APES climate change
... Warmer temperatures in Alaska, Russia, and the Arctic are melting permafrost releasing more CO2 and CH4 into the troposphere. During the last century, the world’s sea level rose by 10-20 cm, mostly due to runoff from melting and land-based ice and the expansion of ocean water as temperatures rise. ...
... Warmer temperatures in Alaska, Russia, and the Arctic are melting permafrost releasing more CO2 and CH4 into the troposphere. During the last century, the world’s sea level rose by 10-20 cm, mostly due to runoff from melting and land-based ice and the expansion of ocean water as temperatures rise. ...
Report for Transportation and Public Works Committee May 14
... currently facilitating the development of a Community-Wide GHG Emissions Reduction Plan; WHEREAS industrialized countries, realizing initial commitments were inadequate to protect the Earth’s climate system, agreed in December 1997 to the Kyoto Protocol which, if ratified, commits Canada to reducing ...
... currently facilitating the development of a Community-Wide GHG Emissions Reduction Plan; WHEREAS industrialized countries, realizing initial commitments were inadequate to protect the Earth’s climate system, agreed in December 1997 to the Kyoto Protocol which, if ratified, commits Canada to reducing ...
MA Disasters, Adaptation and Development preliminary reading list
... understanding of adaptive capacity to climate change within organisations Environment and Planning A advance online publication, doi:10.1068/a39148 Satterthwaite, D., Huq, S., Reid, H., Pelling, M. and Lankao, P.R. (2009) “Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas: the possibilities and constraints ...
... understanding of adaptive capacity to climate change within organisations Environment and Planning A advance online publication, doi:10.1068/a39148 Satterthwaite, D., Huq, S., Reid, H., Pelling, M. and Lankao, P.R. (2009) “Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas: the possibilities and constraints ...
Risks from Global Climate Change from UN Institutional Investors
... millennia have been determined by analysis of air trapped in bubbles in Antarctic & Greenland ice. • The main human sources of CO2 – deforestation and fossil-fuel burning – are quite well quantified. The observed CO2 build-up in the atmosphere matches these human inputs, after subtraction of estimat ...
... millennia have been determined by analysis of air trapped in bubbles in Antarctic & Greenland ice. • The main human sources of CO2 – deforestation and fossil-fuel burning – are quite well quantified. The observed CO2 build-up in the atmosphere matches these human inputs, after subtraction of estimat ...
Climate Change
... Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the costliest weather catastrophe on record, totaling $125 billion in economic losses (approximately 1.2% of US GDP). By the end of August, Katrina had reached a Category 5 status (the most severe) with peak gusts of 340 km per hour, in large part driven by the exceptio ...
... Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the costliest weather catastrophe on record, totaling $125 billion in economic losses (approximately 1.2% of US GDP). By the end of August, Katrina had reached a Category 5 status (the most severe) with peak gusts of 340 km per hour, in large part driven by the exceptio ...
A MODEL FOR CLIMATE CHANGE CAPACITY
... of the record set in 2014 by 0.29°F—the largest margin by which one year has ever beaten another since official records began in 1880. In all of NOAA’s 137 years of climate data record keeping, the past 13 months, have been a reflection of this continued increase in temperature. Currently, May 201 ...
... of the record set in 2014 by 0.29°F—the largest margin by which one year has ever beaten another since official records began in 1880. In all of NOAA’s 137 years of climate data record keeping, the past 13 months, have been a reflection of this continued increase in temperature. Currently, May 201 ...
The Cost of Climate Change What We’ll Pay if Global Warming
... of Climate Change This report focuses on a “business-as-usual” future in which the world continues to emit heat-trapping gases at an increasing rate. We base our economic projections on the most pessimistic of the business-as-usual climate forecasts considered “likely” by the scientific community. ...
... of Climate Change This report focuses on a “business-as-usual” future in which the world continues to emit heat-trapping gases at an increasing rate. We base our economic projections on the most pessimistic of the business-as-usual climate forecasts considered “likely” by the scientific community. ...
Very likely
... cooling The net effect of human activities since 1750 is warming. (very high confidence) ...
... cooling The net effect of human activities since 1750 is warming. (very high confidence) ...
... 2. Adaptation to climate change Since the early 1990s, the global communities have come together under the auspices of UNFCCC to address issues associated with climate change. Nigeria has been visible in the various negotiations on actions to reduce the manifest as well as anticipated impacts of cl ...
DOC - unece
... The target regarding greenhouse gas emissions that has been set in the Kyoto Protocol needs to be achieved within the period of 2008-2012. The Copenhagen summit, 15th annual conference of the UNFCCC parties (COP 15) did not deliver what was promised. What resulted was an agreement that seems much wa ...
... The target regarding greenhouse gas emissions that has been set in the Kyoto Protocol needs to be achieved within the period of 2008-2012. The Copenhagen summit, 15th annual conference of the UNFCCC parties (COP 15) did not deliver what was promised. What resulted was an agreement that seems much wa ...
AMS_congressional
... What is the solution? How do we keep CO2 below a dangerous level? • What level is dangerous? • We must act quickly because of long lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere and the long lifetime of energy capital investments, particularly in ...
... What is the solution? How do we keep CO2 below a dangerous level? • What level is dangerous? • We must act quickly because of long lifetime of CO2 in the atmosphere and the long lifetime of energy capital investments, particularly in ...
