Uncertainty Analysis of Climate Change Effects on Runoff for the
... Northwest, the magnitude of that change is uncertain due to a number of factors. The built-in assumptions for the emissions scenario are already low in the 21st century, so realistic scenarios are above the “worst case” in this study. A suite of options created by emissions scenarios and GCMs helps ...
... Northwest, the magnitude of that change is uncertain due to a number of factors. The built-in assumptions for the emissions scenario are already low in the 21st century, so realistic scenarios are above the “worst case” in this study. A suite of options created by emissions scenarios and GCMs helps ...
Tropical Hydropower is a Significant Source of Greenhouse Gas
... methane concentrations in the reservoir seasonally adjusted from data on degassing emissions at Petit Saut dam in French Guyana. Fearnside responds that Rosa has misinterpreted the data and points out that Rosa has done no measurements at Turucuí to prove that the degassing is negligible.11 Rosa’s C ...
... methane concentrations in the reservoir seasonally adjusted from data on degassing emissions at Petit Saut dam in French Guyana. Fearnside responds that Rosa has misinterpreted the data and points out that Rosa has done no measurements at Turucuí to prove that the degassing is negligible.11 Rosa’s C ...
Global Warming and Carbon dioxide – earth`s emission spectra
... Gases already present in the atmosphere but an increased amount is added by human activities. This includes carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon dioxide contributes the most to the enhanced greenhouse effect. Gases which are not naturally present. These can sometimes absorb in the ‘window’ through whi ...
... Gases already present in the atmosphere but an increased amount is added by human activities. This includes carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon dioxide contributes the most to the enhanced greenhouse effect. Gases which are not naturally present. These can sometimes absorb in the ‘window’ through whi ...
Savannas and the carbon storage story
... quantities of CO2 are being abated in this work, as outlined above, they cannot currently be counted in the official figures. Even so, methane and nitrous gas emissions, which can be counted, and are equivalent to more than 250,000 tonnes of CO 2, were abated by the project in its first two years. I ...
... quantities of CO2 are being abated in this work, as outlined above, they cannot currently be counted in the official figures. Even so, methane and nitrous gas emissions, which can be counted, and are equivalent to more than 250,000 tonnes of CO 2, were abated by the project in its first two years. I ...
Utah`s Energy Climate: A Discussion of Climate and
... GHG emissions reduction goal Join The Climate Registry (figure) Clean car standards (Pavley) Design and implement market-based mechanism to reduce GHG emissions (i.e. cap-and-trade program) ...
... GHG emissions reduction goal Join The Climate Registry (figure) Clean car standards (Pavley) Design and implement market-based mechanism to reduce GHG emissions (i.e. cap-and-trade program) ...
transitioning to a green economy
... In 2011, President Obama’s EPA forged an agreement with numerous automobile manufacturers requiring them to raise the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards for cars and light-duty trucks to 54.5 MPG by model year 2025. The Supreme Court decision on the CAA undoubtedly brought the automobil ...
... In 2011, President Obama’s EPA forged an agreement with numerous automobile manufacturers requiring them to raise the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards for cars and light-duty trucks to 54.5 MPG by model year 2025. The Supreme Court decision on the CAA undoubtedly brought the automobil ...
Chapter 3: Climate Change
... Responding effectively to climate change is both urgent and long term. It is urgent in that our actions and responses in the next 5–15 years may effectively lock in large-scale and irreversible planetary changes over this and subsequent centuries. The December 2015 Paris Agreement sets the internati ...
... Responding effectively to climate change is both urgent and long term. It is urgent in that our actions and responses in the next 5–15 years may effectively lock in large-scale and irreversible planetary changes over this and subsequent centuries. The December 2015 Paris Agreement sets the internati ...
Emissions Trading and Deforestation Casey McKenzie BUEC 560
... scientific debate has shifted towards the degree to which, if at all, man’s activities are affecting the Earth’s climate. The recent IPCC report released on February 7, 2007, claims that not only is global warming a reality, but that it is “very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic g ...
... scientific debate has shifted towards the degree to which, if at all, man’s activities are affecting the Earth’s climate. The recent IPCC report released on February 7, 2007, claims that not only is global warming a reality, but that it is “very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic g ...
