Facing an uncertain future : how forests and people can adapt to
... adaptation (reducing the vulnerability of societies and ecosystems). However, with some degree of climate change now recognised as inevitable, adaptation is gaining importance in the policy arena. Moreover, it is one of the four building blocks of the 2-year Bali Action Plan—ongoing negotiations tow ...
... adaptation (reducing the vulnerability of societies and ecosystems). However, with some degree of climate change now recognised as inevitable, adaptation is gaining importance in the policy arena. Moreover, it is one of the four building blocks of the 2-year Bali Action Plan—ongoing negotiations tow ...
A Situation Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives in
... the gap between national and local governance processes and institutions, and indicated the need for bridging the gap between national and local governments in order to address climate change issues in a comprehensive and integrated manner. Build government and academic capacity on climate change: C ...
... the gap between national and local governance processes and institutions, and indicated the need for bridging the gap between national and local governments in order to address climate change issues in a comprehensive and integrated manner. Build government and academic capacity on climate change: C ...
climate change - Centre for Science and Policy
... reduced to simple equations of cost and benefit. That is why it is important that we are open and honest about any value judgments we make, so that these can be subject to public debate. ...
... reduced to simple equations of cost and benefit. That is why it is important that we are open and honest about any value judgments we make, so that these can be subject to public debate. ...
climate change - Centre for Science and Policy
... reduced to simple equations of cost and benefit. That is why it is important that we are open and honest about any value judgments we make, so that these can be subject to public debate. ...
... reduced to simple equations of cost and benefit. That is why it is important that we are open and honest about any value judgments we make, so that these can be subject to public debate. ...
Israel`s Second National Communication on Climate
... establishment of a Ministerial Committee on Environmental Protection and Climate Change, underlining the new priority given to advancing climate change policy in Israel. Interministerial committees and expert teams are now working diligently to formulate a national climate change plan which will inc ...
... establishment of a Ministerial Committee on Environmental Protection and Climate Change, underlining the new priority given to advancing climate change policy in Israel. Interministerial committees and expert teams are now working diligently to formulate a national climate change plan which will inc ...
Stop Trashing the Climate
... To say it would be “very beneficial” is probably an understatement. It turns out that we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equivalent to shutting down one-fifth of the nation’s coal-fired power plants by making practical and achievable changes to America’s waste management system. Ind ...
... To say it would be “very beneficial” is probably an understatement. It turns out that we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equivalent to shutting down one-fifth of the nation’s coal-fired power plants by making practical and achievable changes to America’s waste management system. Ind ...
CRISIS IN THE SAHEL - The Bixby Center for Population, Health
... million people; today there are more than 100 million, and in 2050, there could be more than 300 million. New projections of climate change prepared for the OASIS meeting foresee a rise of 3°C to 5°C (7°F to 10°F) above today’s already high temperatures by 2050. Scientific projections several decade ...
... million people; today there are more than 100 million, and in 2050, there could be more than 300 million. New projections of climate change prepared for the OASIS meeting foresee a rise of 3°C to 5°C (7°F to 10°F) above today’s already high temperatures by 2050. Scientific projections several decade ...
IPCC report
... on land from hot deserts to permafrost areas and increasingly at sea. Owing to the private nature and high economic value to the energy sector, they have been designed to higher tolerance levels than most transportation infrastructure. Climate change may require changes in design standards for the c ...
... on land from hot deserts to permafrost areas and increasingly at sea. Owing to the private nature and high economic value to the energy sector, they have been designed to higher tolerance levels than most transportation infrastructure. Climate change may require changes in design standards for the c ...
Local climate change adaptation planning A guide for
... The purpose of this document is to provide local and state government officials with guidance on the process of effectively considering climate change impacts in policy development and delivery, with an emphasis on place-based adaptation. The guide is an introduction to a suite of widely applicable ...
... The purpose of this document is to provide local and state government officials with guidance on the process of effectively considering climate change impacts in policy development and delivery, with an emphasis on place-based adaptation. The guide is an introduction to a suite of widely applicable ...
UK Climate Change Programme 2006
... There is strong and indisputable evidence that climate change is happening and that man-made emissions are its main cause. The ten warmest years globally since formal records began in 1861 have all occurred since 1994. If left unchecked, climate change will have profound impacts on our societies and ...
... There is strong and indisputable evidence that climate change is happening and that man-made emissions are its main cause. The ten warmest years globally since formal records began in 1861 have all occurred since 1994. If left unchecked, climate change will have profound impacts on our societies and ...
Climate Change The UK Programme 2006
... There is strong and indisputable evidence that climate change is happening and that man-made emissions are its main cause. The ten warmest years globally since formal records began in 1861 have all occurred since 1994. If left unchecked, climate change will have profound impacts on our societies and ...
... There is strong and indisputable evidence that climate change is happening and that man-made emissions are its main cause. The ten warmest years globally since formal records began in 1861 have all occurred since 1994. If left unchecked, climate change will have profound impacts on our societies and ...
