Observed Cloud Cover Trends and Global
... role ofstratiform clouds incloud the climate system is oneSW of radiation have increased in over midlatitude oceans the biggest uncertainties understanding future climate change • low-level stratiform cloud cover and reflected SW • satellite and surface data have been radiationradiation have decreas ...
... role ofstratiform clouds incloud the climate system is oneSW of radiation have increased in over midlatitude oceans the biggest uncertainties understanding future climate change • low-level stratiform cloud cover and reflected SW • satellite and surface data have been radiationradiation have decreas ...
In Defense of Emissions Egalitarianism?
... this good is non-rival and non-excludable. Others cannot be prevented from benefitting from a stable climate 6 and consumption of some does not inhibit the consumption of others. The fact that this good will benefit different people unequally does neither constitute rivalry nor non-excludability. He ...
... this good is non-rival and non-excludable. Others cannot be prevented from benefitting from a stable climate 6 and consumption of some does not inhibit the consumption of others. The fact that this good will benefit different people unequally does neither constitute rivalry nor non-excludability. He ...
Whangarei District Climate Change Constraints Report
... Executive Summary Climate change has long been perceived as a threat to the environment, but in recent years this threat perception has expanded to include social, cultural, security, and economic concerns. The theory underpinning anthropogenic climate change, put very simplistically, is that incre ...
... Executive Summary Climate change has long been perceived as a threat to the environment, but in recent years this threat perception has expanded to include social, cultural, security, and economic concerns. The theory underpinning anthropogenic climate change, put very simplistically, is that incre ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Countries
... 1 Adaptation to Climate Change Adaptation has always taken place in human history but - as the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlines - new challenges are placed by the uncertainty, the speed of the changes to come, as well as by the fact that the ex ...
... 1 Adaptation to Climate Change Adaptation has always taken place in human history but - as the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlines - new challenges are placed by the uncertainty, the speed of the changes to come, as well as by the fact that the ex ...
Mass-media coverage, its influence on public awareness of climate
... Japan. We chose three major newspapers: Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun. According to a 2007 circulation survey of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (Nihon Shimbun Kyokai; http://www.pressnet.or.jp/), the circulations of Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Mai ...
... Japan. We chose three major newspapers: Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun. According to a 2007 circulation survey of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (Nihon Shimbun Kyokai; http://www.pressnet.or.jp/), the circulations of Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Mai ...
national action plan on climate change
... water are met through adoption of new and appropriate technologies such as low temperature desalination technologies that allow for the use of ocean water. The National Water Policy would be revisited in consultation with states to ensure basin level management strategies to deal with variability in ...
... water are met through adoption of new and appropriate technologies such as low temperature desalination technologies that allow for the use of ocean water. The National Water Policy would be revisited in consultation with states to ensure basin level management strategies to deal with variability in ...
2. Sergi - Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making
... – Hypothetical choices, survey design can affect results (Louviere, 2006) – Cognitive biases in stated preference preference studies (Fischhoff, 2005) ...
... – Hypothetical choices, survey design can affect results (Louviere, 2006) – Cognitive biases in stated preference preference studies (Fischhoff, 2005) ...
NEW ZEALAND`S GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY 1990–2014
... For more information on New Zealand’s post-2020 climate change target see: http://www.mfe.govt.nz/climate-change/reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ New-Zealand%E2%80%99s-post-2020-climate-change-target. See: http://www.mfe.govt.nz/climate-change/reporting-greenhouse-gas-emissions/latest-2020-net-pos ...
... For more information on New Zealand’s post-2020 climate change target see: http://www.mfe.govt.nz/climate-change/reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ New-Zealand%E2%80%99s-post-2020-climate-change-target. See: http://www.mfe.govt.nz/climate-change/reporting-greenhouse-gas-emissions/latest-2020-net-pos ...
green logistics: the carbon agenda
... freight transport modes and 'logistics buildings'. Logistics' GHG 'footprint' may appear relatively modest, though, unlike most other sectors, which have been reducing their GHG emissions, transport, and in particular freight transport, has been increasing its output of these gases. On a business-as ...
... freight transport modes and 'logistics buildings'. Logistics' GHG 'footprint' may appear relatively modest, though, unlike most other sectors, which have been reducing their GHG emissions, transport, and in particular freight transport, has been increasing its output of these gases. On a business-as ...
Support to Multi-National Environmental Conventions and Terrestrial
... Climate change, caused by the rapid and uncontrolled increase of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere during the past 150 years, is a major public, political and scientific concern world-wide. Public concern resulted in the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) an ...
... Climate change, caused by the rapid and uncontrolled increase of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere during the past 150 years, is a major public, political and scientific concern world-wide. Public concern resulted in the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) an ...
Conflict over Climate Change Politics - GUPEA
... The considerable increased attention to climate change over the last decades, has led to diverse responses from policy actors as well as a multitude of environmental movements. As a complex political issue, it contains tension between economic and societal goals, but also between scientific knowledg ...
... The considerable increased attention to climate change over the last decades, has led to diverse responses from policy actors as well as a multitude of environmental movements. As a complex political issue, it contains tension between economic and societal goals, but also between scientific knowledg ...
