COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES
... 13. Although fishing and aquaculture communities tend to be among the highly vulnerable, global awareness and understanding of climate change impacts on the aquatic systems and the special needs of those who depend on aquatic resources for their food and livelihoods was very low in 2009. In the same ...
... 13. Although fishing and aquaculture communities tend to be among the highly vulnerable, global awareness and understanding of climate change impacts on the aquatic systems and the special needs of those who depend on aquatic resources for their food and livelihoods was very low in 2009. In the same ...
publication (accessible PDF, 2.8 MB)
... on which this report is based, has undoubtedly been the Paris Climate Summit. The IKI did its part to ensure that the international community was able to reach a breakthrough agreement. It offered advisory services far in advance of the crucial days of negotiation in November and December 2015: alre ...
... on which this report is based, has undoubtedly been the Paris Climate Summit. The IKI did its part to ensure that the international community was able to reach a breakthrough agreement. It offered advisory services far in advance of the crucial days of negotiation in November and December 2015: alre ...
National Policy on Climate Change for Namibia 2011
... has been the warmest period in the history of global temperature records (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 2007). Human induced global warming is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which trap heat in the atmosphere, causing a gradual warming of the earth’s sur ...
... has been the warmest period in the history of global temperature records (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 2007). Human induced global warming is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which trap heat in the atmosphere, causing a gradual warming of the earth’s sur ...
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
... Ca2+ + CO2 + H2O = CaCO3 + 2H+, the mass of waste increases even more; the molecular weight of calcite is 100, so each kilogram of CO2 would create 2.3 kg of calcite. To fix the CO2 produced annually by this car in mineral form, where it would be geologically stable, one would need to produce 6.2 me ...
... Ca2+ + CO2 + H2O = CaCO3 + 2H+, the mass of waste increases even more; the molecular weight of calcite is 100, so each kilogram of CO2 would create 2.3 kg of calcite. To fix the CO2 produced annually by this car in mineral form, where it would be geologically stable, one would need to produce 6.2 me ...
Incorporating Climate Change Adaptation into Catchment
... be the optimal way to deal with future surprises, or unknowable risks (Tompkins & Adger, 2003). Resilience is thus a goal (or aspiration) for management of ecosystems, as well as an attribute of the system itself. It can be investigated at different levels, such as individual, community, organisatio ...
... be the optimal way to deal with future surprises, or unknowable risks (Tompkins & Adger, 2003). Resilience is thus a goal (or aspiration) for management of ecosystems, as well as an attribute of the system itself. It can be investigated at different levels, such as individual, community, organisatio ...
Climate Change in Zambia
... The appraisal of the country’s bio-carbon capacity revealed that an Integrated Land-Use Assessment survey has been undertaken and forest cover and other land-uses have been estimated. Forest cover is estimated at 50 million hectares (66%) of Zambia’s land area; cultivated land is estimated at 7.5 mi ...
... The appraisal of the country’s bio-carbon capacity revealed that an Integrated Land-Use Assessment survey has been undertaken and forest cover and other land-uses have been estimated. Forest cover is estimated at 50 million hectares (66%) of Zambia’s land area; cultivated land is estimated at 7.5 mi ...
Adapting to climate change in England
... to the private sector and civil society.” The Government has now set up the Adapting to Climate Change (ACC) Programme, to bring together the work already being led by Government and the wider public sector on adaptation in England, and to co-ordinate and drive forward the development of the Governm ...
... to the private sector and civil society.” The Government has now set up the Adapting to Climate Change (ACC) Programme, to bring together the work already being led by Government and the wider public sector on adaptation in England, and to co-ordinate and drive forward the development of the Governm ...
Presentation pack - The Global Calculator
... • Businesses – for long-term planning (e.g. the future of their sector and which technologies to invest in) and to see the impact they can have on emissions (e.g. improving efficiency) • NGOs – informing long-term strategies and campaigns (e.g. lobbying for technologies/changes that have the most im ...
