Sub-activity 6.1.1 Pressures on environment and
... trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies at multiple scales. ADAM will support EU policy development in the next stage of the development of the Kyoto Protocol, in particular negotiations around a post-2012 global climate policy regime, and will inform the emerg ...
... trade-offs and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies at multiple scales. ADAM will support EU policy development in the next stage of the development of the Kyoto Protocol, in particular negotiations around a post-2012 global climate policy regime, and will inform the emerg ...
Climate Programme for Finnish Agriculture - Maa
... food production and responsible consumption. By improving sustainability in a comprehensive way it is also possible to increase the profitability of production. The objective is to improve energy and material efficiency and reduce emissions per litre or kilo of production. The array of technology so ...
... food production and responsible consumption. By improving sustainability in a comprehensive way it is also possible to increase the profitability of production. The objective is to improve energy and material efficiency and reduce emissions per litre or kilo of production. The array of technology so ...
COP 17 and accountants: where next? AccountAncy futures
... speak up to ensure their experiences, innovations, and concerns feed into the policymaking process. For policymakers Inclusivity Policymakers need to ensure that private finance and business initiatives become part of a co-ordinated international programme of action if gains in international climate ...
... speak up to ensure their experiences, innovations, and concerns feed into the policymaking process. For policymakers Inclusivity Policymakers need to ensure that private finance and business initiatives become part of a co-ordinated international programme of action if gains in international climate ...
Fighting Fossil Fuels First
... has, however, contributed to the false assumption that forests can offset fossil fuel emissions. This has to some extent distracted climate policy-making, moving it away from the urgent need to stop burning fossil fuels. This is bad for forests. If temperatures rise above 2° C, many tropical forests ...
... has, however, contributed to the false assumption that forests can offset fossil fuel emissions. This has to some extent distracted climate policy-making, moving it away from the urgent need to stop burning fossil fuels. This is bad for forests. If temperatures rise above 2° C, many tropical forests ...
Municipal Adaptation and Resiliency Service (MARS)
... Following Hurricane Hazel, Ontario developed regulations that restricted developments on flood plains Following the August 2005 storm, the City of Toronto developed new overflow protection for Black Creek Following heat waves in the 1980’s and 1990’s, many municipalities developed heat alert a ...
... Following Hurricane Hazel, Ontario developed regulations that restricted developments on flood plains Following the August 2005 storm, the City of Toronto developed new overflow protection for Black Creek Following heat waves in the 1980’s and 1990’s, many municipalities developed heat alert a ...
based Climate Change Policy in Japan
... z Asia-Pacific Network (APN), established in 1996 for Gloabal Change Research, received financial support by Japan, USA, Republic of Korea and New Zealand. Japan also assists developing countries’ adaptation actions both in terms of their plans and implementation by applying Japan’s Technology for a ...
... z Asia-Pacific Network (APN), established in 1996 for Gloabal Change Research, received financial support by Japan, USA, Republic of Korea and New Zealand. Japan also assists developing countries’ adaptation actions both in terms of their plans and implementation by applying Japan’s Technology for a ...
GEOENGINEERING: WORTHY OF CAUTIOUS EVALUATION? An
... consideration of geoengineering as one of the possible approaches, and indeed a meeting was held in the fall of 2001 and a draft report prepared (Ehsan Khan, personal communication). A powerful argument against proceeding emerged, namely that if a viable and low cost geoengineering alternative reall ...
... consideration of geoengineering as one of the possible approaches, and indeed a meeting was held in the fall of 2001 and a draft report prepared (Ehsan Khan, personal communication). A powerful argument against proceeding emerged, namely that if a viable and low cost geoengineering alternative reall ...
FSN in Energy - World bank documents
... Crude oil is produced in Vietnam from 10 offshore areas, including one jointly held by Malaysia and Vietnam. Crude oil production grew from 16 million tons in 2000 to 20 million tons in 2004. Since 2005, output has decreased due to the decreasing productivity of the main field, Bach Ho. Plans based ...
... Crude oil is produced in Vietnam from 10 offshore areas, including one jointly held by Malaysia and Vietnam. Crude oil production grew from 16 million tons in 2000 to 20 million tons in 2004. Since 2005, output has decreased due to the decreasing productivity of the main field, Bach Ho. Plans based ...
Over-leased: How Production Horizons of Already Leased Federal
... Assuming current global CO2 emissions continue at 2014 rates, and U.S. fossil fuel production continues as estimated by the EIA, we project that existing federal leases will still be producing fossil fuels long after global carbon budgets have been exhausted. Our analysis found that for all fossil ...
... Assuming current global CO2 emissions continue at 2014 rates, and U.S. fossil fuel production continues as estimated by the EIA, we project that existing federal leases will still be producing fossil fuels long after global carbon budgets have been exhausted. Our analysis found that for all fossil ...
Contribution of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
... Natural emissions account for about 12.1 million metric tons per year, primarily due to nitrification and denitrification processes in the soil, releases from the oceans, rivers, and estuaries, and from wildfires. Together, vegetative soils and oceans contribute nearly 95 percent of all natural nitr ...
... Natural emissions account for about 12.1 million metric tons per year, primarily due to nitrification and denitrification processes in the soil, releases from the oceans, rivers, and estuaries, and from wildfires. Together, vegetative soils and oceans contribute nearly 95 percent of all natural nitr ...
