climate change and international justice
... impact.”8 “It is an environmental issue, a health issue, an economic issue, an energy issue, and a security issue … Desertification and rising sea levels generate increased competition for food, water and resources … we also have seen increasingly the dangers that these transpose to the stability of ...
... impact.”8 “It is an environmental issue, a health issue, an economic issue, an energy issue, and a security issue … Desertification and rising sea levels generate increased competition for food, water and resources … we also have seen increasingly the dangers that these transpose to the stability of ...
What to Do? Does Science have a Role?
... Klaus Hasselmann Max-Planck-Institut for Meteorology, Hamburg, European Climate Forum ...
... Klaus Hasselmann Max-Planck-Institut for Meteorology, Hamburg, European Climate Forum ...
Green Political Theory in a Climate Changed World
... electricity, and approximately 3.5 billion rely on biomass (wood, cow dung etc.) for cooking – the impacts of this energy inequality are severe, particularly for women’s respiratory health (World Bank 2010, pp. 39-40). In the twentieth century global energy production increased approximately 16-fold ...
... electricity, and approximately 3.5 billion rely on biomass (wood, cow dung etc.) for cooking – the impacts of this energy inequality are severe, particularly for women’s respiratory health (World Bank 2010, pp. 39-40). In the twentieth century global energy production increased approximately 16-fold ...
Climate Change and Economic Adaptation: the View from Alaska
... infrastructure, economic activity and livelihoods • Effects felt most strongly in communities that depend on renewable resources for livelihoods. • Effects highly localized. Focus on a few regionally significant changes. Several villages have to be moved from barrier island locations due to coastal ...
... infrastructure, economic activity and livelihoods • Effects felt most strongly in communities that depend on renewable resources for livelihoods. • Effects highly localized. Focus on a few regionally significant changes. Several villages have to be moved from barrier island locations due to coastal ...
I was interested to gauge what the Environmental NGO community... recent release of the IPCC AR5 Exec Summary and in... IEAGHG Information Paper 2014-21: NGO and Media response to IPCC...
... out by 2100” and replaced it with “Fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100”. This headline was used by Greenpeace, CO2solutions amongst others and more surprisingly Bellona see: http://bellona.org/news/climate-change/2014-11-ipcc-synthesis-report-calls-fossil-fuel-phase-2100. However in the text o ...
... out by 2100” and replaced it with “Fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100”. This headline was used by Greenpeace, CO2solutions amongst others and more surprisingly Bellona see: http://bellona.org/news/climate-change/2014-11-ipcc-synthesis-report-calls-fossil-fuel-phase-2100. However in the text o ...
Introduction - San Jose State University
... Dust, salt, smoke (all of which are natural aerosols) So, aerosols (with both natural and anthropogenic origin) – may serve as cloud condensation nuclei. MET 112 Global Climate Change ...
... Dust, salt, smoke (all of which are natural aerosols) So, aerosols (with both natural and anthropogenic origin) – may serve as cloud condensation nuclei. MET 112 Global Climate Change ...
Document
... of climate-induced effects on fisheries involves the northward expansion of a disease known as “dermo” that afflicts the oyster. It caused by Perkinsus marinus, a parasite that yearly kills 50% of oysters in the Gulf of Mexico. Therefore, we can see that changes in primary and secondary production ...
... of climate-induced effects on fisheries involves the northward expansion of a disease known as “dermo” that afflicts the oyster. It caused by Perkinsus marinus, a parasite that yearly kills 50% of oysters in the Gulf of Mexico. Therefore, we can see that changes in primary and secondary production ...
Progress report and proposed future works of Deliverable 1
... well mixed greenhouse gas, or a mixture of well mixed greenhouse gases, all multiplied with their respective Global Warming Potentials to take into account the differing times they remain in the atmosphere. Co-benefits The benefits of policies implemented for various reasons at the same time, acknow ...
... well mixed greenhouse gas, or a mixture of well mixed greenhouse gases, all multiplied with their respective Global Warming Potentials to take into account the differing times they remain in the atmosphere. Co-benefits The benefits of policies implemented for various reasons at the same time, acknow ...
Presumption and Burden of Proof: IADA Workshop
... The critics cited a petition signed by over 100 scientists and others, including TV weathermen, who had said that they cannot subscribe to the view of global warming that claims it causes climate catastrophes. ...
... The critics cited a petition signed by over 100 scientists and others, including TV weathermen, who had said that they cannot subscribe to the view of global warming that claims it causes climate catastrophes. ...
An Eco-Feminist Perspective on the Climate Change Regime
... judgments.”9 A key issue is the global North using the global South as a site for offsetting developed country emissions, while deepening poverty in the South means that reducing emissions is not a priority for these states either. The result is increasing greenhouse emissions that, if not reined i ...
... judgments.”9 A key issue is the global North using the global South as a site for offsetting developed country emissions, while deepening poverty in the South means that reducing emissions is not a priority for these states either. The result is increasing greenhouse emissions that, if not reined i ...
Adaptive Capacity and Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability
... Farming households in developing countries like the Philippines are most vulnerable to climate change and variability because of their climate/weather-sensitive livelihood and lack of resources to finance adaptation measures. Climate change/variability impacts can still be disproportionate across h ...
... Farming households in developing countries like the Philippines are most vulnerable to climate change and variability because of their climate/weather-sensitive livelihood and lack of resources to finance adaptation measures. Climate change/variability impacts can still be disproportionate across h ...
IWRM Modelling
... million US dollars; the actual numbers may differ depending on the conditions of the reservoirs • Mitigation measures such as rice fish, aquaculture and increased irrigation have some potential, but are in practice often limited by economic, environmental and technical realities. ...
... million US dollars; the actual numbers may differ depending on the conditions of the reservoirs • Mitigation measures such as rice fish, aquaculture and increased irrigation have some potential, but are in practice often limited by economic, environmental and technical realities. ...
ISDE Italia News
... methods, which assume “the dose makes the poison,” are outdated. It would also mean that a significant share of the chemical industry's portfolio of pesticides and industrial chemicals—many of which are suspected endocrine disruptors—would be subject to a new standard of risk assessment, with potent ...
... methods, which assume “the dose makes the poison,” are outdated. It would also mean that a significant share of the chemical industry's portfolio of pesticides and industrial chemicals—many of which are suspected endocrine disruptors—would be subject to a new standard of risk assessment, with potent ...
Coupled General Circulation Modeling
... • Not typically an important issue for atmosphere-only or atmosphere-mixed layer ocean models. • More important for AOGCMs; these can exhibit considerable sensitivity to initial conditions. • Issue: How to initialize time-dependent AOGCM simulations of past climates? February 26, 2003 ...
... • Not typically an important issue for atmosphere-only or atmosphere-mixed layer ocean models. • More important for AOGCMs; these can exhibit considerable sensitivity to initial conditions. • Issue: How to initialize time-dependent AOGCM simulations of past climates? February 26, 2003 ...
Climate Change Reader – 4o collated articles on
... change mitigation through a number of measures, namely halting deforestation, supporting reforestation and conserving and enhancing sinks through management. It looks at hows trees function within the global carbon cycle, absorbing carbon dioxide via photosynthesis, sequestering carbon in their stru ...
... change mitigation through a number of measures, namely halting deforestation, supporting reforestation and conserving and enhancing sinks through management. It looks at hows trees function within the global carbon cycle, absorbing carbon dioxide via photosynthesis, sequestering carbon in their stru ...
peak of production - FONDS professionell
... some financial analysts & journalists some futures traders • Implications: economies will be dislocated there will be no time to develop alternatives ...
... some financial analysts & journalists some futures traders • Implications: economies will be dislocated there will be no time to develop alternatives ...
Climate remains an important driver of post
... 4 N . P E D E R S O N et al. A long-term, broad-scale increase in moisture should favor species with physiological affinities for moisture. Indeed, many of the traits used to characterize the fire sensitivity of mesophytic species are traits that make them vulnerable to drought (Abrams, 1990, 1996; ...
... 4 N . P E D E R S O N et al. A long-term, broad-scale increase in moisture should favor species with physiological affinities for moisture. Indeed, many of the traits used to characterize the fire sensitivity of mesophytic species are traits that make them vulnerable to drought (Abrams, 1990, 1996; ...
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... largest rivers in Asia, providing water to more than 1.3 billion people and also home to some of the world’s poorest groups. The projected temperature rise, glacier melting and hydrological cycle alterations will reduce crop production, impact livestock production and change land use patterns. The m ...
... largest rivers in Asia, providing water to more than 1.3 billion people and also home to some of the world’s poorest groups. The projected temperature rise, glacier melting and hydrological cycle alterations will reduce crop production, impact livestock production and change land use patterns. The m ...
Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to disaster
... long-term causal relationship between climate and human history. Thus the key issues in analysing the role of climate in shaping human society and the evolution of economies and institutions, are the attribution of causality and definition of appropriate scale in the analysis. Technologies, land use ...
... long-term causal relationship between climate and human history. Thus the key issues in analysing the role of climate in shaping human society and the evolution of economies and institutions, are the attribution of causality and definition of appropriate scale in the analysis. Technologies, land use ...
LESSONS FROM PAST GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES
... The Vikings colonized southern Greenland in 985 AD during the Medieval Warm Period (Lassen et al., 2004) when milder climates allowed favorable open-ocean conditions for navigation and fishing. This was "close to the maximum Medieval warming recorded in the GISP2 ice core at 975 AD (Stuiver et al., ...
... The Vikings colonized southern Greenland in 985 AD during the Medieval Warm Period (Lassen et al., 2004) when milder climates allowed favorable open-ocean conditions for navigation and fishing. This was "close to the maximum Medieval warming recorded in the GISP2 ice core at 975 AD (Stuiver et al., ...
The recent pause in global warming (1): What do observations of the
... of greenhouse gases (principally carbon dioxide and methane) substantially since preindustrial times (pre-1850s), and the levels continue to rise (Figure 2). Carbon emissions continue to grow at 3.1% per year (Peters et al, 2012). This is comparable to the high-end Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
... of greenhouse gases (principally carbon dioxide and methane) substantially since preindustrial times (pre-1850s), and the levels continue to rise (Figure 2). Carbon emissions continue to grow at 3.1% per year (Peters et al, 2012). This is comparable to the high-end Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Vulnerabilities of the global carbon cycle in the 21st Century
... of C between 0.81 and 2.57 Pg in 1997 equivalent to 13% to 40% of the mean annual global C emissions from fossil fuels (Page et al. 2002). With large tracts of drained swamp forests and new peatland conversion projects to agriculture, tropical peatlands will continue contributing to increased C emis ...
... of C between 0.81 and 2.57 Pg in 1997 equivalent to 13% to 40% of the mean annual global C emissions from fossil fuels (Page et al. 2002). With large tracts of drained swamp forests and new peatland conversion projects to agriculture, tropical peatlands will continue contributing to increased C emis ...
The Really InconvenIenT TRuTh oR “IT aIn`T
... This objective is based on the narrative created by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who believe that man-made emissions are the principal driver of climate change in recent decades; that in the absence of policy response the global temperature is likely to rise by 3°C by the en ...
... This objective is based on the narrative created by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who believe that man-made emissions are the principal driver of climate change in recent decades; that in the absence of policy response the global temperature is likely to rise by 3°C by the en ...