UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON
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Gene-flow through space and time: dispersal, dormancy and
... Fig. 1 Conceptual diagram illustrating the joint evolution of dispersal and dormancy as risk reduction c strategies under spatially and temporally variable environments. The cartoon represents three patches, suitable (continuous lines) or unsuitable (dashed lines) for a population (black and white c ...
... Fig. 1 Conceptual diagram illustrating the joint evolution of dispersal and dormancy as risk reduction c strategies under spatially and temporally variable environments. The cartoon represents three patches, suitable (continuous lines) or unsuitable (dashed lines) for a population (black and white c ...
WHAT DO WE KNOW? WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW?
... organization, size and composition of labour force, significance of their contribution to GHG emissions, and nature of their response to the impact of climate change. The seventh topic was ‘Context’, which includes overview documents of importance internationally and to Canada. This categorization o ...
... organization, size and composition of labour force, significance of their contribution to GHG emissions, and nature of their response to the impact of climate change. The seventh topic was ‘Context’, which includes overview documents of importance internationally and to Canada. This categorization o ...
Climate Change: Costs and Benefits of the
... Attempts to estimate household effects (or other fine-grained analyses) are fraught with numerous difficulties that reflect more on the philosophies and assumptions of the cases reviewed than on any credible future effect. ...
... Attempts to estimate household effects (or other fine-grained analyses) are fraught with numerous difficulties that reflect more on the philosophies and assumptions of the cases reviewed than on any credible future effect. ...
Assessment Report on the Potential Effects of Climate Change on
... longer operating seasons for seismic and drilling activities due to reduced ice cover and thickness ...
... longer operating seasons for seismic and drilling activities due to reduced ice cover and thickness ...
Heft 168 Wei Yang Discrete-Continuous Downscaling Model for
... of the Key Action “Global change, climate and biodiversity ”within the Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development, and a Regional Model for Integrated Water Management in Twinned River Basins (RIVERTWIN), supported by the European Commission under the Sixth framework program. First of all, I wo ...
... of the Key Action “Global change, climate and biodiversity ”within the Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development, and a Regional Model for Integrated Water Management in Twinned River Basins (RIVERTWIN), supported by the European Commission under the Sixth framework program. First of all, I wo ...
the publication
... solar variability. Since the literature on this subject is growing almost exponentially, this is a hard task. Most problematic is the fact that a vast number of hypotheses are brought up lagging the ways to validate these theories. It is not easy to resist almost perfect correlations between (derive ...
... solar variability. Since the literature on this subject is growing almost exponentially, this is a hard task. Most problematic is the fact that a vast number of hypotheses are brought up lagging the ways to validate these theories. It is not easy to resist almost perfect correlations between (derive ...
Variations in Cloud Cover and Cloud Types over the Ocean from
... in the northeast Pacific, concluding that total cloud cover is reduced when SST warmed. These studies have produced a consistent finding that reduced LTS can be caused by increasing SST, which causes a decrease in cloud fraction by initiating a trade-off from stratiform to cumuliform cloud cover. Cl ...
... in the northeast Pacific, concluding that total cloud cover is reduced when SST warmed. These studies have produced a consistent finding that reduced LTS can be caused by increasing SST, which causes a decrease in cloud fraction by initiating a trade-off from stratiform to cumuliform cloud cover. Cl ...
Playing the Climate Dominoes: Tipping Points and the Cost of
... output [5, 6, 7] or in the presence of a single tipping point that modifies either the carbon cycle or the climate’s sensitivity to emissions [8]. However, climate scientists have become particularly concerned with a possible “domino effect” arising through interactions among tipping points [9, 10, ...
... output [5, 6, 7] or in the presence of a single tipping point that modifies either the carbon cycle or the climate’s sensitivity to emissions [8]. However, climate scientists have become particularly concerned with a possible “domino effect” arising through interactions among tipping points [9, 10, ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Colorado Bureau of
... The Colorado office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been charged with developing a climate adaptation strategy for BLM lands within the state. In order to ensure the best possible adaptation strategies, a statewide perspective on the potential future influences of a changing climate on ...
... The Colorado office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been charged with developing a climate adaptation strategy for BLM lands within the state. In order to ensure the best possible adaptation strategies, a statewide perspective on the potential future influences of a changing climate on ...
Enabling Access to the Funds. PROFONANPE`s Adaptation
... Actors and their roles ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Prep ...
... Actors and their roles ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Prep ...
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... interest rates. A near-zero discount rate also implies that current generations should make implausible sacrifices for the future (Nordhaus 2006). Models that use constant rates similar to current medium run real interest rates assume that these accurately reflect our long run discount rate, and es ...
... interest rates. A near-zero discount rate also implies that current generations should make implausible sacrifices for the future (Nordhaus 2006). Models that use constant rates similar to current medium run real interest rates assume that these accurately reflect our long run discount rate, and es ...
Weather, climate and tourism: a New Zealand perspective
... tourism businesses. While tourists might expect certain climatic conditions, they will experience the actual weather, which might deviate quite substantially from the average conditions. Hence, in the first place tourists and tourism businesses are likely to be affected by weather conditions, althou ...
