Outcomes of the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016
... interacting challenges facing oceans. Need better protection of wildlife populations, both through law and strengthened enforcement, behavioral change to reduce demand for these illegal products, and enhanced cooperation at all levels, including greater involvement of local communities. Require an i ...
... interacting challenges facing oceans. Need better protection of wildlife populations, both through law and strengthened enforcement, behavioral change to reduce demand for these illegal products, and enhanced cooperation at all levels, including greater involvement of local communities. Require an i ...
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... fundamental for the e¢ cient use of natural resources and the protection of the environment through the design of policy and management rules. This necessitates the development and use of models capable of tracing the main interactions, links and feedbacks. Models are necessary in order to understan ...
... fundamental for the e¢ cient use of natural resources and the protection of the environment through the design of policy and management rules. This necessitates the development and use of models capable of tracing the main interactions, links and feedbacks. Models are necessary in order to understan ...
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... There is a growing consensus that the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will lead to higher temperatures and increased precipitation over the next century. The changes in climate are predicted to have a significant impact on economic activity. One of the most significant way ...
... There is a growing consensus that the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will lead to higher temperatures and increased precipitation over the next century. The changes in climate are predicted to have a significant impact on economic activity. One of the most significant way ...
Climate change threatens the fight against poverty
... which equalize with a global increase of 1,5°C. Met Office Hadley Centre further indicates that the melting of the Greenland ice-cap may lead to a yearly 5 mm sea level rise. In a time span of 100 years this prediction leads to a 50 cm sea level rise and up to 5 meter sea level rise during 1000 yea ...
... which equalize with a global increase of 1,5°C. Met Office Hadley Centre further indicates that the melting of the Greenland ice-cap may lead to a yearly 5 mm sea level rise. In a time span of 100 years this prediction leads to a 50 cm sea level rise and up to 5 meter sea level rise during 1000 yea ...
Key Steps: Mitigation
... Define detailed scope of the sector Identify preliminary mitigation (or adaptation) ...
... Define detailed scope of the sector Identify preliminary mitigation (or adaptation) ...
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... populations by extending the growing season, altering the timing of emergence from overwintering sites, increasing growth and development rates, shorting generation times, increasing the numbers of eggs laid, and changing their geographic distribution [6, 7]. Analogue scenarios which make use of exi ...
... populations by extending the growing season, altering the timing of emergence from overwintering sites, increasing growth and development rates, shorting generation times, increasing the numbers of eggs laid, and changing their geographic distribution [6, 7]. Analogue scenarios which make use of exi ...
eoi maría moliner listening february 2011
... ways of putting a price on them, on the forests, which makes them more valuable alive than dead. How do we do it? The immediate priority, I believe, is the need to develop a new credit market which will give a true value to carbon and the ecosystem services that rainforests provide the rest of the w ...
... ways of putting a price on them, on the forests, which makes them more valuable alive than dead. How do we do it? The immediate priority, I believe, is the need to develop a new credit market which will give a true value to carbon and the ecosystem services that rainforests provide the rest of the w ...
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... that the process of urbanization can be unplanned and informal with frequent struggles over land use. The relationship between urban population density and the environment in its broader sense is further complicated by the spatial displacement of environmental costs. Although it is often argued that ...
... that the process of urbanization can be unplanned and informal with frequent struggles over land use. The relationship between urban population density and the environment in its broader sense is further complicated by the spatial displacement of environmental costs. Although it is often argued that ...
A Global Carbon Market? Michael G. Pollitt
... carbon price at the moment. However, in general, global markets do not have this type of framework. Global markets are actually made up of voluntarily interconnected markets, which produce and trade broadly similar products with price arbitrage between them. The individual markets within the interco ...
... carbon price at the moment. However, in general, global markets do not have this type of framework. Global markets are actually made up of voluntarily interconnected markets, which produce and trade broadly similar products with price arbitrage between them. The individual markets within the interco ...
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... contribute to the eradication of poverty. FAO works closely with many of the world’s most vulnerable populations, especially in Africa, to help them increase their agricultural productivity, while ensuring that the natural resources they depend on are not over exploited or depleted. Agriculture not ...
... contribute to the eradication of poverty. FAO works closely with many of the world’s most vulnerable populations, especially in Africa, to help them increase their agricultural productivity, while ensuring that the natural resources they depend on are not over exploited or depleted. Agriculture not ...
Public Perception of Climate Change Adaptation
... Humans are now unequivocally implicated in contributing to global climate change [1-2]. Strategic action is required both from individuals and the private/public sector to prevent harmful corollaries from climate change to individuals and society at large. Climate change will alter the probability o ...
... Humans are now unequivocally implicated in contributing to global climate change [1-2]. Strategic action is required both from individuals and the private/public sector to prevent harmful corollaries from climate change to individuals and society at large. Climate change will alter the probability o ...
UNEP Topic A: New Perspectives on the Kyoto Protocol FEMUN V III
... Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. More recently, a number of nations approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol (190 of the UNFCCC have ratified it), which has more pow ...
... Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. More recently, a number of nations approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol (190 of the UNFCCC have ratified it), which has more pow ...
progress toward a consensus on carbon emissions from tropical
... well as related uncertainties, were published by Harris et al. at a spatial resolution of 18.5 km. It is likely that the Harris et al. analysis captured most forest land-use changes that result in a large change in canopy cover, such as when forest is cleared for cropland or pasture. Their analysis ...
