copenhagen, climate change `refugees` and the need for a global
... Any proposal for addressing the issue of climate change displacement should take account of the different contexts and forms that such migration is likely to take (Kalin 2008). There are three kinds of climate change impacts that are likely to have the greatest consequences in terms of human mov ...
... Any proposal for addressing the issue of climate change displacement should take account of the different contexts and forms that such migration is likely to take (Kalin 2008). There are three kinds of climate change impacts that are likely to have the greatest consequences in terms of human mov ...
presentation
... – (A) HYGEIA cardiovascular risk estimate; – (B) a vulnerability index based on age, ethnicity, population density, social isolation, impervious surfaces, and remote sensed surface temperatures (Houghton et al. 2012); – (C) the Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) developed by Reid et al. (2009) ...
... – (A) HYGEIA cardiovascular risk estimate; – (B) a vulnerability index based on age, ethnicity, population density, social isolation, impervious surfaces, and remote sensed surface temperatures (Houghton et al. 2012); – (C) the Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) developed by Reid et al. (2009) ...
Impact of Climate Change on Forests
... Deciduous& Semi-EG Forests type most vulnerable NPP projected to increase ...
... Deciduous& Semi-EG Forests type most vulnerable NPP projected to increase ...
Guide to new specification
... Candidates should be able to: demonstrate and describe ethical, safe and skilful practical techniques and processes, selecting appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods. make, record and communicate reliable and valid observations and measurements with appropriate precision and accuracy. ...
... Candidates should be able to: demonstrate and describe ethical, safe and skilful practical techniques and processes, selecting appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods. make, record and communicate reliable and valid observations and measurements with appropriate precision and accuracy. ...
A Kantian approach to sustainable development indicators for
... to certain categories (driving forces, pressures, states, impacts, and responses). The framework was developed by the European Environmental Agency in the 1990‘s based on a pressure-state-response (PSR) model developed by OECD (EEA 1998, OECD 1991 and 1993). Each field should ideally include indicat ...
... to certain categories (driving forces, pressures, states, impacts, and responses). The framework was developed by the European Environmental Agency in the 1990‘s based on a pressure-state-response (PSR) model developed by OECD (EEA 1998, OECD 1991 and 1993). Each field should ideally include indicat ...
Francis Zwiers`s presentation. - Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
... • Requires “rapid response” science • Places high demands on process understanding, data, models, and statistical methods • Recently assessed by US National Academies of Science ...
... • Requires “rapid response” science • Places high demands on process understanding, data, models, and statistical methods • Recently assessed by US National Academies of Science ...
Earth Systems – Chapter 2
... The Last 10,000 Years of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations FIGURE 14-31 The Last 10,000 Years of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations The curves represent the concentrations of atmospheric CO2 (a) and methane (CH4) (b) as determined from ice cores. Note the shift from the longer-term natural trends at about 7 ...
... The Last 10,000 Years of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations FIGURE 14-31 The Last 10,000 Years of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations The curves represent the concentrations of atmospheric CO2 (a) and methane (CH4) (b) as determined from ice cores. Note the shift from the longer-term natural trends at about 7 ...
Going beyond aid effectiveness to guide the delivery of climate finance
... more resilient to an already changing climate (adaptation). This has meant that the recent strong aid focus on least developed and other low-income countries is weaker in climate finance, where relatively richer countries (middle-income) are important recipients of climate finance. These middle-inco ...
... more resilient to an already changing climate (adaptation). This has meant that the recent strong aid focus on least developed and other low-income countries is weaker in climate finance, where relatively richer countries (middle-income) are important recipients of climate finance. These middle-inco ...
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Carbon Tax Design)
... This concern is rooted in the fact than most developing countries are more dependent on agriculture and other climate-sensitive natural resources for income and wellbeing, and that they also lack sufficient financial and technical capacities to manage increasing climate risk (adaptation). Climate ch ...
... This concern is rooted in the fact than most developing countries are more dependent on agriculture and other climate-sensitive natural resources for income and wellbeing, and that they also lack sufficient financial and technical capacities to manage increasing climate risk (adaptation). Climate ch ...
climate change adaptation in nigeria
... Parties reached a milestone at COP 10 in 2004, known as the Buenos Aires Programme of Work on Adaptation and Response Measures. COP 10 set up two complementary tracks for adaptation: the development of a structured five-year programme of work on the scientific, technical and socioeconomic aspects of ...
... Parties reached a milestone at COP 10 in 2004, known as the Buenos Aires Programme of Work on Adaptation and Response Measures. COP 10 set up two complementary tracks for adaptation: the development of a structured five-year programme of work on the scientific, technical and socioeconomic aspects of ...
