Low-carbon Economic Legislation of Developed Countries and the
... The United Nations has taken some measures to develop low-carbon economy. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol are two legally binding international conventions in order to respond to global climate change and reduce carbon emissions at present. In recent ...
... The United Nations has taken some measures to develop low-carbon economy. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol are two legally binding international conventions in order to respond to global climate change and reduce carbon emissions at present. In recent ...
Solar forcing of Holocene climate: New insights from a speleothem
... The climate of the Holocene, while relatively stable in comparison to variability during the last glacial period, has varied enough to dramatically affect ecosystems and human development in many parts of the world. For example, the Holocene was a time of profound changes in the cultural landscape o ...
... The climate of the Holocene, while relatively stable in comparison to variability during the last glacial period, has varied enough to dramatically affect ecosystems and human development in many parts of the world. For example, the Holocene was a time of profound changes in the cultural landscape o ...
Sea-level rise and climate change
... It is virtually certain that sea levels will continue to rise after 2100, with sea-level rise due to thermal expansion to continue for many centuries due to the slow response of the oceans to the accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. ...
... It is virtually certain that sea levels will continue to rise after 2100, with sea-level rise due to thermal expansion to continue for many centuries due to the slow response of the oceans to the accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. ...
Training Your People How to Think About Climate Change
... depend upon the deeper questions of how we know the truth of climate change and the characteristics of our physical environment. Failure to drill down to these deeper levels makes climate change dialog trivial. Let’s start at the bottom of slide 1 and work upward. A biblical view of our physical en ...
... depend upon the deeper questions of how we know the truth of climate change and the characteristics of our physical environment. Failure to drill down to these deeper levels makes climate change dialog trivial. Let’s start at the bottom of slide 1 and work upward. A biblical view of our physical en ...
Public Investment in Low-Carbon Technologies and Infrastructure
... requires assessing the comparative costs and benefits of various policy options and investment choices against each other. It also involves comparing different kinds of costs and benefits. For example, decisions about investment in new public transportation infrastructure must take into account not ...
... requires assessing the comparative costs and benefits of various policy options and investment choices against each other. It also involves comparing different kinds of costs and benefits. For example, decisions about investment in new public transportation infrastructure must take into account not ...
Climate Change: Kyoto Protocol and International Actions
... Emissions Trading. Emissions trading is one of three “flexibility” mechanisms contained in the Kyoto Protocol (article 17).3 Under the Kyoto Protocol, developed countries are given greenhouse gas emissions “budgets” (or emissions “caps”) for the compliance period 2008-2012 based on a percentage of t ...
... Emissions Trading. Emissions trading is one of three “flexibility” mechanisms contained in the Kyoto Protocol (article 17).3 Under the Kyoto Protocol, developed countries are given greenhouse gas emissions “budgets” (or emissions “caps”) for the compliance period 2008-2012 based on a percentage of t ...
Argentina - Met Office
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
Increase of carbon cycle feedback with climate sensitivity
... models. Two such models have produced published results representing the dynamical response of the Earth’s climate and carbon system to CO 2 emissions (Cox et al., 2000; Friedlingstein et al., 2001). The study by Cox et al. (2000) showed a very large positive feedback and the other study showed a mu ...
... models. Two such models have produced published results representing the dynamical response of the Earth’s climate and carbon system to CO 2 emissions (Cox et al., 2000; Friedlingstein et al., 2001). The study by Cox et al. (2000) showed a very large positive feedback and the other study showed a mu ...
Terms of Reference Pilot Program for Climate Resilience and Forest
... 3. Identify stakeholders and confirm availability: GoR Focal Points will identify a core group of stakeholders including climate change lead agencies and relevant Ministries, vulnerable sectors, MDBs and development partners, as well as representatives of business and civil society. Introductory tel ...
... 3. Identify stakeholders and confirm availability: GoR Focal Points will identify a core group of stakeholders including climate change lead agencies and relevant Ministries, vulnerable sectors, MDBs and development partners, as well as representatives of business and civil society. Introductory tel ...
Modeling the Monsoons in a Changing Climate
... 20th Century (20c3m) are examined. The 20c3m simulations attempt to replicate the overall climate variations during the period ~1850-present by imposing each modeling groups best estimates of natural (e.g., solar irradiance, volcanic aerosols) and anthropogenic (e.g., greenhouse gases, sulfate aeros ...
... 20th Century (20c3m) are examined. The 20c3m simulations attempt to replicate the overall climate variations during the period ~1850-present by imposing each modeling groups best estimates of natural (e.g., solar irradiance, volcanic aerosols) and anthropogenic (e.g., greenhouse gases, sulfate aeros ...
Media coverage of climate change: current trends, strengths
... Studies have found that the public learns a large amount about science through consuming mass media news (Wilson 1995). In what are conventionally regarded as ‘developed nations’, many polls have found that television and daily newspapers are the primary sources of information (Project for Excellenc ...
... Studies have found that the public learns a large amount about science through consuming mass media news (Wilson 1995). In what are conventionally regarded as ‘developed nations’, many polls have found that television and daily newspapers are the primary sources of information (Project for Excellenc ...
Climate change response strategies for agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century
... between the years 1981–1999 have been shown to increase the mortality rates of national livestock herds by between 20 percent and 60 percent. Vulnerability of organic carbon pools to climate change has important repercussions for land sustainability and climate mitigation. In addition to plant speci ...
... between the years 1981–1999 have been shown to increase the mortality rates of national livestock herds by between 20 percent and 60 percent. Vulnerability of organic carbon pools to climate change has important repercussions for land sustainability and climate mitigation. In addition to plant speci ...
