Policy Instruments for Climate Change: How Can National Governments Address RESOURCES
... 2 In May, 1992, at the "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, 143 nations agreed to adopt the Framework Convention on Climate Change. For a comprehensive review of the Convention, see: Bodansky (1993). In July, 1996, Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, Timothy E. Wirth, stated at United Nations s ...
... 2 In May, 1992, at the "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, 143 nations agreed to adopt the Framework Convention on Climate Change. For a comprehensive review of the Convention, see: Bodansky (1993). In July, 1996, Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, Timothy E. Wirth, stated at United Nations s ...
Climate 2020, rising to the challenge
... time the details of a transparent global regime, which will account for, review and underpin greater action by all sides. And they agreed to complete but also to strengthen adequate technology and financial support to nations, including the poorest and most vulnerable, so all countries can build the ...
... time the details of a transparent global regime, which will account for, review and underpin greater action by all sides. And they agreed to complete but also to strengthen adequate technology and financial support to nations, including the poorest and most vulnerable, so all countries can build the ...
Rechtspraak.nl - Print uitspraak
... It is also clear that collective, global actions are required to keep climate change within acceptable limits. In this context of collective actions, the 25%-40% reduction you refer to in your letter was always the objective. The EU’s offer to pursue a 30% reduction by 2020, on the condition that ot ...
... It is also clear that collective, global actions are required to keep climate change within acceptable limits. In this context of collective actions, the 25%-40% reduction you refer to in your letter was always the objective. The EU’s offer to pursue a 30% reduction by 2020, on the condition that ot ...
National Capacity Self Assessment
... Three Thematic Assessments – a list and description of the capacity situation, priority constraints, barriers and needs in relation to each of the three Conventions; The Cross-cutting Assessment – a consideration of the capacity situation, priority constraints, barriers and needs that cut across ...
... Three Thematic Assessments – a list and description of the capacity situation, priority constraints, barriers and needs in relation to each of the three Conventions; The Cross-cutting Assessment – a consideration of the capacity situation, priority constraints, barriers and needs that cut across ...
national adaptation forum media guide
... consider planning and management in order to ensure the future of natural and built systems. In order to protect these areas from the unavoidable effects of climate change, EcoAdapt provides support, training, and assistance to make planning and management less vulnerable and more climate savvy. ...
... consider planning and management in order to ensure the future of natural and built systems. In order to protect these areas from the unavoidable effects of climate change, EcoAdapt provides support, training, and assistance to make planning and management less vulnerable and more climate savvy. ...
Top-down vs bottom-up - working paper version
... A range of scholars and policy advocates have proposed formulaic (or ‘top-down’) approaches for calculating countries’ fair shares of the global effort to mitigate climate change. The practical relevance of top-down proposals has become increasingly uncertain as climate change negotiations since the ...
... A range of scholars and policy advocates have proposed formulaic (or ‘top-down’) approaches for calculating countries’ fair shares of the global effort to mitigate climate change. The practical relevance of top-down proposals has become increasingly uncertain as climate change negotiations since the ...
Mitigation of What and by What? Adaptation by Whom and
... evolution of the climate-finance architecture, many of the fundamentally politicised issues that shape the existing dilemma on how to confront global climate change have been avoided or delayed. A largely market-driven response has not advanced an accountability-driven, long-term agenda, and competi ...
... evolution of the climate-finance architecture, many of the fundamentally politicised issues that shape the existing dilemma on how to confront global climate change have been avoided or delayed. A largely market-driven response has not advanced an accountability-driven, long-term agenda, and competi ...
Adaptation investments
... need financial and technical assistance from developed countries to help them implement their adaptation strategies. Article 4.4 of the UNFCCC states that “developed country Parties …shall… assist the developing country Parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate chang ...
... need financial and technical assistance from developed countries to help them implement their adaptation strategies. Article 4.4 of the UNFCCC states that “developed country Parties …shall… assist the developing country Parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate chang ...
The costs of adaptation: Working Paper 7 (260 kB) (opens in new window)
... adaptation. More subtly, McGray et al (2007) identify a continuum of measures that address, to varying degrees, both development and adaptation needs. They include: ...
... adaptation. More subtly, McGray et al (2007) identify a continuum of measures that address, to varying degrees, both development and adaptation needs. They include: ...
Mitigation and adaptation performance measurement frameworks
... Where applicable, mitigation projects/programmes that also generate adaptation results should report on adaptation indicators (and vice versa for adaptation projects/programmes with mitigation results). For example, a project that primarily intends to improve land and forest areas contributing to em ...
... Where applicable, mitigation projects/programmes that also generate adaptation results should report on adaptation indicators (and vice versa for adaptation projects/programmes with mitigation results). For example, a project that primarily intends to improve land and forest areas contributing to em ...
The growing role of methane in anthropogenic climate change
... Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia ...
... Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia ...
McGraw Hill Higher Education - McGraw
... Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)—promotes reductions in emissions of developing countries Carbon Neutral—emissions offset by removal of an equal amount of gas from the atmosphere Carbon Tax—tax on use of fuels causing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions—based on type and quantity— promotes ...
... Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)—promotes reductions in emissions of developing countries Carbon Neutral—emissions offset by removal of an equal amount of gas from the atmosphere Carbon Tax—tax on use of fuels causing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions—based on type and quantity— promotes ...
- SEA START RC
... What are the institutional processes (Environmental Assessment, conflict resolution) and governance frameworks (legal, policy, regulatory-enforcement) through which adaptation processes are implemented? What are the current entry points for adaptation? Who are the current actors (state, non-state) w ...
