reducing australia`s greenhouse gas emissions— targets and
... costs of moving from 5 per cent to a stronger target (Chapter 10). This modelling suggests that adopting a 2020 target of 15 per cent plus carryover would slow annual growth in average per person income by 0.02 per cent, compared with meeting the 5 per cent target. One reason why the incremental cos ...
... costs of moving from 5 per cent to a stronger target (Chapter 10). This modelling suggests that adopting a 2020 target of 15 per cent plus carryover would slow annual growth in average per person income by 0.02 per cent, compared with meeting the 5 per cent target. One reason why the incremental cos ...
Taxes, targets, and the social cost of carbon
... Focus on emission reductions creates problems. Must a poor country reduce its emissions as much as a rich one? Must a country (rich or poor) with very low per capita emissions reduce future emissions as much as a country with high per capital emissions? What should be the overall target for emission ...
... Focus on emission reductions creates problems. Must a poor country reduce its emissions as much as a rich one? Must a country (rich or poor) with very low per capita emissions reduce future emissions as much as a country with high per capital emissions? What should be the overall target for emission ...
10 Years of Experience in Carbon Finance
... Annex 2 – Key Elements of an Emission Reductions Purchase Agreement (ERPA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Annex 3 – World Bank Social and Environmental Safeguard Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Annex 4 – Example ...
... Annex 2 – Key Elements of an Emission Reductions Purchase Agreement (ERPA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Annex 3 – World Bank Social and Environmental Safeguard Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Annex 4 – Example ...
ORGANIZATIONAL INVOLVEMENT IN CARBON MITIGATION: THE NEW ZEALAND PUBLIC SECTOR Stephen Jeffrey Birchall
... The research presented here is part of a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden-funded research programme which explores Carbon Neutrality: Fact or Fiction. I would like to thank the New Zealand Royal Society for recognizing the value of this topic and creating the opportunity to explore its dynamics ...
... The research presented here is part of a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden-funded research programme which explores Carbon Neutrality: Fact or Fiction. I would like to thank the New Zealand Royal Society for recognizing the value of this topic and creating the opportunity to explore its dynamics ...
Playing the Climate Dominoes: Tipping Points and the Cost of
... Department of Economics, University of Arizona ...
... Department of Economics, University of Arizona ...
The Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change using CO2 Capture
... 300 ◦C at atmospheric pressure through 10 separate adsorption/desorption cycles[13]. CO2 is a highly quadrupolar gas, whereas competitive sorbates in commonly concerned CO2 capture separation, including N2, CH4, and H2 are non-polar or weakly polar[13]. This means that there are profound differences ...
... 300 ◦C at atmospheric pressure through 10 separate adsorption/desorption cycles[13]. CO2 is a highly quadrupolar gas, whereas competitive sorbates in commonly concerned CO2 capture separation, including N2, CH4, and H2 are non-polar or weakly polar[13]. This means that there are profound differences ...
REDD and the effort to limit global warming to 2°C
... December 2009. REDD is an option that could rapidly and cost-effectively reduce GHG emissions and could also protect biodiversity and benefit local and indigenous peoples. Furthermore, the engagement of the United States and others has heightened interest in, and debate about, the use of emissions o ...
... December 2009. REDD is an option that could rapidly and cost-effectively reduce GHG emissions and could also protect biodiversity and benefit local and indigenous peoples. Furthermore, the engagement of the United States and others has heightened interest in, and debate about, the use of emissions o ...
Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration
... The signs of a warming planet are all around us: rising seas, melting ice sheets, recordsetting temperatures, with impacts cascading to ecosystems, humans, and our economy. At the root of the problem, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere continue to increase, a substantial fracti ...
... The signs of a warming planet are all around us: rising seas, melting ice sheets, recordsetting temperatures, with impacts cascading to ecosystems, humans, and our economy. At the root of the problem, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere continue to increase, a substantial fracti ...
Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and
... emissions to the atmosphere continue to increase, a substantial fraction of which diffuse into the ocean, causing ocean acidification and threatening marine ecosystems. Global climate is changing faster than at any time since the rise of human civilization, challenging society to adapt to those chan ...
... emissions to the atmosphere continue to increase, a substantial fraction of which diffuse into the ocean, causing ocean acidification and threatening marine ecosystems. Global climate is changing faster than at any time since the rise of human civilization, challenging society to adapt to those chan ...
Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration
... emissions to the atmosphere continue to increase, a substantial fraction of which diffuse into the ocean, causing ocean acidification and threatening marine ecosystems. Global climate is changing faster than at any time since the rise of human civilization, challenging society to adapt to those chan ...
... emissions to the atmosphere continue to increase, a substantial fraction of which diffuse into the ocean, causing ocean acidification and threatening marine ecosystems. Global climate is changing faster than at any time since the rise of human civilization, challenging society to adapt to those chan ...
carbOn in the bank: OntariO`s Greenbelt and its rOle in MitiGatinG
... almost double the size of the City of Toronto. Approximately 92 per cent of the land in the path of development is classified as prime agricultural land.2 As is often the case with rapid growth, development in the GGH brings both benefits and challenges. Many of its residents have been lured to the ...
... almost double the size of the City of Toronto. Approximately 92 per cent of the land in the path of development is classified as prime agricultural land.2 As is often the case with rapid growth, development in the GGH brings both benefits and challenges. Many of its residents have been lured to the ...
ABSTRACT
... and drier climate patterns over tropical land associated with El Niño. The combined affect of these forcings causes substantial carbon flux into the atmosphere. A unique ...
... and drier climate patterns over tropical land associated with El Niño. The combined affect of these forcings causes substantial carbon flux into the atmosphere. A unique ...
Here - Permafrost Carbon Network
... of years, and it holds twice as much carbon as currently in the atmosphere. Release of just a fraction of this frozen carbon pool as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere would dramatically increase the rate of future global climate warming. A key societal question is w ...
... of years, and it holds twice as much carbon as currently in the atmosphere. Release of just a fraction of this frozen carbon pool as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere would dramatically increase the rate of future global climate warming. A key societal question is w ...
www.permafrostcarbon.org - Arctic Research Consortium of the
... of years, and it holds twice as much carbon as currently in the atmosphere. Release of just a fraction of this frozen carbon pool as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere would dramatically increase the rate of future global climate warming. A key societal question is w ...
... of years, and it holds twice as much carbon as currently in the atmosphere. Release of just a fraction of this frozen carbon pool as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere would dramatically increase the rate of future global climate warming. A key societal question is w ...
Climate Change, Carbon, and Forestry in Northwestern North America:
... Carbon and Climatic Change Relationships between global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and various human activities have been examined in detail by IPCC (2001). Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased over the past 150 years, from a pre-industrial mean concentration of ...
... Carbon and Climatic Change Relationships between global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and various human activities have been examined in detail by IPCC (2001). Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased over the past 150 years, from a pre-industrial mean concentration of ...
(CCS) and Climate Change Mitigation
... The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty adopted in December 1997 at Kyoto, Japan, which entered into force in February 2005. It is an accord based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the umbrella international treaty on climate change which was adopted in 199 ...
... The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty adopted in December 1997 at Kyoto, Japan, which entered into force in February 2005. It is an accord based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the umbrella international treaty on climate change which was adopted in 199 ...
Examination of an Emerging Concept to Mitigate Climate Change
... over the last few years. Biochar is similar in appearance to potting soil or to a charred substance, depending on the feedstock (Figure 1). Modern biochar production is based on an ancient Amazon technique for creating a nutrient-rich soil, terra preta. As a charcoal containing high levels of organi ...
... over the last few years. Biochar is similar in appearance to potting soil or to a charred substance, depending on the feedstock (Figure 1). Modern biochar production is based on an ancient Amazon technique for creating a nutrient-rich soil, terra preta. As a charcoal containing high levels of organi ...
