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California Assembly Bill No. 1493
Description:
The "Pavley" bill requires the registry, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt procedures and protocols for the reporting and certification of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from mobile sources for use by the state board in granting the emission reduction credits. This bill requires the state board to develop and adopt, by January 1, 2005, regulations that achieve the maximum feasible reduction of greenhouse gases emitted by passenger vehicles and light-duty truckā¦
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Date:
July 2002
Creator:
Governor Gray Davis & Governor Gray Davis
Vermont Comprehensive Energy Plan 2009 And Update to the 2005 Twenty-Year Electric Plan
Description:
This is a Public Review Draft of the State of Vermontās third Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP). It is being presented at a time in which combined concerns for energy and the environment are at the center of both state and federal policy attention. As we are completing this Public Review Draft of the Comprehensive Energy Plan, crude oil prices continue to set new peaks and are cresting above $130/barrel. The challenges presented to Vermont consumers who rely heavily on petroleum for transportatioā¦
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Date:
May 2008
Creator:
Vermont Department of Public Service
Climate Change at UNDP: Scaling Up to Meet the Challenge
Description:
The paper presents UNDP's strategy to support the efforts of developing countries and vulnerable groups for scaling up mitigation and adaptation action to successfully meet the climate change challenge and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Date:
September 2008
Creator:
United Nations Development Programme
Cycling in Sweden
Description:
Increased use of bicycles can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution - and have positive impacts on human health. The Working Group on Transport (WGT) under OECDās Environment Policy Committee discussed measures to promote bicycle use at a meeting (27-28 January 2010). Below are the presentations that were made on that occasion.
Date:
February 2010
Arctic Climate Impact Science ā An Update Since ACIA
Description:
The study found that change was occuring in all Arctic systems, impacting on the atmosphere and the oceans, sea ice and ice sheets, snow and permafrost, as well as species and populations, food webs, ecosystems and human societies.
Date:
April 2008
Creator:
WWF International Arctic Programme.
Getting Back in the Game: U.S. Job Growth Potential from Expanding Clean Technology Markets in Developing Countries
Description:
This report highlights a significant, but rarely discussed, economic angle to the Senateās deliberations on the American Power Act. Unlike the House-passed climate bill, which set aside one percent of revenues from emissions auctions for international clean technology investments, the American Power Act contains no such dedicated funding stream nor a program to guide these public investments. This lack of secure, long-term funding would limit the job-creating potential of the legislation by limā¦
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Date:
May 2010
Creator:
World Wildlife Fund
Fast Facts: Climate Change and UNDP
Description:
Making poverty history and tackling climate change go hand-in-hand because receding forests, changing rainfall patterns and rising sea levels trap people in hardship and undermine their future. Studies in Ethiopia show that children exposed to drought in early childhood are 36 percent more likely to be malnourished five years later.
Date:
October 2009
Creator:
United Nations Environment Programme
Climate Solutions 2: Low-Carbon Re-Industrialisation www.climaterisk.net A Climate Risk Report Climate Risk: A report to WWF International based on the Climate Risk Industry Sector Technology Allocation
Description:
This report models the ability of low-carbon industries to grow and transform within a market economy. It finds that runaway climate change is almost inevitable without specific action to implement low-carbon re-industrialization over the next five years. The point of no return is estimated to be 2014.
Date:
2000
Creator:
Dr.Mallon, Karl; Dr.Hughes, Mark & Kidney, Sean
Two Degree is Too Much! Impacts of 2Ā°C Global Warming On Antarctic Penguins
Description:
This research shows perennial Arctic ice is melting by nearly 10% a decade. Itās on course to disappear entirely by the end of the century. This means polar bears, walrus and seals living on the ice could become extinct. Many other Arctic species would also feel severe impacts. The fears of Inuit communities from Greenland to eastern Russia are also covered in the WWF report. Global warming puts traditional hunting and food-sharing at great risk." Sixty per cent of the tundra habitat of birds lā¦
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Date:
January 2005
Creator:
WWF (Organization). Antarctic Climate Change Focal Project.