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... agricultural sector to feed the world’s increasing population. This issue is particularly felt in Niger, where the agriculture sector is characterised by land scarcity and unstable rainfall. A recent mapping of vulnerability and poverty in Africa listed Niger as one of the countries that are both mo ...
... agricultural sector to feed the world’s increasing population. This issue is particularly felt in Niger, where the agriculture sector is characterised by land scarcity and unstable rainfall. A recent mapping of vulnerability and poverty in Africa listed Niger as one of the countries that are both mo ...
Carbon cycle
... http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/uses/transportation.html U.S. Department of Energy, Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 26-2007. ...
... http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/uses/transportation.html U.S. Department of Energy, Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 26-2007. ...
Carbon Majors Factsheet
... have responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions to date, and therefore a share in a collective responsibility for the damage resulting from climate change now and in the future. Some of them still plan to exploit untapped oil, gas and coal reserves while the living systems of the planet are u ...
... have responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions to date, and therefore a share in a collective responsibility for the damage resulting from climate change now and in the future. Some of them still plan to exploit untapped oil, gas and coal reserves while the living systems of the planet are u ...
Rapport (Engels)
... consensus that economic and social pressures are contributing to climate change. Accelerating emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases since the beginning of the 20th century have increased the average global temperature by about 0.8°C and altered global precipitation pattern ...
... consensus that economic and social pressures are contributing to climate change. Accelerating emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases since the beginning of the 20th century have increased the average global temperature by about 0.8°C and altered global precipitation pattern ...
Sarewitz
... single, black-and-white question came to dominate the contest: Does science achieve an objective view of nature, or are all scientific facts constructed by social interactions? The latter, "constructivist" view considers "the 'truth' or 'falsity' of scientific claims ... as deriving from the interpr ...
... single, black-and-white question came to dominate the contest: Does science achieve an objective view of nature, or are all scientific facts constructed by social interactions? The latter, "constructivist" view considers "the 'truth' or 'falsity' of scientific claims ... as deriving from the interpr ...
Directory of finance sources for climate change mitigation in
... 3. Green Climate Fund (GCF) The GCF is a public financing fund intended to be the centrepiece of efforts to raise climate finance of USD 100 billion a year by 2020. It will provide support for adaptation, mitigation, technology development and transfer, capacity building and the preparation of natio ...
... 3. Green Climate Fund (GCF) The GCF is a public financing fund intended to be the centrepiece of efforts to raise climate finance of USD 100 billion a year by 2020. It will provide support for adaptation, mitigation, technology development and transfer, capacity building and the preparation of natio ...
Do Not Cite, Quote, or Distribute IPCC WGII AR5
... which your chapter material has been incorporated into the draft SPM and TS. For Chapter 25, this includes presentation of observed impacts and vulnerabilities in section A.i, adaptation experience in section A.ii, iterative management of risk in section B.i, sectoral and regional risks in section C ...
... which your chapter material has been incorporated into the draft SPM and TS. For Chapter 25, this includes presentation of observed impacts and vulnerabilities in section A.i, adaptation experience in section A.ii, iterative management of risk in section B.i, sectoral and regional risks in section C ...
Risk in International Politics Randall W. Stone
... with uncertain outcomes, and therefore nothing is done. This argument is incoherent. If the reasoning presented above were correct, it would apply to any rational, risk averse agent, such as a benevolent social planner, so for the moment we can abstract away from the problem of social choice. Risk-a ...
... with uncertain outcomes, and therefore nothing is done. This argument is incoherent. If the reasoning presented above were correct, it would apply to any rational, risk averse agent, such as a benevolent social planner, so for the moment we can abstract away from the problem of social choice. Risk-a ...
Global Neighbours - Eco Congregation Ireland
... Dunkineely Methodist Church, Co Donegal held a Fairtrade Chocolate Party that proved a hit with all ages in the community! As well as chocolate fondues and chocolate fountains, there were Fairtrade chocolate samples galore as well as Fairtrade video clips and games. The event was held in support of ...
... Dunkineely Methodist Church, Co Donegal held a Fairtrade Chocolate Party that proved a hit with all ages in the community! As well as chocolate fondues and chocolate fountains, there were Fairtrade chocolate samples galore as well as Fairtrade video clips and games. The event was held in support of ...
- Wiley Online Library
... between the heritability of a trait and extinction risk as long as climatic effects on growth rate are not too severe (Fig. 1). Models have also recently been extended to include plasticity, relaxing conditions under which extinction is inevitable unless the costs of plasticity are high (Chevin et a ...
... between the heritability of a trait and extinction risk as long as climatic effects on growth rate are not too severe (Fig. 1). Models have also recently been extended to include plasticity, relaxing conditions under which extinction is inevitable unless the costs of plasticity are high (Chevin et a ...
The rise and rise of fluorinated greenhouse gases - Öko
... HFCs are chlorine-free substitutes developed by the chemicals industry to replace ozonedepleting CFCs and HCFCs. These are hydrocarbons with fluorine (F) in the molecule. While CFCs/HCFCs contribute both to the destruction of the ozone layer and to global warming, HFCs are only a threat to the clima ...
... HFCs are chlorine-free substitutes developed by the chemicals industry to replace ozonedepleting CFCs and HCFCs. These are hydrocarbons with fluorine (F) in the molecule. While CFCs/HCFCs contribute both to the destruction of the ozone layer and to global warming, HFCs are only a threat to the clima ...