Carbon Capture and Storage Factfile
... [3] CCC (2013). Reducing the UK’s carbon footprint and managing competitiveness risks. The Committe on Climate Change. http://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/carbon-footprint-and-competitiveness/ [accessed 14/1/2014]. [4] Global CCS Institute (undated). How CCS works - storage. Global CCS Institute. h ...
... [3] CCC (2013). Reducing the UK’s carbon footprint and managing competitiveness risks. The Committe on Climate Change. http://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/carbon-footprint-and-competitiveness/ [accessed 14/1/2014]. [4] Global CCS Institute (undated). How CCS works - storage. Global CCS Institute. h ...
Social capital, climate change and soil conservation investment: panel data evidence from the Highlands of Ethiopia: Working Paper 115 (325 kB) (opens in new window)
... More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
... More information about the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment can be found at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham. ...
Climate Change and Social Protection in Bangladesh: Are Existing
... Some studies report that climate extremes have already increased in frequency and severity over recent years (SMRC, 2008; Habib, 2011; see also Cruz et al., 2007). For example, analysis of tropical cyclone intensity shows that from 1876 to 1988 cyclones more than 200 km/hour occurred only three time ...
... Some studies report that climate extremes have already increased in frequency and severity over recent years (SMRC, 2008; Habib, 2011; see also Cruz et al., 2007). For example, analysis of tropical cyclone intensity shows that from 1876 to 1988 cyclones more than 200 km/hour occurred only three time ...
CLIMATE CHANGE CONSERVATION OF NATURE
... carbon, namely fossil fuels, for energy. One of the essential life support services provided by ecosystems is the protection of the climate through carbon cycling. We suggest that “Carbon Stewardship” is an important concept that needs to be incorporated into policies and planning for climate change ...
... carbon, namely fossil fuels, for energy. One of the essential life support services provided by ecosystems is the protection of the climate through carbon cycling. We suggest that “Carbon Stewardship” is an important concept that needs to be incorporated into policies and planning for climate change ...
T M Climate Negotiations After the Copenhagen Overview of Emissions Targets
... Greenhouse gas emissions reduction pledges submitted to the UNFCCC as part of the Copenhagen Accord process are insufficient to limit temperature increase to 2°C relative to pre-industrial global mean temperatures. Only a few reports have analyzed the emissions reductions goals expressed by various ...
... Greenhouse gas emissions reduction pledges submitted to the UNFCCC as part of the Copenhagen Accord process are insufficient to limit temperature increase to 2°C relative to pre-industrial global mean temperatures. Only a few reports have analyzed the emissions reductions goals expressed by various ...
Indicators of Canada`s Changing Climate
... retain heat from the Earth’s surface. They are a small but extremely important part of the planet’s natural atmosphere – so important, in fact, that without them, Earth would be some 33°C cooler than it is now and too cold to support life. Since the early days of the industrial revolution some 200 y ...
... retain heat from the Earth’s surface. They are a small but extremely important part of the planet’s natural atmosphere – so important, in fact, that without them, Earth would be some 33°C cooler than it is now and too cold to support life. Since the early days of the industrial revolution some 200 y ...
Energy and the Protection of the Atmosphere
... Today, some two billion people still rely on similar traditional energy end-use patterns. They use traditional energy forms and technologies and have no or inadequate access to modern energy services. This severely constrains the satisfaction of basic needs: it precludes the modernization of economi ...
... Today, some two billion people still rely on similar traditional energy end-use patterns. They use traditional energy forms and technologies and have no or inadequate access to modern energy services. This severely constrains the satisfaction of basic needs: it precludes the modernization of economi ...
Are Shorter Work Hours Good for the Environment?
... There is an important political debate in Europe over whether Europeans would be better off economically if they moved toward a U.S.-style economic model, most importantly in their labor markets. The conventional wisdom, in both academic circles and the media, is that they would, and there is transa ...
... There is an important political debate in Europe over whether Europeans would be better off economically if they moved toward a U.S.-style economic model, most importantly in their labor markets. The conventional wisdom, in both academic circles and the media, is that they would, and there is transa ...
Peak NDVI
... Department of Earth Sciences Yang Shao The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Geography ...
... Department of Earth Sciences Yang Shao The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Geography ...
AHEAD OF THE STORM…. Preparing Toronto for Climate Change
... increases of 1.5 to 2.5ºC will increase the likelihood of extinction of 20-30% of plant and animal species (IPCC, 2007). In addition to warmer average temperatures, hot days and heat waves are on the rise. The 2003 European heat wave raised summer temperatures by 3 to 5ºC over most of southern and c ...
... increases of 1.5 to 2.5ºC will increase the likelihood of extinction of 20-30% of plant and animal species (IPCC, 2007). In addition to warmer average temperatures, hot days and heat waves are on the rise. The 2003 European heat wave raised summer temperatures by 3 to 5ºC over most of southern and c ...
Assessing Current Climate Risks
... Using a response relationship between climate and other drivers and specific outcomes, we can select criteria or indicators representing different levels of performance for the purposes of assessing risk (Figure 4-2, lower left). For example, a yield relationship can be divided into good, poor or di ...
