Climate Change: Current Issues and Policy Tools
... economic stakes are potentially large – with both the costs of controls and the “costs of inaction” ranging, by some estimates, into trillions of dollars over several decades. A major international assessment released in 2007 concluded that the Earth’s climate had warmed unequivocally over the past ...
... economic stakes are potentially large – with both the costs of controls and the “costs of inaction” ranging, by some estimates, into trillions of dollars over several decades. A major international assessment released in 2007 concluded that the Earth’s climate had warmed unequivocally over the past ...
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... The presentations stressed the fact that various biophysical risks (weather, animal diseases, plant pests) are going to change – in terms of their nature, frequency and location – and in many cases in an uncertain way. This makes the need for tools and means to monitor risks even more necessary. The ...
... The presentations stressed the fact that various biophysical risks (weather, animal diseases, plant pests) are going to change – in terms of their nature, frequency and location – and in many cases in an uncertain way. This makes the need for tools and means to monitor risks even more necessary. The ...
9 Towards global agreemenT Key points
... are thought to be lower under a price-based instrument for stock pollutants such as greenhouse gases, so getting the price wrong under a tax imposes smaller welfare losses than getting the quantity wrong under a quantity target. Proponents of price-based emissions control have pointed out that a com ...
... are thought to be lower under a price-based instrument for stock pollutants such as greenhouse gases, so getting the price wrong under a tax imposes smaller welfare losses than getting the quantity wrong under a quantity target. Proponents of price-based emissions control have pointed out that a com ...
PBL rapport 500114012 Meeting the 2 degrees Celsius target
... analyses over the last few years that provide answers to some of these questions. In 2006, the publication ‘From Climate Objective to Emission Reduction’ combined a broad range of scientific information, to provide insight into the implications of various climate goals. The current publication provi ...
... analyses over the last few years that provide answers to some of these questions. In 2006, the publication ‘From Climate Objective to Emission Reduction’ combined a broad range of scientific information, to provide insight into the implications of various climate goals. The current publication provi ...
Climate Choices for a Sustainable Southwest
... This chapter provides an integrated overview of solutions and choices for responding to climate change in ways that reduce risks and support sustainable development in the Southwest. The goal is to illustrate the range of choices for responding to climate change, along with some of the relevant trad ...
... This chapter provides an integrated overview of solutions and choices for responding to climate change in ways that reduce risks and support sustainable development in the Southwest. The goal is to illustrate the range of choices for responding to climate change, along with some of the relevant trad ...
Paying for carbon emissions reduction
... Official values for policy appraisal The UK government’s “official value” of one tonne of carbon has been revised repeatedly (Figure 3). In 2006, the Stern Review, an influential government publication on the economics of climate change, reported that the “social cost of carbon” was around £64/tCO2 ...
... Official values for policy appraisal The UK government’s “official value” of one tonne of carbon has been revised repeatedly (Figure 3). In 2006, the Stern Review, an influential government publication on the economics of climate change, reported that the “social cost of carbon” was around £64/tCO2 ...
as a PDF
... instance, the emissions corridors presented in detail in Toth et al., 2003a), as well as reachable state domains (like the reachable climate domains discussed in this paper) of the coupled anthroposphere-climate system are considered to be the most important results that can be derived by applying t ...
... instance, the emissions corridors presented in detail in Toth et al., 2003a), as well as reachable state domains (like the reachable climate domains discussed in this paper) of the coupled anthroposphere-climate system are considered to be the most important results that can be derived by applying t ...
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... unobserved determinants of agricultural profits, so it offers a possible solution to the omitted variable bias problems that appear to plague the hedonic approach. Using long-run climate change predictions from the Hadley 2 Model, their preferred estimates indicate that climate change will lead to a ...
... unobserved determinants of agricultural profits, so it offers a possible solution to the omitted variable bias problems that appear to plague the hedonic approach. Using long-run climate change predictions from the Hadley 2 Model, their preferred estimates indicate that climate change will lead to a ...
