Executive summary - Environmental Defense Fund
... claiming that fossil fuels are vital to economic health and growth. Indeed, a staggering portion of the world’s economy does still depend on the use of fossil fuels, and breaking this dependence will require a clear understanding of benefits beyond emissions reductions, such as the health and econo ...
... claiming that fossil fuels are vital to economic health and growth. Indeed, a staggering portion of the world’s economy does still depend on the use of fossil fuels, and breaking this dependence will require a clear understanding of benefits beyond emissions reductions, such as the health and econo ...
GLOBAL WARMING - Marian Koshland Science Museum
... Now that you have learned about the causes of climate change and the impacts of global warming, more research is needed about how to study and respond to climate change. Each member of the group will now assume a role for the investigative team of experts (Climate Scientist, Policy Analyst, Economis ...
... Now that you have learned about the causes of climate change and the impacts of global warming, more research is needed about how to study and respond to climate change. Each member of the group will now assume a role for the investigative team of experts (Climate Scientist, Policy Analyst, Economis ...
reducing black carbon emissions
... emissions standards (the Clean Air Act and the National Emissions Controls) for some diesel engines, these standards only apply to new vehicles and engines, phase in slowly, and do not mandate retrofit of the long-lived existing fleet. Additional actions are urgently required. California is demonstr ...
... emissions standards (the Clean Air Act and the National Emissions Controls) for some diesel engines, these standards only apply to new vehicles and engines, phase in slowly, and do not mandate retrofit of the long-lived existing fleet. Additional actions are urgently required. California is demonstr ...
TRILLIUM Fossil Fuel Free Investing At Trillium
... The frequency and severity of extreme weather systems continues to impact the lives of people around the globe and increasingly in our own communities. Climate change is the defining investment issue of this generation. It is no longer solely a threat to future generations. The damage to the environ ...
... The frequency and severity of extreme weather systems continues to impact the lives of people around the globe and increasingly in our own communities. Climate change is the defining investment issue of this generation. It is no longer solely a threat to future generations. The damage to the environ ...
Carbon Pollution Standards: The Centerpiece of U.S.
... In 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from the nation’s largest emitters: coal- and gas-fired power plants, which account for one-third of all U.S. climate-changing pollution. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan rule for existing power p ...
... In 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from the nation’s largest emitters: coal- and gas-fired power plants, which account for one-third of all U.S. climate-changing pollution. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan rule for existing power p ...
MHC-200-Powerpoint
... environmental benefits to British Columbia (BC). Since the tax took effect in 2008, British Columbians’ use of petroleum fuels (subject to the tax) has dropped by 15.1% — and by 16.4% compared to the rest of Canada. “ – GROWTH UNAFFECTED: “BC’s GDP growth has outpaced the rest of Canada’s (albeit by ...
... environmental benefits to British Columbia (BC). Since the tax took effect in 2008, British Columbians’ use of petroleum fuels (subject to the tax) has dropped by 15.1% — and by 16.4% compared to the rest of Canada. “ – GROWTH UNAFFECTED: “BC’s GDP growth has outpaced the rest of Canada’s (albeit by ...
Indigenous Peoples` Global Summit on Climate Change*
... lobsters. Reefs also act as natural buffers, protecting vulnerable coastal areas from bearing the full brunt of storms. An analysis conducted between 1969 and 2008, showed the most complex types of reef had been virtually wiped out across the entire Caribbean. Coral reefs currently face two major—an ...
... lobsters. Reefs also act as natural buffers, protecting vulnerable coastal areas from bearing the full brunt of storms. An analysis conducted between 1969 and 2008, showed the most complex types of reef had been virtually wiped out across the entire Caribbean. Coral reefs currently face two major—an ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
... to send a positive message on international cooperation. • ‘the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol establish a regime that adequately addresses the economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainable development.’ • industrialised countries to ...
