climatepolicyexpertshavebeguntolookbeyondtheKyotoProtocoltothenextstageofinternationalclimatepolicy.LookingbeyondKyoto,ifcli-matepolicyistomovepastthepresentstalemate,leadersoftheFCCCandIPCCmustaddresstheirdifferingdefinitionsofcli-matechange.TheFCCCdefinesclimatechangeas“achangeofcli-matethatisattributeddirectlyor...
Cal-Adapt. 2013.What is Climate Change? http://cal-adapt.org/blog/2011/apr/13/what-is- climate-change/Pender, S. James (2008) "What Is Climate Change? And How It Will Affect Bangladesh", (Dhaka, Bangladesh: Church of Bangladesh Social Development Programme, Briefing Paper (Final Draft,...
its orbit where the whole of the planet is receiving sunshine evenly, as opposed to just the one pole getting continuous sunlight. So of course it is going to cool down on the poles. By the way, you left out Saturn and Enceladus on your list of planets or moons undergoingclimate change...
For years, one can hear it daily. Climate change is the greatest threat facing our world. Few declare the debate as hoax, like U.S. President Donald Trump, others regard it as real, respectively as an issue that affects the whole of humanity, the future of humans depending on it. As ...
What causes global climate change? Figure 1. The climate system is driven by solar radiation, atmospheric com- position, and interaction with ocean and land processes. Source: Common- wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Modelling Climate: CSIRO Atmospheric Research ...
Source: Robeco Global Climate Investing Survey, May 2024 What is transition investing? Transition investing targets companies who may be at the beginning of this journey to combat climate change. Historically, policies on transition financing differed from region to region, leading to inconsistent defi...
with a mitigation opportunity seven times that of the next most impactful measure of incorporating rice straw into soils.14This is consistent with the launch of India’s National Agroforestry Policy in 2014. India is the first nation to introduce such a plan to mitigate climate change and incre...
climatechange.Intermsoftemperaturedifference perunitofenergygeneration,solarpowerhas about10timeslesseffectthanwind,andthesolar powerenergyismatureinawiderangeoffields. Butthereareotherconsiderations.Forexample, solarfarmsaredense(密集),whilethelandbetweenwindturbinescanbeco-usedforagriculture. Tidalpowerisan enviro...
What do ‘climate’ and ‘climate change’ mean? The first thing that we need to do is to determine exactly what is meant by ‘climate’ and what people have in mind when they talk about ‘climate change’. For the former, perhaps the best place to start is the IPCC’s latest assessm...
Abrupt climate change events are difficult to assess with certainty because of lack of data and unknowns, however under the highest temperature scenarios that the IPCC modelled the Arctic is likely to become nearly ice free by mid-21st century. Whilst the collapse of the Greenland ice ...