climate change Articles
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Producing enough food in a climate insecure world
This article focuses on the challenges related to water, climate change and food security. The article summarizes recent food production and food security trends and provides an overview of how climate change, through impacts on global hydrology, could impact food production, and consequently food security, in some key farming systems. However, as climate change is but one of many ...
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Towards a "folk integrated assessment" of climate change?
This paper questions the assumption that public participation in integrated assessment (IA) means finding (better) ways to make the public engage with IA. Following other studies about public perceptions of expert/scientific knowledge, it is unclear why the public should - or even want to - approach issues (such as climate change) from the epistemologically privileged expert-framed perspectives ...
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Gender and climate justice
The authors look at how to bridge the gap between science, technology and social justice in their examination of the gender dimension of climate change. The authors argue for the need to understand in both analysis and policy the profound link between gender and climate change. They ask in the context of the current search for ecologically justice how to take a nuanced gender approach to in ...
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A review of some key climate change legislations and policies: lessons for Singapore`s construction industry
There is overwhelming scientific consensus that the climate is changing due to primarily human-induced activities. Emission of greenhouse gases from the energy and construction sectors is one of the main human induced causes. Most legislative and policy initiatives by countries to deal with climate change will have a significant impact on the energy and construction sectors. In proposing 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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A conscientious corporate brand model – a Taiwanese assessment
A construct of conscientious corporate brands (hereinafter called CCBs) is tested by examining the environmental and climate change issues, and the internal and external corporate codes of ethics as dimensions of CCBs. The objective is to validate research in ethical branding by testing 'the conscientious dimension' of a corporate brand. The study is based upon Taiwanese business–to–business ...
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Understanding political processes in climate change negotiations by means of an interdisciplinary curriculum in higher education
Political science draws on different theoretical approaches that can be used for explaining the outcome of climate negotiations. These approaches take into account that interests shape the preferences of states, of the economy and of civil society. In its analysis of climate change as an issue of global governance, political science must be part of an approach which combines the contributions of ...
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Preface – Climate change: what is at stake?
The second Earth Summit in Rio will open in 2012. The debate will concern the ability of the world to face its future and the participants will hope to provide answers. Climate change and its challenges will be on the agenda, and recommendations will be advanced and the aim will be to implement them quickly. More than any other area, the climate negotiations have all the ingredients that cause ...
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Entertaining our way to engagement? Climate change films and sustainable development values
How we communicate about climate change shapes our response to the most complex and challenging issue society currently faces. In this paper, we conduct a discursive analysis and ideological critique of stereotypical representations in three climate change films: The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy (2008) and An Inconvenient Truth (2006). We argue that these films ...
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Heroic stories from the frontlines of climate change
World leaders may be descending on Paris for the start of COP 21 and the most important climate negotiations to date, but around the planet individuals have been working on the front lines of climate change for years. Starting over five years ago, Maxime Riché and a team of photographers and photojournalists set out to share their stories. The resulting Climate Heroes video series takes ...
By Ensia
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Ceres report - US banks on climate change
Profiles of U.S. Banks from Corporate Governance and Climate Change: The Banking Sector, January ...
By Ceres
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Ceres report - Canadian banks on climate change
Profiles of Canadian Banks from Corporate Governance and Climate Change: The Banking Sector, January ...
By Ceres
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Climate change negotiations: an analysis of the Kyoto Protocol
This article gives a detailed legal analysis of the Kyoto Protocol's key provisions. The analysis includes a presentation of the negotiations' historical, institutional and political context, and of the positions of the different players. It describes the future challenges relating to the implementation of the Protocol and its possible strengthening.Keywords: climate change, implementation ...
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Climate Change Mitigation and Water
Both natural and anthropogenic processes contribute significantly to climate change. Among the natural processes are changes in the energy emitted from the sun, the distance between the sun and the earth, and eruptions from volcanoes. The main anthropogenic processes include emissions of greenhouse gasses such as methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ...
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Growing Hope, A Climate Change Report
While the world’s leaders met in Paris for COP21, the World Forestry Center convened 26 leading organizations working to address climate change in the region and worldwide. They discussed the role of global forests in addressing climate change, and interviewed The Climate Trust to showcase how they are #GrowingHope. Mik McKee, The Climate Trust’s Senior Forestry Analyst discusses The ...
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Rapid climate change: an overview for economists
The possibility of future rapid climatic changes is a pressing concern amongst climate scientists. For example, an abrupt collapse of the ocean's Thermohaline Circulation (THC) would rapidly cool the northern hemisphere and reduce the net global primary productivity of vegetation, according to computer models. It is unclear how to incorporate such low-probability, high-impact events into the ...
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Climate change: A security (Council) issue?
The impact of climate change on small islands was no less threatening than the dangers guns posed to large nations.” Robert G. Aisi (Papua New Guinea delegate before the UN Security Council) “The world has moved from the cold war to the 'warming war', in which chimney stacks and exhaust pipes are the weapons, and it is a chemical war of immense proportions.” Afelee F. Pita (Tuvalu delegate before ...
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Urban climate change impact and Istanbul Water Consensus
Climate change impacts especially on major cities of the world are expected to cause inter–sectoral interactions concerning environmental, socio–economic, cultural, and technological developments and their implementations. This paper presents a methodology to predict future monthly rainfall amounts and surface runoff volumes on decadal basis from 2000–2050 and accordingly interpretation of ...
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Gender, water and climate change
Climate change is a reality, and poses a serious long term threat to society and to the environment. Scientists have generated significant evidence that the use of fossil fuels, deforestation, and changes in land use have led to an increase in greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, causing the Earth’s surface temperature to rise. This has already and will continue to result in changing ...
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New Zealand tourism entrepreneur attitudes and behaviours with respect to climate change adaptation and mitigation
Although the potential impacts of climate change on tourism has been examined with respect to tourism destinations and resorts there is a dearth of information on the attitudes and behaviours of small firm entrepreneurs even though such enterprises make up by far the bulk of the tourism industry by number of businesses. The attitudes and adaptation and mitigation behaviours of New Zealand ...
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