Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming
... contentions that we want to the leave the world in good condition for future generations. Second, positive illusions allow us to conclude that energy problems don’t exist or are not severe enough to merit action—in other words, to stick our heads in the sand. Third, we interpret events in a self-ser ...
... contentions that we want to the leave the world in good condition for future generations. Second, positive illusions allow us to conclude that energy problems don’t exist or are not severe enough to merit action—in other words, to stick our heads in the sand. Third, we interpret events in a self-ser ...
Future Impacts of Climate Change across Europe
... were not available when this paper was finalised; however, the respective organisations and authors were contacted with requests for preliminary findings. The bulk of the final findings from the CECILIA and CLAVIER projects (except those cited in other research reports), as well as a number of paper ...
... were not available when this paper was finalised; however, the respective organisations and authors were contacted with requests for preliminary findings. The bulk of the final findings from the CECILIA and CLAVIER projects (except those cited in other research reports), as well as a number of paper ...
lift the ban, cook the climate
... widely believed to become a consistent feature of the oil market for years to come. As a result, oil production, emissions, and demand for oil are all rising. In short, if increases in U.S. oil production were ever being offset by reductions in supply elsewhere, they certainly are not today. Therefor ...
... widely believed to become a consistent feature of the oil market for years to come. As a result, oil production, emissions, and demand for oil are all rising. In short, if increases in U.S. oil production were ever being offset by reductions in supply elsewhere, they certainly are not today. Therefor ...
Rapid Climate Change
... the Colorado School of Mines, his M.S. in geoIce, the Museum of Climate physics from the University of Wisconsin, One can learn a lot about what controls Madison, and his Ph.D. in hydrogeology/hydroloclimate by studying glacial ice. When Ice as Thermometer gy from the University of Nevada, Reno. Tay ...
... the Colorado School of Mines, his M.S. in geoIce, the Museum of Climate physics from the University of Wisconsin, One can learn a lot about what controls Madison, and his Ph.D. in hydrogeology/hydroloclimate by studying glacial ice. When Ice as Thermometer gy from the University of Nevada, Reno. Tay ...
The business case for action - BASIC
... •Establish a long term, market-based policy framework extending to 2030 that will give investors in climate change mitigation confidence in the long term value of their investments. Establishing indicative signals extending to 2050 would also be beneficial •Ensure that the policy framework is global ...
... •Establish a long term, market-based policy framework extending to 2030 that will give investors in climate change mitigation confidence in the long term value of their investments. Establishing indicative signals extending to 2050 would also be beneficial •Ensure that the policy framework is global ...
The business case for action
... •Establish a long term, market-based policy framework extending to 2030 that will give investors in climate change mitigation confidence in the long term value of their investments. Establishing indicative signals extending to 2050 would also be beneficial •Ensure that the policy framework is global ...
... •Establish a long term, market-based policy framework extending to 2030 that will give investors in climate change mitigation confidence in the long term value of their investments. Establishing indicative signals extending to 2050 would also be beneficial •Ensure that the policy framework is global ...
Carbon Budget and Trends
... compared to the 1990s and is exceeding the predictions of the highest IPCC emission scenarios. • Atmospheric CO2 has grown at 1.9 ppm per year (compared to about 1.5 ppm during the previous 30 years) ...
... compared to the 1990s and is exceeding the predictions of the highest IPCC emission scenarios. • Atmospheric CO2 has grown at 1.9 ppm per year (compared to about 1.5 ppm during the previous 30 years) ...
Annual Report 2016 - National Center for Science Education
... of Representatives, began assembling their cabinet and setting their policy priorities. We are concerned that their very public rejection of established scientific conclusions will make it even more difficult for teachers to cover evolution and climate change accurately and completely. As we have fo ...
... of Representatives, began assembling their cabinet and setting their policy priorities. We are concerned that their very public rejection of established scientific conclusions will make it even more difficult for teachers to cover evolution and climate change accurately and completely. As we have fo ...
O 3 Environmental Advocacy in the Obama Years
... a moral example for countries like China to change course, all in the hope that these countries will accept a “grand bargain” toward a cleaner energy path.16 In February 2005, as a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, McKibben began meeting informally with students to discuss strategies for m ...
... a moral example for countries like China to change course, all in the hope that these countries will accept a “grand bargain” toward a cleaner energy path.16 In February 2005, as a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, McKibben began meeting informally with students to discuss strategies for m ...
Demographics of true and false climate facts
... Beliefs about climate change divide the U.S. public along party lines more distinctly than hot social issues. Research finds that better-educated or informed respondents are more likely to align with their parties on climate change. This information–elite polarization resembles a process of biased a ...
... Beliefs about climate change divide the U.S. public along party lines more distinctly than hot social issues. Research finds that better-educated or informed respondents are more likely to align with their parties on climate change. This information–elite polarization resembles a process of biased a ...
CARICOM Member States Hold Mini Summit with UN - SVG-UN
... Ban recognised the hardship the region has experienced due to climate change and the global financial crisis and called on leaders in the Caribbean region to stand up and let the world hear from them. "The United Nations is committed to working with you to respond to these and other challenges. I ho ...
