Climate Change and US Interests
... the United States will fare better than most other countries has led some commentators to advance the climate change winner argument, claiming that it is irrational for the United States to take unilateral steps to mitigate climate change or to participate in a globally optimal international agreeme ...
... the United States will fare better than most other countries has led some commentators to advance the climate change winner argument, claiming that it is irrational for the United States to take unilateral steps to mitigate climate change or to participate in a globally optimal international agreeme ...
Sustainability and Risk: Climate Change and Fiduciary Duty WORKSHOP REPORT
... workshop on this issue for pension fund trustees. Participants learned about their duties to address climate risk in their portfolios from a distinguished group of experts including Harvard faculty, attorneys, and corporate and pension fund leaders. The workshop was part of an ongoing collaboration, ...
... workshop on this issue for pension fund trustees. Participants learned about their duties to address climate risk in their portfolios from a distinguished group of experts including Harvard faculty, attorneys, and corporate and pension fund leaders. The workshop was part of an ongoing collaboration, ...
Climate change - Time to act
... Agenda for Sustainable Development that was adopted earlier the same year are milestones in international climate and sustainability policy. For the first time, almost all the members of the United Nations have undertaken to make their own contributions to climate change mitigation in order to limit ...
... Agenda for Sustainable Development that was adopted earlier the same year are milestones in international climate and sustainability policy. For the first time, almost all the members of the United Nations have undertaken to make their own contributions to climate change mitigation in order to limit ...
Climate Change Class at Osher Lifelong Learning
... and it would require that global CO2 emissions level off by 2015 or 2020 at not much above their current amount, before beginning a decline to no more than a third of that level by 2100. (The stringency of this trajectory and the difficulty of getting onto it are consequences, above all, of the emis ...
... and it would require that global CO2 emissions level off by 2015 or 2020 at not much above their current amount, before beginning a decline to no more than a third of that level by 2100. (The stringency of this trajectory and the difficulty of getting onto it are consequences, above all, of the emis ...
Debating Climate Economics: The Stern Review vs
... usual would be expected to reduce GDP by 5% based on market impacts alone, or 11% including a rough estimate for the value of health and environmental effects that do not have market prices (“externalities,” in the jargon of economics). If the sensitivity of climate to CO2 levels turns out to be hig ...
... usual would be expected to reduce GDP by 5% based on market impacts alone, or 11% including a rough estimate for the value of health and environmental effects that do not have market prices (“externalities,” in the jargon of economics). If the sensitivity of climate to CO2 levels turns out to be hig ...
Su et al, Monitoring climate change - core
... well as globally. The team is also establishing a forum for providers of Earth Observation (EO) data and climate researchers to assess the status of available observational records, integrate Space data with in situ records and establish the foundations for a validated base of EO data for climate re ...
... well as globally. The team is also establishing a forum for providers of Earth Observation (EO) data and climate researchers to assess the status of available observational records, integrate Space data with in situ records and establish the foundations for a validated base of EO data for climate re ...
copenhagen, climate change `refugees` and the need for a global
... divisions, confusion and setbacks’ (Pew Center on Global Climate Change 2009: 2) and acrimonious discussions (IISD 2009: 1) – was the Copenhagen Accord, a two and a half page political agreement negotiated directly by heads of state and one not based on the draft negotiation texts prepared by the ...
... divisions, confusion and setbacks’ (Pew Center on Global Climate Change 2009: 2) and acrimonious discussions (IISD 2009: 1) – was the Copenhagen Accord, a two and a half page political agreement negotiated directly by heads of state and one not based on the draft negotiation texts prepared by the ...
6 Assessing Transformation Pathways
... future choices that define transformation pathways, including the goal itself, the emissions pathway to the goal, technologies used for and sectors contributing to mitigation, the nature of international coordination, and mitigation policies? Second, what are the key characteristics of different tra ...
... future choices that define transformation pathways, including the goal itself, the emissions pathway to the goal, technologies used for and sectors contributing to mitigation, the nature of international coordination, and mitigation policies? Second, what are the key characteristics of different tra ...
