Impacts of greenhouse gases and aerosol direct and indirect effects
... difference in radiative fluxes between the GHG+AER and GHG simulations. Please note that the radiative impact of aerosols might be calculated differently by carrying out another set of simulations with anthropogenic aerosols and with preindustrial greenhouse gases, potentially yielding results sligh ...
... difference in radiative fluxes between the GHG+AER and GHG simulations. Please note that the radiative impact of aerosols might be calculated differently by carrying out another set of simulations with anthropogenic aerosols and with preindustrial greenhouse gases, potentially yielding results sligh ...
Global warming in the American mind
... It is said that it takes a village to raise a child. In my case, it has taken several villages to raise an interdisciplinary scholar. Thank you to the Department of Geography, my focal discipline, and especially to Dr. Shaul Cohen for his invaluable advice, perspective and support. Thank you to Drs. ...
... It is said that it takes a village to raise a child. In my case, it has taken several villages to raise an interdisciplinary scholar. Thank you to the Department of Geography, my focal discipline, and especially to Dr. Shaul Cohen for his invaluable advice, perspective and support. Thank you to Drs. ...
Alberta Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
... Effective Date: This document was updated on: ISSN No. ...
... Effective Date: This document was updated on: ISSN No. ...
Changing climate, changing biodiversity in South-East Europe
... process; they can take a strategic overview and need to be aware of these issues, and they have a level of authority that can assist greatly in driving the response to climate change. ECNC-European Centre for Nature Conservation responded to this need by coordinating a project together with REC-Regi ...
... process; they can take a strategic overview and need to be aware of these issues, and they have a level of authority that can assist greatly in driving the response to climate change. ECNC-European Centre for Nature Conservation responded to this need by coordinating a project together with REC-Regi ...
Understanding Climate Diplomacy
... strengthening to a ‘below 1.5°C’ goal. No country can control the climate risk it faces on its own. Climate change is more challenging than many other global issues because it is a race against time, delaying action makes lower climate risk levels unattainable. It also requires profound choices that ...
... strengthening to a ‘below 1.5°C’ goal. No country can control the climate risk it faces on its own. Climate change is more challenging than many other global issues because it is a race against time, delaying action makes lower climate risk levels unattainable. It also requires profound choices that ...
An Inconvenient Trial - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... environmental challenge of our time—which, next to the threat of nuclear war, may be the issue with the greatest impact on all time to come—is more urgent than ever.”13 Indeed, Gore exclaimed, “Global warming is no longer a distant threat; it’s as real, as clear and present an issue, with profound e ...
... environmental challenge of our time—which, next to the threat of nuclear war, may be the issue with the greatest impact on all time to come—is more urgent than ever.”13 Indeed, Gore exclaimed, “Global warming is no longer a distant threat; it’s as real, as clear and present an issue, with profound e ...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation A Literature Review
... agricultural communities in Ontario. These case studies outline the barriers and advantages towards climate adaptation. Communities are not yet at the adaptation implementation stage. Adaptation on a farm level is occurring mostly due to non-climate conditions (economic, political, etc) pressures. I ...
... agricultural communities in Ontario. These case studies outline the barriers and advantages towards climate adaptation. Communities are not yet at the adaptation implementation stage. Adaptation on a farm level is occurring mostly due to non-climate conditions (economic, political, etc) pressures. I ...
Two hundred fifty years of aerosols and climate: the end of the age
... and Penner, 1994). As found by historical pattern-matching studies (Santer et al., 1995), this aerosol influence is critical to explaining the historical spatial and temporal patterns of temperature change. The complex behavior of aerosols in the atmosphere, particularly with respect to clouds, give ...
... and Penner, 1994). As found by historical pattern-matching studies (Santer et al., 1995), this aerosol influence is critical to explaining the historical spatial and temporal patterns of temperature change. The complex behavior of aerosols in the atmosphere, particularly with respect to clouds, give ...
SADC Policy paper on Climate Change
... All SADC Member States joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) whose main objective is to stabilize GHG concentrations in the atmosphere. In 1995 and realizing that the emission reductions provisions in the Convention were inadequate, a proc ...
