Topic 12: Agriculture, Climate Change and Adaptation
... market prices and potentially affecting adaptation elsewhere as explored in a mitigation context by Murray, McCarl and Lee. Performance uncertainty where it may be worthwhile placing a lower confidence interval on adaptation potential. See Kim and McCarl in mitigation setting. Permanence where one n ...
... market prices and potentially affecting adaptation elsewhere as explored in a mitigation context by Murray, McCarl and Lee. Performance uncertainty where it may be worthwhile placing a lower confidence interval on adaptation potential. See Kim and McCarl in mitigation setting. Permanence where one n ...
REDD Readiness Progress Fact Sheet COUNTRY: Guatemala
... National Forestry Institute –INAB- and National Council of protected areas –CONAP- have included into their policy tools, mechanisms to promote emission reduction activities, and they are preparing concepts of REDD+ activities in accordance with their legal framework. INAB´s new program of forestry ...
... National Forestry Institute –INAB- and National Council of protected areas –CONAP- have included into their policy tools, mechanisms to promote emission reduction activities, and they are preparing concepts of REDD+ activities in accordance with their legal framework. INAB´s new program of forestry ...
A Kantian approach to sustainable development indicators for
... from other countries is kept within the national GHG-emission budget (ii) To what extent the national price on GHG emissions is in accordance with the global shadow price on GHG emissions Since no agreement exists on rules for allocating the remaining global GHG-emission budget, the nation state nee ...
... from other countries is kept within the national GHG-emission budget (ii) To what extent the national price on GHG emissions is in accordance with the global shadow price on GHG emissions Since no agreement exists on rules for allocating the remaining global GHG-emission budget, the nation state nee ...
Conditional Cooperation and Climate Change
... understand that any solution will require international cooperation: To stabilize the level of carbon in the atmosphere, countries around the world will need to curtail their consumption of fossil fuels. Leaders also recognize that transitioning from fossil fuels will require major sacrifices. Many ...
... understand that any solution will require international cooperation: To stabilize the level of carbon in the atmosphere, countries around the world will need to curtail their consumption of fossil fuels. Leaders also recognize that transitioning from fossil fuels will require major sacrifices. Many ...
Senate Inquiry into the Kyoto Protocol
... to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air. However, little is currently known about climate at a regional level that could be useful to farmers. While global forecasts have significant uncertainty, these uncertainties are increased greatly when forecasts are attempted for a regional, cat ...
... to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air. However, little is currently known about climate at a regional level that could be useful to farmers. While global forecasts have significant uncertainty, these uncertainties are increased greatly when forecasts are attempted for a regional, cat ...
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... with the potential for large negative consequences (IPCC 2013). As a result, the need to find a mutually agreeable strategy to mitigate GHG emissions “is becoming increasingly urgent” (Condon and Sinha, 2013 p. 50). Climate change and other global environmental problems, however, are particularly di ...
... with the potential for large negative consequences (IPCC 2013). As a result, the need to find a mutually agreeable strategy to mitigate GHG emissions “is becoming increasingly urgent” (Condon and Sinha, 2013 p. 50). Climate change and other global environmental problems, however, are particularly di ...
How Can Latin America Help the World to Cope with Climate
... In many ways the problem of human-induced climate change is unique: it is global, it will affect the planet for decades to centuries, and it is complex, imperfectly understood, and has the potential for serious consequences. Indeed, climate change (CC) presents one of the most complex and difficult ...
... In many ways the problem of human-induced climate change is unique: it is global, it will affect the planet for decades to centuries, and it is complex, imperfectly understood, and has the potential for serious consequences. Indeed, climate change (CC) presents one of the most complex and difficult ...
México, parte del Protocolo de Kyoto
... • Emissions trading allows countries that have emission units to spare - emissions permitted them but not "used" - to sell this excess capacity to countries that are over their targets. ...
... • Emissions trading allows countries that have emission units to spare - emissions permitted them but not "used" - to sell this excess capacity to countries that are over their targets. ...
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... of heterogeneous policy measures whose additionality would be difficult or even impossible to assess, and which would be far from cost efficiency. Moreover, in spite of the recent political changes in the United States, and as we could see during the Copenhagen negotiations, the US administration an ...
