Petition - Center for Biological Diversity
... Establishing science-based national pollution caps for greenhouse gases would rely on the heart of the Clean Air Act—a set of comprehensive and complementary provisions already proven effective in controlling air pollution from most major sources in the U.S. This petition seeks action under Clean A ...
... Establishing science-based national pollution caps for greenhouse gases would rely on the heart of the Clean Air Act—a set of comprehensive and complementary provisions already proven effective in controlling air pollution from most major sources in the U.S. This petition seeks action under Clean A ...
Federal Agency Actions Following the Supreme Court’s Climate Change Decision Robert Meltz
... On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court rendered one of its most important environmental decisions. In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Court held 5-4 that greenhouse gases (GHGs), widely viewed as contributing to climate change, constitute “air pollutants” as that phrase is used in the Clean Air Act (CAA). As ...
... On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court rendered one of its most important environmental decisions. In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Court held 5-4 that greenhouse gases (GHGs), widely viewed as contributing to climate change, constitute “air pollutants” as that phrase is used in the Clean Air Act (CAA). As ...
climate change in the african drylands
... Outside of the cities many dryland inhabitants are either pastoralists, sedentary or nomadic, or agro-pastoralists, combining livestock-rearing and crop production where conditions allow. Over millennia they have lived with variable rainfall and frequent droughts using a range of coping strategies, ...
... Outside of the cities many dryland inhabitants are either pastoralists, sedentary or nomadic, or agro-pastoralists, combining livestock-rearing and crop production where conditions allow. Over millennia they have lived with variable rainfall and frequent droughts using a range of coping strategies, ...
Intended nationally determined contributions: what are the implications for greenhouse gas emissions in 2030? (opens in new window)
... ahead of COP21 in Paris, France, in December 2015. It was further agreed that each INDC will “represent a progression beyond the current undertaking of that Party”.1 The INDCs that were submitted by 23 October 2015 included an indication of expected annual greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020 (i.e. ...
... ahead of COP21 in Paris, France, in December 2015. It was further agreed that each INDC will “represent a progression beyond the current undertaking of that Party”.1 The INDCs that were submitted by 23 October 2015 included an indication of expected annual greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020 (i.e. ...
International Workshop on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate
... climate change. Martin Todd (UCL) pointed out that “the confidence in climate projections very much depends on the variables and the regions examined …and… although climate models will continue to improve uncertainty is unlikely to be substantially reduced in near future (~10 years)… ”. Thus, the ch ...
... climate change. Martin Todd (UCL) pointed out that “the confidence in climate projections very much depends on the variables and the regions examined …and… although climate models will continue to improve uncertainty is unlikely to be substantially reduced in near future (~10 years)… ”. Thus, the ch ...
Climate Change Detection and Attribution: Beyond Mean
... Mitchell et al. (2001) and International Ad Hoc Detection and Attribution Group (2005) give an extensive overview of detection and attribution methods. One of the most widely used, and arguably the most efficient method for detection and attribution is “optimal fingerprinting.” This is generalized m ...
... Mitchell et al. (2001) and International Ad Hoc Detection and Attribution Group (2005) give an extensive overview of detection and attribution methods. One of the most widely used, and arguably the most efficient method for detection and attribution is “optimal fingerprinting.” This is generalized m ...
Proposal for funding for the Preparation of
... The RGC is very much aware and concerned about environmental degradation and global warming and their detrimental effects, particularly to an LDC like Cambodia. How climate change will impact on agriculture is a real concern. Agriculture plays an important role in supporting livelihood and national ...
... The RGC is very much aware and concerned about environmental degradation and global warming and their detrimental effects, particularly to an LDC like Cambodia. How climate change will impact on agriculture is a real concern. Agriculture plays an important role in supporting livelihood and national ...
Working Paper 9: Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier for Human
... collectively termed climate security—have in turn been subject to an increasingly broad debate in both the scientific and the policy community. After a series of focused discussions, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) lifted the issue to the highest level of political discourse on internatio ...
... collectively termed climate security—have in turn been subject to an increasingly broad debate in both the scientific and the policy community. After a series of focused discussions, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) lifted the issue to the highest level of political discourse on internatio ...
