Toward Climate Resilience - Union of Concerned Scientists
... Adaptation and mitigation measures are tightly bound, and it is critical to appreciate the connection between the two. Stronger mitigation efforts will not only moderate the long-term climate impacts for future generations, but will make our preparedness efforts today more enduring and worthwhile. A ...
... Adaptation and mitigation measures are tightly bound, and it is critical to appreciate the connection between the two. Stronger mitigation efforts will not only moderate the long-term climate impacts for future generations, but will make our preparedness efforts today more enduring and worthwhile. A ...
Dividing climate change: global warming in the Indian mass media
... In this context, India has remained politically defensive both in response to these national physical threats and also in terms of international action to fight climate change. The government remains committed to its historic position that ‘the environment cannot be improved in condition of poverty’ ...
... In this context, India has remained politically defensive both in response to these national physical threats and also in terms of international action to fight climate change. The government remains committed to its historic position that ‘the environment cannot be improved in condition of poverty’ ...
Dividing climate change: global warming in the Indian mass media
... In this context, India has remained politically defensive both in response to these national physical threats and also in terms of international action to fight climate change. The government remains committed to its historic position that ‘the environment cannot be improved in condition of poverty’ ...
... In this context, India has remained politically defensive both in response to these national physical threats and also in terms of international action to fight climate change. The government remains committed to its historic position that ‘the environment cannot be improved in condition of poverty’ ...
Where We Are Now - Edinburgh Research Explorer
... individuals if we act now to tackle climate change, as they would be if we didn’t. Given this, we cannot be said to have harmed any future person through climate change or other environmental damage: assuming their lives are still worth living, future individuals in a depleted world have not been ma ...
... individuals if we act now to tackle climate change, as they would be if we didn’t. Given this, we cannot be said to have harmed any future person through climate change or other environmental damage: assuming their lives are still worth living, future individuals in a depleted world have not been ma ...
Empathy and Climate Change
... Climate Change predict with strong certainty that the problems will get worse for future generations. Even if we take concerted action immediately, we are already locked into major and damaging climate impacts, even under the most conservative projections. But why do we find it so hard to make polic ...
... Climate Change predict with strong certainty that the problems will get worse for future generations. Even if we take concerted action immediately, we are already locked into major and damaging climate impacts, even under the most conservative projections. But why do we find it so hard to make polic ...
Coastal Climate Change Report
... climate change • City of Cape Town, South Africa – no set SLR benchmark; instead using 5-phase SLR assessment based on: (a) 2.5m SLR in sheltered environments; 4.5m SLR in exposed environments and 6.5m SLR in very exposed environments; (b) 4.5m SLR event; and (c) 6.5m SLR • We should be "robust" in ...
... climate change • City of Cape Town, South Africa – no set SLR benchmark; instead using 5-phase SLR assessment based on: (a) 2.5m SLR in sheltered environments; 4.5m SLR in exposed environments and 6.5m SLR in very exposed environments; (b) 4.5m SLR event; and (c) 6.5m SLR • We should be "robust" in ...
A Conceptual Tool for Climate Change Risk Assessment
... Understanding the potential consequences of climate change to society is extremely challenging because climate impacts will depend on a multitude of contributing factors that interact in complicated ways and that are characterized by varying degrees of uncertainty (Moss 2011). For example, the risk ...
... Understanding the potential consequences of climate change to society is extremely challenging because climate impacts will depend on a multitude of contributing factors that interact in complicated ways and that are characterized by varying degrees of uncertainty (Moss 2011). For example, the risk ...
China`s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change
... Yellow, Huaihe, Haihe and Liaohe rivers in northern China has been significantly reduced, whilst that of rivers in southern China has slightly increased. Floods happen more frequently, droughts get worse. It is projected that future climate change would have great impacts on the temporal and spatial ...
... Yellow, Huaihe, Haihe and Liaohe rivers in northern China has been significantly reduced, whilst that of rivers in southern China has slightly increased. Floods happen more frequently, droughts get worse. It is projected that future climate change would have great impacts on the temporal and spatial ...
The Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR
... The first step in building a Climate Fiscal Framework is to develop a methodology that allows an analysis to be made of how climate change related expenditure is integrated into national budgetary processes. This analysis has to be set within the context of the national policy and institutional arra ...
