Global Warming
The Precautionary Principle 229 especially of the more devastating possibilities. Although covering our- selves for the most unl ...
230 Weighingthe uncertainty for instance, the installation of mirrors in space to cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight away fro ...
Some global economics 231 The Rio Declaration 1992 The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was agreed by over 160 cou ...
232 Weighingthe uncertainty The costs of anthropogenic climate change fall into three parts. Firstly, there is the cost of the d ...
Some global economics 233 Figure 9.3The application of classical cost benefit analysis to the mitigation of climate change, show ...
234 Weighingthe uncertainty by a factor of about three while a five per cent rate discounts by a factor of thirteen. Over one hu ...
Some global economics 235 450 550 650 750 Eventual CO 2 stabilisation level (ppm) Percentage reduction relative to baseline 0 0. ...
236 Weighingthe uncertainty not rigorously accounted for the economic effects of introducing new low-emission technologies, new ...
Some global economics 237 Integrated Assessment and Evaluation^14 In the assessment and evaluation of the impacts of different a ...
238 Weighingthe uncertainty Other items, some of which were mentioned at the end of Chapter 7, such as natural amenity and the v ...
Questions 239 reduce emissions and slow the rate of change; that emissions of green- house gases up to the present have already ...
240 Weighingthe uncertainty 2 For a detailed description of how the output from climate models can be com- bined with other info ...
Notes 241 9 Pearce, D. W.et al. 1996. In Bruce,Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions, Chapter 6. 10 Summary for po ...
Chapter 10 A strategy for action to slow and stabilise climate change Following theawareness of the problems of climate change a ...
Some extracts from the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change, signed by over 160 countries in Rio de Janeiro in ...
244 A strategyfor action to slowand stabiliseclimate change a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to cl ...
The Montreal Protocol 245 increased by around thirty-seven per cent (China and India by about nineteen and sixty-eight per cent ...
246 A strategyfor action to slowand stabiliseclimate change Table 10.1Emissions targets (1990*–2008/2012) for greenhouse gases u ...
The Kyoto Protocol 247 Table 10.2Greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol and their global warming potentials (GWPs) on a ...
248 A strategyfor action to slowand stabiliseclimate change afforestation, reforestation and deforestation activities and certai ...
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