The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax
... Section I maintains that the alternative to a carbon tax is not a policy of nonintervention. The only political alternative to a carbon tax is command-andcontrol regulation. Those regulations are firmly entrenched in law, and there is no plausible scenario in which they are removed by conservative p ...
... Section I maintains that the alternative to a carbon tax is not a policy of nonintervention. The only political alternative to a carbon tax is command-andcontrol regulation. Those regulations are firmly entrenched in law, and there is no plausible scenario in which they are removed by conservative p ...
GCOS - WMO
... the hydrological, energy or carbon cycles to the changing climate? • Are additional ECV needed for mitigation or vulnerability, impacts and adaption studies and planning? • Are the monitoring networks sufficient and delivering data as needed? • Could storage of, and access to, data be improved? • Wh ...
... the hydrological, energy or carbon cycles to the changing climate? • Are additional ECV needed for mitigation or vulnerability, impacts and adaption studies and planning? • Are the monitoring networks sufficient and delivering data as needed? • Could storage of, and access to, data be improved? • Wh ...
Adaptation for Climate Change in the Coastal Sector of Saint Lucia
... Importance of the Coastal Zone St. Lucia has a relatively high level of biological and ecosystem diversity. A total of over 1,300 known species of plants (including seven endemics), over 150 species of birds (including five endemics), approximately 250 reef fish species and 50 coral species have be ...
... Importance of the Coastal Zone St. Lucia has a relatively high level of biological and ecosystem diversity. A total of over 1,300 known species of plants (including seven endemics), over 150 species of birds (including five endemics), approximately 250 reef fish species and 50 coral species have be ...
Introduction to Integrated Environment Assessment Models
... • Diverse socio-economic scenarios • Macro and micro-economies • Local and regional boundaries • Short and long time horizons • Local and global environmental concerns • Rural and urban perspectives • Regional emissions and impact assessment • Probability and Decision under uncertainty • Technology ...
... • Diverse socio-economic scenarios • Macro and micro-economies • Local and regional boundaries • Short and long time horizons • Local and global environmental concerns • Rural and urban perspectives • Regional emissions and impact assessment • Probability and Decision under uncertainty • Technology ...
Which of the following gases do not Melting sea ice could
... Climate sensitivity is the equilibrium temperature change in response to changes of the radiative forcing (or CO2 concentrations). The climate sensitivity depends on the initial climate state. It can be inferred from palaeo-climate data, observed temperature change and climate models. Slow feedbacks ...
... Climate sensitivity is the equilibrium temperature change in response to changes of the radiative forcing (or CO2 concentrations). The climate sensitivity depends on the initial climate state. It can be inferred from palaeo-climate data, observed temperature change and climate models. Slow feedbacks ...
A Bottom Up, Resource- Based Perspective To Deal With Climate Variability and Change
... limitations, which have come increasingly to light over the past decade. The concept is inadequate for some forcing agents, such as absorbing aerosols and land-use changes, that may have regional climate impacts much greater than would be predicted from TOA radiative forcing. Also, it diagnoses only ...
... limitations, which have come increasingly to light over the past decade. The concept is inadequate for some forcing agents, such as absorbing aerosols and land-use changes, that may have regional climate impacts much greater than would be predicted from TOA radiative forcing. Also, it diagnoses only ...
The carbon cycle in a changing climate
... Warmer temperatures can also cause heat stress in plants, contribute to drought, and thereby reduce photosynthesis. Drought and heat stress can additionally lead to tree death, which has long-term impacts on ecosystems and the carbon cycle. For example, after strong droughts in the Amazon region in ...
... Warmer temperatures can also cause heat stress in plants, contribute to drought, and thereby reduce photosynthesis. Drought and heat stress can additionally lead to tree death, which has long-term impacts on ecosystems and the carbon cycle. For example, after strong droughts in the Amazon region in ...
Agriculture, Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration
... in higher yields from some crops. A warming climate and decreasing soil moisture can also result in production patterns shifting northward and an increasing need for irrigation. Changes, however, will likely vary significantly by region. Geography will play a large role in how agriculture might benefi ...
... in higher yields from some crops. A warming climate and decreasing soil moisture can also result in production patterns shifting northward and an increasing need for irrigation. Changes, however, will likely vary significantly by region. Geography will play a large role in how agriculture might benefi ...
RobockEthicsOslo - Alan Robock
... the planetary governance decision be made as to whether to implement geoengineering, and if so how much? Whose hand would be on the planetary thermostat? The principle of informed consent governs medical interventions. How could we get the informed consent of the entire planet? If geoengineering wer ...
... the planetary governance decision be made as to whether to implement geoengineering, and if so how much? Whose hand would be on the planetary thermostat? The principle of informed consent governs medical interventions. How could we get the informed consent of the entire planet? If geoengineering wer ...
Growing disruption: Climate change, food, and the fight against hunger
... threatening global food security.13 Slow-onset changes, such as gradual increases in temperature and changing rainfall patterns, are expected to intensify over the coming decades, putting downward pressure on yields. However, these impacts are already being felt today. Research indicates that global ...
... threatening global food security.13 Slow-onset changes, such as gradual increases in temperature and changing rainfall patterns, are expected to intensify over the coming decades, putting downward pressure on yields. However, these impacts are already being felt today. Research indicates that global ...