... The first step in building a Climate Fiscal Framework is to develop a methodology that allows an analysis to be made of how climate change related expenditure is integrated into national budgetary processes. This analysis has to be set within the context of the national policy and institutional arra ...
What shapes perceptions of climate change?
... phenomena or environments from personal experience versus from being provided with a statistical (typically numeric or graphic) description of possible outcomes and their likelihood.16 This distinction between learning from experience versus learning from description has received much attention beca ...
... phenomena or environments from personal experience versus from being provided with a statistical (typically numeric or graphic) description of possible outcomes and their likelihood.16 This distinction between learning from experience versus learning from description has received much attention beca ...
Submission DR134 - Chairman of the Australian Building Codes
... 3 Assessing climate change impacts on the BCA Buildings designed and constructed in accordance with BCA have a good track record of successfully withstanding recent severe climate related events. Buildings are currently designed and constructed in accordance with the BCA to withstand climate related ...
... 3 Assessing climate change impacts on the BCA Buildings designed and constructed in accordance with BCA have a good track record of successfully withstanding recent severe climate related events. Buildings are currently designed and constructed in accordance with the BCA to withstand climate related ...
Mission Report Downscalling - Global Climate Change Alliance
... deforestation, over-grazing by livestock and cultivation of marginal soils. Mountain ecosystems are susceptible to soil erosion, landslides and the rapid loss of habitat and genetic diversity (Beniston, 2003). In many developing countries, in part because of the degradation of the natural environmen ...
... deforestation, over-grazing by livestock and cultivation of marginal soils. Mountain ecosystems are susceptible to soil erosion, landslides and the rapid loss of habitat and genetic diversity (Beniston, 2003). In many developing countries, in part because of the degradation of the natural environmen ...
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... vere flooding during high tides and storms. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that a 90-day shut23 down of this road would cost the nation $7.8 billion. Sea level rise increases pressure on utilities – such as water and energy – by contaminating potential freshwater supplies with saltwat ...
... vere flooding during high tides and storms. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that a 90-day shut23 down of this road would cost the nation $7.8 billion. Sea level rise increases pressure on utilities – such as water and energy – by contaminating potential freshwater supplies with saltwat ...
Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change?
... so soon after acceptance, it has not yet been copyedited, formatted, or processed by AMS Publications. This preliminary version of the manuscript may be downloaded, distributed, and cited, but please be aware that there will be visual differences and possibly some content differences between this ve ...
... so soon after acceptance, it has not yet been copyedited, formatted, or processed by AMS Publications. This preliminary version of the manuscript may be downloaded, distributed, and cited, but please be aware that there will be visual differences and possibly some content differences between this ve ...
National Climate Change Response Strategy
... minimum (night time) and maximum (daytime) temperatures have been on an increasing (warming) trend. The minimum temperature has risen generally by 0.7 – 2.0 oC and the maximum by 0.2 – 1.3 oC, depending on the season and the region. In areas near large water bodies, the maximum temperatures have ris ...
... minimum (night time) and maximum (daytime) temperatures have been on an increasing (warming) trend. The minimum temperature has risen generally by 0.7 – 2.0 oC and the maximum by 0.2 – 1.3 oC, depending on the season and the region. In areas near large water bodies, the maximum temperatures have ris ...
Effects of climate change on agriculture - Deltaproof
... For the Knowledge for Climate (KvK) [Kennis voor Klimaat] programme, Wageningen UR (Stoorvogel) made an inventory of the existing knowledge relating to climate effects on agriculture (2009). In broad strokes, the following conclusions were drawn: The expected climate changes related to the temperatu ...
... For the Knowledge for Climate (KvK) [Kennis voor Klimaat] programme, Wageningen UR (Stoorvogel) made an inventory of the existing knowledge relating to climate effects on agriculture (2009). In broad strokes, the following conclusions were drawn: The expected climate changes related to the temperatu ...
POPRC-9/8: Guidance on how to assess the possible impact of
... global control (cf., Annex D, para. 2) should address data of concern on, but not be limited to: (a) Laboratory studies showing changes in BCF and BAF values with increased temperatures in organisms; (b) Changes in levels in biota along with increased temperatures in their surrounding environment fr ...
