Natural Resources and the Environment: Constitutional Challenges Facing Climate Change Policy in Canada

Climate Change: Challenges to California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources

Forum Videos Are Available at bit.ly/1ugX8yk California’s ongoing drought is extraordinary and one of the worst in state history. Recently, Stanford University scientists reported that the drought may be linked to global climate change. This special issue of ARE Update summarizes a one-day Forum on climate change and associated challenges facing California’s agriculture and natu­ ral resources,...

V. Policy Challenges Arising from Climate Change

Most OECD countries are committed to reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases There is increasing scientific consensus that global warming is under way, linked at least in part to human economic activity. The considerable attention paid to this problem over the past ten years resulted not least from the 1992 United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Despite this a...

Climate Change and the Challenges of Quantitative Assessment of Urban Climate Change: A Case Study in Tehran Metropolis

Background and Aim: Climate change on the earth is changing faster than ever before in the history. Cities are highly vulnerable to this climate change. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate climate change in the metropolis of Tehran during the period 1991-2020 and help understand the limitations that cities may have in confronting climate change. Materials and Methods: This descri...

China Environment Policy and Law for Sustainable Natural Resources Development – Issues and challenges –

Climate change mitigation policy: an overview of opportunities and challenges

Science in 2008 to advance public and private action on climate change through innovative, rigorous research. The Centre is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and has five inter-linked research programmes: 1. Developing climate science and economics 2. Climate change governance for a new global deal 3. Adaptation to climate change and human development 4. Governments, markets...