Climate Justice: Equity and Justice informing a new
... ii. analyze the role of justice and equity in designing a new climate agreement that will limit global average temperature increase to 2°C above pre-industrial levels;3 and iii. explore the potential of climate justice narratives in mobilizing domestic constituencies of demand for climate action. ...
... ii. analyze the role of justice and equity in designing a new climate agreement that will limit global average temperature increase to 2°C above pre-industrial levels;3 and iii. explore the potential of climate justice narratives in mobilizing domestic constituencies of demand for climate action. ...
Why Hasn`t Earth Warmed as Much as Expected?
... (Manuscript received 2 October 2009, in final form 17 December 2009) ABSTRACT The observed increase in global mean surface temperature (GMST) over the industrial era is less than 40% of that expected from observed increases in long-lived greenhouse gases together with the best-estimate equilibrium c ...
... (Manuscript received 2 October 2009, in final form 17 December 2009) ABSTRACT The observed increase in global mean surface temperature (GMST) over the industrial era is less than 40% of that expected from observed increases in long-lived greenhouse gases together with the best-estimate equilibrium c ...
Enhancing the resilience of inland fisheries and
... to deliver benefits by nurturing and preserving ecological and social features that enable it to renew and reorganize itself (Walker et al, 2004). This statement of the objective of management emphasizes different elements of the management problem compared to conventional (and legally binding) fish ...
... to deliver benefits by nurturing and preserving ecological and social features that enable it to renew and reorganize itself (Walker et al, 2004). This statement of the objective of management emphasizes different elements of the management problem compared to conventional (and legally binding) fish ...
Executive Summary - UNECE Environmental Policy web-site
... The vulnerability assessment of the Dniester River Basin to climate change is based on the Concept of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007a) which provides differentiation between three main components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Exposure is de ...
... The vulnerability assessment of the Dniester River Basin to climate change is based on the Concept of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007a) which provides differentiation between three main components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Exposure is de ...
Climate Change and Health: Is There a Role for the Health Care
... (e.g., heat waves) and extreme weather events, or indirectly through changes in water availability, air quality and resultant changes in agriculture and the economy (Knowlton et al., 2011). There are endless examples of the negative health effects of extreme climate events and health. Droughts and f ...
... (e.g., heat waves) and extreme weather events, or indirectly through changes in water availability, air quality and resultant changes in agriculture and the economy (Knowlton et al., 2011). There are endless examples of the negative health effects of extreme climate events and health. Droughts and f ...
Financial Support Mechanisms and Financing Instruments for
... there is more than one financial instrument used in order to match funding requirements when require. For example, in Japan, government budgets against disasters are approximately 5% of the general fund in the national budgets. Besides, insurers and reinsurers in Japan are allowed to establish reser ...
... there is more than one financial instrument used in order to match funding requirements when require. For example, in Japan, government budgets against disasters are approximately 5% of the general fund in the national budgets. Besides, insurers and reinsurers in Japan are allowed to establish reser ...
The carbon market in 2020: volumes, prices and gains from trade: Working Paper 11 (331 kB) (opens in new window)
... bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create a worldleading centre for policy-relevant research and training in climate change and the environment. The Institute is funded by the Grantham Foundatio ...
... bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create a worldleading centre for policy-relevant research and training in climate change and the environment. The Institute is funded by the Grantham Foundatio ...
Bali climate talks to decide fate of Kyoto Protocol by Martin Khor
... highly populated countries like China and India and possibly more industrialized and big countries such as South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia. The call for a “new post-2012 treaty” and for “comprehensive negotiations” is thus a code for pulling in developing countries into makin ...
... highly populated countries like China and India and possibly more industrialized and big countries such as South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia. The call for a “new post-2012 treaty” and for “comprehensive negotiations” is thus a code for pulling in developing countries into makin ...
Integrating Climate Change into Strategic Environmental Assessment in Ireland A Guidance Note
... Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (IPCC-WG2, 2014) – includes information on observed climate change inputs and vulnerability adaptation. It also considers future risks and opportunities for adaptation and guidance in relation to managing future risks and building climate re ...
... Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (IPCC-WG2, 2014) – includes information on observed climate change inputs and vulnerability adaptation. It also considers future risks and opportunities for adaptation and guidance in relation to managing future risks and building climate re ...
Bilateral Cooperation between China and the United States
... important factor in the success of the Twenty-First Conference of the Parties (COP-21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). At COP-21, in Paris in December 2015, a major new international agreement to address climate change was concluded. For most purposes, the agre ...
... important factor in the success of the Twenty-First Conference of the Parties (COP-21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). At COP-21, in Paris in December 2015, a major new international agreement to address climate change was concluded. For most purposes, the agre ...
James Hurrell*1, Gerald A. Meehl1, David Bader2
... The global coupled atmosphere-ocean-land-cryosphere system exhibits a wide range of physical and dynamical phenomena with associated physical, biological and chemical feedbacks that collectively result in a continuum of temporal and spatial variability. The traditional boundaries between weather and ...
... The global coupled atmosphere-ocean-land-cryosphere system exhibits a wide range of physical and dynamical phenomena with associated physical, biological and chemical feedbacks that collectively result in a continuum of temporal and spatial variability. The traditional boundaries between weather and ...
Disasters in ASEAN Countries
... • Reducing uncertainty in hydro‐met forecasting of extreme events (several sources of uncertainties exists and they are inherent in nature) – Past is not a good indicator of future – Frequency, location, magnitude, duration of extremes may change – Chance of extreme event is not the same from one ...
... • Reducing uncertainty in hydro‐met forecasting of extreme events (several sources of uncertainties exists and they are inherent in nature) – Past is not a good indicator of future – Frequency, location, magnitude, duration of extremes may change – Chance of extreme event is not the same from one ...
View/Open
... There is growing consensus amongst the international humanitarian community that adaptation measures are urgently needed to help vulnerable people cope with the changing environments in which they are living. This requires adapting global and local food production methods through investments, techni ...
... There is growing consensus amongst the international humanitarian community that adaptation measures are urgently needed to help vulnerable people cope with the changing environments in which they are living. This requires adapting global and local food production methods through investments, techni ...
7. Nature, “Soot a major contributor to climate change” (15 Jan 2013)
... also harmful air pollutants and reducing them will prevent millions of premature deaths ever year and protect tens of millions of tonnes of crops, while promoting sustainable development. Fourth is the recognition that the health benefits and crop improvements will accrue primarily in the nations ...
... also harmful air pollutants and reducing them will prevent millions of premature deaths ever year and protect tens of millions of tonnes of crops, while promoting sustainable development. Fourth is the recognition that the health benefits and crop improvements will accrue primarily in the nations ...
Independent review of the Climate Change (State Action) Act 2008
... Independent review of the Climate Change (State Action) Act 2008 Section 18 requires that an independent review of the operation of the Act is conducted every four years. The review must address the extent to which the Acts’ objects are being achieved and any requirement for additional legislative m ...
... Independent review of the Climate Change (State Action) Act 2008 Section 18 requires that an independent review of the operation of the Act is conducted every four years. The review must address the extent to which the Acts’ objects are being achieved and any requirement for additional legislative m ...
How Can Latin America Help the World to Cope with Climate
... aggravated by uncertainty and by the fact that free rider problems often arise when sovereign states cannot be compelled to participate in institutional arrangements by organizations that aim at targeting the issue, nor can they be punished by force. The hypothesis that the world’s climate will chan ...
... aggravated by uncertainty and by the fact that free rider problems often arise when sovereign states cannot be compelled to participate in institutional arrangements by organizations that aim at targeting the issue, nor can they be punished by force. The hypothesis that the world’s climate will chan ...
Plants and climate change: complexities and
... conservation biologists. With global greenhouse gas emissions set to continue to rise for the foreseeable future, the impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2), and associated shifts in temperature and precipitation are all expected to impact plant ecophysiology, distribution and interactions with o ...
... conservation biologists. With global greenhouse gas emissions set to continue to rise for the foreseeable future, the impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2), and associated shifts in temperature and precipitation are all expected to impact plant ecophysiology, distribution and interactions with o ...