Range of reductions for Annex 1
... • To avoid some of the most extreme impacts of climate change, increase in global mean temperature needs to be limited to no more than 2 – 3 deg C • This requires stabilisation below about 560 ppm CO2e ...
... • To avoid some of the most extreme impacts of climate change, increase in global mean temperature needs to be limited to no more than 2 – 3 deg C • This requires stabilisation below about 560 ppm CO2e ...
Tackling climate change at the local level
... To aim for low carbon standards, and ultimately zero net carbon standards, may be regarded as a radical step. However, the policy is technically achievable, falls inside the remit of spatial planning and is the clear and logical extension of the UK and Welsh Assembly Governments’ national policy and ...
... To aim for low carbon standards, and ultimately zero net carbon standards, may be regarded as a radical step. However, the policy is technically achievable, falls inside the remit of spatial planning and is the clear and logical extension of the UK and Welsh Assembly Governments’ national policy and ...
Offset customers are not being informed as to
... or absorption projects such as tree planting, energy efficiency or renewable energy generation projects. In this way an individual’s carbon emissions are ‘in balance’. In place of the term “carbon neutral” the terms “climate neutral” or “zero carbon” are also used. These terms are used interchangeab ...
... or absorption projects such as tree planting, energy efficiency or renewable energy generation projects. In this way an individual’s carbon emissions are ‘in balance’. In place of the term “carbon neutral” the terms “climate neutral” or “zero carbon” are also used. These terms are used interchangeab ...
Twelve Economic Facts on Energy and Climate Change
... low-lying areas; it will also lead to drought and heat-related damages (Ackerman and Stanton 2008). There is no question that the United States has begun to make important progress on climate change. U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions in 2016 were nearly 15 percent below their 2005 peak, marking the ...
... low-lying areas; it will also lead to drought and heat-related damages (Ackerman and Stanton 2008). There is no question that the United States has begun to make important progress on climate change. U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions in 2016 were nearly 15 percent below their 2005 peak, marking the ...
A new climate for business - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability
... While some political change is inevitable, the Agreement is resilient and likely to endure given the breadth and number of governments and organisations which made it happen, the clear scientific rationale for action, the level of public support for change and the already existing indications of how ...
... While some political change is inevitable, the Agreement is resilient and likely to endure given the breadth and number of governments and organisations which made it happen, the clear scientific rationale for action, the level of public support for change and the already existing indications of how ...
North East England Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baselines and
... Code for Sustainable Homes The Code for Sustainable Homes is a new national standard for the sustainable design and construction of new homes. It is designed to sit alongside the building regulations and the planning system. The Code measures the sustainability of a new home against nine categories ...
... Code for Sustainable Homes The Code for Sustainable Homes is a new national standard for the sustainable design and construction of new homes. It is designed to sit alongside the building regulations and the planning system. The Code measures the sustainability of a new home against nine categories ...
EPA Climate Change Research Programme Projects and Fellowships awarded in 2011
... Policy-makers, local government and industry recognise the importance of high resolution climate projections for effective planning, adaptation and mitigation to future costs and disruptions arising from climate variability and change. Although previous research has provided high-resolution climate ...
... Policy-makers, local government and industry recognise the importance of high resolution climate projections for effective planning, adaptation and mitigation to future costs and disruptions arising from climate variability and change. Although previous research has provided high-resolution climate ...
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... the potential to induce climatic changes with associated environmental, economic, health and social impacts (Zillman 2005). In response to increasing concerns about climate change, a number of international policy frameworks have been proposed and implemented. The Kyoto Protocol entered into force o ...
... the potential to induce climatic changes with associated environmental, economic, health and social impacts (Zillman 2005). In response to increasing concerns about climate change, a number of international policy frameworks have been proposed and implemented. The Kyoto Protocol entered into force o ...
envgeo2-0326_offp - ResearchSpace@Auckland
... of C&D materials in pavement applications is a sustainable option that has been explored in recent years globally and is rapidly gaining momentum in acceptability in the region (Arulrajah et al., 2013a; Landris, 2007; Poon and Chan, 2006; Puppala et al., 2011; Sivakumar et al., 2004; Tam and Tam, 20 ...
