Potential changes in forest composition could reduce impacts of
... The response of the boreal forest to further warming is a major concern because high-latitude boreal regions are likely to be most affected by these changes (IPCC 2007), and the expected response of fire activity is closely linked to warmer and drier weather (Balshi et al. 2009). Recent temperature i ...
... The response of the boreal forest to further warming is a major concern because high-latitude boreal regions are likely to be most affected by these changes (IPCC 2007), and the expected response of fire activity is closely linked to warmer and drier weather (Balshi et al. 2009). Recent temperature i ...
City of Thunder Bay Climate Adaptation Strategy - Climate
... • Assess potential threats to understand the risks of climate change impacts; • Increase the resilience of municipal infrastructure and natural landscapes; • Provide information, tools, and training on climate adaptation to facilitate and accelerate action; • Plan for the financing and long term ...
... • Assess potential threats to understand the risks of climate change impacts; • Increase the resilience of municipal infrastructure and natural landscapes; • Provide information, tools, and training on climate adaptation to facilitate and accelerate action; • Plan for the financing and long term ...
From Risk to Return: Investing in Climate Change Adaptation
... Figure 2. Climate change impacts in Australia: projections for the year 2100 under different emissions scenarios based on information from Garnaut 2008 and IPCC 2014. Australia is one of the most vulnerable developed countries in the world to the impacts of climate change. Climate change is expected ...
... Figure 2. Climate change impacts in Australia: projections for the year 2100 under different emissions scenarios based on information from Garnaut 2008 and IPCC 2014. Australia is one of the most vulnerable developed countries in the world to the impacts of climate change. Climate change is expected ...
Report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and
... Executive Secretary and contained in annex II to this report. It was agreed that the work would consist of finalizing the report chapters taking into account the reviews from Parties, other Governments, experts, and non-governmental organizations, based on the second version of the report. The secon ...
... Executive Secretary and contained in annex II to this report. It was agreed that the work would consist of finalizing the report chapters taking into account the reviews from Parties, other Governments, experts, and non-governmental organizations, based on the second version of the report. The secon ...
Module 1: Introduction to climate change in the context of
... development and its fundamental dependence on energy; b) the challenges facing political leaders and policy makers to agree and enact courses of action for mitigation and adaptation. While human beings impact on climate change, mainly through their energy requirements, climate change in turn impacts ...
... development and its fundamental dependence on energy; b) the challenges facing political leaders and policy makers to agree and enact courses of action for mitigation and adaptation. While human beings impact on climate change, mainly through their energy requirements, climate change in turn impacts ...
Decision-support tools for climate change mitigation planning
... This document describes three decision-support tools that can aid the process of planning climate change mitigation actions. The phrase ‘decision-support tools’ refers to science-based analytical procedures that facilitate the evaluation of planning options (individually or compared to alternative o ...
... This document describes three decision-support tools that can aid the process of planning climate change mitigation actions. The phrase ‘decision-support tools’ refers to science-based analytical procedures that facilitate the evaluation of planning options (individually or compared to alternative o ...
Canadian biodiversity: ecosystem status and trends 2010 (print
... Several stressors that impaired ecosystems in the past have been either removed or reduced. Some marine mammal populations are recovering from past overharvesting. Concentrations of contaminants now phased out of use, such as DDT and PCBs, are declining in wildlife. In the past 15 years, federal, pr ...
... Several stressors that impaired ecosystems in the past have been either removed or reduced. Some marine mammal populations are recovering from past overharvesting. Concentrations of contaminants now phased out of use, such as DDT and PCBs, are declining in wildlife. In the past 15 years, federal, pr ...
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
... temperature rose by 1.2°F in the same period. The rise in US temperatures in the coming century will likely be equal to or marginally higher than the global average, with a concentration of warming in the winter and in higher latitudes. Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, even by over 80%, will ha ...
