Carbon Credit Development - International Journal of Innovative
... credits. In this manner, financial support is given to projects that reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Carbon credit market (trading) is yet to gain some appeal and momentum in Nigeria. Most individuals, companies, government officials and statutory regulators have not yet become aware nor un ...
... credits. In this manner, financial support is given to projects that reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Carbon credit market (trading) is yet to gain some appeal and momentum in Nigeria. Most individuals, companies, government officials and statutory regulators have not yet become aware nor un ...
Preparing for worst case climate change scenarios
... This may become a necessity if the worst case scenario would apply as has recently been discussed at the Copenhagen scientific Summit March 2009 in terms of negative CO2 emissions. The range of options that is open to governments to a large extent also depends on adaptation and governance mechanisms ...
... This may become a necessity if the worst case scenario would apply as has recently been discussed at the Copenhagen scientific Summit March 2009 in terms of negative CO2 emissions. The range of options that is open to governments to a large extent also depends on adaptation and governance mechanisms ...
Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change
... acteristics will also affect the amount and type of information that people seek out and the way in which they respond to it. We highlight a few of the major factors. Media Representations and Information Technologies The influence of media representations helps explain why climate change can have p ...
... acteristics will also affect the amount and type of information that people seek out and the way in which they respond to it. We highlight a few of the major factors. Media Representations and Information Technologies The influence of media representations helps explain why climate change can have p ...
Environmental Degradation, Social Sin, and the Common Good
... hazardous wastes, and threats to the biosphere have been highlighted occasionally by the media for many years, recent attention has focused on changes that humans are forcing on the global climate. Indicators of these changes and dire predictions of adverse future effects have been identified period ...
... hazardous wastes, and threats to the biosphere have been highlighted occasionally by the media for many years, recent attention has focused on changes that humans are forcing on the global climate. Indicators of these changes and dire predictions of adverse future effects have been identified period ...
Climate Change: The Copenhagen Conference
... Data on CO2 emissions alone are more up to date and more certain. These also show a faster rate of increase in emissions from around the start of this century and show it continuing at this faster rate through 2007 and 2008. 8 The UN Environment Programme has quoted research which stated that rates ...
... Data on CO2 emissions alone are more up to date and more certain. These also show a faster rate of increase in emissions from around the start of this century and show it continuing at this faster rate through 2007 and 2008. 8 The UN Environment Programme has quoted research which stated that rates ...
Public views on climate change: European and USA Perspectives
... Opinion polls have also investigated people’s knowledge of the causes of climate change. Generally, individuals are found to have a limited understanding of the human contributions to a changing climate. Research mainly in developed nations during the mid to late 1990s has shown that most citizens d ...
... Opinion polls have also investigated people’s knowledge of the causes of climate change. Generally, individuals are found to have a limited understanding of the human contributions to a changing climate. Research mainly in developed nations during the mid to late 1990s has shown that most citizens d ...
CLIMATE CHANGE A Natural Hazard
... But support for the proposal that increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases is causing global warming has not gone away, especially as observational evidence of warming during the twentieth century has accumulated. In 1985, scientists meeting in Villach, Austria issued a statement cl ...
... But support for the proposal that increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases is causing global warming has not gone away, especially as observational evidence of warming during the twentieth century has accumulated. In 1985, scientists meeting in Villach, Austria issued a statement cl ...
Regional climate change projections for Chicago and the US Great
... Historical simulations correspond to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project's “20th Century Climate in Coupled Models” or 20C3M scenarios (Covey et al., 2003). These represent each modeling group's best efforts to simulate observed global climate over the past century, including changes in solar ...
... Historical simulations correspond to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project's “20th Century Climate in Coupled Models” or 20C3M scenarios (Covey et al., 2003). These represent each modeling group's best efforts to simulate observed global climate over the past century, including changes in solar ...
Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Extreme Events
... Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, UK. ...
... Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, UK. ...
Keeping North Carolina`s Farms and Forests Vibrant and Resilient
... on what is causing climate change to occur. We acknowledge that the climate is changing and recognize the need to be proactive in preparing for what science is telling us to expect in the coming decades. While there are many reasons for elevating the priority of adaptive management planning in North ...
... on what is causing climate change to occur. We acknowledge that the climate is changing and recognize the need to be proactive in preparing for what science is telling us to expect in the coming decades. While there are many reasons for elevating the priority of adaptive management planning in North ...
Pattern scaling using ClimGen: monthly
... (geographical, seasonal and multi-variable structure) are commonly derived from simulations with general circulation models (GCMs) or regional climate models (RCMs). The magnitude of the change is not always obtained from the same GCM or RCM simulation, however, because the patterns may be scaled to ...
... (geographical, seasonal and multi-variable structure) are commonly derived from simulations with general circulation models (GCMs) or regional climate models (RCMs). The magnitude of the change is not always obtained from the same GCM or RCM simulation, however, because the patterns may be scaled to ...
What is this thing called `natural`? The nature
... environmental discourse. Accounts of the relationship between humans and nature, as they appear in the history of ideas, convey ambiguous messages that identify humankind as both destroyer and rescuer, and wilderness or "natural nature" as both threat and refuge. The current, more or less hegemonic ...
... environmental discourse. Accounts of the relationship between humans and nature, as they appear in the history of ideas, convey ambiguous messages that identify humankind as both destroyer and rescuer, and wilderness or "natural nature" as both threat and refuge. The current, more or less hegemonic ...
The Adaptation Coalition Toolkit
... selected. This Toolkit is meant to be used in a flexible fashion. Organizations with considerable experience in working with marginalized communities may want to substitute certain tools recommended here for others with which they are familiar to move the process forward. There is no one right way t ...
