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Financing Climate Policies through Climate Bonds
... The funding of climate mitigation and adaptation policies has become an essential issue in climate negotiations. Emissions trading schemes (ETS) and carbon tax policies are widely discussed as viable mitigation strategies, the revenue from which might then be used for adaptation eorts. In most curr ...
... The funding of climate mitigation and adaptation policies has become an essential issue in climate negotiations. Emissions trading schemes (ETS) and carbon tax policies are widely discussed as viable mitigation strategies, the revenue from which might then be used for adaptation eorts. In most curr ...
Science Stories - ComunicaRSE | ComunicaRSE
... that people severely underestimated the probabilities that the IPCC intended to communicate. The IPCC uses the term ‘very likely’ to mean a chance of over 90%, but three quarters of the lay readers put the odds far lower, some as low as 60% or less even when they had the official IPCC definitions of th ...
... that people severely underestimated the probabilities that the IPCC intended to communicate. The IPCC uses the term ‘very likely’ to mean a chance of over 90%, but three quarters of the lay readers put the odds far lower, some as low as 60% or less even when they had the official IPCC definitions of th ...
GEF Investment in Climate Change Mitigation and Sound Chemicals
... The costs of the baseline activities: to be covered by normal development expenditures such as government budgets, bilateral aid, the private sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activitie ...
... The costs of the baseline activities: to be covered by normal development expenditures such as government budgets, bilateral aid, the private sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activitie ...
Water Utilities and Climate Change: A Research Workshop on
... the areas of SLR and climate change were invited to participate as the Regional Climate Change Compact Technical Ad Hoc Work Group (Work Group). Through a series of facilitated discussions, the Work Group reviewed the existing projections and the current scientific literature related to SLR and acce ...
... the areas of SLR and climate change were invited to participate as the Regional Climate Change Compact Technical Ad Hoc Work Group (Work Group). Through a series of facilitated discussions, the Work Group reviewed the existing projections and the current scientific literature related to SLR and acce ...
CGE Training Materials for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment
... distribution of income, efforts to reduce poverty, tackle gender equity, issues around industrial development, pollution, urbanization, population growth, access to adequate nutrition, clean water and sanitation, deforestation and so on; ...
... distribution of income, efforts to reduce poverty, tackle gender equity, issues around industrial development, pollution, urbanization, population growth, access to adequate nutrition, clean water and sanitation, deforestation and so on; ...
Slide 1
... The costs of the baseline activities: to be covered by normal development expenditures such as government budgets, bilateral aid, the private sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activitie ...
... The costs of the baseline activities: to be covered by normal development expenditures such as government budgets, bilateral aid, the private sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activitie ...
Determinants of Farmers` Climate Risk Perceptions in Agriculture—A
... Previous studies of agricultural conservation practice adoption have reported positive correlation between awareness of environmental problems, attitudes toward potential solutions, and willingness to adopt those solutions [9]. Furthermore, it is only when situations are perceived as problems that a ...
... Previous studies of agricultural conservation practice adoption have reported positive correlation between awareness of environmental problems, attitudes toward potential solutions, and willingness to adopt those solutions [9]. Furthermore, it is only when situations are perceived as problems that a ...
Chapter 2: An Overview of Canada`s Changing Climate
... Warming of the global climate over the past century is unequivocal. It is evident in global atmospheric and oceanic temperature data, and from changes in a variety of other physical indicators, including declines in snow and ice cover. Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from human activity are the ...
... Warming of the global climate over the past century is unequivocal. It is evident in global atmospheric and oceanic temperature data, and from changes in a variety of other physical indicators, including declines in snow and ice cover. Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from human activity are the ...
MTA Adaptations to Climate Change – A Categorical Imperative1
... communities from the risk of rising waters. As the last resort, options may include relocation and may require new rights-of-way at safer elevations. This Adaptation Chapter expands on these general ideas as they apply to MTA facilities, operations, capital planning procedures, and related policies. ...
