commissioned - Morning Consult
... ratepayers, as well as benefit the environment and public health. Further, federal, state, and local governments could utilize energy efficiency technologies in their buildings to save taxpayer dollars. ...
... ratepayers, as well as benefit the environment and public health. Further, federal, state, and local governments could utilize energy efficiency technologies in their buildings to save taxpayer dollars. ...
Climate Educator Guide
... 1. Show students the objects you have brought in and ask what they all have in common. If students do not think of it, point out that all of the items are mostly made of carbon. Discuss carbon and why it is important. Ask for example: • What is carbon? (Carbon is one of the most abundant elements ...
... 1. Show students the objects you have brought in and ask what they all have in common. If students do not think of it, point out that all of the items are mostly made of carbon. Discuss carbon and why it is important. Ask for example: • What is carbon? (Carbon is one of the most abundant elements ...
How to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change
... in the European Union have committed their countries to a robust long-term target of limiting warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The United States, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is committed to working with more than 180 other nations to bring about the “s ...
... in the European Union have committed their countries to a robust long-term target of limiting warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels. The United States, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is committed to working with more than 180 other nations to bring about the “s ...
II. Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation
... landscapes where there is currently little deforestation and degradation occurring, the conservation of existing forests, especially primary forests, is critical both for preventing future greenhouse emissions through loss of carbon stocks and continued sequestration, as well as for conserving biodi ...
... landscapes where there is currently little deforestation and degradation occurring, the conservation of existing forests, especially primary forests, is critical both for preventing future greenhouse emissions through loss of carbon stocks and continued sequestration, as well as for conserving biodi ...
Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report
... import dependence and rising air pollution. Rapidly falling costs, particularly of wind and solar power, could lead renewable and other low-carbon energy sources to account for more than half of all new electricity generation over the next 15 years. Greater investment in energy efficiency – in busin ...
... import dependence and rising air pollution. Rapidly falling costs, particularly of wind and solar power, could lead renewable and other low-carbon energy sources to account for more than half of all new electricity generation over the next 15 years. Greater investment in energy efficiency – in busin ...
America`s Dirtiest Power Plants - Environment America Research
... takes place in compact, walkable communities with access to a range of transportation options. • Expanding public transportation service to double ridership by 2030, encouraging further ridership increases through better transit service, and reducing per-mile global warming pollution from transit v ...
... takes place in compact, walkable communities with access to a range of transportation options. • Expanding public transportation service to double ridership by 2030, encouraging further ridership increases through better transit service, and reducing per-mile global warming pollution from transit v ...
Article - Biogeosciences
... One important approach to understand the ecosystem carbon dynamics is to investigate the interannual variation (IAV) of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) with long-term eddy covariance measurements (Baldocchi, 2003). By analyzing the year to year variation in NEE under different climatic condition ...
... One important approach to understand the ecosystem carbon dynamics is to investigate the interannual variation (IAV) of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) with long-term eddy covariance measurements (Baldocchi, 2003). By analyzing the year to year variation in NEE under different climatic condition ...
Impact of climate change on thermal comfort, heating and cooling
... the market penetration of electric heating, and the CO2 intensity of electricity production. For much of Europe, increases in cooling energy demand due to global warming will be outweighed by reductions in the need for heating energy. Depending on the generation mix in particular countries, the net ...
... the market penetration of electric heating, and the CO2 intensity of electricity production. For much of Europe, increases in cooling energy demand due to global warming will be outweighed by reductions in the need for heating energy. Depending on the generation mix in particular countries, the net ...
Planning for Climate Change in the West
... alpine tundra of the northern Rockies where glaciers are retreating as growing downstream communities rely more than ever on abundant snowpack for secure water supplies. Climate can be defined as weather averaged over a period of time, usually 30 years or longer. This averaging tends to smooth out ...
... alpine tundra of the northern Rockies where glaciers are retreating as growing downstream communities rely more than ever on abundant snowpack for secure water supplies. Climate can be defined as weather averaged over a period of time, usually 30 years or longer. This averaging tends to smooth out ...
