Final Report of the Select Committee on Climate Change
... global temperatures of more than 2.0 degrees Celsius will result in significant, irreversible impacts. The current level of GHG emissions is expected to push global temperatures over this 2.0 degrees Celsius threshold before the end of this century. The panel has also determined that it is “extremel ...
... global temperatures of more than 2.0 degrees Celsius will result in significant, irreversible impacts. The current level of GHG emissions is expected to push global temperatures over this 2.0 degrees Celsius threshold before the end of this century. The panel has also determined that it is “extremel ...
Earth Day – Special Virtual Issue from Berghahn Journals
... n ABSTRACT: In climate change discourse and policy, adaptation has become a critical byword and frame of reference. An implicit assumption in much of the strategizing is the notion that adaptation can be rationally planned, funded, and governed largely through existing frameworks. But can adaptat ...
... n ABSTRACT: In climate change discourse and policy, adaptation has become a critical byword and frame of reference. An implicit assumption in much of the strategizing is the notion that adaptation can be rationally planned, funded, and governed largely through existing frameworks. But can adaptat ...
Local Climate Change Governance
... local climate change governance, publications, dealing with climate change governance at the global scale are excluded as well. The exclusion of a specific piece of work, taking a global perspective, sometimes was not easy, as the multi-level dimensions of local climate change governance are not onl ...
... local climate change governance, publications, dealing with climate change governance at the global scale are excluded as well. The exclusion of a specific piece of work, taking a global perspective, sometimes was not easy, as the multi-level dimensions of local climate change governance are not onl ...
English - Stockholm Convention
... The global environment is divided in six climate zones; the polar zones, the temperate zones, the mediterranean zone, the tropical zones, the arid zones and the mountain zones. The temperature increase will have different impact depending on climate in the regions. All regions will experience an in ...
... The global environment is divided in six climate zones; the polar zones, the temperate zones, the mediterranean zone, the tropical zones, the arid zones and the mountain zones. The temperature increase will have different impact depending on climate in the regions. All regions will experience an in ...
Climate Change Impacts and Spatial Planning Decision Support
... different challenge, one which most planners will be aware of, but may not have sufficient information, time or guidance to consider fully. Concentrating on climate change adaptation (as opposed to climate change mitigation), this guidance document presents a series of tools which can be used to ass ...
... different challenge, one which most planners will be aware of, but may not have sufficient information, time or guidance to consider fully. Concentrating on climate change adaptation (as opposed to climate change mitigation), this guidance document presents a series of tools which can be used to ass ...
Guidance to the interaction between POPs and climate change and
... Climate change induced changes in the global ecosystems have recently been found to have an impact on the releases of hazardous substances into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and to human and environmental exposure. These climate change impacts may lead to higher ...
... Climate change induced changes in the global ecosystems have recently been found to have an impact on the releases of hazardous substances into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and to human and environmental exposure. These climate change impacts may lead to higher ...
100568 - Climate Change Adaptation NEW CS3.indd
... change adaptation in Croydon. Actions have been produced to satisfy the guidelines for the National Indicator 188, ‘Planning to Adapt to Climate Change.’ This Action Plan is supported by the new Croydon State of the Environment report which will be annually reviewed, monitoring the progress of actio ...
... change adaptation in Croydon. Actions have been produced to satisfy the guidelines for the National Indicator 188, ‘Planning to Adapt to Climate Change.’ This Action Plan is supported by the new Croydon State of the Environment report which will be annually reviewed, monitoring the progress of actio ...
Long-Term Climate Change Commitment and Reversibility: An EMIC Intercomparison Please share
... changes that are to be expected in the future in response to past human activities. The concept of commitment is tied to the thermal inertia of the climate system (Hansen et al. 1985), which causes the effects of greenhouse gas emissions to be felt beyond the duration of those emissions. Climate cha ...
... changes that are to be expected in the future in response to past human activities. The concept of commitment is tied to the thermal inertia of the climate system (Hansen et al. 1985), which causes the effects of greenhouse gas emissions to be felt beyond the duration of those emissions. Climate cha ...
Making agriculture in Africa climate-smart
... farmers by 2021, through tailoring CSA practices specific to the country context, as key step towards achieving the Vision 25x25. Vulnerability and capacity assessments have been conducted in some countries, and the ACSAA has so far mobilised in-country partnerships in eight countries: Ethiopia, Ken ...
... farmers by 2021, through tailoring CSA practices specific to the country context, as key step towards achieving the Vision 25x25. Vulnerability and capacity assessments have been conducted in some countries, and the ACSAA has so far mobilised in-country partnerships in eight countries: Ethiopia, Ken ...
The Geography of Solving Global Environmental Problems
... In approaching the symposium topic of "solving global environmental problems,"' I faced three dilemmas regarding the problem-climate change-that has occupied much of my time over the past several years. First, I do not regard it as "global." While certainly climate change has global dimensions, whic ...
... In approaching the symposium topic of "solving global environmental problems,"' I faced three dilemmas regarding the problem-climate change-that has occupied much of my time over the past several years. First, I do not regard it as "global." While certainly climate change has global dimensions, whic ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... Climate change induced changes in the global ecosystems have recently been found to have an impact on the releases of hazardous substances into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and to human and environmental exposure. These climate change impacts may lead to higher ...
... Climate change induced changes in the global ecosystems have recently been found to have an impact on the releases of hazardous substances into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and to human and environmental exposure. These climate change impacts may lead to higher ...
