Climate Impacts on Energy Systems
... Alberto Ansuategi is an Associate Researcher at the Basque Center for Climate Change and Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Fundamental Economic Analysis at UPV/EHU. He holds a D.Phil in Environmental Economics from the University of York. Andre Frossard Pereira de Lucena is a Pos ...
... Alberto Ansuategi is an Associate Researcher at the Basque Center for Climate Change and Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Fundamental Economic Analysis at UPV/EHU. He holds a D.Phil in Environmental Economics from the University of York. Andre Frossard Pereira de Lucena is a Pos ...
Global Environmental Protection
... drive to work. After considerable discussions, the government decided to create a quite expensive tramway project in the capital to provide a more sustainable and ecofriendly public transport system. For many years, there have also been discussions about sustainable and convenient international publ ...
... drive to work. After considerable discussions, the government decided to create a quite expensive tramway project in the capital to provide a more sustainable and ecofriendly public transport system. For many years, there have also been discussions about sustainable and convenient international publ ...
The potential impacts of climate change on the mid
... ABSTRACT: This paper assesses the potential impacts of climate change on the mid-Atlantic coastal (MAC) region of the United States. In order of increasing uncertainty, it is projected that sea level, temperature and streamflow will increase in the MAC region in response to higher levels of atmosphe ...
... ABSTRACT: This paper assesses the potential impacts of climate change on the mid-Atlantic coastal (MAC) region of the United States. In order of increasing uncertainty, it is projected that sea level, temperature and streamflow will increase in the MAC region in response to higher levels of atmosphe ...
Evolving Responsibility? The Principle of Common
... developing countries were increasingly contentious. Some parties, such as the United States, Canada, and Australia were keen to allay economic competitiveness concerns by creating a new category of “advanced developing countries” with heightened responsibility to act.27 Many of the nations potential ...
... developing countries were increasingly contentious. Some parties, such as the United States, Canada, and Australia were keen to allay economic competitiveness concerns by creating a new category of “advanced developing countries” with heightened responsibility to act.27 Many of the nations potential ...
Domestic dynamics and international influence
... climate change, and they do not add up to a global response that would limit climate change risks to an acceptable level, often understood to mean less than 2oC of average warming. Nevertheless, they constitute a growing aspect of public policy and legislative activity in parliaments around the worl ...
... climate change, and they do not add up to a global response that would limit climate change risks to an acceptable level, often understood to mean less than 2oC of average warming. Nevertheless, they constitute a growing aspect of public policy and legislative activity in parliaments around the worl ...
Weitzman2009-Modeling-Economics-ClimateChange.pdf
... ⌬T ⬇ (S 1 /ln 2) ⫻ ⌬ ln CO 2 . As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its IPCC-AR4 (2007) executive summary puts it: “The equilibrium climate sensitivity is a measure of the climate system response to sustained radiative forcing. It is not a projection but is defined as the global avera ...
... ⌬T ⬇ (S 1 /ln 2) ⫻ ⌬ ln CO 2 . As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its IPCC-AR4 (2007) executive summary puts it: “The equilibrium climate sensitivity is a measure of the climate system response to sustained radiative forcing. It is not a projection but is defined as the global avera ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE CLIMATE POLICY DILEMMA Robert S. Pindyck
... The IRRA, denoted by η, can also strongly affect the economic case for a climate policy. To see this, note that η affects expected future welfare in two ways. First, the larger is η, the faster the marginal utility of consumption will decline as consumption grows. Since (other things equal) consumpt ...
... The IRRA, denoted by η, can also strongly affect the economic case for a climate policy. To see this, note that η affects expected future welfare in two ways. First, the larger is η, the faster the marginal utility of consumption will decline as consumption grows. Since (other things equal) consumpt ...
Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and
... CCA mechanisms at the global, regional, national and local levels through an integrated and cross- ...
... CCA mechanisms at the global, regional, national and local levels through an integrated and cross- ...
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... developmental agencies began the ‘climate change dialogue’ (Harris, 2007). Both developed and developing countries ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to address rising global warming concerns. Since then, climate change has become a global issue wherein inter ...
