Chapter 6: Projections Based on Global Climate Models
... climate models for three emissions scenarios: B1 (low), A1B (medium) and A2 (high). Results are given for three future 20-year periods centred on 2030, 2055 and 2090, relative to a 20-year period centred on 1990. • The projected warming over the PCCSP region is about 70% as large as the global aver ...
... climate models for three emissions scenarios: B1 (low), A1B (medium) and A2 (high). Results are given for three future 20-year periods centred on 2030, 2055 and 2090, relative to a 20-year period centred on 1990. • The projected warming over the PCCSP region is about 70% as large as the global aver ...
Hope in God`s Future - The Methodist Church in Britain
... understandings of recent and future changes in the earth’s climate. In the second half of the twentieth century it was recognised that ‘global atmospheric concentrations of CO2, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N20) have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far excee ...
... understandings of recent and future changes in the earth’s climate. In the second half of the twentieth century it was recognised that ‘global atmospheric concentrations of CO2, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N20) have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far excee ...
improving climate change reporting AN ACCA AND FTSE GROUP DiSCUSSiON PAPER
... The message of this report does not make entirely comfortable reading. Even the leading sustainability and CSR reporters are not reporting evenly across all the key climate change issues – especially on those relating to product impacts and transformational initiatives. And it is clear that such rep ...
... The message of this report does not make entirely comfortable reading. Even the leading sustainability and CSR reporters are not reporting evenly across all the key climate change issues – especially on those relating to product impacts and transformational initiatives. And it is clear that such rep ...
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... countries have been forced to enact actual emissions limits in Europe, their National Allocation Plans have focused on levels at, or slightly above, current levels (Forrester 2004). The proposal by the National Commission on Energy Policy similarly suggests a gradual deflection from an otherwise bus ...
... countries have been forced to enact actual emissions limits in Europe, their National Allocation Plans have focused on levels at, or slightly above, current levels (Forrester 2004). The proposal by the National Commission on Energy Policy similarly suggests a gradual deflection from an otherwise bus ...
Climate Change: Current Issues and Policy Tools
... adaptation and technology actions beyond 2012, the end of the current commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Negotiations are aiming to produce a post-2012 decision by the end of 2009. U.S. domestic policy development could influence and ...
... adaptation and technology actions beyond 2012, the end of the current commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Negotiations are aiming to produce a post-2012 decision by the end of 2009. U.S. domestic policy development could influence and ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Countries
... 3) employing a combination of policy instruments (market-based instruments, guidelines, public-private partnerships) to ensure effective delivery of adaptation; 4) supporting wider international efforts on adaptation by helping for example non-EU countries to improve their resilience and capacity to ...
... 3) employing a combination of policy instruments (market-based instruments, guidelines, public-private partnerships) to ensure effective delivery of adaptation; 4) supporting wider international efforts on adaptation by helping for example non-EU countries to improve their resilience and capacity to ...
The Carbon Cycle
... Carbon sequestration and carbon sinks The concept of a carbon sinks has emerged as one of the ways of managing the global carbon balance and mitigating climate change. The concept of stores and sinks is somewhat variable and the terms are used interchangeably by some commentators. Sinks generally ac ...
... Carbon sequestration and carbon sinks The concept of a carbon sinks has emerged as one of the ways of managing the global carbon balance and mitigating climate change. The concept of stores and sinks is somewhat variable and the terms are used interchangeably by some commentators. Sinks generally ac ...
sectiong lobal carbon credit markets – issues and opportunities
... projects (agricultural methane; coal mine methane; landfill methane; agricultural soil carbon; rangeland soil carbon management; forestry; renewable energy; ozone depleting substance destruction). Other offset projects, including energy efficiency and fuel switching, can be approved on a case-by-cas ...
... projects (agricultural methane; coal mine methane; landfill methane; agricultural soil carbon; rangeland soil carbon management; forestry; renewable energy; ozone depleting substance destruction). Other offset projects, including energy efficiency and fuel switching, can be approved on a case-by-cas ...
The ecological citizen and climate change
... plays a crucial role in adaptation to climate change (Adger 2001; Smit and Pilifosova 2001; Adger and Paavola 2002; Thomas and Twyman 2005; Adger et al. 2006). Virtues important in effecting justice could include some that are more commonly associated with being a ‘good person’ rather than a ‘good c ...
