Sustainability Plan 2013-2018 - Sydney Local Health District
... There is now overwhelming evidence that climate change is occurring, primarily as a result of carbon dioxide emissions.1 There is a need for rapid and drastic greenhouse gas emissions reductions if we are to avoid what has been called “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”.2 The hea ...
... There is now overwhelming evidence that climate change is occurring, primarily as a result of carbon dioxide emissions.1 There is a need for rapid and drastic greenhouse gas emissions reductions if we are to avoid what has been called “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”.2 The hea ...
Titill greinar
... from similar sources in many countries, and therefore governments can use similar abatement solutions there are subtle differences depending on a number of factors, ranging from access to resources, climate and development stage. Iceland is an interesting case in this context. It is highly developed ...
... from similar sources in many countries, and therefore governments can use similar abatement solutions there are subtle differences depending on a number of factors, ranging from access to resources, climate and development stage. Iceland is an interesting case in this context. It is highly developed ...
A Review of Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi)
... offset global warming by spraying aerosols in the upper atmosphere. In both the book and film, however, the train is segmented by class. The wealthy live in spacious compartments near the front; the poor live crammed atop one another in dark and grimy cars at the rear. After years of neglect and abu ...
... offset global warming by spraying aerosols in the upper atmosphere. In both the book and film, however, the train is segmented by class. The wealthy live in spacious compartments near the front; the poor live crammed atop one another in dark and grimy cars at the rear. After years of neglect and abu ...
2. Observed climatology and sensitivity of runoff
... For this study, we employ the BCSD (Bias Correction and Statistical Downscaling) technique, originally developed by Wood et al. (2002) for using global model forecast output for long-range streamflow forecasting. This technique was later adapted for use in studies examining the hydrologic impacts of ...
... For this study, we employ the BCSD (Bias Correction and Statistical Downscaling) technique, originally developed by Wood et al. (2002) for using global model forecast output for long-range streamflow forecasting. This technique was later adapted for use in studies examining the hydrologic impacts of ...
From Kyoto to Copenhagen - Law, Environment and Development
... The question here is whether market mechanisms represent the best regulatory instrument suited for GHG emissions reductions. Many scholars have argued that the environment and most especially global warming concerns are too important to be left to market considerations and that adopting a market-bas ...
... The question here is whether market mechanisms represent the best regulatory instrument suited for GHG emissions reductions. Many scholars have argued that the environment and most especially global warming concerns are too important to be left to market considerations and that adopting a market-bas ...
Climate change, land use patterns and deforestation in Brazil
... There is a vast economic literature on the impacts of climate change on agriculture. The pioneering studies adopted the so-called “production function approach” (Decker et al. 1986; Adams (1989), among others). This approach, also called “agronomic model”, takes an underlying production function and ...
... There is a vast economic literature on the impacts of climate change on agriculture. The pioneering studies adopted the so-called “production function approach” (Decker et al. 1986; Adams (1989), among others). This approach, also called “agronomic model”, takes an underlying production function and ...
What is the Price of Carbon? Five definitions - SAPIEN.S
... determinants which go beyond the purely economic considerations outlined above. It may seem surprising for example that in many roll-out scenarios, the most carbon intensive industrial sectors are precisely those which are least concerned by such regulation. But in political terms, it could be good ...
... determinants which go beyond the purely economic considerations outlined above. It may seem surprising for example that in many roll-out scenarios, the most carbon intensive industrial sectors are precisely those which are least concerned by such regulation. But in political terms, it could be good ...
Expert Judgment for Climate Change Adaptation
... Climate Impacts Online for Germany, and the list could go on.5 An ever-increasing number of private consultancies also offer similar climate change products, usually based on publicly available data.6 ...
... Climate Impacts Online for Germany, and the list could go on.5 An ever-increasing number of private consultancies also offer similar climate change products, usually based on publicly available data.6 ...
Where Is the North Pole? An Election
... One policy step that has been proposed is a “carbon tax” on the production and use of fossil fuels, with revenue returned to consumers through “carbon dividend” tax reductions. Do you think that a carbon tax of this type should be a high priority, medium priority, low priority, or not a priority at ...
