PROJECT IDENTIFICATION FORM (PIF)
... Many countries in Eastern & Southern (E&S) Africa suffer from low rates of development. In particular, Malawi is in the lowest 20% of countries worldwide, ranked by both Gross National Income (GNI per capita) and the 2011 United Nations Human Development Index (ranked 171 out of 187 countries)2. The ...
... Many countries in Eastern & Southern (E&S) Africa suffer from low rates of development. In particular, Malawi is in the lowest 20% of countries worldwide, ranked by both Gross National Income (GNI per capita) and the 2011 United Nations Human Development Index (ranked 171 out of 187 countries)2. The ...
climate change - Saskatchewan.ca
... The release of other gasses are also presenting challenges. Methane is the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas. The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that pound for pound, methane’s impact on climate change is 25 times greater than carbon over a 100 year period. Methane levels ...
... The release of other gasses are also presenting challenges. Methane is the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas. The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that pound for pound, methane’s impact on climate change is 25 times greater than carbon over a 100 year period. Methane levels ...
Climate Risk Management for Financial Institutions
... that in order to stay below 2 degrees Celsius, 80% of the world’s known carbon reserves will have to remain unburned. In order to remain below 2 degrees Celsius, we would need to ensure that we do not breach this carbon budget. There is therefore a significant risk that the value currently attribute ...
... that in order to stay below 2 degrees Celsius, 80% of the world’s known carbon reserves will have to remain unburned. In order to remain below 2 degrees Celsius, we would need to ensure that we do not breach this carbon budget. There is therefore a significant risk that the value currently attribute ...
The Climate counter consensus, review - Brians
... summarised in the appropriately titled “Hockey stick” graph 39 of average global temperatures over the last 1,000 years. The graph showed that temperatures gently declined over the first 900 years and markedly increased over the last 100. Over this 100 year period average global atmospheric temp ...
... summarised in the appropriately titled “Hockey stick” graph 39 of average global temperatures over the last 1,000 years. The graph showed that temperatures gently declined over the first 900 years and markedly increased over the last 100. Over this 100 year period average global atmospheric temp ...
1 - White Rose Research Online
... Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2007) reported that China overtook the US as the world’s largest CO2 emitter in 2006 and given China’s faster growth rates, we also would expect China to overtake the US sometime in 2007 or 2008 (Gregg et al., 2008). Nevertheless, despite the absolute em ...
... Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2007) reported that China overtook the US as the world’s largest CO2 emitter in 2006 and given China’s faster growth rates, we also would expect China to overtake the US sometime in 2007 or 2008 (Gregg et al., 2008). Nevertheless, despite the absolute em ...
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... height (Z500) fields of a total of 20 model chains of the EU ENSEMBLES project (van der Linden and Mitchell, 2009) running from 1951 to 2050 or 2100 (Table 1). These model chains correspond to the selection of the CH2011 initiative (CH2011, 2011). For Z500 only 17 model chains are available on a six ...
... height (Z500) fields of a total of 20 model chains of the EU ENSEMBLES project (van der Linden and Mitchell, 2009) running from 1951 to 2050 or 2100 (Table 1). These model chains correspond to the selection of the CH2011 initiative (CH2011, 2011). For Z500 only 17 model chains are available on a six ...
A Global Carbon Market? Michael G. Pollitt
... Dealing with climate change caused by dangerous levels of man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is seen as one of the most pressing global problems currently faced. Climate scientists tell us that, in order to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting the rise in global temperature to just 2 degrees ( ...
... Dealing with climate change caused by dangerous levels of man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is seen as one of the most pressing global problems currently faced. Climate scientists tell us that, in order to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting the rise in global temperature to just 2 degrees ( ...
An updated view of tipping points and the relevance for long
... This report summarises the key new literature on the main large-scale systems that may feature abrupt and/or irreversible changes (specifically, ice sheets, Arctic sea ice, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), tropical forests, carbon stored in terrestrial permafrost or below the ...