... • Businesses – for long-term planning (e.g. the future of their sector and which technologies to invest in) and to see the impact they can have on emissions (e.g. improving efficiency) • NGOs – informing long-term strategies and campaigns (e.g. lobbying for technologies/changes that have the most im ...
Climate Change, Political Truth, and the Marketplace of Ideas
... interest in the status quo carbon economy have enjoyed greater access to the media compared to the scientific community, an access preference that has been endorsed by recent Supreme Court First Amendment decisions.2 Even without this preferred access by proponents of the status quo, climate science ...
... interest in the status quo carbon economy have enjoyed greater access to the media compared to the scientific community, an access preference that has been endorsed by recent Supreme Court First Amendment decisions.2 Even without this preferred access by proponents of the status quo, climate science ...
a discussion based on contributions from climate modeling
... 2000; Osborn et al., 2006) and Earth system Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC, e.g. Goosse et al., 2005; Bauer and Claussen, 2006) to comprehensive atmosphere ocean GCMs (AOGCM, e.g. Zorita et al., 2004; Stendel et al., 2006; Tett et al., 2007; Ammann et al., 2007). Efforts to simulate the las ...
... 2000; Osborn et al., 2006) and Earth system Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC, e.g. Goosse et al., 2005; Bauer and Claussen, 2006) to comprehensive atmosphere ocean GCMs (AOGCM, e.g. Zorita et al., 2004; Stendel et al., 2006; Tett et al., 2007; Ammann et al., 2007). Efforts to simulate the las ...
U.S. Senate Report
... the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has authored almost 70 peer-reviewed studies and won several awards. "First, temperature changes, as well as rates of temperature changes (both increase and decrease) of magnitudes similar to that reported by IPCC to have occurred since the Industrial revolution (a ...
... the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has authored almost 70 peer-reviewed studies and won several awards. "First, temperature changes, as well as rates of temperature changes (both increase and decrease) of magnitudes similar to that reported by IPCC to have occurred since the Industrial revolution (a ...
Review of relevant assessment processes and their theoretical
... but by as globally broad a sample of climate scientists as possible, from as many countries as possible and conducted under the scrutiny of governments and the media. With the possible exception of the experimentation and data collection phases, the other links in the methodological chain – definiti ...
... but by as globally broad a sample of climate scientists as possible, from as many countries as possible and conducted under the scrutiny of governments and the media. With the possible exception of the experimentation and data collection phases, the other links in the methodological chain – definiti ...
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... the expected behavior of noncooperating asymmetric countries in terms of mitigation and SRM activities, and provide insights regarding the possible existence of a tradeo¤ between mitigation and SRM. In particular when the social cost of SRM is substantially low for a country, this country will incre ...
... the expected behavior of noncooperating asymmetric countries in terms of mitigation and SRM activities, and provide insights regarding the possible existence of a tradeo¤ between mitigation and SRM. In particular when the social cost of SRM is substantially low for a country, this country will incre ...
View PDF - Hofstra Law
... defined anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming as a legitimate social problem deserving of federal policy action. At the same time, a coordinated anti-environmental countermovement mobilized in the United States to challenge the legitimacy of climate change as a problem on which society should ...
... defined anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming as a legitimate social problem deserving of federal policy action. At the same time, a coordinated anti-environmental countermovement mobilized in the United States to challenge the legitimacy of climate change as a problem on which society should ...
Climate Change and Public Health: MALARIA
... Other climate change impacts include ocean Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which acts as a acidification, the melting of alpine glaciers and polar blanket over the Earth. The greenhouse gas layer (made up of ice caps, sea level rise and associated flooding, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse ga ...
... Other climate change impacts include ocean Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which acts as a acidification, the melting of alpine glaciers and polar blanket over the Earth. The greenhouse gas layer (made up of ice caps, sea level rise and associated flooding, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse ga ...