... tourism businesses. While tourists might expect certain climatic conditions, they will experience the actual weather, which might deviate quite substantially from the average conditions. Hence, in the first place tourists and tourism businesses are likely to be affected by weather conditions, althou ...
1.3 Definition of geo-engineering
... brief descriptions in IPCC’s previous assessment reports, geo-engineering will be examined in more detail in the fifth assessment report. (Section 3.4) KM-14. The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol requires Parties to control, limit, reduce or prevent a ...
... brief descriptions in IPCC’s previous assessment reports, geo-engineering will be examined in more detail in the fifth assessment report. (Section 3.4) KM-14. The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol requires Parties to control, limit, reduce or prevent a ...
Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability to patterns of
... a maximum of 10 sites from 2001 on. The month-long deployment of these collectors means that the collected juveniles include both settlers (individuals that have settled within the last 24–48 h) and recruits (individuals that settled between ~2 and 30 days prior to collection; Connell, 1985; Menge e ...
... a maximum of 10 sites from 2001 on. The month-long deployment of these collectors means that the collected juveniles include both settlers (individuals that have settled within the last 24–48 h) and recruits (individuals that settled between ~2 and 30 days prior to collection; Connell, 1985; Menge e ...
Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability
... a maximum of 10 sites from 2001 on. The month-long deployment of these collectors means that the collected juveniles include both settlers (individuals that have settled within the last 24–48 h) and recruits (individuals that settled between ~2 and 30 days prior to collection; Connell, 1985; Menge e ...
... a maximum of 10 sites from 2001 on. The month-long deployment of these collectors means that the collected juveniles include both settlers (individuals that have settled within the last 24–48 h) and recruits (individuals that settled between ~2 and 30 days prior to collection; Connell, 1985; Menge e ...
ABSTRACT
... activity coupled with enhancement of soil decomposition, due to predominant warmer and drier climate patterns over tropical land associated with El Niño. The combined affect of these forcings causes substantial carbon flux into the atmosphere. A unique ...
... activity coupled with enhancement of soil decomposition, due to predominant warmer and drier climate patterns over tropical land associated with El Niño. The combined affect of these forcings causes substantial carbon flux into the atmosphere. A unique ...
Chapter 9: Marine Systems - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
... organisms and populations, it is only one of many environmental factors that can result in the types of mortality typically observed. It is thus important to assess the relative importance, and hence potential impact, of ozone depletion-related increases in solar UV-B radiation on arctic marine ecos ...
... organisms and populations, it is only one of many environmental factors that can result in the types of mortality typically observed. It is thus important to assess the relative importance, and hence potential impact, of ozone depletion-related increases in solar UV-B radiation on arctic marine ecos ...
"Prices vs. Quantities at the Inter-Country Level - ETH E
... The present dissertation discusses the question, which regulatory approach ought to be chosen to internalize a global externality at the inter-country level, e.g. emissions that contribute to climate change. For this purpose, we compare price (emission tax) and quantity (tradable permits) regulation ...
... The present dissertation discusses the question, which regulatory approach ought to be chosen to internalize a global externality at the inter-country level, e.g. emissions that contribute to climate change. For this purpose, we compare price (emission tax) and quantity (tradable permits) regulation ...
ORGANIZATIONAL INVOLVEMENT IN CARBON MITIGATION: THE NEW ZEALAND PUBLIC SECTOR Stephen Jeffrey Birchall
... two programmes. Fieldwork is informed by publicly available information that provides insight into Government’s rationale for creating and discontinuing the CNPS and the CCPNZ programmes. Narrative analysis and termination theory serve as the primary methodological tools for this study, providing in ...
... two programmes. Fieldwork is informed by publicly available information that provides insight into Government’s rationale for creating and discontinuing the CNPS and the CCPNZ programmes. Narrative analysis and termination theory serve as the primary methodological tools for this study, providing in ...
Battling Promethean dreams and Trojan horses: Revealing the critical discourses of geoengineering
... slippery slope argument. The core of the argument is that even a few small initial research steps will incrementally lead to grand-scale implementation. This discussion is expanded on in the section “The geoclique and the Trojan horse”. 4 Results: The discourse critical of geoengineering In 2009, a ...
... slippery slope argument. The core of the argument is that even a few small initial research steps will incrementally lead to grand-scale implementation. This discussion is expanded on in the section “The geoclique and the Trojan horse”. 4 Results: The discourse critical of geoengineering In 2009, a ...
THE GARNAUT CLIMATE CHANGE REvIEW
... The Garnaut Climate Change Review was initiated in April 2007 by the then Leader of the Opposition, Kevin Rudd, and by the Premiers of the six states and the Chief Ministers of the two territories of Australia. It was commissioned by the First Ministers on 30 April 2007. The Commonwealth Government ...
... The Garnaut Climate Change Review was initiated in April 2007 by the then Leader of the Opposition, Kevin Rudd, and by the Premiers of the six states and the Chief Ministers of the two territories of Australia. It was commissioned by the First Ministers on 30 April 2007. The Commonwealth Government ...
Climate change, industry and society
This article is about climate change, industry and society.