First Meeting of the Conference of African Heads of State
... • Fast start finance: The Collective commitment by developed countries is to provide new and additional resources, including forestry and investments through international institutions, approaching USD 30 billion for the period 2010–2012 with balanced allocation between adaptation and mitigation. Fu ...
... • Fast start finance: The Collective commitment by developed countries is to provide new and additional resources, including forestry and investments through international institutions, approaching USD 30 billion for the period 2010–2012 with balanced allocation between adaptation and mitigation. Fu ...
Paper - System Dynamics Society
... Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4430 USA July 24, 2007 ...
... Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4430 USA July 24, 2007 ...
LONG-TERM CLIMATE POLICY TARGETSAND IMPLICATIONS
... thereby reducing more serious risks associated with these higher temperatures, as well. For instance, a concentration level of 450 ppm CO2 eq has a high probability of keeping this increase below 2 °C, and even a more than 95% probability keeping it below 3 °C. For 650 ppm CO2 eq, the probability of ...
... thereby reducing more serious risks associated with these higher temperatures, as well. For instance, a concentration level of 450 ppm CO2 eq has a high probability of keeping this increase below 2 °C, and even a more than 95% probability keeping it below 3 °C. For 650 ppm CO2 eq, the probability of ...
The Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation in Global Warming
... studies concerning possible future climate change induced by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Supplemented with an active atmospheric hydrological cycle, experiments with different rates of CO 2 increase and different climate sensitivities are performed. The model exhibits a threshold value o ...
... studies concerning possible future climate change induced by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Supplemented with an active atmospheric hydrological cycle, experiments with different rates of CO 2 increase and different climate sensitivities are performed. The model exhibits a threshold value o ...
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... budgets. The increase of 100 ppm translates in roughly 200 additional GtCO2 of budget for each of the four analyzed regions. Although the budgets convey important information about regional climate policy, they lack the temporal dynamics which is more relevant for policy. Figure 2 provides the addit ...
... budgets. The increase of 100 ppm translates in roughly 200 additional GtCO2 of budget for each of the four analyzed regions. Although the budgets convey important information about regional climate policy, they lack the temporal dynamics which is more relevant for policy. Figure 2 provides the addit ...
Lab Handout
... Climatology Network (Menne et al. 2010) and are freely available to the public. The flowering phenology data are from Calinger et al. 2013 which is an Open Access article freely available to the public. INSTRUCTIONS Introduction Climate change as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissi ...
... Climatology Network (Menne et al. 2010) and are freely available to the public. The flowering phenology data are from Calinger et al. 2013 which is an Open Access article freely available to the public. INSTRUCTIONS Introduction Climate change as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissi ...
Carbon Disclosure Project Report
... Group Five is working towards the development of emission reduction targets for its fixed sites. It is anticipated that absolute emissions could be reduced by as much as 3% over the next five years, with 2012 as a base year. Whilst it is more complex to anticipate changes in absolute emissions for G ...
... Group Five is working towards the development of emission reduction targets for its fixed sites. It is anticipated that absolute emissions could be reduced by as much as 3% over the next five years, with 2012 as a base year. Whilst it is more complex to anticipate changes in absolute emissions for G ...
Microsoft Word
... in a simplification of the regression coefficients’ interpretation, particularly referring to their algebraic signs. The question on the weather statements was as followed: “If you look at the time you spent working at your farm, how strongly would you agree with the following statements with respe ...
... in a simplification of the regression coefficients’ interpretation, particularly referring to their algebraic signs. The question on the weather statements was as followed: “If you look at the time you spent working at your farm, how strongly would you agree with the following statements with respe ...
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... competition for light and nutrients increases. However, if felling occurred, one would expect a negative flux of carbon for several years, before re-growth of the second rotation began to take up significant quantities of carbon. Anthropogenic climate change: Climate change caused by increase in the ...
... competition for light and nutrients increases. However, if felling occurred, one would expect a negative flux of carbon for several years, before re-growth of the second rotation began to take up significant quantities of carbon. Anthropogenic climate change: Climate change caused by increase in the ...
Ecological Development and Global Climate Change: A Cross
... The Kyoto Protocol (hereafter, the Protocol) is an international treaty to govern the ‘‘commons’’ problem of global climate change. The Protocol commits signatories to targets and timetables for the reduction of GHG emissions. By 2012, industrialized (or Annex I) countries must reduce GHG emissions ...
... The Kyoto Protocol (hereafter, the Protocol) is an international treaty to govern the ‘‘commons’’ problem of global climate change. The Protocol commits signatories to targets and timetables for the reduction of GHG emissions. By 2012, industrialized (or Annex I) countries must reduce GHG emissions ...