One Million Climate Jobs - Campaign against Climate Change
... trade unions, have decided to fight to make the government create one million climate jobs. This report sets out our case. To halt climate change we need drastic cuts in the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we put into the air. That means leaving most of the existing reserves of h ...
... trade unions, have decided to fight to make the government create one million climate jobs. This report sets out our case. To halt climate change we need drastic cuts in the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we put into the air. That means leaving most of the existing reserves of h ...
REPUBLIC REPUBLIC OF NAURU
... Responsibility for implementing climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction related activities is shared across different parts of government and the community. However, at the operational level, the Department of Environment under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment (CIE) h ...
... Responsibility for implementing climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction related activities is shared across different parts of government and the community. However, at the operational level, the Department of Environment under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment (CIE) h ...
EIB Climate Strategy - European Investment Bank
... achievements and challenges encountered so far that this Strategy is built. The Climate Strategy will now guide our medium to long-term actions within and outside the EU to reinforce EIB finance for projects which bear a positive climate impact. We have identified three strategic areas where, moving ...
... achievements and challenges encountered so far that this Strategy is built. The Climate Strategy will now guide our medium to long-term actions within and outside the EU to reinforce EIB finance for projects which bear a positive climate impact. We have identified three strategic areas where, moving ...
Black carbon aerosols and the third polar ice cap
... simulations that include the snow/ice albedo (SA) change due to black carbon (BC) deposition on snow/ice surfaces (D+I+SA). (4) To evaluate the influence of sea-surface temperature (SST) changes on snow/ice cover, we include SSTs averaged for 1993–2002 for Year 2000 aerosol emissions instead of the ...
... simulations that include the snow/ice albedo (SA) change due to black carbon (BC) deposition on snow/ice surfaces (D+I+SA). (4) To evaluate the influence of sea-surface temperature (SST) changes on snow/ice cover, we include SSTs averaged for 1993–2002 for Year 2000 aerosol emissions instead of the ...
What does the Paris Agreement mean for climate policy in the
... In this report, we translate the global ambition of the Paris Agreement to the policy context of the Netherlands. As an EU member state, the Netherlands’ long-term INDC goal is an 80%-95% reduction of GHG emissions by 2050. However, this target is based on 2°C compatibility (den Elzen & Höhne 2008), ...
... In this report, we translate the global ambition of the Paris Agreement to the policy context of the Netherlands. As an EU member state, the Netherlands’ long-term INDC goal is an 80%-95% reduction of GHG emissions by 2050. However, this target is based on 2°C compatibility (den Elzen & Höhne 2008), ...
climate change in the american mind
... • 80 percent said the government should regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant; • 69 percent of Americans said the United States should sign an international treaty that requires the U.S. to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide 90% by the year 2050. Large majorities of Americans also supported polici ...
... • 80 percent said the government should regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant; • 69 percent of Americans said the United States should sign an international treaty that requires the U.S. to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide 90% by the year 2050. Large majorities of Americans also supported polici ...
Management & Engineering the Interference Analysis in Guangdong Province of China
... Research on carbon storage of the forest vegetation concluded that the organic carbon storage in native species is the largest of all tree species, and native species forestation is favorable to carbon accumulation [6]. However, in the field survey in project area, we found that the Sonneratia apeta ...
... Research on carbon storage of the forest vegetation concluded that the organic carbon storage in native species is the largest of all tree species, and native species forestation is favorable to carbon accumulation [6]. However, in the field survey in project area, we found that the Sonneratia apeta ...
Innovations LIVE - Inter-American Development Bank
... climate change, one concept keeps resurfacing: the need to innovate Climate change is changing the business as usual, which means changing policy priorities or allocating resources to actions previously underfunded. But also, changing business as usual is an opportunity to do things differently, and ...
... climate change, one concept keeps resurfacing: the need to innovate Climate change is changing the business as usual, which means changing policy priorities or allocating resources to actions previously underfunded. But also, changing business as usual is an opportunity to do things differently, and ...
