progress toward a consensus on carbon emissions from tropical
... focused on gross emissions, they also simplified the accounting by assuming that all biomass carbon in the deforested landscape was converted immediately to atmospheric carbon dioxide, that is, their estimates reflected “committed” emissions to the atmosphere that will occur regardless of future lan ...
... focused on gross emissions, they also simplified the accounting by assuming that all biomass carbon in the deforested landscape was converted immediately to atmospheric carbon dioxide, that is, their estimates reflected “committed” emissions to the atmosphere that will occur regardless of future lan ...
Towards Climate-Friendly Farming
... Agriculture is the country’s second largest source of emissions after electricity generation. Proportionally, Australian agriculture emits more than the farm sectors of almost any other developed country. Ignoring farm sector emissions while demanding reductions from others is shortsighted, unsustai ...
... Agriculture is the country’s second largest source of emissions after electricity generation. Proportionally, Australian agriculture emits more than the farm sectors of almost any other developed country. Ignoring farm sector emissions while demanding reductions from others is shortsighted, unsustai ...
A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the
... ECI’s First Assumption: CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are the main cause of warming. The ECI’s first assumption appears under “Claim 1: Human-Induced Climate Change is Real.” While almost certainly true (since humans have long affected climates in which they live), the claim is too vague to have p ...
... ECI’s First Assumption: CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are the main cause of warming. The ECI’s first assumption appears under “Claim 1: Human-Induced Climate Change is Real.” While almost certainly true (since humans have long affected climates in which they live), the claim is too vague to have p ...
Coastal Climate Impacts… What You Can Do.
... What is Sea Grant doing to improve my ability to use climate information? Both the North and South Carolina Sea Grant programs have university partners that conduct new research on our region’s coastal climatology. This research includes work on improving available climate information products and o ...
... What is Sea Grant doing to improve my ability to use climate information? Both the North and South Carolina Sea Grant programs have university partners that conduct new research on our region’s coastal climatology. This research includes work on improving available climate information products and o ...
2. Sergi - Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making
... – Hypothetical choices, survey design can affect results (Louviere, 2006) – Cognitive biases in stated preference preference studies (Fischhoff, 2005) ...
... – Hypothetical choices, survey design can affect results (Louviere, 2006) – Cognitive biases in stated preference preference studies (Fischhoff, 2005) ...
Reconceiving the Good Life
... (b) The wealthiest countries were pressing for carbon trading schemes because all such schemes allocated more per capita rights to emit to themselves than to others. This effectively created property rights in unsustainable activities (emitting carbon) and allocated most of those to the countries w ...
... (b) The wealthiest countries were pressing for carbon trading schemes because all such schemes allocated more per capita rights to emit to themselves than to others. This effectively created property rights in unsustainable activities (emitting carbon) and allocated most of those to the countries w ...
The Greenhouse Effect – A New Zealand perspective on
... in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. We know that the level of greenhouse gases, such as CO2, in the atmosphere is now higher than at any time in the last 400 000 years. Sulfur emissions from fuel use are now twice the sum of all natural sulfur emissions. It is clear that the ear ...
... in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. We know that the level of greenhouse gases, such as CO2, in the atmosphere is now higher than at any time in the last 400 000 years. Sulfur emissions from fuel use are now twice the sum of all natural sulfur emissions. It is clear that the ear ...
Forecasting potential global environmental costs of livestock
... that the livestock sector alone occupied 52% of humanity’s suggested safe operating space for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (Fig. 1). Similarly, relative to Bishop et al.’s (26) proposed sustainable scale for human-appropriated net primary productivity (which represents a more inclusive mea ...
... that the livestock sector alone occupied 52% of humanity’s suggested safe operating space for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (Fig. 1). Similarly, relative to Bishop et al.’s (26) proposed sustainable scale for human-appropriated net primary productivity (which represents a more inclusive mea ...
document - Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change
... dialogue on climate change in the country with full participation of legislators, the industrial and insurance sectors, bankers, and other players. She highlighted the need for the country to harmonise concern on climate change, and for Africa to speak with one voice at the World Climate Change Nego ...
