biodiversity conservation and geothermal development
... closely linked to energy utilization and sustainable development. The goal of the UN Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCC) of 1992 is the “stabilization of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the clima ...
... closely linked to energy utilization and sustainable development. The goal of the UN Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCC) of 1992 is the “stabilization of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the clima ...
Standard PDF - Wiley Online Library
... [3] The decision to implement geoengineering will require a comparison of its benefits, dangers, and costs to those of other responses to global warming. Here we present a brief review of these factors for geoengineering. It should be noted that in the three years since Crutzen [2006] and Wigley [20 ...
... [3] The decision to implement geoengineering will require a comparison of its benefits, dangers, and costs to those of other responses to global warming. Here we present a brief review of these factors for geoengineering. It should be noted that in the three years since Crutzen [2006] and Wigley [20 ...
National Climate Change Action Plan
... Climate change is recognized as one of the most complex global environmental problems, one which presents the greatest challenges to society as a whole, including the scientific and technical community and government authorities. The greenhouse effect, a beneficial natural phenomenon that enables li ...
... Climate change is recognized as one of the most complex global environmental problems, one which presents the greatest challenges to society as a whole, including the scientific and technical community and government authorities. The greenhouse effect, a beneficial natural phenomenon that enables li ...
yukon government climate change action plan
... the magnitude of work to be undertaken, not all actions or goals can be achieved immediately. A key priority of the Action Plan is to enable effective adaptation to climate change. No matter how much people reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will continue for many years. That is t ...
... the magnitude of work to be undertaken, not all actions or goals can be achieved immediately. A key priority of the Action Plan is to enable effective adaptation to climate change. No matter how much people reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will continue for many years. That is t ...
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper
... If emissions continue to increase at the current rate, the concentration or stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will be around 1000 part per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) in the second half of the century compared to 384 ppm in 2005 and 280 ppm in pre‑industrial times.4 ...
... If emissions continue to increase at the current rate, the concentration or stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will be around 1000 part per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) in the second half of the century compared to 384 ppm in 2005 and 280 ppm in pre‑industrial times.4 ...
Preserving the Ocean Circulation: Implications for Climate Policy
... of greenhouse gas stabilization level is motivated by a threshold response in the natural system. This choice is likely more efficient in the sense of an optimal growth model than an arbitrary choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level. This approach allows us additionally to consider the economic ...
... of greenhouse gas stabilization level is motivated by a threshold response in the natural system. This choice is likely more efficient in the sense of an optimal growth model than an arbitrary choice of greenhouse gas stabilization level. This approach allows us additionally to consider the economic ...
Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle
... wider (i.e., to reflect additional uncertainties), and/or are more or less skewed (i.e., to reflect additional skewed uncertainties). When providing best-estimate projections and uncertainty ranges for emission scenarios, there are two major sources of uncertainty that need to be taken into account. ...
... wider (i.e., to reflect additional uncertainties), and/or are more or less skewed (i.e., to reflect additional skewed uncertainties). When providing best-estimate projections and uncertainty ranges for emission scenarios, there are two major sources of uncertainty that need to be taken into account. ...
Needs Assessment: Turks and Caicos Islands
... The report is tailored to the data points required to complete a climate change vulnerability matrix (VAM) tool. The VAM is structured around an understanding of four main issues: the exposure of an OT to climate change (threat analysis); adaptation and resilience; low carbon development and UK expo ...
... The report is tailored to the data points required to complete a climate change vulnerability matrix (VAM) tool. The VAM is structured around an understanding of four main issues: the exposure of an OT to climate change (threat analysis); adaptation and resilience; low carbon development and UK expo ...
prospects and pitfalls of the kyoto protocol to the united nations
... Kyoto Protocol. Significantly, the US has brought enormous conservatism to the climate change mitigation table, largely due to domestic political forces that have effectively ruled out any multilateral measures that could threaten US economic interests. In the lead up to the Kyoto COP, the US Senate ...
... Kyoto Protocol. Significantly, the US has brought enormous conservatism to the climate change mitigation table, largely due to domestic political forces that have effectively ruled out any multilateral measures that could threaten US economic interests. In the lead up to the Kyoto COP, the US Senate ...
to read the report
... industry and renewable energy, and suggest that politicians have only been accountable to the fossil fuel industry instead of the electorate. Statistics on fossil fuel companies’ lobbying spending can also strengthen this message. (ii) Include a positive frame into the movement through the added foc ...
... industry and renewable energy, and suggest that politicians have only been accountable to the fossil fuel industry instead of the electorate. Statistics on fossil fuel companies’ lobbying spending can also strengthen this message. (ii) Include a positive frame into the movement through the added foc ...
The Effects of the Kyoto Protocol on Taiwan
... political position, Taiwan lacks administrative capacity and economic resources, especially those required to develop and implement domestic and foreign environmental policies.23 According to a model developed at the National Energy Conference in 1998,24 if Taiwan planned to reduce CO2 emissions by ...
... political position, Taiwan lacks administrative capacity and economic resources, especially those required to develop and implement domestic and foreign environmental policies.23 According to a model developed at the National Energy Conference in 1998,24 if Taiwan planned to reduce CO2 emissions by ...
Redrawing the energy-climate map - World Energy Outlook Special
... average global temperature increase to no more than 2 oC and international negotiations are engaged to that end. Yet any resulting agreement will not emerge before 2015 and new legal obligations will not begin before 2020. Meanwhile, despite many countries taking new actions, the world is drifting f ...
... average global temperature increase to no more than 2 oC and international negotiations are engaged to that end. Yet any resulting agreement will not emerge before 2015 and new legal obligations will not begin before 2020. Meanwhile, despite many countries taking new actions, the world is drifting f ...