India`s Megacities and Climate Change
... 2009; Kapur et al. 2009; Panda 2010; Sharma 2010), on the other there are evolving understandings that climate change is presenting some very crucial opportunities to India which, if considered sincerely, can help India’s case domestically as well as internationally (Dubash 2013). There are also deb ...
... 2009; Kapur et al. 2009; Panda 2010; Sharma 2010), on the other there are evolving understandings that climate change is presenting some very crucial opportunities to India which, if considered sincerely, can help India’s case domestically as well as internationally (Dubash 2013). There are also deb ...
GPG Climate Change Strategy-Draft for comments
... use, transport, water and sanitation and waste. Since climate change is cross-cutting, the response interventions address energy, transport, and waste in terms of mitigation. On adaptation, climate change response is addressing water, food security, spatial planning and land-use, and natural resourc ...
... use, transport, water and sanitation and waste. Since climate change is cross-cutting, the response interventions address energy, transport, and waste in terms of mitigation. On adaptation, climate change response is addressing water, food security, spatial planning and land-use, and natural resourc ...
Measurements on Carbon Sink Benefits of Coastal Shelterbelt and the
... species is the largest of all tree species, and native species forestation is favorable to carbon accumulation [6]. However, in the field survey in project area, we found that the Sonneratia apetala introduced from Bangladesh with fast-growing characteristics and high timber income has become the pr ...
... species is the largest of all tree species, and native species forestation is favorable to carbon accumulation [6]. However, in the field survey in project area, we found that the Sonneratia apetala introduced from Bangladesh with fast-growing characteristics and high timber income has become the pr ...
Transitioning towards a low-carbon economy in Mexico
... ecosystems. The same report indicates that surface temperature is projected to rise over the 21st century under all assessed emission scenarios and that it is very likely that heat waves will occur more often and last longer, and that extreme precipitation events will become more intense and frequen ...
... ecosystems. The same report indicates that surface temperature is projected to rise over the 21st century under all assessed emission scenarios and that it is very likely that heat waves will occur more often and last longer, and that extreme precipitation events will become more intense and frequen ...
Climate Engineering under the Paris Agreement
... some of the more severe impacts associated with large average temperature increases.10 Nevertheless, there remain concerns that the prospect of implementing climate engineering in the future will reduce the incentives for states to implement mitigation and adaptation measures.11 The maturity of tech ...
... some of the more severe impacts associated with large average temperature increases.10 Nevertheless, there remain concerns that the prospect of implementing climate engineering in the future will reduce the incentives for states to implement mitigation and adaptation measures.11 The maturity of tech ...
full text - MODUL University Vienna
... emphasizes the implementation of low-carbon and high-efficiency technologies in businesses, to diminish future damage. Both strategies have been described as equally important for sustainable development and the interdependency has been highlighted continuously. Mitigation of, and adaptation to, cli ...
... emphasizes the implementation of low-carbon and high-efficiency technologies in businesses, to diminish future damage. Both strategies have been described as equally important for sustainable development and the interdependency has been highlighted continuously. Mitigation of, and adaptation to, cli ...
NRDC: Clean Power – The Case for Carbon Pollution Limits
... pollution reductions—a 40 percent cut by 2030—by fully recognizing the vast potential for scaling up energy efficiency and renewable energy throughout the United States. “The administration can make this good plan even better,” said David Doniger, director of NRDC’s Climate and Clean Air Program. Ei ...
... pollution reductions—a 40 percent cut by 2030—by fully recognizing the vast potential for scaling up energy efficiency and renewable energy throughout the United States. “The administration can make this good plan even better,” said David Doniger, director of NRDC’s Climate and Clean Air Program. Ei ...
fair shares: a civil society equity review of indcs report
... breaching. As a result, a transformation of our societies and our economies is needed to respond to the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap. How to achieve this in ways that acknowledge and address the historical inequalities that are built into the global economy is at the h ...
... breaching. As a result, a transformation of our societies and our economies is needed to respond to the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap. How to achieve this in ways that acknowledge and address the historical inequalities that are built into the global economy is at the h ...