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the bbc and climate change

ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change doc

ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change doc

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... and Alexandria; on the other, Miami, Greater New York, OsakaKobe and New Orleans (OECD, 2007).29 © OECD 2010 38 Greener and Smarter: ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change ICTs and the Internet ... comparisons difficult © OECD 2010 Greener and Smarter: ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change GREENER AND SMARTER: ICTS, THE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE Introduction1 Boosting sustainable ... that year, the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) brought together global policy makers in an attempt to limit the impacts of climate change The OECD, together with the UNFCCC,...
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BONDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE THE STATE OF THE MARKET IN 2012 pdf

BONDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE THE STATE OF THE MARKET IN 2012 pdf

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... Bonds and Climate Change www.climatebonds.net June 2012 Low-carbon transport and energy account for the bulk of issuance The climate- themed bond universe is dominated by the transport and energy ... presents a first estimate of the outstanding global bond market size linked to key climate change themes, and examines future drivers and trends in the short term In spite of the financial crisis, institutional ... together make up 85% of the total Beyond the climatethemed bonds, there are baskets of other bonds that represent future expansion if the proceeds were clearly dedicated for low-carbon, climate- resilient...
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Livestock and Climate Change What if the key actors in climate change are…cows, pigs, and chickens? docx

Livestock and Climate Change What if the key actors in climate change are…cows, pigs, and chickens? docx

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... analogs is the best way to combat climate change They can be expected to spread such messages to other people, and may press for analogs to be served at meetings they attend and for the GHGs thereby ... in landfills, incinerators, and waterways • Production, distribution, and disposal of byproducts, such as leather, feathers, skin, and fur, and their packaging Production, distribution, and disposal ... would be the best strategy for reversing climate change In fact, this approach would have far more rapid effects on GHG emissions and their atmospheric concentrations and thus on the rate the climate...
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Environmental Adaptations and Stress Tolerance of Plants in the Era of Climate Change pptx

Environmental Adaptations and Stress Tolerance of Plants in the Era of Climate Change pptx

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... membranes and proteins: On the one hand, changes of the ionic milieu lead to alterations of the membrane potential and thus to a destruction of biomembranes (Schulze et al 2002) On the other hand, the ... land and other resources (Ericson et al 1999) Population migration to those arid and semiarid areas increases the problems of water shortage and worsens the situation of land degradation in the ... Furthermore, more energy can be provided for energy-dependent tolerance mechanisms such as the synthesis of compatible solutes and antioxidants Therefore, the salt and drought tolerance and the...
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Air pollution and Climate Change - Report from a workshop under the Swedish EU Presidency doc

Air pollution and Climate Change - Report from a workshop under the Swedish EU Presidency doc

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... opportunity, the conference agreed on the following general conclusions: Address under the revision of the Gothenburg Protocol the climate effects of air pollutants and the short-lived climate forcers, ... However, the short and long term recommendations on tools, monitoring and stakeholder understanding have not been addressed adequately Other climate change feedbacks Climate change will inevitably change ... change, and may serve as a model for other regions of the world (CLRTAP EB and WGE; IPCC; other regional MEAs) Ozone effects and climate change Impacts of ozone on vegetation and feedbacks to climate...
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Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results pdf

Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results pdf

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... climate system, the human drivers of climate change, the response of the climate system to these drivers, and the response of society to climate changes The research, observations, and modeling ... manage the risks and opportunities of change in the climate and related environmental systems” (CCSP, 2003) The change of administration in 2009 will likely result in another change in the name and ... Restructuring the Climate Change Science Program S ocieties’ ability to respond to climate change depends in part on the magnitude and speed of changes in the climate system and on the resilience...
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Báo cáo " Balance of rice for the Mekong Delta - Viet Nam to 2050 in terms of industrialization and climate change '''' doc