... developmental agencies began the ‘climate change dialogue’ (Harris, 2007). Both developed and developing countries ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to address rising global warming concerns. Since then, climate change has become a global issue wherein inter ...
Assessment Synthesis Slides OEWG 3Aug2011
... leapfrog high-GWP HFCs in some applications, which would avoid a second transition out of HFCs and complications of an increasingly large inventory of HFC equipment requiring servicing with HFCs that may be expensive or not easily available • The same technology is available for non-Article 5 Partie ...
... leapfrog high-GWP HFCs in some applications, which would avoid a second transition out of HFCs and complications of an increasingly large inventory of HFC equipment requiring servicing with HFCs that may be expensive or not easily available • The same technology is available for non-Article 5 Partie ...
Disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation
... CCA mechanisms at the global, regional, national and local levels through an integrated and cross- ...
... CCA mechanisms at the global, regional, national and local levels through an integrated and cross- ...
Case study: Guatemala - CIAT-DAPA
... SENSITIVITY and ADAPTIVE CAPACITY of farmers organized in a cooperative and associated with ADAM/Oxfam and loosely organized leadfarmer-groups of the SUMAR supply chain according to their key livelihood assets. The results summarized in spider-diagrams show that “ADAM”-farmers are less sensitive in ...
... SENSITIVITY and ADAPTIVE CAPACITY of farmers organized in a cooperative and associated with ADAM/Oxfam and loosely organized leadfarmer-groups of the SUMAR supply chain according to their key livelihood assets. The results summarized in spider-diagrams show that “ADAM”-farmers are less sensitive in ...
Climate and Culture - George Mason University
... The purpose of this review is to first provide some history of climate and culture studies in anthropology, which, to date, have been based largely in archaeology and environmental anthropology,1 and second, to discuss the contemporary context up to and including the rapidly emerging area of anthropo ...
... The purpose of this review is to first provide some history of climate and culture studies in anthropology, which, to date, have been based largely in archaeology and environmental anthropology,1 and second, to discuss the contemporary context up to and including the rapidly emerging area of anthropo ...
Ecosystem-based Approaches to Adaptation
... ecosystems and the services they provide are already central to many successful adaptation strategies. This research looks at two components of effective EbA: ecosystem resilience and the maintenance of ecosystem services. It assesses EbA effectiveness in terms of how it supports community adaptive ...
... ecosystems and the services they provide are already central to many successful adaptation strategies. This research looks at two components of effective EbA: ecosystem resilience and the maintenance of ecosystem services. It assesses EbA effectiveness in terms of how it supports community adaptive ...
The Influence of Climate Variability and Change on the Science and
... and other sources, changes in space and time of many species distributions can be mapped in considerable detail. Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is one of the most iconic trees of North America. Currently limited to small and disjunct groves between 1,500 and 2,100 m in the southwestern Sie ...
... and other sources, changes in space and time of many species distributions can be mapped in considerable detail. Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is one of the most iconic trees of North America. Currently limited to small and disjunct groves between 1,500 and 2,100 m in the southwestern Sie ...
Climate system complexity and vulnerability approach: A broader perspective on climate change
... don't know. It would be unwise for governments to throw in the towel now. We do need to make sure we reduce carbon dioxide emissions. We have a responsibility to stabilise greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and, in the very long term, reduce them. The scientific community have been telling the gover ...
... don't know. It would be unwise for governments to throw in the towel now. We do need to make sure we reduce carbon dioxide emissions. We have a responsibility to stabilise greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and, in the very long term, reduce them. The scientific community have been telling the gover ...
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... longer growing seasons and milder winters. Unfortunately, it is likely to bring harmful effects to a much higher percentage of the world’s people. For example, people in coastal communities will likely experience increased flooding due to rising sea levels. The scientific understanding of climate ch ...
... longer growing seasons and milder winters. Unfortunately, it is likely to bring harmful effects to a much higher percentage of the world’s people. For example, people in coastal communities will likely experience increased flooding due to rising sea levels. The scientific understanding of climate ch ...