Long-term changes in climate and insect damage
... The thermohygrometric conditions within the interior of Knole have been regularly monitored since 2000. However, such records cover a short timespan in com parison with the long history of the house and cannot tell us of the likely future climate. Recently, Lankester & Brimblecombe (2012a, 2012b) h ...
... The thermohygrometric conditions within the interior of Knole have been regularly monitored since 2000. However, such records cover a short timespan in com parison with the long history of the house and cannot tell us of the likely future climate. Recently, Lankester & Brimblecombe (2012a, 2012b) h ...
Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan
... 15 agencies, spearheaded by the Office for Commonwealth Development. The Plan was made possible by the technical support of the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), an interstate organization that promotes air quality, and the support of the Center for Clean Air Policy, the ...
... 15 agencies, spearheaded by the Office for Commonwealth Development. The Plan was made possible by the technical support of the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), an interstate organization that promotes air quality, and the support of the Center for Clean Air Policy, the ...
Sustainability Plan 2013-2018 - Sydney Local Health District
... emissions.1 There is a need for rapid and drastic greenhouse gas emissions reductions if we are to avoid what has been called “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”.2 The health sector has a pivotal role to play in mitigating and adapting to the challenge. There is now awareness of t ...
... emissions.1 There is a need for rapid and drastic greenhouse gas emissions reductions if we are to avoid what has been called “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”.2 The health sector has a pivotal role to play in mitigating and adapting to the challenge. There is now awareness of t ...
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... decisions. This influence is especially likely in the agricultural production sector where weather has a direct and profound impact on production levels. The adjustment process of outputs and quasi-fixed factors towards their long-run equilibrium levels may be affected by the firm’s expectation abou ...
... decisions. This influence is especially likely in the agricultural production sector where weather has a direct and profound impact on production levels. The adjustment process of outputs and quasi-fixed factors towards their long-run equilibrium levels may be affected by the firm’s expectation abou ...
Chapter 14: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future
... Mode (SAM) is likely to weaken Fig. 14.16: DJF mean SLP indices for historical and RCP4.5 scenarios. (top) Time series of ensemble mean, (bottom) 2081-2100 vs 1986-2005 time means considerably as stratospheric ozone recovers through the mid21st c. with some, but not well documented, implications for ...
... Mode (SAM) is likely to weaken Fig. 14.16: DJF mean SLP indices for historical and RCP4.5 scenarios. (top) Time series of ensemble mean, (bottom) 2081-2100 vs 1986-2005 time means considerably as stratospheric ozone recovers through the mid21st c. with some, but not well documented, implications for ...
LiCCo Primary Evaluation
... ideas that relate to that word. In time and with encouragement pupils can then take each of these new ideas and again draw in the five to ten main things that they associate with those ideas. ...
... ideas that relate to that word. In time and with encouragement pupils can then take each of these new ideas and again draw in the five to ten main things that they associate with those ideas. ...
Beyond species distribution modeling: A
... 2010), and P. austriacus, in particular, is predicted to experience severe range contractions in Iberia where populations have persisted across past climatic changes (Razgour et al., 2013). I focus on the Iberian Peninsula because of its evolutionary importance as a major Pleistocene glacial refuge ...
... 2010), and P. austriacus, in particular, is predicted to experience severe range contractions in Iberia where populations have persisted across past climatic changes (Razgour et al., 2013). I focus on the Iberian Peninsula because of its evolutionary importance as a major Pleistocene glacial refuge ...
Contributions to the management of Chancay
... local water resources and planning of adaptation and mitigation. Coastal zones are characterized by a high population density, associated with significant socio-economic activities, with diverse ecosystems that support and maintain habitats and also a food resource. Thus, coastal areas are considere ...
... local water resources and planning of adaptation and mitigation. Coastal zones are characterized by a high population density, associated with significant socio-economic activities, with diverse ecosystems that support and maintain habitats and also a food resource. Thus, coastal areas are considere ...
LCC/2014/0101Roseacre Wood , Roseacre and Wharles, Fylde
... Fugitive emissions of methane could potentially arise from the wellbore and mud circulation system. The applicant has provided a specific risk assessment for this scenario, which includes monitoring and proposes emergency control measures. The operator will carry out testing of all surface pipework ...
... Fugitive emissions of methane could potentially arise from the wellbore and mud circulation system. The applicant has provided a specific risk assessment for this scenario, which includes monitoring and proposes emergency control measures. The operator will carry out testing of all surface pipework ...
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... produced must change too. Climate change is making it harder to grow food because of natural disasters, like floods, droughts and warmer seasons. Food and agriculture need to adapt to the effects of climate change in order to produce more for a growing global population in a sustainable way. Many of ...
... produced must change too. Climate change is making it harder to grow food because of natural disasters, like floods, droughts and warmer seasons. Food and agriculture need to adapt to the effects of climate change in order to produce more for a growing global population in a sustainable way. Many of ...
