how does the theologizing of physics contribute to - Philsci
... this warming, but they contest the strategy of restricting greenhouse gas emissions, often by presenting cost/benefit analyses which presumably show that some alternative strategies have higher expected utility (see for example, Lomborg, 2001). This sort of skepticism is, alas, waxing, at least in ...
... this warming, but they contest the strategy of restricting greenhouse gas emissions, often by presenting cost/benefit analyses which presumably show that some alternative strategies have higher expected utility (see for example, Lomborg, 2001). This sort of skepticism is, alas, waxing, at least in ...
Monitoring - Australian Institute of Alpine Studies
... relevant long term data sets or studies and proposed or desirable studies. ...
... relevant long term data sets or studies and proposed or desirable studies. ...
one planet – one Future
... Our one planet is in a precarious state. We have been at this state before – but today the picture is much more bleak. Our planet’s trajectory towards sustainability is even further off track than 20 years ago, when the first UN Conference on Sustainable Development took place in Rio de Janeiro. We ...
... Our one planet is in a precarious state. We have been at this state before – but today the picture is much more bleak. Our planet’s trajectory towards sustainability is even further off track than 20 years ago, when the first UN Conference on Sustainable Development took place in Rio de Janeiro. We ...
The trade-off between intra- and intergenerational equity in climate
... less aggressive action if we believe that consumption is growing over time. The reason is that this makes future generations richer, and if we care about inequality between the present and future generations, we place a lower value to the richer future generations (intergenerational equity). But the ...
... less aggressive action if we believe that consumption is growing over time. The reason is that this makes future generations richer, and if we care about inequality between the present and future generations, we place a lower value to the richer future generations (intergenerational equity). But the ...
Climate Action Planning Progress in the San Diego Region
... The good news is that many regions and localities are stepping up to this challenge to create innovative policies, plans and programs to enhance the preparedness of communities and address climate change at the community level. In fact, in the San Diego region, an unprecedented number of local gover ...
... The good news is that many regions and localities are stepping up to this challenge to create innovative policies, plans and programs to enhance the preparedness of communities and address climate change at the community level. In fact, in the San Diego region, an unprecedented number of local gover ...
THE LEGAL NATURE OF JUSTICE IN REDD+ Dr Rowena Maguire
... and those who will feel the impacts of climate change. The capacity of those likely to feel the impact of climate change and their lack of resources to respond to such change. The rights to development seen as necessary by developing countries to ensure economic growth in their regions and the emiss ...
... and those who will feel the impacts of climate change. The capacity of those likely to feel the impact of climate change and their lack of resources to respond to such change. The rights to development seen as necessary by developing countries to ensure economic growth in their regions and the emiss ...
Project Document for CEO Approval
... Summary of the First National Communication of The Gambia to UNFCCC 26. The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory is based on 1993 data, as it had more data than any other year and uses the 1996 Revised Guidelines (IPCC. OECD.IEA, 1997). Meanwhile, not all emission categories of the Guidelines are reported ...
... Summary of the First National Communication of The Gambia to UNFCCC 26. The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory is based on 1993 data, as it had more data than any other year and uses the 1996 Revised Guidelines (IPCC. OECD.IEA, 1997). Meanwhile, not all emission categories of the Guidelines are reported ...
adapt to climate change
... “Parties shall take co-ordinated measures to maintain migratory waterbird species in a favourable conservation status or to restore them to such a status.” Article III of the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement also includes the following: “Parties shall investigate problems that are posed or are l ...
... “Parties shall take co-ordinated measures to maintain migratory waterbird species in a favourable conservation status or to restore them to such a status.” Article III of the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement also includes the following: “Parties shall investigate problems that are posed or are l ...
Heat stress and the fitness consequences of climate change for
... combine experimental data quantifying the thermal sensitivity of fitness in ectothermic insects with observed past and projected future climate data at multiple sites along a latitudinal gradient. Our analyses have two main goals. First, we quantify the predicted changes in mean and variation in fitne ...
... combine experimental data quantifying the thermal sensitivity of fitness in ectothermic insects with observed past and projected future climate data at multiple sites along a latitudinal gradient. Our analyses have two main goals. First, we quantify the predicted changes in mean and variation in fitne ...
ABN AMRO`s response
... The first trade on carbon futures on the European Climate Exchange’s (ECX) trading platform was between BP an E.ON and was cleared by ABN AMRO Futures in April 2005. ...
... The first trade on carbon futures on the European Climate Exchange’s (ECX) trading platform was between BP an E.ON and was cleared by ABN AMRO Futures in April 2005. ...
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... participate in a climate change agreement, or if participating will choose to comply with an agreement, requires an analysis of the strategic interests of each country involved. We use a dynamic game-theoretic model that accounts for both the immediate benefits of economic activity that leads to GHG ...
... participate in a climate change agreement, or if participating will choose to comply with an agreement, requires an analysis of the strategic interests of each country involved. We use a dynamic game-theoretic model that accounts for both the immediate benefits of economic activity that leads to GHG ...
How Climate Change Will Affect People Around the World
... India’s economy and social infrastructure are finely tuned to the remarkable stability of the monsoon, with the result that fluctuations in the strength of the monsoon both year-to-year and within a single season can lead to significant flooding or drought, with significant repercussions for the eco ...
... India’s economy and social infrastructure are finely tuned to the remarkable stability of the monsoon, with the result that fluctuations in the strength of the monsoon both year-to-year and within a single season can lead to significant flooding or drought, with significant repercussions for the eco ...
IEAGHG Information Paper; 2013-IP31; Drawing Down N2O to Protect
... through education, extension and outreach, especially to farmers in developing countries; ...
