Turn Down - Climate Analytics
... countries and especially the poor. A 4°C world would be one of unprecedented heat waves, severe drought, and major floods in many regions, with serious impacts on ecosystems and associated services. But with action, a 4°C world can be avoided and we can likely hold warming below 2°C. Without further ...
... countries and especially the poor. A 4°C world would be one of unprecedented heat waves, severe drought, and major floods in many regions, with serious impacts on ecosystems and associated services. But with action, a 4°C world can be avoided and we can likely hold warming below 2°C. Without further ...
ecosystem approach to fisheries management
... and monitoring; implement actions and monitoring; analyze, use, and adapt; and capture and share learning. Active adaptive management is where management options are used as a deliberate experiment for the purpose of learning (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2006). Benchmark – A standard against whi ...
... and monitoring; implement actions and monitoring; analyze, use, and adapt; and capture and share learning. Active adaptive management is where management options are used as a deliberate experiment for the purpose of learning (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2006). Benchmark – A standard against whi ...
Common Concern and Global Public Goods: Evidence, Bits and
... The international community has made a substantial effort to create awareness and foster research as well as developing inventories and methodologies to combat global warming. It has come a long way. The review and assessment of the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information by ...
... The international community has made a substantial effort to create awareness and foster research as well as developing inventories and methodologies to combat global warming. It has come a long way. The review and assessment of the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information by ...
Forests and Climate Change in Latin America: Linking Adaptation
... conservation and sustainable management of ecosystems and their services can generate multiple socio-ecological benefits and promote long-term approaches to climate change adaptation [31]. Under the UNFCCC, least-developed countries are required to produce a National Adaptation Programme of Action ( ...
... conservation and sustainable management of ecosystems and their services can generate multiple socio-ecological benefits and promote long-term approaches to climate change adaptation [31]. Under the UNFCCC, least-developed countries are required to produce a National Adaptation Programme of Action ( ...
Analysis of vegetation distribution in Interior Alaska and sensitivity to
... P-values and t-values of the logistic regression, and its primary value is in interpreting regression coefficients. Model predictions at each hierarchical step were compared with known vegetation over a range of threshold values. Using a classification or contingency table, the threshold with the hi ...
... P-values and t-values of the logistic regression, and its primary value is in interpreting regression coefficients. Model predictions at each hierarchical step were compared with known vegetation over a range of threshold values. Using a classification or contingency table, the threshold with the hi ...
What Is El Niño? - Institute For Global Environmental Strategies
... ■ El Niño’s have occurred for centuries and even millenia. Mankind was not fully aware of this phenomenon until this century, so there are no quantitative records to compare past events with recent intense El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. Thus, while El Niño events are the strongest on re ...
... ■ El Niño’s have occurred for centuries and even millenia. Mankind was not fully aware of this phenomenon until this century, so there are no quantitative records to compare past events with recent intense El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. Thus, while El Niño events are the strongest on re ...
Climate Impacts in Europe The JRC PESETA II Project
... Technological Studies –IPTS– and Institute for Environment and Sustainability –IES–), with more than forty scientists involved from a wide range of disciplines, from river flood modelling to economics. The JRC PESETA II project responds to a need to provide quantitative modelling support to the Euro ...
... Technological Studies –IPTS– and Institute for Environment and Sustainability –IES–), with more than forty scientists involved from a wide range of disciplines, from river flood modelling to economics. The JRC PESETA II project responds to a need to provide quantitative modelling support to the Euro ...
The Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Climate Treaty
... edge. Obama pledged to reduce U.S. emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, with deeper cuts every five years thereafter. That is already significant, but he went much further. He also committed the United States to rapidly phase out fossil fuels over 35 years.4 Therefore, President ...
... edge. Obama pledged to reduce U.S. emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, with deeper cuts every five years thereafter. That is already significant, but he went much further. He also committed the United States to rapidly phase out fossil fuels over 35 years.4 Therefore, President ...
Inter-hemispheric linkages in climate change
... The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termination is of similar or even larger magnitude than the human-induced climate modification expected under future greenhouse-gas scenarios (Wats ...
... The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termination is of similar or even larger magnitude than the human-induced climate modification expected under future greenhouse-gas scenarios (Wats ...
THE BIG LIE - Council for American Students in International
... gravest threat humanity has faced since the onset of the last ice age some 70,000 years ago. 20 How does one explain this marked shift in American public opinion and failure of political will at the turn of the century? It is now welldocumented that, since the early 1990s, there has been a sustained ...
... gravest threat humanity has faced since the onset of the last ice age some 70,000 years ago. 20 How does one explain this marked shift in American public opinion and failure of political will at the turn of the century? It is now welldocumented that, since the early 1990s, there has been a sustained ...
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Nature’s Prophet:
... Knowledge journalists in popular discussion remain loosely identified as celebrity authors who trade in big ideas, coin trends, drive book sales, and inspire movements. Leading contemporary examples include The New York Times’ columnist David Brooks (author of The Social Animal), 1 CNN/Time magazine ...
