Letter from Bob Ward to Peter Lilley, 22 February 2013
... greenhouse gas pollution. The intention is that an appropriate price provides the necessary disincentive against emitting pollution. Some have tried to argue that introducing a price on greenhouse gas pollution would increase the price of fossil fuels so much that economic growth would be significan ...
... greenhouse gas pollution. The intention is that an appropriate price provides the necessary disincentive against emitting pollution. Some have tried to argue that introducing a price on greenhouse gas pollution would increase the price of fossil fuels so much that economic growth would be significan ...
An Integrated Approach to Energy Access and Climate Change
... Long lead times and untested technologies: private markets get nervous, limits available investment Regulatory uncertainty: limits mobilization of long-term capital Carbon finance insufficient: unmitigated risks ...
... Long lead times and untested technologies: private markets get nervous, limits available investment Regulatory uncertainty: limits mobilization of long-term capital Carbon finance insufficient: unmitigated risks ...
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... From an objective viewpoint, the set of interactions involved in climate change has many of the characteristics commonly associated with complex systems. First, important aspects of the system are highly nonlinear. Because of nonlinearity of the atmospheric system, daily weather patterns are imposs ...
... From an objective viewpoint, the set of interactions involved in climate change has many of the characteristics commonly associated with complex systems. First, important aspects of the system are highly nonlinear. Because of nonlinearity of the atmospheric system, daily weather patterns are imposs ...
Testing the hypothesis of dangerous human
... become resilient to the full range of these natural phenomena by promoting economic growth and wealth generation. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a n ...
... become resilient to the full range of these natural phenomena by promoting economic growth and wealth generation. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a n ...
Outcomes of 21st Session of Conference of
... (iii) strengthen our institutional capacity to respond to extreme events, such as droughts and floods, and slow onset events, such as shifting rainfall patterns that have an impact on crop production. ...
... (iii) strengthen our institutional capacity to respond to extreme events, such as droughts and floods, and slow onset events, such as shifting rainfall patterns that have an impact on crop production. ...
THE CARBON CYCLE - Issaquah Connect
... Burning anything releases more carbon into the atmosphere — especially fossil fuels. Burning Fossil Fuels releases carbon stores ...
... Burning anything releases more carbon into the atmosphere — especially fossil fuels. Burning Fossil Fuels releases carbon stores ...
Climate Service - Hans von Storch
... • a severe competition of knowledge claims takes place; • interest-led parties attempt to include the scientific community in their strategy; • claims are made that political strategies follow directly from scientific knowledge; • political utility is often of greater significance than scientific me ...
... • a severe competition of knowledge claims takes place; • interest-led parties attempt to include the scientific community in their strategy; • claims are made that political strategies follow directly from scientific knowledge; • political utility is often of greater significance than scientific me ...
What to Do? Does Science have a Role?
... No longer disputed: • Climate change is real • The costs of unregulated climate change greatly exceed the costs of mitigation • There exist various technologies that, in combination, could limit global warming to acceptable levels (< 20C above pre-industrial) • The estimated costs (-1% to 4% of GDP ...
... No longer disputed: • Climate change is real • The costs of unregulated climate change greatly exceed the costs of mitigation • There exist various technologies that, in combination, could limit global warming to acceptable levels (< 20C above pre-industrial) • The estimated costs (-1% to 4% of GDP ...
Climate Change Adaptation
... Step 3: Identify, assess and select elements of an adaptation strategy In this step the adaptation strategy is formulated. This may include mitigation measures, which can include measures such as preventing the loss of peatlands and forests (both of which are major storages of carbon). For effective ...
... Step 3: Identify, assess and select elements of an adaptation strategy In this step the adaptation strategy is formulated. This may include mitigation measures, which can include measures such as preventing the loss of peatlands and forests (both of which are major storages of carbon). For effective ...
A/R in the CDM – recent issues
... Inclusion would have to be considered in setting of emission targets of Annex I countries ...
... Inclusion would have to be considered in setting of emission targets of Annex I countries ...
Reducing Global Carbon: Creating an American Policy
... The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) first assessment report, released in 1990, calculated that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions had been responsible for more than half of the greenhouse gas effect. As of 2006, the United States, China, and European Union (EU) consume ...
... The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) first assessment report, released in 1990, calculated that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions had been responsible for more than half of the greenhouse gas effect. As of 2006, the United States, China, and European Union (EU) consume ...
Eos
... role in influencing environmental variability and change, including their influence on the climate system. To advance scientists’ understanding of the role of humans within the climate system, there remains a need to resolve which of the following three hypotheses is correct: Hypothesis 1: Human influe ...
... role in influencing environmental variability and change, including their influence on the climate system. To advance scientists’ understanding of the role of humans within the climate system, there remains a need to resolve which of the following three hypotheses is correct: Hypothesis 1: Human influe ...
