2006 Annual Review - Purves Environmental Fund
... CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTS Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) PEF is supporting CANA to commission new research into communicating climate change. The project commenced with a scoping exercise that PEF also separately funded. At year end, the research project is nearing completion. A series of foc ...
... CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTS Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) PEF is supporting CANA to commission new research into communicating climate change. The project commenced with a scoping exercise that PEF also separately funded. At year end, the research project is nearing completion. A series of foc ...
Draft 1:Layout 1.qxd - Defenders of Wildlife
... other resources. Generally, higher concentrations of CO2 are associated with greater plant productivity and more efficient water use. This may seem like good news, but it also appears to be changing competition between species, resulting in shifts in species composition, increasing fires, and the in ...
... other resources. Generally, higher concentrations of CO2 are associated with greater plant productivity and more efficient water use. This may seem like good news, but it also appears to be changing competition between species, resulting in shifts in species composition, increasing fires, and the in ...
world development report 2010: Development and Climate Change
... producers, per capita emissions in highincome countries vary by a factor of four, from 7 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) 8 per capita in Switzerland to 27 in Australia and Luxembourg.9 And dependence on fossil fuel can hardly be considered unavoidable given the inadequacy of the efforts to ...
... producers, per capita emissions in highincome countries vary by a factor of four, from 7 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) 8 per capita in Switzerland to 27 in Australia and Luxembourg.9 And dependence on fossil fuel can hardly be considered unavoidable given the inadequacy of the efforts to ...
Climate change and agriculture: Agricultural trade, markets and
... The price of imports can be affected both directly and indirectly by climate change. If increased production from the areas that will ‘benefit’ from climate change is smaller than the decline in those that will ‘lose’, global supply will fall and prices will rise. This direct impact would be additio ...
... The price of imports can be affected both directly and indirectly by climate change. If increased production from the areas that will ‘benefit’ from climate change is smaller than the decline in those that will ‘lose’, global supply will fall and prices will rise. This direct impact would be additio ...
The Adaptation Challenge: Key issues for crop production
... ‘Agriculture has simply fallen out of favour. Everyone has rushed to earn money – no one thinks about developing agriculture [any more]. I hope new people will come into farming…This is what has happened to nature: social and economic changes go hand in hand with climate changes’ Elena, female, 42, ...
... ‘Agriculture has simply fallen out of favour. Everyone has rushed to earn money – no one thinks about developing agriculture [any more]. I hope new people will come into farming…This is what has happened to nature: social and economic changes go hand in hand with climate changes’ Elena, female, 42, ...
10 IISD (17 March 2016):Arctic Council Addresses
... The IPCC scientific process is probably the broadest verified endeavour of mankind in natural scientific and socio-ecological research and are based on rechecks and caution.15 In this context there was a remarkable “social turn” in the latest IPCC-assessment report which stressed, for example, “glob ...
... The IPCC scientific process is probably the broadest verified endeavour of mankind in natural scientific and socio-ecological research and are based on rechecks and caution.15 In this context there was a remarkable “social turn” in the latest IPCC-assessment report which stressed, for example, “glob ...
Bringing the Copenhagen Global Climate Change Negotiations to Conclusion J
... emissions target) could be removed from the ETS and also have their reduction quotas increased to 130% of the original target. However, these penalties seem of little consequence to a country not intending to seriously cut emissions in the first place. As the situation has evolved from 2002 on, only ...
... emissions target) could be removed from the ETS and also have their reduction quotas increased to 130% of the original target. However, these penalties seem of little consequence to a country not intending to seriously cut emissions in the first place. As the situation has evolved from 2002 on, only ...
Climate vulnerability of socio-economic systems
... be taken as opportunities while some will have severe negative impacts that require adequate mitigation measures of the impacts to reduce the impact on the socio-economic systems. This article reviews the information on climate vulnerability of socio- economic systems in moist forests, woodlands/sa ...
... be taken as opportunities while some will have severe negative impacts that require adequate mitigation measures of the impacts to reduce the impact on the socio-economic systems. This article reviews the information on climate vulnerability of socio- economic systems in moist forests, woodlands/sa ...
Challenge of Weather and Climate
... of the factors affecting UK climate – e.g. see p 45 in Understanding GCSE Geography (Bowen and Pallister) . Perhaps give a sheet of A3 paper to students in groups. They are required to produce a diagram/map/image which explains the importance of each of the climatic factors: latitude, altitude, ocea ...
