Climate change: Beyond Kyoto

Beyond Kyoto: Forest Management in a Time of Rapid Climate Change

Policies to reduce global warming by offering credits for carbon sequestration have neglected the effects of forest management on biodiversity. I review properties of forest ecosystems and management options for enhancing the resistance and resilience of forests to climate change. Although forests, as a class, have proved resilient to past changes in climate, today’s fragmented and degraded for...

The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: Pareto Improvements to Policies that Mitigate Climate Change

Article 17 of the Kyoto Protocol allowed emissions trading; Article 12 defined a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). In a simple theoretical model we adapt standard gains from trade results to demonstrate that, relative to any status quo with specified worldwide aggregate emissions: first, emissions trading with a suitable international distribution of permit rights generally allows each nation ...

Global climate change: beyond sunburn.

-The study group included 684 cases: 258 patients with breast carcinoma, 113 males with lung cancer, 42 patients with rectal tumours, 42 patients with stomach tumours, 59 patients with fibroadenomatosis, and 170 healthy subjects of varying age (male and female). A relatively high blood triglyceride level was found in patients with breast, lung, rectal (females), and stomach (female) tumours. Th...

Beyond Mitigation: Planning for Climate Change Adaptation

Beyond frozen ground: Climate change and health.

Story by Sarah de Leeuw begin with those days of breastfeeding. But her daughters are certainly a recurring theme in her work: “A few months later when I finished off Bill McKibben’s Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, I found myself curled up in the fetal position around my six month old. I hadn’t really realized we were on track to drastically exceed the goal of keeping climate change withi...