1MB - IPCC
... Many concepts in this section are quite confusing and not necessary. This section should address the science supporting the needs for an integrated approach, and not simply build on concepts and philosophical values and statements. The overuse of transformation, global commons, procedural justice, e ...
... Many concepts in this section are quite confusing and not necessary. This section should address the science supporting the needs for an integrated approach, and not simply build on concepts and philosophical values and statements. The overuse of transformation, global commons, procedural justice, e ...
South America - International Institute for Sustainable Development
... Growing understanding of the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change has led to a significant rise in ongoing and planned adaptation action in the developing regions of the world, including South America. This upsurge in climate change adaptation action is a welcome occurrence, but enhanced c ...
... Growing understanding of the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change has led to a significant rise in ongoing and planned adaptation action in the developing regions of the world, including South America. This upsurge in climate change adaptation action is a welcome occurrence, but enhanced c ...
Scoping study: Modelling the interaction between mitigation and adaptation
... dangerous climate change impacts become significant with larger increases in temperature. Since adaptation has limits, mitigation will be required to address this risk. Hence, combinations of mitigation and adaptation will be needed to avoid dangerous climate change. In exploring these combinations, ...
... dangerous climate change impacts become significant with larger increases in temperature. Since adaptation has limits, mitigation will be required to address this risk. Hence, combinations of mitigation and adaptation will be needed to avoid dangerous climate change. In exploring these combinations, ...
PDF
... absent. This is partly due to the fact that adaptation options are hard to quantify and compare with each other. Where mitigation has a clear common performance indicator, adaptation does not (Lecocq and Shalizi, 2007). There remains a large amount of uncertainty regarding climate change damages and ...
... absent. This is partly due to the fact that adaptation options are hard to quantify and compare with each other. Where mitigation has a clear common performance indicator, adaptation does not (Lecocq and Shalizi, 2007). There remains a large amount of uncertainty regarding climate change damages and ...
Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate
... This is an evaluation of estimates of the costs of adaptation made by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2007 and by some preceding studies (UNFCCC, 2007; Stern, 2006; World Bank, 2006; Oxfam, 2007; UNDP, 2007). The costs have been used as the basis for discussion ...
... This is an evaluation of estimates of the costs of adaptation made by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2007 and by some preceding studies (UNFCCC, 2007; Stern, 2006; World Bank, 2006; Oxfam, 2007; UNDP, 2007). The costs have been used as the basis for discussion ...
Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change
... Review leads to a simple conclusion: the benefits of strong and early action far outweigh the economic costs of not acting. Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world – access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of peopl ...
... Review leads to a simple conclusion: the benefits of strong and early action far outweigh the economic costs of not acting. Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world – access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of peopl ...
An Analysis of Adaptation as a Response to Climate Change
... Average temperature is already 0.7 degree above preindustrial level and further warming might be substantial if no immediate global action is undertaken. Even if all radiative forcing agents were held constant at the 2000 level, a further warming would be observed due to the inertia of oceans (IPCC, ...
... Average temperature is already 0.7 degree above preindustrial level and further warming might be substantial if no immediate global action is undertaken. Even if all radiative forcing agents were held constant at the 2000 level, a further warming would be observed due to the inertia of oceans (IPCC, ...
Review of climate change adaptation methods and tools
... decades. For developing countries, the task is particularly daunting. The process of adapting to new conditions, stresses and natural hazards that result from climate change will require additional interventions. Although most communities have some ability to respond to changes and extreme climatic ...
... decades. For developing countries, the task is particularly daunting. The process of adapting to new conditions, stresses and natural hazards that result from climate change will require additional interventions. Although most communities have some ability to respond to changes and extreme climatic ...
Climate change in Strategic Environmental Assessment
... to assess the effects of a specific project or implementation of a spatial plan on the environment – are considered to include possibilities to assess climate change issues in respectively projects and strategic plans, though especially SEA is found to be suitable for doing so. Its long-term time ho ...
