EIB Sustainable Development and Environment Documents
... Introduction from the President Sustainable development is high on the European Union agenda and environmental issues in particular are of major public concern. This is reflected in the importance that the European Investment Bank - the Union’s long-term lending institution - attaches to these issue ...
... Introduction from the President Sustainable development is high on the European Union agenda and environmental issues in particular are of major public concern. This is reflected in the importance that the European Investment Bank - the Union’s long-term lending institution - attaches to these issue ...
The International and Domestic Law of Climate Change: A Binding
... Convention on Climate Change (“Convention,” or “FCCC”), to be held in Paris in December 2015. Depending on the form of such an agreement, which is presently under negotiation, domestic federal regulations that are already in place or contemplated could provide sufficient domestic legal authority for ...
... Convention on Climate Change (“Convention,” or “FCCC”), to be held in Paris in December 2015. Depending on the form of such an agreement, which is presently under negotiation, domestic federal regulations that are already in place or contemplated could provide sufficient domestic legal authority for ...
The Climate System: an Overview
... is typically in the order of 1%. Because these greenhouse gases absorb the infrared radiation emitted by the Earth and emit infrared radiation up- and downward, they tend to raise the temperature near the Earth’s surface. Water vapour, CO2 and O3 also absorb solar short-wave radiation. The atmospher ...
... is typically in the order of 1%. Because these greenhouse gases absorb the infrared radiation emitted by the Earth and emit infrared radiation up- and downward, they tend to raise the temperature near the Earth’s surface. Water vapour, CO2 and O3 also absorb solar short-wave radiation. The atmospher ...
Greenhouse Gas Progress Report 2016
... carbon pricing. The government will put the proceeds from its quarterly cap and trade allowance auctions into a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account (GGRA) that it controls. Its justification: it needs the money to drive emissions reductions that would not otherwise occur. The ECO agrees that putting a ...
... carbon pricing. The government will put the proceeds from its quarterly cap and trade allowance auctions into a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account (GGRA) that it controls. Its justification: it needs the money to drive emissions reductions that would not otherwise occur. The ECO agrees that putting a ...
Fairness on the Day after Tomorrow: Justice, Reciprocity and Global
... for a ‘substitute’ where the recipient of the debt specifies this as being preferable or where a lack of direct contact renders impossible an equivalent exchange of benefits (or costs). We might call this ‘indirect reciprocity’. Perhaps the most interesting, and diffused, form of indirect reciprocit ...
... for a ‘substitute’ where the recipient of the debt specifies this as being preferable or where a lack of direct contact renders impossible an equivalent exchange of benefits (or costs). We might call this ‘indirect reciprocity’. Perhaps the most interesting, and diffused, form of indirect reciprocit ...
Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change: Working Paper 34 (1 MB) (opens in new window)
... Inequality has been studied extensively in the context of collective action problems: the presence of inequality is often found to complicate cooperation (22 -25 ), though communication between users tends to improve the likelihood of cooperation (26, 27 ). Different patterns of interaction are obse ...
... Inequality has been studied extensively in the context of collective action problems: the presence of inequality is often found to complicate cooperation (22 -25 ), though communication between users tends to improve the likelihood of cooperation (26, 27 ). Different patterns of interaction are obse ...
Welcome to Presentation on
... DRR and CCA can be effectively integrated for reducing the risks of disaster s in the region As in most of the states, climate change and disaster management is looked after by two separate ministries, more linkage and coordination are necessary with respect to policy development and exchange ...
... DRR and CCA can be effectively integrated for reducing the risks of disaster s in the region As in most of the states, climate change and disaster management is looked after by two separate ministries, more linkage and coordination are necessary with respect to policy development and exchange ...
Greenhouse Gas Progress Report 2016 - Name
... carbon pricing. The government will put the proceeds from its quarterly cap and trade allowance auctions into a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account (GGRA) that it controls. Its justification: it needs the money to drive emissions reductions that would not otherwise occur. The ECO agrees that putting a ...
... carbon pricing. The government will put the proceeds from its quarterly cap and trade allowance auctions into a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account (GGRA) that it controls. Its justification: it needs the money to drive emissions reductions that would not otherwise occur. The ECO agrees that putting a ...