... of heterogeneous policy measures whose additionality would be difficult or even impossible to assess, and which would be far from cost efficiency. Moreover, in spite of the recent political changes in the United States, and as we could see during the Copenhagen negotiations, the US administration an ...
IUCN TILCEPA COP18 Climate Negotiations Report
... & Damage team about whether or not the impacts of ocean acidification should be considered as an example of slow onset and unrecoverable damage to food security and livelihoods. This discussion was complex (speed of onset, whether ocean acidification is to be counted as a climate impact or is a co-o ...
... & Damage team about whether or not the impacts of ocean acidification should be considered as an example of slow onset and unrecoverable damage to food security and livelihoods. This discussion was complex (speed of onset, whether ocean acidification is to be counted as a climate impact or is a co-o ...
Using the Kyoto Protocol as a stepping stone.
... project have been submitted monthly to the UNFCCC. The total GHG reduction under JI until the end of 2012 is expected only to be about a quarter of CDM. In 2008 track 1 projects started to be submitted and now there are more track 1 projects (274) than track 2 projects (218). It has been easy to get ...
... project have been submitted monthly to the UNFCCC. The total GHG reduction under JI until the end of 2012 is expected only to be about a quarter of CDM. In 2008 track 1 projects started to be submitted and now there are more track 1 projects (274) than track 2 projects (218). It has been easy to get ...
Initial National Communication V&A Assessment
... further work in the area of vulnerability with regards to climate change. There is a considerable amount of infrastructure located on the coast, with the international airports, seaports and a number of industries being located in areas that would be extremely sensitive to climate change. It will be ...
... further work in the area of vulnerability with regards to climate change. There is a considerable amount of infrastructure located on the coast, with the international airports, seaports and a number of industries being located in areas that would be extremely sensitive to climate change. It will be ...
prospects and pitfalls of the kyoto protocol to the united nations
... that take into account each nation’s contributions to the greenhouse effect, as * Student of Arts/Law, The University of Melbourne. 1 Opened for signature 16 March 1998, 37 ILM 22 (1998) (not yet in force) (‘Kyoto ...
... that take into account each nation’s contributions to the greenhouse effect, as * Student of Arts/Law, The University of Melbourne. 1 Opened for signature 16 March 1998, 37 ILM 22 (1998) (not yet in force) (‘Kyoto ...
Adaptation 101
... global leadership. The US can improve its standing in the world community by showing that it is willing to take responsibility for the consequences of its greenhouse gas emissions. This becomes particularly important as the US begins to re-engage in international negotiations on climate change. • T ...
... global leadership. The US can improve its standing in the world community by showing that it is willing to take responsibility for the consequences of its greenhouse gas emissions. This becomes particularly important as the US begins to re-engage in international negotiations on climate change. • T ...
Cutting the Knot
... impossible to imagine that any adequately precautionary regime – let alone an equitable one – can be created while this remains the case. Unfortunately, because of the current low level of willingness to pay, it is quite easy to imagine a series of nominal climate agreements that create the appearan ...
... impossible to imagine that any adequately precautionary regime – let alone an equitable one – can be created while this remains the case. Unfortunately, because of the current low level of willingness to pay, it is quite easy to imagine a series of nominal climate agreements that create the appearan ...
Cutting the Knot
... impossible to imagine that any adequately precautionary regime – let alone an equitable one – can be created while this remains the case. Unfortunately, because of the current low level of willingness to pay, it is quite easy to imagine a series of nominal climate agreements that create the appearan ...
... impossible to imagine that any adequately precautionary regime – let alone an equitable one – can be created while this remains the case. Unfortunately, because of the current low level of willingness to pay, it is quite easy to imagine a series of nominal climate agreements that create the appearan ...
CRS Report for Congress Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Conflicting Situations, Conflicting Perspectives
... designated developed nations, listed on Annex I to the UNFCCC (and hence known as Annex I nations). Thus the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and much of the current debate about actions to control greenhouse gas emissions focus on individual nations’ amounts of emissions. As a result, primary attention ...
