The economic impact of climate change
... Abstract: I review the literature on the economic impacts of climate change, an externality that is unprecedentedly large, complex, and uncertain. Only 14 estimates of the total damage cost of climate change have been published, a research effort that is in sharp contrast to the urgency of the publi ...
... Abstract: I review the literature on the economic impacts of climate change, an externality that is unprecedentedly large, complex, and uncertain. Only 14 estimates of the total damage cost of climate change have been published, a research effort that is in sharp contrast to the urgency of the publi ...
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
... ce cores and other evidence of climate conditions in the distant past provide evidence that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are associated with rising global temperatures. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), and secondarily the clearing of l ...
... ce cores and other evidence of climate conditions in the distant past provide evidence that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are associated with rising global temperatures. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), and secondarily the clearing of l ...
EU cities and regions leading the way against climate change
... An international climate agreement can only be successful if all levels of government work closely together. The over 1,700 member cities of Climate Alliance show in their everyday work that local authorities hold the solutions to global issues. In the European Union, we have been building for more ...
... An international climate agreement can only be successful if all levels of government work closely together. The over 1,700 member cities of Climate Alliance show in their everyday work that local authorities hold the solutions to global issues. In the European Union, we have been building for more ...
2 - EcoMod
... changes of industrial structure of various departments lack more detailed studies. Although FOUND model divides economy into departmental level, and considers the inter-regional economic ties, but it does not consider the feedback effects of climate change on economic development. Improving the work ...
... changes of industrial structure of various departments lack more detailed studies. Although FOUND model divides economy into departmental level, and considers the inter-regional economic ties, but it does not consider the feedback effects of climate change on economic development. Improving the work ...
Indicators of Canada`s Changing Climate
... retain heat from the Earth’s surface. They are a small but extremely important part of the planet’s natural atmosphere – so important, in fact, that without them, Earth would be some 33°C cooler than it is now and too cold to support life. Since the early days of the industrial revolution some 200 y ...
... retain heat from the Earth’s surface. They are a small but extremely important part of the planet’s natural atmosphere – so important, in fact, that without them, Earth would be some 33°C cooler than it is now and too cold to support life. Since the early days of the industrial revolution some 200 y ...
economics of climate change: sensitivity analysis of social cost
... The number of published studies that have attempted to value SCC has increased during the last twenty years. The earliest published estimate of the costs and benefits of carbon emissions is a 1977 paper by Yale University economist William Nordhaus (1977). Nordhaus estimated “shadow prices” for carb ...
... The number of published studies that have attempted to value SCC has increased during the last twenty years. The earliest published estimate of the costs and benefits of carbon emissions is a 1977 paper by Yale University economist William Nordhaus (1977). Nordhaus estimated “shadow prices” for carb ...
An Analysis of Black Carbon Mitigation as a Response to Climate
... Likewise, action by industrial countries alone to reduce their emissions to minimal levels by mid-century cannot be cost-effective because during this century a majority of GHG emissions will originate from developing countries.11 However, developing countries have been unwilling to adopt carbon lim ...
... Likewise, action by industrial countries alone to reduce their emissions to minimal levels by mid-century cannot be cost-effective because during this century a majority of GHG emissions will originate from developing countries.11 However, developing countries have been unwilling to adopt carbon lim ...
Comparative Climate Change Governance: Lessons from European
... of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples. It is a non-governmental network that aims to reduce GHG emission by 50% by 2030 and support sustainable forestry in participating towns and cities and provinces (Westerhoff, 2010; Climate Alliance Austria, 2013). Thus, the Climate Alliance is a ...
... of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples. It is a non-governmental network that aims to reduce GHG emission by 50% by 2030 and support sustainable forestry in participating towns and cities and provinces (Westerhoff, 2010; Climate Alliance Austria, 2013). Thus, the Climate Alliance is a ...
Paris Agreement and Marrakech Climate Conference
... Agreement was reached in Paris on 12 December 2015 on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that will apply to all signatory states, not just developed countries. Prior to the conference, countries published Intended NDCs for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. This was a bottom-up approach, with ...
