Making Climate Data Relevant to Decision Making: The important
... models) outputs focus mostly on changes to temperature and precipitation rather than specific impacts relevant to people; and 3) almost all of the climate change information available is stored in difficult to access formats (e.g. NetCDF Files). Climate models projecting future conditions need to be ...
... models) outputs focus mostly on changes to temperature and precipitation rather than specific impacts relevant to people; and 3) almost all of the climate change information available is stored in difficult to access formats (e.g. NetCDF Files). Climate models projecting future conditions need to be ...
Danish strategy for adaptation to a changing climate
... regulations with respect to environmental-policy goals, for example evaluation in 2008 of the Action Plan for the Aquatic Environment III and the Pesticide Plan 2004–2009. A changed precipitation pattern will also change drainage and irrigation requirements. An information campaign aimed at business ...
... regulations with respect to environmental-policy goals, for example evaluation in 2008 of the Action Plan for the Aquatic Environment III and the Pesticide Plan 2004–2009. A changed precipitation pattern will also change drainage and irrigation requirements. An information campaign aimed at business ...
Integrating Climate Change into Strategic Environmental Assessment in Ireland A Guidance Note
... climate change. One of the key responses is to integrate (or mainstream) climate change into all levels of decision making including policies, plans and programmes and strategies (PPPS). The European Commission (EC) describes mainstreaming as the functional integration of climate change mitigation a ...
... climate change. One of the key responses is to integrate (or mainstream) climate change into all levels of decision making including policies, plans and programmes and strategies (PPPS). The European Commission (EC) describes mainstreaming as the functional integration of climate change mitigation a ...
International Climate Policy, National Positions, and Their Domestic
... efforts when their cooperation preferences are stronger than the preferences of groups in other countries. By contrast, if the lobbies are “internationally benefitting” (IBL), they are mainly interested in ensuring that the foreign government cooperates, thus they will unambiguously improve cooperat ...
... efforts when their cooperation preferences are stronger than the preferences of groups in other countries. By contrast, if the lobbies are “internationally benefitting” (IBL), they are mainly interested in ensuring that the foreign government cooperates, thus they will unambiguously improve cooperat ...
Reducing the Future to Climate: a Story of Climate Determinism and
... rationalists alike. However, the ideological wars of the mid-twentieth century re-shaped the political and moral worlds which had nourished such thinking and determinism became discredited and marginalised within mainstream academic geography. ...
... rationalists alike. However, the ideological wars of the mid-twentieth century re-shaped the political and moral worlds which had nourished such thinking and determinism became discredited and marginalised within mainstream academic geography. ...
CSPR Briefing C SP R B
... Afforestation, according to decision under the UNFCCC, is conversion of land that has not been forested for over 50 years into forest land, whereas reforestation is conversion of land that has been forested but converted to non-forested land before 1990 (UNFCCC, 2010a). Both afforestation and refore ...
... Afforestation, according to decision under the UNFCCC, is conversion of land that has not been forested for over 50 years into forest land, whereas reforestation is conversion of land that has been forested but converted to non-forested land before 1990 (UNFCCC, 2010a). Both afforestation and refore ...
Title Climate Change-4 - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
... Ordinance (EPO) of 1983. Under this ordinance various Environment Protection Agencies were created at the federal as well as at provincial level and Pakistan Environmental Protection Council was established in 1984 to act as a supreme body for formulation and implementation of the national environme ...
... Ordinance (EPO) of 1983. Under this ordinance various Environment Protection Agencies were created at the federal as well as at provincial level and Pakistan Environmental Protection Council was established in 1984 to act as a supreme body for formulation and implementation of the national environme ...
Market and policy driven adaptation: an alternative perspective. Smart Solutions to Climate Change (opens in new window)
... Mitigation and Adaptation are Complements, but Making the Tradeoff is Hard While the short-term need for adaptation is pretty much predetermined, there is policy flexibility in the longer term. At least conceptually, policy makers may choose between different combinations of adaptation and mitigatio ...
... Mitigation and Adaptation are Complements, but Making the Tradeoff is Hard While the short-term need for adaptation is pretty much predetermined, there is policy flexibility in the longer term. At least conceptually, policy makers may choose between different combinations of adaptation and mitigatio ...
Economics of Climate Change Kenya
... The project has been funded by the Royal Danish Embassy (DANIDA) and DFID (UK Department for International Development). Additional resources on the economics of climate adaptation and low carbon growth in Africa were provided under the AdaptCost project from UNEP and the EC ClimateCost project. We ...
... The project has been funded by the Royal Danish Embassy (DANIDA) and DFID (UK Department for International Development). Additional resources on the economics of climate adaptation and low carbon growth in Africa were provided under the AdaptCost project from UNEP and the EC ClimateCost project. We ...
Hong Kong Climate Change Report 2015
... how they are designed and built, so that people can improve health and livability albeit in a high-density environment. By observing green building principles, the inhabitants can benefit from significant energy and water saving. Public housing is a leader in this field in Hong Kong from which private ...
... how they are designed and built, so that people can improve health and livability albeit in a high-density environment. By observing green building principles, the inhabitants can benefit from significant energy and water saving. Public housing is a leader in this field in Hong Kong from which private ...
Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?
... planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm, but likely less than that. The largest uncertainty in the target arises ...
... planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm, but likely less than that. The largest uncertainty in the target arises ...