... What are the institutional processes (Environmental Assessment, conflict resolution) and governance frameworks (legal, policy, regulatory-enforcement) through which adaptation processes are implemented? What are the current entry points for adaptation? Who are the current actors (state, non-state) w ...
2010_09_icao_grounded PDF, 750.6 KByte
... aviation emissions growth in the short-to-medium term in a cost-effective manner through a combination of in-sector reductions and open trading with other sectors. ICAO principles of equal treatment must be upheld to avoid market distortions while the UN Climate change principle of common but differ ...
... aviation emissions growth in the short-to-medium term in a cost-effective manner through a combination of in-sector reductions and open trading with other sectors. ICAO principles of equal treatment must be upheld to avoid market distortions while the UN Climate change principle of common but differ ...
implications of long-term scenarios for medium
... impacts in other areas, related to expectations about future yields and land-use policies, for example. The greenhouse gas emission reduction range of 40% to 70% by 2050, which is often quoted from the IPCC report, is not only due to uncertainty about technology performance or the climate system, bu ...
... impacts in other areas, related to expectations about future yields and land-use policies, for example. The greenhouse gas emission reduction range of 40% to 70% by 2050, which is often quoted from the IPCC report, is not only due to uncertainty about technology performance or the climate system, bu ...
DOC 129KB - Climate Change Authority
... An emissions reduction target is a key component of national action and provides information about the country’s contribution to global efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Within the UNFCCC talks, post-2020 targets are known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), and will be ...
... An emissions reduction target is a key component of national action and provides information about the country’s contribution to global efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Within the UNFCCC talks, post-2020 targets are known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), and will be ...
University of Groningen Local cooling, global warming Hekkenberg, M
... industrialized countries and developing countries to prevent global disaster. In both cases stakeholders from all over the world are required to cooperate to achieve success. The policies to resolve both issues, the Montreal Protocol [UN, 1987] and the Kyoto Protocol [UN, 1997], respectively, are al ...
... industrialized countries and developing countries to prevent global disaster. In both cases stakeholders from all over the world are required to cooperate to achieve success. The policies to resolve both issues, the Montreal Protocol [UN, 1987] and the Kyoto Protocol [UN, 1997], respectively, are al ...
Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: is it possible to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C? (687 kB) (opens in new window)
... a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, we shall, recognizing the scientific view that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius, on the basis of equity and in the context of sustainable development, enhance our long-term co ...
... a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, we shall, recognizing the scientific view that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius, on the basis of equity and in the context of sustainable development, enhance our long-term co ...
Gary Yohe - Evaulating Adaptation Methods
... to adaptation option. Resources (Determinant 2) could be distributed differently across specific locations, but adaptive capacity may be more sensitive to larger scale distributional issues across different locations. The essential questions here focus on whether sufficient funds are available to pa ...
... to adaptation option. Resources (Determinant 2) could be distributed differently across specific locations, but adaptive capacity may be more sensitive to larger scale distributional issues across different locations. The essential questions here focus on whether sufficient funds are available to pa ...
Australia`s future emissions reduction targets
... The taskforce will propose possible post-2020 targets for Australia to take to the Paris Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 2015, when all countries will be expected to sign off on their post-2020 contributions. The taskforce has released an ...
... The taskforce will propose possible post-2020 targets for Australia to take to the Paris Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 2015, when all countries will be expected to sign off on their post-2020 contributions. The taskforce has released an ...
Indonesia Second National Communication Under The United
... Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory (NGHGEI) for the year 1990 and also the results of the first studies on the country’s vulnerability to climate change. The Second National Communication (SNC) presents the National Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory (NGHGEI) for the years 2000 to 2005. This Com ...
... Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory (NGHGEI) for the year 1990 and also the results of the first studies on the country’s vulnerability to climate change. The Second National Communication (SNC) presents the National Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory (NGHGEI) for the years 2000 to 2005. This Com ...
Subglobal Regulation of the Global Commons: The Case of Climate
... ("[flailing back to national-scale intervention... invites free riding, holdouts, and inefficient spending of limited resources—and thus structural regulatory failure.... At least from a theoretical viewpoint, inherently global problems demand concerted worldwide action"); Sean T. Fox, Responding to ...
... ("[flailing back to national-scale intervention... invites free riding, holdouts, and inefficient spending of limited resources—and thus structural regulatory failure.... At least from a theoretical viewpoint, inherently global problems demand concerted worldwide action"); Sean T. Fox, Responding to ...
ieta - ghg market sentiment survey
... One result of the economic downturn has been the collapse of international oil prices which hovered between $110/bbl and $115/bbl during the week of the previous report’s launch before hitting an all time high of $147/bbl on 3 July 2008. By late December 2008 these prices had dipped below $40/bbl an ...
... One result of the economic downturn has been the collapse of international oil prices which hovered between $110/bbl and $115/bbl during the week of the previous report’s launch before hitting an all time high of $147/bbl on 3 July 2008. By late December 2008 these prices had dipped below $40/bbl an ...
French
... support to more than 150 non-Annex I Parties to prepare their initial, second, and, in some cases, third national communications to the Convention. – During GEF-3, the GEF funded a global program to support the second national communications of most eligible countries. – During GEF-5, the GEF will c ...
... support to more than 150 non-Annex I Parties to prepare their initial, second, and, in some cases, third national communications to the Convention. – During GEF-3, the GEF funded a global program to support the second national communications of most eligible countries. – During GEF-5, the GEF will c ...