Climatic Change In Canada 4

Author : The Expert Panel on Climate Change Risks and Adaptation Potential
Publisher : Council of Canadian Academies
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781926522678

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Canada’s Top Climate Change Risks by The Expert Panel on Climate Change Risks and Adaptation Potential Pdf

Canada’s Top Climate Change Risks identifies the top risk areas based on the extent and likelihood of the potential damage, and rates the risk areas according to society’s ability to adapt and reduce negative outcomes. These 12 major areas of risk are: agriculture and food, coastal communities, ecosystems, fisheries, forestry, geopolitical dynamics, governance and capacity, human health and wellness, Indigenous ways of life, northern communities, physical infrastructure, and water. The report describes an approach to inform federal risk prioritization and adaptation responses. The Panel outlines a multi-layered method of prioritizing adaptation measures based on an understanding of the risk, adaptation potential, and federal roles and responsibilities.

Author : Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Greenhouse gas mitigation
ISBN : OCLC:1016879918

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Climate Change Plan for Canada by Canada Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0662051750

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From Impacts to Adaptation by Anonim Pdf

Discusses current and future risks and opportunities that climate change presents to Canada, with a focus on human and managed systems. Based on analysis of existing knowledge.

Author : Steven Bernstein,Jutta Brunnée,David Duff,Andrew Green
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802095961

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A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada by Steven Bernstein,Jutta Brunnée,David Duff,Andrew Green Pdf

A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada builds on the premise that Canada is in need of an approach that effectively integrates domestic priorities and global policy imperatives.

Author : William Leiss
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780228009863

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Canada and Climate Change by William Leiss Pdf

Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience. The federal government recently announced aggressive climate targets for Canada. We have committed to producing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, which will require major changes for our economy and way of life. Canadian citizens need to understand why our most distinguished climate scientists and our senior political leaders think that we must meet this target. Canada and Climate Change explains the importance of policies that will ensure we meet the net-zero emissions target. William Leiss provides a firm grasp on what climate change is and how scientists have described shifts in the earth’s climate as they have occurred over hundreds of millions of years and as they are likely to occur in the near future, especially by the end of this century. Leiss argues that citizens have a right to place their trust in what climate scientists tell us. Canada and Climate Change is an essential primer on where we stand on the issue of climate change in Canada and what will unfold in the years ahead.

Author : Canada. Atmospheric Environment Service,Canadian Climate Program Board
Publisher : Le Conseil
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0662580419

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Changement Climatique Et Ses Répercussions Sur Le Canada by Canada. Atmospheric Environment Service,Canadian Climate Program Board Pdf

A statement on the current international scientific perspective on climatic change. Summarizes the scientific information on climatic change due to greenhouse gas increases, and the social and economic parts of the world. Also considers national impacts for Canada.

Author : Harold Coward,Andrew J. Weaver
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781554580811

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Hard Choices by Harold Coward,Andrew J. Weaver Pdf

Drought, floods, hurricanes, forest fires, ice storms, blackouts, dwindling fish stocks...what Canadian has not experienced one of these or more, or heard about the “greenhouse” effect, and not wondered what is happening to our climate? Yet most of us have a poor understanding of this extremely important issue, and need better, reliable scientific information. Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada delivers some hard facts to help us make some of those hard choices. This new collection of essays by leading Canadian scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists offers an overview and assessment of climate change and its impacts on Canada from physical, social, technological, economic, political, and ethical / religious perspectives. Interpreting and summarizing the large and complex literatures from each of these disciplines, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges we face in Canada. Special attention is given to Canada’s response to the Kyoto Protocol, as well as an assessment of the overall adequacy of Kyoto as a response to the global challenge of climate change. Hard Choices fills a gap in available books which provide readers with reliable information on climate change and its impacts that are specific to Canada. While written for the general reader, it is also well suited for use as an undergraduate text in environmental studies courses.

Author : Douglas Macdonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781487524906

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Carbon Province, Hydro Province by Douglas Macdonald Pdf

Why has Canada been unable to achieve any of its climate change targets? Part of the reason is that emissions in two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, have been steadily increasing as a result of expanding oil and gas production. Declining emissions in other provinces, such as Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, have been cancelled out by those western increases. The ultimate explanation for Canadian failure lies in the differing energy interests of the western and eastern provinces. How can Ottawa possibly get all the provinces moving in the same direction of decreasing emissions? To answer this question, Douglas Macdonald explores the five attempts to date to put in place co-ordinated national policy in the fields of energy and climate change - from Pierre Trudeau's ill-fated National Energy Program to Justin Trudeau's bitterly contested Pan-Canadian program - analyzing and comparing them for the first time.

