Managing Climate Risk Integrating Adaptation into World Bank Group Operations World Bank Group
... Supporting the establishment of proper financing mechanisms for adaptation, using, for example, the Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development. New funding mechanisms created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and being made operational by the Global E ...
... Supporting the establishment of proper financing mechanisms for adaptation, using, for example, the Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development. New funding mechanisms created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and being made operational by the Global E ...
“Community Vulnerability Mapping”: Enabling Participation and
... Vulnerability is considered to be the “degree to which a system is susceptible to, and unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes. Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate change and variation to which a syst ...
... Vulnerability is considered to be the “degree to which a system is susceptible to, and unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes. Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate change and variation to which a syst ...
the polls—trends twenty years of public opinion about
... deal, 48 percent a fair amount, 28 percent only a little, and 10 percent nothing all. In June 2005, responses broke down in the same order as 22 percent, 50 percent, 20 percent, and 8 percent. (N = 688; N = 812). Surveys were conducted by Knowledge Networks using a RDD recruited sample of its nation ...
... deal, 48 percent a fair amount, 28 percent only a little, and 10 percent nothing all. In June 2005, responses broke down in the same order as 22 percent, 50 percent, 20 percent, and 8 percent. (N = 688; N = 812). Surveys were conducted by Knowledge Networks using a RDD recruited sample of its nation ...
- CSIRO Publishing
... Climate change is one of the greatest ecological, economic, and social challenges facing us today. The scientific evidence that human activities are contributing to climate change is compelling, but society is increasingly seeking information about the nature of the evidence and what can be done in ...
... Climate change is one of the greatest ecological, economic, and social challenges facing us today. The scientific evidence that human activities are contributing to climate change is compelling, but society is increasingly seeking information about the nature of the evidence and what can be done in ...
Climate Change Report (2016)
... pivotal role in addressing climate change (IPCC 2014). Unlike energy systems, land use can affect GHG levels by not only altering emissions, but also by removing CO2 from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and sequestering the carbon in organic material. GHG emissions from land use are projected to d ...
... pivotal role in addressing climate change (IPCC 2014). Unlike energy systems, land use can affect GHG levels by not only altering emissions, but also by removing CO2 from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and sequestering the carbon in organic material. GHG emissions from land use are projected to d ...
Cambodia`s first national communication
... annual growth rate of 2.49% and the urban population contributed 15.7% of the total population of Cambodia. Poverty is a serious social problem in Cambodia. Approximately 40%, 39% and 36% of the population, respectively in 1990, 1994 and 1998, lived below the poverty line. Human Health. Since Cambod ...
... annual growth rate of 2.49% and the urban population contributed 15.7% of the total population of Cambodia. Poverty is a serious social problem in Cambodia. Approximately 40%, 39% and 36% of the population, respectively in 1990, 1994 and 1998, lived below the poverty line. Human Health. Since Cambod ...
Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white
... Integrating the insights from identity-protective cognition and system-justification tendencies, we offer two complementary reasons for expecting conservative white males to be more likely than other adults to endorse climate change denial. On a specific level, conservative white male elites in the co ...
... Integrating the insights from identity-protective cognition and system-justification tendencies, we offer two complementary reasons for expecting conservative white males to be more likely than other adults to endorse climate change denial. On a specific level, conservative white male elites in the co ...
A note on including climate change adaptation in an international
... any adaptation scheme, to make sure that it can cope with (positive or negative) surprises in the future. Finally, the investigation of risk reduction investments in developing and developed countries shows that many risk reduction projects are not implemented, even when benefits largely exceed cost ...
... any adaptation scheme, to make sure that it can cope with (positive or negative) surprises in the future. Finally, the investigation of risk reduction investments in developing and developed countries shows that many risk reduction projects are not implemented, even when benefits largely exceed cost ...
Climate Change in Northern New Hampshire
... climate model simulations presented in this report can also be viewed online at the NH EPSCoR Data Discovery Center (http://epscor-ddc.sr.unh.edu). We also thank the several external reviewers who provided comments that significantly improved the report and Laurel Lloyd for copy-editing the report. ...
... climate model simulations presented in this report can also be viewed online at the NH EPSCoR Data Discovery Center (http://epscor-ddc.sr.unh.edu). We also thank the several external reviewers who provided comments that significantly improved the report and Laurel Lloyd for copy-editing the report. ...
Northern New Hampshire
... climate model simulations presented in this report can also be viewed online at the NH EPSCoR Data Discovery Center (http://epscor-ddc.sr.unh.edu). We also thank the several external reviewers who provided comments that significantly improved the report and Laurel Lloyd for copy-editing the report. ...