Corporate Air Quality and Climate Change Strategic Plan
... Landfills, production and distribution of natural gas & petroleum, fermentation from livestock, sewage waste treatment, fossil fuel combustion, etc. ...
... Landfills, production and distribution of natural gas & petroleum, fermentation from livestock, sewage waste treatment, fossil fuel combustion, etc. ...
Manteca Draft Climate Action Plan
... Notes: MTCO2e = metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents Per capita emissions are estimated by dividing the total emissions by the population estimates from Table 5. * Ozone depleting substances (ODS) are gases that cause chemical destruction of the ozone in the stratosphere (a layer of air in the ...
... Notes: MTCO2e = metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents Per capita emissions are estimated by dividing the total emissions by the population estimates from Table 5. * Ozone depleting substances (ODS) are gases that cause chemical destruction of the ozone in the stratosphere (a layer of air in the ...
Tracking adaptation and measuring development
... Climate change is changing the contexts in which development takes place by changing the nature and intensity of climate-related risks, and through the impacts of evolving climate-related risks on people’s vulnerability. Current development interventions that fail to address climate change, and curr ...
... Climate change is changing the contexts in which development takes place by changing the nature and intensity of climate-related risks, and through the impacts of evolving climate-related risks on people’s vulnerability. Current development interventions that fail to address climate change, and curr ...
Cool Response: The seC & CoRpoRaTe ClimaTe Change RepoRTing SEC Climate Guidance &
... disclosure in 2010 and 2011, but only 3 comment letters in 2012 and none in 2013. Most comment letters—38—were issued in 2010 following the release of the interpretive guidance. Since then, there has been a significant fall-off in SEC attention to this area. õ Most S&P 500 climate disclosures in 10- ...
... disclosure in 2010 and 2011, but only 3 comment letters in 2012 and none in 2013. Most comment letters—38—were issued in 2010 following the release of the interpretive guidance. Since then, there has been a significant fall-off in SEC attention to this area. õ Most S&P 500 climate disclosures in 10- ...
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... climate change will play an even larger role in the coming decades and beyond (Rose and McCarl, 2008). Consequently, there is an urgent need for efficient climate policies and technology. Two major policy approaches are possible ...
... climate change will play an even larger role in the coming decades and beyond (Rose and McCarl, 2008). Consequently, there is an urgent need for efficient climate policies and technology. Two major policy approaches are possible ...
Zero poverty, zero emissions - Overseas Development Institute
... by 2100. Nearly all the IPCC’s mitigation scenarios indicate that the global economy must reach zero net greenhouse gas emissions before the century’s end to hold the global mean temperature rise to less than 2°C, the limit beyond which the world will face ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference’ with ...
... by 2100. Nearly all the IPCC’s mitigation scenarios indicate that the global economy must reach zero net greenhouse gas emissions before the century’s end to hold the global mean temperature rise to less than 2°C, the limit beyond which the world will face ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference’ with ...
S1501174_en.pdf
... ECLAC Subregional Headquarters in Mexico This publication was based on analysis between 2008 and 2015 within the framework of “The Economics of Climate Change in Central America Initiative”, coordinated between the Ministries of Environment, Treasury or Finance, their Ministerial Councils and Execut ...
... ECLAC Subregional Headquarters in Mexico This publication was based on analysis between 2008 and 2015 within the framework of “The Economics of Climate Change in Central America Initiative”, coordinated between the Ministries of Environment, Treasury or Finance, their Ministerial Councils and Execut ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty (currently the only international climate policy venue with broad legitimacy, due in part to its virtually universal membership) negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. The objective of the treaty is to ""stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system"".The treaty itself set no binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual countries and contains no enforcement mechanisms. In that sense, the treaty is considered legally non-binding. Instead, the treaty provides a framework for negotiating specific international treaties (called ""protocols"") that may set binding limits on greenhouse gases.The UNFCCC was adopted on 9 May 1992, and opened for signature on 4 June 1992, after an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee produced the text of the Framework Convention as a report following its meeting in New York from 30 April to 9 May 1992. It entered into force on 21 March 1994. As of March 2014, UNFCCC has 196 parties.The parties to the convention have met annually from 1995 in Conferences of the Parties (COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change. In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol was concluded and established legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The 2010 Cancún agreements state that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level. The 20th COP took place in Peru in 2014.One of the first tasks set by the UNFCCC was for signatory nations to establish national greenhouse gas inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, which were used to create the 1990 benchmark levels for accession of Annex I countries to the Kyoto Protocol and for the commitment of those countries to GHG reductions. Updated inventories must be regularly submitted by Annex I countries.The UNFCCC is also the name of the United Nations Secretariat charged with supporting the operation of the Convention, with offices in Haus Carstanjen, and UN Campus [known as: Langer Eugen] Bonn, Germany. From 2006 to 2010 the head of the secretariat was Yvo de Boer. On 17 May 2010, Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica succeeded de Boer. The Secretariat, augmented through the parallel efforts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aims to gain consensus through meetings and the discussion of various strategies.