The Economics of Global Climate Change By Jonathan M. Harris and Brian Roach
... local and regional air pollutants. In these situations, in economic terminology, the negative externalities associated with local and regional pollutants have to some degree been internalized. But few controls exist for carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas. This global air pollutant has no ...
... local and regional air pollutants. In these situations, in economic terminology, the negative externalities associated with local and regional pollutants have to some degree been internalized. But few controls exist for carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas. This global air pollutant has no ...
Child Rights and Climate Change Adaptation: Voices from Kenya and Cambodia
... acting on future visions and the needs of future generations; and taking action for the benefit of their communities; prioritising sustainable management of natural resources and environmental concerns. This report proposes that fulfilling child rights in a changing climate requires a twotrack appro ...
... acting on future visions and the needs of future generations; and taking action for the benefit of their communities; prioritising sustainable management of natural resources and environmental concerns. This report proposes that fulfilling child rights in a changing climate requires a twotrack appro ...
Recent Trends in Temperature and Precipitation in Al Jabal Al
... [20] showed that warming during the dry season (June to September) is faster than warming during the wet season (November to April); and that the wet season temperature is highest over the western parts of the AP. They also found that available gridded datasets detect the dry zone over the world’s l ...
... [20] showed that warming during the dry season (June to September) is faster than warming during the wet season (November to April); and that the wet season temperature is highest over the western parts of the AP. They also found that available gridded datasets detect the dry zone over the world’s l ...
The Strategy of Chinese Insurance Industry to Address Global Climate Change
... The insurance industry is a direct risk management industry, is in the forefront of the threat of climate change, it should take positive action to develop comprehensive climate change strategies to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Actively respond to climate change not only the development of ...
... The insurance industry is a direct risk management industry, is in the forefront of the threat of climate change, it should take positive action to develop comprehensive climate change strategies to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Actively respond to climate change not only the development of ...
Contributions to the management of Chancay
... and semi-hot to cold and raining, with a rainfall of few millimeters on the coast and arid desert, to an estimated average rainfall of 933mm in the Puna area, above this height are presented in the form of snow. Temperatures are variable with values ranging from 21ºC on the coast up to 0°C in the Al ...
... and semi-hot to cold and raining, with a rainfall of few millimeters on the coast and arid desert, to an estimated average rainfall of 933mm in the Puna area, above this height are presented in the form of snow. Temperatures are variable with values ranging from 21ºC on the coast up to 0°C in the Al ...
... having the potential to create potential catastrophe in Barbados. The main contributing factor is the concentration of socioeconomic infrastructure along the coastline in vulnerable areas. The A2 and B2 projections have indicated that the number of catastrophes that can be classified as great is lik ...
Climate Change in Value Chain Development
... small holder agriculture with a view of creating more income and job opportunities. Interventions are currently geared to contribute to a higher production level , but shall in future incorporate practices that increase CO2 capture and decrease CO2 emissions along the value chain. In Kenya passion f ...
... small holder agriculture with a view of creating more income and job opportunities. Interventions are currently geared to contribute to a higher production level , but shall in future incorporate practices that increase CO2 capture and decrease CO2 emissions along the value chain. In Kenya passion f ...
www.epa.ie Report No. 164 w.epa.ie
... suggest that increases in energy-trapping gases in the atmosphere will result in an upwards trend in temperature, coupled with a significantly more extreme climate than that to which human civilisation has grown accustomed (IPCC, 2014). In Ireland, winters will become wetter and summers drier (Glees ...
... suggest that increases in energy-trapping gases in the atmosphere will result in an upwards trend in temperature, coupled with a significantly more extreme climate than that to which human civilisation has grown accustomed (IPCC, 2014). In Ireland, winters will become wetter and summers drier (Glees ...
Working Paper No. 405 September 2011
... Investors in new technologies or long‐lived capital to reduce greenhouse gas emissions require a reasonable degree of certainty about the intensity of future climate policy. A carbon tax that rises at a pre‐announced rate (periodically reviewed) is one option t ...
... Investors in new technologies or long‐lived capital to reduce greenhouse gas emissions require a reasonable degree of certainty about the intensity of future climate policy. A carbon tax that rises at a pre‐announced rate (periodically reviewed) is one option t ...
Institute for International Economic Studies Seminar paper No. 757
... Uncertainty about future climate change is an unavoidable fact. It is commonplace to gauge this uncertainty by simulations with different climate models. This is the approach taken, e.g., by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001, 2007) to highlight our imprecise knowledge about the r ...
... Uncertainty about future climate change is an unavoidable fact. It is commonplace to gauge this uncertainty by simulations with different climate models. This is the approach taken, e.g., by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001, 2007) to highlight our imprecise knowledge about the r ...
Managing climate change and overcoming poverty: facing the realities and building a global agreement (455 kB) (opens in new window)
... The two defining challenges of the 21st century are overcoming poverty and avoiding dangerous climate change. If we fail on one of them, we will fail on the other. Unmanaged climate change will irretrievably damage prospects for development during the course of the century, and action on climate cha ...
... The two defining challenges of the 21st century are overcoming poverty and avoiding dangerous climate change. If we fail on one of them, we will fail on the other. Unmanaged climate change will irretrievably damage prospects for development during the course of the century, and action on climate cha ...
Advent Light
... climate]. Their wisdom is not working in the changed situation and that is putting them in a serious struggle to survive. The worst impacts of climate changes are now a reality Mitigating it or adapting are a big challenge for Bangladesh-like countries but they are not the creators of the problem – ...
... climate]. Their wisdom is not working in the changed situation and that is putting them in a serious struggle to survive. The worst impacts of climate changes are now a reality Mitigating it or adapting are a big challenge for Bangladesh-like countries but they are not the creators of the problem – ...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation A Literature Review
... towards climate adaptation. Communities are not yet at the adaptation implementation stage. Adaptation on a farm level is occurring mostly due to non-climate conditions (economic, political, etc) pressures. In a report released in 2010, Ontario’s Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation developed a ...
... towards climate adaptation. Communities are not yet at the adaptation implementation stage. Adaptation on a farm level is occurring mostly due to non-climate conditions (economic, political, etc) pressures. In a report released in 2010, Ontario’s Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation developed a ...
Copernicus Climate Change Services
... Manage COP21 outcomes and its implications for C3S as a tool to support policy making, business decisions, and public information needs Build upon the channels developed in 2015 and ensure that content development meets evolving stakeholders’ needs Devise and implement an information campaign ...
... Manage COP21 outcomes and its implications for C3S as a tool to support policy making, business decisions, and public information needs Build upon the channels developed in 2015 and ensure that content development meets evolving stakeholders’ needs Devise and implement an information campaign ...
1 Lecture Aims Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) Feedbacks
... • various constraints yield PDFs • likelihoods can be determined • a best estimate can be given • lower bound is well constrained • upper bound is difficult to constrain due to short term response and uncertainties in past climate change ...
... • various constraints yield PDFs • likelihoods can be determined • a best estimate can be given • lower bound is well constrained • upper bound is difficult to constrain due to short term response and uncertainties in past climate change ...
Spectral Signatures of Geospace Climate Change Martin G
... climate change. Furthermore, the timescales for natural variability and trend detection need to be more fully defined. The approach for doing this with infrared measurements has been developed by Leroy et al., [2008] and the existing SABER data can be used. We emphasize that because the infrared rad ...
... climate change. Furthermore, the timescales for natural variability and trend detection need to be more fully defined. The approach for doing this with infrared measurements has been developed by Leroy et al., [2008] and the existing SABER data can be used. We emphasize that because the infrared rad ...
4B.4 IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND WEATHER ON
... well as most types of buses. The study period for which CMV data are available is 1975 to the present. Exposure to adverse weather may occur at any point in distribution supply chain and cause ripple effects in the intermodal transportation system. This paper looks at a specific problem area from th ...
... well as most types of buses. The study period for which CMV data are available is 1975 to the present. Exposure to adverse weather may occur at any point in distribution supply chain and cause ripple effects in the intermodal transportation system. This paper looks at a specific problem area from th ...
The scientific consensus on climate change: How do we know we`re
... Other U.S. scientific groups agree. In February 2003, the American Meteorological Society adopted the following statement on climate change: “There is now clear evidence that the mean annual temperature at the Earth’s surface, averaged over the entire globe, has been increasing in the past 200 years ...
... Other U.S. scientific groups agree. In February 2003, the American Meteorological Society adopted the following statement on climate change: “There is now clear evidence that the mean annual temperature at the Earth’s surface, averaged over the entire globe, has been increasing in the past 200 years ...
Agenda and Concept Note - UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... bankable climate change adaptation project proposals, and responds to well-documented and clearly identified capacity gaps. The target audience for the training is national level government officials that are currently, or will potentially be developing adaptation projects. Overview and Objectives o ...
... bankable climate change adaptation project proposals, and responds to well-documented and clearly identified capacity gaps. The target audience for the training is national level government officials that are currently, or will potentially be developing adaptation projects. Overview and Objectives o ...
- Wiley Online Library
... clearly emerge from the ‘noise’ of natural climate variability. [3] So when will the signal emerge? And where and how? These are key questions for adaptation policy and planning in particular. Much attention has focused on the absolute magnitude of future climate change, and uncertainties in this ma ...
... clearly emerge from the ‘noise’ of natural climate variability. [3] So when will the signal emerge? And where and how? These are key questions for adaptation policy and planning in particular. Much attention has focused on the absolute magnitude of future climate change, and uncertainties in this ma ...
Community and ecosystem responses to recent climate change
... behaviour, there is also ample evidence for distributional changes of plants and animals owing to recent climate change, but species do not respond synchronously in space. This will result in shifting dominances of species within communities, but also to the formation of non-analogue communities, wh ...
... behaviour, there is also ample evidence for distributional changes of plants and animals owing to recent climate change, but species do not respond synchronously in space. This will result in shifting dominances of species within communities, but also to the formation of non-analogue communities, wh ...
Smallholder Farmers` Perception of Climate Change and Variability
... in the country. Nigeria has lived with climate change and variability over some decades without given it much attention but now they have already had obvious impacts on economies, biodiversity, people and health. The highly variable rainfall (intensity, distribution, and amount), increasing temperat ...
... in the country. Nigeria has lived with climate change and variability over some decades without given it much attention but now they have already had obvious impacts on economies, biodiversity, people and health. The highly variable rainfall (intensity, distribution, and amount), increasing temperat ...
Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement
... expertise in the area of forced displacement. It is projected that climate change will over time trigger larger and more complex movements of population, both within and across borders, and has the potential to render some people stateless. Since climate change is certain to have a major impact on f ...
... expertise in the area of forced displacement. It is projected that climate change will over time trigger larger and more complex movements of population, both within and across borders, and has the potential to render some people stateless. Since climate change is certain to have a major impact on f ...
Cross-pressuring conservative Catholics? Effects of Pope Francis
... or U.S. Catholics in specific. Prior to the encyclical’s release, 71 % of American Catholics reported believing in climate change, which is on par with the general public (Pew Research 2015a). Catholics’ views on the topic broadly reflect the partisan split that exists within the public. Whereas 62 ...
... or U.S. Catholics in specific. Prior to the encyclical’s release, 71 % of American Catholics reported believing in climate change, which is on par with the general public (Pew Research 2015a). Catholics’ views on the topic broadly reflect the partisan split that exists within the public. Whereas 62 ...
Technological Challenges Nigeria
... facing mankind today. Its impact has spread beyond the environment, causing serious dislocation in world economic and social development. In Africa, Nigeria and Enugu state in particular, climate change impact poses great danger on desertification, damage to infrastructure, sea-level rise, flooding ...
... facing mankind today. Its impact has spread beyond the environment, causing serious dislocation in world economic and social development. In Africa, Nigeria and Enugu state in particular, climate change impact poses great danger on desertification, damage to infrastructure, sea-level rise, flooding ...