high
... • Require electric power generator to hold allowances covering carbon dioxide emissions. • Use proceeds of allowance auctions to support lowcarbon-intensity solutions • Employ offsets from emission reductions or sequestration at sources beyond electricity sector to ...
... • Require electric power generator to hold allowances covering carbon dioxide emissions. • Use proceeds of allowance auctions to support lowcarbon-intensity solutions • Employ offsets from emission reductions or sequestration at sources beyond electricity sector to ...
individual perceptions of climate risks
... were a wake-up call for governments, communities and businesses, alerting them of the need to better understand and prepare for climate risks. These events triggered AXA to intensify its research and modeling work on extreme weather events, a difficult task due to a lack of available data and the re ...
... were a wake-up call for governments, communities and businesses, alerting them of the need to better understand and prepare for climate risks. These events triggered AXA to intensify its research and modeling work on extreme weather events, a difficult task due to a lack of available data and the re ...
Alcohol and greenhouse gas emissions: exploring the
... • Less than 1% all food carried by air but = 11% total food transport CO2 (including car trips) • 1.5% fruit and veg carried by air but accounts for 40% total transport CO2 (or 50% freight CO2). • Not much in grand scheme of things but growing ...
... • Less than 1% all food carried by air but = 11% total food transport CO2 (including car trips) • 1.5% fruit and veg carried by air but accounts for 40% total transport CO2 (or 50% freight CO2). • Not much in grand scheme of things but growing ...
By Slowing Population Growth, Family Planning Can Help Address
... An estimated 225 million women in developing countries lack affordable access to high quality voluntary family planning services. Meeting the already existing need for modern contraceptive services would contribute to improved health; foster social justice; decrease the need to expand health facilit ...
... An estimated 225 million women in developing countries lack affordable access to high quality voluntary family planning services. Meeting the already existing need for modern contraceptive services would contribute to improved health; foster social justice; decrease the need to expand health facilit ...
counteracting pinatu..
... Geoengineering is considered a potential, highly-controversial, option for counteracting longterm man-made warming [Caldeira et al., 2013; Crutzen, 2006; RoyalSociety, 2009]. Volcanic eruptions, however, cause a short-term, natural cooling. Here we consider the extent to which a deliberate but tempo ...
... Geoengineering is considered a potential, highly-controversial, option for counteracting longterm man-made warming [Caldeira et al., 2013; Crutzen, 2006; RoyalSociety, 2009]. Volcanic eruptions, however, cause a short-term, natural cooling. Here we consider the extent to which a deliberate but tempo ...
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... • LDCs have the largest existing burdens of climate-sensitive diseases and the least effective public health systems. They suffer 34% of the global human deaths linked to climate change, the largest causes being the spread of malaria and water borne diseases, and this number is expected to rise to 4 ...
... • LDCs have the largest existing burdens of climate-sensitive diseases and the least effective public health systems. They suffer 34% of the global human deaths linked to climate change, the largest causes being the spread of malaria and water borne diseases, and this number is expected to rise to 4 ...
Adaptation and Food Security
... land and water for agriculture, and opportunities for earning sustainable income.14 Structural and relational factors such as inequitable policies, power relationships and cultural norms also play an important role in determining adaptive capacity. This means that socially excluded groups, including ...
... land and water for agriculture, and opportunities for earning sustainable income.14 Structural and relational factors such as inequitable policies, power relationships and cultural norms also play an important role in determining adaptive capacity. This means that socially excluded groups, including ...
Assets and Adaptation - Overseas Development Institute
... slow and inadequate, making adaptation all the more necessary (Reid and Huq 2007). And third, aware that they are likely to bear the greatest physical impacts from climate change, governments in developing countries are increasingly demanding greater attention to adaptation on the international stag ...
... slow and inadequate, making adaptation all the more necessary (Reid and Huq 2007). And third, aware that they are likely to bear the greatest physical impacts from climate change, governments in developing countries are increasingly demanding greater attention to adaptation on the international stag ...
SYNDROMES under CLIMATE CHANGE
... Availability of easy money for governments from resource rents drives unsustainable use of resources without commensurate welfare gains for society. Resource wealthy states tend to generate human vulnerability and ill-being through the perpetuation of poverty and bad governance Vulnerability of Smal ...
... Availability of easy money for governments from resource rents drives unsustainable use of resources without commensurate welfare gains for society. Resource wealthy states tend to generate human vulnerability and ill-being through the perpetuation of poverty and bad governance Vulnerability of Smal ...
