Oil Shortages, Climate Change and Collective Action
... scenario for 2030 oil demand were 119.9 million barrels/day (mb/d, 5759 Mtoe) in 2002, 116.1mb/d in 2006, 106.4mb/d in 2008, and 105mb/d in WEO 2009. Significantly, only 26mb/d or 25% of that is projected to come from existing fields, while 50% is to come from fields yet to be developed or found, wi ...
... scenario for 2030 oil demand were 119.9 million barrels/day (mb/d, 5759 Mtoe) in 2002, 116.1mb/d in 2006, 106.4mb/d in 2008, and 105mb/d in WEO 2009. Significantly, only 26mb/d or 25% of that is projected to come from existing fields, while 50% is to come from fields yet to be developed or found, wi ...
Climate change and Genghis Khan
... 19th century. Printed in a bedeviling script using Chinese characters to represent Mongol sounds, the text was not fully deciphered until the 1980s. But while rich with details about Genghis Khan’s life, the Secret History is also heavy on folklore, and it says nothing about resource use or climate ...
... 19th century. Printed in a bedeviling script using Chinese characters to represent Mongol sounds, the text was not fully deciphered until the 1980s. But while rich with details about Genghis Khan’s life, the Secret History is also heavy on folklore, and it says nothing about resource use or climate ...
Evaluation Brief Second National Communication
... component of the project with vital contributions to the endogenous researches and communities inclusion to the findings. There was also the use of both the print and electronics with respect to information dissemination to the wider public. The Terminal Evaluation found out that there is the strong ...
... component of the project with vital contributions to the endogenous researches and communities inclusion to the findings. There was also the use of both the print and electronics with respect to information dissemination to the wider public. The Terminal Evaluation found out that there is the strong ...
... The politics of climate change are complex due to numerous factors that arise from the global economy's complex interdependence on carbon dioxide emitting hydrocarbon energy sources and because carbon dioxide is directly implicated in global warming making global warming a non-traditional environmen ...
Carbon, climate change, and controversy
... atmospheric carbon dioxide growth rate over the period 2000 to 2009 was 2.5% per year compared with 1% per year from 1990 to 1999 (Figure 7). Le Quéré et al. (2009) note that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions are likely due to increased contributions from emerging economies, production ...
... atmospheric carbon dioxide growth rate over the period 2000 to 2009 was 2.5% per year compared with 1% per year from 1990 to 1999 (Figure 7). Le Quéré et al. (2009) note that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions are likely due to increased contributions from emerging economies, production ...
Modelling regional responses by marine pelagic ecosystems to
... effort is required to incorporate climate-mediated shifts in marine ecosystems—driven on regional scales by biogeography, the interplay of environmental factors, and oceanic forcing—to assess the cumulative magnitude and sign of biotic feedbacks. [10] Presently, it is ill-advised to proceed directly ...
... effort is required to incorporate climate-mediated shifts in marine ecosystems—driven on regional scales by biogeography, the interplay of environmental factors, and oceanic forcing—to assess the cumulative magnitude and sign of biotic feedbacks. [10] Presently, it is ill-advised to proceed directly ...
This snapshot shows the ocean currents at a depth of 75 meters, as
... low the Ekman current at a depth of 100 to 1,000 meters, and extends across the entire width of the Atlantic basin. “First we measure all three components separately, and later we add the values together,” explains Marotzke. The latitude of 26.5 degrees north was not chosen by chance – some data ser ...
... low the Ekman current at a depth of 100 to 1,000 meters, and extends across the entire width of the Atlantic basin. “First we measure all three components separately, and later we add the values together,” explains Marotzke. The latitude of 26.5 degrees north was not chosen by chance – some data ser ...
climate change
... temperature change across south east Australia, with consistently warmer temperatures each decade since the 1950s. The fine line indicates the annual average, while the bars show the 10-year average. The central image represents a typical summer and shows the regional variation in temperatures in so ...
... temperature change across south east Australia, with consistently warmer temperatures each decade since the 1950s. The fine line indicates the annual average, while the bars show the 10-year average. The central image represents a typical summer and shows the regional variation in temperatures in so ...
AlphaSource Advisors Inks Historic Partnership with The Rainforest
... The consortium aims to develop and fund comprehensive landscape protection programs aligning incentives that benefit smallholders, communities, government, businesses and consumers as envisioned by the UN climate change mitigation mechanism known as REDD+, an acronym for Reducing Emissions from Defo ...
... The consortium aims to develop and fund comprehensive landscape protection programs aligning incentives that benefit smallholders, communities, government, businesses and consumers as envisioned by the UN climate change mitigation mechanism known as REDD+, an acronym for Reducing Emissions from Defo ...
Glacial `climate control` - British Geological Survey
... covered by ice (the cryosphere) and the input of boundary conditions for former ice sheets. Geological evidence of former ice sheets can provide the parameters for climate models as well as testing the accuracy of their outputs. Therefore, ice-sheet reconstructions can form an independent check on c ...
... covered by ice (the cryosphere) and the input of boundary conditions for former ice sheets. Geological evidence of former ice sheets can provide the parameters for climate models as well as testing the accuracy of their outputs. Therefore, ice-sheet reconstructions can form an independent check on c ...
The Climate Change Act (2008) - The Institute for Government
... Although FoE led the way, for the first time more than a hundred NGOs including Action Aid; CAFOD; Friends of the Earth; The National Trust; Oxfam; RSPB; UNISON; the Women’s Institute; and the WWF came together as part of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition . The Big Ask campaign was launched in 2005 a ...
