Sentences with phrase «report on climate change mitigation»

That's according to working group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which finalized its fourth assessment report on climate change mitigation last week in Bangkok, Thailand.

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 standard.

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Greenhouse gases from transportation may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate changOn the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate changon mitigation of climate change.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

The models» results also play a significant role in the latest assessment report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where they are used to link the mitigation options described for different sectors such as buildings, transport, or energy supply.

• Editor and Lead Author, «The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability», IPCC Special Report on the Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998) • Lead Author of IPCC Technical Paper No. 3, «Stabilization of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: Physical, Biological and Socio - Economic Implications,» (1997) • Editor, Working Group II Contribution to the Second Assessment Report Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation (Scientific and Technical Analyses), (1996).

22 This report focuses on climate change impacts, not mitigation.

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).

Hugh Pitcher • Contributing Author, Working Group III, «Issues Related to Mitigation in the Long - Term Context,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, «Emissions Scenarios 2000: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change» (2001).

She was lead author for the chapter on mitigation in the Third National Climate Assessment, a report mandated by Congress to provide scientific information and guidance for managing potential impacts of climate change and informing long - term planning decClimate Assessment, a report mandated by Congress to provide scientific information and guidance for managing potential impacts of climate change and informing long - term planning decclimate change and informing long - term planning decisions.

Climate change may be perceived most through the impacts of extremes, although these are to a large degree dependent on the system under consideration, including its vulnerability, resiliency and capacity for adaptation and mitigation; see the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

On March 31, Working Group II released its report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, and on April 13, Working Group III released its report, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate ChangOn March 31, Working Group II released its report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, and on April 13, Working Group III released its report, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Changon April 13, Working Group III released its report, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change.

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While the IPCC reports cover the physical science, impacts, and mitigation efforts, CCR - II is strictly focused on the physical science of climate change.

Special reports prepared by the IPCC include: Land Use, Land - use Change and Forestry (2000); Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2005); Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN)(2011); and, most recently, the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)(2011).

This document is composed of two reports that present complementary views on the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change to developing countries in the fields of adaptation and mitigation.

This activity report provides an overview of measures taken to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaption, as climate change is affecting the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries, including Small Island Developing States, landlocked countries, arid - and semi-arid areas and countries where people are dependent on natural resources.

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This analytical report focuses on exploring an increasingly important question: how can developing countries effectively integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) tools within climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies?

«Renewable energy sources and Climate Change Mitigation,» Report, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2012, p. 14.

This analytical report describes how United Nations organizations use the information provided by space - based technologies to monitor the Earth's climate system and support decision - making about climate change adaptation, prediction and mitigation, including addressing the needs identified under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Uclimate system and support decision - making about climate change adaptation, prediction and mitigation, including addressing the needs identified under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Uclimate change adaptation, prediction and mitigation, including addressing the needs identified under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNchange adaptation, prediction and mitigation, including addressing the needs identified under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UClimate Change (UNChange (UNFCCC).

This technical document includes the summary for policy makers of the Working Group III Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN).

One of my colleagues informed me recently that my work on feed - in tariffs was cited in a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigreport by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change MitigReport on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation.

If the report argues for the acquisition of capabilities, tools, systems, and institutions that could help meet the potential for problems brought on by climate change, it is not necessarily arguing for the adoption of specific adaptations or mitigation strategies.

The workshop aimed at developing a statement on the general adequacy of the observations coordinated by the GCOS to support climate change mitigation and identify of further work that may need to be undertaken in preparation for the next GCOS status report on the Global Observing Systems for Cclimate change mitigation and identify of further work that may need to be undertaken in preparation for the next GCOS status report on the Global Observing Systems for ClimateClimate.

The report released a month or so ago touting Renewable Energy: «Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation» intended to show that the world could easily meet 80 % of its energy needs with renewable byreport released a month or so ago touting Renewable Energy: «Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation» intended to show that the world could easily meet 80 % of its energy needs with renewable byReport on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation» intended to show that the world could easily meet 80 % of its energy needs with renewable by 2050.

For me, it looks like the Stern report is rather a traditional optimisation computation focused on some sort of worst case for damages from climate change and best case for mitigation cost, amalgamated with some alternative discounting methodology.

Before any further dollars are spent on climate change adaptation and / or mitigation, the world needs to upgrade their global weather / climate reporting network to the USCRN standard so that policymakers have correct temperature change mesurements to base their decisions on.

The National Research Council's 2009 report Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulneraClimate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulneraClimate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerabChange establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulneraclimate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerabchange adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability.

Statement to the House Committee on Science and Technology of the United States House of Representatives, The State of Climate Change Science 2007: The Findings of the Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change, 16 May.

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Compared with previous reports, the IPCC site says, «the AR5 will put greater emphasis on assessing the socio - economic aspects of climate change and implications for sustainable development, risk management and the framing of a response through both adaptation and mitigation.»

Each IPCC report, AR5 being the latest, is really three separate reports, on respectively the physical basis, impact, and mitigation of climate change.

Without the IPCC report, a cacophony of national assessments would compete for relevance in debates about climate change, said Victor, an editor on next year's IPCC climate change mitigation and adaptation report.

A 2012 research report from Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national seClimate Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national secChange Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national seclimate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national secchange mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national security.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publication Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Table 11.4, reports the impact of diet change and food waste reduction at 1.3 - 13.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions reductions byChange (IPCC) publication Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Table 11.4, reports the impact of diet change and food waste reduction at 1.3 - 13.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions reductions byChange 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Table 11.4, reports the impact of diet change and food waste reduction at 1.3 - 13.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions reductions byChange, Table 11.4, reports the impact of diet change and food waste reduction at 1.3 - 13.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions reductions bychange and food waste reduction at 1.3 - 13.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions reductions by 2050.

China and South Africa reported on the working group II report — on the impact of climate change — and Brazil's most popular television station reported on both the impact and mitigation (working group III) reports.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)(2001) this multi-volume work was published as: (i) Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report; (ii) Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis; (iii) Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability; (iv) Climate Change 2001: Mitigation, Geneva, Switzerland: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

This report includes chapters on Mitigation, Adaptation, and Decision Support that offer an overview of the options and activities being planned or implemented around the country as local, state, federal, and tribal governments, as well as businesses, organizations, and individuals begin to respond to climate change.

WHO's Health in the Green Economy sector briefings examine the health impacts of climate change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change,climate change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change, change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change,Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change, Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change,Climate Change, Change, 2007).

Working Group III looked at scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects to report on mitigation of climate change.

First was «business as usual»: increasing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases with no mitigation action (the scenario used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A1B).

To familiarise this notion, a report on «Work Programme for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in [continue reading...]

The Cancun Agreements, the most recent product of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation efforts agreed to in future global climate trClimate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation efforts agreed to in future global climate trclimate treaties.

Source: IPCC, 2011 Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (Chapter 9).