Timeline of Environmental awareness
... agreements. The Green Cross International was founded to build upon the work of the Summit. Back to Critics, however, point out that many of the agreements made in Rio have not been realized regarding Timeline such fundamental issues as fighting poverty and cleaning up the environment. http://en.wik ...
... agreements. The Green Cross International was founded to build upon the work of the Summit. Back to Critics, however, point out that many of the agreements made in Rio have not been realized regarding Timeline such fundamental issues as fighting poverty and cleaning up the environment. http://en.wik ...
New results on climate change mitigation 2007
... • non-motorised transport (cycling, walking) • land-use and transport planning Prof. Dr. Olav Hohmeyer ...
... • non-motorised transport (cycling, walking) • land-use and transport planning Prof. Dr. Olav Hohmeyer ...
MULTI‐MUNICIPAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY
... The results of this GHG emissions inventory are designed to help planners, elected officials, residents and business owners confront the significant challenges that climate change and growing global energy demand represent. Our modern economy is based upon the consumption of inexpensive energy f ...
... The results of this GHG emissions inventory are designed to help planners, elected officials, residents and business owners confront the significant challenges that climate change and growing global energy demand represent. Our modern economy is based upon the consumption of inexpensive energy f ...
Black Carbon Mitigation and the Role of the
... gases (GHGs), especially carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas, will likely lead to about a 4°C temperature rise by the end of this century. All parties to the UNFCCC and many scientific groups, as well as leaders of the G-7 countries1, have therefore called for a limit on the temp ...
... gases (GHGs), especially carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas, will likely lead to about a 4°C temperature rise by the end of this century. All parties to the UNFCCC and many scientific groups, as well as leaders of the G-7 countries1, have therefore called for a limit on the temp ...
Climate Finance Study Group
... timescales required to transform our economies and infrastructures to meet this challenge, coherent action is needed now to limit the rise of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and then to reduce them rapidly. Policy instruments will be most effective when underpinned by a clear, long-term comm ...
... timescales required to transform our economies and infrastructures to meet this challenge, coherent action is needed now to limit the rise of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and then to reduce them rapidly. Policy instruments will be most effective when underpinned by a clear, long-term comm ...
CLIMATE CHANGE State Should Further Improve Its Reporting on Financial Support
... Climate Change (Framework Convention). Future reports must contain climate finance data elements that State did not include in the FSF reports and, in some cases, does not currently collect. For example, State does not collect information on the annual status of climate finance contributions provide ...
... Climate Change (Framework Convention). Future reports must contain climate finance data elements that State did not include in the FSF reports and, in some cases, does not currently collect. For example, State does not collect information on the annual status of climate finance contributions provide ...
Western Cape Climate Change Response Strategy 2014
... “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gasses have incre ...
... “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gasses have incre ...
Transient Earth system responses to cumulative
... nomic factors. Second, limitations in our process understanding likely lead to differences between the simulated response to emissions and the response of the actual system the model is intended to describe. This constitutes an additional uncertainty, termed the model or response uncertainty. Well-d ...
... nomic factors. Second, limitations in our process understanding likely lead to differences between the simulated response to emissions and the response of the actual system the model is intended to describe. This constitutes an additional uncertainty, termed the model or response uncertainty. Well-d ...
Socio-structural and psychological foundations of climate change
... Whitmarsh, 2011). The gap between scientific evidence and public awareness of existing risks is a multifaceted issue and research has identified a number of psychological barriers to perceiving, understanding and acting upon global environmental change (e.g., Milfont, 2010; Pawlik, 1991; Swim et al. ...
... Whitmarsh, 2011). The gap between scientific evidence and public awareness of existing risks is a multifaceted issue and research has identified a number of psychological barriers to perceiving, understanding and acting upon global environmental change (e.g., Milfont, 2010; Pawlik, 1991; Swim et al. ...
Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting
... with the statement “Rich countries, such as the U.S., Japan and Germany, should do more than developing countries because they have produced most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions so far.” A median of just 38% believe that “Developing countries should do just as much as rich countries because ...
... with the statement “Rich countries, such as the U.S., Japan and Germany, should do more than developing countries because they have produced most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions so far.” A median of just 38% believe that “Developing countries should do just as much as rich countries because ...
Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration
... will increase rainfall and flooding with a direct effect on agricultural production, and with serious consequences in a region with a high population growth. In Latin America and Caribbean areas, serious threats exist to the rainforests with direct consequences for the subsistence of populations dep ...
... will increase rainfall and flooding with a direct effect on agricultural production, and with serious consequences in a region with a high population growth. In Latin America and Caribbean areas, serious threats exist to the rainforests with direct consequences for the subsistence of populations dep ...
Climate Change and Food Systems
... contribution from fertilizer manufacture in China (Figure 1). Adding the figures across the aggregate global food chain, and assuming a growth in emissions of 3% per year, gives the total global GHG emissions for the year 2008 in the range of 9,800 to 16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (M ...
