Climate change and its impacts on Kazakhstan`s human development
... to ignore, particularly as a country ranked amongst the highest in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. I sincerely believe that this report will help all parties and organizations concerned with the development and implementation of long-term environmental changes and their influence on the economic ...
... to ignore, particularly as a country ranked amongst the highest in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. I sincerely believe that this report will help all parties and organizations concerned with the development and implementation of long-term environmental changes and their influence on the economic ...
IFC Climate Implementation Plan (April 2016)
... New FI Models: There are numerous opportunities to expand the business of Financial Institutions in financing the transition to a low carbon economy. For example, IFC will use its expertise (FIG and Treasury) to help FI (and corporate) clients develop their own green bonds with IFC taking an anchor ...
... New FI Models: There are numerous opportunities to expand the business of Financial Institutions in financing the transition to a low carbon economy. For example, IFC will use its expertise (FIG and Treasury) to help FI (and corporate) clients develop their own green bonds with IFC taking an anchor ...
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
Adaptation: Needs, Financing and Institutions
... rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and that these greenhouse gases stem primarily from human activity. The IPCC AR included observations of the first effects of climate change. It also concluded that even the most stringent mitigation efforts would not avoid further impacts ...
... rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and that these greenhouse gases stem primarily from human activity. The IPCC AR included observations of the first effects of climate change. It also concluded that even the most stringent mitigation efforts would not avoid further impacts ...
New York City Begins Planning for Climate
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
... use of energy, increased use of non-carbon-emitting energy sources, and carbon capture and storage. Adaptation options also have the potential to moderate harmful impacts of current and future climate variability and change. While this report does address adaptation, it does not do so comprehensivel ...
Climate change: impacts and adaptation for agriculture in Western
... above, impacts include economic pressures and opportunities related to increasing human populations and changing human dietary preferences, increased input costs and energy prices, competing land-use pressures and policy-related economic pressures, such as measures to mitigate greenhouse gas emissio ...
... above, impacts include economic pressures and opportunities related to increasing human populations and changing human dietary preferences, increased input costs and energy prices, competing land-use pressures and policy-related economic pressures, such as measures to mitigate greenhouse gas emissio ...
Climate Extremes Communications Guidebook
... or climate events that are, individually, not extreme themselves (though their accumulation is extreme). • “Compound events, that is, two or more events occurring simultaneously, can lead to high impacts, even if the two single events are not extreme per se (only their combination).” It is also esse ...
... or climate events that are, individually, not extreme themselves (though their accumulation is extreme). • “Compound events, that is, two or more events occurring simultaneously, can lead to high impacts, even if the two single events are not extreme per se (only their combination).” It is also esse ...
"Biochar: A Carbon-Negative Technology to Combat Climate Change an Enhance Global Soil Resources"
... – Utilization of waste biomass (e.g. peanut or rice hulls, corn stover, wheat straw, tree waste, animal manure) to produce biochar ...
... – Utilization of waste biomass (e.g. peanut or rice hulls, corn stover, wheat straw, tree waste, animal manure) to produce biochar ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector
... This publication, combined with a comprehensive series of international and regional seminars, is designed to provide a pragmatic platform to strengthen the capacity of professionals to understand and respond effectively to the global challenges of climate change in tourism destinations. It is a cri ...
... This publication, combined with a comprehensive series of international and regional seminars, is designed to provide a pragmatic platform to strengthen the capacity of professionals to understand and respond effectively to the global challenges of climate change in tourism destinations. It is a cri ...
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... Joint efforts continue between the United States’ government, utilities, and utility equipment manufacturers to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. Key to these efforts is the gathering of statistical data on the use of SF6, OEM and user inventory accounting of SF6, development of voluntary programs for ...
... Joint efforts continue between the United States’ government, utilities, and utility equipment manufacturers to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. Key to these efforts is the gathering of statistical data on the use of SF6, OEM and user inventory accounting of SF6, development of voluntary programs for ...
Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long
... and acting meaningfully over the long term, with particular reference to problems faced by planners and policymakers in public institutions of governance. About the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition The Pardee Center aims to enhance the ove ...
... and acting meaningfully over the long term, with particular reference to problems faced by planners and policymakers in public institutions of governance. About the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition The Pardee Center aims to enhance the ove ...
How will organic carbon stocks in mineral soils
... by one climate change scenario to study the effect of climate change on terrestrial C. SOC stocks, simulated under dynamic potential natural vegetation cover, showed a consistent positive trend across six dynamic global vegetation models (DGVM) with a mean increase of ca. 110 Pg C in the 21st centur ...
... by one climate change scenario to study the effect of climate change on terrestrial C. SOC stocks, simulated under dynamic potential natural vegetation cover, showed a consistent positive trend across six dynamic global vegetation models (DGVM) with a mean increase of ca. 110 Pg C in the 21st centur ...
The Impact of Satellite-Derived Land Cover Uncertainty on Carbon
... DVMs also form core components of coupled climate models, so that quantifying their uncertainties is crucial in estimating the reliability of climate predictions. DVMs require various types of input data to carry out their calculations. The major dynamic control is climate, and the model grid-cell s ...
... DVMs also form core components of coupled climate models, so that quantifying their uncertainties is crucial in estimating the reliability of climate predictions. DVMs require various types of input data to carry out their calculations. The major dynamic control is climate, and the model grid-cell s ...
