Sentences with phrase «change mitigation strategies»

Much of our predictive power and climate change mitigation strategies depends on supporting the Cinderella science of monitoring.

This technical document seeks to provide a resource for city managers and other stakeholders in their consideration of climate change mitigation strategies and other sustainable development goals.

The summary of IPCC's report on climate - change mitigation strategies was especially bad, scoring just 6.7 points on the readability scale.

WHO's Health in the Green Economy sector briefings examine the health impacts of climate change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change, 2007).

Climate change mitigation strategies in the transport sector can result in many co ‐ benefits.

Nevertheless, the work provides another compelling argument «to start scaling up the myriad climate change mitigation strategies that already exist — green subsidies and investment, carbon taxes and markets, and especially ending fossil fuel subsidies,» Lesk said.

It is not NASA's mission to make policy regarding possible climate change mitigation strategies.

Trees help fight global warming by absorbing C02 from our atmosphere, making them a vital component of climate change mitigation strategies.

In conclusion, I suggest moving away from the framework of carbon removal as a «third way» and instead framing carbon removal as a critical yet largely missing piece of «Plan A» to deploy large - scale climate change mitigation strategies.

«Our findings have major implications for the way how climate change mitigation strategies should be designed.

By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

Even more challenging are the policy design issues that will decide the extent to which a REDD instrument will interact with the over-arching climate change mitigation strategy.

The former Australian Government's climate report «The Critical Decade» recognises the need to protect native forests immediately as a key climate change mitigation strategy.

The Cancun Agreement also opened the door for peatlands restoration as a climate change mitigation strategy.

To conclude, a China - based Energy and Climate Registry that will quantify energy use and GHG emissions in a measurable, consistent, and verifiable way is the necessary first solid step toward China's climate change mitigation strategy.

While it has long been known that cost - effective energy efficiency measures are beneficial to economic welfare and therefore worth pursuing on grounds other than climate change mitigation, the magnitude of rebound effects and their implications for the utility of energy efficiency as a climate change mitigation strategy remain contested.

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This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

Objective: To determine the impact of alternative dietary strategies on climate change mitigation and the nutritional quality of the Australian diet.

«If we can understand why seismicity changes, then we can start thinking about mitigation strategies.»

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

The earthquake hazard is not going to be enhanced or diminished by climate change (ignoring induced seismicity associated with the energy system and some mitigation strategies).

In climate change mitigation with interactions, assessment leaders must consider the public perception of theories such as land - based strategies to compensate for industrial emissions, which may not meet expectations if they are described out of context.

«To explore the long - term effects of a global GHG mitigation strategy, we used dynamical downscaling from global simulations to predict the changes in air quality and related premature deaths.»

For the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, he co-authored a number of landmark reports addressing CCS and other climate change mitigation technologies.

An important goal of climate research is to reduce and characterize uncertainty in the climate change projections so that they can be more useful for assessing climate change impacts and developing adaptation and mitigation strategies.

Understanding how human water use would respond to global warming and its combined effects on the hydrologic cycle is important for better designing mitigation and adaption strategies to the global change in the future.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

As plan sponsors look toward 2016, this might be an appropriate time to raise the issue of considering changes in the plan's risk - mitigation strategy.»

She investigates how behavior and physiology of cattle change in response to farming practices that may affect animal welfare, such as painful procedures (e.g., tail docking, disbudding, branding), management decisions (e.g., stocking density), and environmental conditions (e.g., effects of weather and mitigation strategies; comfort of lying and standing surfaces).

Recognizing the linkage between the potential impacts of climate change and development, mitigation and adaptation strategies should be pursued as part of development and poverty eradication efforts.

Key Message 3: Long - Term Strategy Rapid, sustained, and effective mitigation based on coordinated global and regional action is required to avoid «dangerous climate change» regardless of how it is defined.

Alternate strategies must be employed if there is to be reasonable mitigation of the negative effects of the projected change in climate.

Part of the mitigation strategy for climate change is to reduce carbon footprints.

In addition, according to the recent PNAS paper by Yangyang Xua and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, «Well below 2 °C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes» (http://www.pnas.org/content/114/39/10315.full), manmade aerosols are currently «hiding» 0.9 C of warming.

For the high mitigation scenario RCP2.6, corresponding changes are +0.71 °C, − 0.07 pH unit, − 1.81 % and − 2.0 % respectively, illustrating the effectiveness of extreme mitigation strategies.

What we can do, however, is develop strategies of adaptation and mitigation, how humans will be affected, how our lives will change, and how we can prevent a dramatic loss of life due to ecological disaster, scarcity of resources, or other significant problems.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36571015# Making climate change work for us: European perspectives on adaptation and mitigation strategies / edited by Michael Hulme (2010) Cambridge University Press

Mitigation strategies can decrease the amount of climate change that occurs, as summarized in the WGIII AR5.

With climate change leading to a rise in temperatures and rapid concretisation exacerbating urban heat island effect, it has become important to develop both mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce and combat heat stress... Read More

The theme and focus of this year's forum was, «Climate Change and Marine Environments in Asia: Seeking Mitigation Strategies.»

The one point that I see as unassailable is that a UK contribution, by itself, can not make much difference to global climate change mitigation, and must be considered in the context of a global strategy shared among all energy - consuming nations.

It is also an area where mitigation is not the only potentially useful strategy, because it should be possible to create new strains of important food crops better suited to a changed climate than current varieties.

This webinar will explore the trends driving interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues — including climate change — and the various strategies investors have been pursuing to advance climate mitigation and resilience.

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over how to tackle climate change is the role of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in market - based mitigation strategies.

Prognostic models of terrestrial carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem processes are central for any consideration of the effects of environmental change and analysis of mitigation strategies; moreover, these demands will become even more significant as countries begin to adopt carbon emission targets.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

«Well Below 2 °C: Mitigation Strategies for Avoiding Dangerous to Catastrophic Climate Changes.»

Activities supported by the five regional commissions include, among others, the creation of strategies to integrate climate change consideration into development plans, the assessment of the economic impacts of climate change, and the evaluation of the costs of mitigation and adaptation.