... to assess the effects of a specific project or implementation of a spatial plan on the environment – are considered to include possibilities to assess climate change issues in respectively projects and strategic plans, though especially SEA is found to be suitable for doing so. Its long-term time ho ...
A multistage crucible of revision and approval shapes IPCC
... IPCC chair, provides explanations and proposes revisions in real time to address government comments raised from the floor. Hundreds of individuals participate in IPCC SPM approval plenaries, which are intense, diversely interpreted experiences. Anecdotes and perspectives on IPCC governmental approv ...
... IPCC chair, provides explanations and proposes revisions in real time to address government comments raised from the floor. Hundreds of individuals participate in IPCC SPM approval plenaries, which are intense, diversely interpreted experiences. Anecdotes and perspectives on IPCC governmental approv ...
PDF
... of GE and the higher its effectiveness, the lower will be the mitigation effort in the first stage. Moreover, GE will be more likely to be used if the climate sensitivity is going to be higher. This illustrates the insurance effect of geoengineering. Their results, however, are purely numerically ba ...
... of GE and the higher its effectiveness, the lower will be the mitigation effort in the first stage. Moreover, GE will be more likely to be used if the climate sensitivity is going to be higher. This illustrates the insurance effect of geoengineering. Their results, however, are purely numerically ba ...
Climate Adaptation Outlook
... inundation. On the other hand, there has been progress in reducing risks in some areas with where impacts on livelihoods are more immediate — for example through increased capacity to manage risks to activities that depend on water resources. In many cases (such as natural ecosystems) risks are know ...
... inundation. On the other hand, there has been progress in reducing risks in some areas with where impacts on livelihoods are more immediate — for example through increased capacity to manage risks to activities that depend on water resources. In many cases (such as natural ecosystems) risks are know ...
Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Children in
... This study seeks to redress this deficiency by exploring the key challenges that relate to children and climate change in South Africa. In addition to synthesising relevant international and South African literature about impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, the study is complemented by data colle ...
... This study seeks to redress this deficiency by exploring the key challenges that relate to children and climate change in South Africa. In addition to synthesising relevant international and South African literature about impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, the study is complemented by data colle ...
Why is socially-just climate change adaptation in sub
... adaptation that effects socially equitable and environmentally sustainable change on the ground.1,4–6 For instance, there is much evidence that poor people face serious structural, cultural, and social hurdles in their own efforts to respond to changes and stress, while planned attempts to support a ...
... adaptation that effects socially equitable and environmentally sustainable change on the ground.1,4–6 For instance, there is much evidence that poor people face serious structural, cultural, and social hurdles in their own efforts to respond to changes and stress, while planned attempts to support a ...
Why is geoengineering so tempting?
... Center in 2012 ranked geoengineering research and development 12th among the 40 projects they were presented with, putting it ahead, for example, of eorts to develop an HIV vaccine. Popular media references capture public attention with such headlines as UN warms to idea of using giant mirrors in ...
... Center in 2012 ranked geoengineering research and development 12th among the 40 projects they were presented with, putting it ahead, for example, of eorts to develop an HIV vaccine. Popular media references capture public attention with such headlines as UN warms to idea of using giant mirrors in ...
Working Paper 170 - Doda 2014 (opens in new window)
... Center in 2012 ranked geoengineering research and development 12th among the 40 projects they were presented with, putting it ahead, for example, of eorts to develop an HIV vaccine. Popular media references capture public attention with such headlines as UN warms to idea of using giant mirrors in ...
... Center in 2012 ranked geoengineering research and development 12th among the 40 projects they were presented with, putting it ahead, for example, of eorts to develop an HIV vaccine. Popular media references capture public attention with such headlines as UN warms to idea of using giant mirrors in ...
An Economic Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations
... This study provides an overview assessment of the potential economic costs of impacts and adaptation to climate change in eight major economic sectors in New York State in the ClimAID report. The goal of the study is to provide information on the economic impacts of climate change and adaptation for ...
... This study provides an overview assessment of the potential economic costs of impacts and adaptation to climate change in eight major economic sectors in New York State in the ClimAID report. The goal of the study is to provide information on the economic impacts of climate change and adaptation for ...
