FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL
... developing country that experienced a fast urbanization process. In this context, risk areas, housing, basic infrastructure, especially in the areas of health, sanitation and transportation, constitute key areas for adaptation policies. The Government of Brazil gives particular attention to the poor ...
... developing country that experienced a fast urbanization process. In this context, risk areas, housing, basic infrastructure, especially in the areas of health, sanitation and transportation, constitute key areas for adaptation policies. The Government of Brazil gives particular attention to the poor ...
Global Warming - Web of Creation
... The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The primary global scientific group working on climate change is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 1988, the IPCC was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program ...
... The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The primary global scientific group working on climate change is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 1988, the IPCC was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program ...
Do your investments destroy or care for the planet
... companies that cause severe environmental damage. The Norwegian Fund has invested in Shell, which is involved in Canadian tar sands extraction. Tar sands extraction is a major contributor to Canadian greenhouse gas emissions, yet no companies have been excluded by the Council of Ethics on the basis ...
... companies that cause severe environmental damage. The Norwegian Fund has invested in Shell, which is involved in Canadian tar sands extraction. Tar sands extraction is a major contributor to Canadian greenhouse gas emissions, yet no companies have been excluded by the Council of Ethics on the basis ...
What Role Do Property Rights Play In Climate Change?
... Damage to property An important feature of the UNFCCC framework are so-called ‘response measures’. Response measures refer to those measures that might be taken to combat climate change, for example, decreased reliance on fossil fuels. Petroleum exporting countries will be negatively affected by the ...
... Damage to property An important feature of the UNFCCC framework are so-called ‘response measures’. Response measures refer to those measures that might be taken to combat climate change, for example, decreased reliance on fossil fuels. Petroleum exporting countries will be negatively affected by the ...
Clever Name, Losing Game?
... negotiations, about whether or not developing countries should be obliged to change their agricultural practices to reduce climate change. The major threat of climate change to agriculture and global food security was one of the principle reasons for the creation of the UN Framework Convention on Cl ...
... negotiations, about whether or not developing countries should be obliged to change their agricultural practices to reduce climate change. The major threat of climate change to agriculture and global food security was one of the principle reasons for the creation of the UN Framework Convention on Cl ...
South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and
... in South Asia. Population growth, paucity of resources, and lack of economic opportunities create pressures on ecologically fragile areas and natural resources. In India, the 10th Plan of the government has set a high growth target of 8% to induce rapid reduction in income poverty and attain ambitio ...
... in South Asia. Population growth, paucity of resources, and lack of economic opportunities create pressures on ecologically fragile areas and natural resources. In India, the 10th Plan of the government has set a high growth target of 8% to induce rapid reduction in income poverty and attain ambitio ...
1AC – BIT – “Tear down that wall” edition
... 2005 levels by 2025. As of 2015, U.S. emissions were 12 percent below 2005 levels, so the trajectory is consistent with the target. At the federal level, this includes the Clean Power Plan, which will for the first time regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants; performance standards for m ...
... 2005 levels by 2025. As of 2015, U.S. emissions were 12 percent below 2005 levels, so the trajectory is consistent with the target. At the federal level, this includes the Clean Power Plan, which will for the first time regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants; performance standards for m ...
Diplom/Master`s Thesis - Institute for the Study of Society and
... England Coastal Communities as part of a large climate change impacts assessment for the Northeast. Also lead author on societal responses chapter and member of the synthesis team for entire assessment. 2004-present National Research Council. Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Deci ...
... England Coastal Communities as part of a large climate change impacts assessment for the Northeast. Also lead author on societal responses chapter and member of the synthesis team for entire assessment. 2004-present National Research Council. Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Deci ...
An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its
... severe risk to political, economic, and social stability. In less prosperous regions, where countries lack the resources and capabilities required to adapt quickly to more severe conditions, the problem is very likely to be exacerbated. For some countries, climate change could become such a challeng ...
... severe risk to political, economic, and social stability. In less prosperous regions, where countries lack the resources and capabilities required to adapt quickly to more severe conditions, the problem is very likely to be exacerbated. For some countries, climate change could become such a challeng ...
Effects on Indigenous Peoples
... These can effectively lock food away from foraging species such as reindeer that are critical to our survival. There are increases in subsidence in our communities as permafrost is thawing. People are already dying. They are falling through ice, on trails that have been safe to cross for generat ...
... These can effectively lock food away from foraging species such as reindeer that are critical to our survival. There are increases in subsidence in our communities as permafrost is thawing. People are already dying. They are falling through ice, on trails that have been safe to cross for generat ...
Economics versus Climate Change
... pursue international emissions trading or alternative efforts to harmonize marginal abatement costs now? As the heading suggests, I find convincing evidence that the answer is “no.” First, economic analysis (and recent experience) suggests price mechanisms ought to be preferred to pure emissions cap ...