... of the factors affecting UK climate – e.g. see p 45 in Understanding GCSE Geography (Bowen and Pallister) . Perhaps give a sheet of A3 paper to students in groups. They are required to produce a diagram/map/image which explains the importance of each of the climatic factors: latitude, altitude, ocea ...
Climate Change and Children in the Brazilian Amazon Region
... States, European Union 2 and China. Brazilian emissions represent about 5% of global emissions. Unlike the other countries, whose main source is the burning of fossil fuels, in Brazil 75% of emissions occurs in land-use activities such as deforestation and burning for agriculture use. Only the Brazi ...
... States, European Union 2 and China. Brazilian emissions represent about 5% of global emissions. Unlike the other countries, whose main source is the burning of fossil fuels, in Brazil 75% of emissions occurs in land-use activities such as deforestation and burning for agriculture use. Only the Brazi ...
Climate Change and the Law
... as a naturally occurring event or as a hoax, we recommend that students be given a solid grounding in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 describes the policies and measures that are or could be used to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, including the economic costs of some of those strategies. For students who h ...
... as a naturally occurring event or as a hoax, we recommend that students be given a solid grounding in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 describes the policies and measures that are or could be used to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, including the economic costs of some of those strategies. For students who h ...
Risk of ruin paper - Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
... Section 2 outlines the likely impacts of climate change, arguing that mitigation is unlikely to reduce the possibility of catastrophic impacts from climate change completely. This means that the impacts of climate change may be beyond existing climate risks. Section 3 outlines the role for insurance ...
... Section 2 outlines the likely impacts of climate change, arguing that mitigation is unlikely to reduce the possibility of catastrophic impacts from climate change completely. This means that the impacts of climate change may be beyond existing climate risks. Section 3 outlines the role for insurance ...
The Role of Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate
... fair to say o¤hand there might be a non-negligible probability of a catastrophe. In his book Catastrophe: Risk and Response,2 Richard A. Posner de…nes the word catastrophe “... to designate an event that is believed to have a very low probability of materializing but that if it does materialize will ...
... fair to say o¤hand there might be a non-negligible probability of a catastrophe. In his book Catastrophe: Risk and Response,2 Richard A. Posner de…nes the word catastrophe “... to designate an event that is believed to have a very low probability of materializing but that if it does materialize will ...
The Emergence of Climate Change Mitigation Action by Society: An
... 1.4 Currently society’s response to climate change has not been incorporated adequately in modelling studies on the energy system, climate change and associated impact as researchers have widely acknowledged (Balbi & Giupponi 2009; Brede & de Vries 2013; Giupponi et al. 2013; Hughes et al. 2013; Pfe ...
... 1.4 Currently society’s response to climate change has not been incorporated adequately in modelling studies on the energy system, climate change and associated impact as researchers have widely acknowledged (Balbi & Giupponi 2009; Brede & de Vries 2013; Giupponi et al. 2013; Hughes et al. 2013; Pfe ...
How are salmon changing in response to climate change?
... What does the best dataset in Alaska say about salmon response to climate change? Is salmon run timing changing with warming? Yes – most juveniles and adults emigrating and immigrating earlier. What are the effects on salmon availability? Smaller window in which ecosystem service available for harv ...
... What does the best dataset in Alaska say about salmon response to climate change? Is salmon run timing changing with warming? Yes – most juveniles and adults emigrating and immigrating earlier. What are the effects on salmon availability? Smaller window in which ecosystem service available for harv ...
Nitrous Oxide Nitrous oxide (chemical formula N2O), is a trace gas
... at Mace Head (Ireland) rose from c.315 ppb in 2000 to c.323 ppb in 2010. Very similar values were also recorded at Cape Grim (Australia), whereas slightly lower (by c.1 ppb) absolute values, but with the same increase, were measured at the South Pole. This recent growth in atmospheric N2O of nearly ...
... at Mace Head (Ireland) rose from c.315 ppb in 2000 to c.323 ppb in 2010. Very similar values were also recorded at Cape Grim (Australia), whereas slightly lower (by c.1 ppb) absolute values, but with the same increase, were measured at the South Pole. This recent growth in atmospheric N2O of nearly ...
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geneva dialogues 7.4.11[1]. - Graduate Institute of International and
... support other efforts to mitigate anthropogenic climate change (but geoengineering not a ‘magic bullet’; potential, & complementary, ‘Plan B’). Could do it, but side effects and risks. Reduce uncertainties through further R & D. • Chapter 4 addressed to Governance issues (including law) ...
