The Ethical and Moral Considerations of Fracking
... innovation, for example in low-carbon technologies. Capturing this potential quickly and effectively will drive economic progress. There are also significant additional benefits available from climate mitigation and adaptation actions, including food, energy and water security, air quality, health i ...
... innovation, for example in low-carbon technologies. Capturing this potential quickly and effectively will drive economic progress. There are also significant additional benefits available from climate mitigation and adaptation actions, including food, energy and water security, air quality, health i ...
Resource Challenge - Global Climate Change
... • Evidence from Pleistocene glaciations indicates that most species responded ...
... • Evidence from Pleistocene glaciations indicates that most species responded ...
Climate change will make food less nutritious: Study
... According to the study conducted by a team of US, Australian and Japanese scientists, carbon dioxide emissions are slowly making the world's staple food crops less nutritious. Wheat, maize, soybeans and rice will see their levels of nutrients iron and zinc, as well as proteins, go down between now a ...
... According to the study conducted by a team of US, Australian and Japanese scientists, carbon dioxide emissions are slowly making the world's staple food crops less nutritious. Wheat, maize, soybeans and rice will see their levels of nutrients iron and zinc, as well as proteins, go down between now a ...
The Global carbon cycle - UNESDOC
... ■ 380 ppm is the highest CO2 concentration in the last 600,000 years and probably in the last 20 million years ■ For the period 2000-2005 the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 was 2.05 ppm per year, the highest growth rate on record and a significant increase from earlier trends (1.25 for 1970-1979, 1.5 ...
... ■ 380 ppm is the highest CO2 concentration in the last 600,000 years and probably in the last 20 million years ■ For the period 2000-2005 the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 was 2.05 ppm per year, the highest growth rate on record and a significant increase from earlier trends (1.25 for 1970-1979, 1.5 ...
Heat Waves and Climate Change
... years.31 And extremely hot summers, those more than three standard deviations above the historic average, are now observed in about 10% of the global land area, compared to 0.1-‐0.2% for the period ...
... years.31 And extremely hot summers, those more than three standard deviations above the historic average, are now observed in about 10% of the global land area, compared to 0.1-‐0.2% for the period ...
Aarhus
... • Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol defines a Clean Development Mechanism, which can be used by major polluting countries to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries • Kyoto allows major developed c ...
... • Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol defines a Clean Development Mechanism, which can be used by major polluting countries to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries • Kyoto allows major developed c ...
climate change and habitat fragmentation: range shifts for dutch
... Anouk Cormont; Wageningen UR, Landscape Centre, Alterra/Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen, The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected] Shifting ranges: temperature rise and habitat fragmentation “There is very high confidence (…) that recent warming is strongly affecting terrestrial biological s ...
... Anouk Cormont; Wageningen UR, Landscape Centre, Alterra/Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen, The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected] Shifting ranges: temperature rise and habitat fragmentation “There is very high confidence (…) that recent warming is strongly affecting terrestrial biological s ...
3. Weather patterns and climate change
... The air temperature of the warmest summer month (July) in 2009–2012 was 2.1 °C higher on average than the average of 1961–2012 and 1.5 °C higher than the average of the past four years (2005–2008). The average air temperature of all summer and spring months and the majority of autumn months of the p ...
... The air temperature of the warmest summer month (July) in 2009–2012 was 2.1 °C higher on average than the average of 1961–2012 and 1.5 °C higher than the average of the past four years (2005–2008). The average air temperature of all summer and spring months and the majority of autumn months of the p ...
Global Change Dynamic II
... assumptions on global population, gross world product, energy OS scenarios explore uncertainties beyond HS ...
... assumptions on global population, gross world product, energy OS scenarios explore uncertainties beyond HS ...
Link to statement. - Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative
... James, R.H., Bousquet, P., Bussmann, I., Haeckel, M., Kipfer, R., Leifer, I., Niemann, H., Ostrovsky, I., Piskozub, J., Rehder, G., Treude, T., Vielstädte, L., Greinert, J. Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments in the Arctic Ocean: A review: Methane Emissions from Ar ...
... James, R.H., Bousquet, P., Bussmann, I., Haeckel, M., Kipfer, R., Leifer, I., Niemann, H., Ostrovsky, I., Piskozub, J., Rehder, G., Treude, T., Vielstädte, L., Greinert, J. Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments in the Arctic Ocean: A review: Methane Emissions from Ar ...
Helping women to adapt to climate change in Moroccan villages
... soil erosion, floods and droughts. These phenomena shrink the surface area of arable land and undermine the plant cover, destroying the ecosystem. This in turn exacerbates poverty and rural migration, particularly among the young men. The populations of Boumaad and Tiza face up to destructive floods ...