... contribution from fertilizer manufacture in China (Figure 1). Adding the figures across the aggregate global food chain, and assuming a growth in emissions of 3% per year, gives the total global GHG emissions for the year 2008 in the range of 9,800 to 16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (M ...
Climate Change Financing - SÜDWIND
... Climate financing is understood to comprise the support to developing countries for both adaptation to climate change and for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Developed countries have committed themselves to providing USD 100 billion of “new and additional” financing annually by the year ...
... Climate financing is understood to comprise the support to developing countries for both adaptation to climate change and for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Developed countries have committed themselves to providing USD 100 billion of “new and additional” financing annually by the year ...
Project Concept and PDF-B Document
... revealed by current climate hazards that frequently translate into disasters. This is to be achieved by strengthening efforts to make early warning and seasonal climate forecasts accessible to vulnerable stakeholders in ASALs, while also strengthening their capacity to act upon information through i ...
... revealed by current climate hazards that frequently translate into disasters. This is to be achieved by strengthening efforts to make early warning and seasonal climate forecasts accessible to vulnerable stakeholders in ASALs, while also strengthening their capacity to act upon information through i ...
Preserving the Ocean Circulation
... (technically known as a thermohaline circulation collapse) is a plausible response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations [Manabe and Stouffer, 1993, Wood et al., 1999, Schmittner and Stocker, 1999, Rahmstorf and Ganopolski, 1999]. An important link between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrat ...
... (technically known as a thermohaline circulation collapse) is a plausible response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations [Manabe and Stouffer, 1993, Wood et al., 1999, Schmittner and Stocker, 1999, Rahmstorf and Ganopolski, 1999]. An important link between atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrat ...
changes in ground-level air pollution over europe
... strengths of natural sources and sinks. – Constraining anthropogenic CH4 seems better feasible: shorter lifetime, anthropogenic emissions less well known and of similar magnitude as natural emissions. ...
... strengths of natural sources and sinks. – Constraining anthropogenic CH4 seems better feasible: shorter lifetime, anthropogenic emissions less well known and of similar magnitude as natural emissions. ...
Pastoralism as a tool for mitigating climate change
... pastoralists who are faced with extreme political, social and economic marginalisation. The general consensus was that, if this multitude of constraints to pastoralism were relaxed, their adaptive strategies might enable pastoralists to manage climate change better than many other rural inhabitants. ...
... pastoralists who are faced with extreme political, social and economic marginalisation. The general consensus was that, if this multitude of constraints to pastoralism were relaxed, their adaptive strategies might enable pastoralists to manage climate change better than many other rural inhabitants. ...
From Davos to Copenhagen and Beyond
... much smaller than the costs of economic and social disruption resulting from inaction on climate change. While additional warming cannot be avoided, future temperature increases will heavily depend on global emission pathways over the next four decades. At t ...
... much smaller than the costs of economic and social disruption resulting from inaction on climate change. While additional warming cannot be avoided, future temperature increases will heavily depend on global emission pathways over the next four decades. At t ...
Climate Change Youth Guide to Action
... On September 24, 2007, Catherine Gauthier, 18, addressed over 80 Heads of State at the United Nations special high-level event on climate change, The Future In Our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change. Excerpts from her speech are below. ...
... On September 24, 2007, Catherine Gauthier, 18, addressed over 80 Heads of State at the United Nations special high-level event on climate change, The Future In Our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change. Excerpts from her speech are below. ...
US Climate Engagement - Skoll Global Threats Fund
... “Communication efforts should be focused on engaging citizens in a dialogue, not in manipulation. To build movement mobilization, there is a need for a face to face engagement and discussion. Just providing information might lead to short term shifts in opinion, but it also means engaging in continu ...
... “Communication efforts should be focused on engaging citizens in a dialogue, not in manipulation. To build movement mobilization, there is a need for a face to face engagement and discussion. Just providing information might lead to short term shifts in opinion, but it also means engaging in continu ...
Planning for Climate Change in the West
... the processes that drive the climate system has led to the creation of global climate models, which allow scientists to separate the natural variability in the Earth’s climate from changes explained by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, that raise the level of carbon dioxide and oth ...
... the processes that drive the climate system has led to the creation of global climate models, which allow scientists to separate the natural variability in the Earth’s climate from changes explained by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, that raise the level of carbon dioxide and oth ...
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Land Use Sector
... Mitigation Actions (NAMA) are distinct from National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) and may be managed by different institutions. In Bangladesh, for example, adaptation is handled under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, while mitigation is administered through a high-profile Designat ...
... Mitigation Actions (NAMA) are distinct from National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) and may be managed by different institutions. In Bangladesh, for example, adaptation is handled under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, while mitigation is administered through a high-profile Designat ...
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.