Adapting to Climate Change in Ottawa
... Introduction and Overview of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Dr. David Pearson, Co-chair Ontario’s Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaption Dr. Pearson began the workshop with an introduction and overview of the science of climate change impacts and adaptation. Dr. Pearson began by stating that ...
... Introduction and Overview of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Dr. David Pearson, Co-chair Ontario’s Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaption Dr. Pearson began the workshop with an introduction and overview of the science of climate change impacts and adaptation. Dr. Pearson began by stating that ...
Argentina - Met Office
... • The potential impacts of climate change, based on results from the UK’s Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change programme (AVOID) and supporting literature. For details visit: http://www.avoid.uk.net The assessment of impacts at the national level, both for the AVOID programme results and the cited supp ...
... • The potential impacts of climate change, based on results from the UK’s Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change programme (AVOID) and supporting literature. For details visit: http://www.avoid.uk.net The assessment of impacts at the national level, both for the AVOID programme results and the cited supp ...
Climate Change in Northern New Hampshire
... EARTH’S CLIMATE CHANGES. It always has and always will. However, an extensive and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that human activities—including the burning of fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are no ...
... EARTH’S CLIMATE CHANGES. It always has and always will. However, an extensive and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that human activities—including the burning of fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are no ...
Northern New Hampshire
... EARTH’S CLIMATE CHANGES. It always has and always will. However, an extensive and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that human activities—including the burning of fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are no ...
... EARTH’S CLIMATE CHANGES. It always has and always will. However, an extensive and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that human activities—including the burning of fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are no ...
Our People, Our Planet, Our Power
... low priority when our communities are struggling to meet basic needs. Often told as either a science issue, emphasizing data over knowledge and experience, or about vanishing symbols, such as polar bears and melting ice sheets, climate change stories do not reflect people of color as stakeholders or ...
... low priority when our communities are struggling to meet basic needs. Often told as either a science issue, emphasizing data over knowledge and experience, or about vanishing symbols, such as polar bears and melting ice sheets, climate change stories do not reflect people of color as stakeholders or ...
Chapter 4
... International law has its own unique processes for lawmaking. As compared to national lawmaking, with its strong legislatures to pass laws, robust executive agencies to implement the laws, and independent courts to enforce the laws, the international lawmaking system is far less developed. Under the ...
... International law has its own unique processes for lawmaking. As compared to national lawmaking, with its strong legislatures to pass laws, robust executive agencies to implement the laws, and independent courts to enforce the laws, the international lawmaking system is far less developed. Under the ...
Global warming controversy
The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring, how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether any action should be taken to curb it, and if so what that action should be. In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused primarily by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view, though a few organizations with members in extractive industries hold non-committal positions. Disputes over the key scientific facts of global warming are now more prevalent in the popular media than in the scientific literature, where such issues are treated as resolved, and more in the United States than globally.Political and popular debate concerning the existence and cause of climate change includes the reasons for the increase seen in the instrumental temperature record, whether the warming trend exceeds normal climatic variations, and whether human activities have contributed significantly to it. Scientists have resolved many of these questions decisively in favour of the view that the current warming trend exists and is ongoing, that human activity is the primary cause, and that it is without precedent in at least 2000 years. Disputes that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), and what the consequences of global warming will be.Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate, often split along party political lines, especially in the United States. Many of the largely settled scientific issues, such as the human responsibility for global warming, remain the subject of politically or economically motivated attempts to downplay, dismiss or deny them – an ideological phenomenon categorised by academics and scientists as climate change denial. The sources of funding for those involved with climate science – both supporting and opposing mainstream scientific positions – have been questioned by both sides. There are debates about the best policy responses to the science, their cost-effectiveness and their urgency. Climate scientists, especially in the United States, have reported official and oil-industry pressure to censor or suppress their work and hide scientific data, with directives not to discuss the subject in public communications. Legal cases regarding global warming, its effects, and measures to reduce it have reached American courts. The fossil fuels lobby and free market think tanks have often been identified as overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.