The tumultuous 2009 Copenhagen conference seemed at the time to spell the end of a UN-centred framework to organise international
climate mitigation efforts in favour of smaller and narrower institutional settings.
Not exact matches
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.
Our study of the faster increases
in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of
climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective
climate change
mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»
In order to end all forms of poverty without driving up global temperatures, world leaders will need to ramp up
climate mitigation efforts by 27 %, the lead author tells Carbon Brief.
It has also been the reason why scientists
in the
climate field are all talking about
mitigation and adaptation
efforts in combating the
climate change; the greatest threat ever confronted mankind.
Formulates and recommends Departmental policies, plans and guidelines related to the natural and human environment, including
efforts regarding resiliency and
climate mitigation; livability and quality of life
in states and communities; equity and economic growth; historic preservation, and bicycle and pedestrian transportation.
Interestingly, Hoerling immediately raises the
climate policy issue (stating that
mitigation efforts would not prevent extremes) and even denounces our Perspective as «policy - direct», even though we do not even mention policy — it is simply not the topic of our article, we exclusively discuss scientific questions and we point out at the outset that societal impacts and possible policy strategies are discussed
in the SREX.
This report seeks to ground the debate on
climate finance
in an objective analysis of ongoing
efforts to finance
mitigation and adaptation
in developing countries.
Such a feedback loop could result
in accelerated warming throughout the globe, which will strongly impact ongoing
climate change
mitigation and adaptation
efforts.
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Another study,
in the journal Nature
Climate Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.
Climate Change
in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how
mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of
climate change and averting its risks.
climate change and averting its risks.»
China's role as a promoter of renewable energy development
in Africa can offer it valuable recognition as a contributor to global
efforts towards the
mitigation of
climate change and can serve to reaffirm its position as a lead nation among developing countries, protecting vulnerable countries from the impacts of global warming and fostering their economic growth and development
in the process.12
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The brief suggests that
in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that
climate change
mitigation and adaptation
efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected
in all
climate action.
With the renewed public interest
in climate change
mitigation after the Paris conference, the question was, whether or not the COP would generate results and help to keep momentum
in international
climate protection
efforts.
It is hoped that the publication will raise awareness of the specific needs of these countries regarding forests and
climate change,
in particular regarding
climate change adaptation but also
mitigation, and will provide a point of departure for identifying and catalyzing regional action to complement and enhance national
efforts.
«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of
climate variability and
climate change that occur despite
mitigation and adaptation
efforts,» Editor -
in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.
An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people
in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of
climate variability and
climate change that occur despite
mitigation and adaptation
efforts.
In the worst cases, those arguing for adaptation
efforts were treated as dangerous influences out to a fear that belief that the world could «adapt» to
climate impacts could undermine the motives for
mitigation.
This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of
climate change
in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global
mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.
The second, expected
in March, will cover «impacts and vulnerabilities» of
climate change; the third, on
mitigation efforts, is set to go out
in April.
-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction
in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on
Climate Change
mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming
mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).
Co-benefit impacts (sometimes called «no regrets» strategies),
in which
climate mitigation efforts are chosen to help protect health by reducing health - damaging air pollution emissions, lowering the vulnerability of poor populations, improving the built environment, and other means
My lectures included something about
climate change as background material for energy policy, and I was the editor and one contributor to a book on socioeconomic dimensions of
climate change
mitigation in 1999, but I didn't make any real
effort to understand much more about the atmosphere and the physical
climate before retiring.
Any local authority seeking to play its part
in answering the WMO's call for radical
efforts to reduce carbon emissions would be wise to follow the recommendations of another UN agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, whose latest report on climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house st
Climate Change, whose latest report on
climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house st
climate change
mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house standard.
In 2009, the City launched its
Climate Change Action Plan 2010 - 2030 and embarked on a long - term adaptation and
mitigation effort.
It finds
in all cases that
efforts to reduce vulnerability to losses, often called
climate adaptation, have far greater potential effectiveness to reduce damage related to tropical cyclones than
efforts to modulate the behaviour of storms through greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, typically called
climate mitigation and achieved through energy policies.