... Although FoE led the way, for the first time more than a hundred NGOs including Action Aid; CAFOD; Friends of the Earth; The National Trust; Oxfam; RSPB; UNISON; the Women’s Institute; and the WWF came together as part of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition . The Big Ask campaign was launched in 2005 a ...
Climate Action – Time to Act (PDF 4 MB, accessible)
... human action. Only if we systematically reduce greenhouse gas emissions will it still be possible to keep climate change within manageable limits. In the least developed countries in particular, climate change is posing a threat to development achievements and is making it more difficult to achieve ...
... human action. Only if we systematically reduce greenhouse gas emissions will it still be possible to keep climate change within manageable limits. In the least developed countries in particular, climate change is posing a threat to development achievements and is making it more difficult to achieve ...
http://www.sviva.gov.il/English/env_topics/climatechange/Documents/Climate-Change-Turning-Challenges-into-Opportunities-Sept-2014.pdf
... Alongside mitigation measures, adaptation The measures initiated in Israel in recent years strategies to cope with the climate change are based on the recognition that the reduction impacts which are anticipated over the coming of GHG emissions does not only contribute decades are imperative. An Isr ...
... Alongside mitigation measures, adaptation The measures initiated in Israel in recent years strategies to cope with the climate change are based on the recognition that the reduction impacts which are anticipated over the coming of GHG emissions does not only contribute decades are imperative. An Isr ...
Climate Change: Lessons for our Future from the Distant Past
... 4 Four greenhouse gases Greenhouse gases are crucial to life on earth, as they are fundamental to maintaining the planet’s temperature within limits supportive of life. There are four important greenhouse gases: water vapour (H2 O), carbon dioxide (CO2 ), nitrous oxide (N2 O), and methane (CH4 ). Th ...
... 4 Four greenhouse gases Greenhouse gases are crucial to life on earth, as they are fundamental to maintaining the planet’s temperature within limits supportive of life. There are four important greenhouse gases: water vapour (H2 O), carbon dioxide (CO2 ), nitrous oxide (N2 O), and methane (CH4 ). Th ...
E100 Global Warming Conf
... E162 Global Climate Change Conference, Fall 2005 I. Introduction In December of 1997, the world's leaders met in Kyoto, Japan where they agreed to a set of binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases (pollution emissions, like carbon dioxide and methane that contribute to global climate change). ...
... E162 Global Climate Change Conference, Fall 2005 I. Introduction In December of 1997, the world's leaders met in Kyoto, Japan where they agreed to a set of binding limits on emissions of greenhouse gases (pollution emissions, like carbon dioxide and methane that contribute to global climate change). ...
Climate trends, variations and climate change
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “The work of the…IPCC represents the consensus of the international science community on climate change science. We recognize IPCC as the world’s most reliable source of information…and endorse its method of achieving this consensus.” Joint state ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “The work of the…IPCC represents the consensus of the international science community on climate change science. We recognize IPCC as the world’s most reliable source of information…and endorse its method of achieving this consensus.” Joint state ...
Change - Hans von Storch
... Change is bad; change is a response to evil doings by egoistic social forces. In these days, in particular: climate change caused by people and greedy companies. ...
... Change is bad; change is a response to evil doings by egoistic social forces. In these days, in particular: climate change caused by people and greedy companies. ...
Great Plains - USA National Phenology Network
... some later, while oth- has increased from 1995-2009 by as much as 16 days, with This is one in a series of eight, ers show no change.” longer allergy seasons in the north. Researchers attributed geographic region-focused information sheets that sum- this to regional warming that delayed the onset of ...
... some later, while oth- has increased from 1995-2009 by as much as 16 days, with This is one in a series of eight, ers show no change.” longer allergy seasons in the north. Researchers attributed geographic region-focused information sheets that sum- this to regional warming that delayed the onset of ...
Ask for a camel when you expect to get a goat
... dimensions: differences between the powerful, industrialized developed countries of the North and those of the ‘developing ‘ countries of the South.The two main issues of contention are firstly, the future of the Kyoto Protocol which promotes carbon trading, and secondly the operation and funding of ...
... dimensions: differences between the powerful, industrialized developed countries of the North and those of the ‘developing ‘ countries of the South.The two main issues of contention are firstly, the future of the Kyoto Protocol which promotes carbon trading, and secondly the operation and funding of ...
Slide 1
... The physical risks associated with climate change will vary across sectors and countries and coping with natural disasters is expensive. Wal-Mart documents a sales loss of $225,000,000 from the temporary closure of three stores and permanent closure of another three resulting from Hurricane Katrina ...
... The physical risks associated with climate change will vary across sectors and countries and coping with natural disasters is expensive. Wal-Mart documents a sales loss of $225,000,000 from the temporary closure of three stores and permanent closure of another three resulting from Hurricane Katrina ...
Are human actions causing climate change? – Pro or Con
... reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, catastrophic climate changes would severely disrupt human societies, leading to a possible collapse of industrial civilization. In 2007, the IPCC released its fourth assessment report stating that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal" and that "most o ...
... reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, catastrophic climate changes would severely disrupt human societies, leading to a possible collapse of industrial civilization. In 2007, the IPCC released its fourth assessment report stating that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal" and that "most o ...
Lindene Patton
... property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider. As a 27 year industry veteran, Ms. Patton provides CoreLogic with a broad range of experience in insurance and risk management, global climate research and analysis, environmental science and legal affairs. In 2013, Ms. Patton co-au ...
... property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider. As a 27 year industry veteran, Ms. Patton provides CoreLogic with a broad range of experience in insurance and risk management, global climate research and analysis, environmental science and legal affairs. In 2013, Ms. Patton co-au ...