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... Sci and climate change as today, the Mekong Delta’s paddy land is 1619.8 thousand in 2020 and is only 993.9 thousand in 2050 Fact and the above analysis shows that one of the plans to rice land ... 3.2 Analysis the changes of elements in the model In the original script of the model using actual values of the elements obtained from the secondary resources from the provinces and the primary ... security and export Thirdly, the Mekong Delta is one of the great and fertile plains of Southeast Asian; is the food production and export area of the most important in the country In the future,...
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Financing energy efficiency and climate change migration  a guide for investors in belarus, bulgaria, kazakhstan, the russian federation, and ukraine  new york   geneva, 2005

Financing energy efficiency and climate change migration a guide for investors in belarus, bulgaria, kazakhstan, the russian federation, and ukraine new york geneva, 2005

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... &srnissing the judges of the Supreme Court and half of the judges of the Constitutional COW The Chamber of Representatives appoints the remaining half The Committee for State Security (KGB) and the ... when the World Bank and the IMF sent a mission to the government, the Ministry of Economy, and the Ministry of Finances The aim of the mission was to monitor state/government expenditure The recommendations ... guidance over the state administration and the armed forces The Prime Minister coordinates and bears the responsibility for the overall policy of the government Pursuant to the laws, the Council...
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Migration, Environment and Climate Change: ASSESSING THE EVIDENCE docx

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: ASSESSING THE EVIDENCE docx

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... migration, the environment and climate change within the aforementioned themes It examines the existing evidence with respect to the ways in which changes in the environment and climate change are ... displaced by climate change over the next 40 years For the most part these figures represent the number of people exposed to the risk of climate change in certain parts of the world and not take ... active in the area of migration, climate change and the environment, and has carried out programmes in more than 40 countries from the Pacific Islands, to Latin America and on the Asian and African...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Ecology and ecophysiology of circum-Mediterranean firs in the context of climate change" ppsx

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... (T) and mean annual precipitation (P) for the following hypotheses: IA0 (T and P), IA2 (T + oC and P), IA3 (T + oC and P), IA4 (T + oC and P); IA2 –50 (T + oC and P –50 mm), IA2-100 (T + oC and ... availability in the soil In the south of Europe and North Africa, the temperature and drought increase will be more considerable Elsewhere the climate would become much more heterogeneous both intraand inter-annually ... differences in the range and value of the indices, in relation to the size of the areas and their altitudes Thus A numidica, A nebrodensis and A pinsapo have high indices due to their positions at...
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báo cáo khoa học: " Rethinking the conceptual terrain of AIDS scholarship: lessons from comparing 27 years of AIDS and climate change research" ppt

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... including the reconstruction of past climates, the understanding of current climates, and the projection of future climates The first two reports were dominated by climate sciences, reflected in the ... focusing on understanding impacts as they happened AIDS research and response has followed the evolution of the disease and the epidemic The key issues changed as the epidemic spread and treatment ... questioning the causes of AIDS, and being skeptical of the utility of ARVs; in the climate change arena, there has been ongoing debate as to the amount of change attributable to "natural" and "human-induced"...
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báo cáo khoa học: " The economics of health and climate change: key evidence for decision making" pdf

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... On the one hand, the additional climate risk may increase the intervention (adaptation) costs, while on the other hand climate change will lead to increases in potential health benefits of these ... “Review of the Economics of Climate Change (RECC) whose aim is to contribute to the regional debate on the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation, including advocacy and support ... perspective on the impacts of climate change, and the costs and benefits of adapting to climate change Indeed, economic evaluation should be designed to be usable by a range of decision makers, and hence...
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Technical guidance for the assessment of climate change impacts and the identification of adaptation measures

Technical guidance for the assessment of climate change impacts and the identification of adaptation measures

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... this section include: the coastal and island area, the delta area, the mountainous and midland area and the urban area 2.2.1 The coastal and island area The coastal and island area of Vietnam can ... 2.2.3 The mountainous and midland area The mountainous and midland area of Vietnam can be divided into the following regions: the Northern mountainous and midland area; and the Central and Highland ... methods to determine the impacts of climate change, risks and damage caused by the impact of climate change, the adaptability and the vulnerability of the sectors and of the community These tools consist...
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Countdown to copenhagen government, business and the battle against climate change

Countdown to copenhagen government, business and the battle against climate change

