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HKIE Climate Change Corner Issue 74 (Dec 13)
... the rate of sea level rise since the mid-19th century has been larger than the mean rate during the previous two millennia, with high confidence; CO2 concentrations have increased by 40% since pre-industrial times, primarily from fossil fuel emissions and secondarily from net land use change emissio ...
... the rate of sea level rise since the mid-19th century has been larger than the mean rate during the previous two millennia, with high confidence; CO2 concentrations have increased by 40% since pre-industrial times, primarily from fossil fuel emissions and secondarily from net land use change emissio ...
ProjectARCC: Archivists Responding to Climate Change
... of climate change. Reduce our professional carbon and ecological footprint. Elevate relevant collections to improve public awareness and understanding of climate change. Preserve this epochal moment in history for future research and understanding. ...
... of climate change. Reduce our professional carbon and ecological footprint. Elevate relevant collections to improve public awareness and understanding of climate change. Preserve this epochal moment in history for future research and understanding. ...
Understanding Our Environment
... global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004. ...
... global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004. ...
Houghton CDFS 1 - University of California, Irvine
... ON CLIMATE CHANGE Rio de Janeiro : June 1992 ARTICLE 2: OBJECTIVE The ultimate objective of this Convention .... is to achieve, .… stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. •Such a leve ...
... ON CLIMATE CHANGE Rio de Janeiro : June 1992 ARTICLE 2: OBJECTIVE The ultimate objective of this Convention .... is to achieve, .… stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. •Such a leve ...
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
... that mitigation of greenhouse gases is unimportant. Rather, climate change is already happening and so the need to adapt is acutely perceived as a current urgency. Ideally, sustainable development pathways should address both adaptation and mitigation imperatives. The importance of sustainable devel ...
... that mitigation of greenhouse gases is unimportant. Rather, climate change is already happening and so the need to adapt is acutely perceived as a current urgency. Ideally, sustainable development pathways should address both adaptation and mitigation imperatives. The importance of sustainable devel ...
What is Climate Change? Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere
... tropospheric temperature has been rising by 0.2 degrees Celsius (°C) per decade. This may not seem like much, but small changes in the earth’s temperature can have large impacts. The climate is rapidly changing and there is overwhelming scientific consensus that it is due to increased GHG concentrat ...
... tropospheric temperature has been rising by 0.2 degrees Celsius (°C) per decade. This may not seem like much, but small changes in the earth’s temperature can have large impacts. The climate is rapidly changing and there is overwhelming scientific consensus that it is due to increased GHG concentrat ...
Presentation - the United Nations
... “Equitable” Climate Change Mitigation: A New Formulation Robert Socolow Princeton University [email protected] Informal Thematic Debate of the UN General Assembly on Climate Change as a Global Challenge Panel on Mitigation Strategies in the context of Sustainable Development ...
... “Equitable” Climate Change Mitigation: A New Formulation Robert Socolow Princeton University [email protected] Informal Thematic Debate of the UN General Assembly on Climate Change as a Global Challenge Panel on Mitigation Strategies in the context of Sustainable Development ...
Ms. Ma. Gerarda Asuncion D. Merilo - START
... What have been done? Participated in a regional climate change project funded by the US Country Studies Program (1995-1997) which focused on vulnerability and adaptation assessments for the coastal zones, agriculture, and water resources sectors using climate scenarios with average changes in prec ...
... What have been done? Participated in a regional climate change project funded by the US Country Studies Program (1995-1997) which focused on vulnerability and adaptation assessments for the coastal zones, agriculture, and water resources sectors using climate scenarios with average changes in prec ...
The Evidence
... “USCAP agrees that the science is sufficiently clear to justify prompt action to protect our environment. Each year of delayed action to control emissions increases the risk of unavoidable consequences that could necessitate even steeper reductions in the future, with potentially greater economic co ...
... “USCAP agrees that the science is sufficiently clear to justify prompt action to protect our environment. Each year of delayed action to control emissions increases the risk of unavoidable consequences that could necessitate even steeper reductions in the future, with potentially greater economic co ...
IF YOU WANT TO GO FAR, GO TOGETHER
... implementing climate change policies and ensure an active role of women at all levels of decision-making and financing. The international community has already taken many steps in the climate negotiations. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change provides a strong multilateral framework for our ...
... implementing climate change policies and ensure an active role of women at all levels of decision-making and financing. The international community has already taken many steps in the climate negotiations. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change provides a strong multilateral framework for our ...
