What Should the Government Do To Encourage Technical
... transform military technology. In this situation, the major uncertainty facing the government manager is whether a technology project will meet set performance, schedule, and cost objectives. Of course, the cultural hurdle of convincing existing institutions to accept change is present, but the unce ...
... transform military technology. In this situation, the major uncertainty facing the government manager is whether a technology project will meet set performance, schedule, and cost objectives. Of course, the cultural hurdle of convincing existing institutions to accept change is present, but the unce ...
Lessons learned from the 2000s Western drought: Evolving linkages between
... – Climate in CO is highly variable compared to other states – The mountains and elevation make Colorado’s climate unique compared with other Western states – Temperatures have been increasing in CO – Educate about models and their strengths and weaknesses – Temperature projections are consistent: wi ...
... – Climate in CO is highly variable compared to other states – The mountains and elevation make Colorado’s climate unique compared with other Western states – Temperatures have been increasing in CO – Educate about models and their strengths and weaknesses – Temperature projections are consistent: wi ...
Climate Change and Global Health: What are the Governance
... behavior, costs of implementing energy and industrial policies, opposition of vested interests, and the challenge of international coordination across countries at varying stages of development. Therefore, a priority is to create carbon reduction policies with ancillary co-benefits, such as improved ...
... behavior, costs of implementing energy and industrial policies, opposition of vested interests, and the challenge of international coordination across countries at varying stages of development. Therefore, a priority is to create carbon reduction policies with ancillary co-benefits, such as improved ...
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
... Access to Information, Including Information from International Centers and Networks The take-off point for this activity is the massive dissemination of the Initial National Communication, which should serve to further raise awareness on the climate change issue, the global efforts to address the s ...
... Access to Information, Including Information from International Centers and Networks The take-off point for this activity is the massive dissemination of the Initial National Communication, which should serve to further raise awareness on the climate change issue, the global efforts to address the s ...
Choice, Not Control: Why Limiting the Fertility of Poor Populations
... a country’s population growth and carbon footprint. First, it is human consumption, fundamentally controlled and driven by wealthier populations, not the reproductive behaviour of poor populations, that is overstretching the capacity of our ecosystems. Suggesting otherwise puts false blame on popula ...
... a country’s population growth and carbon footprint. First, it is human consumption, fundamentally controlled and driven by wealthier populations, not the reproductive behaviour of poor populations, that is overstretching the capacity of our ecosystems. Suggesting otherwise puts false blame on popula ...
Ten Overlooked Issues in the IPCC and US National Assessments of Climate Change
... 1. Past climate is a useful guide to the future - Assessing past climate conditions provides a very effective analysis tool to assess societal and environmental vulnerability to future climate, regardless of the extent the future climate is altered by human activity. Our current and future vulnerabi ...
... 1. Past climate is a useful guide to the future - Assessing past climate conditions provides a very effective analysis tool to assess societal and environmental vulnerability to future climate, regardless of the extent the future climate is altered by human activity. Our current and future vulnerabi ...
Document
... is a regulating service that contributes to reducing the scale and future impacts of climate change (climate change mitigation). ...
... is a regulating service that contributes to reducing the scale and future impacts of climate change (climate change mitigation). ...
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Observations and Climate Change on
... Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations U.S. National Research Council, 2010 ...
... Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations U.S. National Research Council, 2010 ...
Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Ecosystems fact
... how migratory birds cope with climate change. The future for fish stocks depends on sea temperatures and algae blooms that are an essential source of food. Arctic waters will become more acidic as CO2 uptake increases, negatively affecting calcareous organisms. Retreating sea ice is a major threat t ...
... how migratory birds cope with climate change. The future for fish stocks depends on sea temperatures and algae blooms that are an essential source of food. Arctic waters will become more acidic as CO2 uptake increases, negatively affecting calcareous organisms. Retreating sea ice is a major threat t ...
France - IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
... government is giving priority to research and the development of new energy technology. 3 The government gives Parliament an annual progress report on its action on renewable energies and energy savings. The Act also creates a Higher Energy Council dealing not only with gas and electricity, but also ...