Needs Assessment: Turks and Caicos Islands
... The original purpose of the reports still holds and the reader should recognise that the design and level of analysis in this report was set to be achievable within the time available (2 days of evidence gathering, research and writing against over 150 specific data points) and for the original purp ...
... The original purpose of the reports still holds and the reader should recognise that the design and level of analysis in this report was set to be achievable within the time available (2 days of evidence gathering, research and writing against over 150 specific data points) and for the original purp ...
argue - DLR ELIB
... atmospheric concentration, to affect climate or ozone. Despite the widely varying characteristics of the emitted substances, there is often a requirement to place their impacts on a common scale, to allow some kind of direct comparison, both across substances emitted and across sectors/sources. Here ...
... atmospheric concentration, to affect climate or ozone. Despite the widely varying characteristics of the emitted substances, there is often a requirement to place their impacts on a common scale, to allow some kind of direct comparison, both across substances emitted and across sectors/sources. Here ...
The PAGE09 Integrated Assessment Model: A Technical Description
... It also does not allow for the abatement costs to be reduced by learning or technical progress, although Alberth and Hope, 2007 did make a first attempt to introduce these reductions. In PAGE09 marginal abatement costs for each gas in each region are represented by a continuous curve, with an opt ...
... It also does not allow for the abatement costs to be reduced by learning or technical progress, although Alberth and Hope, 2007 did make a first attempt to introduce these reductions. In PAGE09 marginal abatement costs for each gas in each region are represented by a continuous curve, with an opt ...
text - Tilburg University
... According to the last report from the IPCC, humanity can expect the whole number of the severe consequences of the climate change.17 Some of those effects we can observe already, however the alarming rate of environmental change will sharper them, and more than likely bring new ones. There is full c ...
... According to the last report from the IPCC, humanity can expect the whole number of the severe consequences of the climate change.17 Some of those effects we can observe already, however the alarming rate of environmental change will sharper them, and more than likely bring new ones. There is full c ...
The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science
... and technical debate crystallized into one of the first widely publicized warnings about an anthropogenically enhanced greenhouse effect due to rising concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other radiatively sensitive greenhouse gases (GHGs), from the recent Kyoto Protocol to United Nations Fram ...
... and technical debate crystallized into one of the first widely publicized warnings about an anthropogenically enhanced greenhouse effect due to rising concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other radiatively sensitive greenhouse gases (GHGs), from the recent Kyoto Protocol to United Nations Fram ...
Going Global - The George Wright Society
... Cooperative Action for mitigation and for adaptation, where there has been agreement on the causal link between ecosystem resilience and societal resilience to climate change, and the need to develop ecosystem-based approaches. Opportunities for responding to these developments include the following ...
... Cooperative Action for mitigation and for adaptation, where there has been agreement on the causal link between ecosystem resilience and societal resilience to climate change, and the need to develop ecosystem-based approaches. Opportunities for responding to these developments include the following ...
a Climate of Conflict
... more serious and far-reaching than in previous reports. The evidence and arguments of the international scientific body will be neither queried nor extended in this report. Our starting point is the IPCC’s finding that climate change and its consequences are not topics for the long-term future alone ...
... more serious and far-reaching than in previous reports. The evidence and arguments of the international scientific body will be neither queried nor extended in this report. Our starting point is the IPCC’s finding that climate change and its consequences are not topics for the long-term future alone ...
climate change and eu security policy
... obvious impacts on international relations. In this document, the EU committed to strengthening its security role in the Arctic region.6 In 2012, the EEAS took over the EU’s Green Diplomacy Network, an initiative that brings together EU foreign policy officials working on environmental issues, to he ...
... obvious impacts on international relations. In this document, the EU committed to strengthening its security role in the Arctic region.6 In 2012, the EEAS took over the EU’s Green Diplomacy Network, an initiative that brings together EU foreign policy officials working on environmental issues, to he ...
The Availability Heuristic, Intuitive Cost
... It has become standard to say that with respect to risks, Europe and the United States can be distinguished along a single axis: Europe accepts the Precautionary Principle, and the United States does not. On this view, Europeans attempt to build a “margin of safety” into public decisions, taking car ...
... It has become standard to say that with respect to risks, Europe and the United States can be distinguished along a single axis: Europe accepts the Precautionary Principle, and the United States does not. On this view, Europeans attempt to build a “margin of safety” into public decisions, taking car ...
Combating Global Climate Change - University of Michigan Law
... to address if Congress fails to enact limits on greenhouse gas emissions early in the Obama Administration.' Part I of this Article reviews the global climate change crisis and the inadequacy of historical efforts to combat global warming. This overview demonstrates the need for strong and immediate ...
... to address if Congress fails to enact limits on greenhouse gas emissions early in the Obama Administration.' Part I of this Article reviews the global climate change crisis and the inadequacy of historical efforts to combat global warming. This overview demonstrates the need for strong and immediate ...
Sensitivity and the Carbon Budget - Apollo
... The temperature change illustrates the impact of change in CO2 concentration without any of the amplifying effects of the feedback system. The 280 ppm point marks the pre-industrial benchmark. Temperature variation is displayed on the vertical axis. (See Table 2, p36) Two concentration markers have ...
... The temperature change illustrates the impact of change in CO2 concentration without any of the amplifying effects of the feedback system. The 280 ppm point marks the pre-industrial benchmark. Temperature variation is displayed on the vertical axis. (See Table 2, p36) Two concentration markers have ...
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.