Sentences with phrase «including land use change»

Other sources, including land use change, forestry and agriculture account for around a third of emissions.

The two largest factors influencing wildfire emissions included land use change, such as the conversion of forests to cropland, and local population increases, the researchers say.

I did find the same, up to 2006 (need some update for the last years), be it that it is 55 % if you don't include land use changes (which are quite unsure) or 45 % if you include land use changes.

Yes, because «human activity» includes land use changes (deforestation, irrigation, etc.), which Pielke Sr. has repeatedly argued are very significant — far more so than CO2.

Not exact matches

As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy, climate change & emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.

If he snags the land - use position, he would be entrusted with overseeing and approving land deals and zoning changes in the city, including many major real estate developments.

Because the Continuum project is seeking a zoning change, it will need approval through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, which includes input from the local community board and borough president as well as up - down votes from the City Planning Commission, City Council and mayor.

Before voting on all the matters facing the Council today, they'll all be discussed — including land use deals in Long Island City and Willet's Point and restaurant health inspection changes.

Tomorrow morning, a City Council committee will weigh whether to approve the land use application, including neighborhood zoning changes, that would clear the way for the project to begin.

Using historical data, they included carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and changes in land use — such as deforestation.

«However, I need to say that we are not including indirect land - use change, and [have] intentionally restricted our analysis to make our findings less uncertain,» he said.

This data can then be used to analyze the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental conditions, including baseline data for global climate change and their relevance to changes in regional land use patterns.

GCAM is especially suited for projections such as this because it takes into account ongoing future changes in technology, society and the economy, including energy and land use.

When it comes to other changes, including land use, habitat fragmentation and extinction, the case for a global tipping point is even weaker.

Right now, indirect land use related to biofuels isn't included in proposed climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate, as well as proposed agreements that will be on the table in Copenhagen.

The new study is one of the first to provide a global accounting of regional and local water impacts, taking into account seasonal changes and different types of intervention, including water withdrawals, reservoir regulation, land - use change, and irrigation.

Polasky said that it's important to account for landscape changes resulting from oil and gas development, but many other types of development alter ecosystems and the use of land, including urbanization and expansion of cropland.

The ecosystem, encompassing nearly 4 million acres from near Orlando to the Florida Bay, is threatened by a number of disturbances including changes in hydrology and land use.

Previously, warming from land - use changes had been inferred from various measures of urbanization, including population counts and satellite measures of light at night.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal conflict.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

To avoid costly problems in the future, ICA and other groups recommend a variety of policy improvements, including changing land use regulations in fire - and flood - prone areas, strengthening building codes, and improving weather warning and modelling services.

Her postdoc work includes scenario planning, land use change modelling, impact assessments, and development of conservation goals and priorities for coastal protection and restoration for the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone.

The forcing over the last 150 years is around 1.6 W / m2 (including cooling effects from aerosols and land use change) but the climate is not (yet) in equilibirum, and so the full temperature response has not been acheived.

Most low - emission scenarios involve substantial land - use change (LUC) including the expansion of bioenergy and food crops, as well as afforestation.

Born and raised on Martha's Vineyard, Tom brings a deep understanding of land - use change to the conservation of Massachusetts's coasts, including making residential landscapes more supportive of essential ecological processes.

Measurement problems, including uneven sampling, missing data and local land - use changes, make interpretation of these trends difficult.

Few AOGCMs include ice sheet dynamics; in all of the AOGCMs evaluated in this chapter and used in Chapter 10 for projecting climate change in the 21st century, the land ice cover is prescribed.

In the model simulations with just land use change included, CO2 emissions fall most quickly.

The causes, acceleration, consequences and management of desertification, including land use, conflict and climate change

Other recommendations include licensing short - term rental companies such as Airbnb, creating a registry for people who operate short - term rentals, and changing zoning bylaws to create a new land use classification for short - term rentals.

