O Discounting the Future Is it equitable to favor tomorrow’s wealthier generations
... at risk. Some analysts such as Nicholas Stern, who conducted the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, while emphasizing intergenerational equity, would use a near-zero discount rate (adjusted for the probability that a catastrophe might wipe out the human race and for the possibility tha ...
... at risk. Some analysts such as Nicholas Stern, who conducted the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, while emphasizing intergenerational equity, would use a near-zero discount rate (adjusted for the probability that a catastrophe might wipe out the human race and for the possibility tha ...
Schroder Climate Change Report
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment report Warming in the climate system is indisputable and the observed changes since the 1950’s are unprecedented Continued elevation of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere will cause further warming and changes to the clima ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment report Warming in the climate system is indisputable and the observed changes since the 1950’s are unprecedented Continued elevation of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere will cause further warming and changes to the clima ...
Global Warming and Global Change: Facts and Myths
... have demonstrated clearly the consequences of this process and have indicated an increase in tropospheric air humidity since the 1970s. The rising air moisture increases the greenhouse effect on one hand and forms more clouds on the other that cause a cooling effect: clouds reflect great amounts of ...
... have demonstrated clearly the consequences of this process and have indicated an increase in tropospheric air humidity since the 1970s. The rising air moisture increases the greenhouse effect on one hand and forms more clouds on the other that cause a cooling effect: clouds reflect great amounts of ...
M B V C
... quality and social inclusiveness, while mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. The need for a transition to more sustainable consumption and production patterns is undeniable and sustainable economic growth must be placed at the heart of future development for all citizens. The So ...
... quality and social inclusiveness, while mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change. The need for a transition to more sustainable consumption and production patterns is undeniable and sustainable economic growth must be placed at the heart of future development for all citizens. The So ...
The role of expertise in governance processes
... climate change, I will try to develop some lessons that could be applied to other cases such as international forestry. All three cases have in common that they are posing the problem of international cooperation in the face of uncertainty. National interests and national sovereignty are as importan ...
... climate change, I will try to develop some lessons that could be applied to other cases such as international forestry. All three cases have in common that they are posing the problem of international cooperation in the face of uncertainty. National interests and national sovereignty are as importan ...
Greenpeace Canada Presentation to the Standing Committee on
... these fundamental options for civil protest – be it against injustice, corruption, racism or pollution? Because that is what Bill C-51 proposes in the name of national security. Professors Craig Forcese and Ken Roach have shown that the bill could be used to target democratic protest movements engag ...
... these fundamental options for civil protest – be it against injustice, corruption, racism or pollution? Because that is what Bill C-51 proposes in the name of national security. Professors Craig Forcese and Ken Roach have shown that the bill could be used to target democratic protest movements engag ...
Thermohaline circulation changes: a question of risk
... (We are currently conducting a systematic expert elicitation, as pioneered by [Morgan and Keith, 1995], to find out the subjective probabilities judged by leading experts in the field.) The numbers given here are illustrative only, but not unreasonable. In the example shown, the likelihood is very s ...
... (We are currently conducting a systematic expert elicitation, as pioneered by [Morgan and Keith, 1995], to find out the subjective probabilities judged by leading experts in the field.) The numbers given here are illustrative only, but not unreasonable. In the example shown, the likelihood is very s ...
An Introduction to Voluntary Carbon Offsets
... – Since 2002, number of offset providers has jumped 220% ...
... – Since 2002, number of offset providers has jumped 220% ...
View/Download - National Gender and Equality Commission
... No clear safe pathway to achieve the goal of staying below 1.5 degrees Clarity on climate finance flow, where it will come from and what counts ...
... No clear safe pathway to achieve the goal of staying below 1.5 degrees Clarity on climate finance flow, where it will come from and what counts ...
The Small Print: What the Royal Society left out
... changes naturally on every timescale. Mankind is remarkably adaptable, living in almost all of these climates. It is impossible to know how rapidly climate changed in the distant past since the time resolution of the data we have is mostly inadequate for resolving the timescales that we are currentl ...
... changes naturally on every timescale. Mankind is remarkably adaptable, living in almost all of these climates. It is impossible to know how rapidly climate changed in the distant past since the time resolution of the data we have is mostly inadequate for resolving the timescales that we are currentl ...
Global warming - Faculty Websites
... What does matter is that earth’s climate has varied significantly -with ice ages, mini-ice ages, and periods of warming occurring. But is it true that today’s warming is enhanced by humans or is it just part of a natural cycle? ...
... What does matter is that earth’s climate has varied significantly -with ice ages, mini-ice ages, and periods of warming occurring. But is it true that today’s warming is enhanced by humans or is it just part of a natural cycle? ...
Working Paper Series - Griffith University
... too numerous and diverse, and the costs imposed across too many countries remote from the emitters, for traditional regulation to work in the absence of some other market intervention. Second, whereas the above examples of environmental degradation may impose costs upon or even threaten the existenc ...
... too numerous and diverse, and the costs imposed across too many countries remote from the emitters, for traditional regulation to work in the absence of some other market intervention. Second, whereas the above examples of environmental degradation may impose costs upon or even threaten the existenc ...
5 Determinants of Crop Growth and Yield in a Changing Climate
... of the world under different scenarios of climate change. Their results showed an increased runoff in high latitudes and the wet tropics, and decreased run-off in mid-latitudes and some parts of the dry tropics. Consequent declines in water availability are therefore projected to affect some of the ...
