The first edition was published on January 20th 2015 as the first step towards developing a complete GPS system for
global change makers, enabling them to move quickly and safely in a complex, fragile and uncertain environment.
Not exact matches
The question that should be on the mind of every political leader and policy -
maker in the country is: how do we prepare for this evolutionary
change to the
global economy?
Concurrently, we are further developing the
Global Opportunity Network, bringing together
change makers from different sectors and regions to share experiences, insights and outlooks.
By Erik Rasmussen, Founder of Sustainia and CEO of Monday Morning This week, the
Global Opportunity Report proves that we have readily available solutions to some of the biggest risks, and that a new breed of
change -
makers might take the lead.
This week, the
Global Opportunity Report proves that we have readily available solutions to some of the biggest risks, and that a new breed of
change -
makers might take the lead.
In the wake of the recent
global financial crisis, several developments suggest that market -
makers are
changing their business models.
The task we set ourselves was a synthesis of all the new findings so that coral scientists, conservationists and policy
makers could get a really good over-view of what research areas are most promising as
global climate continues to
change.
The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy
makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on
global climate
change.
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 Polaris Climate
Change Observatory regional platforms will provide the public, policy makers, industry and civil society with a forum for interaction and for developing the collaborative actions required for an adapted response to global development in the face of climate c
Change Observatory regional platforms will provide the public, policy
makers, industry and civil society with a forum for interaction and for developing the collaborative actions required for an adapted response to
global development in the face of climate
changechange.
In addition to funding the creation of new projects highlighting the work of
global change -
makers addressing the world's most pressing problems, the initiative brings together leaders in both independent filmmaking and social entrepreneurship at key gatherings globally, including the Skoll World Forum (SWF), the Sundance Film Festival, and intensive workshops at the Sundance Resort.
Apps for Good is a registered charity which uses open - source technology to build a new
global generation of problem solvers and
makers: students who can create, launch and market new products that
change the world.
Young people — whether they are part of an arriving or receiving culture — strive to form their identities as learners, community members, and
change -
makers in the context of this
global phenomenon.
SAGE (Students in Academically Gifted Education) allows gifted students to become independent learners and decision
makers who recognize their potential and responsibilities in a
changing global society.
The Pew Center on
Global Climate
Change brings together business leaders, policy
makers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex and often controversial issue.
There are other video
makers who have deconstructed aspects of climate
change in novel ways, most notably Greg Craven, the teacher from Oregon who became a YouTube sensation for his deconstruction of
global warming (and now has a book out as well).
While industrial stacks belch greenhouse gases, and holiday -
makers everywhere race crazily around in cars, boats and planes — total mentions of «climate
change», «
global warming» and «record - high carbon emissions» in press stories relating to major fires now burning in three provinces, Alaska and Siberia...?
Its mission is to facilitate access to reliable information on terrestrial ecosystems so that researchers and policy -
makers can detect and manage
global and regional environmental
change.
It targets adaptation practitioners and decision -
makers at all levels (from community to
global) who are designing new adaptation initiatives and / or developing new climate
change - related policies.
A new website should be of great value to policy -
makers to view and understand the relationship between their national emissions reduction strategies and the
global climate
change problem, issues that must be considered in setting national ghg targets as a matter of ethics.
Requires the President to: (1) establish an interagency United States
Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decision makers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global and regional climate change; (2) develop a National Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years there
Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decision makers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global and regional climate change; (2) develop a National Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years there
Change Research Program to improve understanding of
global change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decision makers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global and regional climate change; (2) develop a National Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years there
global change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decision makers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global and regional climate change; (2) develop a National Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years there
change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decision
makers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to
global and regional climate change; (2) develop a National Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years there
global and regional climate
change; (2) develop a National Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years there
change; (2) develop a National
Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years there
Global Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years there
Change Research and Assessment Plan for Program implementation; and (3) submit to Congress an outline of the Plan within a year, a completed Plan within three years, and revised plans at least once every five years thereafter.
The people of Earth need fresh water and we all need to be more concerned about having more of it, even it takes more energy to make it or having to listen to the fearmongering of Leftist opinion -
makers like Obama and Kerry who claim respectively that, «no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate
change,» and, that
global warming is, «perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.»
Tapster, Dan, 167 Tata Steel Corporation, 44 Taylor, Mitch, 137 Taylor, Richard, 107 - 108 Temperature,
global, 10, 14, 16, 47 - 48, 51, 53, 55 - 56, 58 - 69, 79 - 80, 86 - 87, 89 - 92, 94, 97 - 99, 101, 105 - 108, 110, 120, 133, 135 - 136, 140, 147, 159 - 160, 162, 169, 180, 182, 239 - 240, 242, 246 proxy, 58, 60, 64, 66, 69, 76, 159 - 160 record (data), 145, 147 - 153, 160 - 161, 169 sea surface (SST), 58 - 62, 68 - 69, 116 - 118, 139, 238, 240 Texas A & M University, 167 Texas Tech University, 116 The Book of Icelanders, 56 The Chilling Stars, 96 The Climate Crisis, 120 The Foundation Center, 175 The Guardian, 124 The New York Times, 103, 105 The Population Bomb, 32 The Weather
Makers, 10 TNO Management Consultants, 22 Tornado, 114 - 116, 119 - 120, 125, 240 Trenberth, Kevin, 67, 119, 162 - 163, 170, 238 Trent University, 156 Troposphere, 89 - 91, 96, 105 Tunesia, 157 Turner, Jonathan, 28 Turner, Ted, 33 Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research, 35, 167 - 168, 225
Policy -
makers did not much care about the average
global temperature — they wanted to know how things would
change in their own locality.
This site is a legacy of the UNDP Environment & Energy Group
global project, Capacity Development for Policy
Makers to Address Climate
Change, which was funded by the governments of Norway, Finland, and Switzerland, UNDP, and the United Nations Foundation.
Requires the President to enter into an agreement with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to: (1) evaluate the utility to state, local, and regional decision
makers of each Plan and of the anticipated and actual information outputs of the Program for development of state, local, and regional policies to reduce vulnerability to
global change; and (2) recommend priorities for future
global and regional climate
change research and assessment.
Although climate
change is
global, information on climate adaptation and mitigation are required by the local and regional decision -
makers.
Requires the President to submit annual reports with agency budget requests describing: (1) the activities of the
Global Change Research Program in the preceding year; (2) the activities planned for the next year; and (3) the decision
makers identified as potential users of information generated by such Program and the outreach activities to these groups.
He leaves no excuse for the public and policy
makers to prolong the misguided effort to spend trillions of dollars trying to reduce the insignificant effect of CO2 on
global climate
change.»
The guidelines are intended to be used by decision -
makers, authorities and experts working on the agriculture sectors and
global climate
change experts in developing countries to better understand the need and opportunities for adaptation in the agricultural sectors.
The growing sense of
global urgency over our twin crisis — climate
change and energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to demand green and policy
makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit for ethanol.»
Chief among those is what policy
makers will actually do with a document that voices concern over climate
change with even stronger language than before, and with greater resolution on predictions about
global sea - level rise.
It is designed to assist decision -
makers and public health planners in determining the potential health - problems that may arise in their region from
global climatic
change caused by an increase in greenhouse gases and a decrease in the ozone layer.
The WCCC Climate
Change Collaborative Network is a robust «Business to Government Platform» for proactive Climate Industries, Universities & Research Centers, keen to take a lead role in the global fight against anthropogenic climate change & United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by way of interacting & partnering with the government decision makers of Developing Nations on the adoption & implementation of their respective leading technologies, research & educ
Change Collaborative Network is a robust «Business to Government Platform» for proactive Climate Industries, Universities & Research Centers, keen to take a lead role in the
global fight against anthropogenic climate
change & United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by way of interacting & partnering with the government decision makers of Developing Nations on the adoption & implementation of their respective leading technologies, research & educ
change & United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by way of interacting & partnering with the government decision
makers of Developing Nations on the adoption & implementation of their respective leading technologies, research & education.
The
global ecological overshoot shown in EF calculations [1] has generated an obvious question for policy -
makers, scientists, and the public alike: in which ways can we
change our natural resource use and land management in order to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the
global overshoot and thereby achieve sustainability?
I want to personally invite you to join this
global community of
change -
makers.
Scientists say it is urgent that policy
makers halve
global carbon dioxide emissions over the next 50 years or risk triggering
changes that could be irreversible.
As understanding of
global change has evolved over the past decades, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has faced growing demands for actionable scientific information to help decision makers respond to changing climate condi
global change has evolved over the past decades, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has faced growing demands for actionable scientific information to help decision makers respond to changing climate condi
change has evolved over the past decades, the U.S.
Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has faced growing demands for actionable scientific information to help decision makers respond to changing climate condi
Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has faced growing demands for actionable scientific information to help decision makers respond to changing climate condi
Change Research Program (USGCRP) has faced growing demands for actionable scientific information to help decision
makers respond to
changing climate conditions.
Then he launched an international campaign to distract public policy
makers by understating the potential devastation of climate
change, while setting up a false choice between spending money addressing
global warming or spending instead on eradicating poverty or AIDS.
Early on Wednesday, Hans - Gert Pöttering, the president of the European Parliament, welcomed the opportunity for a fresh start for transatlantic relations and he highlighted green issues, saying he hoped the two sides now would work «together in effective partnership on many of the
global issues facing decision -
makers in our both continents, for example climate
change.»