UK Climate Change Programme 2006
... The UK has already taken a strong lead internationally on climate change. We played a major role in negotiating the Kyoto Treaty. In the Hadley Centre, we have one of the world’s leading climate change research centres. We have also taken a policy lead, through the climate change levy and UK emissio ...
... The UK has already taken a strong lead internationally on climate change. We played a major role in negotiating the Kyoto Treaty. In the Hadley Centre, we have one of the world’s leading climate change research centres. We have also taken a policy lead, through the climate change levy and UK emissio ...
Climate Change The UK Programme 2006
... The UK has already taken a strong lead internationally on climate change. We played a major role in negotiating the Kyoto Treaty. In the Hadley Centre, we have one of the world’s leading climate change research centres. We have also taken a policy lead, through the climate change levy and UK emissio ...
... The UK has already taken a strong lead internationally on climate change. We played a major role in negotiating the Kyoto Treaty. In the Hadley Centre, we have one of the world’s leading climate change research centres. We have also taken a policy lead, through the climate change levy and UK emissio ...
Lost hopes for CCS - Airclim | The Air Pollution and Climate Secretariat
... to constitute the maximum level consistent with biological diversity, was exceeded a quarter century ago. Levelling emissions at maximally 450 ppm could allow average global temperatures to stabilise around 2°C above preindustrial concentrations. Greater temperature shifts may cause irreversible an ...
... to constitute the maximum level consistent with biological diversity, was exceeded a quarter century ago. Levelling emissions at maximally 450 ppm could allow average global temperatures to stabilise around 2°C above preindustrial concentrations. Greater temperature shifts may cause irreversible an ...
Democracy as it Should Be
... That's the impression one might get from the overwrought reaction of Republicans to the new Environmental Protection Agency standards that are intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 30% by 2030. The world we've known may be coming to an end, but it's not because of EPA regulat ...
... That's the impression one might get from the overwrought reaction of Republicans to the new Environmental Protection Agency standards that are intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 30% by 2030. The world we've known may be coming to an end, but it's not because of EPA regulat ...
Carbon Capital
... Climate change is a critical global social and economic challenge. It is set to affect us all for generations to come. The transition to a low carbon economy – which is essential if we are successfully to meet this challenge – will require significant investment from both the public and private sect ...
... Climate change is a critical global social and economic challenge. It is set to affect us all for generations to come. The transition to a low carbon economy – which is essential if we are successfully to meet this challenge – will require significant investment from both the public and private sect ...
Effect of increased fire activity on global warming in the
... 1992). Most of the variation in area burned in the Canadian boreal forest is explained by the blockage of dry air masses in the troposphere which promotes dry conditions and thus large forest fires (Skinner et al. 1999). At the regional scale, dry soils and coarser surface deposits have been associat ...
... 1992). Most of the variation in area burned in the Canadian boreal forest is explained by the blockage of dry air masses in the troposphere which promotes dry conditions and thus large forest fires (Skinner et al. 1999). At the regional scale, dry soils and coarser surface deposits have been associat ...
Global Carbon Pricing - Carbon
... change the self-interest of a group, a common commitment rule is necessary. Unfortunately, the quantity-restriction makes finding an acceptable common rule impossible. The result was that the U.S., Australia and all developing countries refused any commitment at all. And, when the Kyoto Protocol was ...
... change the self-interest of a group, a common commitment rule is necessary. Unfortunately, the quantity-restriction makes finding an acceptable common rule impossible. The result was that the U.S., Australia and all developing countries refused any commitment at all. And, when the Kyoto Protocol was ...
PDF 4.2MB - Strong Growth, Low Pollution
... and fiscal costings. These measures include support for jobs in the coal and steel industries and inclusion of heavy on-road transport in the carbon price coverage from 2014-15. The economy-wide modelling contained in the modelling report does not include all elements of the final policy package as ...
... and fiscal costings. These measures include support for jobs in the coal and steel industries and inclusion of heavy on-road transport in the carbon price coverage from 2014-15. The economy-wide modelling contained in the modelling report does not include all elements of the final policy package as ...