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Topic 5: Climate change and Economic development: Why and how
... • Climate change and natural disasters • Use of outdated and inexpensive machinery and materials-industrial organic water pollutants highly toxic and capable of remaining in the environment for extended periods of time processing of industrial chemicals, pulp and paper manufacturing, food processing ...
... • Climate change and natural disasters • Use of outdated and inexpensive machinery and materials-industrial organic water pollutants highly toxic and capable of remaining in the environment for extended periods of time processing of industrial chemicals, pulp and paper manufacturing, food processing ...
Sharing Global CO 2 Emission Reductions Among One Billion High
... Regional targets, with the 1tCO2 floor, for different global targets ...
... Regional targets, with the 1tCO2 floor, for different global targets ...
United Nations – Framework Convention for Climate Change
... Norway- less than 15 percent of world greenhouse gas emitters • Pulling out: Russia, Japan, and Canada • Argue: Emerging economies (China and India) need to join and limit emissions ...
... Norway- less than 15 percent of world greenhouse gas emitters • Pulling out: Russia, Japan, and Canada • Argue: Emerging economies (China and India) need to join and limit emissions ...
1 EN annexe proposition part1
... second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol remains the same as for the first commitment period, given the lack of progress since Decision 2/CP.3 in attributing these emissions to Parties’ targets. This is without prejudice to the stringency of the European Union’s commitments under the climate and ener ...
... second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol remains the same as for the first commitment period, given the lack of progress since Decision 2/CP.3 in attributing these emissions to Parties’ targets. This is without prejudice to the stringency of the European Union’s commitments under the climate and ener ...
10-Climate
... greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol Develop, periodically update, publish national programs to mitigate climate change by addressing anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol Promote practices and pro ...
... greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol Develop, periodically update, publish national programs to mitigate climate change by addressing anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol Promote practices and pro ...
Carbon and the Science - Policy Nexus The
... degradation of ecological systems (e.g., agriculture, forests, fisheries, coral reefs) • provide adequate food, especially for the 800 million people who are malnourished today— decreased agricultural productivity in tropics and sub-tropics • provide clean water for the 1.3 billion people who live w ...
... degradation of ecological systems (e.g., agriculture, forests, fisheries, coral reefs) • provide adequate food, especially for the 800 million people who are malnourished today— decreased agricultural productivity in tropics and sub-tropics • provide clean water for the 1.3 billion people who live w ...
E100 Global Warming Conf
... E162 Global Climate Change Conference, Fall 2005 I. Introduction In December of 1997, the world's leaders met in Kyoto, Japan where they agreed to a set of binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases (pollution emissions, like carbon dioxide and methane that contribute to global climate change). ...
... E162 Global Climate Change Conference, Fall 2005 I. Introduction In December of 1997, the world's leaders met in Kyoto, Japan where they agreed to a set of binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases (pollution emissions, like carbon dioxide and methane that contribute to global climate change). ...
The Kyoto Protocol
... EU’s ratification of the Protocol on 31 May 2001 under a legally binding burdensharing agreement. This agreement sets an individual emissions target for each EU15 Member State4. Of the ten Member States that acceded on 1 May 2004, eight have individual reduction targets of 6 or 8%. Only Cyprus and M ...
... EU’s ratification of the Protocol on 31 May 2001 under a legally binding burdensharing agreement. This agreement sets an individual emissions target for each EU15 Member State4. Of the ten Member States that acceded on 1 May 2004, eight have individual reduction targets of 6 or 8%. Only Cyprus and M ...
Climate change and State responsibility
... Most scientists believe that the increasing content of CO2 creates an insulating layer around the globe, thus contributing to global warming. In consequence of global warming, glaciers and ice caps on the poles are thawing. This is supposed to increase the water level in the oceans and thus to threa ...
... Most scientists believe that the increasing content of CO2 creates an insulating layer around the globe, thus contributing to global warming. In consequence of global warming, glaciers and ice caps on the poles are thawing. This is supposed to increase the water level in the oceans and thus to threa ...
1 Frank Raes, Peter Bergamaschi, Hugh Eva, Alan Belward
... Institute for Environment and Sustainability Joint Research Centre European Commssion ...
... Institute for Environment and Sustainability Joint Research Centre European Commssion ...
File - Andrew Holland
... Diplomats have met under the UN’s auspices every year since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and there has been no success in actually reducing total global emissions or the concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. World leaders should learn from the failures of the past two decades and wo ...
... Diplomats have met under the UN’s auspices every year since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and there has been no success in actually reducing total global emissions or the concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. World leaders should learn from the failures of the past two decades and wo ...
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
... earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits. These CER credits can then be used on the carbon market. • Joint Implementation: This mechanism allows countries to work together in order to create sustainable projects in return for emission reduction units. Together, these three mechanisms of the K ...
... earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits. These CER credits can then be used on the carbon market. • Joint Implementation: This mechanism allows countries to work together in order to create sustainable projects in return for emission reduction units. Together, these three mechanisms of the K ...
Progress report and proposed future works of Deliverable 1
... The Editors meetings of Deliverable 1 “Definition” were held on twice formally as we planned and also several times as informal teleconferences for the editors after the 1st Focus Group (FG) meeting in September 2008. The first version of draft deliverable related to “Definitions” has been produced ...
... The Editors meetings of Deliverable 1 “Definition” were held on twice formally as we planned and also several times as informal teleconferences for the editors after the 1st Focus Group (FG) meeting in September 2008. The first version of draft deliverable related to “Definitions” has been produced ...
