Participants and Biographies - Southeast Regional Climate Center
... Kristie L. Ebi is Executive Director of the Technical Support Unit for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prior to this position, she was an independent consultant. She has been conducting research on the impacts of and ...
... Kristie L. Ebi is Executive Director of the Technical Support Unit for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prior to this position, she was an independent consultant. She has been conducting research on the impacts of and ...
Natural Resources
... COMMENTS: 1) Background. The 5th assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes that atmospheric concentrations of global warming pollutants have risen to levels unseen in the past 800,000 years. Carbon dioxide concentrations have increased by 40% since pre-industr ...
... COMMENTS: 1) Background. The 5th assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes that atmospheric concentrations of global warming pollutants have risen to levels unseen in the past 800,000 years. Carbon dioxide concentrations have increased by 40% since pre-industr ...
Integrated science and art education for creative climate change
... Students provided positive feedback about both the field trip experience and the unique opportunity to integrate science and art students through the design of communication material that required exploration of an island and exploration of different perspectives. For example, a natural resource stu ...
... Students provided positive feedback about both the field trip experience and the unique opportunity to integrate science and art students through the design of communication material that required exploration of an island and exploration of different perspectives. For example, a natural resource stu ...
The Ethical Responsibility of the Loss and Damage Mechanism: a
... individuals and families to have to leave entire countries. This is the case with other Pacific Island nations like the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, or the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Where the need for external movement is necessary, several non-economic human rights have to potential to ...
... individuals and families to have to leave entire countries. This is the case with other Pacific Island nations like the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, or the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Where the need for external movement is necessary, several non-economic human rights have to potential to ...
L I V E L I H O O D
... Direct impacts include those due to changes in exposure to weather extremes (heat waves, winter cold); increases in other extreme weather events (floods, cyclones, storm-surges, droughts); and increased production of air pollutants and aeroallergens (spores and moulds). Additionally - vector-borne ...
... Direct impacts include those due to changes in exposure to weather extremes (heat waves, winter cold); increases in other extreme weather events (floods, cyclones, storm-surges, droughts); and increased production of air pollutants and aeroallergens (spores and moulds). Additionally - vector-borne ...
Protected Area Policies and Climate Change: The Case of the
... Assiniboine Slopes Ecological Reserve. A consequent decrease in animal species that are dependent on woody cover is expected, along with an increase in grassland species. Certain animal and plant species currently found only in the U.S. will also gradually appear over time. All ...
... Assiniboine Slopes Ecological Reserve. A consequent decrease in animal species that are dependent on woody cover is expected, along with an increase in grassland species. Certain animal and plant species currently found only in the U.S. will also gradually appear over time. All ...
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... However, the IPCC assigns a “low” probability to this. The fact that something is a low probability event does not of course mean that it does not matter economically if the consequences are sufficiently dramatic then this may more than compensate for the low likelihood and mean that the expected los ...
... However, the IPCC assigns a “low” probability to this. The fact that something is a low probability event does not of course mean that it does not matter economically if the consequences are sufficiently dramatic then this may more than compensate for the low likelihood and mean that the expected los ...
Northward Shifts of the Distributions of Spanish Reptiles in
... to increases in temperature have been examined many times for a number of taxonomic groups (reviews in Walther et al. 2002; Root et al. 2003; Parmesan 2006). However, the few studies on this topic for reptiles are limited primarily to the examination of elevational changes in restricted geographic a ...
... to increases in temperature have been examined many times for a number of taxonomic groups (reviews in Walther et al. 2002; Root et al. 2003; Parmesan 2006). However, the few studies on this topic for reptiles are limited primarily to the examination of elevational changes in restricted geographic a ...
Spurring Climate Change Adaptation in Seychelles Schools through
... Date project established: January 2010 ...
... Date project established: January 2010 ...
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... world met on the island to discuss the earth’s environment at the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference. More than 10,000 people gathered in Bali for two weeks of speeches and discussions about the world’s climate. Reports have shown that it is now possible to ___1___ global warming. However ...
... world met on the island to discuss the earth’s environment at the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference. More than 10,000 people gathered in Bali for two weeks of speeches and discussions about the world’s climate. Reports have shown that it is now possible to ___1___ global warming. However ...
chapter eight climate change, northern subsistence and land based
... Climate Change May Affect the Distribution Of Animals And Other Resources On Which Northern Subsistence And Land-Based Economies Are Based. Projected Effects of a Warmer Climate on the Subsistence Land Base The climate warming scenario projected by computer models as well as by analysis of historica ...
