Cutting the Knot
... this hardly means that a warming of 2ºC would be safe; far from it. For some people and ecosystems, it would clearly be catastrophic. It would be globally dangerous, and it might even, if we are unlucky, be globally catastrophic.4 However, following the political consensus we will for the sake of th ...
... this hardly means that a warming of 2ºC would be safe; far from it. For some people and ecosystems, it would clearly be catastrophic. It would be globally dangerous, and it might even, if we are unlucky, be globally catastrophic.4 However, following the political consensus we will for the sake of th ...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY CHAPTER I
... Virginia laws complicate the question of district energy and whether and how energy can be sold back into the grid. This point can adversely affect the economics of such projects so that they would not be profitable in Virginia when they would be viable in the District of Columbia or Maryland. Fairf ...
... Virginia laws complicate the question of district energy and whether and how energy can be sold back into the grid. This point can adversely affect the economics of such projects so that they would not be profitable in Virginia when they would be viable in the District of Columbia or Maryland. Fairf ...
AT: Transportation Infrastructure
... which in turn depends on transportation distance between source and storage site and if coordinated networks are possible to establish. Prom Kgurel it can be seen that from a cost perspective a short distance is obviously the best option for both large and relatively small power plants (-1 Mt/y of C ...
... which in turn depends on transportation distance between source and storage site and if coordinated networks are possible to establish. Prom Kgurel it can be seen that from a cost perspective a short distance is obviously the best option for both large and relatively small power plants (-1 Mt/y of C ...
Cutting the Knot
... this hardly means that a warming of 2ºC would be safe; far from it. For some people and ecosystems, it would clearly be catastrophic. It would be globally dangerous, and it might even, if we are unlucky, be globally catastrophic.4 However, following the political consensus we will for the sake of th ...
... this hardly means that a warming of 2ºC would be safe; far from it. For some people and ecosystems, it would clearly be catastrophic. It would be globally dangerous, and it might even, if we are unlucky, be globally catastrophic.4 However, following the political consensus we will for the sake of th ...
Debate Capitalism and Climate Change: Can the Invisible Hand
... Global air and ocean temperatures are rising, oceans are acidifying and ice caps are melting, the sea level is rising and natural disasters are occurring more frequently and more intensely (IPCC, 2007b; Mann et al., 2009). Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, concludes the C Institute of So ...
... Global air and ocean temperatures are rising, oceans are acidifying and ice caps are melting, the sea level is rising and natural disasters are occurring more frequently and more intensely (IPCC, 2007b; Mann et al., 2009). Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, concludes the C Institute of So ...
Debate Capitalism and Climate Change: Can the Invisible Hand
... Global air and ocean temperatures are rising, oceans are acidifying and ice caps are melting, the sea level is rising and natural disasters are occurring more frequently and more intensely (IPCC, 2007b; Mann et al., 2009). Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, concludes the C Institute of So ...
... Global air and ocean temperatures are rising, oceans are acidifying and ice caps are melting, the sea level is rising and natural disasters are occurring more frequently and more intensely (IPCC, 2007b; Mann et al., 2009). Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, concludes the C Institute of So ...
By Slowing Population Growth, Family Planning Can Help Address
... contribute to improved health; foster social justice; decrease the need to expand health facilities, schools and jobs; allow couples to invest more in the welfare of each child; and provide the economic benefits of a “demographic bonus” due to a favorable age distribution with fewer dependents who a ...
... contribute to improved health; foster social justice; decrease the need to expand health facilities, schools and jobs; allow couples to invest more in the welfare of each child; and provide the economic benefits of a “demographic bonus” due to a favorable age distribution with fewer dependents who a ...
Global Climate Change - Vanderbilt University
... Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. TONY BLAIR, speech, Sept. 27, 2005 Perhaps the greatest challenge to sustainability is Global Climate Change (GCC). Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), a known greenhous ...
... Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. TONY BLAIR, speech, Sept. 27, 2005 Perhaps the greatest challenge to sustainability is Global Climate Change (GCC). Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), a known greenhous ...