HFA 2 Priorities from Nepal National and local governments, NGOs
... What targets and indicators could be used to measure progress and underpin accountability measures? - Targets: risk assessment map (multi-hazard risks) should be developed at national level and at vulnerable districts; nonlife insurance needs to incorporate DRM; agreement on a harmonized risk sensi ...
... What targets and indicators could be used to measure progress and underpin accountability measures? - Targets: risk assessment map (multi-hazard risks) should be developed at national level and at vulnerable districts; nonlife insurance needs to incorporate DRM; agreement on a harmonized risk sensi ...
Results Report - World Wide Views on Climate and Energy
... We hope that political decision makers will make use of the unique insights presented by WWViews on Climate and Energy, and We are very excited that World Wide Views on carefully consider the Climate and Energy is being organized and views of the citizens when happy to collaborate with such an impor ...
... We hope that political decision makers will make use of the unique insights presented by WWViews on Climate and Energy, and We are very excited that World Wide Views on carefully consider the Climate and Energy is being organized and views of the citizens when happy to collaborate with such an impor ...
Extreme Weather Events and Disaster Preparedness
... Climate Action Network (CAN) - network of roughly 500 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. The African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN) - promotes applied discussion on key issues linking drought ...
... Climate Action Network (CAN) - network of roughly 500 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. The African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN) - promotes applied discussion on key issues linking drought ...
The Poverty Impacts of Climate Change
... Assunção and Chein (2009) estimate that, on average, agricultural output per hectare could decrease by 18 percent by 2040 as a result of climate change, but that at the municipality level, impacts could range from a decrease of 40 percent to an increase of 15 percent. They predict that the poverty r ...
... Assunção and Chein (2009) estimate that, on average, agricultural output per hectare could decrease by 18 percent by 2040 as a result of climate change, but that at the municipality level, impacts could range from a decrease of 40 percent to an increase of 15 percent. They predict that the poverty r ...
Sustainability Plan
... This Sustainability Plan document was prepared for the Town of DeWitt by the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board (CNY RPDB), a public agency that was established in 1966 by Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, and Oswego Counties under the provisions of Article 12B of the New Yo ...
... This Sustainability Plan document was prepared for the Town of DeWitt by the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board (CNY RPDB), a public agency that was established in 1966 by Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, and Oswego Counties under the provisions of Article 12B of the New Yo ...
The Social Cost of Carbon
... has focused on the costs of mitigation, but there is an increasing interest in the economic costs (social costs) of climate change. In the UK, these are usually referred to as the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), and can be used to assess the economic benefits of climate change policy. The Social Cost o ...
... has focused on the costs of mitigation, but there is an increasing interest in the economic costs (social costs) of climate change. In the UK, these are usually referred to as the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), and can be used to assess the economic benefits of climate change policy. The Social Cost o ...
Official PDF , 5 pages
... Assunção and Chein (2009) estimate that, on average, agricultural output per hectare could decrease by 18 percent by 2040 as a result of climate change, but that at the municipality level, impacts could range from a decrease of 40 percent to an increase of 15 percent. They predict that the poverty r ...
... Assunção and Chein (2009) estimate that, on average, agricultural output per hectare could decrease by 18 percent by 2040 as a result of climate change, but that at the municipality level, impacts could range from a decrease of 40 percent to an increase of 15 percent. They predict that the poverty r ...
publication (accessible PDF, 2.8 MB)
... new development paths leading to forward-looking economies and social systems. This is the only way to achieve the ambitious targets stipulated in the Paris Climate Agreement: limit global warming to two or Mitigating even 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. greenhouse It is the only way ...
... new development paths leading to forward-looking economies and social systems. This is the only way to achieve the ambitious targets stipulated in the Paris Climate Agreement: limit global warming to two or Mitigating even 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. greenhouse It is the only way ...
From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives: Working Paper 13 (418 kB) (opens in new window)
... What are the typical results of running models like this? Insofar as one can draw a caricature, economic evaluations of climate change have tended to conclude, on the one hand, that both adaptation and mitigation are efficient strategies (thus in respect of mitigation they contradict the climate ‘d ...
