“It won`t be any good to have democracy if we don`t have a country
... new administration aspired. To discern the significance of the Maldives’ global environmental project for its internal politics, this study analyzes the Nasheed administration’s rhetoric, and ethnographic testimony from activists affiliated with Bluepeace—the country’s oldest environmental NGO, policy ...
... new administration aspired. To discern the significance of the Maldives’ global environmental project for its internal politics, this study analyzes the Nasheed administration’s rhetoric, and ethnographic testimony from activists affiliated with Bluepeace—the country’s oldest environmental NGO, policy ...
wrecking climate change targets.
... energy saving bulbs. Less attention is given to flying. Aviation has been excluded from all government CO2 targets, and is not included in the Climate Change Bill. The growth in aircraft emissions is threatening to cancel any success achieved elsewhere. Aircraft are the fastest rising source of CO2 ...
... energy saving bulbs. Less attention is given to flying. Aviation has been excluded from all government CO2 targets, and is not included in the Climate Change Bill. The growth in aircraft emissions is threatening to cancel any success achieved elsewhere. Aircraft are the fastest rising source of CO2 ...
Your opinion on climate change might not be as common as you think
... well-established phenomena in psychology about how people perceive the prevalence of opinions, including the false consensus effect1 (a tendency to overestimate how common one’s ‘own’ opinion is) and pluralistic ignorance2 (where most people privately reject an opinion, but assume incorrectly that m ...
... well-established phenomena in psychology about how people perceive the prevalence of opinions, including the false consensus effect1 (a tendency to overestimate how common one’s ‘own’ opinion is) and pluralistic ignorance2 (where most people privately reject an opinion, but assume incorrectly that m ...
The United Kingdom (UK) Climate Policy
... approach is a command-and-control regulatory approach for a limited number of highemitting sectors, which the government intends to rely on to meet its emissions target under the Copenhagen Accord (17% below 2005 levels by 2020). Though there is some significant action at the provincial and municipa ...
... approach is a command-and-control regulatory approach for a limited number of highemitting sectors, which the government intends to rely on to meet its emissions target under the Copenhagen Accord (17% below 2005 levels by 2020). Though there is some significant action at the provincial and municipa ...
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... home country markets and increase competition between imported and domestic goods, thus further lowering the compliance costs. By increasing the dissemination of climatefriendly goods and technologies at a lower cost, trade liberalization will make it less difficult to set stringent GHG emission tar ...
... home country markets and increase competition between imported and domestic goods, thus further lowering the compliance costs. By increasing the dissemination of climatefriendly goods and technologies at a lower cost, trade liberalization will make it less difficult to set stringent GHG emission tar ...
NotesWed
... 2. Yale Project on Climate Change, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States. One of the first rules of effective communication is to “know thy audience.” People have different psychological, cultural and political reasons for acting – or not acting ...
... 2. Yale Project on Climate Change, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States. One of the first rules of effective communication is to “know thy audience.” People have different psychological, cultural and political reasons for acting – or not acting ...
Global Warming: Scientific Basis and Christian Responses
... Is climate changing and, if so, on what time scale? Earth scientists (a term which refers collectively to scientists interested in atmospheric sciences, oceanography, polar processes, geosciences, and Earth climate history) deal with a very broad range of time scales. This range separates into three ...
... Is climate changing and, if so, on what time scale? Earth scientists (a term which refers collectively to scientists interested in atmospheric sciences, oceanography, polar processes, geosciences, and Earth climate history) deal with a very broad range of time scales. This range separates into three ...
This business of climate change - The University of the West Indies
... Sustaining the Caribbean Tourism Industry Two challenges to sustainable development of the regional tourism industry: Maintaining tourism industry within the region’s ecological and socio-cultural carrying capacity; Anticipate and adapt to climate change impacts. (reduced emissions and energy consu ...
... Sustaining the Caribbean Tourism Industry Two challenges to sustainable development of the regional tourism industry: Maintaining tourism industry within the region’s ecological and socio-cultural carrying capacity; Anticipate and adapt to climate change impacts. (reduced emissions and energy consu ...
