... greenhouse gas emissions as part of the climate change task force deliberations The purpose was to inform the task force about the contribution of transportation emissions to Ford’s environmental footprint ... ON THE BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE Climate stabilization 14 billion tonnes If current path is continued, CO2 concentration level will triple from its pre-industrial level wedge = billion ... actions FORD REPORT ON THE BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIC ACTIONS Our long-term strategy is to contribute to climate stabilization by • continuously reducing the GHG emissions and energy...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
... Point Capacity Building for National Focal Point on Climate Change on Climate Change Funding: DANIDA Implementing: ICD Status: on going Climate Change Check for Climate Change Check for all DANIDA ... Decision No 10 16/ QĐ-BTNMT, Jul 2007 on the establishment of Steering Committee in implementation of UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol Documents of MONRE to Direct Activities on Climate Change 6) Decision, ... in Vietnam; 3) Apr 2003, Decision of MONRE on development of Steering and Consultation Committee on CDM; 4) Circular No 10/20 06/ TT-BTNMT, Dec 20 06 on “Guidance on development of CDM projects...
Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 21:15
Tài liệu Development of national target program on climate change adaption docx
... Target Program on Climate Change Adaptation, search for international assistance for the Program, and submit to the Prime Mnister in the Second Quarter of 2008” INTRODUCTION 1) The National Target ... of the Activity is to develop the national target program for coping with climate change, focusing on awareness raising on climate change, and policy development for the country about climate change ... adaptation on regional and global scale • The role of Vietnam in the region and in the world in negotiations on reducing emissions, emission trading, management and utilization of the Adaptation Fund,...
Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 21:15
Tài liệu Policy dialogue platform on climate change docx
... adaptation measures to cope with climate change in the coming time Goal of TOR The goal is to establish the National Targeted Program on climate change adaptation, policy dialogue on climate change, ... facilitate cooperation within multilateral climate change forums and implementation of the obligations of a Party to the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol; ... draft on the national program framework Promote coordination, information exchange between programs/projects in relation to climate change Analysis report ODA for Climate change ODA Climate change...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15
Tài liệu United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change pdf
... Sĩ 1988, Thành lập Ủy Ban Liên Chính Phủ Biến đổi Khí hậu ( IPCC: Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change ) , với hổ trợ WMO UNEP để định lượng kiện khoa học biến đổi khí hậu 1990, Phúc tra ... kinh tế Việt Nam ký Công ước khung Liên hợp quốc biến đổi khí hậu (UNFCCC) ngày 11 /6/ 1992 phê chuẩn UNFCCC ngày 16/ 11/1994 • Việt Nam: - Chưa có nghĩa vụ phải cắt giảm phát thải KNK - Thực số nghĩa ... ĐOAN TRANG VŨ THỊ ÁNH TUYẾT NGUYỄN THỊ KIM XUÂN 0717024 0717050 0717072 0717 067 0717103 0717111 07171 16 0717117 0717132 0717137 ...
Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 09:16
Tài liệu The new politics of climate change pptx
... participated in their e-petitions during the UN negotiations on climate change in December 2007. 36 The case for a global movement on climate change is considered in chapter five Conclusion The impasse ... population, as defined by their behaviour, fly more on average than the other 99 per cent. 26 that the new politics of climate change 12 Even in the UK, public mobilisation on climate change remains the ... Association, 2007, A climate of change: final report of the LGA climate change commission, LGA 69 Greater London Authority, 2007, Action today to protect tomorrow: the mayor’s climate change action...
Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Facts on Climate Change docx
... Climate change – Defined by the United Nations Convention on Climate Change as change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the ... emissions over the coming decades or reduce emissions below current levels Renewable energies are one path to emission reduction Mitigation measures could contribute to stabilizing the concentration ... certain cost However, they also constitute an economic benefit by reducing the impacts of climate change and the costs associated with them In addition, they can bring economic benefits by reducing...
Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 12:20
Livestock and Climate Change What if the key actors in climate change are…cows, pigs, and chickens? docx
... 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 ... million tons as conservative FAO estimate 7,5 16 11.8 The Big Picture The table to the right summarizes the categories of livestock-based emissions and our estimates of their size We begin with the ... carbon absorption by trees has been foregone The FAO counts emissions attributable to changes in land use due to the introduction of livestock, but only the relatively small amount of GHGs from changes...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20
RESEARCH PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE, AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY: 2013 BUSINESS PLAN docx
... described in the section on “Gender and Social Differentiation” and within the sections for Themes and Regions). We plan to revisit discussion on next steps once the annual technical reports for 2012 are finalised from Centers, Regions ... Changes made to Objectives, Outputs, Milestones Unlike last year, no major changes are proposed at the Objective level. There have also been no changes in Outputs. There are changes at the Milestone level. The biggest changes related to Centers (and thus Theme leaders) overestimating what could be accomplished in 2012, and so a ... EA, WA, SAs, LAM Changes made to Objectives, Outputs, Milestones: The only change made is the removal of Milestone 1.1.3 2013(2); change done because we consider that the related activities can be grouped under the existing Milestone 1.3.1 2013. ...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20
A Strategy to Engage the Private Sector in Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh docx
... Re Defining the adaptation deficit The EACC (2009) suggests that the Adaptation deficit has two meanings in the literature on climate change and development One captures the notion that countries ... adaptation deficit (figure 2) The second, perhaps more common, use of the term captures the notion that poor countries have less capacity to adapt to change, whether induced by climate change or other ... Andalug Consulting The Potential Role of the Private Sector in Climate Change Adaptation There has also been a rapidly growing volume of research on the private sector implications of climate change, ...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:21
Action on Climate Change and Air Pollution pptx
