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Available online: https://www.ipcc.ch/publication/ipcc-expert-meeting-on-the-science-of-alternativ [...]
Event: IPCC Expert Meeting on the Science of Alternative Metrics (18-20 March 2009; Oslo, Norway)
Published by: IPCC ; 2009Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copyTags: Environment and landscape ; Air pollution ; Greenhouse gas (GHG) ; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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UNDP - Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals and Toolkits, 2. Charting a New Carbon Route to Development
UNDP, 2009Integrated climate change planning - a how-to guide for local and regional policy-makers on planning a low-carbon future. This document focuses on the importance of full engagement of sub-national authorities to comprehensively address climate change and suggests that taking the necessary action to tackle climate change will be more effective if it helps address local development issues.
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Published by: UNDP ; 2009
Integrated climate change planning - a how-to guide for local and regional policy-makers on planning a low-carbon future. This document focuses on the importance of full engagement of sub-national authorities to comprehensively address climate change and suggests that taking the necessary action to tackle climate change will be more effective if it helps address local development issues.
Notes: Step 1: Develop a Multi-Stakeholder Climate Planning Process
Collection(s) and Series: UNDP - Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals and Toolkits- No. 2
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Greenhouse gas reducing ; Climate policies
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GAW Report, 187. Joint report of COST Action 728 and GURME - Review of the capabilities of meteorological and chemistry-transport Models for describing and predicting air pollution episodes
This report forms the first deliverable of Working Group 3 of the COST Action 728 on “Enhancing Mesoscale Meteorological Modelling Capabilities for Air Pollution and Dispersion
Applications”. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the current capabilities and applications of mesoscale modelling systems for describing and predicting air quality and related meteorological conditions. The applications are discussed from the perspective of meteorology, which is in line with the main aim of the COST 728 Action.
Joint report of COST Action 728 and GURME - Review of the capabilities of meteorological and chemistry-transport Models for describing and predicting air pollution episodes
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Published by: WMO ; 2009
This report forms the first deliverable of Working Group 3 of the COST Action 728 on “Enhancing Mesoscale Meteorological Modelling Capabilities for Air Pollution and Dispersion
Applications”. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the current capabilities and applications of mesoscale modelling systems for describing and predicting air quality and related meteorological conditions. The applications are discussed from the perspective of meteorology, which is in line with the main aim of the COST 728 Action.Collection(s) and Series: WMO/TD- No. 1502; GAW Report- No. 187
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copy (ill., maps)Tags: Environment and landscape ; Air pollution ; Weather forecasting ; Global Atmosphere Watch Programme (GAW) ; GAW 187
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GAW Report, 185. Guidelines for the Measurement of Methane and Nitrous Oxide and their Quality Assurance
Published by: WMO ; 2009
Collection(s) and Series: GAW Report- No. 185
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copyTags: Environment and landscape ; Guidelines ; Air pollution ; Greenhouse gas (GHG) ; Methane (CH4) ; Nitrous oxide (N2O) ; Measure ; Global Atmosphere Watch Programme (GAW)
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Weather and the Built Environment
This short course provides broadcast meteorologists, educators, and the public with an overview of the evolution of our modern urban environment with a focus on impacts on the urban watershed, air quality, and climate. This course complements the course Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment and both are part of the Earth Gauge™ environmental curriculum for weathercasters and educators. This curriculum is being developed by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF). [See http://www.earthgauge.net/wp/] Unit 1, Where We Live, takes a look at past and current U.S. growth p ...
Available online: https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=463
Published by: The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ; 2008
This short course provides broadcast meteorologists, educators, and the public with an overview of the evolution of our modern urban environment with a focus on impacts on the urban watershed, air quality, and climate. This course complements the course Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment and both are part of the Earth Gauge™ environmental curriculum for weathercasters and educators. This curriculum is being developed by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF). [See http://www.earthgauge.net/wp/] Unit 1, Where We Live, takes a look at past and current U.S. growth patterns and the way our urban areas have evolved from compact population centers to automobile-dependent sprawl. Unit 2, Impacts on the Watershed, explores how the built environment affects the water that moves through an urban watershed. Unit 3, Impacts on the Atmosphere, highlights the way our urban landscape and industrial activities impact the air we breathe and the local climate. Each unit includes information on ways to reduce our impact on our water and air with ideas ranging from simple changes in our commuting and housekeeping habits to changes in how we build houses and roads.
