EU action against climate change - Leading global action to 2020
... internationally to keep global warming to less than 2°C above the pre-industrial temperature and by committing to significant cuts in its own greenhouse gas emissions. To put the world on track to reduce global emissions by at least half of 1990 levels by 2050, the IPCC’s AR4 shows that developed co ...
... internationally to keep global warming to less than 2°C above the pre-industrial temperature and by committing to significant cuts in its own greenhouse gas emissions. To put the world on track to reduce global emissions by at least half of 1990 levels by 2050, the IPCC’s AR4 shows that developed co ...
Manifesto for Clean Shipping
... While pollutant emissions from land-based sources are gradually coming down, those from shipping show a continuous increase. The emissions from ships engaged in international trade in the seas surrounding Europe – the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the north-eastern part of the Atlantic, the Mediterrane ...
... While pollutant emissions from land-based sources are gradually coming down, those from shipping show a continuous increase. The emissions from ships engaged in international trade in the seas surrounding Europe – the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the north-eastern part of the Atlantic, the Mediterrane ...
Key findings of the AVOIDing Dangerous Climate
... Figure 1 shows a plausible estimate of the impacts avoided for six key sectors by limiting global average warming to 2°C or 2.5 °C compared to a ‘business as usual’ pathway of 4 °C. The results include the fact that many impacts change in a nonlinear way with climate change. When the climate change ...
... Figure 1 shows a plausible estimate of the impacts avoided for six key sectors by limiting global average warming to 2°C or 2.5 °C compared to a ‘business as usual’ pathway of 4 °C. The results include the fact that many impacts change in a nonlinear way with climate change. When the climate change ...
After Kyoto: Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation Post-2012
... an average 8% reduction was distributed among Member States using the Triptych Approach (see page 12); for example, the UK took on a target of a 12.5% reduction in GHGs on 1990 levels, compared with a target for Spain of a 15% increase. Kyoto established an international emissions trading scheme by ...
... an average 8% reduction was distributed among Member States using the Triptych Approach (see page 12); for example, the UK took on a target of a 12.5% reduction in GHGs on 1990 levels, compared with a target for Spain of a 15% increase. Kyoto established an international emissions trading scheme by ...
Legislative and Policy Initiatives Concerning Global
... international level, the Kyoto Protocol has now been ratified and through its binding emissions targets and market-based mechanisms, a worldwide carbon market is emerging. Much of the European Community has embraced the Kyoto Protocol and has established a climate change program to meet its greenhou ...
... international level, the Kyoto Protocol has now been ratified and through its binding emissions targets and market-based mechanisms, a worldwide carbon market is emerging. Much of the European Community has embraced the Kyoto Protocol and has established a climate change program to meet its greenhou ...
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and Shared Climate Policy
... Reference scenarios upon which policy targets can be modeled What could the future look like? ...
... Reference scenarios upon which policy targets can be modeled What could the future look like? ...
Ch 10 – Climate Change
... emit more than specified amounts of GHGs, and (3) regulation on the actual reporting of GHG emissions. Along with these three rules, the EPA also allowed California’s waiver so that it could implement its own auto GHG emissions standards. Vehicle Emissions Standards (CAA §202(a) and California Waive ...
... emit more than specified amounts of GHGs, and (3) regulation on the actual reporting of GHG emissions. Along with these three rules, the EPA also allowed California’s waiver so that it could implement its own auto GHG emissions standards. Vehicle Emissions Standards (CAA §202(a) and California Waive ...
Policy Instruments and Achievement of Global Greenhouse Gas
... who should be responsible for reducing emissions, what types of emission reductions should be allowed, and what types of sequestration activities should be given credit. The question of who should be responsible for emissions reductions is a very interesting philosophical and ethical issue. The deve ...
... who should be responsible for reducing emissions, what types of emission reductions should be allowed, and what types of sequestration activities should be given credit. The question of who should be responsible for emissions reductions is a very interesting philosophical and ethical issue. The deve ...
1 United Nations, Department of Public Information, NGO Relations
... had done a good job to put this recovery on track. It was now time to give the Protocol a chance to address the climate problem. Q: How difficult is it, in business terms, to persuade the industrial world to adopt gases that are neither harmful to the ozone layer or to the climate? A: Ms. Manley res ...
... had done a good job to put this recovery on track. It was now time to give the Protocol a chance to address the climate problem. Q: How difficult is it, in business terms, to persuade the industrial world to adopt gases that are neither harmful to the ozone layer or to the climate? A: Ms. Manley res ...
Briefing_note_on_legal_synergies
... including changes in climate, that are necessary to protect human health and the environment. This signifies that the ozone regime recognizes the interrelationship between the atmospheric issues associated with ozone depletion and climate change. Under the climate regime, Article 2 of the UNFCCC st ...
... including changes in climate, that are necessary to protect human health and the environment. This signifies that the ozone regime recognizes the interrelationship between the atmospheric issues associated with ozone depletion and climate change. Under the climate regime, Article 2 of the UNFCCC st ...
The role of legislation in tackling climate change
... announced in conjunction with the fiscal budget. The carbon budget would set the total greenhouse gas emissions envelope for the coming five years and allocate it between sectors. Relevant ministers would have responsibility for delivering the policies to ensure their sector stays within budget. The ...
