Planning Climate Resilient Cities: Early Lessons from Early Adapters
... environmental conditions, and urban services and management systems. To retain their vitality and viability, cities must be prepared for the ways in which they will be affected by climate change. Since international protocols have not been advanced for adaptation planning at the local level, and mos ...
... environmental conditions, and urban services and management systems. To retain their vitality and viability, cities must be prepared for the ways in which they will be affected by climate change. Since international protocols have not been advanced for adaptation planning at the local level, and mos ...
Ecosystem-based approaches to building resilience in urban areas
... substantial risk that many hard-won development gains will be undermined without timeous response, planning and implementation. Globally, a variety of adaptation strategies, programmes and mechanisms are being developed and implemented to cope with a changing climate and to ensure long term approach ...
... substantial risk that many hard-won development gains will be undermined without timeous response, planning and implementation. Globally, a variety of adaptation strategies, programmes and mechanisms are being developed and implemented to cope with a changing climate and to ensure long term approach ...
What is Climate Change and How it will effect
... disease and conflict. Furthermore biological diversity the source of enormous environmental, economic, and cultural value will be threatened by climate change. ‘Climate change Mitigation’ which refers to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to capture greenhouse gases through certain kinds ...
... disease and conflict. Furthermore biological diversity the source of enormous environmental, economic, and cultural value will be threatened by climate change. ‘Climate change Mitigation’ which refers to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or to capture greenhouse gases through certain kinds ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Wales February 2013
... and other greenhouse gases. The Convention has been ratified by 195 parties (194 states6, and one regional economic integration organisation (the EU)), and entered into force on 21 March 1994. The Kyoto Protocol7 is the protocol to the UNFCCC which entered into force on 16 February 2005; 192 Parties ...
... and other greenhouse gases. The Convention has been ratified by 195 parties (194 states6, and one regional economic integration organisation (the EU)), and entered into force on 21 March 1994. The Kyoto Protocol7 is the protocol to the UNFCCC which entered into force on 16 February 2005; 192 Parties ...
Pre-Feasibility Analysis for the Conversion of Landfill Gas to
... and limited in its ability to escape. GHGs cause a similar effect in earth’s lower atmosphere. Shorter wavelength solar radiation passes through the “blanket” created by GHGs, causing the earth to warm. Energy that reaches the earth’s surface from the sun is then reradiated back into space as longer ...
... and limited in its ability to escape. GHGs cause a similar effect in earth’s lower atmosphere. Shorter wavelength solar radiation passes through the “blanket” created by GHGs, causing the earth to warm. Energy that reaches the earth’s surface from the sun is then reradiated back into space as longer ...
Report Workshop on Regional and National Climate
... Global Climate Models (GCMs) indicate that changes in climate in the region are expected in a global warming scenario (IPCC 2007). These are likely to include changes in the intensity, duration, and frequency of droughts, floods, and other extreme conditions, which will have serious implications for ...
... Global Climate Models (GCMs) indicate that changes in climate in the region are expected in a global warming scenario (IPCC 2007). These are likely to include changes in the intensity, duration, and frequency of droughts, floods, and other extreme conditions, which will have serious implications for ...
Gaziantep Climate Change Action Plan Executive Summary
... municipal movement to voluntarily mainstream broader objectives like mitigating the effects of climate change into local or regional action plans that implement targeted actions within their territories and focus on local capacity building. In the case of the EU, after the EU Climate and Energy Pack ...
... municipal movement to voluntarily mainstream broader objectives like mitigating the effects of climate change into local or regional action plans that implement targeted actions within their territories and focus on local capacity building. In the case of the EU, after the EU Climate and Energy Pack ...
Evaluation of FAO's contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation
... Adaptation of the world’s natural-resource and food production systems to climate change and climate variability2, without compromising food security and nutrition, will naturally have to be a large component of global development efforts. At the same time, the agriculture, forestry and land-use (AF ...
... Adaptation of the world’s natural-resource and food production systems to climate change and climate variability2, without compromising food security and nutrition, will naturally have to be a large component of global development efforts. At the same time, the agriculture, forestry and land-use (AF ...
In search of impact - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
... A further reason why institutional investors (and their regulators) are starting to look at impact is the link between social and environmental performance and long-term financial returns. This is particularly relevant to ‘universal owners’ – large institutional investors whose holdings are so broad ...
... A further reason why institutional investors (and their regulators) are starting to look at impact is the link between social and environmental performance and long-term financial returns. This is particularly relevant to ‘universal owners’ – large institutional investors whose holdings are so broad ...
Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 associated with
... Slowing of the growth rate of atmospheric CO2. Changes in the residual terrestrial carbon sink affect the proportion of anthropogenic emissions that remain in the atmosphere (the airborne fraction), and thus the growth rate of atmospheric CO2. Our analysis suggests that the airborne fraction increas ...
