Impacts of Climate Change
... offers policymakers an alternative approach to thinking about climate change and its impacts. Instead of starting with climate change and working out toward impacts, we focus on systems that are already generally vulnerable first, and then consider what the geophysics of climate change may do to the ...
... offers policymakers an alternative approach to thinking about climate change and its impacts. Instead of starting with climate change and working out toward impacts, we focus on systems that are already generally vulnerable first, and then consider what the geophysics of climate change may do to the ...
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... Actual land cover changes in the past occurred preferentially in places more suitable for agriculture, i.e., lands with higher carbon turnover (productivity) and lower relative annual snow cover Region-specificity important! ...
... Actual land cover changes in the past occurred preferentially in places more suitable for agriculture, i.e., lands with higher carbon turnover (productivity) and lower relative annual snow cover Region-specificity important! ...
Working Paper 165 - Dechezlepretre et al 2015 (opens in new window)
... With the implementation of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and a range of other policies, mostly supporting the deployment of renewable energy technologies, the EU is widely perceived as the vanguard of climate change policy globally. However, this unilateral set of policies has ...
... With the implementation of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and a range of other policies, mostly supporting the deployment of renewable energy technologies, the EU is widely perceived as the vanguard of climate change policy globally. However, this unilateral set of policies has ...
The History of Late 20th and early 21st Century
... intensity, while average summer temperatures have risen. Another area where the impact of climate change has been clearly observed is in northern Israel at Lake Kinneret, the country’s major freshwater reservoir. Research shows that there has been a distinct decline in the average winter flow in the ...
... intensity, while average summer temperatures have risen. Another area where the impact of climate change has been clearly observed is in northern Israel at Lake Kinneret, the country’s major freshwater reservoir. Research shows that there has been a distinct decline in the average winter flow in the ...
presentation - Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative
... over 20 federal organizations – In recognition that impacts vary across department, as well as their knowledge of the subject and capacity to respond ...
... over 20 federal organizations – In recognition that impacts vary across department, as well as their knowledge of the subject and capacity to respond ...
Climate change
... climate change as soon as possible. This will help them deal not only with the immediate challenges facing us, but the longer term ones. It will, for example, assist them in making career choices, for some businesses will expand greatly while others will decline. It will also assist them with consum ...
... climate change as soon as possible. This will help them deal not only with the immediate challenges facing us, but the longer term ones. It will, for example, assist them in making career choices, for some businesses will expand greatly while others will decline. It will also assist them with consum ...
Clexit members
... mountain-top. Tea Party rallies at which he spoke in Washington DC and in North Houston attracted 40,000 and 15,000 respectively. His article on climate science in the Sunday Telegraph on 5 November 2006 attracted 127,000 hits in two hours, crashing the paper’s website. His speeches at the St. Andre ...
... mountain-top. Tea Party rallies at which he spoke in Washington DC and in North Houston attracted 40,000 and 15,000 respectively. His article on climate science in the Sunday Telegraph on 5 November 2006 attracted 127,000 hits in two hours, crashing the paper’s website. His speeches at the St. Andre ...
... Due to the long time horizon anticipated for climate change, Jamaica should start implementing adaptation strategies focused on the health sector by promoting an enabling environment, strengthening communities, strengthening the monitoring, surveillance and response systems and integrating adaptatio ...
Costing Climate Change Adaptation: A Review of Estimates and Approaches
... climate change will aggravate the devastating impacts of disasters. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, partial estimates of the economic impact of a temperature increase of 2.5°C (a mid-range value associated with a doubling of the atmospheric concentration of CO2), without ...
... climate change will aggravate the devastating impacts of disasters. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, partial estimates of the economic impact of a temperature increase of 2.5°C (a mid-range value associated with a doubling of the atmospheric concentration of CO2), without ...
Top-down vs bottom-up - working paper version
... politically feasible is often viewed as the holy grail of climate policy.2 Agreement on how countries will share the collective effort of reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is vital to ensuring the climate regime’s consistency-integrity; that is, the extent to which the actions of partie ...
... politically feasible is often viewed as the holy grail of climate policy.2 Agreement on how countries will share the collective effort of reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is vital to ensuring the climate regime’s consistency-integrity; that is, the extent to which the actions of partie ...
Case Study Presentation - Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and
... • Stormwater management is a shared responsibility... all orders of government can be sued for negligence for operational decisions. • Each order of government has a strong incentive to consider its existing procedures and systems in light of new information, including climate change guidance. • The ...
... • Stormwater management is a shared responsibility... all orders of government can be sued for negligence for operational decisions. • Each order of government has a strong incentive to consider its existing procedures and systems in light of new information, including climate change guidance. • The ...
The Impact of CO2 Emissions on Agricultural Productivity and
... the pillar of increasing agricultural productivity and farmers’ welfare while reducing GHG emissions. Therefore, investigating the impact of GHG emissions on agricultural performance and household welfare is crucially important to support decision makers. First, it gives an insight into the signific ...
... the pillar of increasing agricultural productivity and farmers’ welfare while reducing GHG emissions. Therefore, investigating the impact of GHG emissions on agricultural performance and household welfare is crucially important to support decision makers. First, it gives an insight into the signific ...
SUBSTITUTION OF NATURAL GAS FOR COAL: CLIMATIC
... 3.1. CO2 EMISSIONS FROM COAL AND GAS COMBUSTION Emission factors from a number of sources have been compiled to assess the relative climatic effect of a shift in electricity generation from coal to natural gas (Table I). Fuel substitution in the electric power sector has the potential for significan ...
