climate change Articles
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Tipping point forewarnings in climate change communication: some implications of an emerging trend
Prominent British and American sources now seek to structure public understanding of climate change by issuing “tipping point” forewarnings of danger with increasing frequency. This emerging trend announces a shift in the way we are likely to perceive and respond to climate change dangers. This paper reviews key statements to suggest a significant dimension of this trend is its enrollment of ...
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Differentiating (historic) responsibilities for climate change
Following the conclusion of the official work of the Ad Hoc Group for the Modelling and Assessment of Contributions to Climate Change (MATCH), this article considers the politically more sensitive aspect of the Brazilian proposal, namely the issue of differentiating (historic) responsibility for, and not merely (causal) contribution to climate change. Its aim is (1) to highlight the fact that, ...
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Negotiation and optimality in an economic model of global climate change
We suggest a two-country, two-sector model as a basis for the control of global climate change in which the dynamic time path of the world economy is analysed under the provision that the outcomes of a negotiation game generate the global optimal solution. Keywords: economics of climate change, negotiation, international ...
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Perceptions and adaptation strategies of the tourism industry to climate change: the case of Finnish nature-based tourism entrepreneurs
Climate change-related processes have emerged as major issues in tourism development and management, particularly with respect to nature-based tourism, which is seen as especially vulnerable and is the sector of the industry that is the main focus of this study. The aim of the paper is to identify the perceptions and adaptation strategies of Finnish nature-based tourism entrepreneurs on climate ...
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Investors take climate change into account
Increasing interest in climate change from investors generates improvements in disclosure into business operations and strategies, reports Envido. A new survey from the Institutional Investors Group in Climate Change (IIGCC) revealed that the proportion of institutional investors who consider firms' climate change policies when making investment decisions has more than doubled in the past two ...
By Vital Energi
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A replacement for Trident – can the UK afford it?
Cash shortages caused by the credit crunch will force the UK's next government to choose between replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system and meeting flagship social policy goals. Replacing Trident will be a high risk project because a long lead-in time means that changing circumstances may make new nuclear weapons far less relevant to national security needs by the time they enter service. ...
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Leadership in the climate change regime: the European Union in the looking glass
This paper examines the role of European Union (EU) leadership in the climate change regime. The EU has adopted a negotiating strategy with a high profile. This strategy is seen differently by negotiators and actors from non-European and EU countries. This is evident from 67 interviews conducted over the period from October 1997 to July 1998. The analysis indicates that leadership in the climate ...
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Mexican diplomacy in the rescue of Cancun climate change summit
Mexican leading figures are trying to restore confidence and bring developing countries back on the board ahead of Cancun climate change summit. Leading figures in the Mexican negotiating team are trying to save the upcoming UN climate change summit in Cancun from collapse in a bout of frantic diplomacy. They have spent the past few weeks attempting to restore confidence in the negotiating ...
By Vital Energi
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How arguments are justified in the media debate on climate change in the USA and France
This paper examines the differences in the values that are evoked to justify arguments in the media debate on climate change in USA and France from 1997 to 2011. We find that climate change is more often discussed in terms of justice, democracy, and legal regulation in France, while monetary value plays a more important role as a justification for climate policy arguments in the USA. ...
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Air pollution and climate change policies in Europe: exploring linkages and the added value of an integrated approach
This report explores the linkages between air quality and climate change from a European perspective in order to assist the European Environment Agency (EEA) in approaching the issues of air quality and climate change in an integrated way. The report addresses the linkages between air pollution and climate change by: (1) collecting and summarising existing information from the ...
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Climate Change and Visibility-Related Issues for 2002
Issues related to climate change and visibility rank as high priorities on the environmental management agenda for 2002. The following article will forecast key regulatory issues such as global climate change, NOx budget developments, and regional haze regulations in Class I areas and discuss their impact on ...
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The economics of climate change: an overview of the Stern review
The most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change was commissioned by the UK Chancellor in July 2005. It was been carried out by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economic Service and former World Bank Chief Economist. Most press coverage has highlighted the catastrophic implications of not acting to reduce greenhouse gases. But, in fact, the conclusion of ...
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Financing the GEF: What Europe can and must do
Frank Loy, the chief U.S. climate change negotiator in the second Clinton Administration, provides an international perspective on the latest current events regarding climate change, the Bush administration, and what Europe really needs to do to be the global leader on climate change. Recently, in Moscow, at the meeting of G8 Finance Ministers, the Europeans gave us a repeat performance of an ...
By AHC Group
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Detecting and evaluating climate change effect on frequency analysis of wind speed
The purpose of this study is to detect an existing trend in wind speed and to evaluate the effect of climate change on frequency analysis of wind speed in Iran. Twenty-two stations with a length of records higher than 50 years have been selected. Five statistical methods that were used to detect the trends are Mann-Kendall, Spearman-Conley, cumulative deviation, autocorrelation coefficient and ...
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Bonn Climate change talks go backwards
Discrepancies between poorer nations and the US increase at climate change talks in Bonn this week and turn attention to next meeting point in Tianjin, ...
By Vital Energi
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Understand Climate Change - Case Study
Oceans bear the brunt of climate change, causing acidification, sea level increases, and changes in temperature and currents, which impacts the health of marine species, ecosystems, and our coastal communities. Our boats can measure the changes in our ocean so we can better understand how we can ...
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Decision analysis for climate change: development, equity and sustainability concerns
A large variety of decision analytical frameworks has been used in climate change assessments in recent years to provide information for policy makers regarding the available strategic options, and associated gains and losses. Simultaneously, worries have mounted over implications of both climate change and climate mitigation for the broader concerns about development, equity and sustainability. ...
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Economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation: moving from impact assessment to vulnerability
The article is based on a detailed literature review pertaining to conceptual and methodological issues of climate change impact and vulnerability assessment. The impact of climate change differs among geographical regions owing to the abject difference in the levels of income, production and consumption pattern, availability and use of technology, etc. The initial impact assessment studies, ...
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Climate change as a global political issue
The battle against climate change has placed decarbonised capitalism on the economic, political and social agenda. But the shift towards a regime of accumulation compatible with measures to mitigate climate change raises major issues regarding prosperity and power, on a human and political scale never previously entertained. The paper places climate change in the context of the dynamics of the ...
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The Cities for Climate Protection Campaign (CCPC) and the framing of Local Climate Policy
Abstract: The paper contributes to the research on understanding local global warming politics. Strategic documents from The Cities for Climate Protection Campaign (CCPC) are analysed to show how CCPC has constructed climate change protection as a local issue. The paper's premise is that the climate change issue must be translated or framed to enable actors to work with this problem in a local ...
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