... This report summarises the key new literature on the main large-scale systems that may feature abrupt and/or irreversible changes (specifically, ice sheets, Arctic sea ice, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), tropical forests, carbon stored in terrestrial permafrost or below the ...
Enhanced weathering strategies for stabilizing climate and averting
... Comparing cumulative end-of-century amounts of pulverized rock added to the tropics with estimated total resources indicates dunite has limited utility for long-term atmospheric CO2 removal3 (Fig. 1), whereas sufficient harzburgite and basalt resources exist for the application rates considered here ...
... Comparing cumulative end-of-century amounts of pulverized rock added to the tropics with estimated total resources indicates dunite has limited utility for long-term atmospheric CO2 removal3 (Fig. 1), whereas sufficient harzburgite and basalt resources exist for the application rates considered here ...
Trends in river floods: why is there no clear signal in observations?
... Abstract Floods are of great concern in many areas of the world, with the last decade seeing major fluvial flood events in, for example, Asia, Europe and North America. This has focused attention on whether or not these are a result of a changing climate. River flows calculated from outputs from glo ...
... Abstract Floods are of great concern in many areas of the world, with the last decade seeing major fluvial flood events in, for example, Asia, Europe and North America. This has focused attention on whether or not these are a result of a changing climate. River flows calculated from outputs from glo ...
Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act 20
... matched with very slow ethical-social evolution. The human ability to do has vastly outstripped the ability to understand. As a result civilization is faced with a perfect storm of problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich, the use of environmentally malign technologies, and gro ...
... matched with very slow ethical-social evolution. The human ability to do has vastly outstripped the ability to understand. As a result civilization is faced with a perfect storm of problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich, the use of environmentally malign technologies, and gro ...
Ireland’s Climate: the road ahead IR E
... To estimate future changes in the climate we need to have some indication as to how global emissions of greenhouse gases (and other pollutants) will change in the future. In previous IPCC reports this was handled using Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES e.g. A2 scenario) that were based on ...
... To estimate future changes in the climate we need to have some indication as to how global emissions of greenhouse gases (and other pollutants) will change in the future. In previous IPCC reports this was handled using Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES e.g. A2 scenario) that were based on ...
Assessment of potential climate change impacts on
... plant primary productivity and therefore ameliorate vegetation response to climate change, introduce substantial uncertainty in projections in some parts of the country, mainly in the savanna woodland ecosystems of the northern Kalahari and northeastern Kalahari woodland regions. For example, elevat ...
... plant primary productivity and therefore ameliorate vegetation response to climate change, introduce substantial uncertainty in projections in some parts of the country, mainly in the savanna woodland ecosystems of the northern Kalahari and northeastern Kalahari woodland regions. For example, elevat ...
Climate Predictions and Projections Program
... • Global Change Research Act: This act mandates the development of a research program whose goal is to understand climate variability and its predictability • Weather Service Organic Act: Outlines NOAA’s responsibility to produce climate forecasts • Coastal Zone Management Act: Requires understandin ...
... • Global Change Research Act: This act mandates the development of a research program whose goal is to understand climate variability and its predictability • Weather Service Organic Act: Outlines NOAA’s responsibility to produce climate forecasts • Coastal Zone Management Act: Requires understandin ...
50 years of urbanization in Africa: Assessing the role of climate change
... rural areas. How urbanization evolves in Africa over the next decades will determine where people and jobs locate and where public services should be delivered. A longstanding debate in the global development literature about the relative importance of push versus pull factors in urbanization has fo ...
... rural areas. How urbanization evolves in Africa over the next decades will determine where people and jobs locate and where public services should be delivered. A longstanding debate in the global development literature about the relative importance of push versus pull factors in urbanization has fo ...
Border adjustments under unilateral carbon pricing: the case of Australian carbon tax
... the tax. Hence the model used for this study is a static CGE model, based on ORANI-G (Horridge 2000). The comparative static nature of ORANI-G helps to single out the effect of carbon tax and border adjustment policies while keeping other factors intact. The model employs standard neoclassical econ ...