... designated developed nations, listed on Annex I to the UNFCCC (and hence known as Annex I nations). Thus the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and much of the current debate about actions to control greenhouse gas emissions focus on individual nations’ amounts of emissions. As a result, primary attention ...
National contributions to observed global warming
... contributions are reasonably well defined by fossil fuel CO2 emissions, many countries have dominant contributions from land-use CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, emphasizing the importance of both deforestation and agriculture as components of a country’s contribution to climate warming. Fu ...
... contributions are reasonably well defined by fossil fuel CO2 emissions, many countries have dominant contributions from land-use CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, emphasizing the importance of both deforestation and agriculture as components of a country’s contribution to climate warming. Fu ...
Human Mobility in the context of Climate Change
... income sources to be diversified (i.e. remittances used to take resilience measures at household level), reduces pressures on fragile eco-systems, and leads to positive development impacts. The adaptive capacity of vulnerable households and communities can be improved, for example through training t ...
... income sources to be diversified (i.e. remittances used to take resilience measures at household level), reduces pressures on fragile eco-systems, and leads to positive development impacts. The adaptive capacity of vulnerable households and communities can be improved, for example through training t ...
Our future in their plans
... limiting warming to 1.5˚C. Private finance is focused on short-term financial return rather than long-term economic, social and environmental impact. In the long term, we will need to change the rules and frameworks of how private finance works in many ways to ensure that finance does not work contr ...
... limiting warming to 1.5˚C. Private finance is focused on short-term financial return rather than long-term economic, social and environmental impact. In the long term, we will need to change the rules and frameworks of how private finance works in many ways to ensure that finance does not work contr ...
Costing Climate Change Adaptation: A Review of Estimates and Approaches
... Therefore, adaptation measures are important to limit the negative impacts of climate change even though with adaptation there will be residual damages/costs. For this, adaptation and its cost estimation is vital to gear up the climate talk and fund disbursement with liability, compensation, equity ...
... Therefore, adaptation measures are important to limit the negative impacts of climate change even though with adaptation there will be residual damages/costs. For this, adaptation and its cost estimation is vital to gear up the climate talk and fund disbursement with liability, compensation, equity ...
Organisation strategy for Sweden`s cooperation with the Green
... Efforts to limit climate and environmental impacts and promote sustainable use of natural resources are a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction. Climate change risks deepening social and economic disparities, which in turn may lead to more and deeper conflicts. International ...
... Efforts to limit climate and environmental impacts and promote sustainable use of natural resources are a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction. Climate change risks deepening social and economic disparities, which in turn may lead to more and deeper conflicts. International ...
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... Disaster risk reduction (DRR) plays an important role in this context. Over and over, medium- and large-scale disasters have undermined or made void decade-long poverty reduction efforts, especially in the unindustrialized countries. The global annual average economic losses from natural hazards to ...
... Disaster risk reduction (DRR) plays an important role in this context. Over and over, medium- and large-scale disasters have undermined or made void decade-long poverty reduction efforts, especially in the unindustrialized countries. The global annual average economic losses from natural hazards to ...
Meeting the needs of Future Generations
... Several global processes converge in 2015 with the potential to re-orientate development to be more sustainable, inclusive, low carbon and resilient. The post 2015 Development Agenda will succeed the Millennium Development Goals and engage all countries in the implementation of the Sustainable Devel ...
... Several global processes converge in 2015 with the potential to re-orientate development to be more sustainable, inclusive, low carbon and resilient. The post 2015 Development Agenda will succeed the Millennium Development Goals and engage all countries in the implementation of the Sustainable Devel ...
Adaptation and mitigation: trade-offs in substance and methods Richard S.J. Tol *
... 5. Trade-offs between mitigation and facilitative adaptation One question a comparison of mitigation and facilitative adaptation could address is how much the need for facilitative adaptation falls if mitigation is increased. That question is difficult to answer as climate change is so uncertain. Mo ...
... 5. Trade-offs between mitigation and facilitative adaptation One question a comparison of mitigation and facilitative adaptation could address is how much the need for facilitative adaptation falls if mitigation is increased. That question is difficult to answer as climate change is so uncertain. Mo ...