occurring with increasing intensity. Though they may not garner the same media attention as mega-storms, the 2012 drought in the West African Sahel affected 15 million people4 and grain prices increased globally as a result of an American Midwest drought that occurred in the same year. These events ...
... occurring with increasing intensity. Though they may not garner the same media attention as mega-storms, the 2012 drought in the West African Sahel affected 15 million people4 and grain prices increased globally as a result of an American Midwest drought that occurred in the same year. These events ...
individual perceptions of climate risks
... Mexico, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Turkey are the countries that are the most convinced of this phenomenon (over 95% in all these countries), while residents of Although climate change has raised some controversy the United States are relatively less convinced (72% in recent years, especially from glo ...
... Mexico, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Turkey are the countries that are the most convinced of this phenomenon (over 95% in all these countries), while residents of Although climate change has raised some controversy the United States are relatively less convinced (72% in recent years, especially from glo ...
Provide an initial estimate of the uncertainty in UK predicted climate
... RCM(s) have been forced by a larger and more representative sample of GCMs. Unfortunately such experiments have not yet been carried out, and so an alternative approach is adopted here of utilising data directly from GCMs. These data have been obtained from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Ch ...
... RCM(s) have been forced by a larger and more representative sample of GCMs. Unfortunately such experiments have not yet been carried out, and so an alternative approach is adopted here of utilising data directly from GCMs. These data have been obtained from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Ch ...
Adapting to drought in the Sahel: Lessons for
... framed by the conventional paradigm of climate change defined in terms of more frequent and intense extreme events. Such is the challenge of drought in the Sahel. Less understood ideas of abrupt or dangerous climate change, involving in example, a reversal of the sign (or direction) of a climate par ...
... framed by the conventional paradigm of climate change defined in terms of more frequent and intense extreme events. Such is the challenge of drought in the Sahel. Less understood ideas of abrupt or dangerous climate change, involving in example, a reversal of the sign (or direction) of a climate par ...
Climate Finance Study Group
... action on both mitigation and adaptation is required: significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions need to be complemented with actions to prepare for the impacts of a changing climate. Given the multi-decadal timescales required to transform our economies and infrastructures to meet this chal ...
... action on both mitigation and adaptation is required: significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions need to be complemented with actions to prepare for the impacts of a changing climate. Given the multi-decadal timescales required to transform our economies and infrastructures to meet this chal ...
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... In an effort to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies have promoted ‘carbon neutral’ biomass as an energy source. Carbon flux from burning biomass is often legislated or simply assumed to be carbon neutral as subsequent growth sequesters carbon fro ...
... In an effort to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies have promoted ‘carbon neutral’ biomass as an energy source. Carbon flux from burning biomass is often legislated or simply assumed to be carbon neutral as subsequent growth sequesters carbon fro ...
Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy
... an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be developed in the near future, does not reflect the uncertainty in our future, much less provide quantitative probabilities of outcomes [14,15]. Knight [3] used the wo ...
... an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be developed in the near future, does not reflect the uncertainty in our future, much less provide quantitative probabilities of outcomes [14,15]. Knight [3] used the wo ...
Osman-Elasha_IPCC_5AR_Adaptation needs
... exacerbate or multiply existing threats to human security including food, health and economic insecurity, all being of particular concern for Africa (medium confidence). A wide range of data and research gaps constrain decision making to reduce vulnerability, build resilience and plan and implement ...
... exacerbate or multiply existing threats to human security including food, health and economic insecurity, all being of particular concern for Africa (medium confidence). A wide range of data and research gaps constrain decision making to reduce vulnerability, build resilience and plan and implement ...
Reducing Human Vulnerability
... difficult. Well-managed landscapes can modulate flood waters. Intact coastal wetlands can buffer against storm damage. But management of natural resources will face a rapidly changing climate with more extreme events and with ecosystems under increasing threats from stresses other than climate (such ...
... difficult. Well-managed landscapes can modulate flood waters. Intact coastal wetlands can buffer against storm damage. But management of natural resources will face a rapidly changing climate with more extreme events and with ecosystems under increasing threats from stresses other than climate (such ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES RARE DISASTERS, TAIL-HEDGED INVESTMENTS, AND RISK-ADJUSTED DISCOUNT RATES
... For the U.S., whose stock markets are relatively large in representing the private economy and which have a long uninterrupted historical record, this number is approximately seven percent per year.1 The U.S. O¢ ce of Management and Budget uses 7% as “an estimate of the average pretax real rate of r ...
... For the U.S., whose stock markets are relatively large in representing the private economy and which have a long uninterrupted historical record, this number is approximately seven percent per year.1 The U.S. O¢ ce of Management and Budget uses 7% as “an estimate of the average pretax real rate of r ...
climate impacts and adaptation unit
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climate impacts and adaptation unit
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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.