... Agreement was reached in Paris on 12 December 2015 on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that will apply to all signatory states, not just developed countries. Prior to the conference, countries published Intended NDCs for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. This was a bottom-up approach, with ...
Climate change and respiratory disease: European Respiratory Society position statement ERS POSITION STATEMENT
... seventeenth century, with half of this increase occurring since the late 1960s [6]. This increase in temperature has also seen a rapid rise in the number of hot days and severe meteorological events, such as the 2003 heatwave, during which temperatures of o35uC were reached [6], resulting in ,40,000 ...
... seventeenth century, with half of this increase occurring since the late 1960s [6]. This increase in temperature has also seen a rapid rise in the number of hot days and severe meteorological events, such as the 2003 heatwave, during which temperatures of o35uC were reached [6], resulting in ,40,000 ...
Climate change
... Earth is facing a climate catastrophe caused by human action. Scientifically, there is no longer any doubt that pollutants from the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activities are accumulating in the atmosphere, trapping radiation, and raising temperatures. There remains some uncertainty a ...
... Earth is facing a climate catastrophe caused by human action. Scientifically, there is no longer any doubt that pollutants from the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activities are accumulating in the atmosphere, trapping radiation, and raising temperatures. There remains some uncertainty a ...
Ethical Anxieties About Geoengineering
... Nevertheless, simply to restate this belief may not be enough; unless one continues to act on it the declaration can become merely a means of deflecting the censure of others. This draws attention to the position of governments and major fossil fuel corporations, for it would be hollow for them to a ...
... Nevertheless, simply to restate this belief may not be enough; unless one continues to act on it the declaration can become merely a means of deflecting the censure of others. This draws attention to the position of governments and major fossil fuel corporations, for it would be hollow for them to a ...
California Getting Wetter to the North, Drier to the South: Natural
... In recent decades warmer climate has led to changes in the California hydrological cycle that influences state water supplies. These include the decreasing spring snowpack [9], earlier snowmelt runoff [10] and trends towards more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow [11]. These changes her ...
... In recent decades warmer climate has led to changes in the California hydrological cycle that influences state water supplies. These include the decreasing spring snowpack [9], earlier snowmelt runoff [10] and trends towards more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow [11]. These changes her ...
Adapting to climate change
... The UK Climate Projections 2009 have been developed to do this. The range of information presented is more complex than the last set, UKCIP02, and as such the results cannot easily be compared, but they are broadly consistent. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negoti ...
... The UK Climate Projections 2009 have been developed to do this. The range of information presented is more complex than the last set, UKCIP02, and as such the results cannot easily be compared, but they are broadly consistent. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negoti ...
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... between scientists and a substantial amount of evidence on the issue, but not enough to distinguish between the competing theories: the opposite case is low agreement about the alternative theories and little evidence to distinguish between them. They characterize this as a situation where the analy ...
... between scientists and a substantial amount of evidence on the issue, but not enough to distinguish between the competing theories: the opposite case is low agreement about the alternative theories and little evidence to distinguish between them. They characterize this as a situation where the analy ...
Development and Climate Change: A Strategic Framework for the
... The development challenge is to accelerate or maintain robust economic growth in poorer countries despite the asymmetric impacts of climate change. In addition to a higher burden of adaptation, these countries may also need to moderate their emissions trajectories within the constraints of much lowe ...
... The development challenge is to accelerate or maintain robust economic growth in poorer countries despite the asymmetric impacts of climate change. In addition to a higher burden of adaptation, these countries may also need to moderate their emissions trajectories within the constraints of much lowe ...
climate change climate change - Toronto District School Board
... Focus Questions that explore climate change in terms of systems. These questions may serve as a checklist for the teacher to help students develop their understanding about climate change and inform their town planning in the culminating task. Curriculum Expectations that are addressed by the Big Id ...
... Focus Questions that explore climate change in terms of systems. These questions may serve as a checklist for the teacher to help students develop their understanding about climate change and inform their town planning in the culminating task. Curriculum Expectations that are addressed by the Big Id ...
Results Report - World Wide Views on Climate and Energy
... climate change and energy are clear: there is strong public support for political action in order to agree on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The WWViews results are based on well-established principles for c ...
