cop21: agriculture and forestry at the heart of the solution for the
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. This Framework Convention is a universal convention of principle, acknowledging the existence of anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and giving industrialized count ...
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was adopted during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. This Framework Convention is a universal convention of principle, acknowledging the existence of anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and giving industrialized count ...
NEPAL Strengthening capacities of to mainstream climate change concerns into
... Irregularities in stream flow affects reliable supply of electricity where 90% of population rely on hydro-power as main source of electricity. Siltation and floods reduces power generation efficiency. ...
... Irregularities in stream flow affects reliable supply of electricity where 90% of population rely on hydro-power as main source of electricity. Siltation and floods reduces power generation efficiency. ...
SWAN_workshop_fullppt_081111
... [See Climate Drivers xls tables for SWAN for more complete list, confidence values, sources, etc] ...
... [See Climate Drivers xls tables for SWAN for more complete list, confidence values, sources, etc] ...
Lesson 6 - Scientist in Residence Program
... Process to enter: Burial and fossilization: This is another possible route for organic matter. Plankton can be trapped in ocean sediments, and over geological time they turn into crude oil. Plants can be trapped in soils, and over geological times convert into coal. Coal and oil are fossilized organ ...
... Process to enter: Burial and fossilization: This is another possible route for organic matter. Plankton can be trapped in ocean sediments, and over geological time they turn into crude oil. Plants can be trapped in soils, and over geological times convert into coal. Coal and oil are fossilized organ ...
Noaa modeling - Chesapeake Bay Program
... ecosystem effects of large-scale changes to the forage base, especially for conditions and stressors for which data are lacking (e.g., climate ...
... ecosystem effects of large-scale changes to the forage base, especially for conditions and stressors for which data are lacking (e.g., climate ...
Hydrology - Tufts University School of Engineering
... with cloud particles (water droplets, aerosols, and ice crystals), water vapor and carbon dioxide contribute to about 95% of the greenhouse effect. The other 5% is contributed mainly by ozone, methane, nitrous oxide, and, since their inception in the 20th century, by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Tabl ...
... with cloud particles (water droplets, aerosols, and ice crystals), water vapor and carbon dioxide contribute to about 95% of the greenhouse effect. The other 5% is contributed mainly by ozone, methane, nitrous oxide, and, since their inception in the 20th century, by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Tabl ...
Global Change in Local Places: How Scale Matters
... and urgent needs for action that might otherwise be missed. An illustrative example is an investigation of causes of land-use decision making in 192 villages in Thailand, which found a larger variation in behavior than economic theory could explain (Townsend, 1995). Indeed, the variance in smaller-s ...
... and urgent needs for action that might otherwise be missed. An illustrative example is an investigation of causes of land-use decision making in 192 villages in Thailand, which found a larger variation in behavior than economic theory could explain (Townsend, 1995). Indeed, the variance in smaller-s ...
99PWW084 - City of Edmonton
... Options Paper of the Municipalities Table and provincial round table findings. Options to reduce community-wide GHG emissions are expected by year-end 1999. To ensure Edmonton’s approach is consistent with other jurisdictions, the City’s Office of the Environment is represented on Alberta’s Clean ...
... Options Paper of the Municipalities Table and provincial round table findings. Options to reduce community-wide GHG emissions are expected by year-end 1999. To ensure Edmonton’s approach is consistent with other jurisdictions, the City’s Office of the Environment is represented on Alberta’s Clean ...
Implications of the Paris Agreement for Carbon Dioxide Removal
... has set new benchmarks against which future action will be measured. The Agreement’s most important institutional achievement is likely the creation of a five-year review cycle for mitigation targets as articulated in NDCs.2 In the event that these reviews fail to spur countries to adequately streng ...
... has set new benchmarks against which future action will be measured. The Agreement’s most important institutional achievement is likely the creation of a five-year review cycle for mitigation targets as articulated in NDCs.2 In the event that these reviews fail to spur countries to adequately streng ...
Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of
... Local and regional processes are the most important determinants of the climate experienced by local and regional ecosystems, including human populations. Global-scale influences are much harder to detect and their influence on regionalscale changes is uncertain. In fact, global climate models which ...
... Local and regional processes are the most important determinants of the climate experienced by local and regional ecosystems, including human populations. Global-scale influences are much harder to detect and their influence on regionalscale changes is uncertain. In fact, global climate models which ...