... Ban recognised the hardship the region has experienced due to climate change and the global financial crisis and called on leaders in the Caribbean region to stand up and let the world hear from them. "The United Nations is committed to working with you to respond to these and other challenges. I ho ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... Riesgos (Manizales, Colombia, 2004), Annex (2009). Values are normalized on scale of 0 – 100 and presented against the average for 16 LAC countries found in IADB-IDEA (2007). Values are normalized on scale of 0 – 100 and presented against the average for 16 LAC countries found in IADB-IDEA (2007). M ...
... Riesgos (Manizales, Colombia, 2004), Annex (2009). Values are normalized on scale of 0 – 100 and presented against the average for 16 LAC countries found in IADB-IDEA (2007). Values are normalized on scale of 0 – 100 and presented against the average for 16 LAC countries found in IADB-IDEA (2007). M ...
Implications of land use change in tropical northern Africa under
... of land use in the study area leads to very small, mostly insignificantly small, additional differences in mean temperature and annual precipitation change in this region. These findings are only based on the specific set-up of our experiments, which only focuses on variations in the kind of land us ...
... of land use in the study area leads to very small, mostly insignificantly small, additional differences in mean temperature and annual precipitation change in this region. These findings are only based on the specific set-up of our experiments, which only focuses on variations in the kind of land us ...
Author`s personal copy - University of Alberta
... and numerical methods (Birks 1998), mostly using space-for-time regression and calibration approaches known as training sets, are tools pioneered in this period and later adapted for other applications. Beyond technical improvements, the acidification issue fuelled the credibility of palaeolimnology ...
... and numerical methods (Birks 1998), mostly using space-for-time regression and calibration approaches known as training sets, are tools pioneered in this period and later adapted for other applications. Beyond technical improvements, the acidification issue fuelled the credibility of palaeolimnology ...
Climate Change and Energy Vulnerability Country dashboard
... *The World Bank Knowledge Portal represent 5% but EM-DAT data provide an average of 0.6 floods per year. This implies that the frequency is higher for floods than droughts in the country. ** There is limited data on the economic impacts of droughts in Zambia (based on EM-DAT data). ...
... *The World Bank Knowledge Portal represent 5% but EM-DAT data provide an average of 0.6 floods per year. This implies that the frequency is higher for floods than droughts in the country. ** There is limited data on the economic impacts of droughts in Zambia (based on EM-DAT data). ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES John Whalley Working Paper 17498
... But in the last 40 or 50 years, environmental issues have emerged and grown in prominence globally to the point that the original Bretton Woods architecture and environmental issues are now inextricably linked, even if the formal structure of the Bretton Woods institutions does not explicitly accomm ...
... But in the last 40 or 50 years, environmental issues have emerged and grown in prominence globally to the point that the original Bretton Woods architecture and environmental issues are now inextricably linked, even if the formal structure of the Bretton Woods institutions does not explicitly accomm ...
PowerPoint Presentation - European Capacity Building Initiative
... • Develop guidance to avoid double counting • Develop rules for the mitigation and sustainable development mechanism under the CMA • Undertake a work programme under the framework for non-market approaches to sustainable development Develop modalities and functions of the forum on impacts of respons ...
... • Develop guidance to avoid double counting • Develop rules for the mitigation and sustainable development mechanism under the CMA • Undertake a work programme under the framework for non-market approaches to sustainable development Develop modalities and functions of the forum on impacts of respons ...
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... The Intertemporal Computable Equilibrium System (ICES) model is a CGE model sharing the core structure of the GTAP-E model (Burniaux and Troung, 2002), which in turn is an extension of the basic GTAP model (Hertel, 1997). The model is recursive-dynamic: a series of static equilibria is linked by end ...
... The Intertemporal Computable Equilibrium System (ICES) model is a CGE model sharing the core structure of the GTAP-E model (Burniaux and Troung, 2002), which in turn is an extension of the basic GTAP model (Hertel, 1997). The model is recursive-dynamic: a series of static equilibria is linked by end ...
Climate Ready Stirling
... gases have increased markedly since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that most of the increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is due to this increase in greenhouse gas concentrations1. There i ...
... gases have increased markedly since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that most of the increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is due to this increase in greenhouse gas concentrations1. There i ...
Document
... concluding that: "the impact of climate change on infrastructure and the natural environment has the potential to affect the tourism industry. In some cases this could result in social and economic impacts in regions with a high dependency on tourism as a source of income and employment." (Departm ...
... concluding that: "the impact of climate change on infrastructure and the natural environment has the potential to affect the tourism industry. In some cases this could result in social and economic impacts in regions with a high dependency on tourism as a source of income and employment." (Departm ...
Vol.10, No.2, 2010
... The figure, however, shows that the observations have a rather complicated structure. The warming appears to have occurred mostly in two spurts: during 1900–1940 and 1970–2000. This complicates the attribution of the warming because both fossil fuel CO2 emissions and the increase in radiative forcin ...
... The figure, however, shows that the observations have a rather complicated structure. The warming appears to have occurred mostly in two spurts: during 1900–1940 and 1970–2000. This complicates the attribution of the warming because both fossil fuel CO2 emissions and the increase in radiative forcin ...