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Format: Digital (Standard Copyright)Tags: Air pollution ; Water pollution ; Runoff ; Lesson/ Tutorial
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GOES-R: Benefits of Next-Generation Environmental Monitoring
This module is an introduction to NOAA's next generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) series, focusing on the value and anticipated benefits derived from an enhanced suite of instruments for improved monitoring of meteorological, environmental, climate, and space weather phenomena and related hazards. An extensive set of visualizations highlight GOES-R and its advanced observing capabilities for providing support in thirteen key environmental application areas including air quality and visibility, climate, cloud icing, fires, hurricanes, land cover, lightning, l ...
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GAW Report, 181. Joint Report of COST Action 728 and GURME - Overview of Tools and Methods for Meteorological and Air Pollution Mesoscale Model Evaluation and User Training
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GAW Report, 173. Report of the CAS Joint Scientific Steering Committee on the Open Area Programme Group on Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry (JSSC OPAG-EPAC)
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Enhancement of greenhouse gas sinks : a Canadian science assessment
"The Program of Energy Research and Development [PERD] decided to conclude its funding of research into greenhouse-gas sinks at the end of the 2006-07 fiscal year."--Page 10 of 112.
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Amélioration des puits de gaz à effet de serre : évaluation scientifique du Canada
Hengeveld Henry - Environnement Canada, 2008
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51 - Decmber 2007 - Highly developed precise analysis of atmospheric and oceanic sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) and evaluation of SF6 standard gas stability
is an issue of 気象研究所技術報告. Tokieda Takayuki; Ishii Masao; Saito Shu; et al. - Meteorological Research Institute, 2007
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Atmospheric Monitoring and Inverse Modelling for Verification of National and EU bottom-up GHG inventories : report of the Workshop "Atmospheric Monitoring and Inverse Modelling for Verification of National and EU Bottom-up GHG Inventories" under the Mandate of Climate Change Committee Working Group I, Casa Don Guanella, Ispra, Italy (08-09 March 2007)
The workshop "Atmospheric monitoring and inverse modelling for verification of national and EU bottom-up GHG inventories" was held on 08-09 March 2007 in Ispra, Italy, under the mandate of European Climate Change Committee Working Group 1, as follow-up of a first workshop on 23-24 October 2003. This report presents the summary and conclusions of the workshop and summaries of all workshop presentations.
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Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone Layer - seventh edition
UNEP, 2006Since 1991 the publication of the Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987) has proved to be an invaluable reference source for the decisions the Parties have made in the process of developing the ozone regime. The Handbook itself is published in response to the Parties’ decision (made in 1990) requesting the Secretariat to publish and update regularly a Handbook, setting out the Protocol, as adjusted and amended, together with the decisions of the Parties and other relevant material. Since then, the Protocol has been adjusted on six occasions and ame ...
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Use of chlorofluorocarbons in hydrology : a guidebook
IAEA, 2006Development of the chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) technique as a tool for dating groundwater has occurred over the past 20 years, and a number of research publications have documented its use in specific aquifers. This publication is intended to facilitate a comparative analysis of CFC and isotope techniques and a wider use of the CFC technique under appropriate conditions, by providing a description of its scientific basis, sampling and measurement methods, interpretation and limitations of data, and a variety of case studies.
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IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme. 2006 IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories
IPCC, 2006With
- Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (English (Vol.1, Vol.2, Vol.3), French, Russian, Spanish (Vol.2 only))
- Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management
in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish)
- Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish)
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GAW Report, 167. The German contribution to WMO GAW programme
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Umwelt Bundes Amt für Mensch und Unwelt ; Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) - WMO, 2006 (WMO/TD-No. 1336)
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IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme. Volume 3 Industrial Processes and Product Use
IPCC, 2006
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GAW Report, 165. Report of the CAS Working Group on Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry and the GAW 2005 Workshop
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GAW Report, 162. WMO/GAW Experts Workshop on a Global Surface-Based Network for Long Term Observations of Column Aerosol Optical Properties
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Barrie Leonard A.; Wehrli C. - WMO, 2005 (WMO/TD-No. 1287)
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IPCC/TEAP special report on safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system, issues related to hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons: summary for policymakers and technical summary
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - IPCC, 2005
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UNDP - Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals and Toolkits, 4. Managing the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process
UNDP, 2005The handbook was developed by UNDP with input from a wide range of institutions and national experts from Annex I and non-Annex I Parties. The objective of the handbook is to provide non-Annex I Parties with a strategic and logical approach to a sustainable inventory process.