... temperature rose by 1.2°F in the same period. The rise in US temperatures in the coming century will likely be equal to or marginally higher than the global average, with a concentration of warming in the winter and in higher latitudes. Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, even by over 80%, will ha ...
Kvasi longitudinell undersøkelse av ungdomsskolelevers
... over the world. So did also the long lasting political process ending up with the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and all following-up sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention up to the present time. Worry about the increasing energy consumption causing increasing carbon dioxide e ...
... over the world. So did also the long lasting political process ending up with the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and all following-up sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention up to the present time. Worry about the increasing energy consumption causing increasing carbon dioxide e ...
Price Caps and Price Floors in Climate Policy
... depend on uncertain future economic growth, energy intensity, and the carbon intensity of the energy mix, which in turn depends on fuel availability and prices. The Earth’s climate sensitivity itself is largely uncertain, with predictions that doubling the atmospheric CO2 concentration would increas ...
... depend on uncertain future economic growth, energy intensity, and the carbon intensity of the energy mix, which in turn depends on fuel availability and prices. The Earth’s climate sensitivity itself is largely uncertain, with predictions that doubling the atmospheric CO2 concentration would increas ...
CDM in Crisis – What is at Stake?
... largest trading scheme in the world. The offsetting component of the pilot schemes explicitly uses CDM methodologies and norms. Emission trading schemes are emerging in South Korea, Brazil, Thailand and Vietnam. All major beneficiaries of the CDM are launching their own trading schemes. The South Ko ...
... largest trading scheme in the world. The offsetting component of the pilot schemes explicitly uses CDM methodologies and norms. Emission trading schemes are emerging in South Korea, Brazil, Thailand and Vietnam. All major beneficiaries of the CDM are launching their own trading schemes. The South Ko ...
Including International Forest Carbon Incentives
... Economic models suggest that over the next 20 years, carbon prices of US$10–$302 per metric ton3 of CO2 (tCO2) could generate reductions of 1–4 billion tCO2/year globally through avoided deforestation. The models suggest that this amount could be as much as doubled if other options such as afforesta ...
... Economic models suggest that over the next 20 years, carbon prices of US$10–$302 per metric ton3 of CO2 (tCO2) could generate reductions of 1–4 billion tCO2/year globally through avoided deforestation. The models suggest that this amount could be as much as doubled if other options such as afforesta ...
The Critical Decade 2013
... solutions to drive down emissions and grow renewable energy. It will take some time to see the full impact of these policies. ›› Carbon dioxide concentrations are at the highest level in over one million years. Despite global efforts they continue to increase at a rate much faster than at any other ...
... solutions to drive down emissions and grow renewable energy. It will take some time to see the full impact of these policies. ›› Carbon dioxide concentrations are at the highest level in over one million years. Despite global efforts they continue to increase at a rate much faster than at any other ...
C i T Climate n Wash Technic e Chan hingto cal Sum ge Imp n State
... Washington State. By mid-century, Washington is likely to regularly experience average annual temperatures that exceed the warmest conditions observed in the 20th century. Washington is also expected to experience more heat waves and more severe heavy rainfall events, despite relatively small change ...
... Washington State. By mid-century, Washington is likely to regularly experience average annual temperatures that exceed the warmest conditions observed in the 20th century. Washington is also expected to experience more heat waves and more severe heavy rainfall events, despite relatively small change ...
Climate Change and Ontario`s Provincial Parks: Towards an
... This report assesses the implications of climate change for Ontario’s system of provincial parks. A broad range of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Pa ...
... This report assesses the implications of climate change for Ontario’s system of provincial parks. A broad range of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Pa ...
Climate Change and Ontario`s Provincial Parks
... This report assesses the implications of climate change for Ontario’s system of provincial parks. A broad range of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Pa ...
... This report assesses the implications of climate change for Ontario’s system of provincial parks. A broad range of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario Pa ...
