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The basic economics of low-carbon growth in the UK (434 kB) (opens in new window)
... for efficiencies in energy and other areas to cut costs; the scope for learning and innovation; and the value of energy security. They also fail to model the complex dynamics associated with inertia and path-dependency whereby policy choices made early on have the potential to lock in infrastructure ...
... for efficiencies in energy and other areas to cut costs; the scope for learning and innovation; and the value of energy security. They also fail to model the complex dynamics associated with inertia and path-dependency whereby policy choices made early on have the potential to lock in infrastructure ...
Feng and Oppenheimer Krueger PNAS 2012 pub
... 2010) indicate 1) a preference for short-range movement within national borders, and 2) a complex relationship to income or wealth, age and gender status with some indication that the poorest are less able to avail themselves of the opportunity to migrate. Pre-existing immigrant networks are critica ...
... 2010) indicate 1) a preference for short-range movement within national borders, and 2) a complex relationship to income or wealth, age and gender status with some indication that the poorest are less able to avail themselves of the opportunity to migrate. Pre-existing immigrant networks are critica ...
Climate Change Adaptation in Tanzania Agricultural Systems
... year 2080 (Parry et al., 1999). The cultivation of maize is going to be particularly hard hit. Estimates from Crop Environment Resource Synthesis Model (CERES-Maize) (Jones and Kiniry, 1986) show that the average yield decrease over the entire country would be 33% and as high as 84% in the central r ...
... year 2080 (Parry et al., 1999). The cultivation of maize is going to be particularly hard hit. Estimates from Crop Environment Resource Synthesis Model (CERES-Maize) (Jones and Kiniry, 1986) show that the average yield decrease over the entire country would be 33% and as high as 84% in the central r ...
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... There is a growing consensus that the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will lead to higher temperatures and increased precipitation over the next century. The changes in climate are predicted to have a significant impact on economic activity. One of the most significant way ...
... There is a growing consensus that the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will lead to higher temperatures and increased precipitation over the next century. The changes in climate are predicted to have a significant impact on economic activity. One of the most significant way ...
Planning and shale gas briefing
... authorities should (paragraph 143) “set out environmental criteria, in line with the policies in this Framework, against which planning applications will be assessed so as to ensure that permitted operations do not have unacceptable adverse impacts on the natural and historic environment or human he ...
... authorities should (paragraph 143) “set out environmental criteria, in line with the policies in this Framework, against which planning applications will be assessed so as to ensure that permitted operations do not have unacceptable adverse impacts on the natural and historic environment or human he ...
Why Analyze Mental Models of Local Climate Change?
... Mozambique. Interview results are compared to data from a regional weather station. Residents discuss temperature increases, short-term and long-term precipitation changes, and altered seasonal timing. Measurable climate change in this region includes increasing temperatures and more erratic rainfal ...
... Mozambique. Interview results are compared to data from a regional weather station. Residents discuss temperature increases, short-term and long-term precipitation changes, and altered seasonal timing. Measurable climate change in this region includes increasing temperatures and more erratic rainfal ...
Download: SOAER97_11 - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment
... in the atmosphere. These gases keep heat from dissipating into space. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a continued increase at current rates could raise the average global air temperature between 1 and 3.5°C by 2100. The average rate of warming would likely be great ...
... in the atmosphere. These gases keep heat from dissipating into space. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a continued increase at current rates could raise the average global air temperature between 1 and 3.5°C by 2100. The average rate of warming would likely be great ...
Cities and Climate Change: Adaptation in London, UK - UN
... The number of people and assets in the flood risk areas can be analysed to determine who and what is at risk. This analysis shows that there are 1.25 million people, 481,180 properties, 441 schools, 75 underground stations and 49 railway stations located in areas of tidal and fluvial flood risk.4 A ...
... The number of people and assets in the flood risk areas can be analysed to determine who and what is at risk. This analysis shows that there are 1.25 million people, 481,180 properties, 441 schools, 75 underground stations and 49 railway stations located in areas of tidal and fluvial flood risk.4 A ...