Climate change and Tourism in the Alps: a position paper in view of
... global climate change. Indeed, the Alpine region in Europe is amongst those areas that are most rapidly affected by climate change. The years 1994, 2000, 2002, and 2003 were the warmest on record in the Alps in the last 500 years (Beniston 2005 in: Agrawala 2007). With a certain degree of local vari ...
... global climate change. Indeed, the Alpine region in Europe is amongst those areas that are most rapidly affected by climate change. The years 1994, 2000, 2002, and 2003 were the warmest on record in the Alps in the last 500 years (Beniston 2005 in: Agrawala 2007). With a certain degree of local vari ...
Greenhouse gas emissions from Indian rice fields
... Indian rice fields. Most of the crop physiological and phenological parameters set in the DNDC model were originally calibrated against datasets observed in the US, China or other temperate regions. Discrepancies appeared when the model was applied for the rice crops in India. Modifications were mad ...
... Indian rice fields. Most of the crop physiological and phenological parameters set in the DNDC model were originally calibrated against datasets observed in the US, China or other temperate regions. Discrepancies appeared when the model was applied for the rice crops in India. Modifications were mad ...
THE WAY FORWARD - Canada`s Ecofiscal Commission
... the design and implementation of more-stringent policies. Delaying such policy actions will mean higher future costs for Canadians. Getting moving now allows policy to begin reducing GHG emissions and then ramping up to yield more significant reductions over time. In this way, households will have t ...
... the design and implementation of more-stringent policies. Delaying such policy actions will mean higher future costs for Canadians. Getting moving now allows policy to begin reducing GHG emissions and then ramping up to yield more significant reductions over time. In this way, households will have t ...
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research The Met. Office
... by the 2080s are predicted to have increased by about 3 °C above today’s (taken as the average over the period 1961–90). A global average temperature rise of 2 °C, which would occur by the 2050s with unmitigated emissions, will be delayed by about 50 years under 750 ppm stabilisation and by over 100 ...
... by the 2080s are predicted to have increased by about 3 °C above today’s (taken as the average over the period 1961–90). A global average temperature rise of 2 °C, which would occur by the 2050s with unmitigated emissions, will be delayed by about 50 years under 750 ppm stabilisation and by over 100 ...
The challenge to detect and attribute effects of climate change on
... The concept of detection in the context of climate change has evolved considerably through time, as can be monitored through the IPCC literature (Supp. Table 1). The definition used by IPCC Working Group I (dealing with physical climate change) in the First Assessment Report (Wigley et al. 1990) res ...
... The concept of detection in the context of climate change has evolved considerably through time, as can be monitored through the IPCC literature (Supp. Table 1). The definition used by IPCC Working Group I (dealing with physical climate change) in the First Assessment Report (Wigley et al. 1990) res ...
Accelerating Global Vehicle Efficiency
... global development goals that nations are negotiating to replace the Millennium Development Goals after 2015. Reaching the 2050 goal would prevent an estimated 33 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions cumulatively between 2015 and 2050.24 This makes up nearly 3 percent of the required global solu ...
... global development goals that nations are negotiating to replace the Millennium Development Goals after 2015. Reaching the 2050 goal would prevent an estimated 33 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions cumulatively between 2015 and 2050.24 This makes up nearly 3 percent of the required global solu ...
Report - UNHCR
... (e.g., shared waters) or the sudden expansion of shared or undemarcated resources. In the latter category is the possibility of exploiting newly accessible natural resource deposits and transport routes through the Arctic. 19. Of these five channels, the first is well researched and documented, incl ...
... (e.g., shared waters) or the sudden expansion of shared or undemarcated resources. In the latter category is the possibility of exploiting newly accessible natural resource deposits and transport routes through the Arctic. 19. Of these five channels, the first is well researched and documented, incl ...
The challenge to detect and attribute effects of climate change on
... The concept of detection in the context of climate change has evolved considerably through time, as can be monitored through the IPCC literature (Supp. Table 1). The definition used by IPCC Working Group I (dealing with physical climate change) in the First Assessment Report (Wigley et al. 1990) res ...
... The concept of detection in the context of climate change has evolved considerably through time, as can be monitored through the IPCC literature (Supp. Table 1). The definition used by IPCC Working Group I (dealing with physical climate change) in the First Assessment Report (Wigley et al. 1990) res ...
