File - bridgebuilders trust network
... amount of heavy precipitation than decreases Increases in intensity and/or duration of ...
... amount of heavy precipitation than decreases Increases in intensity and/or duration of ...
Time for action? Options to address climate change Bert Metz
... Giving CO2 a price is the most important • Policies that provide a real or implicit price of carbon could create incentives for producers and consumers to significantly invest in low-GHG products, technologies and processes. • Such policies could include economic instruments, government funding and ...
... Giving CO2 a price is the most important • Policies that provide a real or implicit price of carbon could create incentives for producers and consumers to significantly invest in low-GHG products, technologies and processes. • Such policies could include economic instruments, government funding and ...
Sustainable development, policies and measures
... change and sustainable development in both directions: mitigation measures should be “integrated with national development programmes, taking into account that economic development is essential for adopting measures to address climate change” and “National sustainable development strategies should i ...
... change and sustainable development in both directions: mitigation measures should be “integrated with national development programmes, taking into account that economic development is essential for adopting measures to address climate change” and “National sustainable development strategies should i ...
Working Group III Mitigation of Climate Change
... Governing a transition toward an effective climate response and sustainable development pathway is a challenge involving rethinking our relation to nature. • A stable climate is one component of sustainable development. • Designing an effective climate policy involves “mainstreaming” climate in the ...
... Governing a transition toward an effective climate response and sustainable development pathway is a challenge involving rethinking our relation to nature. • A stable climate is one component of sustainable development. • Designing an effective climate policy involves “mainstreaming” climate in the ...
File
... While there is no consensus, the IPCC has recently reported in a draft document that, "global warming observed during the last century is unlikely to be entirely due to natural causes." This is the first time the IPCC has ever blamed human activity, although many researchers have regarded global war ...
... While there is no consensus, the IPCC has recently reported in a draft document that, "global warming observed during the last century is unlikely to be entirely due to natural causes." This is the first time the IPCC has ever blamed human activity, although many researchers have regarded global war ...
Climate modelling
... Predictability for climate change different from that of weather forecasting • Weather forecasting: predictability of first kind (the actual weather) • Prediction of climate change: predictability of second kind (statistical properties of the weather over several years) • Actual weather models dete ...
... Predictability for climate change different from that of weather forecasting • Weather forecasting: predictability of first kind (the actual weather) • Prediction of climate change: predictability of second kind (statistical properties of the weather over several years) • Actual weather models dete ...
Science of climate change
... We are committed to further warming based on past emissions alone. Around 0.5°C - 1°C according to Wigley 2005 and Meehl, 2005. ...
... We are committed to further warming based on past emissions alone. Around 0.5°C - 1°C according to Wigley 2005 and Meehl, 2005. ...
P
... olicy-makers and the media, particular- Academy of Sciences report, Climate ly in the United States, frequently assert Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key that climate science is highly uncertain. Questions, begins: “Greenhouse gases are Some have used this as an argument against accumulating in ...
... olicy-makers and the media, particular- Academy of Sciences report, Climate ly in the United States, frequently assert Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key that climate science is highly uncertain. Questions, begins: “Greenhouse gases are Some have used this as an argument against accumulating in ...
Un Regime Road to Bali
... • Process to contribute to UNFCCC negotiations towards consensus in 2009 • National strategies to reflect own energy resources, state of development and economic needs – Amounts to voluntary action (widely rejected…) ...
... • Process to contribute to UNFCCC negotiations towards consensus in 2009 • National strategies to reflect own energy resources, state of development and economic needs – Amounts to voluntary action (widely rejected…) ...
Dompost Is the world warming - Bryan Leyland Consulting Engineer
... Scafetta, a research scientist at Duke University in the USA, has analysed past climatic cycles and made a model that without any tuning has accurately replicated temperature changes over the last hundred years. It also predicts that cooling is imminent. Don Easterbrook at Western Washington Univers ...
... Scafetta, a research scientist at Duke University in the USA, has analysed past climatic cycles and made a model that without any tuning has accurately replicated temperature changes over the last hundred years. It also predicts that cooling is imminent. Don Easterbrook at Western Washington Univers ...
Rowand-(Kyoto Protocol-CO2)
... and would bring greenhouse gas emissions down to the levels they were at in 1990. The UN and World Meteorological Organization created a team of scientists in 1988. In 1990 this team, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reported that a 60% reduction in ...
... and would bring greenhouse gas emissions down to the levels they were at in 1990. The UN and World Meteorological Organization created a team of scientists in 1988. In 1990 this team, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reported that a 60% reduction in ...
Unit 12 - Global Warming - e
... becomes increasingly likely unless actions are taken. How the economy grows, and how we try to clean up, determine how hot it gets, as shown on the right for the year 2100--burn-it-all makes enough warming to be worried about most things by then; slowdown-some leaves a little safety zone. UN IPCC ww ...
... becomes increasingly likely unless actions are taken. How the economy grows, and how we try to clean up, determine how hot it gets, as shown on the right for the year 2100--burn-it-all makes enough warming to be worried about most things by then; slowdown-some leaves a little safety zone. UN IPCC ww ...
Slide 1
... SAR: 1995: balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate TAR: 2001: new, stronger evidence that most warming observed of last 50 years is due to humans AT4: 2007: most observed increase in global average temps since 1950 is likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse emissi ...
... SAR: 1995: balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate TAR: 2001: new, stronger evidence that most warming observed of last 50 years is due to humans AT4: 2007: most observed increase in global average temps since 1950 is likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse emissi ...
Long term modeling - Centre International de Recherche
... force of the Convention on Climate change • Rio (1992): FCC (Framework on Climate Change) – Article 2: “The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention ...
... force of the Convention on Climate change • Rio (1992): FCC (Framework on Climate Change) – Article 2: “The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention ...
myclimate – a user perspective on the carbon market
... 26 February 2009 innovateZIS, Zurich International School ...
... 26 February 2009 innovateZIS, Zurich International School ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
... United Nations United Nations Environment Programme World Meteorological Organization Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change ...
... United Nations United Nations Environment Programme World Meteorological Organization Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change ...
PowerPoint presentation (PPT file)
... Established by WMO and UNEP in 1988 Open to all member countries of the United Nations ...
... Established by WMO and UNEP in 1988 Open to all member countries of the United Nations ...
Powerpoint - Ronald B. Mitchell`s
... Too slow: Tectonic processes, Earth’s orbit Not correlated with temp: Volcanos, Sun’s energy, Climate variability Few natural causes of increases in greenhouse effect Graphic representation of the matching: Computer ...
... Too slow: Tectonic processes, Earth’s orbit Not correlated with temp: Volcanos, Sun’s energy, Climate variability Few natural causes of increases in greenhouse effect Graphic representation of the matching: Computer ...
Climate Change LECTURE
... Climate Change LECTURE Following on the success of the climate change lecture series during 2007 and 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency will host a number of occasional climate change lectures in autumn 2008 and spring 2009. The occasional lectures are aimed at providing updates from the scien ...
... Climate Change LECTURE Following on the success of the climate change lecture series during 2007 and 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency will host a number of occasional climate change lectures in autumn 2008 and spring 2009. The occasional lectures are aimed at providing updates from the scien ...
Dr Heleen de Coninck
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
Document
... Easterling, D. R., and M. F. Wehner (2009),Is the climate warming or cooling?, Geophys. Res. Lett., in press. (accepted 30 March 2009) ...
... Easterling, D. R., and M. F. Wehner (2009),Is the climate warming or cooling?, Geophys. Res. Lett., in press. (accepted 30 March 2009) ...
TITLE: The Integrating Assessment Modeling Community: overview
... produce outputs in the form of quantified scenarios: energy system transitions, land use transitions, economic effects of mitigation, emissions trajectories. These scenarios are central to the work of the IPCC “Working Group III” on mitigation of climate change, and play an increasingly important pa ...
... produce outputs in the form of quantified scenarios: energy system transitions, land use transitions, economic effects of mitigation, emissions trajectories. These scenarios are central to the work of the IPCC “Working Group III” on mitigation of climate change, and play an increasingly important pa ...
Millions at risk
... equivalent, respectively, to 10 times and 20 times the reduction in emissions assumed in the Kyoto Protocol. The 750 ppmv target delays the damage but does not avoid it. By 2080 it would halve the number at risk from hunger and flooding. reduce the population at risk of malaria by perhaps a third an ...
... equivalent, respectively, to 10 times and 20 times the reduction in emissions assumed in the Kyoto Protocol. The 750 ppmv target delays the damage but does not avoid it. By 2080 it would halve the number at risk from hunger and flooding. reduce the population at risk of malaria by perhaps a third an ...