What is climate change?
... • Every school, hospital, place of worship has a responsibility to take action to make their buildings more ‘eco-friendly’ • A good resource for this is the Interfaith Scotland booklet, ‘Our Sacred Earth’ which is available in the resources section on our website for good tips and hints ...
... • Every school, hospital, place of worship has a responsibility to take action to make their buildings more ‘eco-friendly’ • A good resource for this is the Interfaith Scotland booklet, ‘Our Sacred Earth’ which is available in the resources section on our website for good tips and hints ...
Sample Organizational Statement on Climate Change
... Conservative estimates by the world's climate scientists state that to achieve climate stabilization and avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change – including flooding of coastal cities, severe droughts acting as catalysts for war, mass extinction of plants and animals -- emissions of C02 and oth ...
... Conservative estimates by the world's climate scientists state that to achieve climate stabilization and avoid catastrophic impacts of climate change – including flooding of coastal cities, severe droughts acting as catalysts for war, mass extinction of plants and animals -- emissions of C02 and oth ...
Climate change mitigation and adaptation
... 2. Mimic Volcanoes in Stratosphere Volcanoes cool climate temporarily ~ 12-18 months Proposed Idea: inject sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere Would need equivalent of an El-Chichon or Pinatubo every year to counter warming ...
... 2. Mimic Volcanoes in Stratosphere Volcanoes cool climate temporarily ~ 12-18 months Proposed Idea: inject sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere Would need equivalent of an El-Chichon or Pinatubo every year to counter warming ...
Keeping in Touch Keeping in Touch
... activities and thinking, due to observed or expected changes in the climate. Examples of adaptation include changing building standards and community development plans to take into account expected changes in weather and rising sea levels. Adaptation can save lives, reduce damage to create new oppor ...
... activities and thinking, due to observed or expected changes in the climate. Examples of adaptation include changing building standards and community development plans to take into account expected changes in weather and rising sea levels. Adaptation can save lives, reduce damage to create new oppor ...
Running out of tune
... reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 19 mate related extreme events displaced over per cent, while the economy grew by 45 per cent. We have recently committed to 38 million people. Here in Southeast Asia, reducing EU emissions by at least 40 per a 75cm sea level rise will submerge 40 per cent by 2030 ...
... reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 19 mate related extreme events displaced over per cent, while the economy grew by 45 per cent. We have recently committed to 38 million people. Here in Southeast Asia, reducing EU emissions by at least 40 per a 75cm sea level rise will submerge 40 per cent by 2030 ...
CASE STUDY - Climate change
... distribution. While there is potential catastrophic risk for everyone, the short and medium-term distribution of the costs and benefits will be far from uniform. The distributional challenge is made particularly difficult because those who have largely caused the problem— the rich countries—are not ...
... distribution. While there is potential catastrophic risk for everyone, the short and medium-term distribution of the costs and benefits will be far from uniform. The distributional challenge is made particularly difficult because those who have largely caused the problem— the rich countries—are not ...
Global Warming - staeger science
... 8. Use types of rice that can be grown under much drier conditions. ...
... 8. Use types of rice that can be grown under much drier conditions. ...
IFLRY Position Paper on Climate Change
... As humans change the concentration of the atmosphere, by taking large amounts of CO2 out of its natural cycle, the climate changes with it. Some countries will see both the most dramatic changes, as well as be least prepared to face those changes. There is an underlying and inherent inequity. Thus, ...
... As humans change the concentration of the atmosphere, by taking large amounts of CO2 out of its natural cycle, the climate changes with it. Some countries will see both the most dramatic changes, as well as be least prepared to face those changes. There is an underlying and inherent inequity. Thus, ...
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... The sources and sinks for methane are even less wellquantified than CO 2 , Sources include natural wetlands and bogs, rice paddies, intestinal fermentation occurring in animals; animal wastes; biomass burning, and coal mining; and the drilling, venting, and transmission of natural gas. Estimates of ...
... The sources and sinks for methane are even less wellquantified than CO 2 , Sources include natural wetlands and bogs, rice paddies, intestinal fermentation occurring in animals; animal wastes; biomass burning, and coal mining; and the drilling, venting, and transmission of natural gas. Estimates of ...
coal use and climate change - Colorado Mining Association
... the theory that increased levels of greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide or CO2, trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere, causing ocean levels to rise and other effects, such as decreased rainfall, or snow melts at higher elevations in Colorado. Yet the earth has always been in a state of ...
