Where We Are Now - Edinburgh Research Explorer
... moral responsibility. However, it pushes the boundaries of traditional moral thinking. It goes beyond even attempts to assign responsibility for collective inaction (where there is not yet an identifiable collectivity that has chosen not to act, but a number of individuals could have organized thems ...
... moral responsibility. However, it pushes the boundaries of traditional moral thinking. It goes beyond even attempts to assign responsibility for collective inaction (where there is not yet an identifiable collectivity that has chosen not to act, but a number of individuals could have organized thems ...
Creating a Climate Smart DFID
... against which offices are encouraged to assess themselves: bronze, silver and gold. You will need to agree the level of response which your office aims to reach with your Director and when you want to start your SPR by the latest early 2012. This will help you allocate resources and plan your activi ...
... against which offices are encouraged to assess themselves: bronze, silver and gold. You will need to agree the level of response which your office aims to reach with your Director and when you want to start your SPR by the latest early 2012. This will help you allocate resources and plan your activi ...
Content Analysis - University of Wisconsin
... devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other prestigious universities around the world. The documentary hasn't aired in the U.S., but it's available on the YouTube.” ...
... devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other prestigious universities around the world. The documentary hasn't aired in the U.S., but it's available on the YouTube.” ...
Managing Climate Change Risk in Coastal Canadian Communities
... implications of the new environmental and climate change risks disclosure regime on the financial sector, and on recommendations to help align policy and industry’s resources toward an effective approach to mitigate climate change. To inform this research, Jason works directly with business and gove ...
... implications of the new environmental and climate change risks disclosure regime on the financial sector, and on recommendations to help align policy and industry’s resources toward an effective approach to mitigate climate change. To inform this research, Jason works directly with business and gove ...
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... the study area was 12 persons. Household with large size tended to attach greater importance to food security than those with small size. This finding had implication for adoption level of technologies in the study area. It however signified that the farmers had a fairly large household, which could ...
... the study area was 12 persons. Household with large size tended to attach greater importance to food security than those with small size. This finding had implication for adoption level of technologies in the study area. It however signified that the farmers had a fairly large household, which could ...
draft proposal - Stockholm Environment Institute
... controlling air pollution and greenhouse gases. The conference will be held in the autumn of 2008. The location of the conference has yet to be determined. The conference and Forum programme will focus on three major themes: 1. Towards optimizing integrated strategies for air pollution and climate c ...
... controlling air pollution and greenhouse gases. The conference will be held in the autumn of 2008. The location of the conference has yet to be determined. The conference and Forum programme will focus on three major themes: 1. Towards optimizing integrated strategies for air pollution and climate c ...
question proforma (Word) - Committee on Climate Change
... progress in Scotland and the Paris Agreement, this will include an ambitious new target of reducing emissions by more than 50% on a gross basis against 1990 levels by 2020. In early 2017 the Government plans to publish a new Climate Change Plan and a new Energy Strategy, which together will set out ...
... progress in Scotland and the Paris Agreement, this will include an ambitious new target of reducing emissions by more than 50% on a gross basis against 1990 levels by 2020. In early 2017 the Government plans to publish a new Climate Change Plan and a new Energy Strategy, which together will set out ...
3. Adaptation of EU agriculture to climatic changes
... with unknown net results, as the crop responses to climatic variations are still not well understood. Although climate change is a global process, its local impacts are diverse. Overall net effects on farm activities will vary across the EU and between farm types within the same region. Annex 1 summ ...
... with unknown net results, as the crop responses to climatic variations are still not well understood. Although climate change is a global process, its local impacts are diverse. Overall net effects on farm activities will vary across the EU and between farm types within the same region. Annex 1 summ ...
Implications of Global Climatic Change on Water and Food Security
... even shrinking land resources due to increasing competition for land from the nonagricultural sector. Alleviating poverty and attaining food security at the household and sub-national/regional level is thus a major challenge. The net availability of food at any given time depends on a number of loca ...
... even shrinking land resources due to increasing competition for land from the nonagricultural sector. Alleviating poverty and attaining food security at the household and sub-national/regional level is thus a major challenge. The net availability of food at any given time depends on a number of loca ...
Don`t Kill Kyoto
... We have criticised many elements of the Protocol, including the problems caused by the carbon trading system and the loopholes in the accounting methods provided. However, Kyoto is the only existing legal architecture for setting legally binding emissions targets for developed countries. It must be ...
... We have criticised many elements of the Protocol, including the problems caused by the carbon trading system and the loopholes in the accounting methods provided. However, Kyoto is the only existing legal architecture for setting legally binding emissions targets for developed countries. It must be ...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics Working Paper Series
... The climate is a key ingredient in the Earth's complex system that sustains human life and wellbeing. According to the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) due to human activity, largely combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, are ...
... The climate is a key ingredient in the Earth's complex system that sustains human life and wellbeing. According to the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) due to human activity, largely combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, are ...
Glossary of Synthesis Report
... Carbon dioxide (CO2) A naturally occurring gas, also a by-product of burning fossil fuels from fossil carbon deposits, such as oil, gas and coal, of burning biomass and of land use changes and other industrial processes. It is the principal anthropogenic greenhouse gas that affects the Earth’s radia ...
... Carbon dioxide (CO2) A naturally occurring gas, also a by-product of burning fossil fuels from fossil carbon deposits, such as oil, gas and coal, of burning biomass and of land use changes and other industrial processes. It is the principal anthropogenic greenhouse gas that affects the Earth’s radia ...