- after the remakes of Terry's Wonderland 3D and Dragon Quest Monsters 2, Yuji Horii asked the team what should be next - the choices were Caravan Heart (GBA), a professional version of Dragon Quest Monsters 2, or a brand new game - the staff made the plot together with Takeshi Uchikawa (who is currently directing Dragon Quest XI)- the suggestion was to make the theme become something catchy, which lead to a science fiction vibe - Horii said «anything's alright as long as it's interesting» - the creation of the Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light helped build Joker 3 - fan feedback from the mobile game was used, which lead to monster stats being seen - the Reactor device lets you easily see all the things that occur on the field - the team had some trouble bringing together the ridable monsters aspect of the game, but eventually worked it out - the full game starts off with monsters that players can ride on land - you'll eventually unlock sea, air, and multi-jump land rising monsters - a «Big Air ride» was teased as well - by clearing the story, features will be unlocked that further modify monsters such as abilities and changing their sizes - Stealth Boxes which can not be found without using the Reactor only contains useful items that are optional - compulsory items that are needed to be found with the Reactor are placed in non-stealth locations - accessories can strengthen monsters, but monster strength is mainly determined from raising and combining them - features more offense - related content in the form of new spells and skills - new water - type spells are included - new skills added enable more detailed adjustments in versus, adding more strategic features - one of the items that can be bought with Communication Coins has the same effect with «Key of Encounters» - this lets players recruit monsters a bit more easily they've befriended before - since Communication Coins can only be obtained from multiplayer battles, it's completely optional - people who still do StreetPass but don't want to do multiplayer battles can still get them by combining monsters - DLC monsters are planned to be added regularly post-release until around Golden Week (April 29 — May 5)- - A national tournament is also planned, with more details coming later - carryover feature from Dragon Quest Monsters 2 that comes into play after the ending - players can bring up to 10 monsters which are ranked A or below from DQM2 to DQMJ3 each day

This report on 1998 flooding does include the GW argument but mainly discusses land - use changes http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/fldrpt.htm.

15), which includes feed production and land - use change (e.g. clearing forest for cropland for feed and pasture).

(Including, of course, the kinds of reductions achievable via changes in land use — changes that probably would include preservation of existing forests, no - till agriculture, and the like.)

Such processes include biosphere integrity (see Brook et al 2013), biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, and land - system change.

We recognize that actions to reduce emissions, including from deforestation and forest degradation, and to increase removals by sinks in the land use, land use change, and forestry sector, including cooperation on tackling forest fires, can make a contribution to stabilizing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

They also ignored the processes involved, including, but not limited to, the differences in properties of grazed lands compared to woodlands, the effect of the ocean and other sequestration sinks, and the fact the while undergoing deterioration and desertification, poorly managed grasslands are an emission source instead of a sequestration sink due to land use changes.

These forcings are spatially heterogeneous and include the effect of aerosols on clouds and associated precipitation [e.g., Rosenfeld et al., 2008], the influence of aerosol deposition (e.g., black carbon (soot)[Flanner et al. 2007] and reactive nitrogen [Galloway et al., 2004]-RRB-, and the role of changes in land use / land cover [e.g., Takata et al., 2009].

Climate change almost always exacerbates the problems caused by other environmental stressors including: land use change and the consequent habitat fragmentation and degradation; extraction of timber, fish, water, and other resources; biological disturbance such as the introduction of non-native invasive species, disease, and pests; and chemical, heavy metal, and nutrient pollution.

Implement the Global Climate Change Initiative: Undertaking a pragmatic, whole - of - government approach to speed the transition to a low - carbon, climate - resilient future, including (1) promoting clean energy solutions; (2) slowing, halting, and reversing emissions from land use; and (3) helping the most vulnerable countries strengthen climate resilience.

When full consideration is given, including impacts on soils, fertilizer use and both direct and indirect land use change, bioenergy processes are, in reality, far from «neutral».

But we'll forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewables sector and consumer choices.

She has extensive experience with international climate negotiations, including forest and land - use (such as REDD +), legal form and compliance, and the intersection of climate change and human rights.

However there are other first order drivers of climate including natural ones like solar variation and human driven ones like land use change, aerosols and soot.

First, these are only energy and industrial CO2 emissions and do not include land use and land - use change CO2 emissions.

g A range of estimates of emissions from cultivated peatlands and non-viable drainage areas were included, thus a range for the total estimates from land - use change and forestry are given in

New Paper on Land - use Change «Land - use Change in Australia and the Kyoto Protocol «by Dr Clive Hamilton, Exective Director, The Australia Institute and Visiting Fellow, Graduate Program in Public Policy, Australian National University.Abstract: In the dying hours of the Kyoto Climate Change Conference, the world's negotiators agreed to include in the Protocol what is now known as the «Australia Clause».

«Policy on how to include Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry into the 2030 greenhouse gas mitigation framework will be established as soon as technical conditions allow and in any case before 2020.»

As in the previous IPCC Guidelines, the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines include these sub-categories in the land - use change and forestry category, as well as a sub-category for other.