... the theory that increased levels of greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide or CO2, trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere, causing ocean levels to rise and other effects, such as decreased rainfall, or snow melts at higher elevations in Colorado. Yet the earth has always been in a state of ...
Science, Politics and Action by Dr Sharachchandra Lele
... • We cannot afford to cut back • We have a right to pollute in order to develop • We are anyway doing a lot • We need a lot of financial and tech transfer • Best way to adapt is to develop • We will not make binding commitments but we are willing to make some money out of trading (?!) ...
... • We cannot afford to cut back • We have a right to pollute in order to develop • We are anyway doing a lot • We need a lot of financial and tech transfer • Best way to adapt is to develop • We will not make binding commitments but we are willing to make some money out of trading (?!) ...
16 Mar 2014
... ocean heat content, sea level, and melting ice. How confident are scientists that warming will continue during this century? "Very confident." Continuation of present emissions trends will cause temperatures to increase by another five to eight degrees by 2100. Even if emissions stopped today, tempe ...
... ocean heat content, sea level, and melting ice. How confident are scientists that warming will continue during this century? "Very confident." Continuation of present emissions trends will cause temperatures to increase by another five to eight degrees by 2100. Even if emissions stopped today, tempe ...
Slide 1
... • “Unequivocal” that Earth’s climate is warming • Greenhouse gases at highest levels in 650,000 years • “Very Likely” that increased greenhouse gases have caused most of the rise in temperatures since 1950 ...
... • “Unequivocal” that Earth’s climate is warming • Greenhouse gases at highest levels in 650,000 years • “Very Likely” that increased greenhouse gases have caused most of the rise in temperatures since 1950 ...
eco-service-talk-sept-2016 - Church Stretton Methodist Church
... 2012, greenhouse gas reduction measures were agreed in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 but carbon emissions have been increasing, globally average temperatures still rise and there are more extremes of damaging weather. Sea levels are rising, destructive storms that once occurred every hundred years or s ...
... 2012, greenhouse gas reduction measures were agreed in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 but carbon emissions have been increasing, globally average temperatures still rise and there are more extremes of damaging weather. Sea levels are rising, destructive storms that once occurred every hundred years or s ...
Climate Change Assembly Presented by Lyndon State College Climate Change Committee
... activity impacting climate is strong and widely accepted within the scientific community.” ...
... activity impacting climate is strong and widely accepted within the scientific community.” ...
Climate diplomacy under related international processes other than
... change, especially as it relates to the health impacts of air pollution. 2. Some points raised during the panel discussion on health and climate change on the margins of the World Health Assembly in May 2016: - the Paris Agreement as the biggest international health agreement - need to integrate cli ...
... change, especially as it relates to the health impacts of air pollution. 2. Some points raised during the panel discussion on health and climate change on the margins of the World Health Assembly in May 2016: - the Paris Agreement as the biggest international health agreement - need to integrate cli ...
Washington Legislature Passes Tailpipe Emission Disclosure Bill
... The first of a series of measures intended to address climate change in Washington passed the legislature and will be sent to Governor Christine Gregoire for signature. The bill, SB 6309, would require all new passenger cars, light duty trucks and medium duty passenger vehicles sold in Washington to ...
... The first of a series of measures intended to address climate change in Washington passed the legislature and will be sent to Governor Christine Gregoire for signature. The bill, SB 6309, would require all new passenger cars, light duty trucks and medium duty passenger vehicles sold in Washington to ...
Electric vol 348 8-6-13 - Nordic Energy Services
... possible for the world to meet its 2°C goal, but it will take drastic action and international cooperation. The energy sector is particularly featured in the new report because it accounts for the majority of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. "Despite positive developments in some countries, gl ...
... possible for the world to meet its 2°C goal, but it will take drastic action and international cooperation. The energy sector is particularly featured in the new report because it accounts for the majority of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. "Despite positive developments in some countries, gl ...
The making and message of Islamic Declaration on Global Climate
... producing a new legal agreement among national governments to strengthen the global response to climate change. ...
... producing a new legal agreement among national governments to strengthen the global response to climate change. ...
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.