This cooperation includes technical and policy exchanges on the development of fuel efficiency standards for trucks and buses, continued progress towards implementation of CCUS projects with the selection of a project site
in China as the large - scale CCUS demonstration project announced last November, cooperation on reducing HFCs, including private sector commitments to promote
climate - friendly alternatives to HFCs, and continued support for phasing down HFCs through the Montreal Protocol, and additional cooperation on direct
mitigation efforts across multiple other sectors.
«Even with
mitigation efforts,» the Summit report says, «
climate change will continue to unfold for decades due to the long atmospheric lifetime of past greenhouse - gas emissions and the gradual release of excess heat that has built up
in the oceans.
In its latest assessment of the progress of
climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest
mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»
It is based on an «extremely ambitious» level of
climate mitigation effort where emissions peak immediately and reduce by a maximum rate of 6.1 per cent per year, a fair bit faster than the 5.5 per cent considered
in the first study.
Committing to a 20 - year time frame, the commercial sector, despite a huge uptick
in air traffic is bracing for a change to support the
climate change
mitigation efforts.
Gelbspan lampoons tea - party activists for viewing
climate change
mitigation efforts as «as a conspiracy to impose world government and a sweeping redistribution of wealth», yet
in a 2012 amateur audio interview, he offers the following insight at the four minute point: (profanity alert)
Research and outreach
efforts are underway
in the region to help farmers find ways to cope with a rapidly changing
climate, take advantage of a longer growing season, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 61,112 but unequal access to capital and information for strategic adaptation and
mitigation remain a challenge.
In this case, a city or county might be able to use a fee to pay for
climate mitigation efforts, like building a seawall, electrifying a bus fleet, or something else with a clear nexus to
climate change.
While solar geoengineering can not be a «solution» to
climate change,
in time it might prove to be a useful complement to
mitigation and adaptation
efforts, especially for addressing the risks from the greenhouses gases that we've already emitted.
I hear you, Malcolm, about the need to «be pulling all the levers
in all countries as hard as possible», but I think Jon's point here is that
in the face of failed leadership to undertake such a coordinated global
effort, those of us who are ready to take action can focus on the «pullable levers» to get some points on the
climate mitigation board.
Even among the researchers who find CE a policy option worth thinking about, the great majority analyzes those technologies not as a full - blown solution to
climate change
in their own right, but rather a necessary evil to supplement (neglected)
mitigation and adaptation
efforts.
He said
climate change adaptation and
mitigation measures should be adopted and integrated into Ghana's national development agenda, adding that developing countries should be supported with grants to engage
in landscape restoration
efforts in degraded lands.
Adaptation must be vigorously discussed alongside
climate mitigation efforts, instead of as an afterthought, or as a Plan B, to be initiated sometime
in the future.
China's National
Climate Change Action Program, published
in June 2007, provides for three major
mitigation efforts that,
in combination, reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
China's scientists have been active
in the global
effort to understand
climate change and are increasingly involved
in developing technical approaches to both
mitigation and adaptation.
The Cancun Agreements, the most recent product of the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation efforts agreed to in future global climate tr
Climate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of
mitigation efforts agreed to
in future global
climate tr
climate treaties.
Having COP18
in Qatar presents a unique opportunity to move forward with
mitigation and adaptation
efforts for
climate change
in the region, as well as for
climate finance.
Sering said that
in order to minimize the impacts of
climate change, there is a need to identify «vulnerabilities and strategically plan adaptation
efforts» and that financial resources are needed implement
climate adaptation and
mitigation measures.
Hence, global
mitigation efforts can enhance sustainable development prospects
in part by reducing the risk of adverse impacts of
climate change.
As defined by the OECD,
mitigation aid «contributes to the objective of stabilization of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations
in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the
climate system by promoting
efforts to reduce or limit GHG emissions or to enhance GHG sequestration.»
This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently
in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's
climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence
in this process is «clear» and that the changing
climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional
mitigation efforts beyond those
in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»
The shift from binding and long term emissions targets to voluntary Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) made inevitable the second historic shift
in international
climate mitigation efforts, which is the formal and explicit recognition that we do not,
in fact, have all the technology we need to achieve deep reductions
in emissions.
Ultimately, from the perspective of policy makers and the general public, the impacts of
climate change and the required
mitigation and adaptation
efforts are largely the same
in a world of 2 or 4 C per doubling of CO2 concentrations where carbon dioxide emissions are rising quickly.