1 CV KAREN L. O`BRIEN Department of Sociology and Human
... Hayward, B. and K. L. O’Brien. 2010. Security of What, for Whom? Rethinking Social Contracts in a Changing Climate. In K. O’Brien, A.L. St. Clair and B. Kristoffersen (editors), Climate Change, Ethics, and Human Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 199-214. O’Brien, K.L., A.L. St Cl ...
... Hayward, B. and K. L. O’Brien. 2010. Security of What, for Whom? Rethinking Social Contracts in a Changing Climate. In K. O’Brien, A.L. St. Clair and B. Kristoffersen (editors), Climate Change, Ethics, and Human Security. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 199-214. O’Brien, K.L., A.L. St Cl ...
National adaptation is also a global concern
... in polar seas), which will have in turn consequences on the industry (profitability, jobs, etc.), markets and prices in several countries, and then on international competitiveness. The more the current panorama of international agreements will be challenged, the more climate change will question fo ...
... in polar seas), which will have in turn consequences on the industry (profitability, jobs, etc.), markets and prices in several countries, and then on international competitiveness. The more the current panorama of international agreements will be challenged, the more climate change will question fo ...
Caritas Guidelines on Environmental Justice
... the water resources of our planet, and the very existence of some countries. It will have adverse effects on food security, both agriculture and fishing, already a major issue in parts of the world. New patterns of natural disasters will impact adversely on the battle against poverty and the achieve ...
... the water resources of our planet, and the very existence of some countries. It will have adverse effects on food security, both agriculture and fishing, already a major issue in parts of the world. New patterns of natural disasters will impact adversely on the battle against poverty and the achieve ...
Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change
... Experiences of mental health professionals intervening in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters (e.g., Haskett et al., 2008; Norris, Friedman, & Watson, 2002; Vernberg et al., 2008) have confirmed the benefits of early intervention that provides assistance with basic needs and funct ...
... Experiences of mental health professionals intervening in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters (e.g., Haskett et al., 2008; Norris, Friedman, & Watson, 2002; Vernberg et al., 2008) have confirmed the benefits of early intervention that provides assistance with basic needs and funct ...
IIIS Discussion Paper Rescaling climate justice: sub-national issues and
... diarrhoea, malaria and weather related disasters (Global Humanitarian Forum 2009). The costs of climate change are not just social and environmental. The 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate change projects that, in the long term, climate change could cut global gross domestic product (GDP) ...
... diarrhoea, malaria and weather related disasters (Global Humanitarian Forum 2009). The costs of climate change are not just social and environmental. The 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate change projects that, in the long term, climate change could cut global gross domestic product (GDP) ...
6 Manufacturing gas in New Zealand
... certain data to calculate and report on the greenhouse gas emissions associated with certain activities from 1 January 2013. The details of these calculation methods are set out in the Climate Change (Stationary Energy and Industrial Processes) Amendment Regulations 2012. The details of the prescrib ...
... certain data to calculate and report on the greenhouse gas emissions associated with certain activities from 1 January 2013. The details of these calculation methods are set out in the Climate Change (Stationary Energy and Industrial Processes) Amendment Regulations 2012. The details of the prescrib ...
Underwater: The Need for Massachusetts to Become Climate Ready
... These major weather events stand to cause billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure and ecosystems, impacting both private and public assets. Some needs are immediate, calling for near-term action, while others can wait for implementation until benchmarks, such as a certain amount of sea level ...
... These major weather events stand to cause billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure and ecosystems, impacting both private and public assets. Some needs are immediate, calling for near-term action, while others can wait for implementation until benchmarks, such as a certain amount of sea level ...
Food and Agriculture on the Sidelines: A
... INTRODUCTION In December 2008, 187 nations met in Poznan, Poland, to discuss a possible new treaty on climate change. The issue that presented the most significant barrier to progress was not energy, but rather agriculture: ―It’s an area that’s been largely overlooked,‖ said Rajendra Pachauri, head ...
... INTRODUCTION In December 2008, 187 nations met in Poznan, Poland, to discuss a possible new treaty on climate change. The issue that presented the most significant barrier to progress was not energy, but rather agriculture: ―It’s an area that’s been largely overlooked,‖ said Rajendra Pachauri, head ...
"Climate Agenda: Resilient, Prosperous, and Green
... and impact on international safety and welfare distribution. To keep the risks within acceptable levels the world’s leaders have given a commitment to limit the rise in the average temperature to not more than two degrees. There are widespread concerns about climate change: in the Lower House of Par ...
... and impact on international safety and welfare distribution. To keep the risks within acceptable levels the world’s leaders have given a commitment to limit the rise in the average temperature to not more than two degrees. There are widespread concerns about climate change: in the Lower House of Par ...