... government is giving priority to research and the development of new energy technology. 3 The government gives Parliament an annual progress report on its action on renewable energies and energy savings. The Act also creates a Higher Energy Council dealing not only with gas and electricity, but also ...
whales and ecosystem services - Whale and Dolphin Conservation
... defecation by baleen whales (ibid). Therefore, the recovery of large whales in the Southern Ocean can enhance productivity by releasing stored iron back into the ecosystem where, as soluble iron, it can support phytoplankton blooms (ibid). ...
... defecation by baleen whales (ibid). Therefore, the recovery of large whales in the Southern Ocean can enhance productivity by releasing stored iron back into the ecosystem where, as soluble iron, it can support phytoplankton blooms (ibid). ...
Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Food Security in
... (ADB) has also reiterated the need for more adaptive measures and strategies to mitigate climate change impacts over Southeast Asia (ADB, 2009). The reports of the IPCC and the ADB have strongly urged for much more detailed research for the Southeast Asian countries. Osborne and Wheeler (2013) also ...
... (ADB) has also reiterated the need for more adaptive measures and strategies to mitigate climate change impacts over Southeast Asia (ADB, 2009). The reports of the IPCC and the ADB have strongly urged for much more detailed research for the Southeast Asian countries. Osborne and Wheeler (2013) also ...
using the aqal framework to accelerate responses to
... many industries—a “socio-technical regime” has become established in which standards, training, economic incentives, laws, and even mindsets and cognitive shortcuts have adapted to favor the status quo and to block alternatives. The term regime is very similar to what is sometimes known as “the syst ...
... many industries—a “socio-technical regime” has become established in which standards, training, economic incentives, laws, and even mindsets and cognitive shortcuts have adapted to favor the status quo and to block alternatives. The term regime is very similar to what is sometimes known as “the syst ...
exxon`s weapons of mass deception
... been working consistently and systematically to derail any international action to tackle global warming. This corporation has made a concerted effort to turn its interests into government policy, steering the US away from international action, not only through direct lobbying but also through cover ...
... been working consistently and systematically to derail any international action to tackle global warming. This corporation has made a concerted effort to turn its interests into government policy, steering the US away from international action, not only through direct lobbying but also through cover ...
global warming is happening
... “The Medieval Warm Period was warmer than current conditions. This implies recent warming is not unusual and must be natural.” ...
... “The Medieval Warm Period was warmer than current conditions. This implies recent warming is not unusual and must be natural.” ...
4 Climate politics and science in the media
... Figure 4.1 shows some peaks in the media attention. News reports with an undetermined and alarming tenor follow the total line and show a similar pattern of peaks and lows. The sceptical line follows the same pattern but lies slightly lower – thus fewer articles were found with a sceptical view. Whi ...
... Figure 4.1 shows some peaks in the media attention. News reports with an undetermined and alarming tenor follow the total line and show a similar pattern of peaks and lows. The sceptical line follows the same pattern but lies slightly lower – thus fewer articles were found with a sceptical view. Whi ...
Why adapt to climate change? How is the
... gas emissions will grow slowly give lower temperature predictions. The orange line provides an estimate of global temperatures if greenhouse gases stayed at year 2000 levels. ...
... gas emissions will grow slowly give lower temperature predictions. The orange line provides an estimate of global temperatures if greenhouse gases stayed at year 2000 levels. ...
IPCC
... “As a hub of scientists and future leaders, universities can serve as a powerful example for society”* Yale committed to reduce GHG to 10% below 1990 level by 2020, despite projected 15% growth in physical plants Tufts committed to reduce GHG to 7% below 1990 level by 2012 projected, which trans ...
... “As a hub of scientists and future leaders, universities can serve as a powerful example for society”* Yale committed to reduce GHG to 10% below 1990 level by 2020, despite projected 15% growth in physical plants Tufts committed to reduce GHG to 7% below 1990 level by 2012 projected, which trans ...
Intended Nationally Determined Contribution of Viet Nam
... In 2008, the Government issued the National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change (NTP-RCC) in order to assess climate change impacts and develop adaptation and mitigation measures. Climate change was mainstreamed into the National Socio-Economic Development Strategy (2011-2020) and Socio-Ec ...
... In 2008, the Government issued the National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change (NTP-RCC) in order to assess climate change impacts and develop adaptation and mitigation measures. Climate change was mainstreamed into the National Socio-Economic Development Strategy (2011-2020) and Socio-Ec ...
are our laws responding to the challenges posed to our
... need for adaptation measures to be put in place to ameliorate these imminent impacts on coastal communities. This is especially pertinent in Australia, where 85 per cent of our population lives on the coast. Despite the urgent need for adaptation action, the primary focus of climate change law and p ...
