Climate Change
... not surprising given the many different interests that predominant in different parts of the world. It’s not that we lack ideas or solutions to both seriously mitigate and then prepare to adapt to climate change impact. We can rest assured: impacts there will be, regardless of how much some would li ...
... not surprising given the many different interests that predominant in different parts of the world. It’s not that we lack ideas or solutions to both seriously mitigate and then prepare to adapt to climate change impact. We can rest assured: impacts there will be, regardless of how much some would li ...
Climate Satellites Affirmative - NDI - 2011
... interpret recent climatic variations and paleo-climatic changes, and to understand the physical processes that may drive threshold behaviour. However several examples are known where the models used in the IPCC Fourth Assessment may not represent physical mechanisms of tipping elements correctly, du ...
... interpret recent climatic variations and paleo-climatic changes, and to understand the physical processes that may drive threshold behaviour. However several examples are known where the models used in the IPCC Fourth Assessment may not represent physical mechanisms of tipping elements correctly, du ...
ARTICLES CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND THE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
... [I]nterest in adaptation was overwhelmed by concern about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Proponents of adaptation faced two obstacles that were attributed to adaptation: reducing the apparent need for mitigation; and playing down ...
... [I]nterest in adaptation was overwhelmed by concern about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Proponents of adaptation faced two obstacles that were attributed to adaptation: reducing the apparent need for mitigation; and playing down ...
Climate Guide - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
... impacts in the most vulnerable areas of the world, including virtually all developing countries. And the bigger the changes, the more negative the effects will be all around the globe. …and threaten human health Water scarcity will increase in many areas. In Africa, up to 250 million people will suf ...
... impacts in the most vulnerable areas of the world, including virtually all developing countries. And the bigger the changes, the more negative the effects will be all around the globe. …and threaten human health Water scarcity will increase in many areas. In Africa, up to 250 million people will suf ...
Australia`s Sixth National Communication on Climate Change
... The Australian Government is taking strong and decisive action to address climate change. In the period since the Fifth National Communication on Climate Change was submitted, the Government has successfully implemented the Clean Energy Future Plan; a comprehensive suite of climate change measures. ...
... The Australian Government is taking strong and decisive action to address climate change. In the period since the Fifth National Communication on Climate Change was submitted, the Government has successfully implemented the Clean Energy Future Plan; a comprehensive suite of climate change measures. ...
Occasional Paper #2 - Institute for Science Innovation and Society
... issue from a similarly theoretical perspective, analyzing the purpose, possible forms and agents of CE governance (Bodansky 2012, 4, 8+9). He finds that “[g]overnance is needed […] to ensure sufficient geoengineering and […] to avoid too much.” (Bodansky 2012, 4) Andy Parker critically examines the ...
... issue from a similarly theoretical perspective, analyzing the purpose, possible forms and agents of CE governance (Bodansky 2012, 4, 8+9). He finds that “[g]overnance is needed […] to ensure sufficient geoengineering and […] to avoid too much.” (Bodansky 2012, 4) Andy Parker critically examines the ...
Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy
... Geoengineering Governance Geoengineering technologies aim to modify the Earth’s energy balance in order to reduce temperatures and counteract anthropogenic climate change through large-scale and deliberate modifications. Implementation of some of the technologies may be controlled locally, while oth ...
... Geoengineering Governance Geoengineering technologies aim to modify the Earth’s energy balance in order to reduce temperatures and counteract anthropogenic climate change through large-scale and deliberate modifications. Implementation of some of the technologies may be controlled locally, while oth ...
World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate
... temperatures have increased by 1ºC since 1880. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some recent changes, including warming of the oceans and atmosphere, rising sea levels and diminished snow and ice, are unprecedented over decades to millennia. As temperatures continue ...
... temperatures have increased by 1ºC since 1880. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some recent changes, including warming of the oceans and atmosphere, rising sea levels and diminished snow and ice, are unprecedented over decades to millennia. As temperatures continue ...
World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate
... temperatures have increased by 1ºC since 1880. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some recent changes, including warming of the oceans and atmosphere, rising sea levels and diminished snow and ice, are unprecedented over decades to millennia. As temperatures continue ...
... temperatures have increased by 1ºC since 1880. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some recent changes, including warming of the oceans and atmosphere, rising sea levels and diminished snow and ice, are unprecedented over decades to millennia. As temperatures continue ...
World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate
... temperatures have increased by 1ºC since 1880. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some recent changes, including warming of the oceans and atmosphere, rising sea levels and diminished snow and ice, are unprecedented over decades to millennia. As temperatures continue ...