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... • Research examples of positive feedback in Earth’s climate. • Choose a specific example of positive feedback in Earth’s climate. • Create a short presentation providing evidence to support your example, relating the example to extinctions today. • In your presentation, make a case for or against ac ...
... • Research examples of positive feedback in Earth’s climate. • Choose a specific example of positive feedback in Earth’s climate. • Create a short presentation providing evidence to support your example, relating the example to extinctions today. • In your presentation, make a case for or against ac ...
The relevance of climate change integrated assessment models in
... IAMs are useful tools that allow us to answer two crucial questions arising from the current debate about international global warming policies: • How can international policies be most effective if developing countries are not involved in emissions stabilising policies? • What would be the conseq ...
... IAMs are useful tools that allow us to answer two crucial questions arising from the current debate about international global warming policies: • How can international policies be most effective if developing countries are not involved in emissions stabilising policies? • What would be the conseq ...
National Climate Change Adaptation Programme
... • Changed rainfall • Increased temperature • Increased atmospheric evaporative potential • Nutritional change … on its capacity to produce & compete ...
... • Changed rainfall • Increased temperature • Increased atmospheric evaporative potential • Nutritional change … on its capacity to produce & compete ...
Action - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
... representative of the Mayan peoples on a national indigenous peoples and climate change mesa (roundtable) in Guatemala. (out of all of them, he is most involved in UNFCCC) Rogeliano Solis of the Kuna Yala people of Panama teaches Natural Sciences and advises on issues of importance to the environmen ...
... representative of the Mayan peoples on a national indigenous peoples and climate change mesa (roundtable) in Guatemala. (out of all of them, he is most involved in UNFCCC) Rogeliano Solis of the Kuna Yala people of Panama teaches Natural Sciences and advises on issues of importance to the environmen ...
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... The effects of varying the key parameter values is shown in Table 1. For values of CD(BAU), the damage cost under BAU, ranging from 5 to 20 per cent of income and full mitigation costs ranging from $50/tonne to $200/tonne, the show the optimal target (ppm), carbon price (S/ton) and welfare gain (per ...
... The effects of varying the key parameter values is shown in Table 1. For values of CD(BAU), the damage cost under BAU, ranging from 5 to 20 per cent of income and full mitigation costs ranging from $50/tonne to $200/tonne, the show the optimal target (ppm), carbon price (S/ton) and welfare gain (per ...
Modelling Institutional Change - University of Gloucestershire
... good practice to share with others ...
... good practice to share with others ...
Letter to Lamar Smith 18 December 2015 (opens in new window)
... the results of the Asia modelling exercise about pledges for emissions reductions by 2020, and does not cite any costs for China. This is another example of Dr Lomborg not accurately representing the results of the research. Based on his flawed and misrepresentative claims about the costs of reducin ...
... the results of the Asia modelling exercise about pledges for emissions reductions by 2020, and does not cite any costs for China. This is another example of Dr Lomborg not accurately representing the results of the research. Based on his flawed and misrepresentative claims about the costs of reducin ...
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions
... of direct atmospheric measurements. This makes application to a different period risky, particularly if processes are changing as a result of environmental change. Similarly, the problem with using an ensemble of process models to estimate trends in natural sinks is the absence of bottomup informati ...
... of direct atmospheric measurements. This makes application to a different period risky, particularly if processes are changing as a result of environmental change. Similarly, the problem with using an ensemble of process models to estimate trends in natural sinks is the absence of bottomup informati ...
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (or CPRS) was a proposed cap-and-trade system of emissions trading for anthropogenic greenhouse gases, due to be introduced in Australia in 2010 by the Rudd government, as part of its climate change policy. It marked a major change in the energy policy of Australia. The policy began when the Australian Labor Party was in opposition and the six Labor-controlled states commissioned an independent review on energy policy, the Garnaut Climate Change Review, which published a number of reports. Labor, after winning the federal election and forming a government, published a Green paper for discussion and comment. The Federal Treasury then modelled some of the financial and economic impacts of the proposed scheme.The Rudd Government published a final white paper on 15 December 2008. The Government announced that the legislation was intended to take effect in July 2010; but the legislation for the CPRS (aka ETS) failed to gain adequate support and was twice rejected creating a double dissolution election trigger. After a bitter political debate which saw former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull lose his leadership of the opposition to the anti-CPRS Tony Abbott. The Rudd government did not call an election and the CPRS lost public support. In April 2010, Labor then deferred the CPRS. A successor to the CPRS, the Carbon Pricing Mechanism (CPM) was passed into law as part of the Clean Energy Futures Package (CEF) in 2011, but was repealed in July 2014 following a change in government.