Abstracts - The PRUDENCE project
... This paper presents an overview of changes in the extreme events that are most likely to affect Europe in forthcoming decades. A variety of diagnostic methods are used to determine how heat waves, heavy precipitation, drought, wind storms, and storm surges change between present (1961-90) and future ...
... This paper presents an overview of changes in the extreme events that are most likely to affect Europe in forthcoming decades. A variety of diagnostic methods are used to determine how heat waves, heavy precipitation, drought, wind storms, and storm surges change between present (1961-90) and future ...
Biodiversity and Climate Change - European Commission
... take into account the likely impact of climate change on Europe’s biodiversity. According to the EEA, the most vulnerable European habitats and species are found in mountain, artic, ...
... take into account the likely impact of climate change on Europe’s biodiversity. According to the EEA, the most vulnerable European habitats and species are found in mountain, artic, ...
Hazards induced by climate change
... not large enough to have significant shifts in the intra-island rainfall distribution patterns Large-scale rate changes would be expected in view of anomalous sea surface temperatures and changes in wind shear patterns. ...
... not large enough to have significant shifts in the intra-island rainfall distribution patterns Large-scale rate changes would be expected in view of anomalous sea surface temperatures and changes in wind shear patterns. ...
Diapositive 1 - African Development Bank
... Reporting and Disclosure of Information The Bank shall present to the Governing Council an Annual Report on AfGF activities Information on AfGF’s operations shall be regularly posted on the AfGF website ...
... Reporting and Disclosure of Information The Bank shall present to the Governing Council an Annual Report on AfGF activities Information on AfGF’s operations shall be regularly posted on the AfGF website ...
Regional Climate Messages for East Africa
... Future projections of temperature change show significant increases across the region. The largest increases in temperature are projected for central and northern regions. Projected increases in average annual temperatures range from no change to 4°C by 2050, though model projections are subject to ...
... Future projections of temperature change show significant increases across the region. The largest increases in temperature are projected for central and northern regions. Projected increases in average annual temperatures range from no change to 4°C by 2050, though model projections are subject to ...
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... technologies, yet few examples exist beyond niche markets • Goal: Propose commercialization strategy for carbon-negative energy • Framing: Thermochemical conversion of hydrocarbons to electricity and/or fuels • Catalog needs and interventions to support emerging near-zero emissions technologies – re ...
... technologies, yet few examples exist beyond niche markets • Goal: Propose commercialization strategy for carbon-negative energy • Framing: Thermochemical conversion of hydrocarbons to electricity and/or fuels • Catalog needs and interventions to support emerging near-zero emissions technologies – re ...
as Adobe PDF - Edinburgh Research Explorer
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... and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. ...
Response to the NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE …
... crisis: we need solutions to both; Trade unions, social movements and environmental organisations have formed an alliance to campaign for the creation of one million climate jobs, now. Our initial research shows that more than three million new climate jobs can be created. COSATU / Sustain Labour No ...
... crisis: we need solutions to both; Trade unions, social movements and environmental organisations have formed an alliance to campaign for the creation of one million climate jobs, now. Our initial research shows that more than three million new climate jobs can be created. COSATU / Sustain Labour No ...
Climate vulnerability profiling of Indian cities
... While Delhi is making progress towards climate mitigation through emission reductions and environmental improvements, there is a significant lack of awareness and planning about the issues of adaptation to climate change. Mehrotra et al (2009) note that Delhi’s response so far is often project o ...
... While Delhi is making progress towards climate mitigation through emission reductions and environmental improvements, there is a significant lack of awareness and planning about the issues of adaptation to climate change. Mehrotra et al (2009) note that Delhi’s response so far is often project o ...
Perception and adaptation to climate change by farmers in the Nile
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... * To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected] ...
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
... policy. We’re going to need new ideas. We’re going to need new myths and new stories, a new conceptual understanding of reality, and a new relationship to the deep polyglot traditions of human culture that carbon-based capitalism has vitiated through commodification and assimilation. Over and agains ...
... policy. We’re going to need new ideas. We’re going to need new myths and new stories, a new conceptual understanding of reality, and a new relationship to the deep polyglot traditions of human culture that carbon-based capitalism has vitiated through commodification and assimilation. Over and agains ...
Advantage CP 2 7WK - Open Evidence Archive
... The transformation of our fossil fuel driven economy into a clean energy economy will be the work of a generation, engaging a huge range of people and activities. But focusing on essentials, there are only three interrelated projects that will drive the entire enterprise: dramatically increasing ene ...
... The transformation of our fossil fuel driven economy into a clean energy economy will be the work of a generation, engaging a huge range of people and activities. But focusing on essentials, there are only three interrelated projects that will drive the entire enterprise: dramatically increasing ene ...