Author : Seth Klein
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773055916

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A Good War by Seth Klein Pdf

“This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for.” — Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine • One of Canada’s top policy analysts provides the first full-scale blueprint for meeting our climate change commitments • Contains the results of a national poll on Canadians’ attitudes to the climate crisis • Shows that radical transformative climate action can be done, while producing jobs and reducing inequality as we retool how we live and work. • Deeply researched and targeted specifically to Canada and Canadians while providing a model that other countries could follow Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a critical “danger line” for the planet and human life as we know it. It’s 2020, and Canada is not on track to meet our targets. To do so, we’ll need radical systemic change to how we live and work—and fast. How can we ever achieve this? Top policy analyst and author Seth Klein reveals we can do it now because we’ve done it before. During the Second World War, Canadian citizens and government remade the economy by retooling factories, transforming their workforce, and making the war effort a common cause for all Canadians to contribute to. Klein demonstrates how wartime thinking and community efforts can be repurposed today for Canada’s own Green New Deal. He shares how we can create jobs and reduce inequality while tackling our climate obligations for a climate neutral—or even climate zero—future. From enlisting broad public support for new economic models, to job creation through investment in green infrastructure, Klein shows us a bold, practical policy plan for Canada’s sustainable future. More than this: A Good War offers a remarkably hopeful message for how we can meet the defining challenge of our lives. COVID-19 has brought a previously unthinkable pace of change to the world—one which demonstrates our ability to adapt rapidly when we’re at risk. Many recent changes are what Klein proposes in these very pages. The world can, actually, turn on a dime if necessary. This is the blueprint for how to do it.

Author : Canada. Environment Canada
Publisher : Environnement Canada
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951D01561739O

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The Canada Country Study by Canada. Environment Canada Pdf

"Changes in climate are nothing new to our planet. From our own experiences here in Canada, we know that one summer is often warmer than another, or one winter is colder or snowier than another. Such differences are normal and related to changes in ocean currents or sea-surface temperatures, volcanic eruptions, alterations in the sun's heat, or other features of the climate system"--Introduction, page 3.

Author : Hugh M. French,Olav Slaymaker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119951087

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Changing Cold Environments by Hugh M. French,Olav Slaymaker Pdf

Changing Cold Environments; Implications for Global Climate Change is a comprehensive overview of the changing nature of the physical attributes of Canada's cold environments and the implications of these changes to cold environments on a global scale. The book places particular emphasis on the broader environmental science and sustainability issues that are of increasing concern to all cold regions if present global climate trends continue. Clearly structured throughout, the book focuses on those elements of Canada's cold environments that will be most affected by global climate change – namely, the tundra, sub-arctic and boreal forest regions of northern Canada, and the high mid-latitude mountains of western Canada. Implications are considered for similar environments around the world resulting in a timely text suitable for second and third year undergraduates in the environmental or earth sciences courses.

Author : Canada,Canada. Environment Canada
Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:35007002983074

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Canada's Second National Report on Climate Change by Canada,Canada. Environment Canada Pdf

Begins with an overview of climate change and Canada's commitments under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, then reviews national characteristics affecting greenhouse gas emissions, the national greenhouse gas inventory, and measures and policies under the National Action Program on Climate Change. This is followed by chapters covering: a national projection of greenhouse gas emissions to 2020; possible impacts of climate change on Canada, including implications for ecosystems, agriculture, and forestry; adaptation to climate change and Canadian activities in that regard; financial assistance and technology transfer activities related to climate change, including bilateral initiatives and participation at international conferences; research and monitoring activities related to climate change; and education, training, and public awareness initiatives regarding climate change. Appendices include summaries of federal and provincial/territorial policies and measures affecting greenhouse gas emissions.

Author : National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1100190929

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Paying the Price by National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada) Pdf

Author : Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program (Canada)
Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Changements climatiques
ISBN : CORNELL:31924105253755

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Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation by Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program (Canada) Pdf

This report provides an overview of research in the field of climate change impacts & adaptation over the past five years as it relates to Canada. It begins with a chapter that introduces key concepts in climate change impacts & adaptation research, and discusses current directions in understanding vulnerability, scenarios, and costing. This is followed by seven chapters that each focus on sectors of key importance to Canada: water resources, agriculture, forestry, coastal zone, fisheries, transportation, and human health & well-being. For each sector, the report reviews the potential impacts of climate change along with options available for Canadians to adapt to those impacts. Knowledge gaps and research needs are also identified.

Author : Water Network (Waterloo, Ont.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:35007000330831

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Climate Change by Water Network (Waterloo, Ont.) Pdf

Proceedings of a workshop whose objectives were: to present and discuss results of recent climate change experiments undertaken in Canada; to evaluate a variety of climate models and impact analyses and to develop methods and strategies for future studies; to establish working linkages between modelers and analysts in the fields of climate, hydrology, and ecosystem research.