Curriculum Vitae
... Measuring time in the greenhouse: an editorial essay (with B. C. O’Neill and S. R. Gaffin). Climatic Change, 37, 491. ...
... Measuring time in the greenhouse: an editorial essay (with B. C. O’Neill and S. R. Gaffin). Climatic Change, 37, 491. ...
IUCN TILCEPA COP18 Climate Negotiations Report
... Adaptation is done locally and needs to involve indigenous peoples and local communities who have developed a way of living which is related to the capacity of the local ecosystem and is informed by local climate fluctuations of the Holocene; In many countries, traditional pastoralists are marginali ...
... Adaptation is done locally and needs to involve indigenous peoples and local communities who have developed a way of living which is related to the capacity of the local ecosystem and is informed by local climate fluctuations of the Holocene; In many countries, traditional pastoralists are marginali ...
INSTITUTIONAL AND COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION A Thesis Presented
... and accumulation of atmospheric stocks may soon carry the planetary system past a tipping point. At this point there exists a greater possibility of positive feedback loops such as methane release from thawing tundra, that could exacerbate rising sea levels, the rapid loss of sea ice, chaotic change ...
... and accumulation of atmospheric stocks may soon carry the planetary system past a tipping point. At this point there exists a greater possibility of positive feedback loops such as methane release from thawing tundra, that could exacerbate rising sea levels, the rapid loss of sea ice, chaotic change ...
The climate and climate change - Dept of Meteorology Home Page
... Scenario Uncertainty We don’t know what future Greenhouse gas emissions will be. Produce ‘Scenarios’ – estimates of future emissions based on estimates of future – Population Projections – Economic Development – Structural and Technological Change ...
... Scenario Uncertainty We don’t know what future Greenhouse gas emissions will be. Produce ‘Scenarios’ – estimates of future emissions based on estimates of future – Population Projections – Economic Development – Structural and Technological Change ...
Think Globally, Act Locally
... recognised that one of the major challenges is the whole area of Climate Change. Greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans are having a negative impact on the environment. Climate Change is one of the most important issues that we as a Council have to tackle. Meath Local Authorities are committed to ...
... recognised that one of the major challenges is the whole area of Climate Change. Greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans are having a negative impact on the environment. Climate Change is one of the most important issues that we as a Council have to tackle. Meath Local Authorities are committed to ...
american meteorological society
... that is distant in space (i.e., not here) and time (i.e., not now). Whether they recognize it or not, ...
... that is distant in space (i.e., not here) and time (i.e., not now). Whether they recognize it or not, ...
Study on the Particularity of a Low-carbon Economy Under the
... exchange market, apart from the formation of low-carbon products, technologies and services markets. Carbon credits exchange market is quite different from general product, technology and service market in trading participants, transaction objects, trading modes, price formation mechanisms. “Kyoto P ...
... exchange market, apart from the formation of low-carbon products, technologies and services markets. Carbon credits exchange market is quite different from general product, technology and service market in trading participants, transaction objects, trading modes, price formation mechanisms. “Kyoto P ...
Module 6 - REDD - Global Climate Change Alliance
... REDD in practice (1): results of assessments studies Number of assessments and comparative studies on REDD initiatives came to the following conclusion: Proliferation of different initiatives and funds Lack of coordination, between the multilateral initiatives Long lead times and complicate ...
... REDD in practice (1): results of assessments studies Number of assessments and comparative studies on REDD initiatives came to the following conclusion: Proliferation of different initiatives and funds Lack of coordination, between the multilateral initiatives Long lead times and complicate ...
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... This study was commissioned by Sustainability West Midlands, a consortium of organisations from the region convened to improve the consideration of sustainable development issues within the West Midlands. Sustainability West Midlands (SWM) seeks to communicate, promote and champion the principles of ...
... This study was commissioned by Sustainability West Midlands, a consortium of organisations from the region convened to improve the consideration of sustainable development issues within the West Midlands. Sustainability West Midlands (SWM) seeks to communicate, promote and champion the principles of ...
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.