The Carbon Cycle: Implications for Climate Change and Congress June 25, 2007
... indicate that the land surface (vegetation plus soils) accumulates more carbon per year than it emits to the atmosphere (Figure 1 and Table 1).19 The land surface thus acts as a net sink for CO2 at present. Some policy makers advocate strategies for increasing the amount of CO2 taken up and stored, ...
... indicate that the land surface (vegetation plus soils) accumulates more carbon per year than it emits to the atmosphere (Figure 1 and Table 1).19 The land surface thus acts as a net sink for CO2 at present. Some policy makers advocate strategies for increasing the amount of CO2 taken up and stored, ...
Redrawing the energy-climate map - World Energy Outlook Special
... average global temperature increase to no more than 2 oC and international negotiations are engaged to that end. Yet any resulting agreement will not emerge before 2015 and new legal obligations will not begin before 2020. Meanwhile, despite many countries taking new actions, the world is drifting f ...
... average global temperature increase to no more than 2 oC and international negotiations are engaged to that end. Yet any resulting agreement will not emerge before 2015 and new legal obligations will not begin before 2020. Meanwhile, despite many countries taking new actions, the world is drifting f ...
Global Climate Change and the Risks to Coastal Areas from
... factor to future hurricane intensity in that region than global climate change. The debate within the scientific community over these questions continues to rage, although it may not have received as much attention in the popular press following Katrina as questions surrounding levee design and emer ...
... factor to future hurricane intensity in that region than global climate change. The debate within the scientific community over these questions continues to rage, although it may not have received as much attention in the popular press following Katrina as questions surrounding levee design and emer ...
- CSIRO Publishing
... influenced by the movement of air masses. Climate, on the other hand, should more accurately be the term applied to the average weather conditions over longer periods of years to decades. One may often hear mention of ‘climate variability’ and ‘climate change’ together. They are different facets of ...
... influenced by the movement of air masses. Climate, on the other hand, should more accurately be the term applied to the average weather conditions over longer periods of years to decades. One may often hear mention of ‘climate variability’ and ‘climate change’ together. They are different facets of ...
Ministerial Forum on Vehicle Emissions
... It is recognised that the US 2017 to 2025 standards require about a 4.1 per cent annual reduction, however it is important to note that the US is a ‘technology forcing’ market, where high volume automotive technology development and implementation follows robust processes, which from initial conc ...
... It is recognised that the US 2017 to 2025 standards require about a 4.1 per cent annual reduction, however it is important to note that the US is a ‘technology forcing’ market, where high volume automotive technology development and implementation follows robust processes, which from initial conc ...
Carbon pricing: how best to use the revenue?
... System (EU ETS) will raise over €150 billion for the 28 nations of the European Union between 2015 and 2025 (about 0.1 per cent of likely GDP over that period).1 In the UK, receipts from auctioning could amount to over £5 billion per year by 2030, well over 10 per cent of the current level of enviro ...
... System (EU ETS) will raise over €150 billion for the 28 nations of the European Union between 2015 and 2025 (about 0.1 per cent of likely GDP over that period).1 In the UK, receipts from auctioning could amount to over £5 billion per year by 2030, well over 10 per cent of the current level of enviro ...
Carbon Market Crossroads
... than any country.11 The Chinese government simultaneously leveraged the CDM to bolster domestic regulatory capacity by taxing Chinese CDM projects, raising $1.5 billion by the end of 2011,12 and then used the funds to plan and support domestic climate policies. 13 Most notably, the Chinese governme ...
... than any country.11 The Chinese government simultaneously leveraged the CDM to bolster domestic regulatory capacity by taxing Chinese CDM projects, raising $1.5 billion by the end of 2011,12 and then used the funds to plan and support domestic climate policies. 13 Most notably, the Chinese governme ...
Results from Collie CCS Hub workshop: What do the locals think?
... invitations to attend the workshop were also posted to 15 landowners located near the site of the Collie Hub Project. In order to maximise attendance, invitees who had confirmed their attendance were encouraged to forward the invitation and workshop details to their colleagues and other community me ...
... invitations to attend the workshop were also posted to 15 landowners located near the site of the Collie Hub Project. In order to maximise attendance, invitees who had confirmed their attendance were encouraged to forward the invitation and workshop details to their colleagues and other community me ...
CLIMATE CHANGE – SCOPING THE ISSUES
... demonstrated the world’s growing vulnerability to climate change. The impacts of climate change range from affecting agriculture to further endangering food security, to rising sea-levels and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones, increasing intensity of natural disasters, species extinction and ...
... demonstrated the world’s growing vulnerability to climate change. The impacts of climate change range from affecting agriculture to further endangering food security, to rising sea-levels and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones, increasing intensity of natural disasters, species extinction and ...
Presentation pack - The Global Calculator
... • The Global Calculator allows you to decide how global lifestyles, technologies, land use and demographics will change from now to 2050. • In order to make the tool easy to use and understand the Global Calculator does not divide the world into separate countries. • Instead you change world average ...
... • The Global Calculator allows you to decide how global lifestyles, technologies, land use and demographics will change from now to 2050. • In order to make the tool easy to use and understand the Global Calculator does not divide the world into separate countries. • Instead you change world average ...
CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2020:
... however, no other time has changed the debate like this past year. In 12 short months global warming has come to dominate the national conversation and the vast majority of Americans are no longer wondering whether human activities are driving global warming. Instead, they are wondering how severe t ...
... however, no other time has changed the debate like this past year. In 12 short months global warming has come to dominate the national conversation and the vast majority of Americans are no longer wondering whether human activities are driving global warming. Instead, they are wondering how severe 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.