Transport - British Social Attitudes
... quarter of UK carbon dioxide emissions, making it the second biggest contributor to GHG in the UK after energy production (Department of Energy and Climate Change, 2012). So if these challenging targets are to be met, it is clear that the transport sector will need to play a major part. Although GHG ...
... quarter of UK carbon dioxide emissions, making it the second biggest contributor to GHG in the UK after energy production (Department of Energy and Climate Change, 2012). So if these challenging targets are to be met, it is clear that the transport sector will need to play a major part. Although GHG ...
Policy Brief Series - IOM Online Bookstore
... frequent over the years, with remarkable deficiency in rainfall noted in the years from 1983 to 1984, from 1998 to 1999 and from 2011 to 2012. In particular, the average annual rainfall will drop by 8 per cent (IPCC, 2007). On the other hand, episodes of flash floods will become more frequent. On 30 ...
... frequent over the years, with remarkable deficiency in rainfall noted in the years from 1983 to 1984, from 1998 to 1999 and from 2011 to 2012. In particular, the average annual rainfall will drop by 8 per cent (IPCC, 2007). On the other hand, episodes of flash floods will become more frequent. On 30 ...
Forest Service Chief`s Climate Change and Wilderness Briefing
... Goals based on the traditional concept of naturalness, will need to be supplemented or replaced by goals that more precisely describe the desired ecological outcomes of stewardship programs, particularly where they involve intentional manipulative intervention and restoration. ...
... Goals based on the traditional concept of naturalness, will need to be supplemented or replaced by goals that more precisely describe the desired ecological outcomes of stewardship programs, particularly where they involve intentional manipulative intervention and restoration. ...
Chinese Food Security and Climate Change: Agriculture Futures
... in yield of rice of ~5% C-1 rise above 32C (Gregory et al., 2005). These effects of temperature were considered sufficiently detrimental that they would largely offset any increase in yield as a consequence of increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. The focus of this paper is the projected impact ...
... in yield of rice of ~5% C-1 rise above 32C (Gregory et al., 2005). These effects of temperature were considered sufficiently detrimental that they would largely offset any increase in yield as a consequence of increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. The focus of this paper is the projected impact ...
Climate, Climate Change Nuclear Power and the Alternatives
... Since RH = w/ws(T) (T) and ws(T) (T) increases exponentially with T, then humidity increases rapidly with T So the feedback goes like this: Increased CO2 —› raises emission level —› raises T ...
... Since RH = w/ws(T) (T) and ws(T) (T) increases exponentially with T, then humidity increases rapidly with T So the feedback goes like this: Increased CO2 —› raises emission level —› raises T ...
Joint Parliamentary meeting on Climate change and climate change
... reductions and new binding reduction targets, adaptation measures, forest clearance, destruction and degradation, development of technology for mitigation and adaptation measures, the necessary financial resources, and finally the review of the flexible mechanisms under the Marrakesh agreements on t ...
... reductions and new binding reduction targets, adaptation measures, forest clearance, destruction and degradation, development of technology for mitigation and adaptation measures, the necessary financial resources, and finally the review of the flexible mechanisms under the Marrakesh agreements on t ...
Annual report 2014
... around the world and the collated measurements indicate that 2014 was the warmest year in record also in the global mean. Even higher temperatures are expected over the coming years as climate change progresses. The short-term weather will continue to vary but over time, climate warming will take we ...
... around the world and the collated measurements indicate that 2014 was the warmest year in record also in the global mean. Even higher temperatures are expected over the coming years as climate change progresses. The short-term weather will continue to vary but over time, climate warming will take we ...
Human Mobility in the context of Climate Change
... policies and interventions on pastoralist livelihoods and displacement, and can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of different adaptation strategies under different climate scenarios. The Framework for Assessing, Monitoring and Evaluating the Environment in Refugee-related Operations, developed ...
... policies and interventions on pastoralist livelihoods and displacement, and can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of different adaptation strategies under different climate scenarios. The Framework for Assessing, Monitoring and Evaluating the Environment in Refugee-related Operations, developed ...
Technical note on science- based targets
... be evaluated using information disclosed in CDP’s questionnaire and can still qualify for leadership (see CDP’s 2016 Climate Change Scoring Methodology for more details). To submit a target for official evaluation, please fill out the target quality check form and send it to info@sciencebasedtargets ...
... be evaluated using information disclosed in CDP’s questionnaire and can still qualify for leadership (see CDP’s 2016 Climate Change Scoring Methodology for more details). To submit a target for official evaluation, please fill out the target quality check form and send it to info@sciencebasedtargets ...
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... gases we can emit into the atmosphere. The perceived necessity on global warming is developing fast, and becoming ever more concrete for people. It used to be about how many parts of greenhouse gases per million (ppm) a livable atmosphere could endure. In 2006, the United Nations “Intergovernmental ...
... gases we can emit into the atmosphere. The perceived necessity on global warming is developing fast, and becoming ever more concrete for people. It used to be about how many parts of greenhouse gases per million (ppm) a livable atmosphere could endure. In 2006, the United Nations “Intergovernmental ...
How REDD Will Impoverish the Developing World and Reduce
... by Western donors to fund this reconstruction of the economies. In this report, REDD programs proposed for Indonesia are reviewed as a case study. Experience with the economic and environmental impacts of national parks in Indonesia is also reviewed. The results indicate these strategies will reduce ...
... by Western donors to fund this reconstruction of the economies. In this report, REDD programs proposed for Indonesia are reviewed as a case study. Experience with the economic and environmental impacts of national parks in Indonesia is also reviewed. The results indicate these strategies will reduce ...
b) To build capacity to reduce vulnerability to
... intra-generational equity. There has also been a marked shift in climate change policy development to include adaptation to climate change impacts in addition to continued mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To this end the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has ...
... intra-generational equity. There has also been a marked shift in climate change policy development to include adaptation to climate change impacts in addition to continued mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To this end the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has ...
Transient Earth system responses to cumulative
... There is an apparent discrepancy between the TCR estimated with the most recent set of Earth system models (ESMs) versus some recent studies that invoke observational constraints (Otto et al., 2013) and simplified models (Schwartz, 2012; Collins et al., 2013). These latter studies suggest the possib ...
... There is an apparent discrepancy between the TCR estimated with the most recent set of Earth system models (ESMs) versus some recent studies that invoke observational constraints (Otto et al., 2013) and simplified models (Schwartz, 2012; Collins et al., 2013). These latter studies suggest the possib ...
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... Kyoto protocol, progresses in the fight against climate change are scarcely spectacular. Indeed, according the fifth report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5) 1, GHG’s emissions quickly grew further between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades. Without additi ...
... Kyoto protocol, progresses in the fight against climate change are scarcely spectacular. Indeed, according the fifth report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5) 1, GHG’s emissions quickly grew further between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades. Without additi ...
The Land that Never Melts is Melting Satoaleapai Village
... bridge over the Weasel River in Auyuittuq National Park was washed away due to a flash flood caused by the high temperatures, rain and lots of snow. The conditions were so bad that tourists had to be rescued from the park by helicopter. Melting glaciers will mean higher sea levels in all parts of the ...
... bridge over the Weasel River in Auyuittuq National Park was washed away due to a flash flood caused by the high temperatures, rain and lots of snow. The conditions were so bad that tourists had to be rescued from the park by helicopter. Melting glaciers will mean higher sea levels in all parts of the ...
What is the Climate System and How are we Altering It?
... forcing, while each vertical line is an estimate of the uncertainty range associated with the forcing guided by the spread in the published record and physical understanding, and with no statistical connotation. Each forcing agent is associated with a level of scientific understanding, which is base ...
... forcing, while each vertical line is an estimate of the uncertainty range associated with the forcing guided by the spread in the published record and physical understanding, and with no statistical connotation. Each forcing agent is associated with a level of scientific understanding, which is base ...
4 Climate change impacts in a context of full
... Against this background, the assessments performed with CGE models tend to fall somewhat in the lower end of cost estimates. For instance according to Ciscar et al. 2009 the highest welfare loss in the EU for a quite high 5.4°C increase in temperature is 1.25% experienced by the Southern EU region; ...
... Against this background, the assessments performed with CGE models tend to fall somewhat in the lower end of cost estimates. For instance according to Ciscar et al. 2009 the highest welfare loss in the EU for a quite high 5.4°C increase in temperature is 1.25% experienced by the Southern EU region; ...
Climate Justice Action Kit for Secondary Schools
... Credit: Most of the information on this page is taken from two tables in ‘Tackling climate change and promoting sustainable development: An action plan for Australia’s international engagement’. Australian Council for International Development, July 2015. Some additional information has been added. ...
... Credit: Most of the information on this page is taken from two tables in ‘Tackling climate change and promoting sustainable development: An action plan for Australia’s international engagement’. Australian Council for International Development, July 2015. Some additional information has been added. ...
Impact of climate change on tropospheric ozone
... We use observed monthly mean sea surface temperature and sea ice climatology compiled at the Hadley centre (GISST 2.0) to drive the present-day climate. The future climate is driven by SSTs produced by the Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM (HadCM3) run with IS92a emissions for the year 2090 ...
... We use observed monthly mean sea surface temperature and sea ice climatology compiled at the Hadley centre (GISST 2.0) to drive the present-day climate. The future climate is driven by SSTs produced by the Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM (HadCM3) run with IS92a emissions for the year 2090 ...
Aysha Fleming, Frank Vanclay
... adversely affected regions from future changes in climate in terms of reductions in agricultural production and exports’ (ABARE 2007, p. 657). Agriculture is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions – in Australia in 2005, 17% of greenhouse gas emissions came from agriculture (Garnaut 2008 ...
... adversely affected regions from future changes in climate in terms of reductions in agricultural production and exports’ (ABARE 2007, p. 657). Agriculture is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions – in Australia in 2005, 17% of greenhouse gas emissions came from agriculture (Garnaut 2008 ...
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... vulnerability to climate change, one may wonder whether stimulating economic growth or emission abatement is the better way to reduce impacts. Indeed, Tol and Dowlatabadi (2001) and Tol and Yohe (2006) argue that the economic growth foregone by stringent abatement more than offsets the avoided impac ...
... vulnerability to climate change, one may wonder whether stimulating economic growth or emission abatement is the better way to reduce impacts. Indeed, Tol and Dowlatabadi (2001) and Tol and Yohe (2006) argue that the economic growth foregone by stringent abatement more than offsets the avoided impac ...
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... admitted - 13 years after his father, who signed and got ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC) - that the scientific basis of climate change was sound and that it is time for some action. Besides downplaying scientific assessments during five years on grounds of ...
... admitted - 13 years after his father, who signed and got ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC) - that the scientific basis of climate change was sound and that it is time for some action. Besides downplaying scientific assessments during five years on grounds of ...
Assessing global biome exposure to climate change through the
... that boreal forest, tundra and vegetation of the Equatorial Andes could be at greatest risk, since these regions will be exposed to future climates that are well outside natural climate variation during the Holocene. ...
... that boreal forest, tundra and vegetation of the Equatorial Andes could be at greatest risk, since these regions will be exposed to future climates that are well outside natural climate variation during the Holocene. ...
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... Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol’ was adopted. The amendment includes new commitments for Annex I Parties to the Kyoto Protocol who agreed to take on commitments in a second commitment period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December ...
... Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol’ was adopted. The amendment includes new commitments for Annex I Parties to the Kyoto Protocol who agreed to take on commitments in a second commitment period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December ...
Interactions of the carbon cycle, human activity, and the climate system
... research areas, with an emphasis on those with the greatest need for an interdisciplinary, global scientific effort. We structured the paper in four sections. The first three sections cover the main research domains consistent with the goals of the broader research agenda described above: diagnostic ...
... research areas, with an emphasis on those with the greatest need for an interdisciplinary, global scientific effort. We structured the paper in four sections. The first three sections cover the main research domains consistent with the goals of the broader research agenda described above: diagnostic ...
2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December. The conference included the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 5th Meeting of the Parties (MOP 5) to the Kyoto Protocol. According to the Bali Road Map, a framework for climate change mitigation beyond 2012 was to be agreed there.On Friday 18 December, the final day of the conference, international media reported that the climate talks were ""in disarray"". Media also reported that in lieu of a summit collapse, only a ""weak political statement"" was anticipated at the conclusion of the conference. The Copenhagen Accord was drafted by the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa on 18 December, and judged a ""meaningful agreement"" by the United States government. It was ""taken note of"", but not ""adopted"", in a debate of all the participating countries the next day, and it was not passed unanimously. The document recognised that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the present day and that actions should be taken to keep any temperature increases to below 2 °C. The document is not legally binding and does not contain any legally binding commitments for reducing CO2 emissions.In January 2014, documents leaked by Edward Snowden and published by Dagbladet Information revealed that the US government negotiators were in receipt of information during the conference that was being obtained by spying against other conference delegations. The US National Security Agency provided US delegates with advance details other delegations' positions, including the Danish plan to ""rescue"" the talks should they flounder. Members of the Danish negotiating team said that both the US and Chinese delegations were ""peculiarly well-informed"" about closed-door discussions: ""They simply sat back, just as we had feared they would if they knew about our document.""