beyond reaction
... • Around 2.5 million people in Central America suffer from food insecurity due to the drought that has affected the region since July 2014. In the most affected regions, 70 to 100 percent of agricultural production was lost during the first harvest period (Oxfam 2014b). • The effects of the drought ...
... • Around 2.5 million people in Central America suffer from food insecurity due to the drought that has affected the region since July 2014. In the most affected regions, 70 to 100 percent of agricultural production was lost during the first harvest period (Oxfam 2014b). • The effects of the drought ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Livelihoods
... evidence-based solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time: How to create more and better jobs worldwide. We produce empirical research on good job creation, focusing our work on the critical knowledge gaps in the global employment ...
... evidence-based solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time: How to create more and better jobs worldwide. We produce empirical research on good job creation, focusing our work on the critical knowledge gaps in the global employment ...
Beyond long-term averages: making biological sense of a rapidly
... accurately capture limits under future, novel climatic conditions [24,25]. An explicit focus on the weather patterns likely to occur under future climate scenarios [26] coupled with knowledge of which factors most affect organisms [14] will provide insights into this dilemma. For example, many studi ...
... accurately capture limits under future, novel climatic conditions [24,25]. An explicit focus on the weather patterns likely to occur under future climate scenarios [26] coupled with knowledge of which factors most affect organisms [14] will provide insights into this dilemma. For example, many studi ...
joint submission - The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
... An additional challenge, especially when analyzing the link between climate change and human mobility and quantifying movements, is determining the extent to which climate change – in combination with socio-economic or other non-climate factors – was a cause of the ...
... An additional challenge, especially when analyzing the link between climate change and human mobility and quantifying movements, is determining the extent to which climate change – in combination with socio-economic or other non-climate factors – was a cause of the ...
Training Needs Assessment of Relevant Stakeholders
... • Strategic planning for adaptation to climate change (INTER-CEPT) • CLIMAFRICA - Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact and Adaptation (UNFCCC) • Capacity Development on Climate change (FAO) ...
... • Strategic planning for adaptation to climate change (INTER-CEPT) • CLIMAFRICA - Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact and Adaptation (UNFCCC) • Capacity Development on Climate change (FAO) ...
changing patterns of rain or power? how an idea of
... rejected. By shining light on these translation practices it is argued that in face of this emerging discourse, adaptation should not solely be seen as a collective human response to (external) changing bio-physical stimuli, but rather as an integrated process that cannot be detached from adaptation ...
... rejected. By shining light on these translation practices it is argued that in face of this emerging discourse, adaptation should not solely be seen as a collective human response to (external) changing bio-physical stimuli, but rather as an integrated process that cannot be detached from adaptation ...
Climate Change: Potential Effects on Human Health in New Zealand
... averaged surface temperature will be between 1.4ºC and 5.8ºC higher than in 1990 (Albritton et al., 2001). This rate of change in global temperature over 100 years would very likely be greater than any natural variation that occurred over the past 10,000 years. ...
... averaged surface temperature will be between 1.4ºC and 5.8ºC higher than in 1990 (Albritton et al., 2001). This rate of change in global temperature over 100 years would very likely be greater than any natural variation that occurred over the past 10,000 years. ...
Independent Review of the Climate Change Act 2010 [MS Word
... positive, low carbon future for Victoria. A long-term target will bolster confidence for investors, including in renewable energy and clean technologies. In 2015, agreement was reached at the Paris Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to limit warmin ...
... positive, low carbon future for Victoria. A long-term target will bolster confidence for investors, including in renewable energy and clean technologies. In 2015, agreement was reached at the Paris Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to limit warmin ...
Men, Masculinities Climate Change
... At the same time, environmental disasters brought about by climate change also negatively affect boys and men in gendered ways that are, in general, different from girls and women. The invisibility of their vulnerabilities is also the result of the ways in which climate science and research has been ...
... At the same time, environmental disasters brought about by climate change also negatively affect boys and men in gendered ways that are, in general, different from girls and women. The invisibility of their vulnerabilities is also the result of the ways in which climate science and research has been ...
Adapting to drought in the Sahel: Lessons for
... a dramatic expansion of trading and migration circuits.18 However, changes had different impact from house to house, depending on a complex array of differentiating factors—and one person’s strategy could be another’s act of desperation. There is qualitative evidence that well-being has improved, de ...
... a dramatic expansion of trading and migration circuits.18 However, changes had different impact from house to house, depending on a complex array of differentiating factors—and one person’s strategy could be another’s act of desperation. There is qualitative evidence that well-being has improved, de ...
Beyond collapse - Climate change and causality
... many complex, interacting, non-environmental factors that influence social processes – for example, people’s decisions to migrate (Buhaug, 2010; Jónsson, 2010). In contrast, minimalist narratives maintain that it is difficult or impossible to isolate climatic or environmental changes as “dominant” dri ...
... many complex, interacting, non-environmental factors that influence social processes – for example, people’s decisions to migrate (Buhaug, 2010; Jónsson, 2010). In contrast, minimalist narratives maintain that it is difficult or impossible to isolate climatic or environmental changes as “dominant” dri ...
Climate change and water resources
... Climate change is caused by greenhouse gasses (GHGs), which enhance the “greenhouse” properties of the earth’s atmosphere. These gasses allow solar radiation from the sun to travel through the atmosphere but prevent the reflected heat from escaping back into space. This causes the earth’s temperatur ...
