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... Climate change is not only a risk to the environment but it is the single biggest risk that exists to the economy today. ...
... Climate change is not only a risk to the environment but it is the single biggest risk that exists to the economy today. ...
To What Extent Are African Countries Vulnerable to Climate
... Thornton, 2003). As a consequence there is a considerable and increasing activity by development agencies and governments to support the development of appropriate adaptation strategies. A good knowledge of the vulnerability in climate change faced by each country is necessary to guide the aid for ...
... Thornton, 2003). As a consequence there is a considerable and increasing activity by development agencies and governments to support the development of appropriate adaptation strategies. A good knowledge of the vulnerability in climate change faced by each country is necessary to guide the aid for ...
RSM-ASCC_conceptpape..
... cooperation. According to ASEAN, ASCC reflects its social agenda that is focused on poverty eradication and human development. In its fourth meeting in Danang in Vietnam this August, ASCC listed as its priorities the following issues: challenges of pandemic diseases, climate change and disaster mana ...
... cooperation. According to ASEAN, ASCC reflects its social agenda that is focused on poverty eradication and human development. In its fourth meeting in Danang in Vietnam this August, ASCC listed as its priorities the following issues: challenges of pandemic diseases, climate change and disaster mana ...
Summary for Policymakers
... Human interference with the climate system is occurring,1 and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure SPM.1). The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns ...
... Human interference with the climate system is occurring,1 and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems (Figure SPM.1). The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns ...
Protecting People Crossing Borders in the Context of
... movements induced by the impact of climate change, and assesses possible strategies to create an effective protection regime for these people, taking account of the likelihood of a substantial increase of affected persons in the future. ...
... movements induced by the impact of climate change, and assesses possible strategies to create an effective protection regime for these people, taking account of the likelihood of a substantial increase of affected persons in the future. ...
2015 DOS GCCI Indicator Training
... 2. If a project is funded by US DOS and USAID, there is a potential for double-counting of this set of indicators used by both USG institutions. 3. The fully-completed reporting template should be sent to US DOS. Retain back-up data filed in a database to document and validate the training activitie ...
... 2. If a project is funded by US DOS and USAID, there is a potential for double-counting of this set of indicators used by both USG institutions. 3. The fully-completed reporting template should be sent to US DOS. Retain back-up data filed in a database to document and validate the training activitie ...
a proposal for a convention on climate change refugees
... across the home state, host state, and international community. Finally, it should form institutions to implement the provisions, including a global fund, a coordinating agency, and a body of scientific experts. The comprehensive instrument, drawing on a range of legal precedent and academic literat ...
... across the home state, host state, and international community. Finally, it should form institutions to implement the provisions, including a global fund, a coordinating agency, and a body of scientific experts. The comprehensive instrument, drawing on a range of legal precedent and academic literat ...
Riedy CAGs-AUS-ED_accepted - OPUS at UTS
... issue, selected and convened for a period of time sufficient for participants to form considered opinions and judgements’ (Mackenzie and Warren 2012, p. 95). Deliberative forums include citizen juries, deliberative polls, consensus conferences and citizen assemblies (Fung 2003, Goodin and Dryzek 20 ...
... issue, selected and convened for a period of time sufficient for participants to form considered opinions and judgements’ (Mackenzie and Warren 2012, p. 95). Deliberative forums include citizen juries, deliberative polls, consensus conferences and citizen assemblies (Fung 2003, Goodin and Dryzek 20 ...
Sinks that stink - World Rainforest Movement
... "forests", they have a positive social and environmental role to play. This is totally false. It is well documented that large-scale industrial tree plantations have already proven to be detrimental to people and the environment in a large number of countries and in many cases they have been a major ...
... "forests", they have a positive social and environmental role to play. This is totally false. It is well documented that large-scale industrial tree plantations have already proven to be detrimental to people and the environment in a large number of countries and in many cases they have been a major ...
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy
... we asked a national security expert to consider the projected environmental effects of global warming and map out the possible consequences for peace and stability. Further, we enlisted a historian of science to consider whether there was anything to learn from the experience of earlier civilization ...
... we asked a national security expert to consider the projected environmental effects of global warming and map out the possible consequences for peace and stability. Further, we enlisted a historian of science to consider whether there was anything to learn from the experience of earlier civilization ...
Kenya Talks Climate
... The information and communication needs of Kenyan citizens need to be at the heart of any national response to climate change. The ability of Kenyan citizens to effectively respond to climate change will be determined by the accessibility and quality of the information available to them. Increased p ...
... The information and communication needs of Kenyan citizens need to be at the heart of any national response to climate change. The ability of Kenyan citizens to effectively respond to climate change will be determined by the accessibility and quality of the information available to them. Increased p ...
mitigating climate change in the tea sector
... employment generation in developing countries linked to SMEs. Hence, addressing non-tariff barriers through meeting these new private standards is an important contributor to reducing rural poverty and generating jobs. The International Trade Centre (ITC) has prepared this guide to help SMEs navigat ...