... support other efforts to mitigate anthropogenic climate change (but geoengineering not a ‘magic bullet’; potential, & complementary, ‘Plan B’). Could do it, but side effects and risks. Reduce uncertainties through further R & D. • Chapter 4 addressed to Governance issues (including law) ...
The intensification and shift of the annual North Atlantic Oscillation in
... The model data come from a 240-yr integration of global coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea-ice–land surface climate model under the transient greenhouse gas warming scenario. The model is the ECHAM4/OPYC3 CGCM, which is described in (and references therein Roeckner et al., 1996 and references therein), Ob ...
... The model data come from a 240-yr integration of global coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea-ice–land surface climate model under the transient greenhouse gas warming scenario. The model is the ECHAM4/OPYC3 CGCM, which is described in (and references therein Roeckner et al., 1996 and references therein), Ob ...
THE TOP-30 OF ECONOMISTS IN IRELAND
... climate change impacts that would be avoided by reducing carbon emissions by one tonne. It is a useful measure for assessing the benefits of climate policy at any point in time. It is generally thought to increase over time, and textbook economics would recommend that carbon emissions be taxed by a ...
... climate change impacts that would be avoided by reducing carbon emissions by one tonne. It is a useful measure for assessing the benefits of climate policy at any point in time. It is generally thought to increase over time, and textbook economics would recommend that carbon emissions be taxed by a ...
Warming - Amazon Web Services
... prominent paper of von Storch and others, which claimed (based on a model test) that the method of Mann, Bradley, and Hughes systematically underestimated variability, "was [itself] based on incorrect implementation of the reconstruction procedure."41 With correct implementation, climate field recon ...
... prominent paper of von Storch and others, which claimed (based on a model test) that the method of Mann, Bradley, and Hughes systematically underestimated variability, "was [itself] based on incorrect implementation of the reconstruction procedure."41 With correct implementation, climate field recon ...
The relationship between the United Nations Framework
... general international law rules on State responsibility for transboundary harm. This at least suggests that those rules are relevant in the context of climate change. Article 2 of the UNFCCC sets out the Convention’s ‘ultimate objective’, which is “to achieve ... stabilization of greenhouse gas conc ...
... general international law rules on State responsibility for transboundary harm. This at least suggests that those rules are relevant in the context of climate change. Article 2 of the UNFCCC sets out the Convention’s ‘ultimate objective’, which is “to achieve ... stabilization of greenhouse gas conc ...
Project Document for CEO Approval
... 14. The reliance on fuel wood and charcoal presents significant vulnerability. The continued and widespread inefficient use of fuel wood and charcoal may intensify deforestation problems in the country. The resultant scarcity of biomass fuels would affect rural women, since they would have to travel ...
... 14. The reliance on fuel wood and charcoal presents significant vulnerability. The continued and widespread inefficient use of fuel wood and charcoal may intensify deforestation problems in the country. The resultant scarcity of biomass fuels would affect rural women, since they would have to travel ...
Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in water hazard assessments using regional
... mismatch between coarse-resolution OA/GCMs and location-specific information needs of adaptation planners……It is becoming apparent, however, that downscaling also has serious practical limitations, especially where the meteorological data needed for model calibration may be of dubious quality or pat ...
... mismatch between coarse-resolution OA/GCMs and location-specific information needs of adaptation planners……It is becoming apparent, however, that downscaling also has serious practical limitations, especially where the meteorological data needed for model calibration may be of dubious quality or pat ...
International Workshop on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate
... Jürgen Kropp (PIK) claimed for a ‘new culture of cooperation’. But as both communities work in different modes and sometimes with different agendas incentives have to be set for closer cooperation. As one participant put it: “Climate scientist and local and sectoral practitioners need to be in close ...
... Jürgen Kropp (PIK) claimed for a ‘new culture of cooperation’. But as both communities work in different modes and sometimes with different agendas incentives have to be set for closer cooperation. As one participant put it: “Climate scientist and local and sectoral practitioners need to be in close ...
A Meta-Analysis Essay on the Environmental Resistance Movement
... and prove their logic and science false. In his book, The Inquisition of Climate Science, Powell makes it clear that climate change deniers are not scientists and their evidence not scientific. He goes on to talk about the conferences and think tanks of the deniers, and how they appear in every way ...
... and prove their logic and science false. In his book, The Inquisition of Climate Science, Powell makes it clear that climate change deniers are not scientists and their evidence not scientific. He goes on to talk about the conferences and think tanks of the deniers, and how they appear in every way ...