... life on this planet depends on the long-term health of the environment, and both are vulnerable to the effects of air pollution and climate change Economic Benefits Clear and strong regulations ... make the investments they need to respect their reduction targets Other Things We Are Doing to Fight Climate Change and Air Pollution Reducing Emissions from Transportation Transportation is one ... Do? Canadians have every reason to be concerned about climate change and air pollution, and we all need to be part of the solution Tough and real action on the environment comes at a cost that...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20
historical perspectives on climate change sep 1998
... the climate Climate—from the Greek term klima, meaning slope or inclination—was originally thought to depend only on the height of the Sun above the horizon, a function of the latitude A second ... his opinion on the notion that the climate was cooler and more humid than Europe, because the Americas had "remained longer than the rest of the globe under the waters of the sea." The traveler ... alterations" in the emanations and fermentations of the Earth If the quality of the emanations varied, so would the temperature and quality of the air Such climatic changes could impact the spirit...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:10
ICTs for e-EnvironmentGuidelines for Developing Countries, with a Focus on Climate Change pptx
... to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 33 The document consists of the final authentic text of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ... The Secretariats of various environmental conventions such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Desertification ... obligations under the conventions or charters that these organizations operate 7.14 CCINet operated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change The Climate Change Information Network...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20
European Research Framework Programme Research on Climate Change doc
... action on climate change, but knowledge needs to progress further on the understanding of the climate system, on the evaluation of the impacts and on the identification and assessment of options ... Office: Environment Directorate Abstract The dramatic change in the region of the West African monsoon (WAM) from wet conditions in the 50s and 60 s to much drier conditions from the 70s to the 90s ... CLIMATE PROCESSES, OBSERVATIONS AND PROJECTIONS 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 Institut Universitaire Kurt Boesch Universität Stuttgart Commission...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Genetics of oak species and the spectre of global climate change" doc
... However, the situation may be even than the ecologists have projected None of them has taken genetic variation into account Their models suggest that beech and other species can survive in the northern ... modeled the effect of a 2.5 °C change on the ranges of some North American forest trees Though no oaks were included in their simulations, Davis and Zabinski (1992) did model the effect of climate change ... integrated gene conservation into their operations No institutional mechanism exists for the maintenance of seedbanks and provenance tests past the tenure of the scientists who initiated them Howard...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21
Life cycle analysis of electricity generation systems with implications on climate change policy
... : carbon emissions from the mining : carbon emissions due to “Non‐Energy Input” : carbon emissions from the power generation : carbon emissions of a system : the carbon cost at year “ ” : the decommissioning cost at year “ ... (MACC) [50, 51]. At the regional level, the ADB referenced LCA results in the discussion about climate change in Southeast Asia [3]. At the country level, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) ... low compared with the selected literature. The primary focus of this work was more on the comparison of life cycle carbon emissions among power generation technologies, and less on the LCA methodology. For fission power, the LCA emission values were referenced from [61 ], which was superseded by ...
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:18
Case Study: Brazils national plan on climate change and law
... financing production areas.7 The Ministry of the Environment manages the remaining $ 26 million reais, which supports research projects, climate change impact studies and other activities.8 The revenue ... forest The Government is also open to other international contributions to the fund The Brazilian Development Bank manages the fund and issues certificates that certify emissions reductions (the ... derives from a special levy on the profits from oil production Amazon Fund In 2008, the Amazon Fund was created (by decree) through a pledge of donation of US$1 billion from the Norwegian Government...
Ngày tải lên: 06/06/2016, 15:38
A discourse analysis of news reports on climate change in english and vietnamese
... Distribution of Comparison Constructions in NRCCE 60 4.4 Distribution of Voice in NRCCE 63 4.5 Distribution of Sentence Types in NRCCV 65 4 .6 Distribution of Comparison Constructions in NRCCV 67 4.7 ... important role in reporting the information on climate change at the major conferences in their countries They help us to know how the weather change in the world, particularly in the USA and in Vietnam ... cohesion can be understood as all linguistic forms which on the one hand link one part of the text to another grammatically and lexically On the other hand, based on these linguistic forms, the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2016, 12:54
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE IN VIETNAM The case of Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
... extensively affected by climate changes on agriculture production and economic growth This paper examines these main impacts of climate change on agriculture in Mekong River Delta, one of the most important ... of the country, alongside Red River Delta in the North, and one of the largest inland fisheries in the world (MRC, 2009) I first assess the impacts of climate change on Agricultural system in the ... improve the living conditions of local population in Mekong River Delta, protecting themselves and their production from natural resources and seasonal floods The project will also initiate socioeconomic...
Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2013, 22:00
Tài liệu Báo cáo " Assessment of climate change impacts on flooding in the downstream of the Dong Nai River " pptx
... study, the HydroGIS modeling package was used to investigate the impacts of climate change on flooding in Sai Gon – Dong Nai river basin The software is integrated from the hydraulic mathematical ... 27.57 24.38 2829 .60 2798. 16 High flood 163 1.84 2080 – 2100 1248 .60 27 .62 2908. 06 Medium flood 1594.70 26. 33 2 863 . 96 High flood Medium flood 1242.93 Ratio of areas inundated below the depth of m ... 1,833.2 1, 862 .6 87.5 88.9 Sea level rise 100cm Inundation area Scale (km2) (%) 1,889.4 90.2 Conclusion Acknowledgements The present paper analyses the current inundation situation and predicts the projected...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20