... need for adaptation measures to be put in place to ameliorate these imminent impacts on coastal communities. This is especially pertinent in Australia, where 85 per cent of our population lives on the coast. Despite the urgent need for adaptation action, the primary focus of climate change law and p ...
Climate change - ACT Government
... responsibilities of global citizenship for individuals, organisations and governments and the roles compare and contrast representations of a current event or issue in the media and responsibilities of companies, producers and consumers in relation to sustainability engage in “what if” discuss ...
... responsibilities of global citizenship for individuals, organisations and governments and the roles compare and contrast representations of a current event or issue in the media and responsibilities of companies, producers and consumers in relation to sustainability engage in “what if” discuss ...
Slide 1 - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... See Meinshausen et al., Climatic Change, 2011, doi: DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0156-z and Rogelj et al., Nature Climate Change, 2011, doi: DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1258 ...
... See Meinshausen et al., Climatic Change, 2011, doi: DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0156-z and Rogelj et al., Nature Climate Change, 2011, doi: DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1258 ...
Climate change, threat multiplier and internal conflicts in Northeast
... In August this year, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a Global Environment Forum in Korea (at the same time that governments were meeting in Bonn for five days of informal climate negotiations) that failure to act quickly on climate change could lead to a worsening of tensions, social unres ...
... In August this year, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a Global Environment Forum in Korea (at the same time that governments were meeting in Bonn for five days of informal climate negotiations) that failure to act quickly on climate change could lead to a worsening of tensions, social unres ...
Climate Change and Mountain Areas - circle-2
... to the spatial and temporal scale considered. At a daily time scale the triggering depends mainly on extreme rainy events which threshold changes from place to place and from the date of the last debris flow event. Years with numerous debris flows depends also on temperatures. Regardless of the clim ...
... to the spatial and temporal scale considered. At a daily time scale the triggering depends mainly on extreme rainy events which threshold changes from place to place and from the date of the last debris flow event. Years with numerous debris flows depends also on temperatures. Regardless of the clim ...
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... University College London [email protected] ...
... University College London [email protected] ...
Climate engineering
Climate engineering, also referred to as geoengineering or climate intervention, is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climatic system with the aim of limiting adverse climate change. Climate engineering is an umbrella term for two types of measures: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management. Carbon dioxide removal addresses the cause of climate change by removing one of the greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere. Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing the Earth to absorb less solar radiation.Climate engineering approaches are sometimes viewed as additional potential options for limiting climate change, alongside mitigation and adaptation. There is substantial agreement among scientists that climate engineering cannot substitute climate change mitigation. Some approaches might be used as accompanying measures to sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Given that all types of measures addressing climate change have economic, political or physical limitations a some climate engineering approaches might eventually be used as part of an ensemble of measures. Research on costs, benefits, and various types of risks of most climate engineering approaches is at an early stage and their understanding needs to improve to judge their adequacy and feasibility.No known large-scale climate engineering projects have taken place to date. Almost all research into solar geoengineering has consisted of computer modelling or laboratory tests, and attempts to move to real-world experimentation have proved controversial for many types of climate engineering. Some practices, such as planting of trees and whitening of surfaces as well as bio-energy with carbon capture and storage projects are underway, their scalability to effectively affect global climate is however debated. Ocean iron fertilization has been given small-scale research trials, sparking substantial controversy.Most experts and major reports advise against relying on geoengineering techniques as a simple solution to climate change, in part due to the large uncertainties over effectiveness and side effects. However, most experts also argue that the risks of such interventions must be seen in the context of risks of dangerous climate change. Interventions at large scale may run a greater risk disrupting natural systems resulting in a dilemma that those approaches that could prove highly (cost-) effective in addressing extreme climate risk, might themselves cause substantial risk. Some have suggested that the concept of geoengineering the climate presents a moral hazard because it could reduce political and public pressure for emissions reduction, which could exacerbate overall climate risks.Groups such as ETC Group and some climate researchers (such as Raymond Pierrehumbert) are in favour of a moratorium on out-of-doors testing and deployment of SRM.