... Climate Change May Affect the Distribution Of Animals And Other Resources On Which Northern Subsistence And Land-Based Economies Are Based. Projected Effects of a Warmer Climate on the Subsistence Land Base The climate warming scenario projected by computer models as well as by analysis of historica ...
The “Business-As-Usual” growth of global primary energy use and
... The framework used to estimate the frequency spectrum in Fig. 2 also affords an estimate of the exogenous, non-periodic components of a(t), ξ(t). Figure 1e shows these disturbances. Clearly an element of this is the statistical uncertainty associated with the estimates of a(t) given errors in the ob ...
... The framework used to estimate the frequency spectrum in Fig. 2 also affords an estimate of the exogenous, non-periodic components of a(t), ξ(t). Figure 1e shows these disturbances. Clearly an element of this is the statistical uncertainty associated with the estimates of a(t) given errors in the ob ...
Indicator and data needs - Eionet Forum
... an Integrated Assessment Framework to address water quantity/quality and climate change adaptation. Within ClimWatAdapt, various vulnerability indicators have been developed, including on water stress and flood risks (13). Other important projects and organisations, which include indicators on proje ...
... an Integrated Assessment Framework to address water quantity/quality and climate change adaptation. Within ClimWatAdapt, various vulnerability indicators have been developed, including on water stress and flood risks (13). Other important projects and organisations, which include indicators on proje ...
Climate change and disaster management
... what approach to planning is compatible with all three and provides a bridge among natural hazards mitigation, sustainable human development and adaptation to climate change? The answer is that climate change adaptation needs to become part and parcel of comprehensive risk management, as argued abov ...
... what approach to planning is compatible with all three and provides a bridge among natural hazards mitigation, sustainable human development and adaptation to climate change? The answer is that climate change adaptation needs to become part and parcel of comprehensive risk management, as argued abov ...
1 - Disater Risk Reduction at the local level
... Biodiversity provides a plethora of goods and services which sustains livelihoods of millions of rural poor. As global climate change and pervasive changes in the world’s biosphere take place at an accelerated pace, the range and quality of goods and services provided by ecosystems are bound to dwin ...
... Biodiversity provides a plethora of goods and services which sustains livelihoods of millions of rural poor. As global climate change and pervasive changes in the world’s biosphere take place at an accelerated pace, the range and quality of goods and services provided by ecosystems are bound to dwin ...
Tackling our global challenges - SEAG Engagement Task Group
... Engaging the University of Edinburgh community with the challenges facing our world NB: ‘Tackling Our Global Challenges’ is a working title only. Tackling our global challenges is a year long series of events to engage people within the University and city of Edinburgh who take an academic or civic ...
... Engaging the University of Edinburgh community with the challenges facing our world NB: ‘Tackling Our Global Challenges’ is a working title only. Tackling our global challenges is a year long series of events to engage people within the University and city of Edinburgh who take an academic or civic ...
53 CHAPTER 5. THE UNBUILT ENVIRONMENT
... (Alcamoetal.2007,p545).DroughtͲinducedeconomiclossesinallsectorshavebeencalculated for the region, and are in some cases large.42 Successive weather extremes add to stresses: Moldova’sresiliencewasalreadyweakenedbypaststormsanddroughtswhenamajordrought arri ...
... (Alcamoetal.2007,p545).DroughtͲinducedeconomiclossesinallsectorshavebeencalculated for the region, and are in some cases large.42 Successive weather extremes add to stresses: Moldova’sresiliencewasalreadyweakenedbypaststormsanddroughtswhenamajordrought arri ...
Climate change and water resources
... 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 temperature to rise. GHG emissions have been rising since industrialisation in the 1900s, due t ...
... 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 temperature to rise. GHG emissions have been rising since industrialisation in the 1900s, due t ...
FAO - NWP: Adaptation Planning and Strategies 2009 (pp. 42-50)
... adaptation to climate change” On invitation of SBSTA to submit to the secretariat, by 31 May 2007, information on the relevant programmes, activities and views on the issues listed under item 44 of the Conclusions of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate chan ...
... adaptation to climate change” On invitation of SBSTA to submit to the secretariat, by 31 May 2007, information on the relevant programmes, activities and views on the issues listed under item 44 of the Conclusions of the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate chan ...
The Geoengineering Option
... fix all of the problems related to climate change. Oªsetting warming by reflecting more sunlight back into space will not stop the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Sooner or later, much of that carbon dioxide ends up in the oceans, where it forms carbonic acid. Ocean acidificat ...
... fix all of the problems related to climate change. Oªsetting warming by reflecting more sunlight back into space will not stop the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Sooner or later, much of that carbon dioxide ends up in the oceans, where it forms carbonic acid. Ocean acidificat ...