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... Maintaining and improving future food and energy security poses key challenges globally, especially in the face of climate change and climate mitigation. a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model -- the Applied Dynamic Analysis of the Global Economy model focusing on agriculture and land use (ADA ...
... Maintaining and improving future food and energy security poses key challenges globally, especially in the face of climate change and climate mitigation. a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model -- the Applied Dynamic Analysis of the Global Economy model focusing on agriculture and land use (ADA ...
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... CO2, 12 years for methane and 114 years for N2O). These changes in the atmospheric chemistry are causing the so called “greenhouse” effect. If current greenhouse gas emission rates continue into the future, agriculture and crop production will face enormous pressure from the stresses caused by these ...
... CO2, 12 years for methane and 114 years for N2O). These changes in the atmospheric chemistry are causing the so called “greenhouse” effect. If current greenhouse gas emission rates continue into the future, agriculture and crop production will face enormous pressure from the stresses caused by these ...
A noodle, hockey stick, and spaghetti plate: a perspective on high-resolution paleoclimatology
... of new proxy records and techniques, numerous largescale temperature reconstructions in the following two decades were produced.11–36 It was not until the late 1990s that such reconstructions extended far enough back to place recent temperature change in the context of the perhaps temporally nearest ...
... of new proxy records and techniques, numerous largescale temperature reconstructions in the following two decades were produced.11–36 It was not until the late 1990s that such reconstructions extended far enough back to place recent temperature change in the context of the perhaps temporally nearest ...
Baltadapt impact survey
... society and environment in the Baltic Sea region. A number of different aspects of climate change are listed. Each of them is associated with an estimate of the uncertainty and also the time until significant climate change can be detected. The estimate of the uncertainty pertains to if there will b ...
... society and environment in the Baltic Sea region. A number of different aspects of climate change are listed. Each of them is associated with an estimate of the uncertainty and also the time until significant climate change can be detected. The estimate of the uncertainty pertains to if there will b ...
Carbon Credit 30 Dec 2013
... and its causes, and is beginning to help develop a strong understanding of current and potential impacts that will affect people today and in coming decades. This understanding is crucial because it allows decision makers to place climate change in the context of other large challenges facing the na ...
... and its causes, and is beginning to help develop a strong understanding of current and potential impacts that will affect people today and in coming decades. This understanding is crucial because it allows decision makers to place climate change in the context of other large challenges facing the na ...
The Role Of Halocarbons In The Climate Change Of The
... otherwise have occurred as a result of the direct effect of halocarbons. However, as ozone will likely recover in the next few decades, a slightly faster rate of warming should be expected from the net effect of halocarbons, and we find that together halocarbons could bring forward next century’s ex ...
... otherwise have occurred as a result of the direct effect of halocarbons. However, as ozone will likely recover in the next few decades, a slightly faster rate of warming should be expected from the net effect of halocarbons, and we find that together halocarbons could bring forward next century’s ex ...
China’s growth, China’s cities, and the new global low-carbon industrial revolution: November 2010 (347 kB) (opens in new window)
... ‘Business as usual’ (BAU) for the next few decades will bring grave risks. Greenhouse gas concentrations (or stocks) have increased to around 435 parts per million (ppm) of carbon-dioxide-equivalent (CO2e). If we continued with BAU for a century we would add at least 300 ppm, taking concentrations t ...
... ‘Business as usual’ (BAU) for the next few decades will bring grave risks. Greenhouse gas concentrations (or stocks) have increased to around 435 parts per million (ppm) of carbon-dioxide-equivalent (CO2e). If we continued with BAU for a century we would add at least 300 ppm, taking concentrations t ...
VazquezSpr15
... Climate change could be the single most important issue of our time. China and the United States share the highest importance related to potential climate change mitigation policies because they are the world’s two largest greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters and the two largest economies. ...
... Climate change could be the single most important issue of our time. China and the United States share the highest importance related to potential climate change mitigation policies because they are the world’s two largest greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters and the two largest economies. ...
Working Paper 217 - Bettis et al 2016 (opens in new window)
... Climate thresholds and tipping elements In climate research, concern about the prospect of catastrophe and collapse has been a primary motivation for analysing possible physical thresholds in the climate system. These are sometimes described as tipping points that correspond with ‘tipping elements’ ...