... the tax. Hence the model used for this study is a static CGE model, based on ORANI-G (Horridge 2000). The comparative static nature of ORANI-G helps to single out the effect of carbon tax and border adjustment policies while keeping other factors intact. The model employs standard neoclassical econ ...
United Nations Development Assistance Framework
... At Marrakech Parties did not succeed to attain consent in relation to legal character of the mode of observance of obligations, in particular in relation to that, whether must be statutory normative approvals for non-fulfillment by the countries of the obligations. The decision-making this is carrie ...
... At Marrakech Parties did not succeed to attain consent in relation to legal character of the mode of observance of obligations, in particular in relation to that, whether must be statutory normative approvals for non-fulfillment by the countries of the obligations. The decision-making this is carrie ...
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... Janvry, 1995; Kassie et al., 2008; Di Falco et al., 2011; Di Falco et al., 2014). This literature indicates that there are several barriers to technology use, ranging from lack of insurance and limited credit access to price risk, and mainly focuses on the impact of production risk on overall output ...
... Janvry, 1995; Kassie et al., 2008; Di Falco et al., 2011; Di Falco et al., 2014). This literature indicates that there are several barriers to technology use, ranging from lack of insurance and limited credit access to price risk, and mainly focuses on the impact of production risk on overall output ...
OVERCOMING THE BARRIERS How to ensure future food production under
... public debate and to invite feedback on development and humanitarian policy and practice. They do not necessarilyreflectOxfam policy positions. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of Oxfam. ...
... public debate and to invite feedback on development and humanitarian policy and practice. They do not necessarilyreflectOxfam policy positions. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of Oxfam. ...
Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report
... businesses, buildings and transport – has huge potential to cut and manage demand. In developing countries, decentralised renewables can help provide electricity for the more than one billion people without access. ...
... businesses, buildings and transport – has huge potential to cut and manage demand. In developing countries, decentralised renewables can help provide electricity for the more than one billion people without access. ...
Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small
... accomplished on the mitigation front. To prepare Canada’s communities for this challenge, CIP has completed a series of pilot climate change adaptation plans. This document “Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small Canadian Communities”, referred to throughout as the Handbook, is a r ...
... accomplished on the mitigation front. To prepare Canada’s communities for this challenge, CIP has completed a series of pilot climate change adaptation plans. This document “Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small Canadian Communities”, referred to throughout as the Handbook, is a r ...
TEEB Climate Issues Update
... effectiveness but also in terms of cost-effecthis update addresses our ongoing work in four do- ...
... effectiveness but also in terms of cost-effecthis update addresses our ongoing work in four do- ...
Warming the world : economic models of global
... upon to sacrifice hundreds of billions of dollars of present consumption in an effort that will largely benefit people in other countries, where the benefit will not come until well into the next century and beyond, and where the threat is highly uncertain and based on modeling rather than direct ob ...
... upon to sacrifice hundreds of billions of dollars of present consumption in an effort that will largely benefit people in other countries, where the benefit will not come until well into the next century and beyond, and where the threat is highly uncertain and based on modeling rather than direct ob ...
fisheries management
... At still finer spatial scales, stocks entering the ocean within km of one another have weakly coherent responses to changes in local oceanographic conditions (Mueter et a1. 2002; Pyper et a1. 2005). This regional coherence in productivity is most correlated with regional variation in sea sur ...
... At still finer spatial scales, stocks entering the ocean within km of one another have weakly coherent responses to changes in local oceanographic conditions (Mueter et a1. 2002; Pyper et a1. 2005). This regional coherence in productivity is most correlated with regional variation in sea sur ...
Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook MODULE 14: Financing Climate-smart agriculture
... the agricultural sector in the future. It has become necessary to explicitly incorporate projections of future impacts of climate change into today’s investment planning. Integrating adaptation to existing and future threats posed by climate change into current agricultural planning and investment i ...
... the agricultural sector in the future. It has become necessary to explicitly incorporate projections of future impacts of climate change into today’s investment planning. Integrating adaptation to existing and future threats posed by climate change into current agricultural planning and investment i ...