Double exposure: assessing the impacts of climate change within
... Scientists and policy makers have become embroiled in extensive debates about potential changes brought about by an increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, along with strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Assessments of the global and regional impacts of climate change have formed th ...
... Scientists and policy makers have become embroiled in extensive debates about potential changes brought about by an increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, along with strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Assessments of the global and regional impacts of climate change have formed th ...
A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor 2014: The
... That sets up an unpleasant dilemma for EPA: We are breaking the law by not doing our job. Or we are liars. Or we are imposing lots of pain for no gain. Maybe it’s all three. In addition, implementing the rule would harm most Americans, especially the poor. A study by scholars at the Massachusetts In ...
... That sets up an unpleasant dilemma for EPA: We are breaking the law by not doing our job. Or we are liars. Or we are imposing lots of pain for no gain. Maybe it’s all three. In addition, implementing the rule would harm most Americans, especially the poor. A study by scholars at the Massachusetts In ...
Memorandum to the Government of India on the UNFCCC`s 15th
... including India and the Indian poor. Any financial transfer mechanism and its ultimate use needs to be transparent, decentralized, democratic and decided by the people at all levels – through participation in consultation with national, state and local self-governments. However, we do not believe th ...
... including India and the Indian poor. Any financial transfer mechanism and its ultimate use needs to be transparent, decentralized, democratic and decided by the people at all levels – through participation in consultation with national, state and local self-governments. However, we do not believe th ...
Positive feedback between global warming and atmospheric CO2
... way of estimating the magnitude of the feedback effect based on reconstructed past changes. Linking this information with the mid-range IPCC estimation of the greenhouse gas effect on temperature we suggest that the feedback of global temperature on atmospheric CO2 will promote warming by an extra 1 ...
... way of estimating the magnitude of the feedback effect based on reconstructed past changes. Linking this information with the mid-range IPCC estimation of the greenhouse gas effect on temperature we suggest that the feedback of global temperature on atmospheric CO2 will promote warming by an extra 1 ...
A PRIMER ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN THE
... Climate variability refers to variations in the mean state and other statistics (such as standard deviations, the occurrence of extremes, etc.) of the climate on all temporal and spatial scales ...
... Climate variability refers to variations in the mean state and other statistics (such as standard deviations, the occurrence of extremes, etc.) of the climate on all temporal and spatial scales ...
Final qualitative report
... increases driven (largely) by rising electricity prices, plus a focus on carbon emissions from energy production as an assumed focus of the carbon tax, top of mind associations with the carbon tax are predominantly concerns about its cost impacts, especially on electricity pricing. A point of conf ...
... increases driven (largely) by rising electricity prices, plus a focus on carbon emissions from energy production as an assumed focus of the carbon tax, top of mind associations with the carbon tax are predominantly concerns about its cost impacts, especially on electricity pricing. A point of conf ...
Assessing EU Leadership on Climate Change - Userpage
... The KFG Working Paper Series serves to disseminate the research results of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe by making them available to a broader public. It means to enhance academic exchange as well as to strengthen and broaden existing basic research on internal and external diffusion processes in Europe ...
... The KFG Working Paper Series serves to disseminate the research results of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe by making them available to a broader public. It means to enhance academic exchange as well as to strengthen and broaden existing basic research on internal and external diffusion processes in Europe ...
click to - White Rose Research Online
... wellbeing are provided, in the form of e.g. education, healthcare, energy, food. Sen (1999) views development as freedom of the individual, which in turn requires access to basic key resources to enable needs to be met. A collective element is also important, however, because individual freedom shou ...
... wellbeing are provided, in the form of e.g. education, healthcare, energy, food. Sen (1999) views development as freedom of the individual, which in turn requires access to basic key resources to enable needs to be met. A collective element is also important, however, because individual freedom shou ...
Paths beyond Paris
... reflections on COPs-gone-past are shared by Anne Petermann who is now forbidden from another COP and who calls for direct action as an antidote to despair. Larry Lohmann pushes the edge, once again, in asking how we relate to climate science while calling for other knowledges to be seen and heard. C ...
... reflections on COPs-gone-past are shared by Anne Petermann who is now forbidden from another COP and who calls for direct action as an antidote to despair. Larry Lohmann pushes the edge, once again, in asking how we relate to climate science while calling for other knowledges to be seen and heard. C ...
COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES
... systems particular to their regions. They have called for work on downscaling global scientific models and information, especially in areas not covered in current large-scale research programmes, and for the communication of scientific information in forms that are useful for decision-making and pol ...
... systems particular to their regions. They have called for work on downscaling global scientific models and information, especially in areas not covered in current large-scale research programmes, and for the communication of scientific information in forms that are useful for decision-making and pol ...
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.