... of the world under different scenarios of climate change. Their results showed an increased runoff in high latitudes and the wet tropics, and decreased run-off in mid-latitudes and some parts of the dry tropics. Consequent declines in water availability are therefore projected to affect some of the ...
approaching business and the environment with complexity theory
... patterned behavior, frozen inertia, and sometimes extreme instability. At a macro level, complexity theory explains why systems are often hard to comprehend and forecast, let alone manage and control. Yet complexity also offers micro-level tools and concepts to help innovative organizations improve s ...
... patterned behavior, frozen inertia, and sometimes extreme instability. At a macro level, complexity theory explains why systems are often hard to comprehend and forecast, let alone manage and control. Yet complexity also offers micro-level tools and concepts to help innovative organizations improve s ...
Psychology and Climate Change - Australian Psychological Society
... aspects of these environments to achieve sustainable change (Curnow & Spehr, 2006). ...
... aspects of these environments to achieve sustainable change (Curnow & Spehr, 2006). ...
Global Warming and Human Health
... Although the actual number of hurricanes may not increase as a result of global warming, it is their intensity that is thought to increase, or their potential energy ...
... Although the actual number of hurricanes may not increase as a result of global warming, it is their intensity that is thought to increase, or their potential energy ...
2009 Summer Student Report - Alsek Renewable Resource Council
... Ramona Maraj and Kelsey Russell with some marten dissections. Hidden in a back lab room, Kelsey and took out each marten’s bacculum/ovaries, stomach, teeth and liver for DNA analysis. From Whitehorse I then flew up to Inuvik, NWT for one of the best weeks of the summer. There I joined 60 other parti ...
... Ramona Maraj and Kelsey Russell with some marten dissections. Hidden in a back lab room, Kelsey and took out each marten’s bacculum/ovaries, stomach, teeth and liver for DNA analysis. From Whitehorse I then flew up to Inuvik, NWT for one of the best weeks of the summer. There I joined 60 other parti ...
MS 1AC Climate Lee-Meyer
... thing isn’t up for debate: the evidence for climate change is unequivocal. We still control the future, however, as the magnitude of shifting weather patterns and the frequency of extreme climate events depends on how much more greenhouse gas we emit. We aren’t facing the end of the world as envisag ...
... thing isn’t up for debate: the evidence for climate change is unequivocal. We still control the future, however, as the magnitude of shifting weather patterns and the frequency of extreme climate events depends on how much more greenhouse gas we emit. We aren’t facing the end of the world as envisag ...
2. Climate Change
... transport links, such as railway lines, and housing development have also all played their part in shaping the coastline that we know and love today. To prepare for the likely effects of climate change a number of organisations undertake monitoring activities around the Exe Estuary in order to ident ...
... transport links, such as railway lines, and housing development have also all played their part in shaping the coastline that we know and love today. To prepare for the likely effects of climate change a number of organisations undertake monitoring activities around the Exe Estuary in order to ident ...
Global warming and agriculture: impact estimates by country
... might provide aggregate global benefits for agriculture (albeit with inequitable distributional effects among countries). But policy inaction premised on this benign possibility could leave world agriculture on an inexorable trajectory toward a subsequent reversal into serious damage. The delay of s ...
... might provide aggregate global benefits for agriculture (albeit with inequitable distributional effects among countries). But policy inaction premised on this benign possibility could leave world agriculture on an inexorable trajectory toward a subsequent reversal into serious damage. The delay of s ...
Global public health and climate change
... healthcare system and traditional public health. Climate change is telling us that no, that’s not good enough. We’re going to have to be more imaginative, more collaborative, and be prepared to look to a more distant future as well as deal with the problems that press on us in the here and now.” “We ...
... healthcare system and traditional public health. Climate change is telling us that no, that’s not good enough. We’re going to have to be more imaginative, more collaborative, and be prepared to look to a more distant future as well as deal with the problems that press on us in the here and now.” “We ...
impact, adaptation and vulnerability on the european resource base
... Increased runoff due to enhanced glacier melts, formation of lakes in the Alps No significant change is detected in annual runoff in most part of Europe (Pekárová et al. 2004) Significant trends in floods have not been detected globally (increase 27, decrease 31, and no trend 137 cases) (WGII Chapte ...
... Increased runoff due to enhanced glacier melts, formation of lakes in the Alps No significant change is detected in annual runoff in most part of Europe (Pekárová et al. 2004) Significant trends in floods have not been detected globally (increase 27, decrease 31, and no trend 137 cases) (WGII Chapte ...
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... therefore to increasing prices of food products from animal origin ((Uwizeye, 2008). Morocco just like other developing countries will pay the bill of GHG emitted by developed countries as historical polluters which had 20% of the world’s population in 2004 but accounted for 46% of total global emis ...
... therefore to increasing prices of food products from animal origin ((Uwizeye, 2008). Morocco just like other developing countries will pay the bill of GHG emitted by developed countries as historical polluters which had 20% of the world’s population in 2004 but accounted for 46% of total global emis ...
MAKING SENSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, NATURAL DISASTERS
... physical and biological systems, more than 89% are consistent with the direction of change expected as a response to warming.”8 The IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to “assess on a comprehensive, objective, op ...
... physical and biological systems, more than 89% are consistent with the direction of change expected as a response to warming.”8 The IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to “assess on a comprehensive, objective, op ...