... 1993). Details of the regional model configuration used to perform the continuous 20-year simulation are found in Cabré et al. (2014). It includes the Grell convective scheme (Grell et al., 1993), and the planetary boundary layer parameterization is formulated following the MRF scheme by Hong and Pa ...
Sustainable Drylands Management - International Institute for
... established the national Watershed Development Fund to spread the effort to 100 districts in the country. 3 The concept of “Mother NGO” to support and accompany the efforts of participating NGO’s was based on the role WOTR played in the IGWDP. 4 Dougherty, B., A. Abusuwar and K.A. Razik. 2001. Sudan ...
... established the national Watershed Development Fund to spread the effort to 100 districts in the country. 3 The concept of “Mother NGO” to support and accompany the efforts of participating NGO’s was based on the role WOTR played in the IGWDP. 4 Dougherty, B., A. Abusuwar and K.A. Razik. 2001. Sudan ...
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Heathland ecosystems
... variability exists, scientific evidence indicates that the rapid climate changes of the past century are dominantly human-induced (IPCC 2007a). Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (NOX), and of aerosols (microscopic airborne part ...
... variability exists, scientific evidence indicates that the rapid climate changes of the past century are dominantly human-induced (IPCC 2007a). Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (NOX), and of aerosols (microscopic airborne part ...
On the moral differences between mitigation and adaptation
... Most would agree that climate change generates considerable otherͲregarding duties. Oneneednotbearadicalcosmopolitantoagreewiththis.ButthisotherͲregardingduty caninturnbedividedintodifferentsorts.Theoristswidelyacceptadistinctionbetween negativeandpositivedu ...
... Most would agree that climate change generates considerable otherͲregarding duties. Oneneednotbearadicalcosmopolitantoagreewiththis.ButthisotherͲregardingduty caninturnbedividedintodifferentsorts.Theoristswidelyacceptadistinctionbetween negativeandpositivedu ...
The economics of wind power: submission to the inquiry by the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change (253 kB) (opens in new window)
... by the industry, rather than the regulator. This generates a problem of asymmetric information. It is advisable that, in the future, it should be made mandatory for generators to disclose some information in exchange for the subsidies, in order to for the regulator to better estimate the level of su ...
... by the industry, rather than the regulator. This generates a problem of asymmetric information. It is advisable that, in the future, it should be made mandatory for generators to disclose some information in exchange for the subsidies, in order to for the regulator to better estimate the level of su ...
IEA World Energy Outlook Special Briefing for COP21
... emissions stay broadly flat, electricity demand increases by more than 40% to 2030. In essence, at the global level, the link between rising electricity demand and rising related CO2 emissions is broken – an important step towards further decarbonisation (Figure 2). Across the OECD, electricity dema ...
... emissions stay broadly flat, electricity demand increases by more than 40% to 2030. In essence, at the global level, the link between rising electricity demand and rising related CO2 emissions is broken – an important step towards further decarbonisation (Figure 2). Across the OECD, electricity dema ...
... of five out of the six bird species analysed in a western Mediterranean area had been delayed over the last 50 years. However, other phenology events associated with spring, such as flowering, leaf unfolding, fruiting or insect appearance, were significantly advanced in the same area in agreement wi ...
The Economics of Climate Change in the Caribbean
... Table 6.5: Selected countries: Change in tourist arrivals due to changes in tourism climate index........... 88 Table 6.6: Change in cruise passenger arrivals under A2, B2, for the Bahamas (%)................................ 89 Table 6.7: Projected change in arrivals for Barbados in specific years u ...
... Table 6.5: Selected countries: Change in tourist arrivals due to changes in tourism climate index........... 88 Table 6.6: Change in cruise passenger arrivals under A2, B2, for the Bahamas (%)................................ 89 Table 6.7: Projected change in arrivals for Barbados in specific years u ...
What satellites tell us about the global carbon budget
... Questions for the Residual Terrestrial Sink What’s the annual carbon budget? Atmosphere, fossil fuels, oceans, land ...
... Questions for the Residual Terrestrial Sink What’s the annual carbon budget? Atmosphere, fossil fuels, oceans, land ...
EPA CLIMATE CHANGE ANPR – WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
... gases than driving cars, UN report warns December 1, 2006 When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 per cent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 ...
... gases than driving cars, UN report warns December 1, 2006 When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 per cent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 ...
Challenging the current climate change – migration nexus: exploring
... open question ‘What is climate change for you?’ This initial question was followed by questions that build on each other such as ‘What are the impacts of climate change?’, ‘What are the causes of climate change?’, ‘Which measures could be taken to tackle it?’ ‘Who is in charge of it?’ ‘What sources ...
... open question ‘What is climate change for you?’ This initial question was followed by questions that build on each other such as ‘What are the impacts of climate change?’, ‘What are the causes of climate change?’, ‘Which measures could be taken to tackle it?’ ‘Who is in charge of it?’ ‘What sources ...
epa climate change anpr – what does it mean?
... gases than driving cars, UN report warns December 1, 2006 When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 per cent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 ...
... gases than driving cars, UN report warns December 1, 2006 When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 per cent of CO2 deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 ...