In Part 1 of this series, we discussed that even so, the key objective
of climate mitigation efforts is still the same — we must drastically cut emissions as quickly as possible (and Part 2 and Part 3 discussed how).
This suggests that, regardless of how they are achieved, emissions reduction goals may provide a useful proxy for quantifying the impact
of climate mitigation efforts on future fossil fuel demand.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects
of measured changes to our global and regional
climates, including
mitigation efforts and
efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»
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.
There is the question
of whether the primary purpose
of a target is to motivate
mitigation efforts or to minimize harm (whether from
climate change, incurred
mitigation costs, or geoengineered disasters).
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.»
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Climate mitigation efforts must come first and must be immediate — but even with vigorous
mitigation efforts, there is a still a chance
of overshooting the 2ᵒC target.
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.
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.
Climate efforts generally fall into the categories
of mitigation and adaptation.
Recognizing the linkage between the potential impacts
of climate change and development,
mitigation and adaptation strategies should be pursued as part
of development and poverty eradication
efforts.
The magnitude
of future
climate change and its impacts from the middle
of the century onwards depend on the effectiveness
of global
climate mitigation efforts.
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.
Resolved, That the House
of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition
of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects
of measured changes to our global and regional
climates, including
mitigation efforts and
efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.
«[The] House
of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition
of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects
of measured changes to our global and regional
climates, including
mitigation efforts and
efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»
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.
Though this is not actually
climate related news it will hamper most
of the
efforts to get something done wrt
mitigation.
Early definitions were unhelpfully circular «We define
climate emergencies as those circumstances where severe consequences
of climate change occur too rapidly to be significantly averted by even immediate
mitigation efforts» (Blackstock et al 2009).
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Climate Climate Change?
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.»
Mitigation efforts can still avoid some
of the worst impacts
of climate change.
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
But his refutation
of what he saw as sloppy logic certainly does not imply skepticism about
climate change and the need to take
mitigation and adaptation
efforts seriously, he insists.
While the IPCC reports cover the physical science, impacts, and
mitigation efforts, CCR - II is strictly focused on the physical science
of climate change.
At the same time, the global
climate change
mitigation effort will reduce the CO2 emissions per unit
of electricity and steel inputs, further limiting life - cycle greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
Kresge Foundation grant «To ensure that
climate change
mitigation and adaptation
efforts include the needs
of communities
of color»
They also adopted a range
of decisions designed to implement the 2010 Cancun Agreements, including launching a new Green
Climate Fund and developing stronger requirements for the reporting and review
of countries»
mitigation efforts.
«Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects
of climate variability and
climate change that occur despite
mitigation and adaptation
efforts.
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 pace
of innovation matters far more than
efforts to boost public support for
climate mitigation, we will contend, even though such
efforts are also important.
Is vastly more expensive and unreliable energy really the solution, or should we focus our
efforts, and money, on
mitigation of all the vagaries
of climate, weather and the natural environment?
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.
Two new studies have warned that
climate change
mitigation efforts will fail by merely focusing on checking
of carbon dioxide emissions.
The World Bank Group estimates that widespread global cooperation on carbon trading could bring down the costs
of international
climate mitigation efforts by up to 32 percent by 2030.
Danger
of Undermining Emissions
Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost
of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes
of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on
climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause
of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
-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.
Given the increasing realisation that
climate mitigation efforts are creating an economic crisis, and increasing popular scepticism about the alarmist scenario, this is a timely publication, and a key resource for all
of us who are arguing for common sense.
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.
delivering increased funding to
mitigation efforts as part
of a comprehensive strategy for increasing
climate finance.
Such
efforts might be expanded once the
climate mitigation benefits
of sustainably harvested wood products are more fully recognized.
«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.