Carbon cycle implications of terrestrial weathering changes since
... The role of rock weathering in regulating long-term global climate has been established by past box-modeling efforts (Walker et al. 1981; Berner et al. 1983; Berner 1991). These studies linked the rate of atmospheric CO2 consumption by silicate weathering to changes in atmospheric partial CO2 pressu ...
... The role of rock weathering in regulating long-term global climate has been established by past box-modeling efforts (Walker et al. 1981; Berner et al. 1983; Berner 1991). These studies linked the rate of atmospheric CO2 consumption by silicate weathering to changes in atmospheric partial CO2 pressu ...
Climate Change and Biodiversity
... show evidence of change. Thus, the composition of most current ecosystems is likely to change, as species that make up an ecosystem are unlikely to shift together.The most rapid changes are expected where they are accelerated by changes in natural and anthropogenic non-climatic disturbance patterns. ...
... show evidence of change. Thus, the composition of most current ecosystems is likely to change, as species that make up an ecosystem are unlikely to shift together.The most rapid changes are expected where they are accelerated by changes in natural and anthropogenic non-climatic disturbance patterns. ...
Climate Change and the US Energy Sector: Regional Vulnerabilities
... Building climate change resilience into our energy infrastructure planning is a challenging and complex undertaking. Planning horizons can span several decades (the typical service life of most energy assets), associated investments can extend into the billions of dollars, and relevant technologies ...
... Building climate change resilience into our energy infrastructure planning is a challenging and complex undertaking. Planning horizons can span several decades (the typical service life of most energy assets), associated investments can extend into the billions of dollars, and relevant technologies ...
Children and Climate Change
... and physical analysis; and climate modeling. One broad conclusion is that although climate change will be felt globally, its effects will be very different in different places. Overall, however, the effects of climate change on human wellbeing—either directly, through exposure to changing climate, o ...
... and physical analysis; and climate modeling. One broad conclusion is that although climate change will be felt globally, its effects will be very different in different places. Overall, however, the effects of climate change on human wellbeing—either directly, through exposure to changing climate, o ...
Present Day Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in the Coastal Ocean and
... Warming of the climate system is unequivocal based on observational evidence from all continents and most oceans (increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, melting of snow and ice, and increasing global average sea level) (IPCC 2007a). The observed increase in global average temperatur ...
... Warming of the climate system is unequivocal based on observational evidence from all continents and most oceans (increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, melting of snow and ice, and increasing global average sea level) (IPCC 2007a). The observed increase in global average temperatur ...
Quantifying non-cooperative climate engineering
... We expand the standard version of the model to include an SRM module, which accounts for operational costs, effectiveness in compensating temperature as well as social and environmental impacts of climate engineering. See the Appendix for the module description and calibration. The first two issues ...
... We expand the standard version of the model to include an SRM module, which accounts for operational costs, effectiveness in compensating temperature as well as social and environmental impacts of climate engineering. See the Appendix for the module description and calibration. The first two issues ...
From Risk to Return: Investing in Climate Change Adaptation
... This report looks explicitly at how to increase investment into adaptation. Developed through a multi-stakeholder climate adaptation finance consultation process, it aims to identify real world investment barriers and recommend potential solutions, with the goal of enabling the finance sector to acc ...
... This report looks explicitly at how to increase investment into adaptation. Developed through a multi-stakeholder climate adaptation finance consultation process, it aims to identify real world investment barriers and recommend potential solutions, with the goal of enabling the finance sector to acc ...
Parallel Session L3 Towards Climate
... INRA, UR1321 ASTRO Agrosystèmes tropicaux, F-97170 Petit-Bourg (Guadeloupe), France ...
... INRA, UR1321 ASTRO Agrosystèmes tropicaux, F-97170 Petit-Bourg (Guadeloupe), France ...
Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services
... By 2100, ecosystems will be exposed to atmospheric CO2 levels substantially higher than in the past 650,000 years, and global temperatures at least among the highest of those experienced in the past 740,000 years (very high confidence) [4.2, 4.4.10, 4.4.11; Jansen et al., 2007]. This will alter the ...
... By 2100, ecosystems will be exposed to atmospheric CO2 levels substantially higher than in the past 650,000 years, and global temperatures at least among the highest of those experienced in the past 740,000 years (very high confidence) [4.2, 4.4.10, 4.4.11; Jansen et al., 2007]. This will alter the ...
Sustainable Economic Growth 604kb
... impact on the environment. The scale of carbon emissions produced by the industry and commercial sector is set out in Table 2-2, which shows that industrial per capita carbon emissions are akin to domestic production and greater than transport emissions. The table shows how energy consumption corres ...
... impact on the environment. The scale of carbon emissions produced by the industry and commercial sector is set out in Table 2-2, which shows that industrial per capita carbon emissions are akin to domestic production and greater than transport emissions. The table shows how energy consumption corres ...
Hegemony – Dartmouth 2012
... past fifty years, with carbon dioxide being the most important single radiative forcing agent (1). Recent studies have shown that the human-caused warming linked to carbon dioxide is nearly irreversible for more than 1,000 y, even if emissions of the gas were to cease entirely (2–5). The importance ...
... past fifty years, with carbon dioxide being the most important single radiative forcing agent (1). Recent studies have shown that the human-caused warming linked to carbon dioxide is nearly irreversible for more than 1,000 y, even if emissions of the gas were to cease entirely (2–5). The importance ...