Tools & Processes for Adaptation
... Inefficient replication limited – targeting particular niche Different users; purposes (project design, portfolio evaluation); aims (evaluate risk; evaluate adaptive capacity); scales Willingness to share tools and approaches – but early days Broadly common approach – see climate-related impacts as ...
... Inefficient replication limited – targeting particular niche Different users; purposes (project design, portfolio evaluation); aims (evaluate risk; evaluate adaptive capacity); scales Willingness to share tools and approaches – but early days Broadly common approach – see climate-related impacts as ...
New Zealand`s
... global long-term issue necessitating a global response. New Zealand is committed to being part of this response and has gazetted a target of reducing emissions to 50 percent of 1990 levels by 2050. The Climate Change Response Act 2002 (the Act) contains the legal framework which enables New Zealand ...
... global long-term issue necessitating a global response. New Zealand is committed to being part of this response and has gazetted a target of reducing emissions to 50 percent of 1990 levels by 2050. The Climate Change Response Act 2002 (the Act) contains the legal framework which enables New Zealand ...
Doc 86 Rev2 ICT&CC Joint Coordination Activity (JCA- ICT&CC) English only
... Ahmed Zeddam and Dave Faulkner, Co-Chairman of JCA-ICT&CC, Introduction of participants Approval of the meeting agenda Chairman’s report JCA and SG5 Mr. Ahmed Zeddam 09:45 – 11:00 Overview of activities on Climate Change Adaptation and ICTs Mr. Festus Luboyera, UNFCCC Secretariat (15 Minutes ...
... Ahmed Zeddam and Dave Faulkner, Co-Chairman of JCA-ICT&CC, Introduction of participants Approval of the meeting agenda Chairman’s report JCA and SG5 Mr. Ahmed Zeddam 09:45 – 11:00 Overview of activities on Climate Change Adaptation and ICTs Mr. Festus Luboyera, UNFCCC Secretariat (15 Minutes ...
1.1 Safety in the Science Classroom
... • Being in the northern hemisphere, Canada should expect to feel the effects of global warming quite severely. Parts of Canada have had average temperature increases of 0.5 ºC to 1.5 ºC. Southern, and Western, parts of the country have been most affected. The Arctic regions are losing permafro ...
... • Being in the northern hemisphere, Canada should expect to feel the effects of global warming quite severely. Parts of Canada have had average temperature increases of 0.5 ºC to 1.5 ºC. Southern, and Western, parts of the country have been most affected. The Arctic regions are losing permafro ...
Black Carbon - State/Local Air Pollution Control Agencies
... Mitigating BC: Key Considerations For both climate and health, it is important to consider the location and timing of emissions and to account for co-emissions. Available control technologies can reduce BC, generally by improving combustion and/or controlling direct PM2.5 emissions from sources ...
... Mitigating BC: Key Considerations For both climate and health, it is important to consider the location and timing of emissions and to account for co-emissions. Available control technologies can reduce BC, generally by improving combustion and/or controlling direct PM2.5 emissions from sources ...
Appendix 2_Methodology for the assessment of policy simplification (opens in new window)
... Climate Change Agreement (CCA): The identification of the sectors covered by the CCA is more complicated, given the policy applies to categories which are smaller than those represented by the broad SIC 2-digit classification used in our database. To estimate a reasonable share of emissions covered ...
... Climate Change Agreement (CCA): The identification of the sectors covered by the CCA is more complicated, given the policy applies to categories which are smaller than those represented by the broad SIC 2-digit classification used in our database. To estimate a reasonable share of emissions covered ...
Doc 86 Rev1 ICT&CC Joint Coordination Activity (JCA- ICT&CC) English only
... Ahmed Zeddam and Dave Faulkner, Co-Chairman of JCA-ICT&CC, Introduction of participants Approval of the meeting agenda Chairman’s report JCA and SG5 Mr. Ahmed Zeddam 09:45 – 11:00 Overview of activities on Climate Change Adaptation and ICTs Mr. Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC (15 Minutes) Mr. Richa ...
