2. Sergi - Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making
... state's electricity generation would come from coal, natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy (renewables include wind, solar, and hydropower). In addition, energy efficiency programs (using more efficient appliances or weatherizing houses, for example) can help reduce the total electricity ...
... state's electricity generation would come from coal, natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy (renewables include wind, solar, and hydropower). In addition, energy efficiency programs (using more efficient appliances or weatherizing houses, for example) can help reduce the total electricity ...
Adapting to climate change: A perspective from evolutionary
... traits play an important initial demographic role by influencing survival and reproduction under a given set of environmental conditions (Soberón 2007). The significance of understanding such relationships between the phenotype and the environment has recently been highlighted by 2 studies (Deutsch ...
... traits play an important initial demographic role by influencing survival and reproduction under a given set of environmental conditions (Soberón 2007). The significance of understanding such relationships between the phenotype and the environment has recently been highlighted by 2 studies (Deutsch ...
- Brookings Institution
... gases in the atmosphere. Each year, worldwide fossil fuel use adds about six billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere, and the concentration of carbon dioxide is now about 30 percent higher than it was at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The second fact, however, is that no one fully un ...
... gases in the atmosphere. Each year, worldwide fossil fuel use adds about six billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere, and the concentration of carbon dioxide is now about 30 percent higher than it was at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The second fact, however, is that no one fully un ...
Ocean acidification: causes, impacts and solutions
... risk and damage. Carbon dioxide removal attempts to break the link between CO2 emissions and accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. Solar geoengineering (also known as solar radiation managemen attempts to break the link between accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere and the amount of climate ...
... risk and damage. Carbon dioxide removal attempts to break the link between CO2 emissions and accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere. Solar geoengineering (also known as solar radiation managemen attempts to break the link between accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere and the amount of climate ...
Adaptation to climate change in Israel
... (Integrated Assessment Models) to evaluate the cost of greenhouse gas mitigation programs or climate change damage costs in Israel. To help professionals and policy makers identify the most suitable interventions for reducing damage, improving adaptation capacity and increasing resilience, a qualita ...
... (Integrated Assessment Models) to evaluate the cost of greenhouse gas mitigation programs or climate change damage costs in Israel. To help professionals and policy makers identify the most suitable interventions for reducing damage, improving adaptation capacity and increasing resilience, a qualita ...
15 May 2009 SUBMISSION CLIMATE CHANGE AND
... Should, the entire territory of a State be permanently submerged, inevitably there could be no permanent population attached to it or a government in control of it. The loss of all territory has been cited most frequently as a possible ground for loss of statehood. It appears, however, unlikely to ...
... Should, the entire territory of a State be permanently submerged, inevitably there could be no permanent population attached to it or a government in control of it. The loss of all territory has been cited most frequently as a possible ground for loss of statehood. It appears, however, unlikely to ...
Mitigating climate change through agriculture: An
... emissions. Emerging countries (e.g. China, India and Brazil) are part of the international process but do not have binding targets for absolute emission reductions. This is in recognition of the greater responsibility of industrialized countries for current GHG levels – given their history of over 1 ...
... emissions. Emerging countries (e.g. China, India and Brazil) are part of the international process but do not have binding targets for absolute emission reductions. This is in recognition of the greater responsibility of industrialized countries for current GHG levels – given their history of over 1 ...
Climate research Africa - Deutsches Klima Konsortium
... usage of exiting bio-energy resources as well as develop other regenerative types of energy. This is seen also a key factor for the economic development of any region. A variety of measures are available which, however, need to be adapted to regional conditions. A large number of relevant projects h ...
... usage of exiting bio-energy resources as well as develop other regenerative types of energy. This is seen also a key factor for the economic development of any region. A variety of measures are available which, however, need to be adapted to regional conditions. A large number of relevant projects h ...
FORTY-FOURTH SESSION OF THE IPCC Bangkok, Thailand, 17
... 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways”. In paragraph 2 of its Decision IPCC/XLIII-6 on the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) – Special Reports - the IPCC decides “In the context of the Paris Agreement, to accept the invitation from the UNFCCC to provide a ...