... pursue international emissions trading or alternative efforts to harmonize marginal abatement costs now? As the heading suggests, I find convincing evidence that the answer is “no.” First, economic analysis (and recent experience) suggests price mechanisms ought to be preferred to pure emissions cap ...
here - Stakeholder Forum
... 1. Sustainable development. Adaptation must be seen in a broader development context. Climate change added challenge to reducing poverty, hunger, disease and environmental degradation . 2. Resilience. Building resilience to ongoing and future climate change calls for adaptation to start now by addre ...
... 1. Sustainable development. Adaptation must be seen in a broader development context. Climate change added challenge to reducing poverty, hunger, disease and environmental degradation . 2. Resilience. Building resilience to ongoing and future climate change calls for adaptation to start now by addre ...
concept paper 22 april DD
... developmental debates, climate change is not the only problem faced by individuals, households and communities in low- and middle-income nations. However, CBA risks focusing on only one aspect of multiple dimensions of vulnerability. In an urban setting, for example, there is little point in asking ...
... developmental debates, climate change is not the only problem faced by individuals, households and communities in low- and middle-income nations. However, CBA risks focusing on only one aspect of multiple dimensions of vulnerability. In an urban setting, for example, there is little point in asking ...
Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions
... relative to other sources. Such information will enable effective mitigation options to be ...
... relative to other sources. Such information will enable effective mitigation options to be ...
The Moral Magnitude of Fossil Fuel Investments
... distant future lifetime of our grandchildren or children—to a larger magnitude than either Apartheid or the Darfur genocide. Furthermore, these estimates only include direct human health effects, and conservatively leaves out destruction of economic capital and productivity (which are the effects co ...
... distant future lifetime of our grandchildren or children—to a larger magnitude than either Apartheid or the Darfur genocide. Furthermore, these estimates only include direct human health effects, and conservatively leaves out destruction of economic capital and productivity (which are the effects co ...
Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery
... the theory and practice of development economics, has been widely adopted in development policy research to achieve a more accurate understanding of natural resource management systems [40]. In the climate variability and change literature the concept of livelihoods is employed to understand the vul ...
... the theory and practice of development economics, has been widely adopted in development policy research to achieve a more accurate understanding of natural resource management systems [40]. In the climate variability and change literature the concept of livelihoods is employed to understand the vul ...
GENERAL Climate Change Handbook for NE South Africa (Gauteng
... activities are affecting the Earth’s system at the global scale. Increasingly strong evidence suggests that the functioning of this system is changing in response. Global change is more than climate change. Global change refers to any changes in the Earth system. The Earth system encompasses the cli ...
... activities are affecting the Earth’s system at the global scale. Increasingly strong evidence suggests that the functioning of this system is changing in response. Global change is more than climate change. Global change refers to any changes in the Earth system. The Earth system encompasses the cli ...
Overview - International Association for Energy Economics
... expected to suggest two switching points: R&D and resource switching points. A fossil fuel with the lowest conversion cost is to be used first and over time it is replaced by another fossil fuel with the next lowest conversion cost. With the accumulation of knowledge stock on backstop resources, fos ...
... expected to suggest two switching points: R&D and resource switching points. A fossil fuel with the lowest conversion cost is to be used first and over time it is replaced by another fossil fuel with the next lowest conversion cost. With the accumulation of knowledge stock on backstop resources, fos ...
Climate change: impacts on electricity markets in Western Europe
... affected by temperature changes. Typically, warmer summers lead to increased demand for electricity-based cooling, whereas higher temperatures in the winter decrease demand for electric heating. While the sign of the change in seasonal demand is clear, for annual demand this is an empirical question ...
... affected by temperature changes. Typically, warmer summers lead to increased demand for electricity-based cooling, whereas higher temperatures in the winter decrease demand for electric heating. While the sign of the change in seasonal demand is clear, for annual demand this is an empirical question ...
extreme events and climate change
... Group I: incontestable evidence of climate change and its attribution to human intervention linking greenhouse gases to climate change. Group II: Impacts are undeniable and can be traced as additional stress sustainable development. Local impacts are aggravated by development, physical and structura ...
... Group I: incontestable evidence of climate change and its attribution to human intervention linking greenhouse gases to climate change. Group II: Impacts are undeniable and can be traced as additional stress sustainable development. Local impacts are aggravated by development, physical and structura ...
Climate Change and International Relations Theory: Northeast Asia as a Case Study
... release of large quantities of trapped methane into the atmosphere. Such a methane “burp” would greatly accelerate the global warming process because methane is such a powerful greenhouse gas. This is one of a number of potential climate tipping points that could rapidly and dramatically destabilise ...
... release of large quantities of trapped methane into the atmosphere. Such a methane “burp” would greatly accelerate the global warming process because methane is such a powerful greenhouse gas. This is one of a number of potential climate tipping points that could rapidly and dramatically destabilise ...
"Biological Impacts of Climate Change". In: Encyclopedia of Life
... disease organisms, predators and prey and competition over common resources as well as mutually beneficial interactions such as flowering plants producing nectar for the animals that pollinate their flowers. Through these interactions species may influence the population size and even geographic range o ...
... disease organisms, predators and prey and competition over common resources as well as mutually beneficial interactions such as flowering plants producing nectar for the animals that pollinate their flowers. Through these interactions species may influence the population size and even geographic range o ...