- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... authors conclude that the effects of climate change on forests are likely to be positive. They also “conclude that effects of climate change on ecological values associated with forests are a source of concern in specific places but need not be large overall, especially if climate change is relative ...
... authors conclude that the effects of climate change on forests are likely to be positive. They also “conclude that effects of climate change on ecological values associated with forests are a source of concern in specific places but need not be large overall, especially if climate change is relative ...
“Global climate change and third-generation of human rights”. 350
... environment, and the right to intergenerational equity. The third-generation of human rights is just beginning to develop. The third generation of human rights is just beginning to develop This category of rights still exists in theory. There are few practices and instruments of this right. The pro ...
... environment, and the right to intergenerational equity. The third-generation of human rights is just beginning to develop. The third generation of human rights is just beginning to develop This category of rights still exists in theory. There are few practices and instruments of this right. The pro ...
Fact Sheet - Climate Change 2013
... The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) contains contributions from three Working Groups. Working Group I assesses the physical science basis of climate change. Working Group II assesses impacts, adaptation and vulnerability while Working Group III assesses the mitigation of climate change. The Syn ...
... The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) contains contributions from three Working Groups. Working Group I assesses the physical science basis of climate change. Working Group II assesses impacts, adaptation and vulnerability while Working Group III assesses the mitigation of climate change. The Syn ...
4th Scientific Statement
... level that would prevent the dangerous impacts of climate change. The EU interprets such change as a rise of 2°C in global temperature compared with pre-industrial times. Under the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, Ireland must limit its emissions to a 13% increase above the 1990 level during the period ...
... level that would prevent the dangerous impacts of climate change. The EU interprets such change as a rise of 2°C in global temperature compared with pre-industrial times. Under the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, Ireland must limit its emissions to a 13% increase above the 1990 level during the period ...
Climate change impacts on ecosystem
... Impacts on pollinators and insect pests Altering circumstances at ecosystem and species level geographical range shifts in pollinators and insect pests distribution temperature rise will provide favorable conditions for the expansion of their distributional range study on coffee berry borer ( ...
... Impacts on pollinators and insect pests Altering circumstances at ecosystem and species level geographical range shifts in pollinators and insect pests distribution temperature rise will provide favorable conditions for the expansion of their distributional range study on coffee berry borer ( ...
Presentation
... Declaration of the ITU Secretary General on climate change: “ITU is mainstreaming this major issue into its regular work programme. ITU is undertaking important work on how ICTs can help prevent and avert climate change. There is a strong role for ITU in standards for energy efficiency of the ICT ...
... Declaration of the ITU Secretary General on climate change: “ITU is mainstreaming this major issue into its regular work programme. ITU is undertaking important work on how ICTs can help prevent and avert climate change. There is a strong role for ITU in standards for energy efficiency of the ICT ...
Gould - University of Hartford`s Academic Web Server
... * http://www.yale.edu/yale300/collectiblesandpublications/specialdocuments/Freedom_Expression/freedom1975.pdf ...
... * http://www.yale.edu/yale300/collectiblesandpublications/specialdocuments/Freedom_Expression/freedom1975.pdf ...
Carbon Market at a glance
... Facilitate the transfer of low-carbon technologies and establish sector-based programs to enable larger scale investments in cleaner development ...
... Facilitate the transfer of low-carbon technologies and establish sector-based programs to enable larger scale investments in cleaner development ...
public misperceptions of human
... unambiguous empirical data that dangerous or even measurable human-caused global warming is occurring. Second, the virtual reality is that deterministic computer models predict future climate according to the assumptions that are programmed into them. There is no “Theory of Climate”, and the potenti ...
... unambiguous empirical data that dangerous or even measurable human-caused global warming is occurring. Second, the virtual reality is that deterministic computer models predict future climate according to the assumptions that are programmed into them. There is no “Theory of Climate”, and the potenti ...
Climate Stabilization Targets - The National Academies of Sciences
... Energy Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The members volunteered their time for this activity; their report is peer-reviewed and the final product signed off by both the committee members and the National Academies. This brief was prepared by the National Research Council base ...
... Energy Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The members volunteered their time for this activity; their report is peer-reviewed and the final product signed off by both the committee members and the National Academies. This brief was prepared by the National Research Council base ...
Climate Science for Decision Support .
... assess the likely range of warming for a given level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” “It is currently impossible to pinpoint the exact change in temperature that will be associated with a level of greenhouse gases. Nevertheless, increasingly sophisticated climate models are able to capture s ...
... assess the likely range of warming for a given level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” “It is currently impossible to pinpoint the exact change in temperature that will be associated with a level of greenhouse gases. Nevertheless, increasingly sophisticated climate models are able to capture s ...
Key Elements for Success on Climate Change Mitigation at COP21
... Negotiations under the UNFCCC have focused on emission reduction commitments over a relatively short horizon, typically 10-15 years. Yet short-term commitments need to be anchored within a long-term pathway towards deep decarbonization. Without a long-term pathway, short-term emission reductions may ...
