2014 Second Quarterly Workplan NCCP
... The project will enable the Government of Malawi to climate-proof the policies, strategies and plans of the sectors of the economy most directly affected by climate change, in order to create an enabling policy and regulatory environment within which vulnerable communities will be empowered to adap ...
... The project will enable the Government of Malawi to climate-proof the policies, strategies and plans of the sectors of the economy most directly affected by climate change, in order to create an enabling policy and regulatory environment within which vulnerable communities will be empowered to adap ...
Adopted - The James Bay Advisory Committee on the Environment
... cause problems for the Chisasibi Crees. According to a member for the CRA, recreational tourism and boat ramp projects in southern James Bay would also be a problem due to inadequate consultation of the Crees concerned. According to the same member, the 2001 James Bay ...
... cause problems for the Chisasibi Crees. According to a member for the CRA, recreational tourism and boat ramp projects in southern James Bay would also be a problem due to inadequate consultation of the Crees concerned. According to the same member, the 2001 James Bay ...
Neil Bird - Tracking climate finance in budgetary systems
... developed, with no common reporting system yet in place between central government, local government and donors. Financial monitoring/tracking systems require strengthening, in terms of both inputs (having clear objectives for spend) and outputs (actual ...
... developed, with no common reporting system yet in place between central government, local government and donors. Financial monitoring/tracking systems require strengthening, in terms of both inputs (having clear objectives for spend) and outputs (actual ...
Rensselaer - Department of Economics
... that a ―safe‖ level of atmospheric CO2 can be maintained. Based on several independent lines of reasoning and evidence, including controlled greenhouse experiments, past climate records, and computer modeling, we know that past fossil fuel emissions alone will eventually cause the earth to heat by s ...
... that a ―safe‖ level of atmospheric CO2 can be maintained. Based on several independent lines of reasoning and evidence, including controlled greenhouse experiments, past climate records, and computer modeling, we know that past fossil fuel emissions alone will eventually cause the earth to heat by s ...
Climate and Development Economics: Balancing Science, Politics
... accelerate climate change, which in turn could block further development, locking the world into existing patterns of inequality as the natural environment deteriorates. The solution to this paradox is far from obvious. What analytical tools are needed to chart a path that leads toward sustainable, ...
... accelerate climate change, which in turn could block further development, locking the world into existing patterns of inequality as the natural environment deteriorates. The solution to this paradox is far from obvious. What analytical tools are needed to chart a path that leads toward sustainable, ...
The Economics of Climate Change Impacts: A Case Study on
... regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) has led to “actual” and “imminent” harm, mainly in the form of rising sea levels along the state’s coast. The ruling also noted “the harms associated with climate change are serious and well recognized” (Pew, 2007). As other governments such as the United States add ...
... regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) has led to “actual” and “imminent” harm, mainly in the form of rising sea levels along the state’s coast. The ruling also noted “the harms associated with climate change are serious and well recognized” (Pew, 2007). As other governments such as the United States add ...
Value of information for climate observing systems
... CO2 equivalent is a metric measure to compare emissions from different greenhouse gases based on their global warming potential (GWP), the cumulative radiative forcing effects of a gas over a specified time horizon relative to a reference gas. For the procedure used by the US EPA in inventorying US ...
... CO2 equivalent is a metric measure to compare emissions from different greenhouse gases based on their global warming potential (GWP), the cumulative radiative forcing effects of a gas over a specified time horizon relative to a reference gas. For the procedure used by the US EPA in inventorying US ...
The Economics of Climate Change in East Asia
... • Under the BAU scenario the average losses in East Asia due to climate change could amount to 5.3% of GDP by 2100. • Adaptation can reduce the damage due to climate change but it is not sufficient to reduce the expected cost of climate change to a low level. • Reliance upon zero cost reductions wil ...
... • Under the BAU scenario the average losses in East Asia due to climate change could amount to 5.3% of GDP by 2100. • Adaptation can reduce the damage due to climate change but it is not sufficient to reduce the expected cost of climate change to a low level. • Reliance upon zero cost reductions wil ...