... to send a positive message on international cooperation. • ‘the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol establish a regime that adequately addresses the economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainable development.’ • industrialised countries to ...
When researching back and looking at some of the things we need
... consequences that are expected from the medium and higher warming ranges could be avoided if heat-trapping emissions can be reduced to levels that will hold temperature increases at or below the lower warming range (i.e., an increase of no more than 5.5°F). However, even if emissions are substantial ...
... consequences that are expected from the medium and higher warming ranges could be avoided if heat-trapping emissions can be reduced to levels that will hold temperature increases at or below the lower warming range (i.e., an increase of no more than 5.5°F). However, even if emissions are substantial ...
A P R
... the INDC tool will play a central role in the Paris negotiations: “Do not underestimate their [i.e. INDCs] significance: all countries are expected to submit INDCs that represent a ‘progression’ from their current commitment […]. This amounts to a significant shift from the original Convention, whic ...
... the INDC tool will play a central role in the Paris negotiations: “Do not underestimate their [i.e. INDCs] significance: all countries are expected to submit INDCs that represent a ‘progression’ from their current commitment […]. This amounts to a significant shift from the original Convention, whic ...
Overview - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... • “REAFFIRMS that, with a view to meeting the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [...] to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, overall global annual mean surface temperature increase should not exceed 2°C above pre-industr ...
... • “REAFFIRMS that, with a view to meeting the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [...] to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, overall global annual mean surface temperature increase should not exceed 2°C above pre-industr ...
Introduction to mitigation assessments
... Chapter 8: Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation • Examines the literature on the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation policies at the national, regional, and global ...
... Chapter 8: Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation • Examines the literature on the costs of greenhouse gas mitigation policies at the national, regional, and global ...
Scientific Heresy - Watts Up With That?
... So I learnt lesson number 1: the stunning gullibility of the media. Put an ‘ology’after your pseudoscience and you can get journalists to be your propagandists. A Channel 4 team did the obvious thing – they got a group of students to make some crop circles and then asked the cereologist if they were ...
... So I learnt lesson number 1: the stunning gullibility of the media. Put an ‘ology’after your pseudoscience and you can get journalists to be your propagandists. A Channel 4 team did the obvious thing – they got a group of students to make some crop circles and then asked the cereologist if they were ...
Outcome and Indian stance in COPs 1 - 21
... As it was also decided to begin a process for developing legal arrangements for enhancing actions of all parties under the Convention. India ensured that the new arrangements, which have to be decided by 2015 and implemented from 2020 are established under the Convention. ...
... As it was also decided to begin a process for developing legal arrangements for enhancing actions of all parties under the Convention. India ensured that the new arrangements, which have to be decided by 2015 and implemented from 2020 are established under the Convention. ...
The rate of global temperature rise may have hit a
... We are well on our way to surpassing these limits. In 2013 atmospheric CO2 briefly reached 400 ppm for the first time in recorded history—and perhaps for the first time in millions of years, according to geologic evidence. To avoid breaching the 405ppm threshold, fossil-fuel burning would essentiall ...
... We are well on our way to surpassing these limits. In 2013 atmospheric CO2 briefly reached 400 ppm for the first time in recorded history—and perhaps for the first time in millions of years, according to geologic evidence. To avoid breaching the 405ppm threshold, fossil-fuel burning would essentiall ...
AHGA paper McEvilly v5
... human activities. It is included only to provide some context about the way in which evidence for or against these claims is examined. A major assessment was published by the Australian economist, Professor Ross Garnaut in late 2008. The review considered options for Australia to play a proportionat ...
... human activities. It is included only to provide some context about the way in which evidence for or against these claims is examined. A major assessment was published by the Australian economist, Professor Ross Garnaut in late 2008. The review considered options for Australia to play a proportionat ...
A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics
... mutually reinforcing components of the climate change problem. I shall call the first ʻthe Global Stormʼ. This corresponds to the dominant understanding of the climate change problem; and it emerges from a predominantly spatial interpretation of the three characteristics. Let us begin with the Dispe ...