Climate Change and Cities in Africa
... tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. It refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.”7 A principal cause of climate change is t ...
... tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. It refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.”7 A principal cause of climate change is t ...
PDF - SEEFOR – South
... Background and Purpose: Climate change is possibly the biggest 21st century challenge for the European forestry. Serbia is also under pressure, since the regions of South Europe and Mediterranean are expected to suffer the most. Main purpose of this study was to predict how distribution of several t ...
... Background and Purpose: Climate change is possibly the biggest 21st century challenge for the European forestry. Serbia is also under pressure, since the regions of South Europe and Mediterranean are expected to suffer the most. Main purpose of this study was to predict how distribution of several t ...
ICARUS IV ABSTRACTS
... households due to an extreme flood event. The study uses primary data collected from a survey of households in the affected areas and disaggregates the losses into monetary damage to property, physical ...
... households due to an extreme flood event. The study uses primary data collected from a survey of households in the affected areas and disaggregates the losses into monetary damage to property, physical ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... There is no justification for this discussion to include reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the benefit of reducing future global warming. In order to do so, you must include citations, if any exist (which we doubt), which conclude that energy efficiency measures would preferentially reduce green ...
... There is no justification for this discussion to include reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the benefit of reducing future global warming. In order to do so, you must include citations, if any exist (which we doubt), which conclude that energy efficiency measures would preferentially reduce green ...
Improving evaluation of climate change impacts on the water cycle
... sources (such as desalination), and the improving of water-use efficiency are vital options for the support of the regional economy. According to several authors such as Huntington (2006), there is robust evidence of current and future intensification of the hydrological cycle. In Spain it is a prio ...
... sources (such as desalination), and the improving of water-use efficiency are vital options for the support of the regional economy. According to several authors such as Huntington (2006), there is robust evidence of current and future intensification of the hydrological cycle. In Spain it is a prio ...
Impact of climate change on the hydrologic cycle and implications
... land-use, water resources, fossil fuel energy and natural resources. The result of these actions has been drastic for the natural environment and the terrestrial climate system. These actions have also impacted the water cycle, since remarkable hydrologic alterations have been reported as a conseque ...
... land-use, water resources, fossil fuel energy and natural resources. The result of these actions has been drastic for the natural environment and the terrestrial climate system. These actions have also impacted the water cycle, since remarkable hydrologic alterations have been reported as a conseque ...
Climate Change Justice
... may be difficult, for the time being at least even impossible, to distinguish them from natural misfortunes – they are in fact the result of human energy use and policy. Without substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, especially CO2, the most likely rise in the mean equilibrium surface t ...
... may be difficult, for the time being at least even impossible, to distinguish them from natural misfortunes – they are in fact the result of human energy use and policy. Without substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, especially CO2, the most likely rise in the mean equilibrium surface t ...
Climate Refugees - Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin
... “Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased since the pre-industrial era, driven largely by economic and population growth, and are now higher than ever. This has led to atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide that are unprecedented in at least the last 800 ...
... “Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased since the pre-industrial era, driven largely by economic and population growth, and are now higher than ever. This has led to atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide that are unprecedented in at least the last 800 ...
4. Climate Change Scenarios
... and sea level rise – the same model was used in the IPCC TAR for this purpose. The SCENGEN component uses the global-mean temperature output from MAGICC to scale up the results from 17 transient GCMs to give regional output on temperature and precipitation on a 5 5° grid. MAGICC/SCENGEN also allow ...
... and sea level rise – the same model was used in the IPCC TAR for this purpose. The SCENGEN component uses the global-mean temperature output from MAGICC to scale up the results from 17 transient GCMs to give regional output on temperature and precipitation on a 5 5° grid. MAGICC/SCENGEN also allow ...
Examples of adaptation for marine and coastal stakeholders
... The document Scaling adaptation: climate change response and coastal management in the UK focuses on ‘scale’ dilemmas in environmental decision-making, particularly those dilemmas posed in space and time by the challenges of societal adaptation to climate change impacts. The analysis draws insights ...