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IPCC/TEAP special report on safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system : issues related to hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - IPCC, 2005'Prepared by Working Groups I and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Technical and Economic Assessment Panel." "The volume includes a Summary for policymakers approved by governments represented in the IPCC, and a Technical summary"--Half-title.
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Rapport spécial du GIEC et du GETE Préservation de la couche d’ozone et du système climatique planétaire, questions relatives aux hydrofluorocarbures et aux hydrocarbures perfluorés: résumé à l’intention des décideurs et résumé technique
Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM); Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement (PNUE); Groupe d'Experts Intergouvernemental sur l'Evolution du Climat (GIEC) - GIEC, 2005
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التقرير الخاص لفريق التقييم التكنولوجي الاقتصادي TEAP التابع للهيئة الحكومية الدولية المعنية بتغير المناخ (IPCC) والخاص بحماية طبقة الأوزون والنظام المناخي العالمي، القضايا المتعلقة بمركبات الهيدروكربون الفلورية والمواد الكربونية الفلورية المشبعة: ملخص لصانعي السياسات والملخص الفني
المنظمة العالمية للأرصاد ; برنامج الأمم المتحدة للبيئة ; الهيئة الحكومية الدولية المعنية بتغير المناخ - الهيئة الحكومية الدولية المعنية بتغير المناخ, 2005
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Специальный доклад МГЭИК/ТЕАП Охрана озонового слоя и глобальной климатической системы, вопросы, связанные с гидрофторуглеродами и перфторуглеродами: резюме для лиц, определяющих политику, и техническое резюме
IPCC, 2005
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Informe especial IPCC/GETE sobre La protección de la capa de ozono y el sistema climático mundial, cuestiones relativas a los hidrofluorocarbonos y a los perfluorocarbonos: resumen para responsables de políticas y resumen técnico
Organización Meteorológica Mundial (OMM); Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC); Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) - IPCC, 2005
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Management strategies in agriculture and forestry for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to climate variability and climate change : report of the CAgM-XII Working Group
This report presents examples of the impacts of adaptation strategies required for reducing vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and climate change. It also presents information on the impacts of the conversion of forests into crop and rangelands and also examples of the impact of management strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from agroecosystems.
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GAW Report, 151. Report of the CAS Working Group on Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry
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Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone Layer. 2002 Report of the Halons Technical Options Committee (HTOC) : 2002 Assessment
UNEP, 2003This Report reveals efforts of the Halons Technical Options Committee (HTOC) to identify, develop and test alternatives that can used in place of the halons. Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete The Ozone Layer, the use of halons is being phased out in industries such as: merchant shipping, oil and gas production, and in civil aviation, as well as in the military, for explosion suppression, and in countries with economies in transition. The report reveals the progress that has been made towards the objective of reducing the need for halons, and discusses some of the problems ...
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Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer. 2002 Report of the Aerosols, Sterilants, Miscellaneous Uses and Carbon Tetrachloride Technical Options Committee (ATOC) : 2002 Assessment
UNEP, 2003In response to the scientific consensus that chlorofluorocarbons and halons deplete the ozone layer, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) enacted the Montreal Protocol as the principal legal document to authorize the fight to reduce the production of substances that deplete the ozone layer. This document presents an assessment report compiled by the Sterilants, Miscellaneous Uses and Carbon Tetrachloride Technical Options Committee, and reveals the progress made in efforts to phase out the consumption of chlorofluorocarbons commonly used in aerosol sprays. It also puts forward recom ...
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Economic instruments for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions
The Royal Society, 2002The need to reduce anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere – notably carbon dioxide (CO2) – is crucial to slowing down the rate of global climate change. Governments can reduce these emissions by advocacy, by regulation and by the application of economic instruments. Economic analysis shows convincingly that placing primary emphasis on the use of economic instruments provides the most
cost-effective route for such emission reduction. In this report we consider two generic types of economic instrument that could provide the most effective solution to rising CO2 em ...
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GAW Report, 144. Report of the seventh session of the EC Panel of Experts/CAS Working Group on Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry and the GAW Workshop
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Bilan 2001 des changements climatiques : mesures d’atténuation. Résumés du Groupe de travail III du GIEC
Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM); Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement (PNUE); Groupe d'Experts Intergouvernemental sur l'Evolution du Climat (GIEC) - GIEC, 2001
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Climate Change 2001 : mitigation
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - IPCC, 2001
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Cambio climático 2001 : mitigación. Resúmenes del Grupo de Trabajo III
Organización Meteorológica Mundial (OMM); Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA); Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC) - IPCC, 2001
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