... 3.1. CO2 EMISSIONS FROM COAL AND GAS COMBUSTION Emission factors from a number of sources have been compiled to assess the relative climatic effect of a shift in electricity generation from coal to natural gas (Table I). Fuel substitution in the electric power sector has the potential for significan ...
The geopolitics of climate change
... While geographers have been looking to the small scale to understand how genetics and biological sciences in particular can be understood in terms of hybrids and new assemblages of life (Braun, 2007), as a discipline we have been slow to recognize that the biosphere itself is now, in Latour’s terms, ...
... While geographers have been looking to the small scale to understand how genetics and biological sciences in particular can be understood in terms of hybrids and new assemblages of life (Braun, 2007), as a discipline we have been slow to recognize that the biosphere itself is now, in Latour’s terms, ...
FOR GOD`S SAKE, DO SOMETHING!
... vicegerent (khalīfa) on earth, with human beings as his servants (ibād), acting as custodians or guardians of the entire natural world.23 This may be the clearest meeting ground for Christianity, Islam and Judaism, for the idea of being a custodian closely resembles the Christian and Jewish concept ...
... vicegerent (khalīfa) on earth, with human beings as his servants (ibād), acting as custodians or guardians of the entire natural world.23 This may be the clearest meeting ground for Christianity, Islam and Judaism, for the idea of being a custodian closely resembles the Christian and Jewish concept ...
Mapping Greenhouse Gas Emissions Where You Live
... Explain that people can learn about the amount and types of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere by using EPA’s Facility Level Information on GreenHouse gases Tool (FLIGHT tool)(http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do). Explain that the tool is an online database of greenhouse gas emission ...
... Explain that people can learn about the amount and types of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere by using EPA’s Facility Level Information on GreenHouse gases Tool (FLIGHT tool)(http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do). Explain that the tool is an online database of greenhouse gas emission ...
A climate change perspective
... The climate change has multidimensional impacts on environment, fishery, social, economic and development drivers. The perception level of the primary stakeholders leads to their proactive participation in disaster management plans. The present paper assessed the vulnerability of 318 fisher househol ...
... The climate change has multidimensional impacts on environment, fishery, social, economic and development drivers. The perception level of the primary stakeholders leads to their proactive participation in disaster management plans. The present paper assessed the vulnerability of 318 fisher househol ...
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... The IPCC (2014) chapter 17 reviews the few available estimates of global costs and indicates that, for agriculture, they range from $7-8 billion U.S. Dollars (USD) per year with much of the cost in low income countries. On the other hand, global estimates of the expenditures in 2011 are estimated at ...
... The IPCC (2014) chapter 17 reviews the few available estimates of global costs and indicates that, for agriculture, they range from $7-8 billion U.S. Dollars (USD) per year with much of the cost in low income countries. On the other hand, global estimates of the expenditures in 2011 are estimated at ...
Climate Change in Cyprus: Impacts and Adaptation Policies 1
... adaptation strategy. Coping with climate change is possible, provided that proactive actions are taken by both the public and the private sector. Public authorities need to set clear priorities and implement well designed policies. Most importantly, adequate monitoring mechanisms should be set up in ...
... adaptation strategy. Coping with climate change is possible, provided that proactive actions are taken by both the public and the private sector. Public authorities need to set clear priorities and implement well designed policies. Most importantly, adequate monitoring mechanisms should be set up in ...
A Just Climate: Our Responsibility To Act
... that effective development is founded in our duty to be good stewards of the earth’s resources, in our commitment to the common good, and in our determination to protect human dignity in the most vulnerable communities with which we work in partnership. The Catholic Church more broadly has a long hi ...
... that effective development is founded in our duty to be good stewards of the earth’s resources, in our commitment to the common good, and in our determination to protect human dignity in the most vulnerable communities with which we work in partnership. The Catholic Church more broadly has a long hi ...
Climate change and the human right to health
... geographic range for many diseases. This is projected to result in 48,000 additional deaths for children under 15 years from diarrhoea and 60,000 from malaria by 2030. Diminished well-being 6. Toll on mental health: People who experience loss of homes or loved ones or exposure to lifethreatening con ...
... geographic range for many diseases. This is projected to result in 48,000 additional deaths for children under 15 years from diarrhoea and 60,000 from malaria by 2030. Diminished well-being 6. Toll on mental health: People who experience loss of homes or loved ones or exposure to lifethreatening con ...
Climate change and the human right to health
... geographic range for many diseases. This is projected to result in 48,000 additional deaths for children under 15 years from diarrhoea and 60,000 from malaria by 2030. Diminished well-being 6. Toll on mental health: People who experience loss of homes or loved ones or exposure to lifethreatening con ...
... geographic range for many diseases. This is projected to result in 48,000 additional deaths for children under 15 years from diarrhoea and 60,000 from malaria by 2030. Diminished well-being 6. Toll on mental health: People who experience loss of homes or loved ones or exposure to lifethreatening con ...
population dynamics and climate change - 12
... In its initial national communication to the UNFCCC in 1998, with a base year of 1994, Zimbabwe was a net sink, with emissions of 17,088.48 Giga grammas (Gg) mainly from fuel combustion and industrial processes, while land use change and forestry absorbed -62, 269 Gg. Thus the net carbon dioxide abs ...
... In its initial national communication to the UNFCCC in 1998, with a base year of 1994, Zimbabwe was a net sink, with emissions of 17,088.48 Giga grammas (Gg) mainly from fuel combustion and industrial processes, while land use change and forestry absorbed -62, 269 Gg. Thus the net carbon dioxide abs ...
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.""