... soil erosion, floods and droughts. These phenomena shrink the surface area of arable land and undermine the plant cover, destroying the ecosystem. This in turn exacerbates poverty and rural migration, particularly among the young men. The populations of Boumaad and Tiza face up to destructive floods ...
Minority Report
... Expanding the Radiative Forcing Concept Despite all these advantages, the traditional global mean TOA radiative forcing concept has some important limitations, which have come increasingly to light over the past decade. The concept is inadequate for some forcing agents, such as absorbing aerosols a ...
... Expanding the Radiative Forcing Concept Despite all these advantages, the traditional global mean TOA radiative forcing concept has some important limitations, which have come increasingly to light over the past decade. The concept is inadequate for some forcing agents, such as absorbing aerosols a ...
Building the Resilience of Landlocked Developing Countries to the
... actions and initiatives needed to support LLDCs in the next decade. When the APoA was adopted in 2003, key issues that have emerged over the first decade to have substantial impact on LLDCs include climate change, desertification and land degradation. These issues were not included in the priority a ...
... actions and initiatives needed to support LLDCs in the next decade. When the APoA was adopted in 2003, key issues that have emerged over the first decade to have substantial impact on LLDCs include climate change, desertification and land degradation. These issues were not included in the priority a ...
National Research Council Review of the Strategic Plan for the
... Goal 1: Improve knowledge of the Earth’s past and present climate and environment, including their natural variability, and improve understanding of the causes of observed variability and change Goal 2: Improve quantification of the forces bringing about changes in the Earth’s climate and related sy ...
... Goal 1: Improve knowledge of the Earth’s past and present climate and environment, including their natural variability, and improve understanding of the causes of observed variability and change Goal 2: Improve quantification of the forces bringing about changes in the Earth’s climate and related sy ...
Understanding Our Environment
... Biomes - Areas sharing similar climate, topographic and soil conditions, and roughly comparable communities. Temperature and precipitation are among the most important determinants in biome distribution. Most terrestrial biomes are identified by the dominant plants of their communities. Plants ...
... Biomes - Areas sharing similar climate, topographic and soil conditions, and roughly comparable communities. Temperature and precipitation are among the most important determinants in biome distribution. Most terrestrial biomes are identified by the dominant plants of their communities. Plants ...
What are the “grand challenges” in hydrology?
... Figure 1: mean seasonal hydrographs of the Columbia River prior to (blue) and after the completion of reservoirs that now have storage capacity equal to about one-third of the river’s mean annual flow (red), and the projected range of impacts on naturalized flows predicted to result from a range of ...
... Figure 1: mean seasonal hydrographs of the Columbia River prior to (blue) and after the completion of reservoirs that now have storage capacity equal to about one-third of the river’s mean annual flow (red), and the projected range of impacts on naturalized flows predicted to result from a range of ...
the COP21 Briefing Notes
... There is now overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is driving the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, causing irreversible climate change. This is having devastating consequences not just on mean average temperatures but on weather patterns, ocean levels, land an ...
... There is now overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is driving the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, causing irreversible climate change. This is having devastating consequences not just on mean average temperatures but on weather patterns, ocean levels, land an ...
Europeans` perceptions of climate change and global warming: A
... warned the world community to continue with “business as usual” and in particular with the incredibly high consumption of fossil energy1. The European governments, and since the election in last November also the US, have taken this warning into their policies. In its selfconception and self-image, ...
... warned the world community to continue with “business as usual” and in particular with the incredibly high consumption of fossil energy1. The European governments, and since the election in last November also the US, have taken this warning into their policies. In its selfconception and self-image, ...
Document
... • It is possible to predict the effects of climate change on river flows and water quality, but a long chain of models and assumptions is required; • Different assumptions can lead to radically different outcomes; • These start at the top of the model chain – some GCMs give a substantial increase in ...
... • It is possible to predict the effects of climate change on river flows and water quality, but a long chain of models and assumptions is required; • Different assumptions can lead to radically different outcomes; • These start at the top of the model chain – some GCMs give a substantial increase in ...
Climate change - WordPress.com
... move 2 spaces forward except US residents as they are not Kyoto ...
... move 2 spaces forward except US residents as they are not Kyoto ...
... Improve the relevance and usability of information on impacts of climate variability and climate change, so that it can be used appropriately by development practitioners. This could include improving climate monitoring, developing incountry and regional capacity for analysing and interpreting clima ...
Norway_Survey EEA DDR and CCA
... DSB's 2015 national survey to municipalities (answered by 90 per cent of the municipalities) shows that 85 per cent have carried out comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessments (RVAs), and 93 per cent have an emergency plan. Even if some RVAs do not meet the requirements in the Civil Protection ...
... DSB's 2015 national survey to municipalities (answered by 90 per cent of the municipalities) shows that 85 per cent have carried out comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessments (RVAs), and 93 per cent have an emergency plan. Even if some RVAs do not meet the requirements in the Civil Protection ...