Greenhouse gas emissions from Indian rice fields
... showed that DNDC was able to simulate the basic patterns of NO, N2 O, CH4 and NH3 fluxes simultaneously (Li, 2000). This feature could be valuable in assessing the net effect of the changing climate or alternative agricultural management on either the atmosphere or agriculture. Recently the DNDC mod ...
... showed that DNDC was able to simulate the basic patterns of NO, N2 O, CH4 and NH3 fluxes simultaneously (Li, 2000). This feature could be valuable in assessing the net effect of the changing climate or alternative agricultural management on either the atmosphere or agriculture. Recently the DNDC mod ...
Scenario
... In addition to the cascading uncertainties that propagate from model to model, the cumulative effects of which have yet to be quantified, the results of these impacts assessment are subject to potentially large systematic errors which tend to substantially overstate negative impacts while simultaneo ...
... In addition to the cascading uncertainties that propagate from model to model, the cumulative effects of which have yet to be quantified, the results of these impacts assessment are subject to potentially large systematic errors which tend to substantially overstate negative impacts while simultaneo ...
How Corporations Have Influenced the U.S. Dialogue on Climate
... has progressed—or not progressed. ...
... has progressed—or not progressed. ...
White Paper on the contribution of the GFCS to Agenda 2030
... such as the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement reached at the UNFCCC COP 21 in December 2015, the Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) Accelerated Modalities of Action (S.A.M.O.A.) Pathway, as well as forthcoming agreements from Habitat III, the United Nations Confere ...
... such as the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement reached at the UNFCCC COP 21 in December 2015, the Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) Accelerated Modalities of Action (S.A.M.O.A.) Pathway, as well as forthcoming agreements from Habitat III, the United Nations Confere ...
ALBEDO ENHANCEMENT BY STRATOSPHERIC SULFUR
... albedo would actually decrease, but surface temperatures would, nevertheless, decline. Only 1.7% of the mass of sulfur would be needed to effect similar cooling at the earth’s surface, making the operations much cheaper and less messy. However, because soot particles absorb solar radiation very effi ...
... albedo would actually decrease, but surface temperatures would, nevertheless, decline. Only 1.7% of the mass of sulfur would be needed to effect similar cooling at the earth’s surface, making the operations much cheaper and less messy. However, because soot particles absorb solar radiation very effi ...
to read the report
... 2. Sharpen the messages of the divestment movement in the following ways to mobilise public support more effectively: (i) Highlight the contrast between public support and government policy regarding fossil fuel industry and renewable energy, and suggest that politicians have only been accountable t ...
... 2. Sharpen the messages of the divestment movement in the following ways to mobilise public support more effectively: (i) Highlight the contrast between public support and government policy regarding fossil fuel industry and renewable energy, and suggest that politicians have only been accountable t ...
Topic paper 1: Climate change
... body for the assessment of climate change. The IPCC is a scientific body which reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. Lifetime Homes standard: The Lifetime Homes standard is a set o ...
... body for the assessment of climate change. The IPCC is a scientific body which reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. Lifetime Homes standard: The Lifetime Homes standard is a set o ...
Inadequacies and criticisms of the Intergovernmental Panel on
... “Ian Castles has suggested that in the next IPCC Assessment national and international statistical agencies should be brought in and represented. I agree with him: it is high time that these agencies involved themselves in the process. But I would take the argument further. I think that the central ...
... “Ian Castles has suggested that in the next IPCC Assessment national and international statistical agencies should be brought in and represented. I agree with him: it is high time that these agencies involved themselves in the process. But I would take the argument further. I think that the central ...
come heat and high water: climate risk in the southeastern us and
... electricity demand across the region will rise—with a corresponding increase in prices. The Southeast region will likely see an average increase of 4% to 12% in energy costs by mid-century, with a 1-in-20 chance these costs will increase by more than 38% by the end of the century. • Sea level rise a ...
... electricity demand across the region will rise—with a corresponding increase in prices. The Southeast region will likely see an average increase of 4% to 12% in energy costs by mid-century, with a 1-in-20 chance these costs will increase by more than 38% by the end of the century. • Sea level rise a ...
Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under
... emissions add to the radiative forcing of terrestrial ecosystems, these emissions are expected to negate at least 16.6 per cent of the climate change mitigation potential previously predicted from an increase in the terrestrial carbon sink under increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations4. Our results ...
... emissions add to the radiative forcing of terrestrial ecosystems, these emissions are expected to negate at least 16.6 per cent of the climate change mitigation potential previously predicted from an increase in the terrestrial carbon sink under increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations4. Our results ...
Prospering in a Changing Climate
... The Barossa, Yorke and Mid North regions of the state have extensively assessed climate change vulnerability for climate change impacts and sensitivity, and the adaptive capacity of their communities. Adaptation is not an isolated stand-alone agenda. It will need to be incorporated into all our poli ...
... The Barossa, Yorke and Mid North regions of the state have extensively assessed climate change vulnerability for climate change impacts and sensitivity, and the adaptive capacity of their communities. Adaptation is not an isolated stand-alone agenda. It will need to be incorporated into all our poli ...
Price Caps and Price Floors in Climate Policy
... five degrees Celsius and perhaps more in the very long term, depending on still poorly understood, slow feedback. While these uncertainties should not delay action to mitigate emissions, they do make the task of setting policy objectives challenging. Benefit cost analysis is beyond reach, but abatem ...
... five degrees Celsius and perhaps more in the very long term, depending on still poorly understood, slow feedback. While these uncertainties should not delay action to mitigate emissions, they do make the task of setting policy objectives challenging. Benefit cost analysis is beyond reach, but abatem ...