... of C&D materials in pavement applications is a sustainable option that has been explored in recent years globally and is rapidly gaining momentum in acceptability in the region (Arulrajah et al., 2013a; Landris, 2007; Poon and Chan, 2006; Puppala et al., 2011; Sivakumar et al., 2004; Tam and Tam, 20 ...
West_9.13.14
... Reducing GHG emissions also reduces co-emitted air pollutants - Air quality and health co-benefits shown to be substantial compared to GHG abatement costs. “$2-175 / ton CO2 … all studies agree that monetized health benefits make up a substantial fraction of mitigation costs.” IPCC AR4 “$2-196 / ton ...
... Reducing GHG emissions also reduces co-emitted air pollutants - Air quality and health co-benefits shown to be substantial compared to GHG abatement costs. “$2-175 / ton CO2 … all studies agree that monetized health benefits make up a substantial fraction of mitigation costs.” IPCC AR4 “$2-196 / ton ...
Theological reflections - Developing a Christian Mind
... • Most business, church, union leaders, politicians, media • Much harder to deal with – framing of ‘sensible’ vs ‘extreme’ ...
... • Most business, church, union leaders, politicians, media • Much harder to deal with – framing of ‘sensible’ vs ‘extreme’ ...
BOOK REVIEWS INTRODUCTION TO MODERN CLIMATE CHANGE
... The climate science sections of the book occasionally lack detail as well. The chapter on the evidence for human influence on the climate, for example, is largely devoted to eliminating other candidates: the sun, volcanoes, orbital changes, and natural variability. This is an important point to make ...
... The climate science sections of the book occasionally lack detail as well. The chapter on the evidence for human influence on the climate, for example, is largely devoted to eliminating other candidates: the sun, volcanoes, orbital changes, and natural variability. This is an important point to make ...
It`s Too Late to Run - Insight Community of Southern Maine
... consequences of those decisions are very public. I am asking that we fully absorb the linkage between dangerous global overheating and the fact that in our private lives we collectively emit the largest share of our country’s enormous emissions. Reductions on the scale needed can’t take place unle ...
... consequences of those decisions are very public. I am asking that we fully absorb the linkage between dangerous global overheating and the fact that in our private lives we collectively emit the largest share of our country’s enormous emissions. Reductions on the scale needed can’t take place unle ...
Country Profile GREECE
... For the period 2008-2012, Greece targets are set as 25% compared to base year emissions (1990 for CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions, and 1995 for the f-gases). − The Greek climate change strategy is planned within the National Climate Change Programme. The 2nd programme has been adopted in 2002 in order t ...
... For the period 2008-2012, Greece targets are set as 25% compared to base year emissions (1990 for CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions, and 1995 for the f-gases). − The Greek climate change strategy is planned within the National Climate Change Programme. The 2nd programme has been adopted in 2002 in order t ...
Climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation consists of actions to limit the magnitude or rate of long-term climate change. Climate change mitigation generally involves reductions in human (anthropogenic) emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Mitigation may also be achieved by increasing the capacity of carbon sinks, e.g., through reforestation. Mitigation policies can substantially reduce the risks associated with human-induced global warming.""Mitigation is a public good; climate change is a case of ‘the tragedy of the commons’""Effective climate change mitigation will not be achieved if each agent (individual, institution or country) acts independently in its own selfish interest, (See International Cooperation and Emissions Trading) suggesting the need for collective action. Some adaptation actions, on the other hand, have characteristics of a private good as benefits of actions may accrue more directly to the individuals, regions, or countries that undertake them, at least in the short term. Nevertheless, financing such adaptive activities remains an issue, particularly for poor individuals and countries.""Examples of mitigation include switching to low-carbon energy sources, such as renewable and nuclear energy, and expanding forests and other ""sinks"" to remove greater amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Energy efficiency may also play a role, for example, through improving the insulation of buildings. Another approach to climate change mitigation is climate engineering.Most countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of GHGs at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference of the climate system. Scientific analysis can provide information on the impacts of climate change, but deciding which impacts are dangerous requires value judgments.In 2010, Parties to the UNFCCC agreed that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level. This may be revised with a target of limiting global warming to below 1.5 °C relative to pre-industrial levels. The current trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions does not appear to be consistent with limiting global warming to below 1.5 or 2 °C, relative to pre-industrial levels. Other mitigation policies have been proposed, some of which are more stringent or modest than the 2 °C limit.