Forests and Climate Change
... United Kingdom Forestry Standard (UKFS). The UKFS and Guidelines outline the context for forestry in the UK, set out the approach of the UK governments to sustainable forest management, define standards and requirements, and provide a basis for regulation and monitoring – including national and inte ...
... United Kingdom Forestry Standard (UKFS). The UKFS and Guidelines outline the context for forestry in the UK, set out the approach of the UK governments to sustainable forest management, define standards and requirements, and provide a basis for regulation and monitoring – including national and inte ...
Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report The Core Writing Team Rajendra K. Pachauri
... and growing, with impacts observed across all continents and oceans. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The IPCC is now 95 percent certain that humans are the main cause of current global warming. In addition, the SYR finds that the more human a ...
... and growing, with impacts observed across all continents and oceans. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The IPCC is now 95 percent certain that humans are the main cause of current global warming. In addition, the SYR finds that the more human a ...
Climate change and Ontario`s provincial parks
... This report assesses the implications of climate change for Ontario’s system of provincial parks. A broad range of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario ...
... This report assesses the implications of climate change for Ontario’s system of provincial parks. A broad range of climate change impacts (e.g., changes in ecosystem composition, structure, and function as well as increased forest fire severity) were identified as potentially significant for Ontario ...
The economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
... consequences are coupled with uneven, asymmetrical impacts on different regions, countries and socioeconomic groups, with those that have contributed the least to global warming often being the hardest-hit. As part of this picture, Latin America and the Caribbean has historically made no more than a ...
... consequences are coupled with uneven, asymmetrical impacts on different regions, countries and socioeconomic groups, with those that have contributed the least to global warming often being the hardest-hit. As part of this picture, Latin America and the Caribbean has historically made no more than a ...
British Columbia
... Climate change is increasingly affecting British Columbia’s landscapes, communities and economic activities. Future projections show that climate change will continue and suggest that direct and indirect impacts will become more pervasive. e following are some of the key risks and adaptation opportu ...
... Climate change is increasingly affecting British Columbia’s landscapes, communities and economic activities. Future projections show that climate change will continue and suggest that direct and indirect impacts will become more pervasive. e following are some of the key risks and adaptation opportu ...
Climate Change and its Health Implications
... of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level” IPCC Report, 2007 This pack presents information and strategies on climate change for those working in environmental health in the United Kingdom, at a time when there ...
... of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level” IPCC Report, 2007 This pack presents information and strategies on climate change for those working in environmental health in the United Kingdom, at a time when there ...
Extreme Storms in Michigan
... greatest increase in extreme storms has been in southern Michigan, where most Michiganders live. Section 3 links extreme storms to Michigan floods, showing why it matters so much that extreme storms there are becoming more frequent. The section also includes a new analysis linking extreme storms to ...
... greatest increase in extreme storms has been in southern Michigan, where most Michiganders live. Section 3 links extreme storms to Michigan floods, showing why it matters so much that extreme storms there are becoming more frequent. The section also includes a new analysis linking extreme storms to ...
Atmospheric Recovery Litigation - University of Oregon School of Law
... 11 MICHAEL C. BLUMM & MARY CHRISTINA WOOD, THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW 3–7 (2013). ...
... 11 MICHAEL C. BLUMM & MARY CHRISTINA WOOD, THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW 3–7 (2013). ...
POTENTIAL MARKET BARRIERS FOR VOLUNTARY CLIMATE CHANGE
... The challenge of the twenty first century is to enable economic growth and increase both the environmental quality and social inclusiveness, while mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. The need for a transition to more sustainable consumption and production patterns is undeniable ...
... The challenge of the twenty first century is to enable economic growth and increase both the environmental quality and social inclusiveness, while mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. The need for a transition to more sustainable consumption and production patterns is undeniable ...
Climate change in Canada
In Canada mitigation of anthropogenic climate change is being addressed more seriously by the provinces than by the federal government.