... Climate thresholds and tipping elements In climate research, concern about the prospect of catastrophe and collapse has been a primary motivation for analysing possible physical thresholds in the climate system. These are sometimes described as tipping points that correspond with ‘tipping elements’ ...
Bhutan local coping strategy. Country Presentation on Bhutan
... Bhutan is a small country located in the Eastern Himalayas with an area of 38,394 km2 and estimated population of 800,000 (in 2002). As a mountainous country, the elevation ranges from 150 meters in the southern foothills to 7500 meters of the northern peaks, all within a range of just 150 kms. The ...
... Bhutan is a small country located in the Eastern Himalayas with an area of 38,394 km2 and estimated population of 800,000 (in 2002). As a mountainous country, the elevation ranges from 150 meters in the southern foothills to 7500 meters of the northern peaks, all within a range of just 150 kms. The ...
The Costs of Neglect of Climate Change Consequences: The Example of the Forestry Sector
... in 1994 that ‘tree planting will allow US energy policy to go on with business as usual out to 2015’ (in Lohmann, 1999:2). There was also worry that emphasizing plantation forestry would restrict local livelihoods and development options within poorer countries. One angry African negotiator told a m ...
... in 1994 that ‘tree planting will allow US energy policy to go on with business as usual out to 2015’ (in Lohmann, 1999:2). There was also worry that emphasizing plantation forestry would restrict local livelihoods and development options within poorer countries. One angry African negotiator told a m ...
Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the
... demographic, and ecosystem processes (Bonan 2002). Together, these processes determine where plant species grow, how well they grow, and how their arrangement within the communities’ changes over time (Bonan 2002). In this context, any changes in the state of weather and climate will affect terrestr ...
... demographic, and ecosystem processes (Bonan 2002). Together, these processes determine where plant species grow, how well they grow, and how their arrangement within the communities’ changes over time (Bonan 2002). In this context, any changes in the state of weather and climate will affect terrestr ...
Annual Average Temperature Rise: Global Average
... System Dynamics (published October 4, 2016), pg. 10; http://goo.gl/gxmPCy For additional details, see GISTEMP Team, 2016: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dataset accessed 2016-10-05 at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/; for method of calculatio ...
... System Dynamics (published October 4, 2016), pg. 10; http://goo.gl/gxmPCy For additional details, see GISTEMP Team, 2016: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dataset accessed 2016-10-05 at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/; for method of calculatio ...
Creation Unit 090115
... Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Five years later the ‘Kyoto Protocol’ was signed, with legally binding emissions reduction targets for 37 more economically developed countries from 2008 until 2012. Some countries, like the US, refused to sign. The international community has been de ...
... Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Five years later the ‘Kyoto Protocol’ was signed, with legally binding emissions reduction targets for 37 more economically developed countries from 2008 until 2012. Some countries, like the US, refused to sign. The international community has been de ...
Local Government Leaders Climate Change Declaration
... are based on established legal1 and moral obligations placed on Government when considering the current and future social, economic and environmental well-being of the communities they represent. ...
... are based on established legal1 and moral obligations placed on Government when considering the current and future social, economic and environmental well-being of the communities they represent. ...
Climate change feedback
Climate change feedback is important in the understanding of global warming because feedback processes may amplify or diminish the effect of each climate forcing, and so play an important part in determining the climate sensitivity and future climate state. Feedback in general is the process in which changing one quantity changes a second quantity, and the change in the second quantity in turn changes the first. Positive feedback amplifies the change in the first quantity while negative feedback reduces it.The term ""forcing"" means a change which may ""push"" the climate system in the direction of warming or cooling. An example of a climate forcing is increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. By definition, forcings are external to the climate system while feedbacks are internal; in essence, feedbacks represent the internal processes of the system. Some feedbacks may act in relative isolation to the rest of the climate system; others may be tightly coupled; hence it may be difficult to tell just how much a particular process contributes. Forcings, feedbacks and the dynamics of the climate system determine how much and how fast the climate changes. The main positive feedback in global warming is the tendency of warming to increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, which in turn leads to further warming. The main negative feedback comes from the Stefan–Boltzmann law, the amount of heat radiated from the Earth into space changes with the fourth power of the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere.Some observed and potential effects of global warming are positive feedbacks, which contribute directly to further global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report states that ""Anthropogenic warming could lead to some effects that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change.""