Our future in their plans
... manner, ensuring it prioritises the needs of the poor. In the same way in which richer nations have been urged to show leadership on their climate commitments, this applies at an individual level as well. Our prosperity, as seen in our savings and pension funds, must be invested accountably and for ...
... manner, ensuring it prioritises the needs of the poor. In the same way in which richer nations have been urged to show leadership on their climate commitments, this applies at an individual level as well. Our prosperity, as seen in our savings and pension funds, must be invested accountably and for ...
A Guide to Understanding Global Temperature Data
... of scientists and policy experts called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UN IPCC releases new reports every few years summarizing the state of climate science, and surveys the results of climate models run in many different countries. The IPCC was formed and is still guided ...
... of scientists and policy experts called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UN IPCC releases new reports every few years summarizing the state of climate science, and surveys the results of climate models run in many different countries. The IPCC was formed and is still guided ...
Global food security under climate change
... is not whether food is ‘‘available,’’ but whether the monetary and nonmonetary resources at the disposal of the population are sufficient to allow everyone access to adequate quantities of food. An important corollary to this is that national self-sufficiency is neither necessary nor sufficient to g ...
... is not whether food is ‘‘available,’’ but whether the monetary and nonmonetary resources at the disposal of the population are sufficient to allow everyone access to adequate quantities of food. An important corollary to this is that national self-sufficiency is neither necessary nor sufficient to g ...
Climate Change - Ku-ring-gai Council
... Recognising the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the United Nations and WMO (IPCC, 2007). ...
... Recognising the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the United Nations and WMO (IPCC, 2007). ...
Discussion Paper - Economics E
... 1. Introduction Carbon dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas, but certainly not the only one. In order to be effective and least cost, climate policy requires the reduction of the emissions of all greenhouse gases (Weyant et al. 2006). This in turn requires a mechanism to understand the ...
... 1. Introduction Carbon dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas, but certainly not the only one. In order to be effective and least cost, climate policy requires the reduction of the emissions of all greenhouse gases (Weyant et al. 2006). This in turn requires a mechanism to understand the ...
A Credible Foundation for Long Term International
... widely adopted; it must remain in force indefinitely; and it must provide credible incentives for individuals and firms to make the investments that will be needed to reduce emissions. The third point is particularly important. Although international negotiations focus on commitments by governments ...
... widely adopted; it must remain in force indefinitely; and it must provide credible incentives for individuals and firms to make the investments that will be needed to reduce emissions. The third point is particularly important. Although international negotiations focus on commitments by governments ...
Climate Change and Paleoecology: New Contexts for Restoration
... In the past two decades, new tools with high precision and resolution, new theory reliant on high-speed computing capacity, and a critical mass of empirical research have revolutionized understanding of Quaternary (the last 2.5 million years) climate. Quaternary climates are now understood as being ...
... In the past two decades, new tools with high precision and resolution, new theory reliant on high-speed computing capacity, and a critical mass of empirical research have revolutionized understanding of Quaternary (the last 2.5 million years) climate. Quaternary climates are now understood as being ...
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... the 4 Community Support Framework). According to its recently published guidelines, tourism enterprises can make applications under this programme if they want to install eco-friendly equipment, use alternative sources of energy for their everyday operations, or pursue other environmental protection ...
... the 4 Community Support Framework). According to its recently published guidelines, tourism enterprises can make applications under this programme if they want to install eco-friendly equipment, use alternative sources of energy for their everyday operations, or pursue other environmental protection ...
Phillip_Staddon___Winter_Mortality
... All numbers are simulated and based on average low monthly mean. The simulation is not intended to accurately reflect day to day variation. The results do not attempt to predict the future; they simply highlight that the assumption that an increased mean average winter temperature will substantially ...
... All numbers are simulated and based on average low monthly mean. The simulation is not intended to accurately reflect day to day variation. The results do not attempt to predict the future; they simply highlight that the assumption that an increased mean average winter temperature will substantially ...
Living in an Uncertain World
... increase in deep uncertainty means that we must fundamentally change how we view and empower resiliency at individual, community and national scale. 4: Climate change is an ethical issue – the poorest are most exposed to climate change and have the least access to some capacities that underpin resil ...
... increase in deep uncertainty means that we must fundamentally change how we view and empower resiliency at individual, community and national scale. 4: Climate change is an ethical issue – the poorest are most exposed to climate change and have the least access to some capacities that underpin resil ...
Will plant movements keep up with climate change?
... types (PFTs), based largely on physiology. These simplifications render them useless for predicting species extinctions [81] and, coupled with the low spatial resolution of global models, make it impossible to account realistically for plant movements, so all locations are assumed to be accessible t ...
... types (PFTs), based largely on physiology. These simplifications render them useless for predicting species extinctions [81] and, coupled with the low spatial resolution of global models, make it impossible to account realistically for plant movements, so all locations are assumed to be accessible t ...
Summary Report of the Durban Mountain Day on 4 December 2011
... frameworks. He addressed the need to improve South-South collaboration, stressing the role of partnerships to share lessons learned and transfer technology. Krishna Gyawali, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Nepal, stated that ecotourism can be used to raise awareness of mountain issues. Acknowled ...
... frameworks. He addressed the need to improve South-South collaboration, stressing the role of partnerships to share lessons learned and transfer technology. Krishna Gyawali, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Nepal, stated that ecotourism can be used to raise awareness of mountain issues. Acknowled ...
Working Paper 202 - Heal and Millner (opens in new window)
... when we decrease the spatial scale of the prediction. For example, we know much more about changes in global mean temperature than we do about changes in mean temperature at regional, country, or county scales. Socio-economic uncertainty – uncertainty about how economic and social systems will resp ...