... 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways”. In paragraph 2 of its Decision IPCC/XLIII-6 on the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) – Special Reports - the IPCC decides “In the context of the Paris Agreement, to accept the invitation from the UNFCCC to provide a ...
Impacts of climate change on coastal flooding
... As we reported in 2010/11, extreme coastal water levels and hence the increasing likelihood of coastal flooding in the future are likely to be dominated by climate driven changes to the mean sea level, rather than waves or storm surges. There is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the magnitude ...
... As we reported in 2010/11, extreme coastal water levels and hence the increasing likelihood of coastal flooding in the future are likely to be dominated by climate driven changes to the mean sea level, rather than waves or storm surges. There is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the magnitude ...
Global Warming - Atmospheric Aerosol Group
... “The journey to the answer is immensely complex and no one can say absolutely what the effect is. The greenhouse effect amplifies solar warming of the earth. Greenhouse gases such as H2O, CO2, and CH4 in the Earth’s atmosphere, through combined convective readjustments and the radiative blanketing e ...
... “The journey to the answer is immensely complex and no one can say absolutely what the effect is. The greenhouse effect amplifies solar warming of the earth. Greenhouse gases such as H2O, CO2, and CH4 in the Earth’s atmosphere, through combined convective readjustments and the radiative blanketing e ...
Global warming and the Arctic: a new world beyond the reach of the
... 2007c). This effect has been referred to as Arctic amplification. Global temperature trends from 1958 to 2008 show this pattern of Arctic amplification very well, with particularly enhanced warming over northern Asia and northwestern North America (Fig.1). In turn, some of the environmental changes ...
... 2007c). This effect has been referred to as Arctic amplification. Global temperature trends from 1958 to 2008 show this pattern of Arctic amplification very well, with particularly enhanced warming over northern Asia and northwestern North America (Fig.1). In turn, some of the environmental changes ...
document - OurEnergyPolicy.org
... rates of return is enormous, leading to much debate and confusion about what risk-adjusted discount rates should be used for a particular public project. As this paper will show, the consequences of how these two prototype rates are combined can be spectacularly important for very long term CBA appl ...
... rates of return is enormous, leading to much debate and confusion about what risk-adjusted discount rates should be used for a particular public project. As this paper will show, the consequences of how these two prototype rates are combined can be spectacularly important for very long term CBA appl ...
Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and
... for examples of underlying tipping point mechanisms). Socioeconomic regime shifts are related to the vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and transformative capabilities of societies in the face of local and global pressures (table 2; Scheffer 2009, Leadley et al. 2010). Biophysical regime shifts ...
... for examples of underlying tipping point mechanisms). Socioeconomic regime shifts are related to the vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and transformative capabilities of societies in the face of local and global pressures (table 2; Scheffer 2009, Leadley et al. 2010). Biophysical regime shifts ...
DOCX 118KB - Climate Change Authority
... The Kyoto Protocol uses a budget approach to defining national commitments; these are expressed as a percentage of 1990 emissions. Australia’s target for the first commitment period was to limit its average annual emissions to 108 per cent of its 1990 emissions between 2008 and 2012. Australia’s ave ...
... The Kyoto Protocol uses a budget approach to defining national commitments; these are expressed as a percentage of 1990 emissions. Australia’s target for the first commitment period was to limit its average annual emissions to 108 per cent of its 1990 emissions between 2008 and 2012. Australia’s ave ...
National Sustainable Materials Management Action Plan
... Presented to NRC Recyclers Guide to SMM Webinar, February 18, 2015 By Gary Liss, NRC SMM Summit Co-Chair 916-652-7850; [email protected]; www.garyliss.com ...
... Presented to NRC Recyclers Guide to SMM Webinar, February 18, 2015 By Gary Liss, NRC SMM Summit Co-Chair 916-652-7850; [email protected]; www.garyliss.com ...