PDF
... Finally, all the aforementioned studies stress that adaptation is a more effective option to reduce climate change damage, especially if agents have a strong preference for the present (high discount rates), or early climate damages are expected. This outcome depends on the cost and benefit function ...
... Finally, all the aforementioned studies stress that adaptation is a more effective option to reduce climate change damage, especially if agents have a strong preference for the present (high discount rates), or early climate damages are expected. This outcome depends on the cost and benefit function ...
The Economic Impacts of Climate Change for Canada
... To date, focus has mostly been on what it would cost to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by industry and consumers. Little attention has been paid to the cost of inaction, to what economic damages could accrue to Canada and Canadians as global emissions rise and climate change plays out. ...
... To date, focus has mostly been on what it would cost to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by industry and consumers. Little attention has been paid to the cost of inaction, to what economic damages could accrue to Canada and Canadians as global emissions rise and climate change plays out. ...
Public understanding of climate change and adaptation
... In late 2011, the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) engaged the Discipline of Public Health at The University of Adelaide to improve knowledge of how South Australians perceived and understood the likely adverse implications arising from a changed climate, and how associa ...
... In late 2011, the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) engaged the Discipline of Public Health at The University of Adelaide to improve knowledge of how South Australians perceived and understood the likely adverse implications arising from a changed climate, and how associa ...
PDF
... Climate policy comprises both adaptation and mitigation. Mitigation abates climate change by reducing emissions or capturing carbon. Adaptation involves adjusting behaviour and infrastructure to better fit the new climate, thereby reducing the damages from climate change or increasing the benefits o ...
... Climate policy comprises both adaptation and mitigation. Mitigation abates climate change by reducing emissions or capturing carbon. Adaptation involves adjusting behaviour and infrastructure to better fit the new climate, thereby reducing the damages from climate change or increasing the benefits o ...
PDF
... 2007, Parry et al. 2007) emphasised how an already moderate warming of 2 degrees would affect our lifestyle and produce negative, though not catastrophic, consequences. The 2 degree Celsius climate target is unlikely to be achieved (Parry 2009, Carraro and Massetti 2010) and policies of adaptation a ...
... 2007, Parry et al. 2007) emphasised how an already moderate warming of 2 degrees would affect our lifestyle and produce negative, though not catastrophic, consequences. The 2 degree Celsius climate target is unlikely to be achieved (Parry 2009, Carraro and Massetti 2010) and policies of adaptation a ...
CGE training material
... Baseline Scenario Definitions: Examples from the Literature • International Energy Agency’s widely cited World Energy Outlook 2011 presents two: − Current Policies Scenario (“show how the future might look on the basis of the perpetuation, without change, of the government policies and measures that ...
... Baseline Scenario Definitions: Examples from the Literature • International Energy Agency’s widely cited World Energy Outlook 2011 presents two: − Current Policies Scenario (“show how the future might look on the basis of the perpetuation, without change, of the government policies and measures that ...
Economic Analysis of Climate-Proofing Investment Projects
... Group and the Adaptation and Land Use Working Group. We particularly wish to thank the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department for their contribution and constructive comments on previous drafts of this report. The report also benefited from extensive discussion with Charles Rodgers (c ...
... Group and the Adaptation and Land Use Working Group. We particularly wish to thank the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department for their contribution and constructive comments on previous drafts of this report. The report also benefited from extensive discussion with Charles Rodgers (c ...
Why Uncertainty Matters - Discounting under Intertemporal Risk
... investment costs and future investment payoffs. In the context of public projects, this consumption discount rate is known as the social discount rate. The U.K. and France have explicitly adapted their discounting schemes for the evaluation of legislation and long-term projects to recognize uncertai ...
... investment costs and future investment payoffs. In the context of public projects, this consumption discount rate is known as the social discount rate. The U.K. and France have explicitly adapted their discounting schemes for the evaluation of legislation and long-term projects to recognize uncertai ...