Alberta Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
... Facilities are required to submit greenhouse gas emissions reports through an electronic data reporting system, which is administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada. In 2005 (for 2004 emissions collection), Alberta harmonized its Specified Gas Reporting Program with the Government of Canad ...
... Facilities are required to submit greenhouse gas emissions reports through an electronic data reporting system, which is administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada. In 2005 (for 2004 emissions collection), Alberta harmonized its Specified Gas Reporting Program with the Government of Canad ...
A Structural Land-Use Analysis of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate
... conditions by reallocating their land among bundles. In general, temperature increase causes a shift toward protected farming or away from farming altogether, whereas a decline in precipitation causes farmers to shift to irrigated bundles. In response to increase in the interannual variability of bo ...
... conditions by reallocating their land among bundles. In general, temperature increase causes a shift toward protected farming or away from farming altogether, whereas a decline in precipitation causes farmers to shift to irrigated bundles. In response to increase in the interannual variability of bo ...
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... conditions by reallocating their land among bundles. In general, temperature increase causes a shift toward protected farming or away from farming altogether, whereas a decline in precipitation causes farmers to shift to irrigated bundles. In response to increase in the interannual variability of bo ...
... conditions by reallocating their land among bundles. In general, temperature increase causes a shift toward protected farming or away from farming altogether, whereas a decline in precipitation causes farmers to shift to irrigated bundles. In response to increase in the interannual variability of bo ...
Vulnerability to climate change and adaptation strategies of local
... (LCBCCAP) and its women fish-processing groups (WFPGs). Most important, this article demonstrates that some adaptation strategies have limitations and are not suited to cope with a warmer and more variable climate. Research on limitations of climate change adaptation is in its infancy, and this stud ...
... (LCBCCAP) and its women fish-processing groups (WFPGs). Most important, this article demonstrates that some adaptation strategies have limitations and are not suited to cope with a warmer and more variable climate. Research on limitations of climate change adaptation is in its infancy, and this stud ...
F_Green_Nationally_Self_Interested_Climate_Change_Mitigation (opens in new window)
... significant degree self-interested are largely talking past the economic efficiency monists; their respective claims are non-comparable. Second, it is harder to evaluate claims of national interest using conceptions other than economic efficiency; the efficiency framework, despite its flaws, has th ...
... significant degree self-interested are largely talking past the economic efficiency monists; their respective claims are non-comparable. Second, it is harder to evaluate claims of national interest using conceptions other than economic efficiency; the efficiency framework, despite its flaws, has th ...
Cross-pressuring conservative Catholics? Effects of Pope Francis
... H2: Encyclical awareness is positively related to perceived climate change risk to the poor among liberals and negatively related to it among conservatives. Although one might expect greater acceptance of the Pope’s message among Catholics, their responses to the Pope’s call varied. Some Catholic le ...
... H2: Encyclical awareness is positively related to perceived climate change risk to the poor among liberals and negatively related to it among conservatives. Although one might expect greater acceptance of the Pope’s message among Catholics, their responses to the Pope’s call varied. Some Catholic le ...
PDF - ECC Platform Library
... Pakistan spend millions of dollars each year to have military presence in high glaciers such as Siachin, leading to human suffering and ecological degradation. In order to protect the glaciers and the environment, de-militarization of glaciers should be considered as an urgent action by all actors c ...
... Pakistan spend millions of dollars each year to have military presence in high glaciers such as Siachin, leading to human suffering and ecological degradation. In order to protect the glaciers and the environment, de-militarization of glaciers should be considered as an urgent action by all actors c ...
Climate change projections of precipitation and
... the world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects strong changes in climate across MENA, further exacerbating pressure on available water resources. The objective of this study is to undertake a climate change assessment for 22 MENA countries in order to quantify the problems these c ...
... the world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects strong changes in climate across MENA, further exacerbating pressure on available water resources. The objective of this study is to undertake a climate change assessment for 22 MENA countries in order to quantify the problems these c ...
Indirect Land Use Change, Uncertainty, and Biofuels, Policy
... Indirect land use change (ILUC)- the theory that the use of cropland for biofuels raisesfood prices and thus increases the incentive to convert forests and grasslands to crop production, thereby releasing stored carbon and decreasingfuture carbon sequestration-is a particularconcern with ethanol pro ...
