Sentences with phrase «work on climate change mitigation»

Jessica leads the Foundation's work on climate change mitigation and energy resilience.

Proceeds from the conference will be donated to a non-profit working on climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly in developing countries.

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As co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group on mitigation, he is presenting results from the group's 2007 assessment at several side events and briefings for policy - makers.

• 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).

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).

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.

Thomas» work focuses primarily on the synergies between climate change mitigation and the development agenda.

In this capacity, Thomas has worked with national governments to support the ongoing development of national climate change mitigation policy, with specific expertise on the national contexts of Georgia, Kenya, Uganda and Mongolia.

I've made that point that that needs to be disconnected from work on emissions mitigation because the drivers of that vulnerability are far faster than climate change itself.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36571015# Making climate change work for us: European perspectives on adaptation and mitigation strategies / edited by Michael Hulme (2010) Cambridge University Press

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.

On the other hand, you argue that climate change is a serious threat and we much work to convince the population that they should implement the mitigation actions advocated by the Greens, socialists, progressives and the so called «environmental NGO's».

The two institutions agreed to work together for the development, strengthening and consolidation of projects related to climate change in order to train the educational community on the impact of climate change and adaptation and mitigation actions.

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It contains 11 feature articles and provides highlights of UNEP's work as well as country - level action on climate change mitigation and environmental conservation.

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 Mitigation.

I've spent my whole professional life working on climate change and would prefer it if we could deal with global warming by mitigation alone.

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In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species.

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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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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.

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, ThClimate Change (IPCC), which finalized its fourth assessment report on climate change mitigation last week in Bangkok, ThaChange (IPCC), which finalized its fourth assessment report on climate change mitigation last week in Bangkok, Thclimate change mitigation last week in Bangkok, Thachange mitigation last week in Bangkok, Thailand.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

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

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It is divided into three working groups, focusing respectively on the physical science basis (WGI), impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (WGII), and mitigation of climate change (WGIII), each reviewing the existing literature in their fields.

On the costs of climate change mitigation, the most comprehensive work is probably that which has been done by Nicholas Stern, beginning with the Stern Review.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) newest installment, Working Group III (WGIII): Mitigation and Climate Change, highlights an important message: It's still possible to limit average global temperature rise to 2 °C — but only if the world rapidly reduces emissions and changes its current energy mix.

[iii] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climate Change 2007 — Mitigation of Climate Change: Working Group III contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 707, 708.

The IPCC in its statement on «PRINCIPLES GOVERNING IPCC WORK» says nothing on data but does say: «The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.»

What you claimed was IPCC's charter, to investigate and report the «scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation», was actually its own Principles Governing IPCC Work, 10/1/1998, available on line.

Ban commended the work of the International Centre on Small Hydro Power in carrying out innovative cooperation projects, and said that China's experience in climate change solutions and the mitigation of environmental impacts should be spread to other developing countries.

McKibbin, W.J., M.T. Ross, R. Shackleton and P.J. Wilcoxen (1999), Emissions Trading, Capital Flows and the Kyoto Protocol, Presented at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III Expert Meeting on the Economic Impacts of Annex 1 Mitigation Policies on non-Annex 1 Countries, 27 - 28 May, The Hague.

On Sunday, Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and IPCC Co-chair of Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change, told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (translated that climate policy is redistributing the world's wealth» and that «it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization.&raquOn Sunday, Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and IPCC Co-chair of Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change, told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (translated that climate policy is redistributing the world's wealth» and that «it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization.&raquon Mitigation of Climate Change, told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (translated that climate policy is redistributing the world's wealth» and that «it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization.Climate Change, told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (translated that climate policy is redistributing the world's wealth» and that «it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization.climate policy is redistributing the world's wealth» and that «it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization.climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization.»

The Bank is currently working with 130 countries on climate change; it doubled its lending for adaptation to $ 4.6 billion in 2012 and put $ 7.1 billion into mitigation, in addition to its work with carbon finance and the Climate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesclimate change; it doubled its lending for adaptation to $ 4.6 billion in 2012 and put $ 7.1 billion into mitigation, in addition to its work with carbon finance and the Climate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesClimate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesclimate change in all country assessments.

At least 10 House Republicans will sign on to a resolution today committing to work «constructively» to address climate change, «including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact» on warming.

Edited by: Nebojsa Nakicenovic (Leader of the Transitions to New Technologies Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), in Austria) and Rob Swart (Head of the Technical Support Unit of Working Group III on Mitigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in the Netherlands).

In summary, they note that work is needed on both mitigation and adaption — which is to recognise that climate change is occuring and will continue, although possibilities for slowing it exist.

... That's what a powerful social response to climate change would look like: as many people as possible working on their passions in a way that is oriented in the direction of climate mitigation or adaptation.

«Fossil fuel subsidies work against Canada's commendable progress in putting a price on carbon — they give money and tax breaks to the sources of carbon pollution that we're trying to scale back,» Amin Asadollahi, North American Lead on Climate Change Mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said.

«Principles Governing IPCC Work, ``... to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.