... communities from the risk of rising waters. As the last resort, options may include relocation and may require new rights-of-way at safer elevations. This Adaptation Chapter expands on these general ideas as they apply to MTA facilities, operations, capital planning procedures, and related policies. ...
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the
... regions of Africa and Asia. The RDS represents the first phase of a research effort under the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project. ASSAR is one of four consortia generating new knowledge of climate change hotspots under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa ...
... regions of Africa and Asia. The RDS represents the first phase of a research effort under the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project. ASSAR is one of four consortia generating new knowledge of climate change hotspots under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa ...
Can Social Protection Increase Resilience to Climate Change?
... is not a ‘pro-poor’ concept, and therefore should be used with caution when trying to implement development actions. ‘If applied uncritically, a resilience-based approach might end up leading us towards abandoning interest in the poor (est) for the sake of strengthening community or even (eco) syste ...
... is not a ‘pro-poor’ concept, and therefore should be used with caution when trying to implement development actions. ‘If applied uncritically, a resilience-based approach might end up leading us towards abandoning interest in the poor (est) for the sake of strengthening community or even (eco) syste ...
Vulnerability of New Zealand pastoral farming to the impacts of
... may be one such case, where the adoption of a common methodology is plausible. This paper develops such a methodology and tests it at one site (Hawke’s Bay) thought likely to be particularly sensitive to future climate change. The research presented here builds on previous work that developed the ‘b ...
... may be one such case, where the adoption of a common methodology is plausible. This paper develops such a methodology and tests it at one site (Hawke’s Bay) thought likely to be particularly sensitive to future climate change. The research presented here builds on previous work that developed the ‘b ...
paper - user"s empty page at IIASA / 2013
... mostly emitted from the energy sector, CH4 and N2O emissions are largely associated with activities in the industrial, agriculture and waste sectors. In the future, emissions from these sources are expected to grow, with the largest increases expected in developing countries. While population and ec ...
... mostly emitted from the energy sector, CH4 and N2O emissions are largely associated with activities in the industrial, agriculture and waste sectors. In the future, emissions from these sources are expected to grow, with the largest increases expected in developing countries. While population and ec ...
Climate Change and Security in Africa - The Africa
... participants will apply an integrated approach and facilitate coherent conflict preventive and peacebuilding engagement. It will be a "learning by doing" process where the sharing of lessons learned and best practices will play important roles. The initiative fits in very much with the EU’s own reco ...
... participants will apply an integrated approach and facilitate coherent conflict preventive and peacebuilding engagement. It will be a "learning by doing" process where the sharing of lessons learned and best practices will play important roles. The initiative fits in very much with the EU’s own reco ...
What`s In A Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change
... negative affect and stronger perceptions of personal and familial threat among Republicans; they are also more likely to believe that global warming is already affecting weather in the United States. By contrast, the use of the term climate change appears to actually reduce issue engagement by Democ ...
... negative affect and stronger perceptions of personal and familial threat among Republicans; they are also more likely to believe that global warming is already affecting weather in the United States. By contrast, the use of the term climate change appears to actually reduce issue engagement by Democ ...
Paleoecological evidence for abrupt cold reversals during peak
... Because the coldest site in the training set has a mean July air temperature of 5.0°C (Francis et al., 2006), the transfer-function calibration data do not contain adequate analogs for colder-thanpresent times when cold stenotherms were more abundant than today at our relatively cold study site (mea ...
... Because the coldest site in the training set has a mean July air temperature of 5.0°C (Francis et al., 2006), the transfer-function calibration data do not contain adequate analogs for colder-thanpresent times when cold stenotherms were more abundant than today at our relatively cold study site (mea ...
Recent radical shifts of atmospheric circulations and rapid changes
... However, a pronounced northeastward jump occurred between these two periods, resulting in a changed average position of the center of action from south to northeast of the Nordic Seas and an unprecedented entry of the center into the Barents Sea in the early 2000s. North Atlantic and North Pacific c ...