... plays a crucial role in adaptation to climate change (Adger 2001; Smit and Pilifosova 2001; Adger and Paavola 2002; Thomas and Twyman 2005; Adger et al. 2006). Virtues important in effecting justice could include some that are more commonly associated with being a ‘good person’ rather than a ‘good c ...
Global warming induced hybrid rainy seasons in the Sahel
... extremes [8] determine the success or failure of local smallholder farming systems. However, the use of areal agro-meteorological monitoring metrics does not depict these potential risk factors. On the one hand, the adhoc drought monitoring metrics, based on rainfall and other variables, are proven ...
... extremes [8] determine the success or failure of local smallholder farming systems. However, the use of areal agro-meteorological monitoring metrics does not depict these potential risk factors. On the one hand, the adhoc drought monitoring metrics, based on rainfall and other variables, are proven ...
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... depth to 0.11 from 0.08 (LG-temp vs. LG). This strengthens the alkalinity pump, thereby leading to a rise of atmospheric CO2. [19] In order to compare the atmospheric CO2 sensitivity to temperature-dependent processes with the previous study [Matsumoto, 2007], we additionally ran an idealized simula ...
... depth to 0.11 from 0.08 (LG-temp vs. LG). This strengthens the alkalinity pump, thereby leading to a rise of atmospheric CO2. [19] In order to compare the atmospheric CO2 sensitivity to temperature-dependent processes with the previous study [Matsumoto, 2007], we additionally ran an idealized simula ...
2015 Issue - Northwest Climate Science Center
... providing a sort of playbook to help land managers develop adaptation strategies. Managers at North Cascades National Park have already employed the project’s results into their management practice for dealing with introduced fish species. The study is also being expanded into the Midwest, focusing ...
... providing a sort of playbook to help land managers develop adaptation strategies. Managers at North Cascades National Park have already employed the project’s results into their management practice for dealing with introduced fish species. The study is also being expanded into the Midwest, focusing ...
Climate Scientists Respond
... effects of fossil-fuel burning (rising CO2, rising O3, climate change) are uncertain but at least as likely to be negative as positive, and shifting increasingly towards the negative the higher that CO2 concentrations rise. Rising CO2 fertilization of productivity (and of carbon sequestration) of fo ...
... effects of fossil-fuel burning (rising CO2, rising O3, climate change) are uncertain but at least as likely to be negative as positive, and shifting increasingly towards the negative the higher that CO2 concentrations rise. Rising CO2 fertilization of productivity (and of carbon sequestration) of fo ...
REDD+ Mechanism_Overview
... These changes impact all regions of the world and almost all aspects of human life ...
... These changes impact all regions of the world and almost all aspects of human life ...
Teng and Jotzo Reaping the Economic Benefits of Decarbonization for China
... countries (Pan et al., 2013). Third, the mitigation burden is compounded by the future damages and costs of adapting to climate change, which in many cases may disproportionately affect developing countries with low incomes and limited institutional capacity. The world’s nations are now working tow ...
... countries (Pan et al., 2013). Third, the mitigation burden is compounded by the future damages and costs of adapting to climate change, which in many cases may disproportionately affect developing countries with low incomes and limited institutional capacity. The world’s nations are now working tow ...
Low-carbon resilient development in the least developed countries
... important insights into how the low-carbon resilient 2010). The underlying assumption is that addressing development agenda is being operationalised and these two or three policy areas simultaneously will provide an opportunity for lesson-learning for other leverage triple wins across the agendas an ...
... important insights into how the low-carbon resilient 2010). The underlying assumption is that addressing development agenda is being operationalised and these two or three policy areas simultaneously will provide an opportunity for lesson-learning for other leverage triple wins across the agendas an ...
National Park Service
... Figure 9: Primary matrix of climate drivers produced by the Marine group. Each quadrant represents a different combination of potential future temperature and extreme precipitation and storm events. Details of each quadrant are described in the text. ................................................ ...
... Figure 9: Primary matrix of climate drivers produced by the Marine group. Each quadrant represents a different combination of potential future temperature and extreme precipitation and storm events. Details of each quadrant are described in the text. ................................................ ...
Policy Brief Series - IOM Online Bookstore
... people, many of them are working as registered fishers, farmers and manual workers with relatively low income. Furthermore, their low income and dependence on nature for a living may easily be jeopardized by climate change. All in all, these people are highly exposed to tropical cyclones, storm surg ...