... Indirect land use change (ILUC)- the theory that the use of cropland for biofuels raisesfood prices and thus increases the incentive to convert forests and grasslands to crop production, thereby releasing stored carbon and decreasingfuture carbon sequestration-is a particularconcern with ethanol pro ...
Climate Change: ImplIcatIons and strategIes for the luxury fashIon
... luxury fashion companies, it also focuses on the impact of climate change at the very base of the supply chain where raw materials are produced and where the impact will be significant on the natural and agricultural systems that deliver these materials. Current and future climate risks around six k ...
... luxury fashion companies, it also focuses on the impact of climate change at the very base of the supply chain where raw materials are produced and where the impact will be significant on the natural and agricultural systems that deliver these materials. Current and future climate risks around six k ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/019/k7582e.pdf
... indirect effects, e.g. through variations in fish meal supplies and trade issues. Regarding contributions to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, aquaculture has limited relevance and the primary mitigation route for the sector lies in the reduction of energy consumption, through fuel and raw material us ...
... indirect effects, e.g. through variations in fish meal supplies and trade issues. Regarding contributions to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, aquaculture has limited relevance and the primary mitigation route for the sector lies in the reduction of energy consumption, through fuel and raw material us ...
6 Climate change impacts, adaptation measures and vulnerability
... A significant share of the adaptation measures are implemented at the regional and local level. Various measures promoting the provision for climate change, such as flood protection, have already been taken on at the regional or municipal level for quite a long time, though they have not been seen a ...
... A significant share of the adaptation measures are implemented at the regional and local level. Various measures promoting the provision for climate change, such as flood protection, have already been taken on at the regional or municipal level for quite a long time, though they have not been seen a ...
14 Climate change: science and the precautionary principle
... about by anthropogenic climate change. Worse still, they often live in regions with an already marginal climate. It is not surprising that the strong links between these two fundamental drivers of human societies and their evolution have brought about an unprecedented level of interest, debate and c ...
... about by anthropogenic climate change. Worse still, they often live in regions with an already marginal climate. It is not surprising that the strong links between these two fundamental drivers of human societies and their evolution have brought about an unprecedented level of interest, debate and c ...
The ecological citizen and climate change
... 2006). Just as the impacts of globalisation are asymmetric between developed and developing countries, so do the obligations of ecological citizenship arise from the asymmetric distribution of power and effect between (and among) citizens of developed and developing countries. This is mirrored also ...
... 2006). Just as the impacts of globalisation are asymmetric between developed and developing countries, so do the obligations of ecological citizenship arise from the asymmetric distribution of power and effect between (and among) citizens of developed and developing countries. This is mirrored also ...
DRO 2 Natural environment - Department of Infrastructure, Local
... that the region generally has good air quality. Maintaining clean air into the future presents a challenge for a region with a rapidly growing population that has a correspondingly high rate of motor vehicle usage—the greatest source of air pollution in the region. The region’s water quality is also ...
... that the region generally has good air quality. Maintaining clean air into the future presents a challenge for a region with a rapidly growing population that has a correspondingly high rate of motor vehicle usage—the greatest source of air pollution in the region. The region’s water quality is also ...
Comparison of Carbon Offset Standards for Climate Forestation
... California Climate Act Registry (CCAR) and Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) are not included in this report due to their geographical limitation. The main objective of this report is to provide clear information about each standard in order to assist CO2-buyers in the decision-making process of select ...
... California Climate Act Registry (CCAR) and Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) are not included in this report due to their geographical limitation. The main objective of this report is to provide clear information about each standard in order to assist CO2-buyers in the decision-making process of select ...
Title Climate change awareness in a developing nations` second
... misconceptions) of climate change, while also focusing on curricula content and on secondary school teachers’ knowledge of climate change, in order to plan and design effective instruction that builds on these concepts. The Climate Change Awareness and Education Programme (CCAEP) aims to ascertain s ...
... misconceptions) of climate change, while also focusing on curricula content and on secondary school teachers’ knowledge of climate change, in order to plan and design effective instruction that builds on these concepts. The Climate Change Awareness and Education Programme (CCAEP) aims to ascertain s ...