... dialogue on climate change in the country with full participation of legislators, the industrial and insurance sectors, bankers, and other players. She highlighted the need for the country to harmonise concern on climate change, and for Africa to speak with one voice at the World Climate Change Nego ...
Emission Trading to Reduce Traffic Related CO 2 Emissions
... a certain fuel, we need the implementation of a new system." This is particularly obvious with electricity: the CO2 emissions of electricity generated from renewable energies, such as wind, water, or sun is in contrast to electricity generated from coal or natural gas. The environmental impacts from ...
... a certain fuel, we need the implementation of a new system." This is particularly obvious with electricity: the CO2 emissions of electricity generated from renewable energies, such as wind, water, or sun is in contrast to electricity generated from coal or natural gas. The environmental impacts from ...
New American Media (Opinion), January 20, 2010, by Andrew
... agriculture and population growth will even increase this. New ideas for good watermanagement are needed. Marine pollution: The waters surrounding the Arabian Peninsula have probably received the largest share of oil pollution globally, vastly based on the 1991 Gulf War that caused the largest oil s ...
... agriculture and population growth will even increase this. New ideas for good watermanagement are needed. Marine pollution: The waters surrounding the Arabian Peninsula have probably received the largest share of oil pollution globally, vastly based on the 1991 Gulf War that caused the largest oil s ...
Entry into force of the Paris Agreement - iied iied
... so that they will not be entitled to exercise rights under • To develop further guidance on features of the NDCs the Agreement concurrently. The organisation must • To develop further guidance for the information to therefore declare the extent of their competence with be provided by parties, in o ...
... so that they will not be entitled to exercise rights under • To develop further guidance on features of the NDCs the Agreement concurrently. The organisation must • To develop further guidance for the information to therefore declare the extent of their competence with be provided by parties, in o ...
Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change - eu.me
... • The Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism started the process of drafting of the separate Law on Environmental Liability (completion expected by the end of 2013) • So far a thorough analysis of the Directive requirements and provisions of the Montenegrin Law on Environment has been compl ...
... • The Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism started the process of drafting of the separate Law on Environmental Liability (completion expected by the end of 2013) • So far a thorough analysis of the Directive requirements and provisions of the Montenegrin Law on Environment has been compl ...
Submission 68 - Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
... Western Australia have highlighted the importance of improving policy to enable farmers to better manage risk under a changing climate. Between 2001–02 and 2010–11 the Australian Government provided approximately $4.85 billion in funding through the existing National Drought Policy’s Exceptional Cir ...
... Western Australia have highlighted the importance of improving policy to enable farmers to better manage risk under a changing climate. Between 2001–02 and 2010–11 the Australian Government provided approximately $4.85 billion in funding through the existing National Drought Policy’s Exceptional Cir ...
False Solutions - Rising Tide North America
... Nearly all of the technologies described elsewhere in this booklet have received funding as offsets, their associated abuses enabled by—and enabling— coal, oil and gas companies who wish to carry on polluting. Carbon trading is the architecture supporting all other false solutions. The Kyoto Protoc ...
... Nearly all of the technologies described elsewhere in this booklet have received funding as offsets, their associated abuses enabled by—and enabling— coal, oil and gas companies who wish to carry on polluting. Carbon trading is the architecture supporting all other false solutions. The Kyoto Protoc ...
- Wiley Online Library
... 5. DISCUSSION We will be criticized for producing some ‘obvious’ examples in the above text, but emphasize that these derive from otherwise high-quality data sets, in our case on white stork populations. Interpretation of information contained within data may be suspect if all statistically signific ...
... 5. DISCUSSION We will be criticized for producing some ‘obvious’ examples in the above text, but emphasize that these derive from otherwise high-quality data sets, in our case on white stork populations. Interpretation of information contained within data may be suspect if all statistically signific ...
Climate Change Essentials
... meaningful GHG emission reductions will likely turn on the willingness of future governments to take action as well as global peer pressure. Ahead of COP 21, countries were invited to submit their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), which set out what post-2020 climate actions they ...
... meaningful GHG emission reductions will likely turn on the willingness of future governments to take action as well as global peer pressure. Ahead of COP 21, countries were invited to submit their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), which set out what post-2020 climate actions they ...