... Slowing of the growth rate of atmospheric CO2. Changes in the residual terrestrial carbon sink affect the proportion of anthropogenic emissions that remain in the atmosphere (the airborne fraction), and thus the growth rate of atmospheric CO2. Our analysis suggests that the airborne fraction increas ...
Working with Nature to Tackle Climate Change
... and easily affordable to communities. However, this is not to say that they are the only solution. In many cases, a portfolio of approaches will need to be implemented, including technology, engineering, community capacity building and behavioural changes as well as the appropriate management of eco ...
... and easily affordable to communities. However, this is not to say that they are the only solution. In many cases, a portfolio of approaches will need to be implemented, including technology, engineering, community capacity building and behavioural changes as well as the appropriate management of eco ...
Ministerial Indaba Summary Fiji - European Capacity Building Initiative
... many Ministers stressed that action now may create new competitive advantages in the longer term future. ...
... many Ministers stressed that action now may create new competitive advantages in the longer term future. ...
NEEDS Study LEAD and SDPI - Indus Valley School of Art
... knowledge. Climate Change is now beginning to add a new erratic and volatile ingredient into this water cocktail. It is not only augmenting the melting of the glaciers in the north but also enhancing the unpredictability of the monsoons. While there is a global scientific debate going on about the l ...
... knowledge. Climate Change is now beginning to add a new erratic and volatile ingredient into this water cocktail. It is not only augmenting the melting of the glaciers in the north but also enhancing the unpredictability of the monsoons. While there is a global scientific debate going on about the l ...
gov commision report
... scenario for 15 global models and calculated the 21st century warming for Virginia and the adjoining areas (36.5°N-42°N; 73°W-84°W). They found that from 2000 to 2099 the average warming for Virginia and the adjoining areas would be 3.1°C (5.6°F) and that precipitation would increase by 11%. The wa ...
... scenario for 15 global models and calculated the 21st century warming for Virginia and the adjoining areas (36.5°N-42°N; 73°W-84°W). They found that from 2000 to 2099 the average warming for Virginia and the adjoining areas would be 3.1°C (5.6°F) and that precipitation would increase by 11%. The wa ...
Globalization and Diversity Changing Global Environment 2.1
... D) Up to now, LDCs such as China and India have added very little to the build-up of greenhouse gases and have stable or descreasing emission rates. Answer: C ...
... D) Up to now, LDCs such as China and India have added very little to the build-up of greenhouse gases and have stable or descreasing emission rates. Answer: C ...
Food Commodity Footprints, Global GHG footprints and
... Oxfam wants to offer consumers new insights in the climate change effects and the water effects of food commodities in the regions they grow. They want to do this by linking the regional activities, which impact the environment (regional GHG footprint and water footprint), to the regions where the e ...
... Oxfam wants to offer consumers new insights in the climate change effects and the water effects of food commodities in the regions they grow. They want to do this by linking the regional activities, which impact the environment (regional GHG footprint and water footprint), to the regions where the e ...
Key Adaptation Concepts and Terms
... them in terms of criteria such as availability, benefits, costs, effectiveness, efficiency, and feasibility.(IPCC TAR, 2001 a) The term ‘Adaptation Assessment’ while appearing to be clear on paper can be difficult in some cases to apply in practice.5 Currently, there is no set of criteria or metrics ...
... them in terms of criteria such as availability, benefits, costs, effectiveness, efficiency, and feasibility.(IPCC TAR, 2001 a) The term ‘Adaptation Assessment’ while appearing to be clear on paper can be difficult in some cases to apply in practice.5 Currently, there is no set of criteria or metrics ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE LIMITED
... safety and mobility; expanded redundant systems may be considered. What adaptive strategies may be employed, the associated costs, and the relative effectiveness of those strategies will have to be determined on a case-by-case basis, based on studies of individual facilities and system-wide consider ...
... safety and mobility; expanded redundant systems may be considered. What adaptive strategies may be employed, the associated costs, and the relative effectiveness of those strategies will have to be determined on a case-by-case basis, based on studies of individual facilities and system-wide consider ...
AHEAD OF THE STORM…. Preparing Toronto for Climate Change
... Precipitation is one of the more uncertain areas of climate change. Precipitation is naturally quite variable from season to season, year to year and region to region. Climate models do not completely capture some of the factors that affect precipitation. Climate change appears to be affecting preci ...
... Precipitation is one of the more uncertain areas of climate change. Precipitation is naturally quite variable from season to season, year to year and region to region. Climate models do not completely capture some of the factors that affect precipitation. Climate change appears to be affecting preci ...
Climate Change and International Economic Law
... economic law. Indeed, as Suzanne A. Spears notes, the question of ―how to strike a balance between principles regarding the protection and promotion of foreign investment on the one hand and principles regarding the protection of society and the environment on the other‖12 is ―[o]ne of the most impo ...
... economic law. Indeed, as Suzanne A. Spears notes, the question of ―how to strike a balance between principles regarding the protection and promotion of foreign investment on the one hand and principles regarding the protection of society and the environment on the other‖12 is ―[o]ne of the most impo ...
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.