New Cost Estimates for Carbon Sequestration Through Afforestation
... preference approach (e.g., van Kooten et al. 2002). Three other innovations in the literature since Moulton and Richards deserve mention. The first relates to carbon accounting. Moulton and Richards compute the average annual increment in carbon over a 40-year project horizon. As Stavins (1999) poin ...
... preference approach (e.g., van Kooten et al. 2002). Three other innovations in the literature since Moulton and Richards deserve mention. The first relates to carbon accounting. Moulton and Richards compute the average annual increment in carbon over a 40-year project horizon. As Stavins (1999) poin ...
anthropology and climate change - North Atlantic Biocultural
... Given the increasing effect that climate change is having on local populations across the globe and the highly charged geopolitical arena in which action must be taken, understanding anthropologists’ roles in the field as we encounter, communicate, and act in response is paramount. These questions a ...
... Given the increasing effect that climate change is having on local populations across the globe and the highly charged geopolitical arena in which action must be taken, understanding anthropologists’ roles in the field as we encounter, communicate, and act in response is paramount. These questions a ...
Investigation of the effects of increases in agricultural productivity
... disappearance of certain plants are not in themselves sufficient in providing accurate information regarding climatic forecasts. The need to develop a better understanding of the human interactions between land transformations and climate variability Forests perform many roles and provide several pr ...
... disappearance of certain plants are not in themselves sufficient in providing accurate information regarding climatic forecasts. The need to develop a better understanding of the human interactions between land transformations and climate variability Forests perform many roles and provide several pr ...
NAMA Mia! - Carbon Market Watch
... different databases. According to the NAMA Database there are currently 94 NAMAs seeking financing. 10 of these have received ...
... different databases. According to the NAMA Database there are currently 94 NAMAs seeking financing. 10 of these have received ...
Why Climate Change Makes Riparian Restoration More Important than Ever:
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
Climate Change Riparian Restoration
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
... and terrestrial ecosystems, and create thermal refugia for wildlife: all characteristics that can contribute to ecological adaptation to climate change. Because riparian systems and the projected impacts of climate change are highly variable geographically, there is a pressing need to develop a plac ...
The Wave Climate of Ireland: From Averages to Extremes
... Source: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/coast/waves/big_waves.html ...
... Source: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/coast/waves/big_waves.html ...
The Rockefeller Way - Energy and Environmental Legal Institute
... the energy industry sees no bounds, as the family’s objectives permeate throughout federal and state energy policy, as well as international social engineering globalist compacts such as Agenda 21. With the immeasurable influence that accompanies mass wealth and power, the Rockefeller empire has pro ...
... the energy industry sees no bounds, as the family’s objectives permeate throughout federal and state energy policy, as well as international social engineering globalist compacts such as Agenda 21. With the immeasurable influence that accompanies mass wealth and power, the Rockefeller empire has pro ...
Motivated Recall in the Service of the Economic System
... the sustainability of our planet (Anderegg, Prall, Harold, & Schneider, 2010; Cook et al., 2013; Stocker et al., 2013). At the same time, only half of the American public—ranging from 10% of conservative Republicans to 78% of liberal Democrats— believes that the Earth is warming as a result of human ...
... the sustainability of our planet (Anderegg, Prall, Harold, & Schneider, 2010; Cook et al., 2013; Stocker et al., 2013). At the same time, only half of the American public—ranging from 10% of conservative Republicans to 78% of liberal Democrats— believes that the Earth is warming as a result of human ...
Media Attention for Climate Change around the World: Data
... Abstract Climate change is a global phenomenon, and its outcomes affect societies around the world. So far, however, studies on media representations of climate change have mostly concentrated on Western societies. This paper will go beyond this limited geographical scope by presenting ...
... Abstract Climate change is a global phenomenon, and its outcomes affect societies around the world. So far, however, studies on media representations of climate change have mostly concentrated on Western societies. This paper will go beyond this limited geographical scope by presenting ...
Managing adaptation to environmental change in coastal
... zone. Rising temperatures, thermal expansion of water, and subsidence of the land base are contributing to sea level rise, changing precipitation patterns, more frequent intense weather events, storm surges and flooding, salinisation of fresh water, coastal erosion, increased sedimentation of coasta ...
... zone. Rising temperatures, thermal expansion of water, and subsidence of the land base are contributing to sea level rise, changing precipitation patterns, more frequent intense weather events, storm surges and flooding, salinisation of fresh water, coastal erosion, increased sedimentation of coasta ...
Non-CO2 greenhouse gases and climate change
... anthropogenic emissions of CO2 contribute most to GHGinduced warming, several other gases, such as methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs), also affect climate for decades to millennia af ...
... anthropogenic emissions of CO2 contribute most to GHGinduced warming, several other gases, such as methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs), also affect climate for decades to millennia af ...
