Second National Communication of Brazil to the United Nations
... well as the case for biofuels and energy efficiency, also help to achieve development goals, with a sharp deviation in the trend of greenhouse gas emissions curve in Brazil. Brazil has historically been doing its fair share in combating climate change, and is prepared to sustain its leading role in ...
... well as the case for biofuels and energy efficiency, also help to achieve development goals, with a sharp deviation in the trend of greenhouse gas emissions curve in Brazil. Brazil has historically been doing its fair share in combating climate change, and is prepared to sustain its leading role in ...
Carbon prices for the next thousand years
... question how optimal climate policy should be designed when concerns for long-term outcomes imply a preference for deep emission reductions, but when shorter-term macroeconomic choices should also be respected. Our tractable general-equilibrium model features a joint inclusion of macro and climate p ...
... question how optimal climate policy should be designed when concerns for long-term outcomes imply a preference for deep emission reductions, but when shorter-term macroeconomic choices should also be respected. Our tractable general-equilibrium model features a joint inclusion of macro and climate p ...
Ethics as the grounding of a new paradigm of ecological
... • Global temperature has risen by nearly 0.7°C since 1950, mostly due to CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use. • Boundary: atmospheric concentration no higher than 350 ppm CO2. • Current: 400 ppm CO2 and rising. • Future: OECD projections based on current use are 685 ppm. • Must keep under 450 ppm to ...
... • Global temperature has risen by nearly 0.7°C since 1950, mostly due to CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use. • Boundary: atmospheric concentration no higher than 350 ppm CO2. • Current: 400 ppm CO2 and rising. • Future: OECD projections based on current use are 685 ppm. • Must keep under 450 ppm to ...
Cambodia`s first national communication
... Cambodia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 18 December 1995. The Convention entered into force for Cambodia on 17 March 1996, thus making the country eligible under the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC. In August 1998, the Government of Cambodia and the ...
... Cambodia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 18 December 1995. The Convention entered into force for Cambodia on 17 March 1996, thus making the country eligible under the financial mechanism of the UNFCCC. In August 1998, the Government of Cambodia and the ...
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... civil society movement that both puts pressure on investors and significantly raises awareness on the link between investments and climate change. Governments are also on the move, with the French finance minister recently announcing new legislation, which makes it obligatory for institutional inves ...
... civil society movement that both puts pressure on investors and significantly raises awareness on the link between investments and climate change. Governments are also on the move, with the French finance minister recently announcing new legislation, which makes it obligatory for institutional inves ...
It is beyond cavil that climate change poses grave and irreversible
... 2013. The atmospheric increase of CO2 from 2012 to 2013 is the largest year-to-year change from 1984 to 2013.5 PwC (Price Waterhouse Cooper) warns that at current rates of decarbonisation6 of 0,9%, “we would be heading towards the worst projected scenario of the IPCC, leading to a significant chance ...
... 2013. The atmospheric increase of CO2 from 2012 to 2013 is the largest year-to-year change from 1984 to 2013.5 PwC (Price Waterhouse Cooper) warns that at current rates of decarbonisation6 of 0,9%, “we would be heading towards the worst projected scenario of the IPCC, leading to a significant chance ...
The trade-off between intra- and intergenerational equity in climate
... The two mentioned dimensions of equity in climate change polices are named intragenerational and intergenerational. The first is mainly about how we should distribute the burdens within a generation, either within the generation living today or in the future, see Kverndokk and Rose (2008). Examples ...
... The two mentioned dimensions of equity in climate change polices are named intragenerational and intergenerational. The first is mainly about how we should distribute the burdens within a generation, either within the generation living today or in the future, see Kverndokk and Rose (2008). Examples ...
Clearing the Air on Oilsands Emissions
... even come close to meeting in 201116). This regulation requires all facilities emitting more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year to reduce their emissions intensities by up to17 12 percent relative to a three-year facility baseline.18 Currently, the SGER is the main greenhouse gas reducti ...
... even come close to meeting in 201116). This regulation requires all facilities emitting more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year to reduce their emissions intensities by up to17 12 percent relative to a three-year facility baseline.18 Currently, the SGER is the main greenhouse gas reducti ...
