Forests and Climate Change in Latin America: Linking Adaptation
... Mitigation and adaptation also share some common features; for example, sustainable development is a common target [5,10,13]. An understanding of the synergies between adaptation and mitigation could underpin discussions on mainstreaming both adaptation and mitigation into climate change policies. S ...
... Mitigation and adaptation also share some common features; for example, sustainable development is a common target [5,10,13]. An understanding of the synergies between adaptation and mitigation could underpin discussions on mainstreaming both adaptation and mitigation into climate change policies. S ...
The tipping point trend in climate change communication
... Nisbet and Myers (2007) comprehensive summary of the results of 20 years of public opinion surveying found ‘‘strong connections between patterns in media attention to global warming and shifts in poll trends’’ (p. 445). Research investigating the connection between scientific knowledge, media, and pu ...
... Nisbet and Myers (2007) comprehensive summary of the results of 20 years of public opinion surveying found ‘‘strong connections between patterns in media attention to global warming and shifts in poll trends’’ (p. 445). Research investigating the connection between scientific knowledge, media, and pu ...
assessing the climate change adaptability of buildings
... health and well-being. It is essential that we identify the nature and extent of their vulnerabilities and resilience if they are to be adapted in a timely and effective manner. There are many assessment tools and methods being developed and used for identifying vulnerability and adaptive capacity o ...
... health and well-being. It is essential that we identify the nature and extent of their vulnerabilities and resilience if they are to be adapted in a timely and effective manner. There are many assessment tools and methods being developed and used for identifying vulnerability and adaptive capacity o ...
India - Met Office
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the
... to have fluctuated over time. Numerous plausible characterizations of these variations, and explanations for them, are to be found in the literature. However, a clear picture has not yet emerged as to the principal trends and patterns that have occurred over the past quarter-century or the factors be ...
... to have fluctuated over time. Numerous plausible characterizations of these variations, and explanations for them, are to be found in the literature. However, a clear picture has not yet emerged as to the principal trends and patterns that have occurred over the past quarter-century or the factors be ...
White Paper on the contribution of the GFCS to Agenda 2030
... With respect to the Agriculture and Food Security goal (SDG 2), which focuses on addressing hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture, climate variability and change have a major impact on food security and sustainable agriculture. The overall avai ...
... With respect to the Agriculture and Food Security goal (SDG 2), which focuses on addressing hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture, climate variability and change have a major impact on food security and sustainable agriculture. The overall avai ...
The economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
... consequences are coupled with uneven, asymmetrical impacts on different regions, countries and socioeconomic groups, with those that have contributed the least to global warming often being the hardest-hit. As part of this picture, Latin America and the Caribbean has historically made no more than a ...
... consequences are coupled with uneven, asymmetrical impacts on different regions, countries and socioeconomic groups, with those that have contributed the least to global warming often being the hardest-hit. As part of this picture, Latin America and the Caribbean has historically made no more than a ...
(2012) Blue Carbon Policy Framework 2.0
... Many natural environments contain large stores of carbon laid down by vegetation and other natural processes over centuries. The storage of carbon is the consequence of the capacity of those ecosystems to act as a net carbon sink over very long periods of time. If these ecosystems are degraded or da ...
... Many natural environments contain large stores of carbon laid down by vegetation and other natural processes over centuries. The storage of carbon is the consequence of the capacity of those ecosystems to act as a net carbon sink over very long periods of time. If these ecosystems are degraded or da ...
Guide to Climate Change Risk Assessment for NSW
... •• prioritise risks that require further action as a basis for decision-making and planning. Climate change risk assessments aim to ensure that council systems will be resilient. By working through the climate change risk assessment process, councils can establish a robust framework to analyse the r ...
... •• prioritise risks that require further action as a basis for decision-making and planning. Climate change risk assessments aim to ensure that council systems will be resilient. By working through the climate change risk assessment process, councils can establish a robust framework to analyse the r ...
GDI 12 – Warming Core – Final
... into hundreds of millions of tonnes have not been disclosed by Britain's biggest businesses, masking the full extent of the UK's contribution to global warming. According to a report by Christian Aid, only 16 of Britain's top 100 listed companies are meeting the government's most elementary reportin ...
... into hundreds of millions of tonnes have not been disclosed by Britain's biggest businesses, masking the full extent of the UK's contribution to global warming. According to a report by Christian Aid, only 16 of Britain's top 100 listed companies are meeting the government's most elementary reportin ...
MODULE 2 (EARTH SCIENCE)
... dynamics (small changes in initial conditions lead to large differences in outcomes), and there is distal causality (chain reactions can trigger events far away from an action’s starting point). (DCI: Weather and Climate) (CCC: Cause and Effect) (CCC: Systems and Systems models) (CCC: Stability and ...
... dynamics (small changes in initial conditions lead to large differences in outcomes), and there is distal causality (chain reactions can trigger events far away from an action’s starting point). (DCI: Weather and Climate) (CCC: Cause and Effect) (CCC: Systems and Systems models) (CCC: Stability and ...
... communities that the human-induced climate change is taking place (Oreskes, 2007). The publication of the latest report of IPCC (2007) also declares that ―warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, wide ...
... communities that the human-induced climate change is taking place (Oreskes, 2007). The publication of the latest report of IPCC (2007) also declares that ―warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, wide ...
Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Handbook for Small
... planning team, to prepare a community adaptation plan. It is based on community planning principles and a planner works with the community and facilitates the preparation of the CCAP. This Handbook is made available to the community and becomes an educational tool during the preparation of the plan. ...
... planning team, to prepare a community adaptation plan. It is based on community planning principles and a planner works with the community and facilitates the preparation of the CCAP. This Handbook is made available to the community and becomes an educational tool during the preparation of the plan. ...
Emulating coupled atmosphere-ocean and carbon cycle models
... Abstract. Current scientific knowledge on the future response of the climate system to human-induced perturbations is comprehensively captured by various model intercomparison efforts. In the preparation of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), i ...
... Abstract. Current scientific knowledge on the future response of the climate system to human-induced perturbations is comprehensively captured by various model intercomparison efforts. In the preparation of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), i ...
North America
... possibly encouraging more human activity in at-risk areas. • Responses by insurers to recent extreme events through limiting insurance availability, increasing prices and establishing new risk-spreading mechanisms. Improving building codes, land-use planning and disaster preparedness also reduce dis ...
... possibly encouraging more human activity in at-risk areas. • Responses by insurers to recent extreme events through limiting insurance availability, increasing prices and establishing new risk-spreading mechanisms. Improving building codes, land-use planning and disaster preparedness also reduce dis ...
Why Climate Demands Change Michael A. Taylor
... Top: Projected annual temperature change for the Caribbean relative to 1986–2005 for the four RCPs. Bottom: Projected percentage change in annual rainfall amounts for the Caribbean relative to 1986–2005 for the four RCPs. ...
... Top: Projected annual temperature change for the Caribbean relative to 1986–2005 for the four RCPs. Bottom: Projected percentage change in annual rainfall amounts for the Caribbean relative to 1986–2005 for the four RCPs. ...
Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Climate
... consequence of historical, social, political and economic exclusion are among those who are at greatest risk. On the other hand, people living in marginal lands have long been exposed to many kinds of environmental changes and have developed strategies for coping with these phenomena. They have valu ...
... consequence of historical, social, political and economic exclusion are among those who are at greatest risk. On the other hand, people living in marginal lands have long been exposed to many kinds of environmental changes and have developed strategies for coping with these phenomena. They have valu ...
Target Atmospheric CO : Where Should Humanity Aim?
... global warming (relative to 2000, 1.7°C relative to preindustrial time), aiming to avoid practically irreversible ice *Address correspondence to this author at the NASA/Goddard Institute for ...
... global warming (relative to 2000, 1.7°C relative to preindustrial time), aiming to avoid practically irreversible ice *Address correspondence to this author at the NASA/Goddard Institute for ...
Sector Study: Agriculture and Natural Resources Building
... decision. However, there has been a surge in CC-related technical cooperation (TC) and investment grants, with TC largely funding regional knowledge products. The number of TCs doubled between 2012 and 2013, and the approved amount nearly tripled. Some of the TCs may lead to larger CC-related loans ...
... decision. However, there has been a surge in CC-related technical cooperation (TC) and investment grants, with TC largely funding regional knowledge products. The number of TCs doubled between 2012 and 2013, and the approved amount nearly tripled. Some of the TCs may lead to larger CC-related loans ...
How to engage with National Adaptation Plans Guidance for National Red Cross and
... this century, even if emissions were stopped today, due to the long lasting effect of already emitted GHGs. Given that emissions of GHGs will continue to rise if no radical measures are taken in the near future, the world is on a trajectory of 3–4 degrees Celsius rise in average temperatures (World ...
... this century, even if emissions were stopped today, due to the long lasting effect of already emitted GHGs. Given that emissions of GHGs will continue to rise if no radical measures are taken in the near future, the world is on a trajectory of 3–4 degrees Celsius rise in average temperatures (World ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty (currently the only international climate policy venue with broad legitimacy, due in part to its virtually universal membership) negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. The objective of the treaty is to ""stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system"".The treaty itself set no binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual countries and contains no enforcement mechanisms. In that sense, the treaty is considered legally non-binding. Instead, the treaty provides a framework for negotiating specific international treaties (called ""protocols"") that may set binding limits on greenhouse gases.The UNFCCC was adopted on 9 May 1992, and opened for signature on 4 June 1992, after an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee produced the text of the Framework Convention as a report following its meeting in New York from 30 April to 9 May 1992. It entered into force on 21 March 1994. As of March 2014, UNFCCC has 196 parties.The parties to the convention have met annually from 1995 in Conferences of the Parties (COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change. In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol was concluded and established legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The 2010 Cancún agreements state that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level. The 20th COP took place in Peru in 2014.One of the first tasks set by the UNFCCC was for signatory nations to establish national greenhouse gas inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, which were used to create the 1990 benchmark levels for accession of Annex I countries to the Kyoto Protocol and for the commitment of those countries to GHG reductions. Updated inventories must be regularly submitted by Annex I countries.The UNFCCC is also the name of the United Nations Secretariat charged with supporting the operation of the Convention, with offices in Haus Carstanjen, and UN Campus [known as: Langer Eugen] Bonn, Germany. From 2006 to 2010 the head of the secretariat was Yvo de Boer. On 17 May 2010, Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica succeeded de Boer. The Secretariat, augmented through the parallel efforts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aims to gain consensus through meetings and the discussion of various strategies.