Climate system complexity and vulnerability approach: A broader perspective on climate change
... Estimated radiative forcings since preindustrial times for the Earth and Troposphere system (TOA) radiative forcing with adjusted stratospheric temperatures). The height of the rectangular bar denotes a central or best estimate of the forcing, while each vertical line is an estimate of the uncertai ...
... Estimated radiative forcings since preindustrial times for the Earth and Troposphere system (TOA) radiative forcing with adjusted stratospheric temperatures). The height of the rectangular bar denotes a central or best estimate of the forcing, while each vertical line is an estimate of the uncertai ...
Cultural Responses to Climate Change During the Late Holocene
... using a spatial network of tree-ring chronologies across the United States (black curves show the decadal average; gray curves represent the full annual-resolution record). (A) This time series is the first varimax-rotated empirical orthogonal function factor from these records and reflects the drou ...
... using a spatial network of tree-ring chronologies across the United States (black curves show the decadal average; gray curves represent the full annual-resolution record). (A) This time series is the first varimax-rotated empirical orthogonal function factor from these records and reflects the drou ...
The Role of Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate
... eventual temperature changes becomes yet-greater yet-more-open-ended uncertainty about eventual changes in utility. Not only is it very di¢ cult to estimate tail probabilities of high- T outcomes, but translating this via ambiguous weather consequences and unknown adaptation capabilities into utilit ...
... eventual temperature changes becomes yet-greater yet-more-open-ended uncertainty about eventual changes in utility. Not only is it very di¢ cult to estimate tail probabilities of high- T outcomes, but translating this via ambiguous weather consequences and unknown adaptation capabilities into utilit ...
The Adaptation Coalition Toolkit
... in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank, with Jan Flora and Cornelia Flora of Iowa State University. The five country case studies and all project related activities and products were coordinated by Maximillian Ashwill. World Bank task team leaders for this project were Estanisla ...
... in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank, with Jan Flora and Cornelia Flora of Iowa State University. The five country case studies and all project related activities and products were coordinated by Maximillian Ashwill. World Bank task team leaders for this project were Estanisla ...
Participants and Biographies - Southeast Regional Climate Center
... Responsible for coordination of various inter-agency working groups supported by the USGCRP. This includes the human contributions and responses working group, which focuses on the complex interactions between human societies and natural systems as they related to climate change impacts and vulnerab ...
... Responsible for coordination of various inter-agency working groups supported by the USGCRP. This includes the human contributions and responses working group, which focuses on the complex interactions between human societies and natural systems as they related to climate change impacts and vulnerab ...
Türkiye Teknik Ka**d*-Non-Paper
... included in Annex II to the Convention which are in a position to do so, to provide support to Turkey in conjunction with its special circumstances and that Turkey has been benefiting from various financial support mechanisms as mentioned above, it is highly important for Turkey to receive such a su ...
... included in Annex II to the Convention which are in a position to do so, to provide support to Turkey in conjunction with its special circumstances and that Turkey has been benefiting from various financial support mechanisms as mentioned above, it is highly important for Turkey to receive such a su ...
Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama?
... One more topic will help to underscore the point. It is well accepted that certain feedbacks in the climate system, such as increased cloud cover or the Arctic ice-albedo feedback, could work to accelerate or decelerate global warming. One potentially large, positive feedback involves permafrost mel ...
... One more topic will help to underscore the point. It is well accepted that certain feedbacks in the climate system, such as increased cloud cover or the Arctic ice-albedo feedback, could work to accelerate or decelerate global warming. One potentially large, positive feedback involves permafrost mel ...
SustainablePanel - Academic Program Pages at Evergreen
... Organizers of the annual Capital Lakefair Festival in Olympia, Wash., blamed heat for lagging attendance from last year. "When in Olympia, Wash., do you see temperatures of 101 degrees?" asked Teri Chmielewski, vice president of the fair. "People just don't want to come out of their houses." ...
... Organizers of the annual Capital Lakefair Festival in Olympia, Wash., blamed heat for lagging attendance from last year. "When in Olympia, Wash., do you see temperatures of 101 degrees?" asked Teri Chmielewski, vice president of the fair. "People just don't want to come out of their houses." ...