... employment generation in developing countries linked to SMEs. Hence, addressing non-tariff barriers through meeting these new private standards is an important contributor to reducing rural poverty and generating jobs. The International Trade Centre (ITC) has prepared this guide to help SMEs navigat ...
The age of consequences—the foreign policy and national security
... we asked a national security expert to consider the projected environmental effects of global warming and map out the possible consequences for peace and stability. Further, we enlisted a historian of science to consider whether there was anything to learn from the experience of earlier civilization ...
... we asked a national security expert to consider the projected environmental effects of global warming and map out the possible consequences for peace and stability. Further, we enlisted a historian of science to consider whether there was anything to learn from the experience of earlier civilization ...
climate change adaptation, planning, and the law
... break. Not forgetting that everyone who attended the workshop had to navigate through or around the ‘super-hailstorm’ that caused over $1 billon in insurance losses in Brisbane the evening before. ...
... break. Not forgetting that everyone who attended the workshop had to navigate through or around the ‘super-hailstorm’ that caused over $1 billon in insurance losses in Brisbane the evening before. ...
The Contours of Cap and Trade: The Evolution of Emissions Trading
... climate change. There are active cap and trade systems in Europe, North America, and the Asia/Pacific region, with many other systems under consideration. These systems are organized across a range of political jurisdictions and involve both the public and the private sectors. While the UN negotiati ...
... climate change. There are active cap and trade systems in Europe, North America, and the Asia/Pacific region, with many other systems under consideration. These systems are organized across a range of political jurisdictions and involve both the public and the private sectors. While the UN negotiati ...
The gARNAUT ReVIeW 2011 - Garnaut Climate Change Review
... Australians’, I said, ‘and if we knew that doing something would give lots of benefits now but would cause the extinction of our species in half a century, the calculations would tell us to do it.’ The beginnings of a smile on her face became a hearty laugh. ‘You’ve got us there, Ross’, she said, as ...
... Australians’, I said, ‘and if we knew that doing something would give lots of benefits now but would cause the extinction of our species in half a century, the calculations would tell us to do it.’ The beginnings of a smile on her face became a hearty laugh. ‘You’ve got us there, Ross’, she said, as ...
Draft Discussion Paper Ilaria Carrozza ESCAP/FfD/04/2015
... change and development patterns continue, by 2100, hundreds of millions of people, most of them in coastal areas of East, Southeast and South Asia, may be displaced unless adaptation measures are put in place. It has been estimated that in 2015, 410 million urban Asians will be at risk of coastal fl ...
... change and development patterns continue, by 2100, hundreds of millions of people, most of them in coastal areas of East, Southeast and South Asia, may be displaced unless adaptation measures are put in place. It has been estimated that in 2015, 410 million urban Asians will be at risk of coastal fl ...
Ted Hamilton∗ - Vermont Journal of Environmental Law
... based. Legal action at the core usually seeks government intervention to stop public or private contributions to warming or to provide relief from climate-change harms. The climate periphery is where issues indirectly related to global warming form the substance of legal conflict. Legal action here ...
... based. Legal action at the core usually seeks government intervention to stop public or private contributions to warming or to provide relief from climate-change harms. The climate periphery is where issues indirectly related to global warming form the substance of legal conflict. Legal action here ...
Climate Change in Zimbabwe - Konrad-Adenauer
... What can we do about it? Even if greenhouse gas emissions are stopped or reduced through concerted international efforts, many of the impacts of climate change will still affect us for decades. We must therefore develop strategies now to adapt to climate change. Primarily, we must protect the natura ...
... What can we do about it? Even if greenhouse gas emissions are stopped or reduced through concerted international efforts, many of the impacts of climate change will still affect us for decades. We must therefore develop strategies now to adapt to climate change. Primarily, we must protect the natura ...
First National Communication to UNFCCC
... 1.1. Introduction One of emerging environmental problems is global climate change due to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that intensify greenhouse effect and lead to the rise of global temperature. As a result, polar and mountain glaciers retreat, sea level raise, prec ...
... 1.1. Introduction One of emerging environmental problems is global climate change due to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that intensify greenhouse effect and lead to the rise of global temperature. As a result, polar and mountain glaciers retreat, sea level raise, prec ...
National Climate Change Strategy
... This Strategy has been developed in response to the growing concern of the negative impacts of climate change and climate variability on the country’s social, economic and physical environment. Its overall aim is to enhance the technical, institutional and individual capacity of the country to addre ...
... This Strategy has been developed in response to the growing concern of the negative impacts of climate change and climate variability on the country’s social, economic and physical environment. Its overall aim is to enhance the technical, institutional and individual capacity of the country to addre ...
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.