... Climate change is caused by greenhouse gasses (GHGs), which enhance the “greenhouse” properties of the earth’s atmosphere. These gasses allow solar radiation from the sun to travel through the atmosphere but prevent the reflected heat from escaping back into space. This causes the earth’s temperatur ...
- carbonn Climate Registry
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Climate change is catchy – but when will it really... RESEARCH
... are indeed measurable has created an important opportunity to interrogate the relationship between climate and disease in southern Africa, regionally and in respective subregions. If the contribution of climate variability to the variability in infectious disease incidence can be determined on a ran ...
... are indeed measurable has created an important opportunity to interrogate the relationship between climate and disease in southern Africa, regionally and in respective subregions. If the contribution of climate variability to the variability in infectious disease incidence can be determined on a ran ...
Executive Summary - Climate Change Action Plan
... variability, and also presented an opportunity for Kenya to find sustainable solutions to climate-related crises by scaling-up and joining-up social protection to cushion the poor. The NCCAP’s adaptation analysis explains that the key climate change impacts for Kenya are drought and water scarcity, ...
... variability, and also presented an opportunity for Kenya to find sustainable solutions to climate-related crises by scaling-up and joining-up social protection to cushion the poor. The NCCAP’s adaptation analysis explains that the key climate change impacts for Kenya are drought and water scarcity, ...
Climate Change Policy
... and as such, considering these issues alongside traditional financial and business risk factors in making investment decisions can improve long-term risk-adjusted returns to members. In this way, HESTA sees the incorporation of climate change considerations into the investment processes and decision ...
... and as such, considering these issues alongside traditional financial and business risk factors in making investment decisions can improve long-term risk-adjusted returns to members. In this way, HESTA sees the incorporation of climate change considerations into the investment processes and decision ...
Operating in Limits: Defining an Australian
... four times as much of the global budget as the average person globally. Put another way if other countries emitted, per person, a comparable amount of emissions to that implied by Australia’s current emission targets then total emissions to 2050 would be equivalent to a world where temperatures incr ...
... four times as much of the global budget as the average person globally. Put another way if other countries emitted, per person, a comparable amount of emissions to that implied by Australia’s current emission targets then total emissions to 2050 would be equivalent to a world where temperatures incr ...
Handbook on the OECD-DAC Climate Markers
... management of natural resources. For example, a sustainable forest management project can contribute to biodiversity conservation, to capturing carbon (climate change mitigation) and to reducing climate risk (climate change adaptation). In drylands such a project can also help to combat desertifica ...
... management of natural resources. For example, a sustainable forest management project can contribute to biodiversity conservation, to capturing carbon (climate change mitigation) and to reducing climate risk (climate change adaptation). In drylands such a project can also help to combat desertifica ...
Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean
... typically reverses weather patterns bringing more rainfall at the coast and bringing drought inland at higher altitudes. El Niño is often followed by La Niña, its cold counterpart, where climate patterns and worldwide effects are, for the most part, the opposite of those produced by El Niño. Both ha ...
... typically reverses weather patterns bringing more rainfall at the coast and bringing drought inland at higher altitudes. El Niño is often followed by La Niña, its cold counterpart, where climate patterns and worldwide effects are, for the most part, the opposite of those produced by El Niño. Both ha ...
Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean
... typically reverses weather patterns bringing more rainfall at the coast and bringing drought inland at higher altitudes. El Niño is often followed by La Niña, its cold counterpart, where climate patterns and worldwide effects are, for the most part, the opposite of those produced by El Niño. Both ha ...
... typically reverses weather patterns bringing more rainfall at the coast and bringing drought inland at higher altitudes. El Niño is often followed by La Niña, its cold counterpart, where climate patterns and worldwide effects are, for the most part, the opposite of those produced by El Niño. Both ha ...
Climate change and animal health in Africa
... predictions particularly challenging. Nevertheless, observations show that the African continent is warmer than 20 years ago, with an average rate of warming of about 0.05°C per decade (17). Moreover, the African climate has, during the 20th Century, experienced wetter and drier intervals than durin ...
... predictions particularly challenging. Nevertheless, observations show that the African continent is warmer than 20 years ago, with an average rate of warming of about 0.05°C per decade (17). Moreover, the African climate has, during the 20th Century, experienced wetter and drier intervals than durin ...
Introducing-FCFA-Brochure (opens in new window)
... Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: informing the Grand Ouaga city expansion plan on urban flood risk management in a changing climate. ...
... Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: informing the Grand Ouaga city expansion plan on urban flood risk management in a changing climate. ...
Senate Inquiry into the Kyoto Protocol
... The Kyoto Protocol does not put emissions restrictions on developing countries, including China and India (which are major emitters and are forecast to have significant increases in emissions in coming years). The United States is very unlikely to ratify the protocol, and it is uncertain whether Rus ...
... The Kyoto Protocol does not put emissions restrictions on developing countries, including China and India (which are major emitters and are forecast to have significant increases in emissions in coming years). The United States is very unlikely to ratify the protocol, and it is uncertain whether Rus ...
Yesterday`s dinner, tomorrow`s weather, today`s news? US
... lands for conservation and no-till agriculture can sequester substantial amounts of CO2(1,3,4,19,20). While ‘food miles’, or the distance food is transported from production to market, have received much attention, analyses suggest that transportation may account for a relatively small (though not i ...
... lands for conservation and no-till agriculture can sequester substantial amounts of CO2(1,3,4,19,20). While ‘food miles’, or the distance food is transported from production to market, have received much attention, analyses suggest that transportation may account for a relatively small (though not i ...