A Transportation Research Program for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Conserving Energy Special Report 299
Description:
This report from the Transportation Research Board suggests that federal, state, and local policy makers need informed guidance about the effectiveness, costs, feasibility, and acceptability of transportation strategies to mitigate transportation greenhouse gas emissions, to conserve energy, and to adapt to climate change. The report covers strategies affecting travel and mode choice, models and decision tools, infrastructure investment options and infrastructure construction, operation, and maā¦
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Date:
October 2009
Creator:
Committee for Study on Transportation Research Programs to Address Energy and Climate Change
Major Tipping Points in Earthās Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector Summary
Description:
The focus of climate change mitigation policy to date has been on "preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with Earth's climate system". There is no global agreement or scientific consensus for delineating ādangerousā from āacceptableā climate change but limiting global average temperature rise to 2 Ā°C above pre-industrial levels has emerged as a focus for international and national policymakers.
Date:
November 2009
Creator:
World Wild Fund
Engrossed Substitute House Bill 0397
Description:
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Date:
May 2005
Creator:
Chopp, Frank; Owen, Brad; Nafziger, Richard & Gregoire, Christine
Namibia: Strengthening the Protected Area Network
Description:
The Strengthening the Protected Area Network (SPAN) Project aims to strengthen the management effectiveness of the national protected area (PA) system in Namibia. The Project builds capacity for park management by removing existing barriers hindering the management performance of the PA system. The case study highlights key elements of project success and lessons learned.
Date:
March 2010
Creator:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Appropriate Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation in Arid Areas: Workshop : Summary Report
Description:
The main purpose of the meeting was to review progress in the development of technologies for making optimum use of limited water resources or using conditions of drought and solar radiation to disinfect ferment-able wastes and destroy microorganisms contained in them.
Date:
June 1987
Creator:
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Senegal
Description:
These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date:
January 2006
Creator:
McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Conserving Nature - Partnering with People brochure on WWF's work on protected areas
Description:
WWF is working harder than ever to establish a global network of ecologically representative and effectively managed land, freshwater, and marine protected areas. With 40 years experience, targeted conservation goals, and projects combining practical field implementation with highlevel policy work in over 100 countries, we are uniquely placed to lead protected area work into the 21st century.
Date:
August 2003
Creator:
Dudley, Nigel; Stolton, Sue & Duncan, Emma
Substitute Bill No. 595
Description:
An act concerning climate change.
Date:
February 2004
Creator:
House of Representatives
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Sierra Leone
Description:
These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date:
January 2006
Creator:
McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Montana Climate Change Action Plan: Final Report of the Governorās Climate Change Advisory Committee
Description:
Report of the Governorās Climate Change Advisory Committee, managed by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and facilitated by the Center for Climate Strategies. It provides 54 policy recommendations help reduce the stateās emissions of green house gases to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Most will have additional benefits, including reduced reliance on imported fossil fuels, reduction in air pollution, increased opportunity for Montana agriculture to provide renewable fuels, healthierā¦
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Date:
November 2007
Creator:
Montana.Governor's Climate Change Advisory Committee
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Togo
Description:
These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date:
January 2006
Creator:
McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Biodiversity Delivering Results
Description:
The publication showcases the achievements and results from UNDP projects undertaken around the world. It highlights UNDP efforts, funded by GEF, to mainstream biodiversity issues, build institutional capacity around the world, and support the implementation of the Program of Work on Protected Areas under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Date:
March 2010
Creator:
Global Environment Facility
Blue Carbon - First Level Exploration of Blue Carbon in the Arabian Peninsula
Description:
Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arabian Peninsula. These benefits include ecosystem services such as a rich cultural heritage; the protection of shorelines from storms; erosion or sea-level rise; food from fisheries; maintenance of water quality; and landscape beauty for recreation and ecotourism. In a Blue Carbonā¦
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Date:
2011
Creator:
Lutz, S.J.
Fisheries, Tuna Agreement Between the United States of America and Canada Amending The Treaty of May 26, 1981 Effected by Exchange of Notes Signed at Washington, October 3 and 9, 1997.
Description:
ā. . .the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued
under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent
evidence . . . of the treaties, international agreements other than
treaties, and proclamations by the President of such treaties and
international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be,
therein contained, in all the courts of law and equity and of maritime
jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices of the
United States, and of the several Stā¦
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Date:
2009
Creator:
United States. Department of State.
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