CHAPTER 2: Forests
... move with changes in climate, they will face extinction. Globally, it has been estimated that at least one-third of the world’s remaining forests may be adversely impacted by climate change over the next century (IPCC, 1995). Climate change may force species to migrate or shift their ranges far fast ...
... move with changes in climate, they will face extinction. Globally, it has been estimated that at least one-third of the world’s remaining forests may be adversely impacted by climate change over the next century (IPCC, 1995). Climate change may force species to migrate or shift their ranges far fast ...
Climate Change and Hunger - Responding to the Challenge
... There is growing consensus amongst the international humanitarian community that adaptation measures are urgently needed to help vulnerable people cope with the changing environments in which they are living. This requires adapting global and local food production methods through investments, techni ...
... There is growing consensus amongst the international humanitarian community that adaptation measures are urgently needed to help vulnerable people cope with the changing environments in which they are living. This requires adapting global and local food production methods through investments, techni ...
Climate change response strategies for agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century
... instability in the world’s food production systems beyond that previously thought. Given further increases in these pressures in coming decades, the world’s poor are particularly vulnerable, especially those located in lowincome, food importing countries, where a large share of income is already dev ...
... instability in the world’s food production systems beyond that previously thought. Given further increases in these pressures in coming decades, the world’s poor are particularly vulnerable, especially those located in lowincome, food importing countries, where a large share of income is already dev ...
Promising Practices on cLimate cHange in UrBan sUB
... Its basic rationale is that since cities contribute so much to climate change, they must also provide a large part of the solution. In this sense, the Initiative builds on the momentum gathered over the past decade by the Sustainable Cities and Local Agenda 21 programmes. Faced with climate change, ...
... Its basic rationale is that since cities contribute so much to climate change, they must also provide a large part of the solution. In this sense, the Initiative builds on the momentum gathered over the past decade by the Sustainable Cities and Local Agenda 21 programmes. Faced with climate change, ...
Health: The Human Face of Climate Change, Perspective and
... the 20th century accelerated growth in population, economic activity, technology and pollution, human activities began to alter the planet’s life-support systems. The scale and permanence of those impacts are such that geologists are now dating a new epoch to around 1950, calling it the Anthropocene ...
... the 20th century accelerated growth in population, economic activity, technology and pollution, human activities began to alter the planet’s life-support systems. The scale and permanence of those impacts are such that geologists are now dating a new epoch to around 1950, calling it the Anthropocene ...
US Climate Engagement - Skoll Global Threats Fund
... • Most resources and efforts are placed towards the economic and health costs of climate change. • In recent years, much of the climate impacts framing has been focused on the economic and health costs around extreme weather. • Relatively few organizations emphasize national security, and those t ...
... • Most resources and efforts are placed towards the economic and health costs of climate change. • In recent years, much of the climate impacts framing has been focused on the economic and health costs around extreme weather. • Relatively few organizations emphasize national security, and those t ...
Australia`s Energy Sector – Drivers for Change
... planning sense about avoiding the risk into the future.”22 8. The next step in a risk assessment approach is to identify the best way to reduce risks in this case from sea level rises. The best and most cost effective adaptation measures for sea level rises are related to urban planning or infrastru ...
... planning sense about avoiding the risk into the future.”22 8. The next step in a risk assessment approach is to identify the best way to reduce risks in this case from sea level rises. The best and most cost effective adaptation measures for sea level rises are related to urban planning or infrastru ...
Download interview of David Wood by Zan Boag for the New Philosopher magazine PDF, 286.83 KB
... in recent years from trying to prevent climate change to coming up with ways of coping with it. Why? Much of what will happen is already in the pipeline and cannot be prevented. And there is little confidence in post-Kyoto efforts to limit carbon emissions through international agreement. How have w ...
... in recent years from trying to prevent climate change to coming up with ways of coping with it. Why? Much of what will happen is already in the pipeline and cannot be prevented. And there is little confidence in post-Kyoto efforts to limit carbon emissions through international agreement. How have w ...