PowerPoint file - Earth and Environmental Sciences
... emphasis is on local solutions to economic, social, and environmental sustainability. It is a world with moderate population growth, intermediate levels of economic development, and less rapid and more diverse technological change than in the B1 and A1 storylines. While the scenario is also oriented ...
... emphasis is on local solutions to economic, social, and environmental sustainability. It is a world with moderate population growth, intermediate levels of economic development, and less rapid and more diverse technological change than in the B1 and A1 storylines. While the scenario is also oriented ...
Effects of Climate Change on the World`s Oceans
... We can explain the need for change. We can characterize the types of things that are expected to happen, but we cannot answer questions about exactly what will change by how much and when. We should be looking to support policies of transition and adaptive response, not new configurations for some s ...
... We can explain the need for change. We can characterize the types of things that are expected to happen, but we cannot answer questions about exactly what will change by how much and when. We should be looking to support policies of transition and adaptive response, not new configurations for some s ...
... • …our geopolitical future . . . will be determined in good part through 20 or so strategic worldwide urban networks. Saskia Sassen • …in the last decade practitioners and researchers have come to recognise global cities as important actors in relation to climate change. Ulrich Beck • Power/responsi ...
Climate Change & Sustainable Development in Africa
... Convention and implement it (the polluter pays principle). EU should take the political initiative on this issue at the climate change negotiations. • Reconsider the principle of per capita emissions allocations. This would bring on board, continents such as Africa, who despite providing environment ...
... Convention and implement it (the polluter pays principle). EU should take the political initiative on this issue at the climate change negotiations. • Reconsider the principle of per capita emissions allocations. This would bring on board, continents such as Africa, who despite providing environment ...
Presentacion Tim Groser Nueva Zelanda.pdf
... need a comprehensive agreement to replace Kyoto. Another set of commitments under the Kyoto Protocol can, according to this middle of the road view, be part of the deal, but it cannot possibly be the whole deal. You cannot seriously argue that a deal that leaves out 84% of global emissions – a numbe ...
... need a comprehensive agreement to replace Kyoto. Another set of commitments under the Kyoto Protocol can, according to this middle of the road view, be part of the deal, but it cannot possibly be the whole deal. You cannot seriously argue that a deal that leaves out 84% of global emissions – a numbe ...
Climate and Geology – Benchmark Review Climate: Why is the
... Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. While the weather can change in just a few hours, climate takes hundreds, thousands, even millions of years to change. ...
... Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. While the weather can change in just a few hours, climate takes hundreds, thousands, even millions of years to change. ...
COP 17 article
... gather African countries around a common position in order for the continent to be listened to during the debates. Reaching a consensus, as in Cancun, remains the major goal of COP 17. About an eventual second Kyoto commitment, mainly supported by the European Union, the heart of the debate is about ...
... gather African countries around a common position in order for the continent to be listened to during the debates. Reaching a consensus, as in Cancun, remains the major goal of COP 17. About an eventual second Kyoto commitment, mainly supported by the European Union, the heart of the debate is about ...
UCS NECIA Presentation
... and the effect of these changes depend greatly on emissions choices we make today. • Greatest remaining uncertainty about timing and extent of climate impacts is related to our choices over the next decade. • Higher emissions scenario not a ceiling, lower scenario not a floor. • Reductions on the or ...
... and the effect of these changes depend greatly on emissions choices we make today. • Greatest remaining uncertainty about timing and extent of climate impacts is related to our choices over the next decade. • Higher emissions scenario not a ceiling, lower scenario not a floor. • Reductions on the or ...
Long-term climate goals Decarbonisation, carbon
... they are neutral: carbon-neutral activities have net-zero CO 2 emissions; and climate-neutral activities have net-zero GHG emissions. Sometimes carbon offsets involving reduced or avoided emissions are referred to as ‘carbon neutral’ or ‘climate neutral’. In our opinion they should not be considered ...
... they are neutral: carbon-neutral activities have net-zero CO 2 emissions; and climate-neutral activities have net-zero GHG emissions. Sometimes carbon offsets involving reduced or avoided emissions are referred to as ‘carbon neutral’ or ‘climate neutral’. In our opinion they should not be considered ...
Separating forcing from feedback
... • CO2 increase causes fast as well as temperaturemediated adjustment that significantly affect clouds and land/ocean interaction. • A careful analysis of GHG feedbacks on temperature needs to account for this adjustment as part of the forcing. This appears to make cloud feedbacks less positive. • In ...
... • CO2 increase causes fast as well as temperaturemediated adjustment that significantly affect clouds and land/ocean interaction. • A careful analysis of GHG feedbacks on temperature needs to account for this adjustment as part of the forcing. This appears to make cloud feedbacks less positive. • In ...
