This is climaTe change in europe
... The outlook for a warmer planet has compelled many experts to assess the associated risks. NATO, for example, is examining the range of security threats resulting from climate change. These vary from water and food shortages, to large scale migration and threat of armed conflicts. The International ...
... The outlook for a warmer planet has compelled many experts to assess the associated risks. NATO, for example, is examining the range of security threats resulting from climate change. These vary from water and food shortages, to large scale migration and threat of armed conflicts. The International ...
the greater mekong and climate change
... years; average daytime temperatures in the month of April have been particularly high at 40ºC (ADB 2009). Vietnam’s temperatures increased by 0.7˚C during this same period (ADB 2009). Daily maximum and minimum temperatures are also increasing (TKK & SEA START RC 2009). ...
... years; average daytime temperatures in the month of April have been particularly high at 40ºC (ADB 2009). Vietnam’s temperatures increased by 0.7˚C during this same period (ADB 2009). Daily maximum and minimum temperatures are also increasing (TKK & SEA START RC 2009). ...
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... result in production declines. Higher temperatures in key producing areas typically result in reduced yields of desirable crops whilst extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and storms can exacerbate food security problems. In a changing climate, production gains are projected in some regi ...
... result in production declines. Higher temperatures in key producing areas typically result in reduced yields of desirable crops whilst extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and storms can exacerbate food security problems. In a changing climate, production gains are projected in some regi ...
Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey Robert Meltz Legislative Attorney
... while this report covers many of the major legal issues that have emerged or may do so, the endless ramifications of climate change preclude any claim to exhaustiveness. The report takes as its point of departure the current scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and, to the degree it ...
... while this report covers many of the major legal issues that have emerged or may do so, the endless ramifications of climate change preclude any claim to exhaustiveness. The report takes as its point of departure the current scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and, to the degree it ...
Public views on climate change: European and USA Perspectives
... issues; for ten (including the USA) out of the 24 countries, global warming was ranked (almost at) the bottom of the lists (Brechin, 2003). The same 2003 Gallup survey mentioned earlier corroborated the lower salience of global warming for most Americans in relation to other environmental issues: am ...
... issues; for ten (including the USA) out of the 24 countries, global warming was ranked (almost at) the bottom of the lists (Brechin, 2003). The same 2003 Gallup survey mentioned earlier corroborated the lower salience of global warming for most Americans in relation to other environmental issues: am ...
DOC 129KB - Climate Change Authority
... Why compare emissions reduction targets? An emissions reduction target is a key component of national action and provides information about the country’s contribution to global efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Within the UNFCCC talks, post-2020 targets are known as Intended Nationally Dete ...
... Why compare emissions reduction targets? An emissions reduction target is a key component of national action and provides information about the country’s contribution to global efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. Within the UNFCCC talks, post-2020 targets are known as Intended Nationally Dete ...
Feeling the Heat - Development and Peace
... This report was first produced by our sister development agency, Trócaire in Ireland, in collaboration with the Department of Geography at Maynooth University.1 Development and Peace is publishing this Canadian edition, which brings together the science around climate change and the personal experie ...
... This report was first produced by our sister development agency, Trócaire in Ireland, in collaboration with the Department of Geography at Maynooth University.1 Development and Peace is publishing this Canadian edition, which brings together the science around climate change and the personal experie ...
“Smart Climate Change” for Professional Societies Workshop WORKSHOP REPORT
... Normally extreme events used to have a 20 year frequency but now climate models show that in East Africa the frequency of hot years is 1-2 year and 1 year for wet years. This will affect socioeconomic development because countries will always be in a recovery mode. Some examples of disasters from wh ...
... Normally extreme events used to have a 20 year frequency but now climate models show that in East Africa the frequency of hot years is 1-2 year and 1 year for wet years. This will affect socioeconomic development because countries will always be in a recovery mode. Some examples of disasters from wh ...
Future Impacts of Climate Change across Europe
... studies reviewed include reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Commission (including the Commission Staff Working Documents accompanying the White Paper on Adaptation) and the Atomic Energy Authority (AEA). The review h ...
... studies reviewed include reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Commission (including the Commission Staff Working Documents accompanying the White Paper on Adaptation) and the Atomic Energy Authority (AEA). The review h ...
T - Climate Investment Funds
... Whereas weather refers to changes in the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time — for example whether Kingston today is warm or cool, wet or dry, cloudy or windy — climate refers to the average state of the weather over long periods of time ranging from months or seasons to years and ...
... Whereas weather refers to changes in the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time — for example whether Kingston today is warm or cool, wet or dry, cloudy or windy — climate refers to the average state of the weather over long periods of time ranging from months or seasons to years and ...
health, climate and economic risks of the carmichael coalmine
... Australia from the dangerous impacts of climate change, such as more intense extreme weather events and destruction of our most iconic ecosystems including the Great Barrier Reef. As the strong global trend away from coal to renewable energy and storage gathers even more momentum, Australia’s therma ...
... Australia from the dangerous impacts of climate change, such as more intense extreme weather events and destruction of our most iconic ecosystems including the Great Barrier Reef. As the strong global trend away from coal to renewable energy and storage gathers even more momentum, Australia’s therma ...
Club Club - OECD.org
... environmental concerns. However, even before trying to clarify relationship between these variables, the interactions among all environmental factors and between environmental and socio-political factors already promise to be complex and multidimensional. The end of the two blocs and the emergence – ...
... environmental concerns. However, even before trying to clarify relationship between these variables, the interactions among all environmental factors and between environmental and socio-political factors already promise to be complex and multidimensional. The end of the two blocs and the emergence – ...
