Environmental concerns:
... The UN General Assembly resolved to proceed with such a treaty. 1992: The UN agreed on the Framework Convention on Climate Change that opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. This framework convention was accepted by nearly all the world's countries 181 governments), including th ...
... The UN General Assembly resolved to proceed with such a treaty. 1992: The UN agreed on the Framework Convention on Climate Change that opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. This framework convention was accepted by nearly all the world's countries 181 governments), including th ...
global warming
... What is climate change? (Sometimes referred to as Global Warming) Climate Change is the process by which human emissions of Greenhouse Gases are believed to be causing changes in the Earth’s climate system. Watch out for the difference! ...
... What is climate change? (Sometimes referred to as Global Warming) Climate Change is the process by which human emissions of Greenhouse Gases are believed to be causing changes in the Earth’s climate system. Watch out for the difference! ...
AR4: observed vs. modelled global climate change What do models
... AR4: models are getting better • Models are used to simulate the warming of the last 150 years • Their results correlate with anthropogenic + natural warming • Natural causes can’t explain what has happened. ...
... AR4: models are getting better • Models are used to simulate the warming of the last 150 years • Their results correlate with anthropogenic + natural warming • Natural causes can’t explain what has happened. ...
11.2 Human Activity and Climate Change (change in long term
... What has a higher albedo: sea ice or soil? ...
... What has a higher albedo: sea ice or soil? ...
Justin Project
... mainly comes from two sources: (1) burning of fossil fuels and (2) deforestation. Each year, more than 6 billion tons of carbon are released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned. The estimates on deforestation are around 1.5 billion tons of carbon are released. The outcome has been risin ...
... mainly comes from two sources: (1) burning of fossil fuels and (2) deforestation. Each year, more than 6 billion tons of carbon are released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned. The estimates on deforestation are around 1.5 billion tons of carbon are released. The outcome has been risin ...
DavidWarrilow_UKApproach_AAAS_021304
... Responses – mitigation and adaptation • Unrestrained climate change presents ...
... Responses – mitigation and adaptation • Unrestrained climate change presents ...
DavidWarrilow_UKApproach_AAAS_021304
... Responses – mitigation and adaptation • Unrestrained climate change presents ...
... Responses – mitigation and adaptation • Unrestrained climate change presents ...
Climate change 1.5 Strategies to address climate change
... highlighting the earths fragile atmospheric system. CFCs considered the main culprit, were tackled by the Montreal Protocol in 1987 when the first step to limiting the amount of CFCs produced and used by countries was introduced. ...
... highlighting the earths fragile atmospheric system. CFCs considered the main culprit, were tackled by the Montreal Protocol in 1987 when the first step to limiting the amount of CFCs produced and used by countries was introduced. ...
PPT
... climate change, that can be used for climate change assessment, policy and decision making. • SEEA as an integrated framework is particularly suitable to asses the policy responses to climate change. It provides all the essential information to monitor, understand and analyse the relation between th ...
... climate change, that can be used for climate change assessment, policy and decision making. • SEEA as an integrated framework is particularly suitable to asses the policy responses to climate change. It provides all the essential information to monitor, understand and analyse the relation between th ...
CLIMATE CHANGES ON THE EARTH
... The earth has warmed up more than 47% over the last 100 years. These more recent changes in climate change can't be explained by natural causes, only by human behaviour. ...
... The earth has warmed up more than 47% over the last 100 years. These more recent changes in climate change can't be explained by natural causes, only by human behaviour. ...
Slide 1
... Staff Vice President, Legal Affairs National Association of Home Builders January 31, 2008 ...
... Staff Vice President, Legal Affairs National Association of Home Builders January 31, 2008 ...
global warming - running into myself
... • Carbon dioxide (CO2) - exhaust from cars and power plants. • Methane (CH4) - from decomposing organic matter. ...
... • Carbon dioxide (CO2) - exhaust from cars and power plants. • Methane (CH4) - from decomposing organic matter. ...
A Safe Landing for the Climate (Chapter 2)
... • The troposphere is the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere. It contains approximately 75 percent of the atmosphere's mass and 99 percent of its water vapor and aerosols. ...
... • The troposphere is the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere. It contains approximately 75 percent of the atmosphere's mass and 99 percent of its water vapor and aerosols. ...
Climate Change Policy
... take sensible action on climate change policy Our modeling shows that what the world does on climate policies matters more for the Australian economy than what Australia does ...
... take sensible action on climate change policy Our modeling shows that what the world does on climate policies matters more for the Australian economy than what Australia does ...
Atmosphere and Change 2
... however, when they move over warm or hot water (a direct consequence of global warming) they can gain strenght, size, intensity and speed, becoming devastating to nature and to mankind (one good example is the Hurricane Katrina, which killed almost 2 thousand people in 2005) ...
... however, when they move over warm or hot water (a direct consequence of global warming) they can gain strenght, size, intensity and speed, becoming devastating to nature and to mankind (one good example is the Hurricane Katrina, which killed almost 2 thousand people in 2005) ...
Ch 19 - Aquinas High School
... world went to Kyoto, Japan to discuss how best to control the emissions contributing to global warming. The agreement was that emissions of greenhouse gases from all industrialized countries will be reduced to 5.2% below their 1990 levels by 2012. Developing nations did not have emission limits impo ...
... world went to Kyoto, Japan to discuss how best to control the emissions contributing to global warming. The agreement was that emissions of greenhouse gases from all industrialized countries will be reduced to 5.2% below their 1990 levels by 2012. Developing nations did not have emission limits impo ...
Sources of Feed back
... • Kyoto Protocol – International environmental treaty to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent man-made interference with the climate ...
... • Kyoto Protocol – International environmental treaty to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent man-made interference with the climate ...
The Economics of Sustainability
... What will happen if I do nothing? • Important, because many issues will resolve themselves and policy fixes may get in the way • Unfortunately global warming is likely to continue without a policy response • The reason: MARKET FAILURE!!! ...
... What will happen if I do nothing? • Important, because many issues will resolve themselves and policy fixes may get in the way • Unfortunately global warming is likely to continue without a policy response • The reason: MARKET FAILURE!!! ...
Global shifts: Climate change
... fuels, deforestation and the rotting of organic materials. The way in which many human activities such as generation of energy, transportation, industry, land use and waste disposal are currently conducted release these gases to the atmosphere. The Paris Agreement’s aim is to keep global temperature ...
... fuels, deforestation and the rotting of organic materials. The way in which many human activities such as generation of energy, transportation, industry, land use and waste disposal are currently conducted release these gases to the atmosphere. The Paris Agreement’s aim is to keep global temperature ...
Climate Change - Hale
... While some of this incoming solar radiation bounces back into space, a small portion of it is trapped by the delicate balance of gases that make up our atmosphere Without this layer of insulation, Earth would simply be another frozen rock hurtling through ...
... While some of this incoming solar radiation bounces back into space, a small portion of it is trapped by the delicate balance of gases that make up our atmosphere Without this layer of insulation, Earth would simply be another frozen rock hurtling through ...
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.