OVERVIEW:
... B–Water supply: Water supply in the NRB is being affected by a large number of factors including decreasing snowfall, increasing total winter precipitation (i.e., more winter rain), decreasing soil moisture, forest pests outbreaks and warming temperatures. These have led to a change in the annual d ...
... B–Water supply: Water supply in the NRB is being affected by a large number of factors including decreasing snowfall, increasing total winter precipitation (i.e., more winter rain), decreasing soil moisture, forest pests outbreaks and warming temperatures. These have led to a change in the annual d ...
The Effects of Climate Change on Public Health and the Healthcare
... fires, the warming seen today cannot be explained by natural processes alone (EPA, 2011). “In the pre-industrial age, from AD 1000 to 1750, carbon dioxide levels increased from 275 to 285 parts per million, but over the next 250 years, up to 2005, they rose from 285 to 379 parts per million, primari ...
... fires, the warming seen today cannot be explained by natural processes alone (EPA, 2011). “In the pre-industrial age, from AD 1000 to 1750, carbon dioxide levels increased from 275 to 285 parts per million, but over the next 250 years, up to 2005, they rose from 285 to 379 parts per million, primari ...
Global Warming: Pollution: Greenhouse Gases
... Feb 2010..
Pentland, William. "World’s Top Emitters of Greenhouse Gases ." (2009):
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... Feb 2010.
An Uncertain Future: law enforcement, national security and climate
... In April 2007, the UN Security Council held its first ever debate on the impact of climate change on international peace and security. 1 That this was the first time the Council had debated the issue shows just how recently political attention has begun to focus on the potential links between climat ...
... In April 2007, the UN Security Council held its first ever debate on the impact of climate change on international peace and security. 1 That this was the first time the Council had debated the issue shows just how recently political attention has begun to focus on the potential links between climat ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... There is no justification for this discussion to include reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the benefit of reducing future global warming. In order to do so, you must include citations, if any exist (which we doubt), which conclude that energy efficiency measures would preferentially reduce green ...
... There is no justification for this discussion to include reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the benefit of reducing future global warming. In order to do so, you must include citations, if any exist (which we doubt), which conclude that energy efficiency measures would preferentially reduce green ...
IGCC-AIGCC Response to TCFD Public Consultation
... greatly!amongst!organisations.!The!recommendations!could!also!propose!what!likely!short,! medium!and!longGterm!horizons!should!be!for!each!sector.!!These!could!be!developed!in! detail!by!sectorGspecific!experts!as!part!of,!or!under!the!umbrella,!of!the!Task!Force!or!an! equivalent!body.! ...
... greatly!amongst!organisations.!The!recommendations!could!also!propose!what!likely!short,! medium!and!longGterm!horizons!should!be!for!each!sector.!!These!could!be!developed!in! detail!by!sectorGspecific!experts!as!part!of,!or!under!the!umbrella,!of!the!Task!Force!or!an! equivalent!body.! ...
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... There are a number of cost-benefit models that calculate the so-called ‗social cost of carbon‘, which generally refers to the expected present value damage of a (metric) tonne of CO2 emissions along a particular path (e.g. business-as-usual). Examples include Nordhaus and Boyer (1999), Cline (1992), ...
... There are a number of cost-benefit models that calculate the so-called ‗social cost of carbon‘, which generally refers to the expected present value damage of a (metric) tonne of CO2 emissions along a particular path (e.g. business-as-usual). Examples include Nordhaus and Boyer (1999), Cline (1992), ...
Arctic Climate Issues 2014: Short-Lived Climate
... carbon and ozone precursors in Arctic countries since 2000. The technology exists to further reduce SLCP emissions, some of which would reduce emissions of other pollutants, including carbon dioxide, as well. Projections of future emissions compare scenarios based on current legislation with those b ...
... carbon and ozone precursors in Arctic countries since 2000. The technology exists to further reduce SLCP emissions, some of which would reduce emissions of other pollutants, including carbon dioxide, as well. Projections of future emissions compare scenarios based on current legislation with those b ...
Aghion_et_al_policy_paper_Nov2014 (opens in new window)
... Delaying policy intervention in the DICE model thus increases short-run production and therefore short-run consumption, but at the cost of environmental degradation in the future. Future environmental degradation leads to a need to spend on abatement and adaptation in future, which reduces future c ...
