Author: Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Climate Change Program Study 2004
Author: Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Implementing Climate and Global Change Research
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309168384
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -the Climate Change Research Initiative-whose primary goal is to "measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources."
Climate Change and the World Bank Group
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821378554
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
"Kenneth Chomitz was the evaluation manager and main author for this study"--P. xiii.
Our Changing Planet
Author: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Climate Change and the World Bank Group
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821386545
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This study from the Independent Evaluation Group draws lessons for development and climate change mitigation from the World Bank Group's far-reaching portfolio of projects in energy, forestry, transport, coal power, and technology transfer. Reviewing what has worked, what hasn't, and why, the evaluation's key findings include: Energy efficiency can offer countries direct economic returns that dwarf those of most other development projects, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Tropical forest protected areas, on average, significantly reduce tropical deforestation, preserving carbon and biodiversity. Deforestation rates are lower in areas that allowed sustainable use by local populations than in strictly protected areas. Deforestation rates were lowest of all in indigenous forest areas. For renewable energy projects, long-duration loans have been important in making projects financially viable.. But at prevailing carbon prices, carbon offset sales had little impact on most renewable energy projects rate of returns, and did not address investors need for up-front capital. Technology transfer broadly understood to include diffusion of technical and financial innovations related to low-carbon development has worked well when the logic of piloting and demonstration is well thought out, and when grants are used to mitigate the risk of pioneering efforts.
GEF Impact Evaluation of the Phaseout of ODS in Countries with Economies in Transition
Author: Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
GEF Country Portfolio Evaluation: Benin (1991–2007)
Author: Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
ISBN: 1933992123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
GEF Country Portfolio Evaluation: Madagascar (1994–2007)
Author: Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
ISBN: 193399214X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309108268
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) coordinates the efforts of 13 federal agencies to understand why climate is changing, to improve predictions about how it will change in the future, and to use that information to assess impacts on human systems and ecosystems and to better support decision making. Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program is the first review of the CCSP's progress since the program was established in 2002. It lays out a method for evaluating the CCSP, and uses that method to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the entire program and to identify areas where progress has not met expectations. The committee found that the program has made good progress in documenting and understanding temperature trends and related environmental changes on a global scale, as well as in understanding the influence of human activities on these observed changes. The ability to predict future climate changes also has improved, but efforts to understand the impacts of such changes on society and analyze mitigation and adaptation strategies are still relatively immature. The program also has not met expectations in supporting decision making, studying regional impacts, and communicating with a wider group of stakeholders.
Climate Change Technology Research
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government ReformPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description