Private firms` adaptation to climate change within the context of
... proper triangulation is attained. To show how this will be done I propose to use a table that shows the different groups of participants that will be interviewed (e.g. different organizational levels, stakeholders from regulators and government and others) and link this to the overall study objectiv ...
... proper triangulation is attained. To show how this will be done I propose to use a table that shows the different groups of participants that will be interviewed (e.g. different organizational levels, stakeholders from regulators and government and others) and link this to the overall study objectiv ...
a comparative study of biodiversity conservation coping with climate
... The respondents claimed that decline of population size, species loss and mutation are the principals effects of global change on species. There are not different responses between interviews from the two countries. This is due to the respondents of the two countries already having knowledge’s on ef ...
... The respondents claimed that decline of population size, species loss and mutation are the principals effects of global change on species. There are not different responses between interviews from the two countries. This is due to the respondents of the two countries already having knowledge’s on ef ...
Climate Change: Responding to the Crisis Portended by George
... 2007; Stein et al. 2014). Ongoing and future climate change will likely affect all aspects of protected area management, including natural and cultural resource protection, operations and infrastructure, and visitor use and experience. To structure adaptation thinking for protected area management, ...
... 2007; Stein et al. 2014). Ongoing and future climate change will likely affect all aspects of protected area management, including natural and cultural resource protection, operations and infrastructure, and visitor use and experience. To structure adaptation thinking for protected area management, ...
Climate Change Science for Mesoamerican Decision Makers
... subject of concern today. Projections of future emissions of GHGs are based on assumptions of economic development, population growth, alternative energy development, and technological change. No one emission scenario is ‘correct’, or even has the greatest likelihood of occurrence. Weather and clima ...
... subject of concern today. Projections of future emissions of GHGs are based on assumptions of economic development, population growth, alternative energy development, and technological change. No one emission scenario is ‘correct’, or even has the greatest likelihood of occurrence. Weather and clima ...
njpn-environment-group-notes-dates-and-resources-september-2016
... Bernard recently assessed Stowmarket parish in East Anglia Diocese and felt the process could be improved to support parishes in their application. He felt the local CAFOD rep was a great help. Diss parish is now registered for the award. CAFOD Campaigning CAFOD’s liturgy for Creation Time on 1 Sept ...
... Bernard recently assessed Stowmarket parish in East Anglia Diocese and felt the process could be improved to support parishes in their application. He felt the local CAFOD rep was a great help. Diss parish is now registered for the award. CAFOD Campaigning CAFOD’s liturgy for Creation Time on 1 Sept ...
full text - MODUL University Vienna
... One of the most significant challenges for communities around the globe is perceived to be the continuous increase of the global mean temperature. Much literature has been discussing this topic thoroughly and many suggestions have been made, which ought to be the solution to this pressing topic. The ...
... One of the most significant challenges for communities around the globe is perceived to be the continuous increase of the global mean temperature. Much literature has been discussing this topic thoroughly and many suggestions have been made, which ought to be the solution to this pressing topic. The ...
1. dia - The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern
... treaty to reduce emissions) to allow further economic development have nearly doubled their allowed growth. Ireland, for example, has seen greenhouse gas emissions grow by nearly 26 percent when, under the terms of the treaty, they should only rise by 13 percent. The treaty signatories have until 20 ...
... treaty to reduce emissions) to allow further economic development have nearly doubled their allowed growth. Ireland, for example, has seen greenhouse gas emissions grow by nearly 26 percent when, under the terms of the treaty, they should only rise by 13 percent. The treaty signatories have until 20 ...
Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons
... mocked and scorned by many of his colleagues for this emphasis, but it proved critical to achieving the landmark settlement. For the previous four decades, the tobacco industry had not lost a single legal case nor been forced to release most of its internal documents. But attorneys began to see the ...
... mocked and scorned by many of his colleagues for this emphasis, but it proved critical to achieving the landmark settlement. For the previous four decades, the tobacco industry had not lost a single legal case nor been forced to release most of its internal documents. But attorneys began to see the ...
Dynamics of climate and ecosystem coupling: abrupt changes and
... in response to the enhanced damages in order to lower emissions sufficiently to prevent the THC collapse in an optimization run of E-DICE. The enhanced carbon tax actually ‘works’ to decrease emissions and thus avoid future damages. Keller et al. (2000) support these results, finding that significan ...