... temperatures have increased by 1ºC since 1880. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some recent changes, including warming of the oceans and atmosphere, rising sea levels and diminished snow and ice, are unprecedented over decades to millennia. As temperatures continue ...
Final Market Research Report - Department of Agriculture and Water
... With this anti-climate change position firmly entrenched, they put considerable store in the opinions of sceptics and reinforce those views with their own experience by producing local rainfall records that show similar long periods of drought. This position is further reinforced by ...
... With this anti-climate change position firmly entrenched, they put considerable store in the opinions of sceptics and reinforce those views with their own experience by producing local rainfall records that show similar long periods of drought. This position is further reinforced by ...
Emerging approaches for responding to climate change in African
... finance, and developing value-chain opportunities. However, progressive climate change is likely to require more major responses such as complete changes in farming systems, livelihood diversification and migration. The diversity of farming contexts, the complexity of livelihood strategies and the u ...
... finance, and developing value-chain opportunities. However, progressive climate change is likely to require more major responses such as complete changes in farming systems, livelihood diversification and migration. The diversity of farming contexts, the complexity of livelihood strategies and the u ...
Australia`s Farming Future Final Market Research Report
... With this anti-climate change position firmly entrenched, they put considerable store in the opinions of sceptics and reinforce those views with their own experience by producing local rainfall records that show similar long periods of drought. This position is further reinforced by ...
... With this anti-climate change position firmly entrenched, they put considerable store in the opinions of sceptics and reinforce those views with their own experience by producing local rainfall records that show similar long periods of drought. This position is further reinforced by ...
On connecting climate change with security and armed conflicts.
... variety of threats, for instance energy security, economic security and environmental security. Hence, climate change and its consequences should be ...
... variety of threats, for instance energy security, economic security and environmental security. Hence, climate change and its consequences should be ...
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... Climate change is among the most pressing challenges that the world faces today. Given current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), the world is already committed to significant warming. This is a serious challenge, given the wide range of expected climate impacts on natural system ...
... Climate change is among the most pressing challenges that the world faces today. Given current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), the world is already committed to significant warming. This is a serious challenge, given the wide range of expected climate impacts on natural system ...
Application of environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to
... The third element is the actual process for the “transfer” of the technology, which in this technical paper is called the “flow of technology”. Until very recently, technology transfer to address climate change has focused almost exclusively on mitigation issues. And, given that the overwhelming maj ...
... The third element is the actual process for the “transfer” of the technology, which in this technical paper is called the “flow of technology”. Until very recently, technology transfer to address climate change has focused almost exclusively on mitigation issues. And, given that the overwhelming maj ...
Implementation Framework for Climate Change Adaptation Planning
... Climate change is expected to further impact water quantity and quality (hydrologic cycle) in ways that are uncertain. The likelihood and frequency of extreme weather events, including heavy precipitation, flooding, droughts, and heat waves are expected to further increase in a variety of locations ...
... Climate change is expected to further impact water quantity and quality (hydrologic cycle) in ways that are uncertain. The likelihood and frequency of extreme weather events, including heavy precipitation, flooding, droughts, and heat waves are expected to further increase in a variety of locations ...
Detection and Attribution of Observed Impacts
... from various parts of the world, but evidence for detection or attribution to climate change remains limited. {18.4} Regional impacts of climate change have now been observed at more locations than before, on all continents and across ocean regions. In many regions, impacts of climate change are now ...
... from various parts of the world, but evidence for detection or attribution to climate change remains limited. {18.4} Regional impacts of climate change have now been observed at more locations than before, on all continents and across ocean regions. In many regions, impacts of climate change are now ...
Preindustrial to present-day changes in tropospheric hydroxyl
... four months, representing a negative feedback on the climate system. Further, we analysed attribution experiments performed by a subset of models relative to 2000 conditions with only one precursor at a time set to 1860 levels. We find that global mean OH increased by 46.4 ± 12.2 % in response to pr ...
... four months, representing a negative feedback on the climate system. Further, we analysed attribution experiments performed by a subset of models relative to 2000 conditions with only one precursor at a time set to 1860 levels. We find that global mean OH increased by 46.4 ± 12.2 % in response to pr ...
Investment and growth in the time of climate change
... greenhouse-gas emission pathways – both for a continuation of current trends and action aimed at preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.2 Section 1.4 gives an idea of how much EU countries need to invest in mitigating emissions if they want to deliver their contributio ...
... greenhouse-gas emission pathways – both for a continuation of current trends and action aimed at preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.2 Section 1.4 gives an idea of how much EU countries need to invest in mitigating emissions if they want to deliver their contributio ...
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.