Climate Action Team Report to Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature December 2010
... climate change came in 1988, with a law requiring the first state-level study of global warming’s impacts, and requiring recommendations for “avoiding, reducing, and addressing” these impacts. Since that time, among other efforts, the state has initiated, the following: ...
... climate change came in 1988, with a law requiring the first state-level study of global warming’s impacts, and requiring recommendations for “avoiding, reducing, and addressing” these impacts. Since that time, among other efforts, the state has initiated, the following: ...
Media coverage of climate change: current trends, strengths
... The mass media plays a largely unexplored role in the future of climate adaptation aid. We review here previous work that may point the way in assessing the role of media in influencing public opinion on assisting poor nations with adapting to climate change. This background paper surveys how mass m ...
... The mass media plays a largely unexplored role in the future of climate adaptation aid. We review here previous work that may point the way in assessing the role of media in influencing public opinion on assisting poor nations with adapting to climate change. This background paper surveys how mass m ...
Adaptation Planning – What U.S. States and Localities are Doing
... address both greenhouse gas emission reduction policies (mitigation) as well as policies to cope with the inevitable impacts from climate change (adaptation). While the House passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), in June 2009, the Senate is not expected to vote on thei ...
... address both greenhouse gas emission reduction policies (mitigation) as well as policies to cope with the inevitable impacts from climate change (adaptation). While the House passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), in June 2009, the Senate is not expected to vote on thei ...
Robust Sahel drying in response to late 20th century forcings
... Michela Biasutti1 and Alessandra Giannini2 Received 16 February 2006; revised 13 April 2006; accepted 1 May 2006; published 8 June 2006. ...
... Michela Biasutti1 and Alessandra Giannini2 Received 16 February 2006; revised 13 April 2006; accepted 1 May 2006; published 8 June 2006. ...
Assessing Future Climate Risks
... in Figure 5-3. Included are some initial activities to carry out with stakeholders, such as exchanging information on what is already known. At this point in the process, some level of prior knowledge of climate change is assumed to exist in most countries, including that generated by National Commu ...
... in Figure 5-3. Included are some initial activities to carry out with stakeholders, such as exchanging information on what is already known. At this point in the process, some level of prior knowledge of climate change is assumed to exist in most countries, including that generated by National Commu ...
1 OCTOBER TERM, 2006 Syllabus
... otherwise-unambiguous statute, EPA identifies nothing suggesting that Congress meant to curtail EPA’s power to treat greenhouse gases as air pollutants. The Court has no difficulty reconciling Con gress’ various efforts to promote interagency collaboration and re search to better understand climate ...
... otherwise-unambiguous statute, EPA identifies nothing suggesting that Congress meant to curtail EPA’s power to treat greenhouse gases as air pollutants. The Court has no difficulty reconciling Con gress’ various efforts to promote interagency collaboration and re search to better understand climate ...
yukon government climate change action plan
... Impact Assessment (2004), winter temperatures in Alaska and western Canada (including Yukon) have increased by as much as 3-4˚ C in the same time period. Climate change impacts are classified as being one of two general types: bio-physical impacts include physical changes to northern landscapes and ...
... Impact Assessment (2004), winter temperatures in Alaska and western Canada (including Yukon) have increased by as much as 3-4˚ C in the same time period. Climate change impacts are classified as being one of two general types: bio-physical impacts include physical changes to northern landscapes and ...
Injection of CO 2
... to acquire the knowledge, we should influence the outcome, we should help doing it “right” – also if this results in doing it not at all. ...
... to acquire the knowledge, we should influence the outcome, we should help doing it “right” – also if this results in doing it not at all. ...
Submission DR134 - Chairman of the Australian Building Codes
... The ABCB Climate Adaptation Report contains other recommendations for possible adaptation measures for other climate risks. These will be considered in the context of the ABCB’s annual work plan as discussed below. Whatever the emission scenario, climate change impacts both at a regional level in Au ...
... The ABCB Climate Adaptation Report contains other recommendations for possible adaptation measures for other climate risks. These will be considered in the context of the ABCB’s annual work plan as discussed below. Whatever the emission scenario, climate change impacts both at a regional level in Au ...
Abrupt climate change: can society cope?
... Direction. All the IPCC scenarios contain basically unidirectional curves of climate change, at least at global and large-regional scales.† A non-standard abrupt scenario therefore could be when the direction of climate change alters in a sustained manner, for example, when climate substantially war ...
... Direction. All the IPCC scenarios contain basically unidirectional curves of climate change, at least at global and large-regional scales.† A non-standard abrupt scenario therefore could be when the direction of climate change alters in a sustained manner, for example, when climate substantially war ...
August 2012 - CREE
... The term carbon leakage is often used when there is a limited participation in climate treaties (see e.g. Felder and Rutherford, 1993). In this paper, we use the term when emission reductions in one region are met by emission increases in another region also within a climate treaty. Alternatively, t ...
... The term carbon leakage is often used when there is a limited participation in climate treaties (see e.g. Felder and Rutherford, 1993). In this paper, we use the term when emission reductions in one region are met by emission increases in another region also within a climate treaty. Alternatively, t ...
Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities?
... Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), about whether the likelihood of quantified amounts of climate change throughout the coming century can be estimated. This lively debate re-emerged after the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) was published with a commentary on ‘What is ...
... Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), about whether the likelihood of quantified amounts of climate change throughout the coming century can be estimated. This lively debate re-emerged after the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) was published with a commentary on ‘What is ...