... Delaying policy intervention in the DICE model thus increases short-run production and therefore short-run consumption, but at the cost of environmental degradation in the future. Future environmental degradation leads to a need to spend on abatement and adaptation in future, which reduces future c ...
Adaptation to climate change in the developing world
... significant international scientific effort funded by governments through the UN, known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (see Jäger et al., 2001). In Marrakech in Morocco in November 2001, at the Seventh Conference of the Parties, delegates focused their minds on both adaptati ...
... significant international scientific effort funded by governments through the UN, known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (see Jäger et al., 2001). In Marrakech in Morocco in November 2001, at the Seventh Conference of the Parties, delegates focused their minds on both adaptati ...
Chapter 6 - UCLA: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
... The atmospheric temperature is considerably colder: Ta = 249.7 K = -23.5 C Compare to no atm case (same albedo) sTs4 = 235 Ts = -19 C • versus obs avg sfc temp = 15C: a 34 C difference (i.e., greenhouse effect powerful in current climate) ...
... The atmospheric temperature is considerably colder: Ta = 249.7 K = -23.5 C Compare to no atm case (same albedo) sTs4 = 235 Ts = -19 C • versus obs avg sfc temp = 15C: a 34 C difference (i.e., greenhouse effect powerful in current climate) ...
STRATEGIES FOR A HOLISTIC RESPONSE TO OZONE
... these policies lies on the attempt to reduce the emissions of, inter alia, HFCs and PFCs, used as ODSs substitutes,15 without affecting the achievement of Montreal Protocol’s goals. This would be in accordance with decision 17/CP.5 entitled “Relationship between efforts to protect the stratospheric ...
... these policies lies on the attempt to reduce the emissions of, inter alia, HFCs and PFCs, used as ODSs substitutes,15 without affecting the achievement of Montreal Protocol’s goals. This would be in accordance with decision 17/CP.5 entitled “Relationship between efforts to protect the stratospheric ...
Global climate change and the Antarctic Treaty system since 2000.
... Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom as well as SCAR. This aspect will be returned to in greater detail shortly. A second key trend is the increased role played by of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the ATCMs and the subsequent politicisation of the meetings. The An ...
... Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom as well as SCAR. This aspect will be returned to in greater detail shortly. A second key trend is the increased role played by of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the ATCMs and the subsequent politicisation of the meetings. The An ...
South Korea`s 2030 Carbon Mitigation Target and the INDC
... The 2030 Mitigation Target announced in the INDC may have been intended to alleviate some of the condemnation that South Korea had received from abroad on backsliding in the original post-2020 mitigation plan. However, the fact that the final 37% reduction target was generated within just 20 days an ...
... The 2030 Mitigation Target announced in the INDC may have been intended to alleviate some of the condemnation that South Korea had received from abroad on backsliding in the original post-2020 mitigation plan. However, the fact that the final 37% reduction target was generated within just 20 days an ...
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... 550 ppm caps, to see whether or not they pass the benefit-‐cost criterion. We do this by using our own integrated assessment model, namely CWS,4 so as to see whether the Stern result can be co ...
... 550 ppm caps, to see whether or not they pass the benefit-‐cost criterion. We do this by using our own integrated assessment model, namely CWS,4 so as to see whether the Stern result can be co ...
Impact of climate change on the western Himalayan mountain
... and forest ecosystems in the western Himalayan mountains based on literature review and some anecdotal evidences. A great deal of research work has been carried out on different aspects of western Himalayan mountain ecosystems but the findings have yet to be correlated in the context of climate chan ...
... and forest ecosystems in the western Himalayan mountains based on literature review and some anecdotal evidences. A great deal of research work has been carried out on different aspects of western Himalayan mountain ecosystems but the findings have yet to be correlated in the context of climate chan ...
Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing
... that are well suited to vagaries of the local production environment as well as from more advanced biotechnology techniques such as marker assisted selection and genetic modification. Climate change will also lead to new pest and disease pressures. The nuances of temperature changes – e.g., higher lo ...
... that are well suited to vagaries of the local production environment as well as from more advanced biotechnology techniques such as marker assisted selection and genetic modification. Climate change will also lead to new pest and disease pressures. The nuances of temperature changes – e.g., higher lo ...
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.""