... through education, extension and outreach, especially to farmers in developing countries; ...
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... introduces a bias in the analysis, overestimating benefits and underestimating damages. The Ricardian approach, by relying on a cross section, cannot adequately control for prices since all farms in the same country effectively face the same prices. However, calculating price changes is not a straig ...
... introduces a bias in the analysis, overestimating benefits and underestimating damages. The Ricardian approach, by relying on a cross section, cannot adequately control for prices since all farms in the same country effectively face the same prices. However, calculating price changes is not a straig ...
Population and Environment Connections
... multiple moving parts within the nexus of climate change and shifting global demographics. Worldwide population growth—especially over the past fifty years—has been a highly dynamic process, unfolding at varying rates at both global and regional levels. These divergent rates of growth are poised to ...
... multiple moving parts within the nexus of climate change and shifting global demographics. Worldwide population growth—especially over the past fifty years—has been a highly dynamic process, unfolding at varying rates at both global and regional levels. These divergent rates of growth are poised to ...
Updated compilation of information on the mitigation benefits of
... between 2010 and 2030, as shown in figure 2 above, while N2O emissions are expected to experience a more modest increase. HFCs are currently growing at a rate of 8 per cent per year,3 due to their use as replacements for ozone-depleting substances that are controlled by the Montreal Protocol on Subs ...
... between 2010 and 2030, as shown in figure 2 above, while N2O emissions are expected to experience a more modest increase. HFCs are currently growing at a rate of 8 per cent per year,3 due to their use as replacements for ozone-depleting substances that are controlled by the Montreal Protocol on Subs ...
New Zealand`s Climate Change Target
... below this level.1 To have a decent chance of achieving this, global emissions will need to substantially reduce (see figure 1). This will involve large scale changes in the way the world produces energy and uses land. Climate change is a global issue requiring a truly global response. As a country ...
... below this level.1 To have a decent chance of achieving this, global emissions will need to substantially reduce (see figure 1). This will involve large scale changes in the way the world produces energy and uses land. Climate change is a global issue requiring a truly global response. As a country ...
Climate Change and Security
... The region is ridden by conflict and has been the focus of geopolitical interests for the large resources of fossil fuels situated in most South West Asian countries. Major conflict areas currently exist in Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan with conflict spreading easily across borders. Terroris ...
... The region is ridden by conflict and has been the focus of geopolitical interests for the large resources of fossil fuels situated in most South West Asian countries. Major conflict areas currently exist in Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan with conflict spreading easily across borders. Terroris ...
Multi-model climate change projections for India under
... Climate projections for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are made using the newly developed representative concentration pathways (RCPs) under the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5). This article provides multi-model and multi-scenario ...
... Climate projections for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are made using the newly developed representative concentration pathways (RCPs) under the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5). This article provides multi-model and multi-scenario ...
Enabling Agriculture to Contribute to Climate Change
... Also significant is the high potential that the agriculture sector offers for synergies with climate change adaptation and key co-benefits of relevance to sustainable development. As emissions from agriculture are concentrated in developing countries, mitigation options that can contribute to food s ...
... Also significant is the high potential that the agriculture sector offers for synergies with climate change adaptation and key co-benefits of relevance to sustainable development. As emissions from agriculture are concentrated in developing countries, mitigation options that can contribute to food s ...
NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND GLOBAL WARMING
... the Holocene was minimized by the strong buffering effect of the oceans and the limited land area in that hemisphere. As summer temperatures declined in the Northern Hemisphere over the course of the Holocene, high mountain regions began to experience positive mass balance conditions; this led to an ...
... the Holocene was minimized by the strong buffering effect of the oceans and the limited land area in that hemisphere. As summer temperatures declined in the Northern Hemisphere over the course of the Holocene, high mountain regions began to experience positive mass balance conditions; this led to an ...
Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth`s
... feedback by the condensable and forcing by the noncondensable constituents of the atmospheric greenhouse is that the terrestrial greenhouse effect would collapse were it not for the presence of these noncondensing GHGs. If the global atmospheric temperatures were to fall to as low as TS = TE, the Cl ...
... feedback by the condensable and forcing by the noncondensable constituents of the atmospheric greenhouse is that the terrestrial greenhouse effect would collapse were it not for the presence of these noncondensing GHGs. If the global atmospheric temperatures were to fall to as low as TS = TE, the Cl ...
How will climate change affect mycotoxins in food?
... heat wave of summer 2003, night-time temperatures did not decrease to any great extent in Switzerland. The minimum temperatures were much higher for the 2003 heat wave than those associated with the heat wave in 1947 and 1976 and were a ‘climatic surprise’ (Beniston & Diaz, 2004). In relation to thi ...
... heat wave of summer 2003, night-time temperatures did not decrease to any great extent in Switzerland. The minimum temperatures were much higher for the 2003 heat wave than those associated with the heat wave in 1947 and 1976 and were a ‘climatic surprise’ (Beniston & Diaz, 2004). In relation to thi ...
The Greatest Challenges of Our Time
... utilization of many natural resources, as well as greater pollution and damage to the environment. Nature has been the loser during this period. Human life and living conditions in the world’s more than sovereign states have become all the more intertwined with each other. National decisions an ...
... utilization of many natural resources, as well as greater pollution and damage to the environment. Nature has been the loser during this period. Human life and living conditions in the world’s more than sovereign states have become all the more intertwined with each other. National decisions an ...
Status Description Total Funding Strengthening Communities
... is the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources, Strengthening the including by appropriate access to Implementation of the Nagoya genetic resources and by Protocol on Access to Genetic ...
... is the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources, Strengthening the including by appropriate access to Implementation of the Nagoya genetic resources and by Protocol on Access to Genetic ...