More than Meets the Eye: The Social Cost of Carbon in U.S. Climate
... In an estimation distinct from the SCC, economists may also try to calculate the optimal carbon price to achieve a given policy objective. In the economists’ toolbox, this reflects a preference to use price (for example, a tax rather than direct regulation) to reduce society’s use of carbon dioxide. ...
... In an estimation distinct from the SCC, economists may also try to calculate the optimal carbon price to achieve a given policy objective. In the economists’ toolbox, this reflects a preference to use price (for example, a tax rather than direct regulation) to reduce society’s use of carbon dioxide. ...
Bo Kjellén - Stockholm Resilience Centre
... Vague commitments on stabilization of emissions of greenhouse gases for industrialized countries at 1990 by 2000, no rules on compliance. Principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities Financial and technical support for developing countries recognized. Institutional and process rules esta ...
... Vague commitments on stabilization of emissions of greenhouse gases for industrialized countries at 1990 by 2000, no rules on compliance. Principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities Financial and technical support for developing countries recognized. Institutional and process rules esta ...
UN-DESA Policy Brief No. 26
... other environmental issues is crucial and could be undertaken immediately by the international community. Awareness raising efforts should build on support of scientific efforts such as the UNESCO-sponsored Monaco Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World and could include preparation of easy-to-un ...
... other environmental issues is crucial and could be undertaken immediately by the international community. Awareness raising efforts should build on support of scientific efforts such as the UNESCO-sponsored Monaco Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World and could include preparation of easy-to-un ...
Climate Change Reader – 4o collated articles on
... woodlands to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. This brings together data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and employs it at the national level as a situation analysis and to identify gaps in our knowledge. The report includes some interesting comparisons between UK ...
... woodlands to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. This brings together data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and employs it at the national level as a situation analysis and to identify gaps in our knowledge. The report includes some interesting comparisons between UK ...
Environmental Effects Assessment Panel, EEAP Environmental
... Causes & consequences of increased production and release of nitrous oxide Environmental Effects Assessment Panel ...
... Causes & consequences of increased production and release of nitrous oxide Environmental Effects Assessment Panel ...
An Uncertain Future: law enforcement, national security and climate
... At the same time, in the environmentally constrained but more populous world that can be expected over the course of this century, there will be greater scarcity of three essential resources: food, water and energy. There may be difficulties in feeding growing populations as land degradation as a re ...
... At the same time, in the environmentally constrained but more populous world that can be expected over the course of this century, there will be greater scarcity of three essential resources: food, water and energy. There may be difficulties in feeding growing populations as land degradation as a re ...
Healing Troubled Waters: Preparing Trout and
... trout and salmon in the United States. A litany of scientific evidence demonstrates that our atmosphere is warming and the climate is changing due to the buildup of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, or greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide is at its highest concentration in the earth’s atmospher ...
... trout and salmon in the United States. A litany of scientific evidence demonstrates that our atmosphere is warming and the climate is changing due to the buildup of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, or greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide is at its highest concentration in the earth’s atmospher ...
Comparing variability and trends in observed and modelled global
... the natural climate signals removed from the observed global‐mean temperature time series there is a large discontinuity around 1945, which has been ascribed to uncorrected biases in the SST record [Thompson et al., 2008]. The discontinuity does not appear in the climate model simulations, and hence ...
... the natural climate signals removed from the observed global‐mean temperature time series there is a large discontinuity around 1945, which has been ascribed to uncorrected biases in the SST record [Thompson et al., 2008]. The discontinuity does not appear in the climate model simulations, and hence ...
Peru - The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
... • Benefits shared between the national and local jurisdictions (administration and enabling conditions) and emission reductions generators. • Benefits may be monetary or services. • In the three proposed areas there is consensus with indigenous organizations. Further discussion is needed with the ot ...
... • Benefits shared between the national and local jurisdictions (administration and enabling conditions) and emission reductions generators. • Benefits may be monetary or services. • In the three proposed areas there is consensus with indigenous organizations. Further discussion is needed with the ot ...
Primary, secondary and tertiary effects of eco
... we have witnessed a lamentable process of denial, subterfuge and protest by the smoking lobby,74 the grasp of the tobacco industry upon high income populations has been curtailed. Doctors and medical researchers have made crucial contributions to this advance. As representatives of a socially engage ...
... we have witnessed a lamentable process of denial, subterfuge and protest by the smoking lobby,74 the grasp of the tobacco industry upon high income populations has been curtailed. Doctors and medical researchers have made crucial contributions to this advance. As representatives of a socially engage ...
forecasting the impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems
... climatic regimes and organismal physiology and ecology. Indeed, largely because of the steep gradient in thermal and desiccation stresses that occurs during low tide, the rocky intertidal zone has long served as a natural laboratory for examining relationships between abiotic stresses, biotic intera ...