IATA CO2 Calculator Guidelines
... evidence to suggest that non-CO2 aircraft emissions at high altitude may have additional climate impacts. Research is ongoing to investigate the complex physical and chemical reactions that occur in the upper atmosphere. 2.2 What is carbon offsetting? Climate change is one of the biggest threats we ...
... evidence to suggest that non-CO2 aircraft emissions at high altitude may have additional climate impacts. Research is ongoing to investigate the complex physical and chemical reactions that occur in the upper atmosphere. 2.2 What is carbon offsetting? Climate change is one of the biggest threats we ...
Kimberly Marion Suiseeya - Initiative on Climate Adaptation
... The first section of this paper elaborates on the concept of human security by suggesting a way to operationalize it as a dependent variable. The second section of this paper presents background on Laos. As a case study, Laos provides an interesting political and natural landscape for researching th ...
... The first section of this paper elaborates on the concept of human security by suggesting a way to operationalize it as a dependent variable. The second section of this paper presents background on Laos. As a case study, Laos provides an interesting political and natural landscape for researching th ...
2014 PreProposal TNC Shoshone River Revegetation
... allowing their natural reestablishment in downstream segments of the Shoshone River. Water quality in the impaired Shoshone River will also be improved as salt concentrations brought to the surface by salt cedar are decreased, erosion is reduced, and the water table is raised. Reducing erosion will ...
... allowing their natural reestablishment in downstream segments of the Shoshone River. Water quality in the impaired Shoshone River will also be improved as salt concentrations brought to the surface by salt cedar are decreased, erosion is reduced, and the water table is raised. Reducing erosion will ...
Soil Erosion Climate Change Impact Snapshot
... in soil loss, even if the rainfall amount and intensity are the same. Rainfall erosivity will continue to vary across NSW and changes in rainfall erosivity will also vary from region to region (Figures 5 to 8). The greatest increases in risk (>70% change) appear around Broken Hill and the Far West. ...
... in soil loss, even if the rainfall amount and intensity are the same. Rainfall erosivity will continue to vary across NSW and changes in rainfall erosivity will also vary from region to region (Figures 5 to 8). The greatest increases in risk (>70% change) appear around Broken Hill and the Far West. ...
LCCARL395_en.pdf
... The Caribbean is already experiencing impacts resulting from climate change, which are projected to increase with further warming. The region’s geographical diversity means that a wide range of effects will be experienced. On the one hand, there may be opportunities to explore new crops and new mark ...
... The Caribbean is already experiencing impacts resulting from climate change, which are projected to increase with further warming. The region’s geographical diversity means that a wide range of effects will be experienced. On the one hand, there may be opportunities to explore new crops and new mark ...
Ville Kumpu A climate for reduction? Futures imagined in
... the effort of the MediaClimate network to explore and compare the coverage of climate summits across the world [29,20,30,31]. Connected to this effort the coverage of HS and IS was analyzed using a coding scheme that classified the genre, size, location of the stories and people quoted in the storie ...
... the effort of the MediaClimate network to explore and compare the coverage of climate summits across the world [29,20,30,31]. Connected to this effort the coverage of HS and IS was analyzed using a coding scheme that classified the genre, size, location of the stories and people quoted in the storie ...
The Risks of Multiple Breadbasket Failures in the 21st Century: A
... food system that are potentially troubling. The food system is defined as the system by which food is delivered (or not) to every person every day. DRIVER #1: POPULATION GROWTH AND URBANIZATION Global human population continues to increase, and is likely to reach somewhere between 9 and 10 billion i ...
... food system that are potentially troubling. The food system is defined as the system by which food is delivered (or not) to every person every day. DRIVER #1: POPULATION GROWTH AND URBANIZATION Global human population continues to increase, and is likely to reach somewhere between 9 and 10 billion i ...
Diving for science • Living highways • A history of UK coastal
... from pole to pole, from the deep Earth and oceans to the atmosphere and space. We work in partnership with other UK and international researchers, policymakers and business to tackle the big environmental challenges we face – how to use our limited resources sustainably, how to build resilience to e ...
... from pole to pole, from the deep Earth and oceans to the atmosphere and space. We work in partnership with other UK and international researchers, policymakers and business to tackle the big environmental challenges we face – how to use our limited resources sustainably, how to build resilience to e ...
PowerPoint - Martin Sewell
... Hyperbolic or exponential discount function? • During a lifetime, generally the risk that a reward will not be available decreases as one approaches the time that the reward is expected, which leads to a hyperbolic discount function. • The exponential function is the only discount function that pro ...
... Hyperbolic or exponential discount function? • During a lifetime, generally the risk that a reward will not be available decreases as one approaches the time that the reward is expected, which leads to a hyperbolic discount function. • The exponential function is the only discount function that pro ...
October 22 2012 Session B Sustainability
... • Place burden of argument on trade-off proponent • Avoid all significant adverse effects • Protect the future (do not displace negative effects to future generations) • Provide explicit justification • Use an open process ...
... • Place burden of argument on trade-off proponent • Avoid all significant adverse effects • Protect the future (do not displace negative effects to future generations) • Provide explicit justification • Use an open process ...