Sentences with phrase «environmental change scenario»

The report is the biggest and most definite rundown of the environmental change scenario ever attempted, prepared by many creators, editors, and analysts from many nations, referring to over 6,000 companion explored experimental studies.

Environmental change scenarios are indeed now driving public policy, including the energy mix.»

Not exact matches

The idea is to both monitor and develop a good basis for more responsible natural resources management and to construct an alternative way to ensure quality of life to indigenous populations facing a changing scenario both in terms of socioeconomics and environmental issues.»

The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied purposes — for example for local protection measures, for environmental assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.

«The consequences of sticking to a «business - as - usual» scenario are unthinkable,» says Zhaohai Bai, an associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and lead author of a paper from a multinational team of environmental scientists published today in Global Change Biology.

Forward - looking analysis should consider various scenarios for environmental changes and water storage, and study the implications on the ecosystem, the report says.

The model enables to explore the effects of climate change on forestry ecosystems under changed environmental conditions and to simulate different management scenarios and compare them.

A tendency to highlight worst - case scenarios undermined parts of the last assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to a new study by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects of global change, like the drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the drivers, the feedback between both the drivers and impacts are important.

It focused on global changes and future scenarios highlighting political, social, technological, and environmental drivers for change and their effect on tourism flows and investment.

(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»?

Objective science: Public policy, particularly in the environmental area, should be based on objective science, not emotion or improbable scenarios that invite wealth - reducing government activism, which often impairs society's resilience to change.

All 5 possible future EU budget scenarios outlined in the paper call for a stronger or exclusive focus on «social inclusion, employment, skills, innovation, climate change, energy and environmental transition».

The ultimate goal of the overall scenario process is to produce integrated scenarios that will indeed include socioeconomic and environmental conditions as affected by both climate change and climate policy.

Berkhout, F., B. van den Hurk, J. Bessembinder, J. de Boer, B. Bregman en M. van Drunen (2013), Framing climate uncertainty: using socio - economic and climate scenarios in assessing climate vulnerability and adaptation; submitted Regional and Environmental Change.

After an intense week of editing a paper on the need for national academies and royal societies to undertake environmental health risk assessments for climate change AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, especially to adopt the IPCC's best - case emissions scenario, RCP2.6 (because the IPCC does not and will not make recommendations), followed by a look at the fires burning in Siberia and the sea ice thinning in the Arctic, it struck me...

World Health Organization and British government - sponsored global impact studies indicate that, relative to other factors, global warming's impact on key determinants of human and environmental well - being should be small through 2085 even under the warmest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario.

We used the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) detailed CMAQ model to project emissions for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides to calculate changes in air quality under each scenario in 2020 compared to business as usual.

Nowhere, NOWHERE in the entire discussion as to how these various world scenarios impact the markets, was there any discussion pertaining to climate change, or environmental meltdown, droughts, crop losses, weather anomalies, and so on!!!

Any reasonable scenario for global development over the next century is likely to project technological change, which as we have seen in the past century would likely include changes in energy creation and consumption technologies, as well as the propagation of the kind of normal environmental policies that we have seen in the developed world in the past century, such as control of sulfur pollution.

TGICA oversees a Data Distribution Centre (DDC) which provides data sets, scenarios of climate change and other environmental and socio - economic conditions, and other materials (e.g. technical guidelines on the use of scenarios and fact sheets offering clarifying explanations / concise guidance on topical issues).

Now, I don't believe that anthropogenic climate change is an issue of first - order importance since its effects on human life even in the worst - case scenarios are mediated by severe poverty, but suppose that it was and the environmental Cassandra's were right.

His research focuses on the implications of global environmental change, specifically scenarios, impacts and adaptation assessment, and uncertainty characterization.

Develop community - relevant scenarios of sea ice loss, permafrost degradation, coastal erosion, and other environmental change that will affect communities into the future.

While this scenario is dire, proposed mechanisms for addressing climate change, notably carbon credits through avoided deforestation, offer a unique opportunity for Indonesia to strengthen its economy while demonstrating worldwide innovative political and environmental leadership.

Here we use climate projections under alternative mitigation scenarios to show how changes in environmental variables that limit plant growth could impact ecosystems and people.

We recommend that the new scenarios be used not only in the IPCC's future assessments of climate change, its impacts, and adaptation and mitigation options, but also as the basis for analyses by the wider research and policy community of climate change and other environmental problems.

The researchers, from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (University of East Anglia, Norwich), Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (London School of Economics and Political Science, London), and Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (McGill University, Montreal), arrived at their results using the global crop model PEGASUS to simulate crop yield responses to 72 climate change scenarios spanning the 21st ceChange Research (University of East Anglia, Norwich), Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (London School of Economics and Political Science, London), and Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (McGill University, Montreal), arrived at their results using the global crop model PEGASUS to simulate crop yield responses to 72 climate change scenarios spanning the 21st ceChange and the Environment (London School of Economics and Political Science, London), and Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (McGill University, Montreal), arrived at their results using the global crop model PEGASUS to simulate crop yield responses to 72 climate change scenarios spanning the 21st ceChange Centre (McGill University, Montreal), arrived at their results using the global crop model PEGASUS to simulate crop yield responses to 72 climate change scenarios spanning the 21st cechange scenarios spanning the 21st century.

At the time of the TAR, most CCIAV studies utilised climate scenarios (many based on the IS92 emissions scenarios), but very few applied contemporaneous scenarios of socio - economic, land - use, or other environmental changes.

-- which can be found here, draws upon the results of a series of UK Government - sponsored studies which employed the IPCC's emissions scenarios to project future climate change between 1990 and 2100 and its global impacts on various climate - sensitive determinants of human and environmental well - being (such as malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and habitat loss).

A halt or even reversal of their growth would have other benefits, for human health, agricultural productivity, and environmental quality, which, together with the slowing of climate change, justify the actions needed to achieve the alternative scenario.