Petition to the World Heritage Committee
... biofuels, and biomass. It is often transported long distances by air currents. Because the darkcolored particles absorb sunlight, black carbon warms the top of the atmosphere, increasing cloud droplet concentrations, and thickening low-level clouds. When deposited on ice and snow, it reduces the al ...
... biofuels, and biomass. It is often transported long distances by air currents. Because the darkcolored particles absorb sunlight, black carbon warms the top of the atmosphere, increasing cloud droplet concentrations, and thickening low-level clouds. When deposited on ice and snow, it reduces the al ...
Understanding Climate Change: Lesson Plans for
... • How many students have watched movies or documentaries about climate change? • How many students have read books or other research on the subject? • Are there any students who have gleaned all they know about climate change from newspapers, TV, and radio? 21 Hand out Worksheet 1.2: Climate chan ...
... • How many students have watched movies or documentaries about climate change? • How many students have read books or other research on the subject? • Are there any students who have gleaned all they know about climate change from newspapers, TV, and radio? 21 Hand out Worksheet 1.2: Climate chan ...
Climate Change Law in Latin America
... Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Law includes a voluntary national target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to business as usual by 2020. The National Policy on Climate Change Law,9 and its regulatory Decree,10 provide a leading example of climate change law in Latin America given that ...
... Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Law includes a voluntary national target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to business as usual by 2020. The National Policy on Climate Change Law,9 and its regulatory Decree,10 provide a leading example of climate change law in Latin America given that ...
Reef-Guardians-2016-Year-10-Climate-change
... Background information – climate change What is climate change? Gases in the Earth’s atmosphere trap some of the sun’s energy that would otherwise be radiated back into space. This is called the greenhouse effect. This effect keeps the Earth at a temperature suitable for life. Climate change result ...
... Background information – climate change What is climate change? Gases in the Earth’s atmosphere trap some of the sun’s energy that would otherwise be radiated back into space. This is called the greenhouse effect. This effect keeps the Earth at a temperature suitable for life. Climate change result ...
The Economic Climate: Establishing Expert Consensus on the
... Just over twenty years ago, William Nordhaus published the results of what is likely the most influential economic survey about the effects of climate change to date (Nordhaus, 1994). In the oftcited survey, Nordhaus interviewed 19 experts on climate change (10 economists, four other social scientis ...
... Just over twenty years ago, William Nordhaus published the results of what is likely the most influential economic survey about the effects of climate change to date (Nordhaus, 1994). In the oftcited survey, Nordhaus interviewed 19 experts on climate change (10 economists, four other social scientis ...
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... adaptation. An important policy message from these results is that enhanced access to credit, information (climatic and agronomic) as well as to markets (input and output) can significantly increase farm-level adaptation. Maddison (2007) examines the perception of and adaptation to climate change of ...
... adaptation. An important policy message from these results is that enhanced access to credit, information (climatic and agronomic) as well as to markets (input and output) can significantly increase farm-level adaptation. Maddison (2007) examines the perception of and adaptation to climate change of ...
Global Warming and the Free State
... winter, but become more episodic, with more falling in extreme events. Projections of precipitation are much less certain than for temperature, but the mean projections indicated modest increases of about 10% or so are likely in the winter and spring. Because of more intermittent rainfall and increa ...
... winter, but become more episodic, with more falling in extreme events. Projections of precipitation are much less certain than for temperature, but the mean projections indicated modest increases of about 10% or so are likely in the winter and spring. Because of more intermittent rainfall and increa ...
Sep 6, 2014 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... dud. The leaders of both China and India have sent their regrets. The countries are the number 1 and number 3 world emitters CO2, accounting to about one-third of global emissions. One can speculate that perhaps the leaders realize that CO2 is vital plant food. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ha ...
... dud. The leaders of both China and India have sent their regrets. The countries are the number 1 and number 3 world emitters CO2, accounting to about one-third of global emissions. One can speculate that perhaps the leaders realize that CO2 is vital plant food. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ha ...
Gregory and Forster - University of Leeds
... description of DT from CMIP3 AOGCMs integrated with CO2 increasing at 1% per year compounded. The constant ‘‘climate resistance’’ r is related to the transient climate response (TCR, DT at the time of doubled CO2 under the 1% CO2 scenario). Disregarding any trend caused by natural forcing (volcanic ...
... description of DT from CMIP3 AOGCMs integrated with CO2 increasing at 1% per year compounded. The constant ‘‘climate resistance’’ r is related to the transient climate response (TCR, DT at the time of doubled CO2 under the 1% CO2 scenario). Disregarding any trend caused by natural forcing (volcanic ...