... selected. This Toolkit is meant to be used in a flexible fashion. Organizations with considerable experience in working with marginalized communities may want to substitute certain tools recommended here for others with which they are familiar to move the process forward. There is no one right way t ...
Winter 2013
... Bruce Wyman (GFDL) were selected by the Secretary of Commerce for a Group Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement. This is the highest form of honorary recognition given by the Department of Commerce. The scientists were honored “for using their expertise and creativity to establish innova ...
... Bruce Wyman (GFDL) were selected by the Secretary of Commerce for a Group Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement. This is the highest form of honorary recognition given by the Department of Commerce. The scientists were honored “for using their expertise and creativity to establish innova ...
to review/download the Cookeville Case Study.
... to preserve water resources, sequester carbon, and maintain natural habitat in the face of extreme climate pressures yet to come. It is also critical because the need for climate action calls for every possible mitigation tool to be utilized in the very near future. Communities cannot afford to sta ...
... to preserve water resources, sequester carbon, and maintain natural habitat in the face of extreme climate pressures yet to come. It is also critical because the need for climate action calls for every possible mitigation tool to be utilized in the very near future. Communities cannot afford to sta ...
Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Playa Lakes Joint Venture
... understanding precise species-level impacts (Pearson & Dawson 2003, Beaumont 2007) and may even provide a false sense of confidence or certainty to resource managers. Such studies may be most helpful as a simple gauge of general directionality and trends; climate and habitat (“bio-climate envelopes” ...
... understanding precise species-level impacts (Pearson & Dawson 2003, Beaumont 2007) and may even provide a false sense of confidence or certainty to resource managers. Such studies may be most helpful as a simple gauge of general directionality and trends; climate and habitat (“bio-climate envelopes” ...
Fact sheets of the international experiences on the formulation and
... The Eastern-Southern African (ESA) region is the most vulnerable to climate change in the world due to social, economic and environmental conditions that amplify susceptibility to negative impacts and contribute to low capacity to cope with and adapt to climate hazards. Current global efforts to add ...
... The Eastern-Southern African (ESA) region is the most vulnerable to climate change in the world due to social, economic and environmental conditions that amplify susceptibility to negative impacts and contribute to low capacity to cope with and adapt to climate hazards. Current global efforts to add ...
Case Study - Sorsogon City
... support of climate change strategies. A major outcome of the initiative will be the development of a set of tools for mitigation and adaptation. This case study follows a report under the Cities and Climate Change Initiative, where four pilot cities were selected in 2009, one of which Sorsogon City, ...
... support of climate change strategies. A major outcome of the initiative will be the development of a set of tools for mitigation and adaptation. This case study follows a report under the Cities and Climate Change Initiative, where four pilot cities were selected in 2009, one of which Sorsogon City, ...
Clare Palmer, “Does Nature Matter? The Place of the Nonhuman in
... Second, there’s a further question about what recognizing species’ interests would commit us to. Is the primary claim just that species should not be harmed? Or can species’ interests be weighed against one another to produce best outcomes? And other things being equal, would it be better if there w ...
... Second, there’s a further question about what recognizing species’ interests would commit us to. Is the primary claim just that species should not be harmed? Or can species’ interests be weighed against one another to produce best outcomes? And other things being equal, would it be better if there w ...
- Wiley Online Library
... (45o N and polewards) for the period 1900–2100. The LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM) was run under contemporary and future climates from four Special Report Emission Scenarios (SRES), A1FI, A2, B1, and B2, based on the Hadley Centre General Circulation Model (GCM), and six climate scen ...
... (45o N and polewards) for the period 1900–2100. The LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM) was run under contemporary and future climates from four Special Report Emission Scenarios (SRES), A1FI, A2, B1, and B2, based on the Hadley Centre General Circulation Model (GCM), and six climate scen ...
Changing Risk Perceptions Policy Brief
... agricultural industry could face significant challenges with more frequent summer water shortages and reduced quality and production of valuable goods such as wine grapes and dairy products. These and other climate impacts have the potential to substantially affect key economic sectors and the quali ...
... agricultural industry could face significant challenges with more frequent summer water shortages and reduced quality and production of valuable goods such as wine grapes and dairy products. These and other climate impacts have the potential to substantially affect key economic sectors and the quali ...
IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION MEASURES ON
... society to adapt to climate change and to achieve sustainable development. They have the capacity to develop environmentally friendly technologies that can be transferred to the developing world. Developing countries, on the other hand, have neither the resources nor the socioeconomic infrastructure ...
... society to adapt to climate change and to achieve sustainable development. They have the capacity to develop environmentally friendly technologies that can be transferred to the developing world. Developing countries, on the other hand, have neither the resources nor the socioeconomic infrastructure ...
6. Atolls in the ocean— canaries in the mine?
... the launch, various scientist co-authors were quoted in the press making statements such as ‘[t]hings are worse than we had predicted [in 2007]’, ‘[w]e are going to see more and more impacts, faster and sooner than we had anticipated’ and ‘[t]he horrible is something quite likely, and we won’t be ab ...
... the launch, various scientist co-authors were quoted in the press making statements such as ‘[t]hings are worse than we had predicted [in 2007]’, ‘[w]e are going to see more and more impacts, faster and sooner than we had anticipated’ and ‘[t]he horrible is something quite likely, and we won’t be ab ...
CLIMATE CHANGE FORUM: Favouring a green economy and sustainable urban development
... • Reduced deforestation and improved forest management and planting of new forests • Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage ...
... • Reduced deforestation and improved forest management and planting of new forests • Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage ...