Corporate Climate Action Strategy
... influence the reduction of community greenhouse gas emissions. These reductions can be made through urban land use decisions, low carbon transportation systems, energy-efficient building construction and retrofits, community waste reduction and the transformation of this waste into a resource, and b ...
... influence the reduction of community greenhouse gas emissions. These reductions can be made through urban land use decisions, low carbon transportation systems, energy-efficient building construction and retrofits, community waste reduction and the transformation of this waste into a resource, and b ...
THE LEGAL NATURE OF JUSTICE IN REDD+ Dr Rowena Maguire
... + refers to social and ecological considerations. REDD+ is an initiative within the international climate regime (UNFCCC) which seeks to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries. Biggest development in international forest policy ever, but the challenges underlying ...
... + refers to social and ecological considerations. REDD+ is an initiative within the international climate regime (UNFCCC) which seeks to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries. Biggest development in international forest policy ever, but the challenges underlying ...
It is beyond cavil that climate change poses grave and irreversible
... be provided. With the exception of minimal causation, we do not tackle these issues. However, we believe that the mere setting out of a solid footing for the definition of legal obligations of States, enterprises and other actors in the field of climate change can serve a useful purpose, regardless ...
... be provided. With the exception of minimal causation, we do not tackle these issues. However, we believe that the mere setting out of a solid footing for the definition of legal obligations of States, enterprises and other actors in the field of climate change can serve a useful purpose, regardless ...
Climate Change in Southern New Hampshire
... (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are now the primary force driving change in the Earth’s climate system. This report describes how the climate of southern New Hampshire has changed over the past century and how the future clim ...
... (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are now the primary force driving change in the Earth’s climate system. This report describes how the climate of southern New Hampshire has changed over the past century and how the future clim ...
The Value of Carbon in Decision-Making
... • Economists use two main tools to inform policy and business decision-making in relation to valuing carbon: the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) or the Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC). The SCC and the MAC are often applied alongside each other, because they measure different things. • The SCC represents ...
... • Economists use two main tools to inform policy and business decision-making in relation to valuing carbon: the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) or the Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC). The SCC and the MAC are often applied alongside each other, because they measure different things. • The SCC represents ...
The risks of relying on tomorrow`s `negative emissions` to guide
... About SEI Working Papers: The SEI working paper series aims to expand and accelerate the availability of our research, stimulate discussion, and elicit feedback. SEI working papers are work in progress and typically contain preliminary research, analysis, findings, and recommendations. Many SEI work ...
... About SEI Working Papers: The SEI working paper series aims to expand and accelerate the availability of our research, stimulate discussion, and elicit feedback. SEI working papers are work in progress and typically contain preliminary research, analysis, findings, and recommendations. Many SEI work ...
Southern New Hampshire
... (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are now the primary force driving change in the Earth’s climate system. This report describes how the climate of southern New Hampshire has changed over the past century and how the future clim ...
... (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are now the primary force driving change in the Earth’s climate system. This report describes how the climate of southern New Hampshire has changed over the past century and how the future clim ...
IPCC WGI AR5 Chapter Template
... trends. As one example, the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 to 0.15] °C per decade), which begins with a strong El Niño, is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012; 0.12 [0.08 to 0.14] °C per decade). {1.1.1, Box 1.1} Ocean warming dominates the increase ...
... trends. As one example, the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 to 0.15] °C per decade), which begins with a strong El Niño, is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012; 0.12 [0.08 to 0.14] °C per decade). {1.1.1, Box 1.1} Ocean warming dominates the increase ...
Quantifying non-cooperative climate engineering
... costs and benefits -two of which depend on N . For N = 1, SRM deployment is the same under the strategic and cooperative cases, and as expected there is no free driving. When N > 1, two effects drive a wedge between the cooperative and strategic solution: the first term in the parenthesis in the den ...
... costs and benefits -two of which depend on N . For N = 1, SRM deployment is the same under the strategic and cooperative cases, and as expected there is no free driving. When N > 1, two effects drive a wedge between the cooperative and strategic solution: the first term in the parenthesis in the den ...
Global warming and thermohaline circulation stability
... impact of the THC on climate is most clearly seen by artificially shutting down the THC in a coupled climate model (Manabe & Stouffer 1988; Schiller et al . 1997; Rind et al . 2001; Vellinga & Wood 2002). In the study of Vellinga & Wood (2002) this was achieved in the HadCM3 climate model (Gordon et a ...
... impact of the THC on climate is most clearly seen by artificially shutting down the THC in a coupled climate model (Manabe & Stouffer 1988; Schiller et al . 1997; Rind et al . 2001; Vellinga & Wood 2002). In the study of Vellinga & Wood (2002) this was achieved in the HadCM3 climate model (Gordon et a ...
Incorporating climate change into recovery planning for threatened
... Southern Australia is expected to experience reduced rainfall, elevated temperatures, and increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events as a result of climate change (Easterling et al. 2000; Hughes 2003). The southwestern Australian (SWA) ecoregion is one of five global regions consist ...
... Southern Australia is expected to experience reduced rainfall, elevated temperatures, and increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events as a result of climate change (Easterling et al. 2000; Hughes 2003). The southwestern Australian (SWA) ecoregion is one of five global regions consist ...
climate change vulnerability of ski tourism in
... vulnerable economic sectors to climate change, especially due to its high dependence on climate as a resource and the fact that climate is a major limiting factor to travel.12 Undoubtedly, ski tourism is among the most critical subsectors of the industry, since the most basic element of this tourism ...
... vulnerable economic sectors to climate change, especially due to its high dependence on climate as a resource and the fact that climate is a major limiting factor to travel.12 Undoubtedly, ski tourism is among the most critical subsectors of the industry, since the most basic element of this tourism ...
English - unfccc
... threatens the very existence of humankind on the earth. It is against this background, that Ghana signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in June 1992, after the Convention was adopted on 9 May 1992. The climate Convention entered ...
... threatens the very existence of humankind on the earth. It is against this background, that Ghana signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in June 1992, after the Convention was adopted on 9 May 1992. The climate Convention entered ...
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... Louisiana by the year 2050 (LCA 2004). Actions have been taken by the federal government and the State of Louisiana’s government to prevent wetland loss and attempt to restore the wetlands of Louisiana. One of the major pieces of legislation that has addressed is the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Prote ...
... Louisiana by the year 2050 (LCA 2004). Actions have been taken by the federal government and the State of Louisiana’s government to prevent wetland loss and attempt to restore the wetlands of Louisiana. One of the major pieces of legislation that has addressed is the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Prote ...
Moral intensity and climate-friendly food choices
... the latest technological innovations may take years, nor is this enough to achieve a necessary mitigation level. Therefore, it is necessary to combine technological improvements with immediate behavioral changes in the patterns of individual food consumption (Garnett, 2007). A number of scholars hav ...
... the latest technological innovations may take years, nor is this enough to achieve a necessary mitigation level. Therefore, it is necessary to combine technological improvements with immediate behavioral changes in the patterns of individual food consumption (Garnett, 2007). A number of scholars hav ...
What Is El Niño? - Gulf of Maine Aquarium
... water to rise to the surface to nourish plankton,fishes, seabirds, sea lions, and other marine life of the coastal region. The trade winds pile up warm water in the western Pacific north of Australia, keeping surface water temperatures and sea level in the western Pacific higher than elsewhere. ...
... water to rise to the surface to nourish plankton,fishes, seabirds, sea lions, and other marine life of the coastal region. The trade winds pile up warm water in the western Pacific north of Australia, keeping surface water temperatures and sea level in the western Pacific higher than elsewhere. ...
Climate change data and risk assessment methodologies for the
... Climate change: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: ‘a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural ...
... Climate change: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: ‘a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural ...
Debating Climate Change David Weisbach
... philosophers on these questions. Not only does philosophy help to frame broad approaches to answering these questions. It provides an answer with respect to ...
... philosophers on these questions. Not only does philosophy help to frame broad approaches to answering these questions. It provides an answer with respect to ...
Climate and Air Quality - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
... and thereby provide a service to humans occurs both through natural processes and as a result of ecosystem management. For example, the conversion of carbon dioxide and water to oxygen by ecosystems billions of years ago could be considered the fundamental ecosystem service, enabling evolution and m ...
... and thereby provide a service to humans occurs both through natural processes and as a result of ecosystem management. For example, the conversion of carbon dioxide and water to oxygen by ecosystems billions of years ago could be considered the fundamental ecosystem service, enabling evolution and m ...
Module 11: Groundwater and climate change
... There is considerable uncertainty surrounding the future of Africa’s climate as reported in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Christensen et al., 2007). First, average temperatures are likely to increase. Hulme et al. (2000) show that for Africa as ...
... There is considerable uncertainty surrounding the future of Africa’s climate as reported in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Christensen et al., 2007). First, average temperatures are likely to increase. Hulme et al. (2000) show that for Africa as ...
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. (2010) Adapting Institutions to Climate Change, Twenty-eighth report
... of our lives in the UK. For example, there is a greater threat of both drought and floods, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent. Sea levels will rise, some familiar species will disappear and new alien species will arrive – for better or worse. These changes will only emerge erratically ...
... of our lives in the UK. For example, there is a greater threat of both drought and floods, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent. Sea levels will rise, some familiar species will disappear and new alien species will arrive – for better or worse. These changes will only emerge erratically ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability
... complement climate-change mitigation, and both have to be central to an integrated strategy to reduce risks and impacts of climate change. Most of the discussion on climate change has focused on mitigation measures, for example the Kyoto Protocol. Not much attention has been given to climatechange a ...
... complement climate-change mitigation, and both have to be central to an integrated strategy to reduce risks and impacts of climate change. Most of the discussion on climate change has focused on mitigation measures, for example the Kyoto Protocol. Not much attention has been given to climatechange a ...
Results compilation 2B - Charles Sturt University
... Differences in the agronomic, biophysical and socio-economic characteristics of the two zones appear to underpin differences in the pattern of responses to climate variability. Kamarooka landholders were also generally more optimistic about their ability to respond to market and climatic conditions, ...
... Differences in the agronomic, biophysical and socio-economic characteristics of the two zones appear to underpin differences in the pattern of responses to climate variability. Kamarooka landholders were also generally more optimistic about their ability to respond to market and climatic conditions, ...
divest riverside! - Riverside Church
... estimated value of those reserves is $27 trillion. If those companies can never develop what they now list as assets, as the divestment movement demands and the health of the planet requires, the value of their assets will plummet. Those assets that must remain in the ground are what scientists, act ...
... estimated value of those reserves is $27 trillion. If those companies can never develop what they now list as assets, as the divestment movement demands and the health of the planet requires, the value of their assets will plummet. Those assets that must remain in the ground are what scientists, act ...
Seager and Battisti, 2007
... any theory for how such changes could occur helps explain the gradual acceptance of what the data was saying. In the two decades since the discovery of abrupt change two advances have been made. First the spatial pattern of abrupt climate change has been better delimited and it is now known that the ...
... any theory for how such changes could occur helps explain the gradual acceptance of what the data was saying. In the two decades since the discovery of abrupt change two advances have been made. First the spatial pattern of abrupt climate change has been better delimited and it is now known that the ...