... The document Scaling adaptation: climate change response and coastal management in the UK focuses on ‘scale’ dilemmas in environmental decision-making, particularly those dilemmas posed in space and time by the challenges of societal adaptation to climate change impacts. The analysis draws insights ...
The Changing Himalayas
... noted in the Stern Report on ‘The Economics of Climate Change’, “China’s human development could face a major ‘U-turn’ by this mid-century unless urgent measures are now taken to ‘climate proof’ development results” (Stern, 2006). Continuing climate change is predicted to lead to major changes in th ...
... noted in the Stern Report on ‘The Economics of Climate Change’, “China’s human development could face a major ‘U-turn’ by this mid-century unless urgent measures are now taken to ‘climate proof’ development results” (Stern, 2006). Continuing climate change is predicted to lead to major changes in th ...
Evidence for climate change - University at Albany Atmospheric
... (confidence range [0.65-1.06K], units are kelvin)* • Virtually certain that the troposphere has warmed since mid-20th century, but highest confidence is limited to the well observed extratropical Northern Hemisphere • Precipitation over Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes has increased: • since 1951wi ...
... (confidence range [0.65-1.06K], units are kelvin)* • Virtually certain that the troposphere has warmed since mid-20th century, but highest confidence is limited to the well observed extratropical Northern Hemisphere • Precipitation over Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes has increased: • since 1951wi ...
Case study — Monitoring potential impacts of climate change on the
... updates and reaffirms the strong scientific evidence of IPCC AR4, and shows that the pace and scale of climate change is increasing at a greater rate than previously thought by scientists. The assessment identified that biodiversity and other natural values are one of the most vulnerable sectors to ...
... updates and reaffirms the strong scientific evidence of IPCC AR4, and shows that the pace and scale of climate change is increasing at a greater rate than previously thought by scientists. The assessment identified that biodiversity and other natural values are one of the most vulnerable sectors to ...
Rethinking wedges
... concentrations to stabilize at 450 ppm entail negative carbon emissions, for example by capturing and storing emissions from bioenergy [11]. A different body of literature has concluded that cumulative emissions of 1 trillion tons of carbon (i.e. 1000 GtC) are likely to result in warming of 2 ◦ C [1 ...
... concentrations to stabilize at 450 ppm entail negative carbon emissions, for example by capturing and storing emissions from bioenergy [11]. A different body of literature has concluded that cumulative emissions of 1 trillion tons of carbon (i.e. 1000 GtC) are likely to result in warming of 2 ◦ C [1 ...
speakers profiles - USAID Adapt Asia
... He leads UNDP’s support to countries around the world to access finance from vertical funds such as the GEF’s Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), recently established funds such as the Kyoto Protocol’s Adaptation Fund and bilateral finance. In 2011, the UNDP Envi ...
... He leads UNDP’s support to countries around the world to access finance from vertical funds such as the GEF’s Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), recently established funds such as the Kyoto Protocol’s Adaptation Fund and bilateral finance. In 2011, the UNDP Envi ...
Climate change in the United States
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Because of global warming, there has been concern in the United States and internationally, that the country should reduce total greenhouse gas which is relatively high per capita.In 2012, the United States experienced its warmest year on record. As of 2012, the thirteen warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998, transcending those from 1880.From 1950 to 2009, the American government's surface temperature record shows an increase by 1 °F (0.56 °C), approximately. Global warming has caused many changes in the U.S. According to a 2009 statement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), trends include lake and river ice melting earlier in the spring, plants blooming earlier, multiple animal species shifting their habitat ranges northward, and reductions in the size of glaciers.Predicting future climate changes are fraught with difficultly. Some research has warned against possible problems due to American climate changes such as the spread of invasive species and possibilities of floods as well as droughts. Changes in climate in the regions of the United States appear significant. Drought conditions appear to be worsening in the southwest while improving in the northeast for example.President Barack Obama committed in the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 42% below 2005 levels by 2030, and 83% below 2005 levels by 2050. In an address towards the U.S. Congress in June 2013, Obama detailed a specific action plan to achieve the 17% carbon emissions cut from 2005 by 2020. He included such measures as shifting from coal-based power generation to solar and natural gas production.