... when we decrease the spatial scale of the prediction. For example, we know much more about changes in global mean temperature than we do about changes in mean temperature at regional, country, or county scales. Socio-economic uncertainty – uncertainty about how economic and social systems will resp ...
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... risk event across farmers to remove confounding factors, due to different objective risks and current conditions that are difficult to control for.3 Baillon (2008) provides a detailed explanation of the EM and in what follows we only briefly describe the EM procedure in our context. The first step o ...
... risk event across farmers to remove confounding factors, due to different objective risks and current conditions that are difficult to control for.3 Baillon (2008) provides a detailed explanation of the EM and in what follows we only briefly describe the EM procedure in our context. The first step o ...
Climate Change: Law, Policy, and Business
... warming the planet1, and many warn that climate change will devastate human communities here and abroad, and cripple the ecological systems upon which human life depends. Some market analysts predict that trading in carbon will be the planet’s leading industry by 2020, worth more than $US2 trillion ...
... warming the planet1, and many warn that climate change will devastate human communities here and abroad, and cripple the ecological systems upon which human life depends. Some market analysts predict that trading in carbon will be the planet’s leading industry by 2020, worth more than $US2 trillion ...
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... New Zealand agriculture, and then for the separate industries of beef, sheepmeat, and dairy. The first scenario examined the expected impacts on New Zealand of worldwide climate change under IPCC climate scenario A2. With climate change, production in some regions and countries declines, while in ot ...
... New Zealand agriculture, and then for the separate industries of beef, sheepmeat, and dairy. The first scenario examined the expected impacts on New Zealand of worldwide climate change under IPCC climate scenario A2. With climate change, production in some regions and countries declines, while in ot ...
Earth System interactions
... On regional and local scales, changes in the statistics of extreme weather events, associated risks, and their impact on society remain to be quantified. The present low level of understanding on regional and especially local scales, is in part due to lack of sufficient computational resources to su ...
... On regional and local scales, changes in the statistics of extreme weather events, associated risks, and their impact on society remain to be quantified. The present low level of understanding on regional and especially local scales, is in part due to lack of sufficient computational resources to su ...
Scenario and modelling uncertainty in global mean temperature
... socio-economic changes. On short lead times (10–15 yr) internal variability represents a large fraction of the total uncertainty, with the uncertainties in model response becoming more dominant as the anthropogenic signal increases through the 21st century. By the end of the century, differences in ...
... socio-economic changes. On short lead times (10–15 yr) internal variability represents a large fraction of the total uncertainty, with the uncertainties in model response becoming more dominant as the anthropogenic signal increases through the 21st century. By the end of the century, differences in ...
Intended National Determined Contribution (INDC)
... combat global warming, progressively outlining its own vision while complying with decisions taken collectively at the international level. Morocco's vision to address climate change is as follows: ...
... combat global warming, progressively outlining its own vision while complying with decisions taken collectively at the international level. Morocco's vision to address climate change is as follows: ...
When Environmental Issues Collide: Climate Change
... contemporary Costa Rica; and how all of this plays out in contestation concerning dam construction within specific sites in the country, particularly the controversial Río Pacuare in the eastern highlands, where the merits of a major dam proposal have been questioned for more than two decades. First ...
... contemporary Costa Rica; and how all of this plays out in contestation concerning dam construction within specific sites in the country, particularly the controversial Río Pacuare in the eastern highlands, where the merits of a major dam proposal have been questioned for more than two decades. First ...
Global response of the terrestrial biosphere to CO2 and climate
... 1997; King et al., 1997; Melillo et al., 1993; Neilson and Drapek, 1998]. The main outcome of these studies is that the terrestrial biosphere is strongly affected by the climate change. Therefore, future atmospheric CO2 will be driven not only by the emission scenario, but also by the efficiency of ...
... 1997; King et al., 1997; Melillo et al., 1993; Neilson and Drapek, 1998]. The main outcome of these studies is that the terrestrial biosphere is strongly affected by the climate change. Therefore, future atmospheric CO2 will be driven not only by the emission scenario, but also by the efficiency of ...
Environmental prices, uncertainty, and learning
... How then should policy makers set environmental prices given model uncertainty? One very important consideration is the capacity to learn more about benefits and costs, so that uncertainty is reduced over time. But we discuss learning in the following section, choosing here to begin our discussion ...
... How then should policy makers set environmental prices given model uncertainty? One very important consideration is the capacity to learn more about benefits and costs, so that uncertainty is reduced over time. But we discuss learning in the following section, choosing here to begin our discussion ...
Hasan, F.A. Human Agency, Climate Change, and Culture
... undertake corrective actions that go against their social grain—for example, moving from a mobile subsistence economy to a settled economy (a process that took more than five thousand years in the Levant). The veneration for old habits, which may become encoded in religious precepts, is in most case ...
... undertake corrective actions that go against their social grain—for example, moving from a mobile subsistence economy to a settled economy (a process that took more than five thousand years in the Levant). The veneration for old habits, which may become encoded in religious precepts, is in most case ...
IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSR-JMCE)
... results without the application of flux adjustments. It has wider coarse spatial resolutions of 2.5° x 3.75° (latitude by longitude) which can be applied in many climatic regional studies. Samadi et al. (2010) considers HadCM3 as the best GCM model that is superior to other models such as CCSNIES, C ...
... results without the application of flux adjustments. It has wider coarse spatial resolutions of 2.5° x 3.75° (latitude by longitude) which can be applied in many climatic regional studies. Samadi et al. (2010) considers HadCM3 as the best GCM model that is superior to other models such as CCSNIES, C ...