Climate change - Public Documents Profile Viewer
... inertia embodied in physical capital, as well as in current research and development streams, dramatically affects the cost of reducing emissions. Retiring, retrofitting, and replacing power plants and other machinery using high-carbon energy sources the world over will require significant investmen ...
... inertia embodied in physical capital, as well as in current research and development streams, dramatically affects the cost of reducing emissions. Retiring, retrofitting, and replacing power plants and other machinery using high-carbon energy sources the world over will require significant investmen ...
Calculating the social cost of carbon
... discounted value of the additional social costs (or the marginal social damage) that an extra tonne of carbon released now would impose on the current and future society. This immediately raises four questions: what is society and social value, how should we measure the social cost when it occurs, w ...
... discounted value of the additional social costs (or the marginal social damage) that an extra tonne of carbon released now would impose on the current and future society. This immediately raises four questions: what is society and social value, how should we measure the social cost when it occurs, w ...
Climate Change
... It has been said that within every problem lie the seeds of opportunity. Global warming is no exception to that rule. Global warming threatens us with huge economic dislocations, more powerful storms, diseases, catastrophic droughts, dwindling food supplies, unprecedented floods, and vanishing coast ...
... It has been said that within every problem lie the seeds of opportunity. Global warming is no exception to that rule. Global warming threatens us with huge economic dislocations, more powerful storms, diseases, catastrophic droughts, dwindling food supplies, unprecedented floods, and vanishing coast ...
Air Pollution, Climate Disruption, and Ozone Depletion
... • Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is a colorless gas with an irritating odor. • About one third of the SO2 in the atmosphere comes from natural sources as part of the sulfur cycle. • Human sources include combustion of sulfur-containing coal in electric power and industrial plants and oil refining and smelting ...
... • Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is a colorless gas with an irritating odor. • About one third of the SO2 in the atmosphere comes from natural sources as part of the sulfur cycle. • Human sources include combustion of sulfur-containing coal in electric power and industrial plants and oil refining and smelting ...
ch18_Active PRS_3e
... compensation from developed nations whose emissions have caused climate change and negatively affected Arctic-living people? a) Yes, because their way of life is being destroyed b) Yes, but compensation should be in the form of helping them move to another area c) No; they need to change their lifes ...
... compensation from developed nations whose emissions have caused climate change and negatively affected Arctic-living people? a) Yes, because their way of life is being destroyed b) Yes, but compensation should be in the form of helping them move to another area c) No; they need to change their lifes ...
Increasing Participation and Compliance in International Climate Change Agreements* SCOTT BARRETT
... put aside participation and compliance issues, because the existence of an effective government vested with effective coercive powers is assumed. In the international domain, however, full national sovereignty for individual nations means that free rider problems make it unlikely that adequate parti ...
... put aside participation and compliance issues, because the existence of an effective government vested with effective coercive powers is assumed. In the international domain, however, full national sovereignty for individual nations means that free rider problems make it unlikely that adequate parti ...
- The Kresge Foundation
... people is the highest. 2. Managing the unavoidable Let me turn to the second imperative. Managing the unavoidable. This speaks to adaptation: How we will adapt to the significant change that is now inevitable regardless of the degree to which society pulls its act together and gets serious about red ...
... people is the highest. 2. Managing the unavoidable Let me turn to the second imperative. Managing the unavoidable. This speaks to adaptation: How we will adapt to the significant change that is now inevitable regardless of the degree to which society pulls its act together and gets serious about red ...
unburnable carbon: why we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground
... What does this mean for large-scale new fossil fuel developments? Developments like the Galilee Basin in Australia, the tar sands in Canada and new resources in the Arctic cannot be developed if we are to prevent a 2°C rise in temperature. What does this mean for governments? Energy policies that co ...
... What does this mean for large-scale new fossil fuel developments? Developments like the Galilee Basin in Australia, the tar sands in Canada and new resources in the Arctic cannot be developed if we are to prevent a 2°C rise in temperature. What does this mean for governments? Energy policies that co ...