... people, many of them are working as registered fishers, farmers and manual workers with relatively low income. Furthermore, their low income and dependence on nature for a living may easily be jeopardized by climate change. All in all, these people are highly exposed to tropical cyclones, storm surg ...
Carbon Commons - University of Chicago Law School
... causes global warming and other forms of climate disruption, while that portion which enters the ocean causes ocean acidification. Allocation of the global carbon commons requires us to know the relation between climaterelevant emissions and climate change. Other significant greenhouse gases, notabl ...
... causes global warming and other forms of climate disruption, while that portion which enters the ocean causes ocean acidification. Allocation of the global carbon commons requires us to know the relation between climaterelevant emissions and climate change. Other significant greenhouse gases, notabl ...
SUMA K4035 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Measuring and
... Global greenhouse gas emissions are now at a record high, and the world’s scientific community agrees that continued unabated release of greenhouse gases will have catastrophic consequences. Many efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, both public and private, have been underway for decades, yet i ...
... Global greenhouse gas emissions are now at a record high, and the world’s scientific community agrees that continued unabated release of greenhouse gases will have catastrophic consequences. Many efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, both public and private, have been underway for decades, yet i ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ECONOMICS OF CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE
... re-packaged and analyzed as an aggregative macroeconomic model with essentially the same reduced form (structural uncertainty about some unknown open-ended scale-multiplying parameter amplifying an uncertain economic input). This form of interaction (coupled with …nite data, under conditions of rela ...
... re-packaged and analyzed as an aggregative macroeconomic model with essentially the same reduced form (structural uncertainty about some unknown open-ended scale-multiplying parameter amplifying an uncertain economic input). This form of interaction (coupled with …nite data, under conditions of rela ...
- Covenant University
... applicable? They are applicable but their application is often accompanied by complications, whose resolution ends up in political action or what is called ‘politics”, that is, a kind of power sharing, power play or arrogation of powers. What about in the case of a nation as it occupies certain role ...
... applicable? They are applicable but their application is often accompanied by complications, whose resolution ends up in political action or what is called ‘politics”, that is, a kind of power sharing, power play or arrogation of powers. What about in the case of a nation as it occupies certain role ...
Climate adaptation: what it means for Australian consumers
... To understand how important climate change is for consumers, we asked respondents to rank what they felt were the most important social issues. Results revealed that the most important social issues currently facing consumers are mainly household related, i.e. the cost of living and health. Issues s ...
... To understand how important climate change is for consumers, we asked respondents to rank what they felt were the most important social issues. Results revealed that the most important social issues currently facing consumers are mainly household related, i.e. the cost of living and health. Issues s ...
Superannuation Trustees and Climate Change Report
... Australia has one of the largest compulsory superannuation sectors in the world, giving the country’s superannuation funds a unique ability to influence the financial market through their investment pool.3 This position of influence has prompted suggestions of mandatory sustainable reporting and inv ...
... Australia has one of the largest compulsory superannuation sectors in the world, giving the country’s superannuation funds a unique ability to influence the financial market through their investment pool.3 This position of influence has prompted suggestions of mandatory sustainable reporting and inv ...
Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach
... Business opportunities may also arise from superior management of the risks associated with climate change. Companies that identify and analyze emerging risks earlier than their peers will be better positioned to avoid or mitigate potential damages. They will, for example, be less likely to make inv ...
... Business opportunities may also arise from superior management of the risks associated with climate change. Companies that identify and analyze emerging risks earlier than their peers will be better positioned to avoid or mitigate potential damages. They will, for example, be less likely to make inv ...
Solar radiation management
Solar radiation management (SRM) projects (proposed and theoretical) are a type of climate engineering which seek to reflect sunlight and thus reduce global warming. Proposed examples include the creation of stratospheric sulfate aerosols. They would not reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and thus do not address problems such as ocean acidification caused by excess carbon dioxide (CO2). Their principal advantages as an approach to climate engineering is the speed with which they can be deployed and become fully active, as well as their potential low financial cost. By comparison, other climate engineering techniques based on greenhouse gas remediation, such as ocean iron fertilization, need to sequester the anthropogenic carbon excess before any reversal of global warming would occur. Solar radiation management projects can therefore be used as a climate engineering ""quick fix"" while levels of greenhouse gases can be brought under control by greenhouse gas remediation techniques.