Blue Nile Runoff Sensitivity to Climate Change
... Nile Forecast Center, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Giza 12666, Egypt Abstract: This study describes implementation of hydrological climate change impact assessment tool utilising a combination of statistical spatiotemporal downscaling and an operational hydrological model known as the ...
... Nile Forecast Center, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Giza 12666, Egypt Abstract: This study describes implementation of hydrological climate change impact assessment tool utilising a combination of statistical spatiotemporal downscaling and an operational hydrological model known as the ...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND MINING
... costs) impacts on the mining sector. Increasingly a number of these impacts may cross-fertilise to potentially result in newer, more complex arrangements of second-order impacts. Underlining these risks is the fact that some of the world’s largest mining operations currently operate in remote, clim ...
... costs) impacts on the mining sector. Increasingly a number of these impacts may cross-fertilise to potentially result in newer, more complex arrangements of second-order impacts. Underlining these risks is the fact that some of the world’s largest mining operations currently operate in remote, clim ...
Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change
... (at 550 ppm) is considered, and whether or not farmers adapt to the changed circumstances. The average of various adaptation scenarios is taken. None of the five studies considers all four cases. This is unfortunate. The Darwin et al. (1995) study, for instance, is probably most realistic on long-te ...
... (at 550 ppm) is considered, and whether or not farmers adapt to the changed circumstances. The average of various adaptation scenarios is taken. None of the five studies considers all four cases. This is unfortunate. The Darwin et al. (1995) study, for instance, is probably most realistic on long-te ...
The Rules of the Game
... learning and analysis of many other researchers, practitioners and thinkers in this field. Please don’t flick to the back of this document to find the conclusions; the principles themselves are the only outcome of this research, and they can be found towards the beginning of the document. If you are ...
... learning and analysis of many other researchers, practitioners and thinkers in this field. Please don’t flick to the back of this document to find the conclusions; the principles themselves are the only outcome of this research, and they can be found towards the beginning of the document. If you are ...
Fear Won`t Do It - Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
... pre/post-test survey before and after watching the climate change disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow (Emmerich, 2004), with survey themes followed up a month later with focus groups. They found that although the majority of participants (67%) in the post-test agreed that “everybody has to do some ...
... pre/post-test survey before and after watching the climate change disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow (Emmerich, 2004), with survey themes followed up a month later with focus groups. They found that although the majority of participants (67%) in the post-test agreed that “everybody has to do some ...
Climate Change and Hazard Mitigation Planning
... efficient in many locations if the hazard profile and mitigation action plans are based on historic climate data alone. For example, a community can prepare for seasonal flooding without acknowledging climate change, but if the flood protection plan does not recognize that sea level rise and more in ...
... efficient in many locations if the hazard profile and mitigation action plans are based on historic climate data alone. For example, a community can prepare for seasonal flooding without acknowledging climate change, but if the flood protection plan does not recognize that sea level rise and more in ...
published in Global Environmental Change in 2011
... responded by implementing policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions, most notably in the UK where the Climate Change Act enshrines in law the need for 80% cuts in emissions by 2050 (HM Government, 2008). In order to justify this political action and establish societal support to meet these targets, ...
... responded by implementing policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions, most notably in the UK where the Climate Change Act enshrines in law the need for 80% cuts in emissions by 2050 (HM Government, 2008). In order to justify this political action and establish societal support to meet these targets, ...
State of the Jamaican Climate 2012:Information for
... Whereas weather refers to changes in the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time — for example whether Kingston today is warm or cool, wet or dry, cloudy or windy — climate refers to the average state of the weather over long periods of time ranging from months or seasons to years and ...
... Whereas weather refers to changes in the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time — for example whether Kingston today is warm or cool, wet or dry, cloudy or windy — climate refers to the average state of the weather over long periods of time ranging from months or seasons to years and ...
Climate Induced Migration - The International Journal of Climate
... Neoclassical migration theory emphasizes economic betterment as the main factor in migration decisions. But the reality of migration may be that the migrant faces such different circumstances on arrival that they find integration difficult. Their economic circumstances may improve but their housing, ...
... Neoclassical migration theory emphasizes economic betterment as the main factor in migration decisions. But the reality of migration may be that the migrant faces such different circumstances on arrival that they find integration difficult. Their economic circumstances may improve but their housing, ...
The ecological citizen and climate change
... metaphor would be of concern” (ibid., p. 216). In addition, it should be added that reducing an individual’s footprint in a developed country does not necessarily enable access of an individual in a developing country to any resources. In this case, even when focusing on bringing about structural ch ...
... metaphor would be of concern” (ibid., p. 216). In addition, it should be added that reducing an individual’s footprint in a developed country does not necessarily enable access of an individual in a developing country to any resources. In this case, even when focusing on bringing about structural ch ...
Climate Change and the Law
... change law by demystifying it and providing a framework for a comprehensive treatment of the subject. We recognize that climate change and the law might seem both too narrow (it is after all only one inter-related problem that has not yet spawned its own field of law) and too broad (involving, for e ...
... change law by demystifying it and providing a framework for a comprehensive treatment of the subject. We recognize that climate change and the law might seem both too narrow (it is after all only one inter-related problem that has not yet spawned its own field of law) and too broad (involving, for e ...
Synthesis paper: Perspectives on Loss and Damage
... attribute these to recent changes in climate. In some cases, there are recent decadal trends that can be picked through observations, e.g. increases in annual temperature rise, or early sea level rise signals. In many qualitative national studies, these have then been highlighted ...
... attribute these to recent changes in climate. In some cases, there are recent decadal trends that can be picked through observations, e.g. increases in annual temperature rise, or early sea level rise signals. In many qualitative national studies, these have then been highlighted ...