Economic Globalization, Global energy issues and Climate Change
... effects (Stern, 2006). It also highlights the necessity to implement ambitious measures in order to trigger a strong bifurcation away from carbon intensive development paths (IPCC, 2007). Despite this scientific consensus, the implementation of ambitious global carbon emission reductions targets rem ...
... effects (Stern, 2006). It also highlights the necessity to implement ambitious measures in order to trigger a strong bifurcation away from carbon intensive development paths (IPCC, 2007). Despite this scientific consensus, the implementation of ambitious global carbon emission reductions targets rem ...
successful adaptation implementation
... This report focuses on the challenge of implementing city-level climate change adaptation policies. We were tasked with researching strategies that could guide Washington DC’s District Department of the Environment (DDOE) as they prepare their Climate Resiliency and Adaptation Plan for the District. ...
... This report focuses on the challenge of implementing city-level climate change adaptation policies. We were tasked with researching strategies that could guide Washington DC’s District Department of the Environment (DDOE) as they prepare their Climate Resiliency and Adaptation Plan for the District. ...
02_Lunch_BWielicki Economic Value - A
... – SW CRF decadal change signal varies more directly with climate sensitivity and over a wider range of signal – CLARREO reflected solar calibration advance is larger (factor of 5 to 10) than infrared (factor of 3 to 5) – Shorter autocorrelation time for natural variability of SW CRF: not related to ...
... – SW CRF decadal change signal varies more directly with climate sensitivity and over a wider range of signal – CLARREO reflected solar calibration advance is larger (factor of 5 to 10) than infrared (factor of 3 to 5) – Shorter autocorrelation time for natural variability of SW CRF: not related to ...
ACP common position paper - Global Climate Change Alliance
... livelihoods, peace and security, causing threats to water and food security and displacement of our peoples. ...
... livelihoods, peace and security, causing threats to water and food security and displacement of our peoples. ...
Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund 2016 Request for
... Dr. Peter Snyder will lead the project. He will oversee a post‐‐‐doctoral scholar and a graduate student who will conduct the model simulations and processing of the data. Dr. Snyder will work with university staff to deploy the server. He, the post‐doc, student, and the Minnesota Climate Adaptat ...
... Dr. Peter Snyder will lead the project. He will oversee a post‐‐‐doctoral scholar and a graduate student who will conduct the model simulations and processing of the data. Dr. Snyder will work with university staff to deploy the server. He, the post‐doc, student, and the Minnesota Climate Adaptat ...
150716_CWCF statement on climate change_final
... CWCF joins a diverse and growing movement within society described in the backgrounder. ...
... CWCF joins a diverse and growing movement within society described in the backgrounder. ...
Climate policy and uncertainty: the roles of adaptation versus
... countries having large carbon emissions. Moreover, that absence of a rigid upper limit on carbon emissions would also increase the possibility of significant participation by developing countries. The hybrid policy would have many other desirable attributes as well. These are summarized briefly belo ...
... countries having large carbon emissions. Moreover, that absence of a rigid upper limit on carbon emissions would also increase the possibility of significant participation by developing countries. The hybrid policy would have many other desirable attributes as well. These are summarized briefly belo ...
PPT - WMO
... “Climate information” may be seen in this context as the ‘state-of-theart’ of exploitation of past climatological records as well as climate ...
... “Climate information” may be seen in this context as the ‘state-of-theart’ of exploitation of past climatological records as well as climate ...
Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Abatement
... other policy tools are at her disposal. In particular, if there are income inequalities between different world regions and the global planner cannot redistribute wealth between regions via some mechanism other than emission taxes, she would set emission taxes higher in high-income countries and low ...
... other policy tools are at her disposal. In particular, if there are income inequalities between different world regions and the global planner cannot redistribute wealth between regions via some mechanism other than emission taxes, she would set emission taxes higher in high-income countries and low ...
Course Title - Institute for Security Studies
... prices lead to a disgruntled urban population in Kenya who take to the streets in protest. Kenyans react negatively to the presence of Somali refugees in their midst, as the refugees are seen as competing for limited foodstuffs and carrying out violent attacks in urban areas and in the northeastern ...
... prices lead to a disgruntled urban population in Kenya who take to the streets in protest. Kenyans react negatively to the presence of Somali refugees in their midst, as the refugees are seen as competing for limited foodstuffs and carrying out violent attacks in urban areas and in the northeastern ...
Carbon and nitrogen cycles in agroecosystems in response to
... • 2.5% of fertilizer N (Davidson 2009) • 3-5% of fertilizer N (Crutzen et al. 2008) Can we simply use the emissions factor to calculate N2O emissions? ...
... • 2.5% of fertilizer N (Davidson 2009) • 3-5% of fertilizer N (Crutzen et al. 2008) Can we simply use the emissions factor to calculate N2O emissions? ...
Stewardship: Energy, Climate and You
... them to identify human activities that use energy as depicted on the poster. You can make a list of their ideas on chart paper, as well as have them copy down their ideas. Examples include transportation, development of natural resources, electricity and heat in the home, ...
... them to identify human activities that use energy as depicted on the poster. You can make a list of their ideas on chart paper, as well as have them copy down their ideas. Examples include transportation, development of natural resources, electricity and heat in the home, ...
Special Report on Emission Scenario’s
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
Document
... The digital Atlas developed with stakeholders is a useful communication tool in this dialogue. Which results, scales, scenarios will be most helpful to stakeholders? ...
... The digital Atlas developed with stakeholders is a useful communication tool in this dialogue. Which results, scales, scenarios will be most helpful to stakeholders? ...