Counter-Argument
... Bonn, Germany, June 2008. Consider the means that may be available to Annex I Parties to reach their emission targets and relevant methodological issues. Poznan, Poland, December 2008. Expected to reach agreement on plan of action regarding future commitments; advance on “shared vision” for a new cl ...
... Bonn, Germany, June 2008. Consider the means that may be available to Annex I Parties to reach their emission targets and relevant methodological issues. Poznan, Poland, December 2008. Expected to reach agreement on plan of action regarding future commitments; advance on “shared vision” for a new cl ...
Points to Make for Spain
... Europe to countries where carbon controls are less strict, analysts said. ‘In the future, European companies may decide to make big investments abroad, say in Brazil, because Europe is too expensive,’ Michael Grubb, chief economist at the Carbon Trust, a UK thinktank [sic], told a European power con ...
... Europe to countries where carbon controls are less strict, analysts said. ‘In the future, European companies may decide to make big investments abroad, say in Brazil, because Europe is too expensive,’ Michael Grubb, chief economist at the Carbon Trust, a UK thinktank [sic], told a European power con ...
Carbon Market Framework (Nared)
... • Win win potential: emissions reduction & economic benefit • As GHGs settle in the atmosphere, it does not matter where emissions are reduced ...
... • Win win potential: emissions reduction & economic benefit • As GHGs settle in the atmosphere, it does not matter where emissions are reduced ...
Factors to be considered in choosing metrics
... of different gases on climate change in terms of a common accounting unit, tonnes of CO2-equivalent. • More research needs to be done to inform the Parties of the implications of the choice of effect for comparison, the time frame, pulse or sustained emissions, and their uncertainties. • Comparing t ...
... of different gases on climate change in terms of a common accounting unit, tonnes of CO2-equivalent. • More research needs to be done to inform the Parties of the implications of the choice of effect for comparison, the time frame, pulse or sustained emissions, and their uncertainties. • Comparing t ...
Document
... – Resource extraction, upgrading and transport – Oil sands growing as a major source of secure energy – Driver of economic and emissions growth (oil sands, upgrading) ...
... – Resource extraction, upgrading and transport – Oil sands growing as a major source of secure energy – Driver of economic and emissions growth (oil sands, upgrading) ...
Corrupting the Climate? - European Capacity Building Initiative
... • Kyoto, the ‘only game in town’, has become a European-led test of multilateralism in the face of US unilateralism, raising it to highest political levels • Kyoto based upon principles of international economic instruments, leading to similar instruments at national levels • The main debate has mov ...
... • Kyoto, the ‘only game in town’, has become a European-led test of multilateralism in the face of US unilateralism, raising it to highest political levels • Kyoto based upon principles of international economic instruments, leading to similar instruments at national levels • The main debate has mov ...
CCS Summer School Developing countries Context July 6-11, 2014, Austin, Texas
... Kyoto Protocol (Kp) • The Kyoto Protocol, a more powerful treaty with legally binding measures was adopted in 1997 in Kyoto Japan, to strengthen the UNFCCC. • The Kyoto Protocol commits and sets quantified reduction/limitation targets of GHG for Annex 1 and Annex 2 (countries undergoing economic tr ...
... Kyoto Protocol (Kp) • The Kyoto Protocol, a more powerful treaty with legally binding measures was adopted in 1997 in Kyoto Japan, to strengthen the UNFCCC. • The Kyoto Protocol commits and sets quantified reduction/limitation targets of GHG for Annex 1 and Annex 2 (countries undergoing economic tr ...
Opportunities for the Caribbean in the Kyoto Protocol Negotiations
... •Caribbean countries who are Parties to the Convention and Protocol can benefit from the current negotiations in the following ways: •Any efforts to assist the most vulnerable countries to adapt to the impacts of climate change will include the small island developing states of the Caribbean, who a ...
... •Caribbean countries who are Parties to the Convention and Protocol can benefit from the current negotiations in the following ways: •Any efforts to assist the most vulnerable countries to adapt to the impacts of climate change will include the small island developing states of the Caribbean, who a ...
USA
... emissions. In Paris, China pledged to peak its CO2 emissions by 2030, when its emissions are projected to be four times those of the US but made no commitment to reduce emissions. • Meanwhile, emissions from rapidly developing countries, such as India, continue to grow. The US cannot agree to furth ...
... emissions. In Paris, China pledged to peak its CO2 emissions by 2030, when its emissions are projected to be four times those of the US but made no commitment to reduce emissions. • Meanwhile, emissions from rapidly developing countries, such as India, continue to grow. The US cannot agree to furth ...
Class 5: Drivers and Causes of GCC
... Historic GHG Emissions, by Country Historic GHG Emissions, per person Country Contribution to Temperature Increase “Carbon Intensity” (by country) ...
... Historic GHG Emissions, by Country Historic GHG Emissions, per person Country Contribution to Temperature Increase “Carbon Intensity” (by country) ...
The Challenge of Climate Change and Economic Development in
... proposals to secure funding for projects needing to be aggregated from multiple cities and of a particular size Work with the MOF to change regulations which limit the use of alternative financial instruments that can be used by cities Change the approval processes imposed by the national government ...
... proposals to secure funding for projects needing to be aggregated from multiple cities and of a particular size Work with the MOF to change regulations which limit the use of alternative financial instruments that can be used by cities Change the approval processes imposed by the national government ...