Climate Change: Federal Laws and Policies Updated January 28, 2008
... Related to Greenhouse Gas Reductions Summary Climate change is generally viewed as a global issue, but proposed responses generally require action at the national level. In 1992, the United States ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which called on industrial ...
... Related to Greenhouse Gas Reductions Summary Climate change is generally viewed as a global issue, but proposed responses generally require action at the national level. In 1992, the United States ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which called on industrial ...
Complex Value Choices at the Environment
... http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309108268 ("Information at regional and local scales is most relevant for state and local resource managers and policy makers, as well as for the general population, but progress on these smaller spatial scales has been inadequate. Improving understanding of r ...
... http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309108268 ("Information at regional and local scales is most relevant for state and local resource managers and policy makers, as well as for the general population, but progress on these smaller spatial scales has been inadequate. Improving understanding of r ...
Guadalajara ICT declaration for transformative low
... the ICT sector We urge the negotiators in Cancun to: 1. Recognize and make full use of solution sectors (such as ICT), that through their products and services can help in providing solutions which can significantly reduce emissions in order to avoid yet further climate change and support adaptation ...
... the ICT sector We urge the negotiators in Cancun to: 1. Recognize and make full use of solution sectors (such as ICT), that through their products and services can help in providing solutions which can significantly reduce emissions in order to avoid yet further climate change and support adaptation ...
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... revenues that create interest realignment in industries (28). This realignment expands coalitions for lowcarbon policy, which provides support for active experimentation with policy and technology, and hence progress toward systems transformation. The marginal changes encouraged by weak economy-wide ...
... revenues that create interest realignment in industries (28). This realignment expands coalitions for lowcarbon policy, which provides support for active experimentation with policy and technology, and hence progress toward systems transformation. The marginal changes encouraged by weak economy-wide ...
International Review of Environmental and Resource
... • Can resilience be enhanced or depleted? • Are megacities more resilient or less resilient? ...
... • Can resilience be enhanced or depleted? • Are megacities more resilient or less resilient? ...
UNESCO
... From African scientists to African negotiators, all worry about sea level rise. (Communications with African experts; UNESCO-IOC 2009, African Oceans and Coasts) ...
... From African scientists to African negotiators, all worry about sea level rise. (Communications with African experts; UNESCO-IOC 2009, African Oceans and Coasts) ...
JOHNSON et al 2003 River And Stream Ecosystems
... spring will intensify these responses, as will changes in land use (Kling et al. 2003; Knox 2000, 2001). Land-use alterations that increase the risk of flash flooding include channelization, tile drainage in agricultural fields and wetlands, water diversion, and floodplain development. These alterat ...
... spring will intensify these responses, as will changes in land use (Kling et al. 2003; Knox 2000, 2001). Land-use alterations that increase the risk of flash flooding include channelization, tile drainage in agricultural fields and wetlands, water diversion, and floodplain development. These alterat ...
Off the charts: Extreme Australian summer heat
... 2011). During the severe heatwaves in southeastern Australia in 2009, Melbourne sweltered through three consecutive days at or above 43°C in late January. There were 980 deaths during this period—374 more than the estimated 606 that would have occurred on average for that time of year, or an estimat ...
... 2011). During the severe heatwaves in southeastern Australia in 2009, Melbourne sweltered through three consecutive days at or above 43°C in late January. There were 980 deaths during this period—374 more than the estimated 606 that would have occurred on average for that time of year, or an estimat ...
The International Climate Change Negotiations
... accepted that they should be subject to emissions targets established from the top-down, through international negotiations. Instead, they have preferred to address the climate change problem, if at all, from the bottom up, through nationally-determined policies such as efficiency standards and tech ...
... accepted that they should be subject to emissions targets established from the top-down, through international negotiations. Instead, they have preferred to address the climate change problem, if at all, from the bottom up, through nationally-determined policies such as efficiency standards and tech ...
China and climate change: the good, the bad and the ugly
... two emitters, the Chinese and US ratifications will, in all likelihood, be the tipping point for the Paris Agreement entering into force shortly. Domestically, climate change was not a priority for China until 2006, when it became the world’s largest GHG emitter, which increased both international a ...
... two emitters, the Chinese and US ratifications will, in all likelihood, be the tipping point for the Paris Agreement entering into force shortly. Domestically, climate change was not a priority for China until 2006, when it became the world’s largest GHG emitter, which increased both international a ...
lift the ban, cook the climate
... currently functions as an important limiting factor on an industry that has already increased production by 75% since 2008. Encouraging more oil production is precisely the wrong policy signal to be sending if you are not a climate denier. In fact, a cap and gradual phase down in U.S. – and global – ...
... currently functions as an important limiting factor on an industry that has already increased production by 75% since 2008. Encouraging more oil production is precisely the wrong policy signal to be sending if you are not a climate denier. In fact, a cap and gradual phase down in U.S. – and global – ...
Peatlands and flooding
... to prevent rivers and streams overflowing. These range from the flood defences you might see around your local rivers and streams, to less visible land management strategies that keep rainfall locked up in the landscape and out of the river system. ...
... to prevent rivers and streams overflowing. These range from the flood defences you might see around your local rivers and streams, to less visible land management strategies that keep rainfall locked up in the landscape and out of the river system. ...
Environmental Change and the Human Condition
... account for essentially all of the oil that humans have put into the oceans as well as for most of the human-produced gases that are altering the global climate. But, of course, energy is also an indispensable ingredient of material well-being and of eco- ...
... account for essentially all of the oil that humans have put into the oceans as well as for most of the human-produced gases that are altering the global climate. But, of course, energy is also an indispensable ingredient of material well-being and of eco- ...
Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed
... Fig. 1, anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role. The 1998-2008 hiatus is not the first period in the instrumental temperature record when the effects of anthropogenic changes in greenhouse gases ...
... Fig. 1, anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role. The 1998-2008 hiatus is not the first period in the instrumental temperature record when the effects of anthropogenic changes in greenhouse gases ...
Coping With Extreme Precipitation and Flooding
... A well-understood physical mechanism, the Clausius-Clapeyron relation, indicates that warmer air temperature will result in increased water vapor loading in the air, as explained by Dr. Trenberth. This additional water vapor supplements cloud formation, potentially leading to more intense precipita ...
... A well-understood physical mechanism, the Clausius-Clapeyron relation, indicates that warmer air temperature will result in increased water vapor loading in the air, as explained by Dr. Trenberth. This additional water vapor supplements cloud formation, potentially leading to more intense precipita ...
Reading Study Guide Unit 3 Part 2 PRO: Livestock are producing
... This increase in temperature is known as global warming, or climate change. It has led to many serious environmental problems. For example, melting icecaps have caused sea levels to rise, threatening shorelines and island nations. Scientists say many other parts of the world may soon have too little ...
... This increase in temperature is known as global warming, or climate change. It has led to many serious environmental problems. For example, melting icecaps have caused sea levels to rise, threatening shorelines and island nations. Scientists say many other parts of the world may soon have too little ...
Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change Perspective
... insurance mechanisms, pooling the risk that illegal logging or fires reverse gains in individual ILPAs. Finally, governments must provide indigenous groups and local communities the information and capacities they need to participate, and payments must be distributed transparently to reward those re ...
... insurance mechanisms, pooling the risk that illegal logging or fires reverse gains in individual ILPAs. Finally, governments must provide indigenous groups and local communities the information and capacities they need to participate, and payments must be distributed transparently to reward those re ...
Presentation slides
... development and battle to overcome poverty • We are already over 430ppm CO2e, and are adding at a rate of over 2.5ppm per year (likely to accelerate with little or weak action). BAU will probably take us over 750ppm by the end of the century. • This level of concentration would result in a large pro ...
... development and battle to overcome poverty • We are already over 430ppm CO2e, and are adding at a rate of over 2.5ppm per year (likely to accelerate with little or weak action). BAU will probably take us over 750ppm by the end of the century. • This level of concentration would result in a large pro ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
... Officials in New York and eight other Northeastern states have come to a preliminary agreement to freeze power plant emissions at their current levels and then reduce them by 10 percent by 2020, according to a confidential draft proposal. ...
... Officials in New York and eight other Northeastern states have come to a preliminary agreement to freeze power plant emissions at their current levels and then reduce them by 10 percent by 2020, according to a confidential draft proposal. ...
Information Skills for Research in Earth Sciences
... “ocean circulation” as a phrase OR ocean circulation as 2 separate terms climate change OR climatic changes OR global warming should we include pal(a)eoclimatology? Different combinations will give different results – you need to try them all ...
... “ocean circulation” as a phrase OR ocean circulation as 2 separate terms climate change OR climatic changes OR global warming should we include pal(a)eoclimatology? Different combinations will give different results – you need to try them all ...
Done NEC NTT,_International Standard in Relevant Standard
... their efforts to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for their citizens. Founded during the oil crisis of 1973-74, the IEA’s initial role was to co-ordinate measures in times of oil supply emergencies. Today its mandate has incorporates balanced energy policy making: energy security, econom ...
... their efforts to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for their citizens. Founded during the oil crisis of 1973-74, the IEA’s initial role was to co-ordinate measures in times of oil supply emergencies. Today its mandate has incorporates balanced energy policy making: energy security, econom ...
madagascar climate change briefing
... IPCC: Africa. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Available at: www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch9.htm Madagascar – National Communication (2004) R ...
... IPCC: Africa. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Available at: www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch9.htm Madagascar – National Communication (2004) R ...
Grand Minimum of the Total Solar Irradiance Leads to the Little Ice Age
... are confirmed by the Sun itself and the course of Natural causes play the global temperature changes and the level of the most important role in World Ocean for the past 16 years. climate variations rather In general, by analogy with the seasons on Earth than human activity there is also a similar a ...
... are confirmed by the Sun itself and the course of Natural causes play the global temperature changes and the level of the most important role in World Ocean for the past 16 years. climate variations rather In general, by analogy with the seasons on Earth than human activity there is also a similar a ...
Over-leased: How Production Horizons of Already Leased Federal
... carbon budget by several decades, and the 2°C budget by years to decades. Importantly, every new lease would extend production horizons even further into the future. As previous studies suggest, federal fossil fuel leasing policy should be aligned with U.S. climate policy goals. The analysis strongl ...
... carbon budget by several decades, and the 2°C budget by years to decades. Importantly, every new lease would extend production horizons even further into the future. As previous studies suggest, federal fossil fuel leasing policy should be aligned with U.S. climate policy goals. The analysis strongl ...
Land Desertification and Degradation Research Highlights
... future impacts of climate change on critical natural, cultural, wildlife and agricultural resources. Dennis Ojima, professor in CSU’s Department of Forest, Rangelands and Watershed Stewardship and senior research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory in CSU’s Warner College of Natura ...
... future impacts of climate change on critical natural, cultural, wildlife and agricultural resources. Dennis Ojima, professor in CSU’s Department of Forest, Rangelands and Watershed Stewardship and senior research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory in CSU’s Warner College of Natura ...
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"".