The social cost of carbon: Valuation estimates and
... Downing & Watkiss (2003) has raised the issue of study coverage in comparing SCC values, and this was advanced during the studies. The SCC values were compared for their coverage against a risk matrix (Figure 1), in relation to 1. The uncertainty of climate change impacts, covering: Impacts that c ...
... Downing & Watkiss (2003) has raised the issue of study coverage in comparing SCC values, and this was advanced during the studies. The SCC values were compared for their coverage against a risk matrix (Figure 1), in relation to 1. The uncertainty of climate change impacts, covering: Impacts that c ...
Submission 68 - Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
... National review of drought policy and pilot of new measures The National Drought Review of Drought Policy and the pilot of drought reform measures in Western Australia have highlighted the importance of improving policy to enable farmers to better manage risk under a changing climate. Between 2001–0 ...
... National review of drought policy and pilot of new measures The National Drought Review of Drought Policy and the pilot of drought reform measures in Western Australia have highlighted the importance of improving policy to enable farmers to better manage risk under a changing climate. Between 2001–0 ...
Chapter 13 Irreversibility risk and uncertainty
... adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, ......... The EU also adopts a precautionary approach, and it has operationalised it as meaning that the change in global average ...
... adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, ......... The EU also adopts a precautionary approach, and it has operationalised it as meaning that the change in global average ...
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... or, at an extreme, the conversion of currently fertile areas into desert. In response, critics such as Nordhaus (1991) and Schelling (1991) argued that an estimate based on these effects would be incomplete because of the failure to take into account offsetting benefits. To take the simplest example ...
... or, at an extreme, the conversion of currently fertile areas into desert. In response, critics such as Nordhaus (1991) and Schelling (1991) argued that an estimate based on these effects would be incomplete because of the failure to take into account offsetting benefits. To take the simplest example ...
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... change impacts as they do to any other changes in their physical, social and economic environment. And policy action to facilitate adaptation will for the most part be of a similar type as government reactions to other societal needs. It is also clear that benefit-cost ratios will in aggregate be po ...
... change impacts as they do to any other changes in their physical, social and economic environment. And policy action to facilitate adaptation will for the most part be of a similar type as government reactions to other societal needs. It is also clear that benefit-cost ratios will in aggregate be po ...
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... atmosphere can be accounted for by assigning full property rights to the atmosphere and allowing trading of those rights. While property rights to the atmosphere cannot reasonably be assigned in this way and enormous transactions costs prevent any true Coasian solution, we can nonetheless achieve th ...
... atmosphere can be accounted for by assigning full property rights to the atmosphere and allowing trading of those rights. While property rights to the atmosphere cannot reasonably be assigned in this way and enormous transactions costs prevent any true Coasian solution, we can nonetheless achieve th ...
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... Nevertheless, the relationships between climate change and agriculture are complex, because they involve climatic and environmental aspects (physical effects) and social and economic responses. The Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (Stern et al., 2006) argues that “the overall costs an ...
... Nevertheless, the relationships between climate change and agriculture are complex, because they involve climatic and environmental aspects (physical effects) and social and economic responses. The Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (Stern et al., 2006) argues that “the overall costs an ...
Disciplines, Geography, and Gender in the Framing of Climate
... Rapid, sustained, and effective mitigation based on coordinated global and regional action is required to avoid “dangerous climate change” regardless of how it is defined. Weaker targets for 2020 increase the risk of serious impacts, including the crossing of tipping points, and make the task of mee ...
... Rapid, sustained, and effective mitigation based on coordinated global and regional action is required to avoid “dangerous climate change” regardless of how it is defined. Weaker targets for 2020 increase the risk of serious impacts, including the crossing of tipping points, and make the task of mee ...
FREE MARKETS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
... 2.2 Neoclassical environmental economics Market failure assumes welfare maximisation, in that market failure occurs when markets fail to maximise welfare, that is, they fail to locate the one level of output (of goods whose production is carbon intensive) that brings marginal benefit and marginal so ...
... 2.2 Neoclassical environmental economics Market failure assumes welfare maximisation, in that market failure occurs when markets fail to maximise welfare, that is, they fail to locate the one level of output (of goods whose production is carbon intensive) that brings marginal benefit and marginal so ...