Earth`s natural systems must influence Durban outcomes
... Global average temperature rise masks significant regional variation. Even at lower global averages, regional temperatures and climate related impacts will be extreme in some places and adaptation may not be possible. The most vulnerable people are most at risk Changes to natural systems and resourc ...
... Global average temperature rise masks significant regional variation. Even at lower global averages, regional temperatures and climate related impacts will be extreme in some places and adaptation may not be possible. The most vulnerable people are most at risk Changes to natural systems and resourc ...
P58.14 How to achieve global scale climate change
... It proposes a politically viable and integrative policy framework to unite all nations in a financially feasible way to achieve global scale climate change mitigation that could be implemented in 2009. One key feature is that it represents a fundamental shift in policy and tools (P&Ts), of moving ou ...
... It proposes a politically viable and integrative policy framework to unite all nations in a financially feasible way to achieve global scale climate change mitigation that could be implemented in 2009. One key feature is that it represents a fundamental shift in policy and tools (P&Ts), of moving ou ...
Global warming - u
... The difference between global temperatures during an Ice Age and an icefree period is only about 5ºC. Warmer ocean water may result in more intense and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes. Sea levels are also expected to increase by 0.09 0.88 m. In the next century, mainly from melting glaciers ...
... The difference between global temperatures during an Ice Age and an icefree period is only about 5ºC. Warmer ocean water may result in more intense and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes. Sea levels are also expected to increase by 0.09 0.88 m. In the next century, mainly from melting glaciers ...
Climate Change and the Economy
... climate over the next 40 or 50 years; what we do in the next 10 or 20 years can have a profound effect on the climate in the second half of this century and in the next. By investing 1% of GDP now (the next 10-20 years) we will avoid losing 20% of GDP later (40-50 years) Markets for low-carbon energ ...
... climate over the next 40 or 50 years; what we do in the next 10 or 20 years can have a profound effect on the climate in the second half of this century and in the next. By investing 1% of GDP now (the next 10-20 years) we will avoid losing 20% of GDP later (40-50 years) Markets for low-carbon energ ...
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... well as on infrastructure and the economy. At a time when initiatives aimed at fighting climate change also offer great potential for sustainable economic development and long-term job creation, Canada’s Premiers are, more than ever, showing leadership on this issue. In recent months, Premiers have ...
... well as on infrastructure and the economy. At a time when initiatives aimed at fighting climate change also offer great potential for sustainable economic development and long-term job creation, Canada’s Premiers are, more than ever, showing leadership on this issue. In recent months, Premiers have ...
Read more - Pottstown Citizens
... Electricity powers our was back in our hunterappliances 24/7. We enjoy indoor gatherer era. Our civilization deplumbing. Smart phones and the pends on buildings, roads, underInternet. Driving anywhere we ground pipes and electric lines. We want, anytime we want, with grocan’t just pick up and move t ...
... Electricity powers our was back in our hunterappliances 24/7. We enjoy indoor gatherer era. Our civilization deplumbing. Smart phones and the pends on buildings, roads, underInternet. Driving anywhere we ground pipes and electric lines. We want, anytime we want, with grocan’t just pick up and move t ...
Brookfield East High School Fighting Global Warming through
... The prime cause of global warming is the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of modern urbanization. Developed countries and those with modernized technologies are among the greatest contributors to rapid climate change as a result of increased emissions. Through ratification of the Kyo ...
... The prime cause of global warming is the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of modern urbanization. Developed countries and those with modernized technologies are among the greatest contributors to rapid climate change as a result of increased emissions. Through ratification of the Kyo ...
Pachauri
... increase added to the effect melting of snow and ice across the globe, could submerge several small island states and Bangladesh. Avoiding the impacts of climate change through mitigation of emissions would provide incalculable benefits including economic expansion and employment. If those in this A ...
... increase added to the effect melting of snow and ice across the globe, could submerge several small island states and Bangladesh. Avoiding the impacts of climate change through mitigation of emissions would provide incalculable benefits including economic expansion and employment. If those in this A ...
HKIE Climate Change Corner Iss - The Hong Kong Institution of
... developed by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK), is used to project the impacts of climate change associated with various emissions scenarios, and in particular to demonstrate the dramatic extent to which climate mitigation policy would reduce the projected changes in drought regime ...
... developed by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK), is used to project the impacts of climate change associated with various emissions scenarios, and in particular to demonstrate the dramatic extent to which climate mitigation policy would reduce the projected changes in drought regime ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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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.