... One policy step that has been proposed is a “carbon tax” on the production and use of fossil fuels, with revenue returned to consumers through “carbon dividend” tax reductions. Do you think that a carbon tax of this type should be a high priority, medium priority, low priority, or not a priority at ...
PACIFIC SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES
... implications of climate change. But, what happens in the Pacific region will be an important lesson for the entire international community. No country, whatever size or stage of development, will be able to avoid the security implications of climate change. ...
... implications of climate change. But, what happens in the Pacific region will be an important lesson for the entire international community. No country, whatever size or stage of development, will be able to avoid the security implications of climate change. ...
Climate Change News 27 April 12
... In "Mechanisms for Agricultural Climate Change Mitigation Incentives for Smallholders," CCAFS stresses the important role of smallholders in climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly considering the large area of land under their management. The report also identifies the risks posed b ...
... In "Mechanisms for Agricultural Climate Change Mitigation Incentives for Smallholders," CCAFS stresses the important role of smallholders in climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly considering the large area of land under their management. The report also identifies the risks posed b ...
Projected Climate Change and the Appalachian Trail
... Before we can discuss how climate change will affect the A.T., we need an estimate of how much climate will change. Climate scientists are reluctant to predict future climate because such predictions depend on future greenhouse gas emissions, which depend on the future path of human development. How ...
... Before we can discuss how climate change will affect the A.T., we need an estimate of how much climate will change. Climate scientists are reluctant to predict future climate because such predictions depend on future greenhouse gas emissions, which depend on the future path of human development. How ...
CIDSE_encyclical_press_release
... opportunities that were missed at the time of the financial crisis but must now be seized. According to the encyclical, the climate is a common good of all for all, and social and environmental injustices go hand in hand. We are called by Pope Francis to put the poorest at the center, the ones who a ...
... opportunities that were missed at the time of the financial crisis but must now be seized. According to the encyclical, the climate is a common good of all for all, and social and environmental injustices go hand in hand. We are called by Pope Francis to put the poorest at the center, the ones who a ...
Climate Change Policy: What Do the Models Tell Us?†
... and convincing way. Since then, the development and use of IAMs has become a growth industry. (It even has its own journal, The Integrated Assessment Journal.) The models have become larger and more complex, but unfortunately have not done much to better elucidate the pathways by which GHG emissions ...
... and convincing way. Since then, the development and use of IAMs has become a growth industry. (It even has its own journal, The Integrated Assessment Journal.) The models have become larger and more complex, but unfortunately have not done much to better elucidate the pathways by which GHG emissions ...
climate change: challenges to sustainable development in india
... signs, which are now being noticed even by a lay man. Vulnerability to climate has a strong linkage with poverty. Across developing countries, millions of the world’s poorest people are already being forced to cope with the impacts of climate change. Increased exposure to severe droughts, intense st ...
... signs, which are now being noticed even by a lay man. Vulnerability to climate has a strong linkage with poverty. Across developing countries, millions of the world’s poorest people are already being forced to cope with the impacts of climate change. Increased exposure to severe droughts, intense st ...
From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives: Working Paper 13 (418 kB) (opens in new window)
... What are the typical results of running models like this? Insofar as one can draw a caricature, economic evaluations of climate change have tended to conclude, on the one hand, that both adaptation and mitigation are efficient strategies (thus in respect of mitigation they contradict the climate ‘d ...
... What are the typical results of running models like this? Insofar as one can draw a caricature, economic evaluations of climate change have tended to conclude, on the one hand, that both adaptation and mitigation are efficient strategies (thus in respect of mitigation they contradict the climate ‘d ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
... of the coin, there is no arguing that developed nations, through their present and historic emissions, have set climate change in motion and must lead global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emission rates substantially. In late 2009, parties to the UNFCCC met in Copenhagen, Denmark, to try to agree up ...
... of the coin, there is no arguing that developed nations, through their present and historic emissions, have set climate change in motion and must lead global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emission rates substantially. In late 2009, parties to the UNFCCC met in Copenhagen, Denmark, to try to agree up ...