... Ahmed Zeddam and Dave Faulkner, Co-Chairman of JCA-ICT&CC, Introduction of participants Approval of the meeting agenda Chairman’s report JCA and SG5 Mr. Ahmed Zeddam 09:45 – 11:00 Overview of activities on Climate Change Adaptation and ICTs Mr. Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC (15 Minutes) Mr. Richa ...
Climate change action post Paris: What now for New Zealand
... timely to examine what these developments are likely to mean in the context of the Resource Management Act 1991’s (RMA) role in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Mitigating climate change: RMA ‘good cop’ role Business-as-usual will not achieve New Zealand’s 2030 target. The Government is cu ...
... timely to examine what these developments are likely to mean in the context of the Resource Management Act 1991’s (RMA) role in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Mitigating climate change: RMA ‘good cop’ role Business-as-usual will not achieve New Zealand’s 2030 target. The Government is cu ...
or, Candidate B who says that climate change is an exaggerated
... carbon emissions helps America by making us less dependent on Middle Eastern oil that helps fund Islamic terrorists; or, Candidate B who says that requiring cuts in carbon emissions hurts America by making it harder to use coal, our most abundant home-grown source of energy. ...
... carbon emissions helps America by making us less dependent on Middle Eastern oil that helps fund Islamic terrorists; or, Candidate B who says that requiring cuts in carbon emissions hurts America by making it harder to use coal, our most abundant home-grown source of energy. ...
Climate_models_2012 - The Global Change Program at the
... change is just one facet of the subset of threats that we face from the denial of science, the rise of opinions over facts, and the forced restraint of our ability and freedom to develop and use our minds. Rep. Paul Broun (Georgia): "All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the ...
... change is just one facet of the subset of threats that we face from the denial of science, the rise of opinions over facts, and the forced restraint of our ability and freedom to develop and use our minds. Rep. Paul Broun (Georgia): "All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the ...
pdf
... 10:00 Science and Society Dr. Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell University, Department of Communication and Science & Technological Studies 10:40 Climate Change and the Media: Dr. Holly Menninger, Cornell University 11:20 BREAK 11:30 Guidelines for Communicating about Science with Diverse Audiences. Dr. Bru ...
... 10:00 Science and Society Dr. Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell University, Department of Communication and Science & Technological Studies 10:40 Climate Change and the Media: Dr. Holly Menninger, Cornell University 11:20 BREAK 11:30 Guidelines for Communicating about Science with Diverse Audiences. Dr. Bru ...
National Energy Innovation Survey
... “Government regulations should be updated, streamlined, and cut to allow for increased development of newer and cleaner energy sources like hydropower, wind, solar, natural gas, and nuclear.” Independents saw the most powerful statement as one focused on public and private partnerships, 92% favored ...
... “Government regulations should be updated, streamlined, and cut to allow for increased development of newer and cleaner energy sources like hydropower, wind, solar, natural gas, and nuclear.” Independents saw the most powerful statement as one focused on public and private partnerships, 92% favored ...
Document
... GWP, GTP and Climate Change GWP is used to make comparisons of relative contributions among GHGs to global warming by comparing the ability of each gas to trap radiation in the atmosphere over a chosen time horizon. Global Temperature change Potential (GTP), which is change in GMST at a chosen poin ...
... GWP, GTP and Climate Change GWP is used to make comparisons of relative contributions among GHGs to global warming by comparing the ability of each gas to trap radiation in the atmosphere over a chosen time horizon. Global Temperature change Potential (GTP), which is change in GMST at a chosen poin ...
PDF - The Property and Environment Research Center
... grow, greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising. And in a world with more cars each day and ever-greater demand for electricity, the only way greenhouse gas emissions will decline is if the world shifts to wind, solar, hydro, or nuclear energy and if electric vehicles replace fossilfuel powered ones ...