... well as related uncertainties, were published by Harris et al. at a spatial resolution of 18.5 km. It is likely that the Harris et al. analysis captured most forest land-use changes that result in a large change in canopy cover, such as when forest is cleared for cropland or pasture. Their analysis ...
Climate Change Policy
... include investment in operational improvements or efficiencies at existing mines given that the capacity remains unchanged); ...
... include investment in operational improvements or efficiencies at existing mines given that the capacity remains unchanged); ...
to the Program - International Conference on Climate
... those conferences, making a powerful case that the human impact on climate is small, future changes are uncertain, and there is little humans can do to change the weather. Climate “realists” won that debate. Today, surveys show most Americans don’t believe climate change is a due to human activities ...
... those conferences, making a powerful case that the human impact on climate is small, future changes are uncertain, and there is little humans can do to change the weather. Climate “realists” won that debate. Today, surveys show most Americans don’t believe climate change is a due to human activities ...
The idea of anthropogenic global climate change in the 20th century
... thing that drew attention to human influences on the air was exciting news about manipulating weather. During the 1950s, the press prominently reported attempts to make rain by ‘seeding’ clouds with silver iodide smoke. Scientists speculated about other technical tricks, such as spreading a cloud of ...
... thing that drew attention to human influences on the air was exciting news about manipulating weather. During the 1950s, the press prominently reported attempts to make rain by ‘seeding’ clouds with silver iodide smoke. Scientists speculated about other technical tricks, such as spreading a cloud of ...
Climate change and the oceans: legal and policy
... Additionally, mangroves offer important habitats that currently play a vital role in biodiversity preservation and, for instance, in sustaining regional fisheries upon which millions depend as their primary source of protein. Sea-level rise, flooding and storm activity will also lead to the inundat ...
... Additionally, mangroves offer important habitats that currently play a vital role in biodiversity preservation and, for instance, in sustaining regional fisheries upon which millions depend as their primary source of protein. Sea-level rise, flooding and storm activity will also lead to the inundat ...
Assessment of Climate Change Risks to Energy Reliability in the
... This report is organized into three main sections. The first section provides a regional overview of the WECC region’s changing demographics, energy, water, land, and climate drivers as well as general implications of these changes for energy reliability. The next section includes profiles of eac ...
... This report is organized into three main sections. The first section provides a regional overview of the WECC region’s changing demographics, energy, water, land, and climate drivers as well as general implications of these changes for energy reliability. The next section includes profiles of eac ...
Agreeing on Robust Decisions
... lifetimes, sometimes for centuries, because the long-term socioeconomic system reorganizes itself around those changes. The effect of transport infrastructure on urban forms and economic activities can for example be observed over very long timeframes, sometimes even after the infrastructure has bec ...
... lifetimes, sometimes for centuries, because the long-term socioeconomic system reorganizes itself around those changes. The effect of transport infrastructure on urban forms and economic activities can for example be observed over very long timeframes, sometimes even after the infrastructure has bec ...
Right wing populism and climate change
... and solar, discontinue the carbon floor price and to seek ways to ‘assist and rejuvenate the coal industry.’ For some years, UKIP’s head of policy6 was a prominent climate sceptic and senior party figures frequently make sceptical remarks (refs.). Such openly sceptical and hostile anti-climate chang ...
... and solar, discontinue the carbon floor price and to seek ways to ‘assist and rejuvenate the coal industry.’ For some years, UKIP’s head of policy6 was a prominent climate sceptic and senior party figures frequently make sceptical remarks (refs.). Such openly sceptical and hostile anti-climate chang ...
UNDP Climate Change Inside Eng1
... droughts and floods will cause crop failures that will threaten the livelihoods of farmers. And climate change will hit hardest at the poorest and most vulnerable communities in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, coastal and urban areas. This dramatic reality has in large part been overshadowed by th ...
... droughts and floods will cause crop failures that will threaten the livelihoods of farmers. And climate change will hit hardest at the poorest and most vulnerable communities in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, coastal and urban areas. This dramatic reality has in large part been overshadowed by th ...
Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the World Trade
... decreased competitiveness for European producers as they will either internalize the costs or pass them on to consumers.12 These producers will be effectively shut out from foreign markets, such as the United States, where no such tax exists, and will be undercut in their home market by imported pro ...
... decreased competitiveness for European producers as they will either internalize the costs or pass them on to consumers.12 These producers will be effectively shut out from foreign markets, such as the United States, where no such tax exists, and will be undercut in their home market by imported pro ...
The Global Warming Time Bomb?
... The largest change of climate forcings in recent centuries is caused by human-made greenhouse gases. These gases absorb the Earth’s infrared (heat) radiation. Because they make the atmosphere more opaque in the infrared region, the Earth’s radiation to space emerges from a higher level in the atmosp ...
... The largest change of climate forcings in recent centuries is caused by human-made greenhouse gases. These gases absorb the Earth’s infrared (heat) radiation. Because they make the atmosphere more opaque in the infrared region, the Earth’s radiation to space emerges from a higher level in the atmosp ...
The impacts of climate change on terrestrial Earth surface systems
... poorly represent feedbacks associated with Earth surface processes where the physics is not well known. As such, although biogeochemical climate feedbacks can be parameterized within GCMs21, there are few field data on other feedbacks that are available at scales appropriate for model calibration. T ...
... poorly represent feedbacks associated with Earth surface processes where the physics is not well known. As such, although biogeochemical climate feedbacks can be parameterized within GCMs21, there are few field data on other feedbacks that are available at scales appropriate for model calibration. T ...