Climate Extremes: Recent Trends with Implications for National Security
... Quadrennial Defense Review, and the 2010 National Security Strategy all identify climate change as likely to trigger outcomes that will threaten U.S. security. These assessments have had to rely on projections of climate change tuned to identify impacts over roughly a one-century time frame. This ti ...
... Quadrennial Defense Review, and the 2010 National Security Strategy all identify climate change as likely to trigger outcomes that will threaten U.S. security. These assessments have had to rely on projections of climate change tuned to identify impacts over roughly a one-century time frame. This ti ...
Warming up the region The impacts of climate change in the
... • The Humber estuary stands out as an area of high importance and high vulnerability to climate change. Flooding will affect internationally important wetlands, high quality agricultural land, ports and other industries in the flood plain and leisure facilities. • A changing climate will present opp ...
... • The Humber estuary stands out as an area of high importance and high vulnerability to climate change. Flooding will affect internationally important wetlands, high quality agricultural land, ports and other industries in the flood plain and leisure facilities. • A changing climate will present opp ...
... Quadrennial Defense Review, and the 2010 National Security Strategy all identify climate change as likely to trigger outcomes that will threaten U.S. security. These assessments have had to rely on projections of climate change tuned to identify impacts over roughly a one-century time frame. This ti ...
Common Concern and Global Public Goods: Evidence, Bits and
... has come a long way. The review and assessment of the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) amounts to one of the most comprehensive efforts at bridging gaps between scientific research and informed policy making.1 Eq ...
... has come a long way. The review and assessment of the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) amounts to one of the most comprehensive efforts at bridging gaps between scientific research and informed policy making.1 Eq ...
Adapting to Pollution John Copeland Nagle R
... Climate change, we are told, is a pollution problem. 1 The law is quite familiar with pollution. Generally, there are four responses to pollution. We can prevent it from ever happening. We can control what pollution enters the environment. We can separate pollution from those who would be harmed by ...
... Climate change, we are told, is a pollution problem. 1 The law is quite familiar with pollution. Generally, there are four responses to pollution. We can prevent it from ever happening. We can control what pollution enters the environment. We can separate pollution from those who would be harmed by ...
ities` action on climate change in South West England.
... data identify that considerable reductions in councils’ own greenhouse emissions have been achieved, not wholly due to cutbacks and other contextual factors, but policy for more widespread carbon reduction in their geographical areas was more limited. Central government finance and policy were key d ...
... data identify that considerable reductions in councils’ own greenhouse emissions have been achieved, not wholly due to cutbacks and other contextual factors, but policy for more widespread carbon reduction in their geographical areas was more limited. Central government finance and policy were key d ...
Climate change and displacement
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook have recently delivered sobering assessments of the physical and environmental impacts of climate change. For example, sea-level rise and unsustainable human development are contributing to the loss of coastal wetlan ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook have recently delivered sobering assessments of the physical and environmental impacts of climate change. For example, sea-level rise and unsustainable human development are contributing to the loss of coastal wetlan ...
Accountable Climate Governance: Dilemmas of Performance Management across Complex Governance Networks
... post-Kyoto international climate policy design and address a specific question: How can accountability be institutionalized across governance networks that are dealing with the transboundary pollution problem of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) at multiple spatial, temporal and social scale ...
... post-Kyoto international climate policy design and address a specific question: How can accountability be institutionalized across governance networks that are dealing with the transboundary pollution problem of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) at multiple spatial, temporal and social scale ...
Responding to the challenges of climate change in the Pacific
... particularly their high insularity (coastal length to land area) ratios, their topographic and geological diversity, and the raw materials available to support adaptation. It is important for policy makers to understand the cultural influences that have helped shape current environmental decision ma ...
... particularly their high insularity (coastal length to land area) ratios, their topographic and geological diversity, and the raw materials available to support adaptation. It is important for policy makers to understand the cultural influences that have helped shape current environmental decision ma ...
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... we will examine the current state of the tropical Pacific and how it might evolve over the next few months. We will then explore some current research issues including ENSO precursors, ENSO diversity if there are two (or more) types of events –and the potential impacts of ENSO beyond the tropical Pa ...
... we will examine the current state of the tropical Pacific and how it might evolve over the next few months. We will then explore some current research issues including ENSO precursors, ENSO diversity if there are two (or more) types of events –and the potential impacts of ENSO beyond the tropical Pa ...
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... (SCC) is one of the foremost tools for determining the socially optimal policy response. As of 2008, the federal government must include the SCC in all federal cost-benefit analyses. The U.S. government’s published estimates developed by the 2010 and 2013 Interagency Working Groups (IWGs) rely on th ...
... (SCC) is one of the foremost tools for determining the socially optimal policy response. As of 2008, the federal government must include the SCC in all federal cost-benefit analyses. The U.S. government’s published estimates developed by the 2010 and 2013 Interagency Working Groups (IWGs) rely on th ...
The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American
... between elites and organizations identifying the negative environmental consequences of industrial capitalism represented by climate change (e.g., environmental organizations, science advocacy organizations, and Democratic policymakers on the Left) and those defending the economic system from such c ...
... between elites and organizations identifying the negative environmental consequences of industrial capitalism represented by climate change (e.g., environmental organizations, science advocacy organizations, and Democratic policymakers on the Left) and those defending the economic system from such c ...
International cooperation in the field of CCS - Approaches and implementation
... The international organizations address the deployment of CCS by means of goal-setting, roadmapping activities, and inclusion of CCS in the existing mechanisms of international climate change mitigation ...
... The international organizations address the deployment of CCS by means of goal-setting, roadmapping activities, and inclusion of CCS in the existing mechanisms of international climate change mitigation ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Design at the Port
... tunnel, port, airport, PATH, and associated buildings and facilities – because of the different effects of climate change impacts and potential risk management techniques associated with each. The report organizes each technique within one of three broad adaptation strategies: protect, accommodate, ...
... tunnel, port, airport, PATH, and associated buildings and facilities – because of the different effects of climate change impacts and potential risk management techniques associated with each. The report organizes each technique within one of three broad adaptation strategies: protect, accommodate, ...
When Science and Ideology Collide: Explaining
... warming opinions before elites became so sharply divided about climate change science in the United States. If, as the prior hypotheses suggest, reception of elite discourse is responsible for the unique polarization pattern in the United States, then we would expect different results in the 1990s w ...
... warming opinions before elites became so sharply divided about climate change science in the United States. If, as the prior hypotheses suggest, reception of elite discourse is responsible for the unique polarization pattern in the United States, then we would expect different results in the 1990s w ...
Transformational adaptation
... • Effective leadership is needed for transformational change, although whether this is through strong centralised decision-making or the distribution of power to make more localised decisions was not agreed. • To achieve transformational adaptation we need to pay attention to the timing of interve ...
... • Effective leadership is needed for transformational change, although whether this is through strong centralised decision-making or the distribution of power to make more localised decisions was not agreed. • To achieve transformational adaptation we need to pay attention to the timing of interve ...
Chapter 18 - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
... (Chapters 2 and 5) are summarized, using both scientific and indigenous (Chapter 3) observations, and information from the latest assessments by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP, 1998) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001). Projections of climate change o ...
... (Chapters 2 and 5) are summarized, using both scientific and indigenous (Chapter 3) observations, and information from the latest assessments by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP, 1998) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001). Projections of climate change o ...
SECOND-ORDER DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 24 Do Not Cite
... Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of the Asian region (high confidence) [24.3]. Increasing trends in annual mean temperatures and numbers of warm days, and a decreasing trend in cold days, have been observed across most of the Asian region, including t ...
... Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of the Asian region (high confidence) [24.3]. Increasing trends in annual mean temperatures and numbers of warm days, and a decreasing trend in cold days, have been observed across most of the Asian region, including t ...
NO REASON TO WAIT: REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS
... similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm, but likely less than that . . . . An initial 350 ppm CO2 target may be achieva ...
... similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm, but likely less than that . . . . An initial 350 ppm CO2 target may be achieva ...
Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Call for Action
... The latest scientific reports are unequivocal in their conclusions that climate change as a result of human activities is not some kind of future hypothetical event. The effects are already here, in real time. It is leading to melting of sea ice, thawing of permafrost, sea level rise, heat waves, sh ...
... The latest scientific reports are unequivocal in their conclusions that climate change as a result of human activities is not some kind of future hypothetical event. The effects are already here, in real time. It is leading to melting of sea ice, thawing of permafrost, sea level rise, heat waves, sh ...
Why is geoengineering so tempting?
... with a carbon cycle and a climate system. These bene ts can be interpreted as a lower bound for the direct and indirect costs which would make geoengineering less preferable to abatement. In the planner's solution to the model, exogenous geoengineering in the future increases investment in physical ...
... with a carbon cycle and a climate system. These bene ts can be interpreted as a lower bound for the direct and indirect costs which would make geoengineering less preferable to abatement. In the planner's solution to the model, exogenous geoengineering in the future increases investment in physical ...
Climate Change Impact on Public Health in the Russian Arctic
... also increases mortality and injuries resulting from floods, storms and other weather events. Weather events also indirectly affect health through worsened living conditions, including loss of housing to coastal erosion, lack of safe drinking water, damaged roads, disrupted urban and rural infrastru ...
... also increases mortality and injuries resulting from floods, storms and other weather events. Weather events also indirectly affect health through worsened living conditions, including loss of housing to coastal erosion, lack of safe drinking water, damaged roads, disrupted urban and rural infrastru ...
Working Paper 170 - Doda 2014 (opens in new window)
... with a carbon cycle and a climate system. These bene ts can be interpreted as a lower bound for the direct and indirect costs which would make geoengineering less preferable to abatement. In the planner's solution to the model, exogenous geoengineering in the future increases investment in physical ...
... with a carbon cycle and a climate system. These bene ts can be interpreted as a lower bound for the direct and indirect costs which would make geoengineering less preferable to abatement. In the planner's solution to the model, exogenous geoengineering in the future increases investment in physical ...
America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Research Council
... ackling climate change promises to be one of the most significant social and technological challenges of the 21st century. Since the industrial revolution, the atmosphere has been one of the world’s principal waste repositories because it has offered an easy and inexpensive means of managing unwante ...
... ackling climate change promises to be one of the most significant social and technological challenges of the 21st century. Since the industrial revolution, the atmosphere has been one of the world’s principal waste repositories because it has offered an easy and inexpensive means of managing unwante ...