... in response to the enhanced damages in order to lower emissions sufficiently to prevent the THC collapse in an optimization run of E-DICE. The enhanced carbon tax actually ‘works’ to decrease emissions and thus avoid future damages. Keller et al. (2000) support these results, finding that significan ...
Preparing for the future – Ofwat`s climate change policy statement
... further than to produce the water from another source. In November 2007, we published best practice guidance on how to take external factors (of which GHG emissions are a major component) into account when calculating the economic level of leakage. We require each company to use this guidance in the ...
... further than to produce the water from another source. In November 2007, we published best practice guidance on how to take external factors (of which GHG emissions are a major component) into account when calculating the economic level of leakage. We require each company to use this guidance in the ...
The EU and the progressive alliance negotiating in Durban
... have little ‘hard power’ compared with key stakeholders such as the US and the emerging economies, the Cartagena group’s cooperation has been viewed as the reason behind agreement being reached on the Roadmap for Future Action at the Durban Summit of December 2011. This outcome has also been seen as ...
... have little ‘hard power’ compared with key stakeholders such as the US and the emerging economies, the Cartagena group’s cooperation has been viewed as the reason behind agreement being reached on the Roadmap for Future Action at the Durban Summit of December 2011. This outcome has also been seen as ...
The Effects of Climate Change on Public Health and the Healthcare
... our planet and in a state of equilibrium. (EPA, 2011) Carbon dioxide in the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas, produced by the burning of fossil fuels and also less often due to the changes in land use. Changes in land use have decreased the capacity of “carbon sinks,” such as forests and ...
... our planet and in a state of equilibrium. (EPA, 2011) Carbon dioxide in the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas, produced by the burning of fossil fuels and also less often due to the changes in land use. Changes in land use have decreased the capacity of “carbon sinks,” such as forests and ...
Climate Change - The Climate Institute
... lifting aerosols (such as sulphur dioxide) and dust high into the air, reflecting sunlight back into space and actually causing widespread cooling for several years.36 ...
... lifting aerosols (such as sulphur dioxide) and dust high into the air, reflecting sunlight back into space and actually causing widespread cooling for several years.36 ...
Climate modeling at various spatial and temporal scales: where can
... Sensitivity of a system is an issue that requires adequate knowledge of its current conditions for sustainability, and the range of stresses that it can withstand without significant damage. Vulnerability of a system is the extent to which it may be damaged by changing environmental stresses; this m ...
... Sensitivity of a system is an issue that requires adequate knowledge of its current conditions for sustainability, and the range of stresses that it can withstand without significant damage. Vulnerability of a system is the extent to which it may be damaged by changing environmental stresses; this m ...
Is it Ethical to Use a Single Probability Density Function?
... Ethical reasoning is required because climate change will affect many people in current and future generations. Quantitative analysis is required to understand how today’s actions might influence those potential consequences. But the character of many climate-related decisions – in particular deep u ...
... Ethical reasoning is required because climate change will affect many people in current and future generations. Quantitative analysis is required to understand how today’s actions might influence those potential consequences. But the character of many climate-related decisions – in particular deep u ...
A critical exploration of the concept of `climate stabilization`
... needed to reduce emissions and create the right incentives for investment in clean technology will be to decide what level we should aim to stabilize green house gas concentrations and global temperature levels. This must be the heart of future negotiations on climate change, bringing together scien ...
... needed to reduce emissions and create the right incentives for investment in clean technology will be to decide what level we should aim to stabilize green house gas concentrations and global temperature levels. This must be the heart of future negotiations on climate change, bringing together scien ...
Entry into force of the Paris Agreement - iied iied
... contain specific rules for regional economic integration Its task is to prepare draft decisions to be organisations joining it, such as the European Union. If recommended through the COP to the CMA for one or more member states of these organisations is consideration and adoption at its first sessio ...
... contain specific rules for regional economic integration Its task is to prepare draft decisions to be organisations joining it, such as the European Union. If recommended through the COP to the CMA for one or more member states of these organisations is consideration and adoption at its first sessio ...