CDP`s 2016 Climate Change Scoring Methodology
... Please provide details of your products and/or services that you classify
as low carbon products or that enable a third party to avoid GHG
emissions
Did you have emissions reduction initiatives that were active within the
reporting year (this can include those in the planning and/or
implementation p ...
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
... and facilitating neutral and independent dialogues and assessments, in our view
was the ideal facilitator of this process. The Institute has assembled a high-quality,
diverse, and independent group of experts to provide pragmatic, fact-based analysis
and assessments of a set of proposed options for ...
Peatlands and Climate Change
... widely studied and debated in media, but also within a scientific audience and peatland
experts during recent years. Controversial opinions have been put and different parties
and experts have emphasised their points of view with the latest research data, historical
evidence and statistics.
It seems ...
reducing australia`s greenhouse gas emissions— targets and
... expertise. These contributions have enhanced the quality of the Review and provided evidence to
inform the Authority’s recommendations.
A number of government departments and public agencies have supported the work of the Authority
during the course of the Review. They include: the Department of the ...
Technical Reference Guide for World Climate Negotiations Model
... The purpose of the C-ROADS (Climate-Rapid Overview and Decision Support) simulator is to
improve public and decision-maker understanding of the long-term implications of possible
greenhouse gas emissions futures by allowing access to a rigorous – but rapid and user-friendly –
computer simulation of ...
Free version - Derek Lemoine
... optimal policy under Bayesian learning. Optimality means that resources within and across periods are distributed to maximize the expected stream of global welfare from economic consumption
over time under different risk states. The optimal policy must anticipate all possible thresholds,
interaction ...
FINAL Amazon Scorecard
... Climate Counts ranked six companies that fall within the
Food Services sector: Starbucks, McDonald’s, Yum! Brands, Burger King, Darden Restaurants
and Wendy’s International.
Starbucks, the only coffee company included in the scorecard’s Food Services sector, earned
46 points on the 100-point scale f ...
Exploring comparable post-2012 reduction efforts for Annex I
... EU Heads of State and Government agreed in March 2007 that the EU will reduce
its greenhouse gas emissions to 30% below 1990 levels by 2020 within a global and
comprehensive post-2012 climate agreement. This commitment is provided that other
developed countries commit to comparable reductions.
Withi ...
Carbon Implications of Fuels Reduction and Ecological Restoration
... is not a disturbance to which western dry forests are adapted, and it can threaten human safety
and property. Concerns about ecological integrity and fire damage have spurred substantial
interest in reversing the densification that has occurred over the past century. Such management
often takes the ...
THE GARNAUT CLIMATE CHANGE REvIEW
... Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, it included members from the public
services of Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia. A secretariat office
within the federal Department of Climate Change was set up in January 2008.
As part of its research and analysis, the Review consulted ...
Canada`s Sixth National Report on Climate Change 2014
... Addressing short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) is
also part of the Government of Canada’s comprehensive
climate change plan. Since the last National
Communication, Canada became a founding member
and large financial contributor to the Climate and
Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate
...
Holistic management
... up by scientific evidence.The aim of this study is to
review some of the scientific support for the claimed effects of holistic grazing and management.
There are relatively few (11) peer-reviewed studies
on the effects of holistic grazing that are ‘approved’
by the Savory Institute, i.e., included i ...
a call to action - CDM Policy Dialogue
... mitigate emissions in nationally appropriate ways. Favourable experiences with the CDM have enabled Brazil, China,
Mexico, South Korea, and other major emerging nations
to explore domestic carbon market systems. Although the
CDM has been criticized for approving some projects with
questionable envir ...
CGE training material
... Baseline Scenario Definitions: Examples from the Literature
• International Energy Agency’s widely cited World Energy
Outlook 2011 presents two:
− Current Policies Scenario (“show how the future might look on
the basis of the perpetuation, without change, of the government
policies and measures that ...
The Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change using CO2 Capture
... benefits of design in crystalline solid-state
frameworks[5]. Thus, we need a structural substance that
can connect multiple of MOF. That’s where CNT (carbon
nano tube) comes in handy. CNTs are efficient CO2
adsorbents and possess potential applications for CO2
...