... grow, greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising. And in a world with more cars each day and ever-greater demand for electricity, the only way greenhouse gas emissions will decline is if the world shifts to wind, solar, hydro, or nuclear energy and if electric vehicles replace fossilfuel powered ones ...
the ultimate tipping point: destruction of the present biosphere
... factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be “lost forever” . . .”1 “Anything built from now on that produces carbon will do so for decades, and thi ...
... factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be “lost forever” . . .”1 “Anything built from now on that produces carbon will do so for decades, and thi ...
Discovering spatio-temporal cascade patterns
... interactions violate many assumptions underlying the preliminary work [1]. For example, interactions among climate events may involve long distances or tele-connection. El-nino may impact precipitation and temperature thousands of miles away in a non-linear manner[4]. In addition, global climate dat ...
... interactions violate many assumptions underlying the preliminary work [1]. For example, interactions among climate events may involve long distances or tele-connection. El-nino may impact precipitation and temperature thousands of miles away in a non-linear manner[4]. In addition, global climate dat ...
State of our Climate
... – Co-benefits: Reduce tropospheric O3; cost-effective energy source (e.g., burn landfill gas) ...
... – Co-benefits: Reduce tropospheric O3; cost-effective energy source (e.g., burn landfill gas) ...
Federated States of Micronesia
... fisheries, green economy, reduced reliance on imported commodities, and an environmentally responsible tourism sector ...
... fisheries, green economy, reduced reliance on imported commodities, and an environmentally responsible tourism sector ...
Alan`s Rotary Presentation
... Could it be a giant hoax and conspiracy among all the world’s scientific organizations and climate scientists? Not a chance! • Scientists gain reputation (and grants) based on the accuracy of their past research. So to knowingly falsify research data/results, which another scientist could discover ...
... Could it be a giant hoax and conspiracy among all the world’s scientific organizations and climate scientists? Not a chance! • Scientists gain reputation (and grants) based on the accuracy of their past research. So to knowingly falsify research data/results, which another scientist could discover ...
Gene Takle - NARCCAP and wind
... carbon emission scenario (A1F1) and still 25% with the most likely carbon scenario (A2). Heating loads would decrease significantly under all scenarios leaving the overall annual aggregated energy consumption only slightly higher than today. But the implications for building systems and electrical p ...
... carbon emission scenario (A1F1) and still 25% with the most likely carbon scenario (A2). Heating loads would decrease significantly under all scenarios leaving the overall annual aggregated energy consumption only slightly higher than today. But the implications for building systems and electrical p ...
Add5 - CEPT
... a) that climate change is now an undeniable reality, and global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is urgent in order to avoid devastating impacts on our societies; b) that the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2010 (WTDC-10) stated that Telecommunications/ICTs can make a substan ...
... a) that climate change is now an undeniable reality, and global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is urgent in order to avoid devastating impacts on our societies; b) that the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2010 (WTDC-10) stated that Telecommunications/ICTs can make a substan ...
Mediation Tools for Resolving Community Planning and
... • A primary excuse for failing to pass GHG legislation vanishes in 2009. • Regional differences within US are physically vast, making consensus on environmental policies very elusive, and with clear leaders and laggards. • China and India + ROW will continue to pump GHGs into the global airshed fast ...
... • A primary excuse for failing to pass GHG legislation vanishes in 2009. • Regional differences within US are physically vast, making consensus on environmental policies very elusive, and with clear leaders and laggards. • China and India + ROW will continue to pump GHGs into the global airshed fast ...
Hot Cities: battle-ground for Climate CHange - UN
... • In countries relying heavily on coal for electricity it can be the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. A study of 15 South African cities indicated that electricity generation was responsible for more than 100 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually or 66 per cent of the tota ...
... • In countries relying heavily on coal for electricity it can be the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. A study of 15 South African cities indicated that electricity generation was responsible for more than 100 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually or 66 per cent of the tota ...