... climatic regimes and organismal physiology and ecology. Indeed, largely because of the steep gradient in thermal and desiccation stresses that occurs during low tide, the rocky intertidal zone has long served as a natural laboratory for examining relationships between abiotic stresses, biotic intera ...
ESA 485 presentation- human interactions with
... - any long-term significant change in the weather patterns of an area ...
... - any long-term significant change in the weather patterns of an area ...
Chapter 5: Pacific Island Developing Country Water Resources and
... natural variability in precipitation patterns or changes in storm tracks. This is particularly true for the atoll states in the region (Salinger et al. 1995). El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) episodes in the past two decades have reduced precipitation by as much as 87 percent in the western Pacif ...
... natural variability in precipitation patterns or changes in storm tracks. This is particularly true for the atoll states in the region (Salinger et al. 1995). El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) episodes in the past two decades have reduced precipitation by as much as 87 percent in the western Pacif ...
Agroforestry Solutions for Rural Livelihood Challenges Agroforestry
... Presentation at Lisbon, Portugal ...
... Presentation at Lisbon, Portugal ...
Climate foodchat
... Because of global warming, we will need more land to produce the same amount of food. ...
... Because of global warming, we will need more land to produce the same amount of food. ...
Human drivers of national greenhouse-gas emissions
... that changes in the scale of the human population produce proportional changes in stress on the environment by dividing population size into aggregate measures of stress (for example, greenhouse-gas emissions) to yield per capita stress (for example, greenhouse-gas emissions per capita). However, it ...
... that changes in the scale of the human population produce proportional changes in stress on the environment by dividing population size into aggregate measures of stress (for example, greenhouse-gas emissions) to yield per capita stress (for example, greenhouse-gas emissions per capita). However, it ...
PowerPoint **** - UCLA Land Surface Hydrology Research Group
... According to figure (b), future climate influences are greater for historically transient basins, which will shift towards rain dominant basins and experience longer summer low flow period, with increase in winter streamflow and significant decrease in summer streamflow, primarily due to reduction i ...
... According to figure (b), future climate influences are greater for historically transient basins, which will shift towards rain dominant basins and experience longer summer low flow period, with increase in winter streamflow and significant decrease in summer streamflow, primarily due to reduction i ...
The legacy of the Kyoto Protocol: a view from
... It means we are de facto stuck with a system of voluntary pledges and national commitments made in Copenhagen, but without the necessary machinery to make this as effective as possible.30 This paralyses action to bring global emissions down in the period till 2020. This does not mean that a legally ...
... It means we are de facto stuck with a system of voluntary pledges and national commitments made in Copenhagen, but without the necessary machinery to make this as effective as possible.30 This paralyses action to bring global emissions down in the period till 2020. This does not mean that a legally ...
A probabilistic analysis of human influence on
... climate change was given by the IPCC whereas our approach progresses research on the statistical detection of climate change (Hansen et al., 2010; Rhamstorf and Coumou, 2011) to include the probability of that change. Recent research has begun to inspect this issue through attribution studies includ ...
... climate change was given by the IPCC whereas our approach progresses research on the statistical detection of climate change (Hansen et al., 2010; Rhamstorf and Coumou, 2011) to include the probability of that change. Recent research has begun to inspect this issue through attribution studies includ ...
Projected change in climate thresholds in the northeastern United
... change on weeds, insects, and disease pests are not considered, as it is assumed that farmers will adapt with appropriate changes in control strategies as needed. Well-tested simulation models are not available for most of the economically important crops and weed species in the NE. We can, however, ...
... change on weeds, insects, and disease pests are not considered, as it is assumed that farmers will adapt with appropriate changes in control strategies as needed. Well-tested simulation models are not available for most of the economically important crops and weed species in the NE. We can, however, ...
The Principles and Criteria of Public Climate Finance
... nder Article 4.3 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), developed countries committed to provide funding for the “agreed full incremental costs” of climate change in developing countries, meaning the additional costs of transforming business-asusual fossil-fuel dependent economic ...
... nder Article 4.3 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), developed countries committed to provide funding for the “agreed full incremental costs” of climate change in developing countries, meaning the additional costs of transforming business-asusual fossil-fuel dependent economic ...
Climate and Culture Change in Archaeology
... Archaeologists have always underscored that how humans respond to changes in their natural environment plays a crucial part in the formation of society. In an era of unprecedented, threatening global warming and massive species extinctions, this message is clear even to a broader contemporary audien ...
... Archaeologists have always underscored that how humans respond to changes in their natural environment plays a crucial part in the formation of society. In an era of unprecedented, threatening global warming and massive species extinctions, this message is clear even to a broader contemporary audien ...