Sample Chapter - Brookings Institution
... For nearly twenty years, the nations of the world have been engaged, under the auspices of the United Nations, in a permanent floating negotiation on a global deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That process nearly collapsed at the Copenhagen conference in December 2009. The chaos Obama found o ...
... For nearly twenty years, the nations of the world have been engaged, under the auspices of the United Nations, in a permanent floating negotiation on a global deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That process nearly collapsed at the Copenhagen conference in December 2009. The chaos Obama found o ...
Dominican Republic
... The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources is the lead government body responsible for environmental issues, and co-operates with regional and international actors to fund and implement environmental projects. Within the Ministry, the Department of Forest Management is responsible for enforci ...
... The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources is the lead government body responsible for environmental issues, and co-operates with regional and international actors to fund and implement environmental projects. Within the Ministry, the Department of Forest Management is responsible for enforci ...
climate change ppt
... • Mathematical models: Numerical means to represent real-world phenomena and the linkages and interactions between the processes involved • Used to solve complex problems • Help to understand atmospheric circulation and groundwater movement (among other things) e.g., global circulation models (GCMs ...
... • Mathematical models: Numerical means to represent real-world phenomena and the linkages and interactions between the processes involved • Used to solve complex problems • Help to understand atmospheric circulation and groundwater movement (among other things) e.g., global circulation models (GCMs ...
Mise en page 1 - World Climate Research Programme
... Significant progress in the understanding and projection of climate change has been made over the last decade. However, large uncertainties remain, particularly in the determination of the rate of climate change, impacts on regional scales where society and environment are most vulnerable and occurr ...
... Significant progress in the understanding and projection of climate change has been made over the last decade. However, large uncertainties remain, particularly in the determination of the rate of climate change, impacts on regional scales where society and environment are most vulnerable and occurr ...
Informal Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change Bogor Presidential
... 1. Need to be guided by a shared vision based on the findings of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment report 2. Continue to work within the current framework, i.e. the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol 3. Need to give content to the principle of common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabi ...
... 1. Need to be guided by a shared vision based on the findings of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment report 2. Continue to work within the current framework, i.e. the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol 3. Need to give content to the principle of common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabi ...
The Third Number: 2 795 Gigatons
... In the event, of course, we missed it. Copenhagen failed spectacularly. Neither China nor the United States, which between them are responsible for 40% of global carbon emissions, was prepared to offer dramatic concessions, and so the conference drifted aimlessly for two weeks until world leaders je ...
... In the event, of course, we missed it. Copenhagen failed spectacularly. Neither China nor the United States, which between them are responsible for 40% of global carbon emissions, was prepared to offer dramatic concessions, and so the conference drifted aimlessly for two weeks until world leaders je ...
how has climate change affected norfolk?
... Today, Norfolk is situated on the western side of the North Sea. The North Sea is shallow and Norfolk is relatively low lying. Unfortunately, Norfolk has no solid high cliffs like the White Cliffs of Dover to keep the sea out! Consequently, it is vulnerable to rising sea levels that may result from ...
... Today, Norfolk is situated on the western side of the North Sea. The North Sea is shallow and Norfolk is relatively low lying. Unfortunately, Norfolk has no solid high cliffs like the White Cliffs of Dover to keep the sea out! Consequently, it is vulnerable to rising sea levels that may result from ...
What is the Difference between Weather and Climate
... Change Science Program (http://www.climatescience.gov), factors such as aerosols, land use change and others may play important roles in climate change, but their influence is highly uncertain at the present time. Who Studies Climate Change? Modern climate prediction started back in the late 1700s ...
... Change Science Program (http://www.climatescience.gov), factors such as aerosols, land use change and others may play important roles in climate change, but their influence is highly uncertain at the present time. Who Studies Climate Change? Modern climate prediction started back in the late 1700s ...
Global Climate Change and Population
... Uncertainty about the detail of CC remains high – need for ...
... Uncertainty about the detail of CC remains high – need for ...
Kyoto – Marrakech: SINKS
... In theory a small country can hold up consensus In practice, small countries have little influence unless they build alliances ...
... In theory a small country can hold up consensus In practice, small countries have little influence unless they build alliances ...
Ocean temperatures chronicle the ongoing warming of Earth
... forcing is not greatly offset there. As both natural and anthropogenic aerosols and greenhouse-gas forcing vary in the future, it will be essential to provide estimates of the Earth’s total warming for evaluation of Earth system projections and to track whether or not the Earth continues to warm in ...
... forcing is not greatly offset there. As both natural and anthropogenic aerosols and greenhouse-gas forcing vary in the future, it will be essential to provide estimates of the Earth’s total warming for evaluation of Earth system projections and to track whether or not the Earth continues to warm in ...
climate changes, possible impacts and mitigation options
... analyzed and the results properly applied by involved users, otherwise cannot be reliable any conclusions ...
... analyzed and the results properly applied by involved users, otherwise cannot be reliable any conclusions ...