... climate model simulations presented in this report can also be viewed online at the NH EPSCoR Data Discovery Center (http://epscor-ddc.sr.unh.edu). We also thank the several external reviewers who provided comments that significantly improved the report and Laurel Lloyd for copy-editing the report. ...
Nunavut`s Natural Environment - Nunavut Climate Change Centre
... environment are currently experiencing or expected to experience acute impacts of climate change, including those affecting sea ice, land and ice-based travel, protected areas, wildlife, endangered species, species distribution, and land use planning.3 Climate change adaptation is about taking actio ...
... environment are currently experiencing or expected to experience acute impacts of climate change, including those affecting sea ice, land and ice-based travel, protected areas, wildlife, endangered species, species distribution, and land use planning.3 Climate change adaptation is about taking actio ...
Environment and Development Challenges
... sustainable, where the challenges such as climate change, loss of biodiversity and social inequity have been successfully addressed. This is an achievable dream, but the current system is deeply flawed and our current pathway will not realise it. Population size and growth and related consumption pa ...
... sustainable, where the challenges such as climate change, loss of biodiversity and social inequity have been successfully addressed. This is an achievable dream, but the current system is deeply flawed and our current pathway will not realise it. Population size and growth and related consumption pa ...
Framing Strategies to Minimize Impacts on Pennsylvania
... states to update their State Wildlife Action Plans5 (SWAP) to include strategies that help target habitats and species adapt to climate change impacts. State Wildlife Action Plans will be important for allocating ecological adaptation funding from federal sources. A clear and thoughtful process for ...
... states to update their State Wildlife Action Plans5 (SWAP) to include strategies that help target habitats and species adapt to climate change impacts. State Wildlife Action Plans will be important for allocating ecological adaptation funding from federal sources. A clear and thoughtful process for ...
Livestock and Climate Change cows, pigs, and chickens?
... categories of GHGs adding up to at least 5,560 million tons of CO2e (8.7 percent of GHGs emissions) have been overlooked or undercounted by the FAO and uncounted in the existing inventory of worldwide GHGs: First, Livestock’s Long Shadow cites 2002 FAO statistics as the key source for its 18-percent ...
... categories of GHGs adding up to at least 5,560 million tons of CO2e (8.7 percent of GHGs emissions) have been overlooked or undercounted by the FAO and uncounted in the existing inventory of worldwide GHGs: First, Livestock’s Long Shadow cites 2002 FAO statistics as the key source for its 18-percent ...
Solution Aversion: On the Relation Between Ideology and Motivated
... largely responsible for climate change (and humankind is also the cause of other environment risks, such as lung damage; State of the Air, 2013). However, there is a near political party-line divide over the veracity of many of the same issues. In the United States, Democrats (liberals) tend to agre ...
... largely responsible for climate change (and humankind is also the cause of other environment risks, such as lung damage; State of the Air, 2013). However, there is a near political party-line divide over the veracity of many of the same issues. In the United States, Democrats (liberals) tend to agre ...
English - Global Environment Facility
... developed countries, through a diverse set of case studies. The framework identifies where and from which type of hazard a country is most at risk, together with the magnitude of the expected loss, and reveals what sets of adaptation measures should be considered, based on societal costs and benefit ...
... developed countries, through a diverse set of case studies. The framework identifies where and from which type of hazard a country is most at risk, together with the magnitude of the expected loss, and reveals what sets of adaptation measures should be considered, based on societal costs and benefit ...
National Security in the 21st Century: How the National Security
... whether anthropogenic climate change is occurring, and will continue to occur in the future; only the ongoing debate of how much change human activity will produce remains.5 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report finds definitive anthropogenic warming between 3.2°F and 9.2°F o ...
... whether anthropogenic climate change is occurring, and will continue to occur in the future; only the ongoing debate of how much change human activity will produce remains.5 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report finds definitive anthropogenic warming between 3.2°F and 9.2°F o ...
Who`s holding us back?
... Company, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and ConocoPhillips all made the top 20 list of lobbyists.8 The climate campaign organisation 350.org estimates that 94% of US Chamber of Commerce contributions went to climate denier candidates.9 • Sector-specific trade associations such as the American Petroleum In ...
... Company, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and ConocoPhillips all made the top 20 list of lobbyists.8 The climate campaign organisation 350.org estimates that 94% of US Chamber of Commerce contributions went to climate denier candidates.9 • Sector-specific trade associations such as the American Petroleum In ...
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.