Climate change - Citizens` Climate Lobby
... facts
simply
a
result
of
all
the
lobbying
and
campaign
financing
by
wealthy
corporations
that
believe
climate
action
isn’t
in
their
own
narrow
interests?
For
once,
Congress
needs
to
put
aside
its
cor ...
Low-Carbon Green Growth in Asia: Policies and practices
... Shares of Employment by Broad Sector
Projections of Employment Effects of the Republic
of Korea’s Green Fiscal Stimulus
The Leading Countries for Green Inventions
according to Patent Data
Low-Carbon Policies in Asia
...
Finland`s Fifth National Communication under the
... 6.2.3 Impacts on nature and natural resources, and the related
adaptation measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.2.4 Impacts on industries, infrastructure and human well-being,
and the related adaptation measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
6.2.5 I ...
Abrupt rise in atmospheric CO2 at the onset of the Bølling/Allerød: in
... the temporal development of its prognostic variables over
time as functions of changing boundary conditions, representing the climate forcing. These prognostic variables are
(a) carbon (as dissolved inorganic carbon DIC in the ocean),
(b) the carbon isotopes δ 13 C, 114 C, and (c) additionally in
th ...
Survey of Climate Change Considerations in Federal Environmental
... some provided an aggregate estimate of total emissions, and others merely noted that GHG
emissions may occur as a result of the project (without quantifying these emissions or identifying
specific sources). This variation was partially due to differences in the nature and location of the
proposed ac ...
Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy
... (CDR) method or a solar radiation management (SRM) method. CDR methods address the
warming effects of greenhouse gases by removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.
CDR methods include ocean fertilization, and carbon capture and sequestration. SRM methods
address climate change by increasing ...
Carbon cycle modelling and the residence time of natural
... wet chemical techniques. Critique has also been directed to the analytical methodology
and sampling error problems (Jaworowski et al., 1992 a; and Segalstad, 1996, for
further references), and the fact that the results of the measurements were "edited"
(Bacastow et al., 1985); large portions of raw ...
Investment and growth in the time of climate change
... issues. More specifically, in addition to reviewing adaptation priorities for
Europe, chapter 2, Mitigate, adapt, or endure: a question of balance, illustrates
key factors that determine the optimal balance between climate-change
mitigation and adaptation. The findings following from this illustratio ...
Investment and growth in the time of climate change
... issues. More specifically, in addition to reviewing adaptation priorities for
Europe, chapter 2, Mitigate, adapt, or endure: a question of balance, illustrates
key factors that determine the optimal balance between climate-change
mitigation and adaptation. The findings following from this illustratio ...
Carbon governance in England
The reduction of carbon emissions, along with other greenhouse gases (GHGs), has become a vitally important task of international, national and local actors. If we understand governance as the creation of “conditions for ordered rule and collective action” then, given the fact that the reduction of carbon emissions will require concerted collective action, it follows that the governance of carbon will be of paramount concern. We have seen numerous international conferences over the past 20 years tasked with finding a way of facilitating this, and while international agreements have been infamously difficult to reach, action at the national level has been much more effective. In the UK, the Climate Change Act 2008 committed the government to meeting significant carbon reduction targets. In England, these carbon emissions are governed using numerous different instruments, which involve a variety of actors. While it has been argued by authors like Rhodes that there has been a “hollowing out” of the nation state, and that governments have lost their capabilities to govern to a variety of non-state actors and the European Union, the case of carbon governance in England actually runs counter to this. The government body responsible for the task, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), is the “main external dynamic” behind governing actions in this area, and “rather than hollowing out (there has actually been a strengthening of) central co-ordination”. The department may rely on other bodies to deliver its desired outcomes, but it is still ultimately responsible for the imposition of the rules and regulations that “steer (carbon) governmental action at the national level”. It is therefore evident that carbon governance in England is hierarchical in nature, in that “legislative decisions and executive decisions” are the main dynamic behind carbon governance action. This does not deny the existence of a network of bodies around DECC who are part of the process, but they are supplementary actors who are steered by central decisions. This article focuses on carbon governance in England as the other countries of the UK (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) all have devolved assemblies who are responsible for the governance of carbon emissions in their respective countries.