LNG FUEL CYCLE: IMPACTS Report Number PH3/5 January 1999
... 3 types of power plant, a natural gas-fired combined cycle, a pulverised coal-fired plant with supercritical steam conditions, and a coal-fired integrated gasification combined-cycle. CO2 was to be stored in: underground saline aquifers, the ocean, or in an off-set forest. The full fuel cycle method ...
... 3 types of power plant, a natural gas-fired combined cycle, a pulverised coal-fired plant with supercritical steam conditions, and a coal-fired integrated gasification combined-cycle. CO2 was to be stored in: underground saline aquifers, the ocean, or in an off-set forest. The full fuel cycle method ...
Collectively Seeing Climate Change: The Limits of Formal Models
... dioxide concentrations were increasing considerably faster than heretofore thought. Then there was a period during the midGeneral circulation models 1960s through the mid-1970s in which the proposed fleet of Predictive models of complex phenomena such as the global supersonic transport planes and th ...
... dioxide concentrations were increasing considerably faster than heretofore thought. Then there was a period during the midGeneral circulation models 1960s through the mid-1970s in which the proposed fleet of Predictive models of complex phenomena such as the global supersonic transport planes and th ...
Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning
... The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) was established by the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to advance public and private action on climate change through innovative, rigorous research. The Centre is funded by the UK Economi ...
... The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) was established by the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to advance public and private action on climate change through innovative, rigorous research. The Centre is funded by the UK Economi ...
IMOGEN: an intermediate complexity model to evaluate terrestrial
... any beneficial effects of extra plant fertilisation in a CO2 enriched environment. This feedback is not, however, realised by all models (Friedlingstein et al., 2006) illustrating the importance to understand more fully the processes involved. Further, which future changes in atmospheric greenhouse ...
... any beneficial effects of extra plant fertilisation in a CO2 enriched environment. This feedback is not, however, realised by all models (Friedlingstein et al., 2006) illustrating the importance to understand more fully the processes involved. Further, which future changes in atmospheric greenhouse ...
global climate change and presidential leadership
... change will only be one such remedy but global climate change and global warming “requires a global solution.”28 While all sides agree with this, the method of agreement is going to differ from group to group. And even though many agree that a U.S. response to a global problem can only be of limite ...
... change will only be one such remedy but global climate change and global warming “requires a global solution.”28 While all sides agree with this, the method of agreement is going to differ from group to group. And even though many agree that a U.S. response to a global problem can only be of limite ...
KWP 1808
... activities is essential. At the same time, however, per capita income levels in both China and India are still much lower than those of developed countries. For India, this also holds for per capita emissions. Consistent with Article 3.1 of the UNFCCC (1992) - indicating that countries have a “commo ...
... activities is essential. At the same time, however, per capita income levels in both China and India are still much lower than those of developed countries. For India, this also holds for per capita emissions. Consistent with Article 3.1 of the UNFCCC (1992) - indicating that countries have a “commo ...
Ecological Development and Global Climate Change: A Cross
... Global climate change is a ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ (Hardin 1968). Climate is a common resource that cannot be readily fenced or allocated according to need. Garrett Hardin (1968) used the concept of ‘‘tragedy’’ to denote the expected degradation of environmental resources when owned commonly. A t ...
... Global climate change is a ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ (Hardin 1968). Climate is a common resource that cannot be readily fenced or allocated according to need. Garrett Hardin (1968) used the concept of ‘‘tragedy’’ to denote the expected degradation of environmental resources when owned commonly. A t ...
Climate change challenges facing small island developing States
... sooner rather than later, the problems currently facing small island developing States (SIDS) would impact every country in the world. Everyone needed to work together and partner to effectively address growing challenges. Sustainable development through genuine and durable partnerships provided an ...
... sooner rather than later, the problems currently facing small island developing States (SIDS) would impact every country in the world. Everyone needed to work together and partner to effectively address growing challenges. Sustainable development through genuine and durable partnerships provided an ...
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.""