... Knowledge journalists in popular discussion remain loosely identified as celebrity authors who trade in big ideas, coin trends, drive book sales, and inspire movements. Leading contemporary examples include The New York Times’ columnist David Brooks (author of The Social Animal), 1 CNN/Time magazine ...
GEOPOLITICAL IDENTITY OF CHINA IN INTERNATIONAL
... development conference Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The Summit accepted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which entered into force in 1994 and is at the present time ratified by 197 countries often referred as the Parties to the Convention (UNFCCC 20 ...
... development conference Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The Summit accepted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which entered into force in 1994 and is at the present time ratified by 197 countries often referred as the Parties to the Convention (UNFCCC 20 ...
ISSUE BRIEF 14 mANDATORy REGUlATION OF NONTRADITIONAl GREENHOUSE GASES: POlICy OPTIONS FOR INDUSTRIAl
... 13 Testimony of Mack McFarland, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, May 23, 2007. 14 Note that an economy-wide policy would capture all potential trade-offs in terms of climate benefit. For example, switching to refrigerants with lower GWPs would be beneficia ...
... 13 Testimony of Mack McFarland, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, May 23, 2007. 14 Note that an economy-wide policy would capture all potential trade-offs in terms of climate benefit. For example, switching to refrigerants with lower GWPs would be beneficia ...
PDF - World Agroforestry Centre
... will affect and have increasingly substantial and direct impacts on human health and livelihoods throughout this region as this century progresses. Likewise, effectiveness of both conservation efforts and sustainable development will be affected as ecological conditions across the region change, for ...
... will affect and have increasingly substantial and direct impacts on human health and livelihoods throughout this region as this century progresses. Likewise, effectiveness of both conservation efforts and sustainable development will be affected as ecological conditions across the region change, for ...
Assessment of flash floods taking into account climate
... There have been several attempts to define independence criteria (Lang et al., 1999). Nevertheless, due to the difficulty of using physical arguments to define the dependence between two events, the methodology defined by Miquel (1984) is the one that will be used in this study. This approach does n ...
... There have been several attempts to define independence criteria (Lang et al., 1999). Nevertheless, due to the difficulty of using physical arguments to define the dependence between two events, the methodology defined by Miquel (1984) is the one that will be used in this study. This approach does n ...
NAMA Coffee Costa Rica
... Costa Rica took on the challenge to achieve carbon neutrality in 2021. Setting this goal required the establishment of an institutional framework to connect the different sectors in which mitigation measures would be implemented on a national level. The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) is ...
... Costa Rica took on the challenge to achieve carbon neutrality in 2021. Setting this goal required the establishment of an institutional framework to connect the different sectors in which mitigation measures would be implemented on a national level. The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) is ...
Climate Change and International Economic Law
... 1980s and reached a zenith in the 1990s, developing states entered into international investment agreements with developed states hoping to attract muchneeded foreign capital.9 Although these agreements provided new opportunities for economic development, they also limited states‘ ability to regulat ...
... 1980s and reached a zenith in the 1990s, developing states entered into international investment agreements with developed states hoping to attract muchneeded foreign capital.9 Although these agreements provided new opportunities for economic development, they also limited states‘ ability to regulat ...
Climate Change and Its Causes - The Science and Public Policy
... Figure 4: Climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling in function of the feedbacks (from Knutti and Hegerl [5]). Note the large uncertainty: a CO2 doubling may cause a global warming from 1 oC to 10 oC at equilibrium. The figure on the left explains why there exists such a large error. The GHG warming theo ...
... Figure 4: Climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling in function of the feedbacks (from Knutti and Hegerl [5]). Note the large uncertainty: a CO2 doubling may cause a global warming from 1 oC to 10 oC at equilibrium. The figure on the left explains why there exists such a large error. The GHG warming theo ...
A Multi-Model Assessment of Regional Climate Disparities Caused
... power, for example. However, as long as the regions considered here undergo differential ...
... power, for example. However, as long as the regions considered here undergo differential ...
Climate Change Scenario Simulations over Area Climate Model:
... United Kingdom (UK) was obtained and implemented. Such a climate model that is based upon the physical laws of nature has the ability to simulate regional-scale atmospheric patterns, and therefore, may significantly contribute to our understanding of local atmospheric processes. In this dissertation ...
... United Kingdom (UK) was obtained and implemented. Such a climate model that is based upon the physical laws of nature has the ability to simulate regional-scale atmospheric patterns, and therefore, may significantly contribute to our understanding of local atmospheric processes. In this dissertation ...
Ecological footprint, climate change and cities
... It is generally known that there would be no life without solar energy. Solar energy warms the Earth surface when reaching it. The Earth is not only reflecting this energy but is changing it to infrared radiation (heat) as well. Due to presence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which cover the E ...
... It is generally known that there would be no life without solar energy. Solar energy warms the Earth surface when reaching it. The Earth is not only reflecting this energy but is changing it to infrared radiation (heat) as well. Due to presence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which cover the E ...