Appendix 2 – Significant Water Management
... by 80% to avoid catastrophic climate change. The consultation document states that: “Last year’s Stern Review of the economics of climate change stated that, in order to achieve a stabilisation of atmospheric greenhouse gases at a level which would avoid the more damaging effects of climate change, ...
... by 80% to avoid catastrophic climate change. The consultation document states that: “Last year’s Stern Review of the economics of climate change stated that, in order to achieve a stabilisation of atmospheric greenhouse gases at a level which would avoid the more damaging effects of climate change, ...
WHAT‘S UP Make the change – show that you care
... e, children of the world, should have a strong voice in the international climate change debate because we are the future as well as a big part of the world’s population today. Between 28th November and 4th December, 164 children from 44 countries were gathered in Copenhagen for the first Children's ...
... e, children of the world, should have a strong voice in the international climate change debate because we are the future as well as a big part of the world’s population today. Between 28th November and 4th December, 164 children from 44 countries were gathered in Copenhagen for the first Children's ...
PEEB8Caldeira
... geoengineering (Crutzen, 2006), with a growing number of proposals being aired in the scientific literature (Boyd, 2008). Geoengineering is defined as the large-scale engineering of our environment in order to combat or counteract the effects of changes, either natural or anthropogenic, in atmospher ...
... geoengineering (Crutzen, 2006), with a growing number of proposals being aired in the scientific literature (Boyd, 2008). Geoengineering is defined as the large-scale engineering of our environment in order to combat or counteract the effects of changes, either natural or anthropogenic, in atmospher ...
Climate change and the lungs Adult
... sun and warms our planet enabling it to support life. Global ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) have grown since pre-industrial times, with an increase of 70% between 1970 and 2004. This is very likely to be the cause of an increasing greenhouse ...
... sun and warms our planet enabling it to support life. Global ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) have grown since pre-industrial times, with an increase of 70% between 1970 and 2004. This is very likely to be the cause of an increasing greenhouse ...
Danish adaptation to future climate
... and actively make an effort over the decades to come. The Danish coastline, for example, needs protection against higher sea levels and stronger storms; sewer systems should be redimensioned to cater for heavier rainfalls; buildings must be able to withstand storms and flooding; and the agricultural ...
... and actively make an effort over the decades to come. The Danish coastline, for example, needs protection against higher sea levels and stronger storms; sewer systems should be redimensioned to cater for heavier rainfalls; buildings must be able to withstand storms and flooding; and the agricultural ...
Developing countries and the future of the Kyoto Protocol
... White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, White House Daily Briefing, 7 May 2001. (http://usinfo.org/wfarchive/2001/010507/epf101.htm) [show date of retrieval] ...
... White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, White House Daily Briefing, 7 May 2001. (http://usinfo.org/wfarchive/2001/010507/epf101.htm) [show date of retrieval] ...
Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism: The
... are initiatives taken by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); corporate-led self-monitoring; and entrepreneurial verification schemes by consulting firms. Environmental NGOs such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are developing labeling standards for CDM projects, similar to other controvers ...
... are initiatives taken by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); corporate-led self-monitoring; and entrepreneurial verification schemes by consulting firms. Environmental NGOs such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are developing labeling standards for CDM projects, similar to other controvers ...
Joint Declaration between the Government of the Federal Republic
... Agreement. 16. The allocation of a carbon price is globally necessary, to ensure that the goals of the Paris Agreement are met in a cost-efficient manner; therefore Mexico and Germany are members of the High Level Carbon Pricing Panel and the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) to join other ...
... Agreement. 16. The allocation of a carbon price is globally necessary, to ensure that the goals of the Paris Agreement are met in a cost-efficient manner; therefore Mexico and Germany are members of the High Level Carbon Pricing Panel and the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) to join other ...
Choosing Environmental Policy Area
... was in charge of maintaining the levees. This task instead fell to several different private firms and government agencies, leading to communication problems and the breakdown of various upgrade projects. • Poor maintenance: Levees require constant upkeep. As the land in New Orleans sinks, so do the ...
... was in charge of maintaining the levees. This task instead fell to several different private firms and government agencies, leading to communication problems and the breakdown of various upgrade projects. • Poor maintenance: Levees require constant upkeep. As the land in New Orleans sinks, so do the ...
SCIENCE BASED TARGETS: THE CALL TO ACTION
... Targets adopted by companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG ) emissions are considered “science-based” if they are in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Fifth Assessme ...
... Targets adopted by companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG ) emissions are considered “science-based” if they are in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Fifth Assessme ...
Hot issues - climate change Initiatives in Poland
... goals will be reached under this programme. The focus of the IE OP is to increase the number of innovations by increasing R&D outlays , the development of cooperation between the B&R sphere and businesses, as well as dynamising the entrepreneurship potential. The investment should be responsive to t ...
... goals will be reached under this programme. The focus of the IE OP is to increase the number of innovations by increasing R&D outlays , the development of cooperation between the B&R sphere and businesses, as well as dynamising the entrepreneurship potential. The investment should be responsive to t ...
... Large reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be required if dangerous and irreversible climate impacts are to be avoided. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol provide the basis for international action to address climate change. The UNFCCC objectiv ...
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.""