... Using a response relationship between climate and other drivers and specific outcomes, we can select criteria or indicators representing different levels of performance for the purposes of assessing risk (Figure 4-2, lower left). For example, a yield relationship can be divided into good, poor or di ...
The Nation Ex-Situ: On climate change, deterritorialized nationhood
... plight of states whose territories are rendered uninhabitable due to total submersion or chronic processes that so thoroughly compromise their land that there is no longer a viable source of food, water, or other necessities needed to sustain human communities. Part III argues for a re-envisioning o ...
... plight of states whose territories are rendered uninhabitable due to total submersion or chronic processes that so thoroughly compromise their land that there is no longer a viable source of food, water, or other necessities needed to sustain human communities. Part III argues for a re-envisioning o ...
Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
... The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While we understand the evidence that has led them to ...
... The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While we understand the evidence that has led them to ...
Strategies for the use of biochar for climate change mitigation
... Many of the assumptions made by Roberts et al in their analysis conflicted with other estimates found in the literature: ◦ Cost of biomass collection and transportation ◦ Capital costs for pyrolysis plants ...
... Many of the assumptions made by Roberts et al in their analysis conflicted with other estimates found in the literature: ◦ Cost of biomass collection and transportation ◦ Capital costs for pyrolysis plants ...
NEPA, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND PUBLIC LANDS DECISION MAKING
... 3) the direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts of the proposed action on the climate. Moreover, climate change seems likely to disrupt—if it has not done so already—our most reliable tool for predicting future conditions in the natural world: the historic record of past conditions. As one article f ...
... 3) the direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts of the proposed action on the climate. Moreover, climate change seems likely to disrupt—if it has not done so already—our most reliable tool for predicting future conditions in the natural world: the historic record of past conditions. As one article f ...
Capturing Greenhouse Gases
... What is carbon sequestration? The idea is to store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in natural reservoirs rather than allowing it to build up in the atmosphere. Although sequestering carbon is often connected to planting trees, we are investigating the possibility of capturing carbon dioxide from s ...
... What is carbon sequestration? The idea is to store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in natural reservoirs rather than allowing it to build up in the atmosphere. Although sequestering carbon is often connected to planting trees, we are investigating the possibility of capturing carbon dioxide from s ...
Climate change, species–area curves and the extinction crisis
... richness in the habitat matrix, and there are good reasons to expect that, rather than remaining constant, c will decline (and z increase) if habitats are fragmented, and if background levels of species richness decline. Such shifts would lead to species richness decreasing further than would be exp ...
... richness in the habitat matrix, and there are good reasons to expect that, rather than remaining constant, c will decline (and z increase) if habitats are fragmented, and if background levels of species richness decline. Such shifts would lead to species richness decreasing further than would be exp ...
Conference Proceeding
... included water resources and biophysical systems. The session emphasised the need to design adaptations aimed at enhancing resilience towards the present and future climatic regimes. The second session focused on the consequences of climate variability and change on livelihoods and strategies that e ...
... included water resources and biophysical systems. The session emphasised the need to design adaptations aimed at enhancing resilience towards the present and future climatic regimes. The second session focused on the consequences of climate variability and change on livelihoods and strategies that e ...
Impacts of climate change on contaminated land and containment
... time. Contamination caused permeability to increase by 1 order of magnitude and UCS to decrease by half. Climate change scenario causing most damage was intermittent summer rainfall and flooded winter. For unaged systems, permeability generally increased by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude after 1st s ...
... time. Contamination caused permeability to increase by 1 order of magnitude and UCS to decrease by half. Climate change scenario causing most damage was intermittent summer rainfall and flooded winter. For unaged systems, permeability generally increased by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude after 1st s ...
1 - WMO
... The Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have recognized the importance of high quality well spaced data for climate-related purposes and have noted that, in many instances, either the geographic coverage, quantity or quality of the data produced by current g ...
... The Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have recognized the importance of high quality well spaced data for climate-related purposes and have noted that, in many instances, either the geographic coverage, quantity or quality of the data produced by current g ...
the wmo voluntary observing ship programme
... The best known of these variations is associated with the ENSO phenomenon. This shift or seesaw of atmospheric pressure across the equatorial Pacific Ocean occurs irregularly, roughly every two to seven years and is linked to changes in tropical seasurface temperature patterns, with the eastern Paci ...
... The best known of these variations is associated with the ENSO phenomenon. This shift or seesaw of atmospheric pressure across the equatorial Pacific Ocean occurs irregularly, roughly every two to seven years and is linked to changes in tropical seasurface temperature patterns, with the eastern Paci ...
elg15f15 - University of Oregon
... driven curriculum exercises for their students. Central to our mission is providing teachers the tools and expertise needed to build evidence-based inquiry and synthesis skill in their students. Our partnership has had a long history of providing teachers with innovative tools to assist them with da ...
... driven curriculum exercises for their students. Central to our mission is providing teachers the tools and expertise needed to build evidence-based inquiry and synthesis skill in their students. Our partnership has had a long history of providing teachers with innovative tools to assist them with da ...
Combating Climate Change - The German Adaptation Strategy
... by about nine percent since the beginning of the 20th century. The past 15 years have been ...
... by about nine percent since the beginning of the 20th century. The past 15 years have been ...