Fisheries, aquaculture and climate change
... include falling productivity, species migration and localized extinctions, as well as conflict over use of scarce resources and increased risks associated with more extreme climatic events such as hurricanes. These result from direct impacts on fish themselves as well as from impacts on the ecosyste ...
... include falling productivity, species migration and localized extinctions, as well as conflict over use of scarce resources and increased risks associated with more extreme climatic events such as hurricanes. These result from direct impacts on fish themselves as well as from impacts on the ecosyste ...
Weather, Climate, and Worldviews: The Sources
... in Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth). But other dimensions of weather—notably patterns of precipitation that result in droughts and floods—are of great importance in characterizations of climate change and may also act as potent signals to individuals about larger trends in climate. Therefore a ...
... in Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth). But other dimensions of weather—notably patterns of precipitation that result in droughts and floods—are of great importance in characterizations of climate change and may also act as potent signals to individuals about larger trends in climate. Therefore a ...
Greenhouse Gas Challenges
... outcome of the legislative and rulemaking processes or a specific related impact on our generating facilities and consolidated financial results” ...
... outcome of the legislative and rulemaking processes or a specific related impact on our generating facilities and consolidated financial results” ...
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... respectively in figure 1, show the zero-profit equilibrium for the sector conditional on the prevailing climate conditions. These curves are independent of the price of emissions because agriculture has been assumed to be a non-emitting sector. When both countries are diversified in the sense that e ...
... respectively in figure 1, show the zero-profit equilibrium for the sector conditional on the prevailing climate conditions. These curves are independent of the price of emissions because agriculture has been assumed to be a non-emitting sector. When both countries are diversified in the sense that e ...
A Tale of Two Crises A Tale of Two Crises
... automatically be knock on effects for the other crisis (the environmental one). The second stream is focused on one particular response to the financial crisis: the use of fiscal stimulus. Here the optimist sees an unprecedented opportunity to direct funds that would otherwise be unavailable towards ...
... automatically be knock on effects for the other crisis (the environmental one). The second stream is focused on one particular response to the financial crisis: the use of fiscal stimulus. Here the optimist sees an unprecedented opportunity to direct funds that would otherwise be unavailable towards ...
Years of Living Dangerously
Years of Living Dangerously is a documentary television series focusing on global warming. The first season premiered on April 13, 2014, consisted of 9 episodes, and ran on Showtime. It won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The second season, consisting of 8 episodes, is expected to air on the National Geographic Channel in late 2016, with broader distribution than the first season. James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and clean energy investor and environmental activist Daniel Abbasi are executive producers of the series, as was the late Jerry Weintraub for the first season. Joel Bach and David Gelber, former 60 Minutes producers, are co-creators of the series as well as executive producers. Joseph Romm and Heidi Cullen are the chief science advisors.The weekly episodes feature celebrity investigators, who each have a history of environmental activism, and well-known journalists, each of whom have a background in environmental reportage. These ""correspondents"" travel to areas around the world and throughout the U.S. affected by global warming to interview experts and ordinary people affected by, and seeking solutions to, the effects of global warming. They act as proxies for the audience, asking questions to find out people's opinions and to discover the scientific evidence. The celebrities in season 1 included Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Ian Somerhalder, Jessica Alba, Don Cheadle, America Ferrera, Michael C. Hall, Olivia Munn and Schwarzenegger. The journalists include Lesley Stahl, Thomas Friedman, Chris Hayes and Mark Bittman. The final episode of season 1 featured an interview by Friedman of President Barack Obama. In season 2, David Letterman has agreed to travel to India to interview the prime minister and examine how the country plans to distribute solar power to its entire population over the next decade. The show will send Schwarzenegger as a correspondent to China. Other hosts for season 2 include Cameron, Somerhalder, Munn, Friedman, Cheadle, and newcomers Jack Black, Joshua Jackson, Aasif Mandvi, Cecily Strong and Ty Burrell in an episode about electric cars. Season 2 is expected to cover more impacts of climate change, like hurricanes, historic droughts and the rapidly increasing extinction rate of species, but Bach noted that the season will ""focus much more ... on solutions that individuals, communities, companies and even governments can use to address worldwide climate change.""Schwarzenegger reflected on how the series tries to make the issue of climate change resonate with the public: ""I think the environmental movement only can be successful if we are simple and clear and make it a human story. We will tell human stories in this project. The scientists would never get the kind of attention that someone in show business gets."" Cameron elaborated: ""We didn’t use our celebrities as talking head experts, because they’re not climate experts. They were concerned, intelligent, curious citizens who were out to find answers. They were functioning as journalists."" Newsweek said that the celebrity reporters ""lend sparks to an issue that sends most viewers for the exits"".