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... both the Chicago Climate Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) The scheme’s designers have been careful to avoid some of the problems encountered by the EU’s scheme, where the ... business and the battle against climate change PART II – Business and climate change P art II of this report aims to review the kinds of actions companies are taking to deal with the threat of climate ... business and the battle against climate change important issue, and a similar number (54%) say they have a coherent policy in place to address climate change For these companies with a policy, the...
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Research on the correlation between forest management and climate change in bao thang district, lao cai province local peoples perception and potential uses of GIS technology

Research on the correlation between forest management and climate change in bao thang district, lao cai province local peoples perception and potential uses of GIS technology

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... decades Table 4: The trends of changes, driven by climate change and/ or other forces Table 5: The importance of climate change compared to the other challenges Table 6: Effects of climate change Table ... of both climate change and anthropogenic activities Land use and land cover change affects a wide range of human and natural systems and contributes to changes in carbon exchange and climate ... to the impacts of climate change Table 10: Awareness of effects of climate change on forests and the options for climate change adaptation and mitigation Table 11: Willingness to undertake climate...
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Study on the pollution of song cai river under the impact of climate change and suggestion of remedies for recovering the water quality

Study on the pollution of song cai river under the impact of climate change and suggestion of remedies for recovering the water quality

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... station 2.4.5 Climate change scenarios According to IPCC (2007), Climate change is the change in the condition of weather system, which can be seen through the variation in the average and the fluctuation ... development and innovation, 30 economy scale and development, social relations, structure of energy system and the change in land usage The purpose of using SRES as the standard of the evaluation ... pollutants from the tributary rivers and canals flowing into the Cai River Basing on the analytical results of the water quality of the rivers and canals flowing into the Cai River and the average...
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DSpace at VNU: The Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation Measures for Rice Production in Central Vietnam: A Pilot in Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province

DSpace at VNU: The Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation Measures for Rice Production in Central Vietnam: A Pilot in Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province

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... analysed the adaptation of farmers and regions in Europe to the prevailing climate change, climate variability and climatic conditions in the last decade The research concludes that, the impacts on the ... of climate change on the spatial variability on the yield and income is lower in warmer climates as compared to temporal variability in climate in the places where there is heterogeneity in the ... larger diversity in the farm types reduces the impacts of the climate variability at a regional level Finally from the study, they concluded that the yield and the farmers’ income in the future is...
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DSpace at VNU: A mini-review on the impacts of climate change on wastewater reclamation and reuse

DSpace at VNU: A mini-review on the impacts of climate change on wastewater reclamation and reuse

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... papers observed the influence of the climate change on the reuse schemes Thus, the paper conducts a systematic analysis of available findings to feature the influence of climate change factors such ... al., 2009) They also noticed that the thermal variation in the influent and mixed liquor in the secondary clarifiers weakened the separation capacity The situation was even worse if the flow-rate ... 2011) On the one hand, it was good for the resource conservation On the other hand, the volume of wastewater discharge to the transmission systems was proportionally decreased, but not the contaminant...
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Tài liệu Megacities and Climate Change ppt

Tài liệu Megacities and Climate Change ppt

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... given the strong link between spatial planning, land use and climate change The way cities should develop  in the future, and the effect their form  can have on resource depletion and social and ... climate change in the coming years On one hand, megacities are the engines of globalisation, driving the flow of people, goods, knowledge, and money around the world On the other hand they also ... began by reviewing and developing local understanding of global and regional climate change science and  the implications of climate change for Durban Secondly, a ‘Headline climate change adaptation...
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Tài liệu The Oil & Gas Bank - RBS & the financing of climate change pptx

Tài liệu The Oil & Gas Bank - RBS & the financing of climate change pptx

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... uninhabitable and polluted water supplies, and led to intimidation of critics and the Kurdish population by the Turkish state Turkish fishermen have lost their livelihood and the pipeline threatens the ... laggard on climate change compared to other major banks, having neither acknowledged its major impacts on the planet’s climate nor adopted a comprehensive policy on climate change The bank prides ... significant impact [on climate change] is the investment and lending decisions we make Therefore, we are looking at solutions to climate change through our investments and funding 67 The CEO of HBOS’...
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