Broader perspectives for comparing different greenhouse gases
... of incremental changes in CO2 on RF could be compensated for by a similar decrease in the rate of CO2 uptake by the ocean [29], if the GWP was based on a non-steady state impulse response function. However, the present approach keeps CO2 removal rates fixed, and so leads to increases in all GWPs as t ...
... of incremental changes in CO2 on RF could be compensated for by a similar decrease in the rate of CO2 uptake by the ocean [29], if the GWP was based on a non-steady state impulse response function. However, the present approach keeps CO2 removal rates fixed, and so leads to increases in all GWPs as t ...
Understanding the Links between Climate Change and Development
... a few decades of lower rainfall, cities lining the northern reaches of the Euphrates, the breadbasket for the Akkadians, were deserted. At the city of Tell Leilan on the northern Euphrates, a monument was halted half-built.2 With the city abandoned, a thick layer of wind-blown dirt covered the rui ...
... a few decades of lower rainfall, cities lining the northern reaches of the Euphrates, the breadbasket for the Akkadians, were deserted. At the city of Tell Leilan on the northern Euphrates, a monument was halted half-built.2 With the city abandoned, a thick layer of wind-blown dirt covered the rui ...
Greenhouse gas reduction strategies from the transportation
... regulatory changes are likely to happen over the next 40 years is highly uncertain. ...
... regulatory changes are likely to happen over the next 40 years is highly uncertain. ...
motivating individual carbon reduction through local government
... recognize their own role in contributing to more sustainable levels of energy consumption and also in encouraging citizens to engage more fully in the wider political debate on sustainable living (Long, 1998; Jordan, 2001). The 2007 White Paper Meeting the Energy Challenge (DTI, 2007) is one of the ...
... recognize their own role in contributing to more sustainable levels of energy consumption and also in encouraging citizens to engage more fully in the wider political debate on sustainable living (Long, 1998; Jordan, 2001). The 2007 White Paper Meeting the Energy Challenge (DTI, 2007) is one of the ...
Aalborg Universitet The 7 Aarhus Statements on Climate Change
... Each theme was further divided into 2-5 sessions selectively focusing on important areas within each theme. The main responsible scientists for the seven conference themes and representatives from the think-tank CONCITO delivered “The 7 Aarhus Statements on Climate Change” as part of the closing ses ...
... Each theme was further divided into 2-5 sessions selectively focusing on important areas within each theme. The main responsible scientists for the seven conference themes and representatives from the think-tank CONCITO delivered “The 7 Aarhus Statements on Climate Change” as part of the closing ses ...
Final review - UCLA: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
... (number of grid boxes)(number of time steps per simulation) • Increasing resolution: # grid boxes increases & time step decreases • Half horizontal grid size half time step (why? See below) twice as many time steps to simulate same number of years • Doubling resolution in x, y & z (# ...
... (number of grid boxes)(number of time steps per simulation) • Increasing resolution: # grid boxes increases & time step decreases • Half horizontal grid size half time step (why? See below) twice as many time steps to simulate same number of years • Doubling resolution in x, y & z (# ...
Investing to Curb Climate Change: A Guide for the Individual Investor
... To have a chance at staying within the 2°C limit, climate scientists say the world’s human population must add no more than about 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the Earth’s atmosphere. However, the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a group of financial analysts based in London, estimates that the world’ ...
... To have a chance at staying within the 2°C limit, climate scientists say the world’s human population must add no more than about 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the Earth’s atmosphere. However, the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a group of financial analysts based in London, estimates that the world’ ...
Climate Change Scenarios and Challenges for the Water Environment
... Daily data for precipitation, temperature and sunshine hours from 14 synoptic stations were obtained for 1961-2000. Potential evapotranspiration, based on the Penman-Montieth formula, was obtained for the 1971-2000. Radiation was only available from a few of the synoptic stations. Large-scale surfac ...
... Daily data for precipitation, temperature and sunshine hours from 14 synoptic stations were obtained for 1961-2000. Potential evapotranspiration, based on the Penman-Montieth formula, was obtained for the 1971-2000. Radiation was only available from a few of the synoptic stations. Large-scale surfac ...
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.""