Sentences with phrase «key climate elements»

The most critical shortcomings of the assessment are the attempt to extrapolate global - scale projections down to regional and sub-regional scales and to use two models which provide divergent projections for key climate elements

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American competitiveness in clean energy isn't an accident either, but a key element of President Obama's desire to strengthen the American economy and tackle climate change.
This is a key element for any candidate to be credible in today's political climate
The Governor also renewed his call for all Californians to conserve water, laid out the key elements of the state's long - term water plan and noted the work ahead to fight climate change and build on historic reforms to the state's school funding and criminal justice systems.
«Models do a good job at simulating some elements of the climate system, but they disagree on key aspects of the land - atmosphere CO2 exchange, and in particular the amount of carbon being sequestered,» Rawlins said in a statement.
Oxygen is one of the key elements scientists look at to track past climate change.
What are these key elements of school climate?
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JP Morgan's report, Trading Climate Change, suggests that within the next decade nuclear energy will be at the top of the world's agenda, with the resurgence of nuclear a key element both in the drive to reduce carbon emissions from power generation and to develop zero - emission hydrogen - fuelled transport.
The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.
The resulting Copenhagen Accord is supported by over 120 countries making up over 80 percent of global emissions and outlines key elements that are essential to a long term solution to the climate change challenge.
The IKI is a key element of Germany's climate financing and the funding commitments in the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
An effective national climate policy must include several key elements; one effective approach would be a well - designed cap - and - trade program for carbon emissions.
The initiatives presented in this publication are categorized broadly according to the key elements of Article 6 of the UNFCCC, as follows: youth participation in climate change issues; education and training; and youth awareness and access to information.
More recently, papers published by respected scientists from the same university, differed on a key element of climate change science, but the study conducted by IPCC members suggesting acceleration of a trend that would impact global warming received the most attention.
Key elements include curbing human carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, improved control of local pollution sources, reducing coastal habitat destruction, and better preparing coastal human communities to withstand the amount of ocean acidification and climate change that is unavoidable.
But we do define a global emissions objective — a «2ºC emergency pathway» — that preserves a real chance of keeping warming below 2ºC, and then set out to straightforwardly articulate the key elements of a climate architecture that can make that pathway politically viable.
For one thing, support for the House climate bill was a key element in the loss of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 election, with Democrats» votes for the bill featuring prominently in GOP advertising during the campaign.
We have helped our clients identify the key elements of an effective climate change strategy as part of their overall sustainability program.
This technical document provides the key elements (teechnical, political and institutional) which must be taken into account in the planning for climate change mitigation.
The guide helps to understand how to differentiate between a climate change adaptation and a traditional development initiative, and what key elements must be considered when developing and designing an adaptation initiative.
The following outlines essential elements of effective coastal management plans and state climate change adaptation plans, highlighting key criteria to guide future coastal development and management practices.
To understand the sudden peak in arctic temperatures, it is critical to analyze two key elements associated with the Arctic climate: 1.
The course, Capacity Building in PES for Acre Government Technical Staff, covered key issues on climate change, the evolving national and international regulatory framework, key elements of PES & REDD such as project design, safeguards, monitoring, verification and, of course, an in depth overview of the new law.
Incorporating these feedbacks and contributing to research on identifying and quantifying these is a key element in keeping our climate - model projections up to date.
Also, although CO2 is a key factor in controlling the climate, it would be a mistake to think it's the only factor; ignore the other elements and you'll most likely get the story wrong.
The climate change disinformation machine widely claimed that this controversy demonstrated that several key scientists fraudulently developed some key elements of the science on which the consensus view rests demonstrating that the consensus view was a complete hoax, even though the documents that were at the center of the controversy never were foundational to the consensus view and the scientists at the center of the controversy were exonerated by many independent investigations of the controversy.
The climate talks — the first in the Middle East — are at a crucial juncture with key elements stalling despite the arrival on ministers yesterday, Wael Hmaidan, director of Climate Action Network - Internationaclimate talks — the first in the Middle East — are at a crucial juncture with key elements stalling despite the arrival on ministers yesterday, Wael Hmaidan, director of Climate Action Network - InternationaClimate Action Network - International said.
The Clean Fuel Standard is thus a key element of Governor Inslee's proposals to protect our climate, public health and our economy; but the plan faces opposition from the oil companies who currently dominate our energy system.
Chapter 8 discusses the atmospheric radiative processes, a key element in climate change.
A growing literature considers response strategies that aim at preventing damage to particular key elements and processes in geophysical, biological and socio - economic systems that are sensitive to climate change and have limited adaptation potential; policy - makers may want to consider insights from the literature reviewed here in helping them to design policies to prevent DAI.
Three key elements can help inspire more climate ambition:
The Summit fulfills a key element of the U.S. - China Joint Announcement on Climate Change by Presidents Obama and Xi last November, helping to ensure that the ambitious actions to address Climate Change by Presidents Obama and Xi last November, helping to ensure that the ambitious actions to address climateclimate
Tackling HFCs is a key element of the Obama Administration's Climate Action Plan.
The key elements of climate science have certainly been known for a long time.
The hockey stick chart was the key element in Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» and the United Nations» 1997 Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's 4th Assessment.
It confirmed and widened the opportunities for countries to sequester carbon through better management of forests, croplands, pastures, and wetlands, while adding to the urgency of this opportunity as a key element of our efforts to prevent disruptive climate change.
Scientists Rebuke Claims Of Human Control Over Glacier Mass Balance «Natural climate variability still emerges as the key deciding element governing the Himalayan glacier mass balances.»
So there is no good case that her asthma syptoms were exacerbated by climate change, since air quality nationwide and in the Central region containing Chicago has shown significant improvement in the key elements that may exacerbate asthma.
This manual outlines the key concepts, elements and requirements of the international climate change measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) framework.
It is obvious that enormous investment in electricity generation infrastructure will dictate key elements of the world's climate response.
With forests being a key element in the fight against climate change, deforestation taking 13 million hectares of native woods
The Harvard Project's research focuses on policy architecture, key design elements, and institutional dimensions of international and domestic climate change policy — and draws upon leading scholars and policy practitioners from around the world (including Argentina, Australia, China, Europe, India, Japan, and the United States).
It might be worth getting hold of contact details for those people, and making sure they're thoroughly briefed on key elements of the evidence in climate science, and provided with access to the peer - reviewed literature.
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