... All SADC Member States joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) whose main objective is to stabilize GHG concentrations in the atmosphere. In 1995 and realizing that the emission reductions provisions in the Convention were inadequate, a proc ...
global climate change and health – a new theme for research in
... Sweden. Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University has carried out studies on vectorborne diseases in Sweden and at Lund University some research on climate as a physical environmental health hazard is taking place. One reason for the lack of research is the fact that climate change is stil ...
... Sweden. Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University has carried out studies on vectorborne diseases in Sweden and at Lund University some research on climate as a physical environmental health hazard is taking place. One reason for the lack of research is the fact that climate change is stil ...
Framework for City Climate Risk Assessment
... temperatures extend into higher latitudes, diseases that have long been considered eradicated may re‐emerge; new diseases may also be experienced. The health ramifications that this could have in cities, especially densely‐populated informal settlements, could be se ...
... temperatures extend into higher latitudes, diseases that have long been considered eradicated may re‐emerge; new diseases may also be experienced. The health ramifications that this could have in cities, especially densely‐populated informal settlements, could be se ...
Where are the Vulnerable Places in Africa?
... exclusively in socio-economic and political terms. As we argue, purely social understandings of vulnerability are misleading. As Cardona notes, “If there is no hazard, it is not feasible to be vulnerable when seen from the perspective of the potential damage or loss due to the occurrence of an event ...
... exclusively in socio-economic and political terms. As we argue, purely social understandings of vulnerability are misleading. As Cardona notes, “If there is no hazard, it is not feasible to be vulnerable when seen from the perspective of the potential damage or loss due to the occurrence of an event ...
What are the next steps? - Environmental Law Institute
... regime, and the definition of the scope and contents of the new instrument with legal force under construction in the UNFCCC context. As more convincing scientific evidence of the threats posed by global warming emerges, the stringent dividing line among developed and developing countries, in regard ...
... regime, and the definition of the scope and contents of the new instrument with legal force under construction in the UNFCCC context. As more convincing scientific evidence of the threats posed by global warming emerges, the stringent dividing line among developed and developing countries, in regard ...
Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report The Core Writing Team Rajendra K. Pachauri
... cross Working Group efforts to ensure coherent and comprehensive information on various aspects related to climate change. This SYR includes a consistent evaluation and assessment of uncertainties and risks; integrated costing and economic analysis; regional aspects; changes, impacts and responses r ...
... cross Working Group efforts to ensure coherent and comprehensive information on various aspects related to climate change. This SYR includes a consistent evaluation and assessment of uncertainties and risks; integrated costing and economic analysis; regional aspects; changes, impacts and responses r ...
ACT Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
... significant risk that extreme weather events will become more frequent and intense, adversely affecting life and property. Therefore, for future generations to enjoy the quality of life we enjoy now, actions are needed to increase our resilience to the effects of a changing climate. This strategy, b ...
... significant risk that extreme weather events will become more frequent and intense, adversely affecting life and property. Therefore, for future generations to enjoy the quality of life we enjoy now, actions are needed to increase our resilience to the effects of a changing climate. This strategy, b ...
Triple Harvest - California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN)
... could cover an additional 23,188 acres.5 There are currently no comprehensive regional planning requirements to limit solar facilities to impaired agricultural lands or appropriate urban spaces (such as rooftops or parking lots). Instead, these projects will remove from production some of the most f ...
... could cover an additional 23,188 acres.5 There are currently no comprehensive regional planning requirements to limit solar facilities to impaired agricultural lands or appropriate urban spaces (such as rooftops or parking lots). Instead, these projects will remove from production some of the most f ...
WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE Climate Change Act Now
... working with us intensively on new approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation. And most recently, the Bank’s Forestry Group has asked us to help them develop a Global Forestry Alliance proposal to massively scale-up smallholder agroforestry in Africa through a portfolio of new projects i ...
... working with us intensively on new approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation. And most recently, the Bank’s Forestry Group has asked us to help them develop a Global Forestry Alliance proposal to massively scale-up smallholder agroforestry in Africa through a portfolio of new projects i ...
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.