WETLANDS, CARBON STORAGE, AND FUTURE CLIMATE
... destroyed; rare and endangered plants and animals will be threatened in others. See more discussion below. What climate change factors will affect wetlands? A. A number of climate change factors will affect wetlands: Increase in CO 2 . Carbon dioxide has increased 30% since pre-industrial times. A d ...
... destroyed; rare and endangered plants and animals will be threatened in others. See more discussion below. What climate change factors will affect wetlands? A. A number of climate change factors will affect wetlands: Increase in CO 2 . Carbon dioxide has increased 30% since pre-industrial times. A d ...
National Programme for Spatial Adaptation to Climate Change (ARK)
... There is no doubt that the climate is changing on a global scale and therefore also in the Netherlands. The effects can already be felt and predicted. Scientific research has shown that climate change cannot be prevented, even with all the good intentions in the world and strict mitigating measures. ...
... There is no doubt that the climate is changing on a global scale and therefore also in the Netherlands. The effects can already be felt and predicted. Scientific research has shown that climate change cannot be prevented, even with all the good intentions in the world and strict mitigating measures. ...
Climate Change Financing - SÜDWIND
... committed themselves to providing USD 100 billion of “new and additional” financing annually by the year 2020 in order to address climate change needs in developing countries. However, so far, there is no internationally agreed definition of what “new and additional” actually means. While criteria f ...
... committed themselves to providing USD 100 billion of “new and additional” financing annually by the year 2020 in order to address climate change needs in developing countries. However, so far, there is no internationally agreed definition of what “new and additional” actually means. While criteria f ...
Climate change in the UKOTs an overview of the science
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an assessment team of hundreds of scientists worldwide who have been studying and tracking the climate system and reaching consensus on their findings and observations since 1988, has warned that average global surface temperatures could increase bet ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an assessment team of hundreds of scientists worldwide who have been studying and tracking the climate system and reaching consensus on their findings and observations since 1988, has warned that average global surface temperatures could increase bet ...
Provenance Trials in Alpine Range – Review and Perspectives for
... and climate conditions several approaches have been developed. In its basic most common form, a climate response function is a univariate regression analysis with a single response variable (quantitative trait) and a single (climatic) predictor variable. Modelling approaches vary in regard to the ch ...
... and climate conditions several approaches have been developed. In its basic most common form, a climate response function is a univariate regression analysis with a single response variable (quantitative trait) and a single (climatic) predictor variable. Modelling approaches vary in regard to the ch ...
Lebanon Country Report February - March 2013
... documents on Lebanon such as the Second National Communication, report of EU on the Climate Change Risk Assessment in the Arab countries (Country profile of Lebanon), National Environmental Economic and Development Study for Lebanon (NEEDS), TechnologyNeeds Assessment, and some other relevant docume ...
... documents on Lebanon such as the Second National Communication, report of EU on the Climate Change Risk Assessment in the Arab countries (Country profile of Lebanon), National Environmental Economic and Development Study for Lebanon (NEEDS), TechnologyNeeds Assessment, and some other relevant docume ...
Financing climate change - Department of Environmental Affairs
... interventions are generally being independently developed in an uncoordinated manner, reducing the potential positive impact of a composite financing strategy geared towards transitioning to a low carbon and climate resilient economy. There is thus a need for a mechanism to coordinate climate financ ...
... interventions are generally being independently developed in an uncoordinated manner, reducing the potential positive impact of a composite financing strategy geared towards transitioning to a low carbon and climate resilient economy. There is thus a need for a mechanism to coordinate climate financ ...
Climate impact on airborne particulate matter concentrations in
... The National Ambient Air Quality Standard for annualaverage PM2.5 is currently 15 µg m−3 and the more stringent California State Air Quality Standard for annual-average PM2.5 is currently 12 µg m−3 . Despite the adoption of a more stringent state standard, annual average PM2.5 concentrations measure ...
... The National Ambient Air Quality Standard for annualaverage PM2.5 is currently 15 µg m−3 and the more stringent California State Air Quality Standard for annual-average PM2.5 is currently 12 µg m−3 . Despite the adoption of a more stringent state standard, annual average PM2.5 concentrations measure ...
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.""