... announced in conjunction with the fiscal budget. The carbon budget would set the total greenhouse gas emissions envelope for the coming five years and allocate it between sectors. Relevant ministers would have responsibility for delivering the policies to ensure their sector stays within budget. The ...
The role of legislation in tackling climate change
... announced in conjunction with the fiscal budget. The carbon budget would set the total greenhouse gas emissions envelope for the coming five years and allocate it between sectors. Relevant ministers would have responsibility for delivering the policies to ensure their sector stays within budget. The ...
... announced in conjunction with the fiscal budget. The carbon budget would set the total greenhouse gas emissions envelope for the coming five years and allocate it between sectors. Relevant ministers would have responsibility for delivering the policies to ensure their sector stays within budget. The ...
here - National Council of Women of Queensland Inc
... for delivery of emissions reductions. A Safeguard Mechanism commenced on 1 July 2016 to ensure emission reductions purchased by the Government are not offset by significant rises in emissions above business-as-usual levels elsewhere in the economy. The safeguard mechanism requires Australia’s larges ...
... for delivery of emissions reductions. A Safeguard Mechanism commenced on 1 July 2016 to ensure emission reductions purchased by the Government are not offset by significant rises in emissions above business-as-usual levels elsewhere in the economy. The safeguard mechanism requires Australia’s larges ...
CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES
... from the conference centre with the Kyoto Protocol. A key feature of the Protocol is that it includes legally binding greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets for industrialised countries totalling a reduction of 5.2% from 1990 levels by 2008–12 (UNFCCC 1997a). ...
... from the conference centre with the Kyoto Protocol. A key feature of the Protocol is that it includes legally binding greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets for industrialised countries totalling a reduction of 5.2% from 1990 levels by 2008–12 (UNFCCC 1997a). ...
CMM_1.3_Carbon_Climate_Negotiations_2015_05
... tropical countries in GHG emissions has evolved from a focus on reforestation to preventing deforestation and forest degradation as well as improving forest C pools (REDD+) Reducing emissions from LULUCF in the tropics alone will not resolve the problem of anthropogenic climate change but it is one ...
... tropical countries in GHG emissions has evolved from a focus on reforestation to preventing deforestation and forest degradation as well as improving forest C pools (REDD+) Reducing emissions from LULUCF in the tropics alone will not resolve the problem of anthropogenic climate change but it is one ...
HERE - Art4Agriculture
... • Methane has a GWP = 86 x CO2 on a 20 year basis • Methane has a 12 year lifetime = SLCP ...
... • Methane has a GWP = 86 x CO2 on a 20 year basis • Methane has a 12 year lifetime = SLCP ...
2007 update - Global Carbon Project
... a number of terrestrial and ocean processes that remove or emit CO2. It is the long term evolution of this balance that will determine to large extent the speed and magnitude of climate change and the mitigation requirements to stabilize atmospheric CO2 concentrations at any given level. In this tal ...
... a number of terrestrial and ocean processes that remove or emit CO2. It is the long term evolution of this balance that will determine to large extent the speed and magnitude of climate change and the mitigation requirements to stabilize atmospheric CO2 concentrations at any given level. In this tal ...
UNFCCC: UNITING ON CLIMATE
... A fresh round of negotiations launched in Buenos Aires, Argentina at COP 4 in November 1998 linked negotiations on the Protocol’s rules to implementation issues – such as finance and technology transfer – under the umbrella of the Convention. In July 2001. Governments struck a political deal – the B ...
... A fresh round of negotiations launched in Buenos Aires, Argentina at COP 4 in November 1998 linked negotiations on the Protocol’s rules to implementation issues – such as finance and technology transfer – under the umbrella of the Convention. In July 2001. Governments struck a political deal – the B ...
a high resolution version.
... 40% of UK emissions come from households. This means our homes have an important part to play in meeting the 2030 emissions reductions in the Fifth Carbon Budget. ...
... 40% of UK emissions come from households. This means our homes have an important part to play in meeting the 2030 emissions reductions in the Fifth Carbon Budget. ...
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty, which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) man-made CO2 emissions have caused it. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December, 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. There are currently 192 Parties (Canada withdrew effective December 2012) to the Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol implemented the objective of the UNFCCC to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to ""a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system"" (Art. 2). The Protocol is based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities: it puts the obligation to reduce current emissions on developed countries on the basis that they are historically responsible for the current levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.The Protocol’s first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. A second commitment period was agreed on in 2012, known as the Doha Amendment to the protocol, in which 37 countries have binding targets: Australia, the European Union (and its 28 member states), Belarus, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and Ukraine. Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine have stated that they may withdraw from the Protocol or not put into legal force the Amendment with second round targets. Japan, New Zealand and Russia have participated in Kyoto's first-round but have not taken on new targets in the second commitment period. Other developed countries without second-round targets are Canada (which withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol in 2012) and the United States (which has not ratified the Protocol). As of July 2015, 36 states have accepted the Doha Amendment, while entry into force requires the acceptances of 144 states.Negotiations were held in Lima in 2014 to agree on a post-Kyoto legal framework that would obligate all major polluters to pay for CO2 emissions. China, India, and the United States have all signaled that they will not ratify any treaty that will commit them legally to reduce CO2 emissions.