Weathering the Storm: the impact of climate change
... economies elsewhere in the world means we 'import' risk through the financial services sector and international supply chains. Yet, we have found that these risks, even as their likelihood and potential severity increase, are poorly understood in the capital. In turn, businesses are illprepared, and ...
... economies elsewhere in the world means we 'import' risk through the financial services sector and international supply chains. Yet, we have found that these risks, even as their likelihood and potential severity increase, are poorly understood in the capital. In turn, businesses are illprepared, and ...
Migration and Climate Change - Development Research Centre on
... and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country”.14 There are other problems with using the term “refugee”. Strictly speaking, categorization as a refugee is reliant on crossing an internationally recognized border: someone displaced within th ...
... and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country”.14 There are other problems with using the term “refugee”. Strictly speaking, categorization as a refugee is reliant on crossing an internationally recognized border: someone displaced within th ...
Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and
... predicted annual area burned in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains Forest ecoregions. The observations show large interannual variability in area burned, with a range of 7500 ha/a to 440,000 ha/a in the Pacific Northwest and 4800 ha/a to 1.45 million ha/a in the Rocky Mountains Forest. In the ...
... predicted annual area burned in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains Forest ecoregions. The observations show large interannual variability in area burned, with a range of 7500 ha/a to 440,000 ha/a in the Pacific Northwest and 4800 ha/a to 1.45 million ha/a in the Rocky Mountains Forest. In the ...
Public open house summary
... within the Department of Environment and Parks. The engagement process included Aboriginal engagement, public open houses, online engagement, and technical stakeholder sessions. This document summarizes comments received in the public engagement stream, specifically open houses held in Calgary on Se ...
... within the Department of Environment and Parks. The engagement process included Aboriginal engagement, public open houses, online engagement, and technical stakeholder sessions. This document summarizes comments received in the public engagement stream, specifically open houses held in Calgary on Se ...
College greenhouse gas inventory
... This report brings together the work of several students from the Pomona Campus Climate Challenge (CCC) group and the EA 99: “Carbon-neutrality at Pomona College” class, supervised by Professor Richard Elderkin. The Pomona-College CCC group was founded in August 2006 by Praween Dayananda (’07) and A ...
... This report brings together the work of several students from the Pomona Campus Climate Challenge (CCC) group and the EA 99: “Carbon-neutrality at Pomona College” class, supervised by Professor Richard Elderkin. The Pomona-College CCC group was founded in August 2006 by Praween Dayananda (’07) and A ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... In 2004, the United States emitted about 8 billion tons of CO2e or about 25 tons/year/person. Of the four major sectors nationwide - residential, commercial, industrial and transportation - transportation accounts for the highest fraction of GHG emissions (approximately 35 to 40 percent); these emis ...
... In 2004, the United States emitted about 8 billion tons of CO2e or about 25 tons/year/person. Of the four major sectors nationwide - residential, commercial, industrial and transportation - transportation accounts for the highest fraction of GHG emissions (approximately 35 to 40 percent); these emis ...
ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
... CHAPTER 1 will focus on the historical development of party identities in Europe as well as the recent progression in Asia focusing on the building of party programmes. It presents the five different political orientations of Christian democracy, centre right, social democracy, liberal and green par ...
... CHAPTER 1 will focus on the historical development of party identities in Europe as well as the recent progression in Asia focusing on the building of party programmes. It presents the five different political orientations of Christian democracy, centre right, social democracy, liberal and green par ...
Towards Policy Integration of Disaster Risk, Climate Adaptation, and
... by providing incentives and allocating necessary resources at all levels, promoting public and private mechanisms for risk transfer and insurance, and risk sharing and protection. The fourth priority action is to “enhance disaster preparedness for effective response and “to build back better” in rec ...
... by providing incentives and allocating necessary resources at all levels, promoting public and private mechanisms for risk transfer and insurance, and risk sharing and protection. The fourth priority action is to “enhance disaster preparedness for effective response and “to build back better” in rec ...
Fourth Carbon Budget Review – part 1
... that there is a new agreement by the end of 2015 to deliver deep emissions cuts compatible with limiting warming to 2°C. Given these developments, the global emissions pathways assumed when designing the fourth carbon budget remain feasible if challenging. They continue to be an appropriate basis fo ...
... that there is a new agreement by the end of 2015 to deliver deep emissions cuts compatible with limiting warming to 2°C. Given these developments, the global emissions pathways assumed when designing the fourth carbon budget remain feasible if challenging. They continue to be an appropriate basis fo ...
Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy
... the causal chain of climate change. This chain runs: from humans to emissions and changes in atmospheric concentrations; from changes in concentrations to changes in weather conditions which, with their induced feedbacks, change the climate; and from the weather of this altered climate to changes in ...
... the causal chain of climate change. This chain runs: from humans to emissions and changes in atmospheric concentrations; from changes in concentrations to changes in weather conditions which, with their induced feedbacks, change the climate; and from the weather of this altered climate to changes in ...
Geographic disparities and moral hazards in the predicted impacts
... the magnitude and direction of the impacts of climate change makes it challenging but important to develop global indices of regional vulnerability to climate change (Dyson, 2005). Niche modelling is an increasingly common approach used by ecologists to predict species responses to climate change (P ...
... the magnitude and direction of the impacts of climate change makes it challenging but important to develop global indices of regional vulnerability to climate change (Dyson, 2005). Niche modelling is an increasingly common approach used by ecologists to predict species responses to climate change (P ...
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.