... global control (cf., Annex D, para. 2) should address data of concern on, but not be limited to: (a) Laboratory studies showing changes in BCF and BAF values with increased temperatures in organisms; (b) Changes in levels in biota along with increased temperatures in their surrounding environment fr ...
Farmers and Climate Change: A Cross
... experienced the most severe impacts attributable to climate change to date. During the first decade of this century, Australia experienced a significant drought. Researchers report ‘‘drought in many parts of the country is linked to, or at least exacerbated by, global warming’’ (Garnaut 2011 p. 108) ...
... experienced the most severe impacts attributable to climate change to date. During the first decade of this century, Australia experienced a significant drought. Researchers report ‘‘drought in many parts of the country is linked to, or at least exacerbated by, global warming’’ (Garnaut 2011 p. 108) ...
A guide on climate change for private equity investors
... foot printing roadshow visited 10 European cities to help investors compare options for measuring the carbon footprint arising from their equity portfolios. One of the first questions that investors asked at every roadshow event is what about other asset classes! Much has changed since 2010 when IIG ...
... foot printing roadshow visited 10 European cities to help investors compare options for measuring the carbon footprint arising from their equity portfolios. One of the first questions that investors asked at every roadshow event is what about other asset classes! Much has changed since 2010 when IIG ...
Climate change and human health: Spatial modeling of water
... hundred thousand will be malnourished, and over one hundred thousand will become anemic in this expanding arid zone by 2025. Climate and health research conducted at finer spatial scales and within shorter projected time lines can identify vulnerability hot spots that are of the highest priority for ...
... hundred thousand will be malnourished, and over one hundred thousand will become anemic in this expanding arid zone by 2025. Climate and health research conducted at finer spatial scales and within shorter projected time lines can identify vulnerability hot spots that are of the highest priority for ...
high confidence
... [low confidence, limited evidence, low agreement], assuming no change in emissions, but the implications for future particulate pollution (which is more health-damaging) are very uncertain Higher temperatures may have affected trends in ground level tropospheric ozone [low confidence] Climate change ...
... [low confidence, limited evidence, low agreement], assuming no change in emissions, but the implications for future particulate pollution (which is more health-damaging) are very uncertain Higher temperatures may have affected trends in ground level tropospheric ozone [low confidence] Climate change ...
FOUNDATION PAPER |ONE CLIMATE CHANGE Victoria: the
... can be supplied from renewable sources as soon as possible. At least we would not have made any mistakes if – which I doubt – we discovered in a few decades that CO2 emissions were not responsible for climate change after all. All that we would then have done is trigger the unavoidable changeover to ...
... can be supplied from renewable sources as soon as possible. At least we would not have made any mistakes if – which I doubt – we discovered in a few decades that CO2 emissions were not responsible for climate change after all. All that we would then have done is trigger the unavoidable changeover to ...
Climate change impacts on water quality outcomes
... erosion and sediment loss from hill country farms in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region. Over 560 Whole Farm Plans have been developed since 2006 (Mitchell & Cooper 2015), with approximately 80–85% having implemented some on-the-ground works to control or mitigate erosion and sediment losses. Most of the ...
... erosion and sediment loss from hill country farms in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region. Over 560 Whole Farm Plans have been developed since 2006 (Mitchell & Cooper 2015), with approximately 80–85% having implemented some on-the-ground works to control or mitigate erosion and sediment losses. Most of the ...
Managing water in the MDB under a variable and changing climate
... is occurring, but many of the effects are uncertain and the timeframes unclear. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report concluded that warming of the global climate system is unequivocal and many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia (IPCC, 2013a). I ...
... is occurring, but many of the effects are uncertain and the timeframes unclear. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report concluded that warming of the global climate system is unequivocal and many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia (IPCC, 2013a). I ...
South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and
... low-lying coastal areas, while India and Pakistan depend on cultivation in arid and semiarid lands. These countries already experience frequent natural disasters (Figure 4). The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2001) pointed out that climate change and i ...
... low-lying coastal areas, while India and Pakistan depend on cultivation in arid and semiarid lands. These countries already experience frequent natural disasters (Figure 4). The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2001) pointed out that climate change and i ...