... mutually reinforcing components of the climate change problem. I shall call the first ʻthe Global Stormʼ. This corresponds to the dominant understanding of the climate change problem; and it emerges from a predominantly spatial interpretation of the three characteristics. Let us begin with the Dispe ...
Climate Change - American Wildlife Conservation Foundation
... biodiversity, and “islands” within, sufficiently diminished to become intolerant of recovery? The geologic record indicates that decreased biodiversity of lower species that were formerly ‘tolerant’ to change actually induced an increase in nutrient uptake by other species, that, in turn, depressed ...
... biodiversity, and “islands” within, sufficiently diminished to become intolerant of recovery? The geologic record indicates that decreased biodiversity of lower species that were formerly ‘tolerant’ to change actually induced an increase in nutrient uptake by other species, that, in turn, depressed ...
Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP)
... pulates the allocation and utilization of the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage ment Fund (LDRRMF) for the following: Conduct of risk assessment, vulnerability an alysis, and other science-based technology a nd methodologies to enhance LGU ecological profile, sectoral studies and maintain D ...
... pulates the allocation and utilization of the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage ment Fund (LDRRMF) for the following: Conduct of risk assessment, vulnerability an alysis, and other science-based technology a nd methodologies to enhance LGU ecological profile, sectoral studies and maintain D ...
the political climate
... to meet its EU target of generating 15 per cent of its energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020. The Conservatives have already given some support to efforts to develop a domestic supply chain for offshore wind technology,6 but a knock-on effect of this is that the levy control framework – ...
... to meet its EU target of generating 15 per cent of its energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020. The Conservatives have already given some support to efforts to develop a domestic supply chain for offshore wind technology,6 but a knock-on effect of this is that the levy control framework – ...
Nessun titolo diapositiva
... below 65 years old. Vector-borne diseases may intensify and spread with warmer and more humid conditions. • At this preliminary stage the main economic effect of the changes in health status that we consider are changes in labour productivity. In particular the change in labour productivity per year ...
... below 65 years old. Vector-borne diseases may intensify and spread with warmer and more humid conditions. • At this preliminary stage the main economic effect of the changes in health status that we consider are changes in labour productivity. In particular the change in labour productivity per year ...
Slide 1 - climateknowledge.org
... – Physical understanding of the climate system and the heat-trapping properties of greenhouse gases 2. Circumstantial evidence – Qualitative agreement between observed climate changes and model predictions of human-caused climate changes (warming of oceans, land surface, and troposphere, stratospher ...
... – Physical understanding of the climate system and the heat-trapping properties of greenhouse gases 2. Circumstantial evidence – Qualitative agreement between observed climate changes and model predictions of human-caused climate changes (warming of oceans, land surface, and troposphere, stratospher ...
Baltic Sea region
... • With the help of the limited empirical evidence from instrumental observations or analyses, possibly after suitable extraction of the suspected „non-natural“ signal. • By accessing long „control simulations“ done with quasi-realistic models. • By projection of the signal on a proxy data space, and ...
... • With the help of the limited empirical evidence from instrumental observations or analyses, possibly after suitable extraction of the suspected „non-natural“ signal. • By accessing long „control simulations“ done with quasi-realistic models. • By projection of the signal on a proxy data space, and ...
The Climate Change Act (2008) - The Institute for Government
... dioxide emissions would be cut 19% by 2010.226 In 2003, the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) published Our Energy Challenge: Creating a Low Carbon Economy. This white paper included a foreword from Tony Blair in which the Prime Minister stressed the need for global action on climate change an ...
... dioxide emissions would be cut 19% by 2010.226 In 2003, the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) published Our Energy Challenge: Creating a Low Carbon Economy. This white paper included a foreword from Tony Blair in which the Prime Minister stressed the need for global action on climate change an ...