... However, a pronounced northeastward jump occurred between these two periods, resulting in a changed average position of the center of action from south to northeast of the Nordic Seas and an unprecedented entry of the center into the Barents Sea in the early 2000s. North Atlantic and North Pacific c ...
April 2013 News - South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy
... Control of the nuclear fission process is the use of science and technology for political power. Electric power generated from controlled fission can be for social benefit and is thus a source of political power. Controlling the delivery of explosive power from nuclear fission is an even greater sou ...
... Control of the nuclear fission process is the use of science and technology for political power. Electric power generated from controlled fission can be for social benefit and is thus a source of political power. Controlling the delivery of explosive power from nuclear fission is an even greater sou ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Development
... Origin of Species represents one of the roots of the concept of biological adaptation because his work provided evidence of evolution, which formed the basis for evolutionary biology. Adaptive strategies are also an integral element of the development of societies because they enable the management ...
... Origin of Species represents one of the roots of the concept of biological adaptation because his work provided evidence of evolution, which formed the basis for evolutionary biology. Adaptive strategies are also an integral element of the development of societies because they enable the management ...
Sep 6, 2014 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... Photosynthesis: On September 4, the Minority Staff of the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a remarkable document for Washington on global warming/climate change. Critical Thinking on Climate Change: Empirical Evidence to Consider Before Taking Regulatory Action and Implement ...
... Photosynthesis: On September 4, the Minority Staff of the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a remarkable document for Washington on global warming/climate change. Critical Thinking on Climate Change: Empirical Evidence to Consider Before Taking Regulatory Action and Implement ...
Model estimates of climate controls on pan-Arctic
... X. Chen et al.: Model estimates of climate controls CH4 emissions to historical or future climate variations (e.g., Chen and Prinn, 2006; Bousquet et al., 2011; Riley et al., 2011; Spahni et al., 2011; Bohn et al., 2013, 2015; Zhu et al., 2014), but none have attempted to characterize the sensitivit ...
... X. Chen et al.: Model estimates of climate controls CH4 emissions to historical or future climate variations (e.g., Chen and Prinn, 2006; Bousquet et al., 2011; Riley et al., 2011; Spahni et al., 2011; Bohn et al., 2013, 2015; Zhu et al., 2014), but none have attempted to characterize the sensitivit ...
Vector-Borne Diseases: Impact of Climate
... climate has changed. As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001), a mean increase of temperature by 0.09 K per decade was observed globally from 1951 to 1989. Up to now, 2006, this trend has continued. Europe experienced an extraordinary heat wave in summer 2003, with d ...
... climate has changed. As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001), a mean increase of temperature by 0.09 K per decade was observed globally from 1951 to 1989. Up to now, 2006, this trend has continued. Europe experienced an extraordinary heat wave in summer 2003, with d ...
Air pollution and associated human mortality: the role of air pollutant
... and O3 . We use the population (POP), baseline mortality (Mortbase ), and, consistent with the ACS study, the fraction of the population (Frac) ≥ 30 yr of age in each grid cell. Changes in O3 and PM2.5 concentrations (1C) from specific factors (changes in short-lived emissions, climate, and CH4 ) fr ...
... and O3 . We use the population (POP), baseline mortality (Mortbase ), and, consistent with the ACS study, the fraction of the population (Frac) ≥ 30 yr of age in each grid cell. Changes in O3 and PM2.5 concentrations (1C) from specific factors (changes in short-lived emissions, climate, and CH4 ) fr ...
Climate predictability - Institut Català de Ciències del Clima
... which vanishes if and only if the prior and posterior distributions are equal. The notion of climate predictability as the difference between a prior and a posterior distribution is somewhat differently interpreted when the PDF describing the relative density of states of the system is conditioned b ...
... which vanishes if and only if the prior and posterior distributions are equal. The notion of climate predictability as the difference between a prior and a posterior distribution is somewhat differently interpreted when the PDF describing the relative density of states of the system is conditioned b ...