... Negotiations under the UNFCCC have focused on emission reduction commitments over a relatively short horizon, typically 10-15 years. Yet short-term commitments need to be anchored within a long-term pathway towards deep decarbonization. Without a long-term pathway, short-term emission reductions may ...
We Can Reduce the Threat of Climate Change (2)
... 19-3 What Can We Do to Slow Climate Change? (1) Concept 19-3A To slow the rate of global warming and climate change, we can increase energy efficiency, sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rely more on renewable energy resources, and slow population growth. ...
... 19-3 What Can We Do to Slow Climate Change? (1) Concept 19-3A To slow the rate of global warming and climate change, we can increase energy efficiency, sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rely more on renewable energy resources, and slow population growth. ...
the version
... meaning that the blanket is, in a sense, getting thicker, making the planet hotter and the weather more extreme (anthropogenic greenhouse effect). Before the industrial revolution, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million by volume (ppmv). Today it is at ...
... meaning that the blanket is, in a sense, getting thicker, making the planet hotter and the weather more extreme (anthropogenic greenhouse effect). Before the industrial revolution, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million by volume (ppmv). Today it is at ...
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... there will be a further thousand cities of 500,000 people each. In Asia, about 500 new cities of about a million people each. That is a completely breathtaking change over that timescale. Yet these are two fundamental trends and nothing is going to alter them. Another trend, which is more problemati ...
... there will be a further thousand cities of 500,000 people each. In Asia, about 500 new cities of about a million people each. That is a completely breathtaking change over that timescale. Yet these are two fundamental trends and nothing is going to alter them. Another trend, which is more problemati ...
Climate Change and Human Settlements
... effective measures that can be taken to reduce energy consumption and emissions. These measures, together with waste recycling practices, are among the most promising at reducing the ecological footprint of cities and entire city regions. The future of hundreds of millions of people in urban areas a ...
... effective measures that can be taken to reduce energy consumption and emissions. These measures, together with waste recycling practices, are among the most promising at reducing the ecological footprint of cities and entire city regions. The future of hundreds of millions of people in urban areas a ...
WP4.1: Feedbacks and climate surprises (IPSL, HC, CNRM
... • From the simulations (CNRM): - Few « ice surprises »… except a large positive sea ice anomaly for ~15 years in the preindustrial experiment - Increasing river discharge into the Arctic basin during the ...
... • From the simulations (CNRM): - Few « ice surprises »… except a large positive sea ice anomaly for ~15 years in the preindustrial experiment - Increasing river discharge into the Arctic basin during the ...
The Sky`s Limit: No New Fossil Fuel Development
... current fossil fuel projects, and in fact some currently-operating fossil fuel projects will need to be retired early in order to have appropriately high chances of staying below even the 2˚C limit, let alone 1.5˚C. With this new understanding, the challenge has never been clearer. To live up to the ...
... current fossil fuel projects, and in fact some currently-operating fossil fuel projects will need to be retired early in order to have appropriately high chances of staying below even the 2˚C limit, let alone 1.5˚C. With this new understanding, the challenge has never been clearer. To live up to the ...
Decided to establish a Global Framework for Climate Services
... ICSU Review, acknowledge WCRP past contributions and identify future challenges and opportunities. • Need for more flexibility/agility to respond to expanding users needs, this include information: • At regional scale • For key sectors of global economy ...
... ICSU Review, acknowledge WCRP past contributions and identify future challenges and opportunities. • Need for more flexibility/agility to respond to expanding users needs, this include information: • At regional scale • For key sectors of global economy ...
Climate change: the challenges for public health and
... Water vapour, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane and nitrous oxide trap solar energy in much the same way as the glass panels of a green house or a closed automobile. This natural greenhouse gases effect has kept the earth’s atmosphere some 30°C hotter than it would otherwise be, making it possible for ...
... Water vapour, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane and nitrous oxide trap solar energy in much the same way as the glass panels of a green house or a closed automobile. This natural greenhouse gases effect has kept the earth’s atmosphere some 30°C hotter than it would otherwise be, making it possible for ...
the european mobility week - Evonymos Ecological Library
... Relevance: The year 2005 was named as "Year of Disasters" by the World Meteorological Organisation. Never before, national, regional and local levels were so aware of climate change and that they will have to act, each level according to its means. Also never before, climate change had such a prese ...
... Relevance: The year 2005 was named as "Year of Disasters" by the World Meteorological Organisation. Never before, national, regional and local levels were so aware of climate change and that they will have to act, each level according to its means. Also never before, climate change had such a prese ...
Aspenia Questions to Stephen H
... The likely ranges of warming for 2090 projected in the mainstream literature and summarized by the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 Report shows ranges of temperature increase associated with different scenarios of human GHG emissions. For a scenari ...
... The likely ranges of warming for 2090 projected in the mainstream literature and summarized by the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 Report shows ranges of temperature increase associated with different scenarios of human GHG emissions. For a scenari ...
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.