Climate Change definition

The inventory results should be presented in clear form, how much and what substances from the environment enter the system and how much get out. These results serve for subsequent life cycle impact assessment [48], The aim of the life cycle impact assessment is to measurably compare the environmental impacts of product systems and to compare their severity with new quantifiable variables identified as impact category. The impact categories are areas of specific environmental problems such as global warming, climate changes, acidification, eutrophication, ecotoxicity and others. Already in the phase of definition of the LCA study scope, it is necessary to describe what impact category will be applied and which of their environmental mechanisms will serve as a basis for impact assessment [46],... 

Economists agree that there exists a definite relation between the market price of a commodity such as wheat and the quantity available [70]. Thus the price of wheat, in historic times of plenty and in times of short supply, should be an indicator of abundance in good climate and of shortage in bad climate, and therefore an indicator of climatic changes. 

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, as such, have not foreseen C02 capture and storage as a means of emissions reduction. The UNFCCC defined emissions as, The release of greenhouse gases and/or their precursors into the atmosphere, (Article 1(4), UNFCCC, 1992). Consequently, C02 captured at source and stored outside the atmosphere is not an emission according to the definition in the Convention. Since industrial activity with CCS (and a theoretical 100% capture rate) does not create emissions according to the UNFCCC definition, one could interpret the action of C02 capture and storage as an emission reduction. Purdy and Macrory (2004) point out that this... 

The completeness of the definition of hazards due to DBEEs may be affected by possible changes that have occurred in both the industrial environment and the transport environment since the siting process was followed, and also in natural hazards (e.g. because of climate changes), as foreseen in the Safety Requirements for Design [1]. Such changes are mainly considered in periodic safety reviews [13]. 

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