... climate change and energy are clear: there is strong public support for political action in order to agree on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The WWViews results are based on well-established principles for c ...
CLIMATE CHANGE – SCOPING THE ISSUES
... Ecuador, the unexpected frosts and long drought periods affect all farming activities. The older generation say they no longer know when to sow because the rains do not come as expected. Migration offers one way out but represents a cultural nemesis and the human and social price to pay is high.10 I ...
... Ecuador, the unexpected frosts and long drought periods affect all farming activities. The older generation say they no longer know when to sow because the rains do not come as expected. Migration offers one way out but represents a cultural nemesis and the human and social price to pay is high.10 I ...
national climate change policy
... Furthermore, extensive consultations with provincial and federal ministries, institutions and civil society provided valuable inputs to the policy document. In view of Pakistan’s high vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, in particular extreme events, adaptation effort is the focus ...
... Furthermore, extensive consultations with provincial and federal ministries, institutions and civil society provided valuable inputs to the policy document. In view of Pakistan’s high vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, in particular extreme events, adaptation effort is the focus ...
CLIMATE POLICY IN LIGHT OF CLIMATE SCIENCE: THE ICLIPS
... long-term evolution of carbon emission reduction costs. Globally aggregated marginal cost functions nevertheless may hide large regional differences in the actual mitigation burden. In principle, the differences in the regional marginal costs could be reduced by implementing flexibility mechanisms ( ...
... long-term evolution of carbon emission reduction costs. Globally aggregated marginal cost functions nevertheless may hide large regional differences in the actual mitigation burden. In principle, the differences in the regional marginal costs could be reduced by implementing flexibility mechanisms ( ...
climate and construction - Development Alternatives
... deforestation and the resulting soil erosion. In addition, erratic rainfall and the naturally high temperatures predominant in the region have also made water scarcity a prime threat. The climatic extremes prevalent in the region are heat waves and below normal rainfall, which is likely to increase ...
... deforestation and the resulting soil erosion. In addition, erratic rainfall and the naturally high temperatures predominant in the region have also made water scarcity a prime threat. The climatic extremes prevalent in the region are heat waves and below normal rainfall, which is likely to increase ...
SoE 08 Part 3.1 PCW Energy - Commissioner for Environmental
... approximately 1.5% of total global emissions. However, Australia is one of the highest per capita emitters in the world. In 2006, Victoria was responsible for about one fifth of Australia’s emissions and about 85% of greenhouse gas emissions generated in Victoria were produced by energy generation a ...
... approximately 1.5% of total global emissions. However, Australia is one of the highest per capita emitters in the world. In 2006, Victoria was responsible for about one fifth of Australia’s emissions and about 85% of greenhouse gas emissions generated in Victoria were produced by energy generation a ...
- FUND - Climate Framework for Uncertainty, Negotiation
... to the results of Kane et al. (1992), Reilly et al. (1994), Morita et al. (1994), Fischer et al. (1996), and Tsigas et al. (1996). These studies all use a global computable general equilibrium model, and report results with and without adaptation, and with and without CO2 fertilisation. The regional ...
... to the results of Kane et al. (1992), Reilly et al. (1994), Morita et al. (1994), Fischer et al. (1996), and Tsigas et al. (1996). These studies all use a global computable general equilibrium model, and report results with and without adaptation, and with and without CO2 fertilisation. The regional ...
A Tale of Two Carbon Sinks - Scholarly Commons @ FAMU Law
... The meeting was regarded as an important step forward to help REDD+ gain momentum in the months leading up to COP 16 in Cancfn, Mexico in December 2010.29 One of the greatest successes of the Copenhagen Accord is the inclusion of references to REDD and REDD+ that appear throughout the 24. See Non-Le ...
... The meeting was regarded as an important step forward to help REDD+ gain momentum in the months leading up to COP 16 in Cancfn, Mexico in December 2010.29 One of the greatest successes of the Copenhagen Accord is the inclusion of references to REDD and REDD+ that appear throughout the 24. See Non-Le ...
Climate change in Canada
In Canada mitigation of anthropogenic climate change is being addressed more seriously by the provinces than by the federal government.