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
... The recognition that anthropogenic activity is causing global warming (Houghton et al., 2001; Solomon et al., 2007) has emphasized the importance of developing climate models with predictive capability. In recent decades considerable effort has been devoted to evaluating state-of-the-art climate mod ...
... The recognition that anthropogenic activity is causing global warming (Houghton et al., 2001; Solomon et al., 2007) has emphasized the importance of developing climate models with predictive capability. In recent decades considerable effort has been devoted to evaluating state-of-the-art climate mod ...
Economic Impacts Of Climate Change On Georgia
... state and local studies are used to expand on this work, as well as new calculations derived from federal, state and industry data sources. The economic data is then related to predicted impacts of climate change provided from climate models. To standardize the results, all of the figures used in th ...
... state and local studies are used to expand on this work, as well as new calculations derived from federal, state and industry data sources. The economic data is then related to predicted impacts of climate change provided from climate models. To standardize the results, all of the figures used in th ...
WWF Climate Savers
... resource constraints will move to economic ones related to sharing of opportunity and costs Seeking solutions to local and global challenges: Move to growth and progress based on balancing renewable resources and recycling non-renewable resources. Change in framework conditions: Shifts in regula ...
... resource constraints will move to economic ones related to sharing of opportunity and costs Seeking solutions to local and global challenges: Move to growth and progress based on balancing renewable resources and recycling non-renewable resources. Change in framework conditions: Shifts in regula ...
Climate Refugees - Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin
... 1st report recognized that the greatest single impact of climate change will be on human migration People will move temporarily (due to severe weather events) or permanently (severe drought, lack of resources or in the case of small island states) – is a form of adaptation Projected numbers range ...
... 1st report recognized that the greatest single impact of climate change will be on human migration People will move temporarily (due to severe weather events) or permanently (severe drought, lack of resources or in the case of small island states) – is a form of adaptation Projected numbers range ...
Your opinion on climate change might not be as common as you think
... number of people who doubt climate change is occurring, and have undermined the scientific consensus surrounding climate change20–23 . Media bias can also predict community attitudes towards contentious issues, in turn enhancing and entrenching false consensus effects24 . We note however that Austra ...
... number of people who doubt climate change is occurring, and have undermined the scientific consensus surrounding climate change20–23 . Media bias can also predict community attitudes towards contentious issues, in turn enhancing and entrenching false consensus effects24 . We note however that Austra ...
Vegetation Responses to Rapid Climate Change at the Late
... Hypothetical diagram of the occurrence of species A-J over an environmental gradient. The length of the gradient is expressed in standard deviation units (SD units). Broken lines (A’, C’, H’, J’) describe fitted occurrences of species A, C, H and J respectively. If sampling takes place over a gradi ...
... Hypothetical diagram of the occurrence of species A-J over an environmental gradient. The length of the gradient is expressed in standard deviation units (SD units). Broken lines (A’, C’, H’, J’) describe fitted occurrences of species A, C, H and J respectively. If sampling takes place over a gradi ...
Air Pollution, Climate Disruption, and Ozone Depletion
... credits, which allow it to emit a certain amount of SO2. – A utility that emits less than its allotted amount has a surplus of pollution credits which it can use to offset SO2 emissions at its other plants, keep for future plant expansions, or sell to other utilities or private parties. ...
... credits, which allow it to emit a certain amount of SO2. – A utility that emits less than its allotted amount has a surplus of pollution credits which it can use to offset SO2 emissions at its other plants, keep for future plant expansions, or sell to other utilities or private parties. ...
Climate Change and International Deforestation: Legislative Analysis
... The Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA; P.L. 105-214; 22 U.S.C. §2431) authorizes debt-for-nature transactions, where developing country debt is exchanged for local funds to conserve tropical forests. Conservation funds (in local currency) from these transactions are deposited in a tropical fore ...
... The Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA; P.L. 105-214; 22 U.S.C. §2431) authorizes debt-for-nature transactions, where developing country debt is exchanged for local funds to conserve tropical forests. Conservation funds (in local currency) from these transactions are deposited in a tropical fore ...
Summary of the ideas 2015 cut-off
... by particle source, transport and loss processes. Understanding and modelling this dynamic environment is essential to help protect our space assets. This highlight topic proposes to increase our understanding of the satellite environment by assessing the role of wave particle interactions in the ac ...
... by particle source, transport and loss processes. Understanding and modelling this dynamic environment is essential to help protect our space assets. This highlight topic proposes to increase our understanding of the satellite environment by assessing the role of wave particle interactions in the ac ...
Interaction between Climate Change and the Cryosphere
... programme, the calls for proposals and the evaluation more on what is to be done and who can do it best, than on which country applicants come from. This is rare in international research collaboration, where the norm is for each country to support only its own scientists, apply its own conditions t ...
... programme, the calls for proposals and the evaluation more on what is to be done and who can do it best, than on which country applicants come from. This is rare in international research collaboration, where the norm is for each country to support only its own scientists, apply its own conditions t ...
Chapter 1: Overview
... Like the glass walls of a greenhouse, certain gases trap heat. How do they do this? Shortwave radiation from the sun passes through the earth’s atmosphere and is absorbed by the surface, thereby warming it. Some of this absorbed energy is reradiated back toward space in a different form: as infrared ...
... Like the glass walls of a greenhouse, certain gases trap heat. How do they do this? Shortwave radiation from the sun passes through the earth’s atmosphere and is absorbed by the surface, thereby warming it. Some of this absorbed energy is reradiated back toward space in a different form: as infrared ...