Climate Change Mitigation through a Well-being Lens “Putting people at the centre of climate action” “trong climate action is not a threat to but the foundation of our future economic well-being” Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General Background The impacts of climate change on human well-being are increasingly being felt. Rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are necessary to limit climate risks and to achieve ...
Learning Objective: Global Climate Change NGSS Standard: (MSESS3.D) Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, ...
Estimating Global Impacts from Climate Change Presented to: OECD Workshop on Benefits of Climate Policy Paris, France Presented by: Joel Smith and Sam Hitz Stratus Consulting Inc. Boulder, Colorado, USA December 12-13, 2002 Objective • Identify relationship between global impacts and different levels of climate change Key issue is identification of marginal global impacts at increasing magnitudes of climate change i.e., what ...
Climate change in the context of global environmental governance possibilities Eva CIHELKOVA Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Abstract: recent information campaigns of media and the ongoing substantive discussions of experts have been more and more devoted to the climate change issue and its impacts that could affect our future and threaten the sustainable and bal- anced development of the planet ...
Objective Setting for Climate Change Adaptation Policy Project team: AEA Technology Environment Stockholm Environment Institute Metroeconomica December 2005 Objective Setting for Climate Change Adaptation Policy Executive Summary Many countries have put forward adaptation strategies to address the impacts of future climate change. The UK Government is one of the few to go beyond this and to consider how to develop adaptation policy. This project, commissioned ...
COM/ENV/EPOC/DCD/DAC(2002)3/FINAL ENVIRONMENT DIRECTORATE DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION DIRECTORATE Working Party on Global and Structural Policies Working Party on Development Co-operation and Environment EXPLORING LINKAGES BETWEEN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND CLIMATE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES by Jan Corfee-Morlot, Martin Berg and Georg Caspary COM/ENV/EPOC/DCD/DAC(2002)3/FINAL Copyright OECD, 2003 Application for permission to reproduce or translate all or part of this material should be addressed to the Head of Publications Service, OECED ...
COM/ENV/EPOC/DCD/DAC(2002)2/FINAL ENVIRONMENT DIRECTORATE DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION DIRECTORATE Working Party on Global and Structural Policies Working Party on Development Co-operation and Environment ANALYSING THE NEXUS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE: AN OVERVIEW by Mohan Munasinghe Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka COM/ENV/EPOC/DCD/DAC(2002)2/FINAL Copyright OECD, 2003 Application for permission to reproduce or translate all or part of this material should be addressed to the Head of ...
Bioenergy Education Initiative Advanced Hardwood Biofuels NW Carbon Footprint Activity Objective Students will discover how their life choices influence their carbon footprint and how they can lower it. Skill Level: Middle school and high school Prep time: None Class time: 50 minutes Materials • Computer with internet access • Worksheet(s). See Carbon Footprint worksheet document. Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: ESS3.D: Global ...
TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE WTO Current WTO rules provide significant scope to protect the environment and tackle climate change while maintaining trade open In the preamble to the Marrakech Agreement that established the WTO, sustainable development, and the protection and preservation of the environment are recognised as fundamental goals of the organization. The WTO promotes more open trade with a view to achieving sustainable ...
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