An evaluation of the level of ambition and implications of the Bush
... implications of the example set by the Initiative itself. The idea of intensity targets is not new. Such targets have received attention, particularly as possible targets for developing countries (Baumert et al., 1999; Hargrave, 1998; Jacoby et al., 1999; Philibert, 2000). More recently, it has also ...
... implications of the example set by the Initiative itself. The idea of intensity targets is not new. Such targets have received attention, particularly as possible targets for developing countries (Baumert et al., 1999; Hargrave, 1998; Jacoby et al., 1999; Philibert, 2000). More recently, it has also ...
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... who claim the need of robust science favouring more scientific research over policy actions, to the one of Yohe et al. (2004), who argue that uncertainty provides a reason to take specific policy action on the near term. Between these two positions there are a range of views about the implications o ...
... who claim the need of robust science favouring more scientific research over policy actions, to the one of Yohe et al. (2004), who argue that uncertainty provides a reason to take specific policy action on the near term. Between these two positions there are a range of views about the implications o ...
Right wing populism and climate change
... major challenge for climate policy. RWP parties are almost always hostile to climate policy, and their leaders, and indeed supporters, often express forms of climate scepticism in ways which place them (as on other issues) outside of the political mainstream. However, despite the strength of the rel ...
... major challenge for climate policy. RWP parties are almost always hostile to climate policy, and their leaders, and indeed supporters, often express forms of climate scepticism in ways which place them (as on other issues) outside of the political mainstream. However, despite the strength of the rel ...
Biodiversity in the Eastern Himalayas
... Whereas people in the mountain region would be directly affected by changes in climate, there would also be impacts on river basins downstream and eventually the impacts would have global consequences (Malcolm et al. 2006). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), at the cu ...
... Whereas people in the mountain region would be directly affected by changes in climate, there would also be impacts on river basins downstream and eventually the impacts would have global consequences (Malcolm et al. 2006). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), at the cu ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... In the proposed rulemaking, the DOE recognizes that the determination of the SCC is rapidly evolving and dependent on the latest scientific findings. The DOE states that: DOE is well aware that scientific and economic knowledge about the contribution of CO2 and other GHG emissions to changes in the ...
... In the proposed rulemaking, the DOE recognizes that the determination of the SCC is rapidly evolving and dependent on the latest scientific findings. The DOE states that: DOE is well aware that scientific and economic knowledge about the contribution of CO2 and other GHG emissions to changes in the ...
Concrete actions taken and specific progress made in
... Through the Tonga Energy Roadmap the Government of Tonga will develop a ten year roadmap (2010 – 2020) to identify solutions that reduce vulnerability to oil price shocks and achieve increased access to quality modern energy services in an environmentally sustainable manner. Access to reliable and a ...
... Through the Tonga Energy Roadmap the Government of Tonga will develop a ten year roadmap (2010 – 2020) to identify solutions that reduce vulnerability to oil price shocks and achieve increased access to quality modern energy services in an environmentally sustainable manner. Access to reliable and a ...
Sustainable Use and Conservation of Biological Diversity
... Losses of biodiversity and decline of ecosystem services is of a concern for human well-being, especially for the poorest Costs borne by society due to biodiversity loss is often greater than the benefits gained through ecosystem change The drivers of change are steady or, more often, increasing Man ...
... Losses of biodiversity and decline of ecosystem services is of a concern for human well-being, especially for the poorest Costs borne by society due to biodiversity loss is often greater than the benefits gained through ecosystem change The drivers of change are steady or, more often, increasing Man ...
China`s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change
... The latest scientific research findings show that the global average surface temperature has increased by 0.74℃ over the past century (1906-2005), and is expected to rise by 1.1-6.4℃ by the end of the 21st century. The increase of global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely ...
... The latest scientific research findings show that the global average surface temperature has increased by 0.74℃ over the past century (1906-2005), and is expected to rise by 1.1-6.4℃ by the end of the 21st century. The increase of global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely ...