Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change
... 84% of respondents believed climate change posed “significant risks to important sectors of the United States’ and global economies,” and the experts believed that agriculture was the domestic sector most likely to be negatively affected by climate change (86% of respondents predicted a negative eff ...
... 84% of respondents believed climate change posed “significant risks to important sectors of the United States’ and global economies,” and the experts believed that agriculture was the domestic sector most likely to be negatively affected by climate change (86% of respondents predicted a negative eff ...
Climate change and extreme weather events
... Vinnikov et al. show that the Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent has decreased during the past 46 years. The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) model and the Hadley Centre model, both forced with greenhouse gases and tropospheric sulfate aerosols, simulate the observed trend in sea ice ex ...
... Vinnikov et al. show that the Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent has decreased during the past 46 years. The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) model and the Hadley Centre model, both forced with greenhouse gases and tropospheric sulfate aerosols, simulate the observed trend in sea ice ex ...
NRDC: Killer Summer Heat - Projected Death Toll from Rising
... the coming decades. In doing so, the authors made several choices that are key to understanding the results presented later in this brief. First, they used a sophisticated climate model from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to develop two scenarios of future temperatures. One scenario as ...
... the coming decades. In doing so, the authors made several choices that are key to understanding the results presented later in this brief. First, they used a sophisticated climate model from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to develop two scenarios of future temperatures. One scenario as ...
Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change
... to actors of not engaging in activities that contribute to global climate change. Those who engage in a policy of mitigation bear an opportunity cost: they forego benefits that they could have had if they had engaged in activities which involve the emission of high levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs). ...
... to actors of not engaging in activities that contribute to global climate change. Those who engage in a policy of mitigation bear an opportunity cost: they forego benefits that they could have had if they had engaged in activities which involve the emission of high levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs). ...
Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding Harm and Sharing Burdens
... increase in global mean temperatures in the period between 1980–1999 and 2080–2099 ranged from 1.8°C (B1 scenario) and 4.0°C (A1F1 scenario). If we consider the ‘likely range’ of temperature increases in this period, we see that the figures range from between a 1.1°C increase (B1) and 6.4°C increase ...
... increase in global mean temperatures in the period between 1980–1999 and 2080–2099 ranged from 1.8°C (B1 scenario) and 4.0°C (A1F1 scenario). If we consider the ‘likely range’ of temperature increases in this period, we see that the figures range from between a 1.1°C increase (B1) and 6.4°C increase ...
Letters to the editor (7/19/10)
... of My Grandchildren, Hansen writes, "I did not want my grandchildren, someday in the future, to look back and say, '[Grandpa] understood what was happening, but he did not make it clear.' " Hansen is doing everything in his power to be clear about climate change and what needs to be done. At an Eart ...
... of My Grandchildren, Hansen writes, "I did not want my grandchildren, someday in the future, to look back and say, '[Grandpa] understood what was happening, but he did not make it clear.' " Hansen is doing everything in his power to be clear about climate change and what needs to be done. At an Eart ...
Review of Climate Change Adaptation Plan and Policies in Nepal
... The GEF was established by the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1991 to fund projects in developing countries that provide global environmental benefits3. The Parties to the Convention decided the Global Environment Fa ...
... The GEF was established by the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1991 to fund projects in developing countries that provide global environmental benefits3. The Parties to the Convention decided the Global Environment Fa ...
Word - UNEP
... With the continued drive towards urbanization, climate change is perceived not only as a threat, but also as an opportunity for promoting green technologies and more compact approaches to urban growth. The future of hundreds of millions of people will be determined by the pace of mitigation and adap ...
... With the continued drive towards urbanization, climate change is perceived not only as a threat, but also as an opportunity for promoting green technologies and more compact approaches to urban growth. The future of hundreds of millions of people will be determined by the pace of mitigation and adap ...
Poverty and climate change: Natural disasters, agricultural
... Climate change will impact agricultural and land productivity, especially for major crops (wheat, rice and maize) in tropical and temperate regions, with higher emissions pathways worsening the impacts (Porter et al. 2014). Under the most optimistic climate scenario – and with CO2 fertilization (an ...
... Climate change will impact agricultural and land productivity, especially for major crops (wheat, rice and maize) in tropical and temperate regions, with higher emissions pathways worsening the impacts (Porter et al. 2014). Under the most optimistic climate scenario – and with CO2 fertilization (an ...
The economic impact of climate change
... The fourth insight is that relative impacts are higher in poorer countries (see also Yohe and Schlesinger, 2002). 6 This is because poorer countries are less able to adapt to climate change (Adger, 2006; Alberini et al., 2006; Smit and Wandel, 2006; Yohe and Tol, 2002), particularly in health (Tol, ...
... The fourth insight is that relative impacts are higher in poorer countries (see also Yohe and Schlesinger, 2002). 6 This is because poorer countries are less able to adapt to climate change (Adger, 2006; Alberini et al., 2006; Smit and Wandel, 2006; Yohe and Tol, 2002), particularly in health (Tol, ...
Climate Balloons - Development and Peace
... We often use disposable items without thinking of the climate impact of their production, transportation and disposal. Canadians produce more garbage per capita than any other nation, averaging 729 kg per person in 2010. • Add a balloon if your breakfast or lunch created garbage today. ...
... We often use disposable items without thinking of the climate impact of their production, transportation and disposal. Canadians produce more garbage per capita than any other nation, averaging 729 kg per person in 2010. • Add a balloon if your breakfast or lunch created garbage today. ...
Adaptation
... availability to anticipate/cope with adverse consequences including those from climate change. Or, the more you care about climate impacts (“environment “as a luxury good) Extending: Development is the best way to address climate change impacts “Shelling Conjecture” (Shelling, 1992) This may hold ...
... availability to anticipate/cope with adverse consequences including those from climate change. Or, the more you care about climate impacts (“environment “as a luxury good) Extending: Development is the best way to address climate change impacts “Shelling Conjecture” (Shelling, 1992) This may hold ...
Lead–lag relationships between global mean temperature and the
... In this sections, we report the simulations with the Earth system model of intermediate complexity developed at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS CM). Its description and performance IAP RAS CM are discussed in Petoukhov et al. (1998), Mokhov et ...
... In this sections, we report the simulations with the Earth system model of intermediate complexity developed at the A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS CM). Its description and performance IAP RAS CM are discussed in Petoukhov et al. (1998), Mokhov et ...
Climate - Discovery Education
... Sealls, an award-winning meteorologist who has worked for WGN-TV, and CNN. Each program is supported by exercises, quizzes, Internet references, and hands-on experiments to make the weather come alive to students. The series is an entire "course" in the wonders of weather while each program stands a ...
... Sealls, an award-winning meteorologist who has worked for WGN-TV, and CNN. Each program is supported by exercises, quizzes, Internet references, and hands-on experiments to make the weather come alive to students. The series is an entire "course" in the wonders of weather while each program stands a ...
UNDP`s role in promoting democratic governance
... Welcome to the simulation of UNDP at DAVMUN 2012. We hope that by now your research is well on its way and you have gained a fair idea about the agenda at hand. Kindly go through this study guide and make note of the pointer questions and research links provided as they shall be of utmost importance ...
... Welcome to the simulation of UNDP at DAVMUN 2012. We hope that by now your research is well on its way and you have gained a fair idea about the agenda at hand. Kindly go through this study guide and make note of the pointer questions and research links provided as they shall be of utmost importance ...
Deepa Badrinarayana - Three Degrees Warmer
... LITTLE GREEN DATA BOOK 7 (2007). While at the recent meeting of the Conference of Parties at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen all three countries made some commitments that they “noted”: China and India only agreed to reduce their carbon intensity, and not their ...
... LITTLE GREEN DATA BOOK 7 (2007). While at the recent meeting of the Conference of Parties at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen all three countries made some commitments that they “noted”: China and India only agreed to reduce their carbon intensity, and not their ...
A set of logical steps in order to make an assessment of
... outputs even for the same climate data as input if you specify different crops, varieties, soils and management conditions. An impact model may have many different forms, depending on the assessment it is intended to do. But in our case, its outcome necessarily should depend explicitly on one or var ...
... outputs even for the same climate data as input if you specify different crops, varieties, soils and management conditions. An impact model may have many different forms, depending on the assessment it is intended to do. But in our case, its outcome necessarily should depend explicitly on one or var ...
Submitted to a confernce in Forli
... I have been teaching and participating as a juror at the graduation exams of several schools in Europe and the Americas more or less regularly for the last fifteen years, practising the profession for nearly thirty, and “watching over” it for the last ten as Chief Interpreter with the United Nations ...
... I have been teaching and participating as a juror at the graduation exams of several schools in Europe and the Americas more or less regularly for the last fifteen years, practising the profession for nearly thirty, and “watching over” it for the last ten as Chief Interpreter with the United Nations ...
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... 3. Climate Change Policy Comes to California Climate change first surfaced as a policy issue in California in 1988, when the legislature passed AB 4420, introduced by Assemblyman Byron Sher. This called for the compilation of an inventory of GHG emissions fro ...
... 3. Climate Change Policy Comes to California Climate change first surfaced as a policy issue in California in 1988, when the legislature passed AB 4420, introduced by Assemblyman Byron Sher. This called for the compilation of an inventory of GHG emissions fro ...
Climate and carbon dioxide - World Rainforest Movement
... prevent those of Southern countries from rising above a certain level– are fairly well-known. Many techniques of energy conservation and energy efficiency, together with solar and other renewable energy technologies, are either already available or could be developed with the same sort of investment ...
... prevent those of Southern countries from rising above a certain level– are fairly well-known. Many techniques of energy conservation and energy efficiency, together with solar and other renewable energy technologies, are either already available or could be developed with the same sort of investment ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... Research Volume Title: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and...
... argue that an additive form, in which welfare is the difference between the utility of consumption and a quadratic disutility- loss function of temperature change, may make just as much sense for evaluating extreme climate damages. The distinction between multiplicative and additive welfare specifica ...
... argue that an additive form, in which welfare is the difference between the utility of consumption and a quadratic disutility- loss function of temperature change, may make just as much sense for evaluating extreme climate damages. The distinction between multiplicative and additive welfare specifica ...
Download country chapter
... funded predominantly by the Kansai Electric Power Company from Japan, and which aimed to provide a small-scale model of solar power that could be scaled up to meet the entire country’s electricity needs. The government has recently entered into agreements with the United Arab Emirates, the European ...
... funded predominantly by the Kansai Electric Power Company from Japan, and which aimed to provide a small-scale model of solar power that could be scaled up to meet the entire country’s electricity needs. The government has recently entered into agreements with the United Arab Emirates, the European ...
2015-02-05-Zero-Carbon-Zero-Poverty-the-Climate-Justice-Way
... • Formalise the protection and integration of human rights into climate action by establishing a Subsidiary Body, process or work programme under the UNFCCC mandated to inform and assess COP decisions with respect to human rights considerations, in cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council. FAI ...
... • Formalise the protection and integration of human rights into climate action by establishing a Subsidiary Body, process or work programme under the UNFCCC mandated to inform and assess COP decisions with respect to human rights considerations, in cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council. FAI ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... incorporate the SCC, a clear distinction should be made between domestic costs/benefits and foreign cost/benefits—and numerical calculations of each provided in all cost/benefits analyses included in the proposal (to be included in the main body of the proposal). In this way, the public can readily ...
... incorporate the SCC, a clear distinction should be made between domestic costs/benefits and foreign cost/benefits—and numerical calculations of each provided in all cost/benefits analyses included in the proposal (to be included in the main body of the proposal). In this way, the public can readily ...
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.""