UNEP Topic A: New Perspectives on the Kyoto Protocol FEMUN V III
... emitted when fossil fuels are burned. Based upon that assumption the Protocol gave those countries and other industrial nations the right to continue to steal these sinks from the rest of the world. The United States, with 5 percent of the world's population, is using up more than half of the total ...
... emitted when fossil fuels are burned. Based upon that assumption the Protocol gave those countries and other industrial nations the right to continue to steal these sinks from the rest of the world. The United States, with 5 percent of the world's population, is using up more than half of the total ...
DETR - Climate Change
... 0.6°C during the last century – the 1990s included seven of the ten warmest years on record and 1998 was the warmest year in a 140-year record. We have also seen average temperatures rise in the UK. In England, four of the five warmest years in a 340-year record have been in the 1990s and 1999 was t ...
... 0.6°C during the last century – the 1990s included seven of the ten warmest years on record and 1998 was the warmest year in a 140-year record. We have also seen average temperatures rise in the UK. In England, four of the five warmest years in a 340-year record have been in the 1990s and 1999 was t ...
Good practice for the usage of climate model simulation results
... The variation in time of the climate system around a mean state. The most frequently used time scale for this variability ranges from months to years to decades. The term natural climate variability is used for the portion which is not attributable to human activity. Scenario ...
... The variation in time of the climate system around a mean state. The most frequently used time scale for this variability ranges from months to years to decades. The term natural climate variability is used for the portion which is not attributable to human activity. Scenario ...
PPT - Larry Smarr - California Institute for Telecommunications and
... 185 to 265ppm (80ppm) in 6000 years or 1.33 ppm per Century ...
... 185 to 265ppm (80ppm) in 6000 years or 1.33 ppm per Century ...
The role of HELE coal in 2 degree Celsius compatible
... To limit the long-term, global average temperature rise well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, the world needs to move towards a low-carbon economy and a fully decarbonised power sector by 2050. At the international climate summit, COP21, in Paris in December 2015 the 2°C objective was tightene ...
... To limit the long-term, global average temperature rise well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, the world needs to move towards a low-carbon economy and a fully decarbonised power sector by 2050. At the international climate summit, COP21, in Paris in December 2015 the 2°C objective was tightene ...
Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation
... was similar to present, whereas subsequent changes in obliquity and perihelion caused Northern-Hemisphere seasonality to reach a maximum in the early Holocene. CO2 concentrations started to rise from the LGM minimum approximately 17.5 0.5 ka (1). The onset of the CO2 rise may have lagged the start ...
... was similar to present, whereas subsequent changes in obliquity and perihelion caused Northern-Hemisphere seasonality to reach a maximum in the early Holocene. CO2 concentrations started to rise from the LGM minimum approximately 17.5 0.5 ka (1). The onset of the CO2 rise may have lagged the start ...
Energy and Climate Change: An introduction to relevant terms
... electrical system and challenges we face when severe weather events occur. As you read through this document, think about the city as a system and how you would rate its resiliency, and how your choices affect resiliency at an individual, neighbourhood and city-wide level. ...
... electrical system and challenges we face when severe weather events occur. As you read through this document, think about the city as a system and how you would rate its resiliency, and how your choices affect resiliency at an individual, neighbourhood and city-wide level. ...
Climate Change and its Implications for the Nile Region
... mitigation’ is concerned with actions to reduce human-related forcing factors of global warming, such as reducing atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases. While aspects of climate-change mitigation will be discussed here, this chapter is mostly concerned with climate-change adaptation. ...
... mitigation’ is concerned with actions to reduce human-related forcing factors of global warming, such as reducing atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases. While aspects of climate-change mitigation will be discussed here, this chapter is mostly concerned with climate-change adaptation. ...
ClimateWire sugar maple story
... Park, sugar maple stands didn't move farther up the Appalachian Mountains where temperatures were lower. Sap from these trees is boiled down to produce maple syrup. "We knew the system had warmed, but we weren't seeing the response you would expect," said Carissa Brown, the study's lead author and a ...
... Park, sugar maple stands didn't move farther up the Appalachian Mountains where temperatures were lower. Sap from these trees is boiled down to produce maple syrup. "We knew the system had warmed, but we weren't seeing the response you would expect," said Carissa Brown, the study's lead author and a ...
CESifo Working Paper no. 4703
... GDPt with α the share of capital in value added (appendix B). 1+ ρ ...
... GDPt with α the share of capital in value added (appendix B). 1+ ρ ...
The Social Cost of Carbon
... convergence, the impact of equity weights is significantly reduced (and this requires dynamic (or time varying) equity weighting). ...
... convergence, the impact of equity weights is significantly reduced (and this requires dynamic (or time varying) equity weighting). ...