... What are the typical results of running models like this? Insofar as one can draw a caricature, economic evaluations of climate change have tended to conclude, on the one hand, that both adaptation and mitigation are efficient strategies (thus in respect of mitigation they contradict the climate ‘d ...
Working Paper 136 - Dietz and Matei 2013 revised October 2014 (opens in new window)
... which normative differences may never be completely eliminated. Positive ‘uncertainties’ could in principle be eliminated by collecting more empirical data from, for instance, market behaviour, questionnaire surveys or laboratory experiments, but in reality it is likely that they will persist. Witne ...
... which normative differences may never be completely eliminated. Positive ‘uncertainties’ could in principle be eliminated by collecting more empirical data from, for instance, market behaviour, questionnaire surveys or laboratory experiments, but in reality it is likely that they will persist. Witne ...
Working Paper Series - Griffith University
... possible redirection of resources into climate-ameliorating retooling of the energy and transport systems and changes in science and research is made, just as the UK government organised major reallocations of resources during the second world war. The problem she identifies is the contemporary libe ...
... possible redirection of resources into climate-ameliorating retooling of the energy and transport systems and changes in science and research is made, just as the UK government organised major reallocations of resources during the second world war. The problem she identifies is the contemporary libe ...
the new climate message
... the old and dirty with the new and green. We can switch high consumption, high stress, and high heart disease lifestyles for something more desirable. What will it look like, feel like, and be like if we manage to pull it off ? That is the picture we need to create. That is the dream that will becom ...
... the old and dirty with the new and green. We can switch high consumption, high stress, and high heart disease lifestyles for something more desirable. What will it look like, feel like, and be like if we manage to pull it off ? That is the picture we need to create. That is the dream that will becom ...
Finding your place on the science – advocacy continuum
... IPCC reports from 1991 through 2013. The then-record global annual mean temperature of 1988 has been surpassed in 19 times out of 24 chances. The media platforms through which climate change are discussed have arguably changed even more than the climate itself. Centralized information sources like t ...
... IPCC reports from 1991 through 2013. The then-record global annual mean temperature of 1988 has been surpassed in 19 times out of 24 chances. The media platforms through which climate change are discussed have arguably changed even more than the climate itself. Centralized information sources like t ...
world climate news
... Highlights from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Implications of AR4 for global agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
... Highlights from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Implications of AR4 for global agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Slide 1
... • Even Germany is planning up to 20 new coal power plants- plus 40% renewables – both could be subsidised Currently the politics of energy security is shaping energy markets far more than the politics of climate change February 2009 ...
... • Even Germany is planning up to 20 new coal power plants- plus 40% renewables – both could be subsidised Currently the politics of energy security is shaping energy markets far more than the politics of climate change February 2009 ...
Pulling Answers Out of the Air
... be condensed into a liquid that would be transported and stored somewhere indefinitely where it could not leak into the atmosphere. If several hundreds or thousands of CCS systems were deployed globally this century, each capturing 1 to 5 MtCO2 per year, collectively they could contribute between 15 ...
... be condensed into a liquid that would be transported and stored somewhere indefinitely where it could not leak into the atmosphere. If several hundreds or thousands of CCS systems were deployed globally this century, each capturing 1 to 5 MtCO2 per year, collectively they could contribute between 15 ...
Go Green: Ontario`s Action Plan on Climate Change
... provide incentives to convert 1,000 of Ontario’s medium-duty commercial vehicles to hybrid electric and other fuel-efficient technologies. Several green vehicle technologies are available that can significantly reduce the environmental impact of commercial trucking. For example, commercial hybrid ve ...
... provide incentives to convert 1,000 of Ontario’s medium-duty commercial vehicles to hybrid electric and other fuel-efficient technologies. Several green vehicle technologies are available that can significantly reduce the environmental impact of commercial trucking. For example, commercial hybrid ve ...