Case Study Presentation - Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and
... Focus on Planning and Infrastructure Adaptation Case Studies • Legal, Planning Act requirements to consider climate change (CC) • Need for resilient communities, infrastructure, landscapes • Risks to communities, infrastructure, ecosystem services under CC • Adaptation options to build more resilien ...
... Focus on Planning and Infrastructure Adaptation Case Studies • Legal, Planning Act requirements to consider climate change (CC) • Need for resilient communities, infrastructure, landscapes • Risks to communities, infrastructure, ecosystem services under CC • Adaptation options to build more resilien ...
High Flows and Freshet Timing in Canada: Observed Trends CCRR
... The frequency and timing of flood events strongly contributes to the fundamental nature of rivers and is a key determinant of freshwater biodiversity, life history characteristics, ecological traits of stream organisms, and physical processes in streams (Poff et al. 1997, Bunn and Arthington 2002). ...
... The frequency and timing of flood events strongly contributes to the fundamental nature of rivers and is a key determinant of freshwater biodiversity, life history characteristics, ecological traits of stream organisms, and physical processes in streams (Poff et al. 1997, Bunn and Arthington 2002). ...
Climate change and human health
... their existing vulnerabilities (i.e. disease burden, resources etc.) as well as their adaptive capacity5. The World Health Organization has projected that countries that have, and will likely continue to suffer the greatest effects, are those who have contributed the smallest amount to the causes of ...
... their existing vulnerabilities (i.e. disease burden, resources etc.) as well as their adaptive capacity5. The World Health Organization has projected that countries that have, and will likely continue to suffer the greatest effects, are those who have contributed the smallest amount to the causes of ...
A DYNAMIC SIMULATION MODEL OF CARBON CIRCULATION
... Although climate change in IPCC usage refers to “any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity”, activities of mankind have surely precipitated it with disastrous results. Today, increased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially of carb ...
... Although climate change in IPCC usage refers to “any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity”, activities of mankind have surely precipitated it with disastrous results. Today, increased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially of carb ...
Climate ethics and population policy
... necessary in order to do so. Leading climate scientists tell us we need to drive down total annual worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 60 to 80% over the next 40 to 50 years, in order to keep average global warming below 2◦ C.22,23 We have little reason to believe we can limit greenhouse gas emiss ...
... necessary in order to do so. Leading climate scientists tell us we need to drive down total annual worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 60 to 80% over the next 40 to 50 years, in order to keep average global warming below 2◦ C.22,23 We have little reason to believe we can limit greenhouse gas emiss ...
Carbon, climate change, and controversy
... •• Globally, livestock is the largest methane source emitter (third in the United States). Atmospheric methane is increasing, can linger in the atmosphere for ~9 to 15 years, and is more than 20 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. •• Carbon losses associated with grazing syste ...
... •• Globally, livestock is the largest methane source emitter (third in the United States). Atmospheric methane is increasing, can linger in the atmosphere for ~9 to 15 years, and is more than 20 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. •• Carbon losses associated with grazing syste ...
Global fossil energy markets and climate change mitigation – an
... costs and distributional effects largely depend on baseline assumptions of energy demand (GDP, population, technological change) and fossil fuel supply that are highly uncertain (Weyant 2001). Climate change mitigation costs are constituted to a large part by the opportunity costs of not using fossi ...
... costs and distributional effects largely depend on baseline assumptions of energy demand (GDP, population, technological change) and fossil fuel supply that are highly uncertain (Weyant 2001). Climate change mitigation costs are constituted to a large part by the opportunity costs of not using fossi ...
cool policy: climate change mitigation supporting growth
... due to the taxation of energy, especially transport fuel; those taxes mostly pre-date concern about climate change. Expressed in terms of CO2 content, the taxes vary widely across and between countries. In Germany, for example, which has a strong programme to switch to green energy, the highest tax ...
... due to the taxation of energy, especially transport fuel; those taxes mostly pre-date concern about climate change. Expressed in terms of CO2 content, the taxes vary widely across and between countries. In Germany, for example, which has a strong programme to switch to green energy, the highest tax ...
Climate change in Canada
In Canada mitigation of anthropogenic climate change is being addressed more seriously by the provinces than by the federal government.