Costing Climate Change Adaptation: A Review of Estimates and Approaches
... There has been an increasing trend in the occurrence of natural disasters and climate change will aggravate the devastating impacts of disasters. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, partial estimates of the economic impact of a temperature increase of 2.5°C (a mid-range value ...
... There has been an increasing trend in the occurrence of natural disasters and climate change will aggravate the devastating impacts of disasters. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, partial estimates of the economic impact of a temperature increase of 2.5°C (a mid-range value ...
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... below 65 years old. Vector-borne diseases may intensify and spread with warmer and more humid conditions. • At this preliminary stage the main economic effect of the changes in health status that we consider are changes in labour productivity. In particular the change in labour productivity per year ...
... below 65 years old. Vector-borne diseases may intensify and spread with warmer and more humid conditions. • At this preliminary stage the main economic effect of the changes in health status that we consider are changes in labour productivity. In particular the change in labour productivity per year ...
milessynthesis
... Management Council, AK/WA/OR Dept’s of Fish and Wildlife Collaboration on climate and coho life cycle studies with NWFSC (Lawson) and AFSC (Logerwell) 4 paper series led to formal collaboration arrangement with NWFSC Proposed NOAA/NWFSC initiative on climate change and freshwater ecosystems (CIG ...
... Management Council, AK/WA/OR Dept’s of Fish and Wildlife Collaboration on climate and coho life cycle studies with NWFSC (Lawson) and AFSC (Logerwell) 4 paper series led to formal collaboration arrangement with NWFSC Proposed NOAA/NWFSC initiative on climate change and freshwater ecosystems (CIG ...
Emerging markets and climate change: Mexican standoff or low-carbon race?: Working Paper 46 (489 kB) (opens in new window)
... 9 See Nordhaus and Boyer, 2000; Nordhaus, 2010 and the associated supplementary material. 10 This is compounded by current levels of uncertainty: opinions differ as to whether we can yet reasonably assign zero probability to the possibility that some impacts of climate change may prove catastrophic, ...
... 9 See Nordhaus and Boyer, 2000; Nordhaus, 2010 and the associated supplementary material. 10 This is compounded by current levels of uncertainty: opinions differ as to whether we can yet reasonably assign zero probability to the possibility that some impacts of climate change may prove catastrophic, ...
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... hold characteristics; land-owning households face a smaller reduction in consumption relative to landless households, about 5 percent, because the beneficial impact of higher prices for net agricultural producers offsets the decline in land productivity. Focusing on the impact of climate change on t ...
... hold characteristics; land-owning households face a smaller reduction in consumption relative to landless households, about 5 percent, because the beneficial impact of higher prices for net agricultural producers offsets the decline in land productivity. Focusing on the impact of climate change on t ...
The Poverty Impacts of Climate Change
... hold characteristics; land-owning households face a smaller reduction in consumption relative to landless households, about 5 percent, because the beneficial impact of higher prices for net agricultural producers offsets the decline in land productivity. Focusing on the impact of climate change on t ...
... hold characteristics; land-owning households face a smaller reduction in consumption relative to landless households, about 5 percent, because the beneficial impact of higher prices for net agricultural producers offsets the decline in land productivity. Focusing on the impact of climate change on t ...
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... As the Stern Review argues, human-induced global warming has the potential to generate very serious, large-scale and irreversible impacts. If the worst of these impacts are to be avoided, or at least minimised, urgent action is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In effect, it will be neces ...
... As the Stern Review argues, human-induced global warming has the potential to generate very serious, large-scale and irreversible impacts. If the worst of these impacts are to be avoided, or at least minimised, urgent action is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In effect, it will be neces ...
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... include the use of regional scale, process-based models that can be used to better explore the interactions between climate and local topography (e.g., Salathe et al. 2010), as well as, efforts aimed at understanding future climatic extremes such as heat waves or flood-inducing precipitation events ...
... include the use of regional scale, process-based models that can be used to better explore the interactions between climate and local topography (e.g., Salathe et al. 2010), as well as, efforts aimed at understanding future climatic extremes such as heat waves or flood-inducing precipitation events ...