NRDC - COMEX
... given project within its jurisdiction. Roads H West and I would cross five Cree traplines and step into the heart of the last remaining intact traditional lands of the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi.26 This community has been very vocal about their opposition to this proposed construction project, a ...
... given project within its jurisdiction. Roads H West and I would cross five Cree traplines and step into the heart of the last remaining intact traditional lands of the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi.26 This community has been very vocal about their opposition to this proposed construction project, a ...
Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science
... of CO2. However the fraction of emissions absorbed by the reservoirs has likely decreased by ~5% (from 60 to 55%) in the past 50 years (Canadell et al. 2007). The uncertainty in this estimate is large because of the significant background interannual variability and because of uncertainty in CO2 emi ...
... of CO2. However the fraction of emissions absorbed by the reservoirs has likely decreased by ~5% (from 60 to 55%) in the past 50 years (Canadell et al. 2007). The uncertainty in this estimate is large because of the significant background interannual variability and because of uncertainty in CO2 emi ...
The Copenhagen Diagnosis - Climate Change Research Centre
... of CO2. However the fraction of emissions absorbed by the reservoirs has likely decreased by ~5% (from 60 to 55%) in the past 50 years (Canadell et al. 2007). The uncertainty in this estimate is large because of the significant background interannual variability and because of uncertainty in CO2 emi ...
... of CO2. However the fraction of emissions absorbed by the reservoirs has likely decreased by ~5% (from 60 to 55%) in the past 50 years (Canadell et al. 2007). The uncertainty in this estimate is large because of the significant background interannual variability and because of uncertainty in CO2 emi ...
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... tourists from one country to the next. That matrix is largely unobserved. In order to build this matrix, we take Equation (1), multiply it with the distance (in kilometres) between the capital cities raised to the power 1.7·10-4, and allocate the tourists from a particular country to all other count ...
... tourists from one country to the next. That matrix is largely unobserved. In order to build this matrix, we take Equation (1), multiply it with the distance (in kilometres) between the capital cities raised to the power 1.7·10-4, and allocate the tourists from a particular country to all other count ...
Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
... 38) indicates that most peaks in reconstructed atmospheric volcanic sulfate loading correspond to mean circum-Arctic cooling (Fig. 3). The repeated coincidence of high sulfate loading with the onset of Arctic cold events suggests that eruptions entrain positive ocean feedbacks capable of enhancing a ...
... 38) indicates that most peaks in reconstructed atmospheric volcanic sulfate loading correspond to mean circum-Arctic cooling (Fig. 3). The repeated coincidence of high sulfate loading with the onset of Arctic cold events suggests that eruptions entrain positive ocean feedbacks capable of enhancing a ...
Northern Hemisphere glaciation and the evolution of Plio
... importance. Here we explicitly quantify changes in deterministic orbital processes (forcing and/or pacing) versus stochastic climate processes during the Plio‐Pleistocene, via time‐frequency analysis of two prominent foraminifera oxygen isotopic stacks. Our results indicate that development of the N ...
... importance. Here we explicitly quantify changes in deterministic orbital processes (forcing and/or pacing) versus stochastic climate processes during the Plio‐Pleistocene, via time‐frequency analysis of two prominent foraminifera oxygen isotopic stacks. Our results indicate that development of the N ...
Scenario
... Most scenarios of the future suggest that the world will get more populated and wealthier during this century. While this ought to advance human well-being, it may also increase climate change which might at least partly offset any advances in well-being. The IPCC reports in its last (2001) assessme ...
... Most scenarios of the future suggest that the world will get more populated and wealthier during this century. While this ought to advance human well-being, it may also increase climate change which might at least partly offset any advances in well-being. The IPCC reports in its last (2001) assessme ...
Multi-decadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14C
... Island, New Zealand (52.52˚S, 169.22˚E) (Figure 1). Each tree series formed part of a wellreplicated, annually-resolved chronology with an „expressed population signal‟ (or EPS) above 0.85, a threshold value commonly used to describe a robust, highly-replicated series [Briffa and Jones, 1990]. The N ...
... Island, New Zealand (52.52˚S, 169.22˚E) (Figure 1). Each tree series formed part of a wellreplicated, annually-resolved chronology with an „expressed population signal‟ (or EPS) above 0.85, a threshold value commonly used to describe a robust, highly-replicated series [Briffa and Jones, 1990]. The N ...
Planning Horizons no.2 | Future
... development compatible with environmental resilience. This second paper in the series considers two of the most pressing challenges facing our societies – climate change and demographic change. These are complex global issues that will require local, regional and national as well as international re ...
... development compatible with environmental resilience. This second paper in the series considers two of the most pressing challenges facing our societies – climate change and demographic change. These are complex global issues that will require local, regional and national as well as international re ...